Nah actually Assassin’s Creed Shadows will get Steam Deck support after all, Ubisoft say

Assassin’s Creed Shadows volition successful information beryllium compatible with the Steam Deck, Ubisoft say, contempt a erstwhile tech Q&A connected the sneaky-stabby ninja sim declaring point-blank that it won’t. Announced connected immoderate the fuck Twitter is these days, the confirmation that Shadows volition play bully with the Deck comes arsenic a pleasant astonishment – adjacent without that anterior naysaying, games with a GTX 1070 listed among the minimum specs typically don’t header excessively good connected the handheld’s frugal hardware.

The lone question, suggesteth the tweet, is whether Shadows volition get a full-on Verified stamp of support from Valve’s compatibility testers, oregon the Playable classification, which is usually handed to games that tally good capable but mightiness person awkward controls oregon tricky-to-read text. It’ll help, astatine least, that this peculiar Assassin’s Creed is launching with a autochthonal Steam version, and won’t solely beryllium yoked to Ubisoft Connect (though determination are different ways of installing that launcher connected your Steam Deck too).

Another obstruction that Ubisoft person seemingly some erected and cleared is Shadows’ mandatory ray tracing. While not slathered successful always-on megalighting similar Indiana Jones And The Great Circle, it won’t beryllium imaginable to wholly power disconnected ray traced effects, arsenic they’ll ever beryllium enabled successful the player’s hideout hub astatine minimum. With fewer exceptions, ray tracing volition chopped down Steam Deck show similar an impertinent daimyo’s neck, but Ubisoft person besides created a much easygoing, software-based mentation of these effects, which volition supposedly relation adequately connected lower-end GPUs. Which would explicate wherefore the GTX 1070 is successful the minimum specs and not, say, the RTX 2060, with each its hardware-based ray tracing tools.

Whatever you mightiness play it on, Assassin’s Creed Shadows launches adjacent Thursday, April 20th. Ed (RPS successful peace) had a play successful January, uncovering it a competent open-world yarn, though was little impressed with the dual-protagonist gimmick that near hulking samurai Yasuke feeling little fleshed-out than stealthy shinobi Naoe.