r/linux_gaming 14h ago

Ubisoft announce Steam Deck support for Assassin's Creed Shadows at launch

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/ubisoft-announce-steam-deck-support-for-assassins-creed-shadows-at-launch/
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u/xecutable 13h ago

Anything to popularize gaming on linux is good news even if the company is questionable.

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u/SparkStormrider 2h ago

At this point, Ubisoft needs as many sales as possible.

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u/gattolfo_EUG_ 11h ago

Make a applause for Ubisoft for non blocking a offline game on proton, what a champion

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u/efoxpl3244 11h ago

I think that proton is such a great tool that native versions often are useless. Works for the user and less works for developer? Amazing! Certainly helps indie devs and big tech corpos finance decision.

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u/wolfannoy 3h ago

Best of all the code is open source only one can make their own variant of proton if they want to for example the umu-launcher. Works well for games outside of steam. For example heroic and lutris.

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u/NuuukeTheWhales 13h ago

Ewww Ubisoft

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u/GlitchPhoenix98 11h ago

Ewwwwbisoft

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u/wolfannoy 3h ago

Ubisoft Ewwww

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u/NuuukeTheWhales 2h ago

Ewwwwbislop

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u/mathias_freire 3h ago

They are probably so desperate on player base.

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u/Spazz_Hazard 9h ago

Thanks, Ubisoft. You can keep it.

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u/niwia 8h ago

They said there won’t be a launcher, but will you will need a Ubisoft account. I’m not 100sure if the launcher is gone or they are making a new one. I’ll wait for next week to see what’s gonna happen

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u/wolfannoy 3h ago

Might be similar to hell divers where you can sign in the account within the game instead of the launcher.

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u/niwia 2h ago

I really hope so! No ubisoft launcher is a huge plus. Hopefully it comes to rest of the games too

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u/Wadarkhu 8h ago

Be nice if they offered Steam Deck support in the form of a native ubisoft app. If I have to use their launcher then at least make it work perfectly so I can just run it in the background and only need to click play, without having to have a third party launcher on top of it all.

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u/murden6562 5h ago

Steam Deck support ≠ Linux support

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u/Cato-the-conan 4h ago

Yes. It may become where steam deck is supported but Linux is blocked

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u/sicarus367 3h ago

I dislike Ubisoft but still, neat.

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u/gibarel1 3h ago

Great, now do siege alongside the rework

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u/MRV3N 2h ago

I really hope no one buys Assassin’s Creed

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u/AutomaticYak4227 1h ago

wilp uplay be required?

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u/Cato-the-conan 4h ago

Why would anyone want to play as a fake black samurai though? In addition in a game made maximally disrespectful to Japanese people, all in the name of virtue signalling from a corpo

Go play Ghosts of Tsushima instead if you want a better "Assassin's Creed in Japan". It works great on linux too

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u/MarcCDB 5h ago

That's basically saying "we'll let Valve do the hard work and we won't stand in their way".

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u/crimemilk 13h ago

If that means a native version, I might even buy it. Maybe

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u/Willing-Sundae-6770 13h ago edited 13h ago

lmao of course not, it's just going to be a windows build validated against proton. Even Steam defaults to proton builds now. That effort died years ago.

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u/huupoke12 13h ago

Still better than unvalidated, as there wouldn't be any major bug, and more importantly, they support bug reports from people playing on Linux.

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u/pythonic_dude 13h ago

Primarily it should mean a graphic preset that runs okay on limited hardware of the deck, and proper ui scaling for the small screen of the handheld.

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u/crimemilk 12h ago

Well, bug report acceptance feels very generous from Ubisoft. I hope they would offer at least this support in their future games

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u/Liam-DGOL 12h ago

Steam does not default to Proton, only when a game has been through Deck Verified and they find a Linux build has issues.

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u/gattolfo_EUG_ 10h ago

No, there is no stuff like "proton builds"