Assassin's Creed Hexe Development Doesn't Seem Like It's Going Too Well

Wasn't the whole hook of this game was that it would be having magic abilities? At this point just call it something else and start over.

I don't think it would make much of a difference if it was going amazingly!
This Is one franchise that 100% needs a rest for sure at least 3 or 4 years it's been milked to death!
Look what they have done!
Look how they massacred my boy!!
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>This is described as a "home for developers who are not assigned a project at Ubisoft", and they're expected to find a project within three months or risk potential termination

We have video game hospices now, folks.

This sounds like a continued shakeup following Jean Guesdon's installment as franchise lead. Hopefully, they're just getting all their projects back on track and getting rid of the people that went in the wrong direction.

Personally, I'm glad they're getting rid of magic. While AC has its sci-fi meta-narrative, the historical periods always had some kind of grounding in the real world. The less fantasy, the better, in my opinion.

A setting in the Holy Roman Empire during the Witch Trials sounds way more interesting when it's portrayed more historically (with the Templar/Assassin overlay, of course).

@wildcat_kickz There was some magical element in The Tyranny of King Washington DLC, but it was an alternate reality, so a bit different.

@MidnightDragonDX Yeah, I kinda treat the DLCs differently. AC Origins and Odyssey went really hard with fantasy in their DLCs, too.

Moving away from magic feels like a good idea. It’s sort of a massively stupid idea to make the women who were killed during these ‘trials’ to be actual witches doing magic because in reality they were ordinary women being persecuted because of mass hysteria/superstition/misogyny. Just making them do magic makes the trials justified which is ludicrous even for a series like AC which seems to have abandoned reality in recent games.

@wildcat_kickz Yea. Like you said, the main games are more rooted in reality with some sci-fi elements.

Just remember this is the same franchise where you fought the pope who had a magical staff....

Do you remember when AC was about uncovering lost memories in your DNA to find something about ancient relics? It was like playing Indiana Jones style in Da Vinci's Code movie... It was about uncovering mysteries, not about random person life sim.

i feel like it was more of a restructure in development , then issues , but it sounds like they are listening to what people are saying and taking that advice into making the game better then what it was at before. i was iffy about the random magic stuff , but the setting sounds really cool , if all these rumors are right it feels like they are going in the right direction.

@djlard We all know once they killed off Desmond they just didn't care about any of stuff anymore

@Oram77 So why they continue to call it Assassins Creed still? It's like changing Need for Speed into Car Mechanic Simulator.

@djlard I mean it's following the Assassin's creed just not through the DNA remember in Black flag you played as some rando

'The player character will be able to make a smoke bomb, which will allow them to fool people into thinking they've "disappeared"'.

See, this is the kind of innovation the industry desperately needs.

@Dalamar Also, apparently it's THEIR job to find projects, not be allocated accordingly? What, is it like being picked last in gym class?