Summary
Assassin’s Creed Shadowshas had one of the most tumultuous pre-launch cycles of any game in recent years.Multiple delays,complaints about historical inaccuracies, anddiscontent from Japanese officialsall plagued the title in the lead-up to yesterday’s launch.
Despite its pre-launch cycle, though, Shadow’s launch went pretty well. It released with an81 on Opencritic, including a4/5 from us here at TheGamer, and has been met equally well onSteam.
At the current time of writing, the game has “Very Positive” reviews on the Valve-owned platform, with 82 percent of players leaving a positive review. Unfortunately, however, the game does seem to be plagued with optimisation issues, with many of the 18 percent negative reviews complaining about its PC performance.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows Launches With “Very Positive” Reviews On Steam, But Does Have Issues
Launching to “Very Positive” reviews on Steam is no easy task, and Assassin’s Creed Shadows deserves to be commended for it. Not many games manage this feat straight off the bat, and it often takes a few patches before reviews start to reach the 80+ percent mark.
However, for some players, their experience seems to be far from positive. A quick look at the game’s reviews on Steam shows that more than a handful of players are having issues with the its PC performance.
After 1.9 hours of play, one player wrote, “The optimization of this game is atrocious, it cant even maintain 30 fps. Going to wait a few days for hopefully a performance patch if not I’m refunding. AMD rigs beware, would steer clear for now,” however, they did note that “Messing with the raytracing and weirdly turning off HDR gave me a massive performance boost.” Another player complained about “very weak performance for the relatively old-fashioned graphics level.”
While the actual optimisation was the main bone of contention, other players were unhappy with the fact that the game’s cutscenes were locked to 30 fps. Various reviews referenced it on Steam, and it’s beenmentioned multiple timesacross both the Assassin’s Creed and Assassin’s Creed Shadows subreddits.
The optimization of this game is atrocious, it cant even maintain 30 fps.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the latest game to face complaints about its PC optimisation this year. Monster Hunter Wilds wasslammed for its performance on PC, and bothMarvel’s Spider-Man 2andGTA 5 Enhancedfaced similar fates. However, unlike the other three, Shadows kicked off with a positive review score.
