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Assassin’s Creed Shadows Launches To “Very Positive” Reviews On Steam, But Unsurprisingly Has Tons Of Complaints About Optimistion

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sam Woods

Published Mar 20, 2025

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Assassin's Creed Shadows received "Very Positive" reviews on Steam, but many players reported performance issues.
Despite the positive launch, optimization problems plagued the game, with 30 fps cutscenes irking players.
Previous games like Monster Hunter Wilds, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, and GTA 5 Enhanced also faced PC optimization complaints.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Assassin's Creed Shadows has had one of the most tumultuous pre-launch cycles of any game in recent years. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Multiple delays, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网ꦡ:complaints about historical inaccuracies, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:discontent from Japanese officials all plagued the ti🦋tle in🎃 the lead-up to yesterday's launch.

Despite its pre-launch cycle, though, Shadow's launch went pretty well. It released with an , including a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:4/5 from us here at TheGamer, and has been met equally well on Steam.

Yasuke standing near a Torii gate in Assassin's Creed Shadows.

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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 optimisatiꦗon 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

Yasuke impaling someone in Assassin's Creed Shadows.

Launching to "Very Positive" reviews on Steam is no easy task, and Assassin's Creed Sh🐟adows deserves to be commended for it. Not many games manage this feat straight off the bat, and it often takes a few patches be✨fore reviews start to reach the 80+ percent mark.

However, for some players, their experience seems to be far from positiv𓃲e. 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 gaveꦏ 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 referenꦯced it on Steam, and it's been across both the Assassin's Creed and Assassin's Creed Shadows subreddits.

The optimization of this game is atrocious, it cant eve🀅n maintain 30 fps.

Assassin's Creed Shadows is the latest game to face complaints about its PC optimisation this year. Monster Hunter Wilds was 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:slammed for its performance on PC, and both 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Marvel's Spider-Man 2 and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:GTA 5 Enhanced faced similar fates. However, unlike the other⛄ three, Shadows kicked o🐈ff with a positive review score.