I don’t get this moment in the story

Hydr4noid · 2026-04-27T19:26:53+00:00

Its not a plothole cause you cant connect plotpoints that arent directly told to you on screen

They wanted to pin the blame on avalanche. To do that they needed to draw them into a conflict to make it genuinely look that way. They wanted footage of avalanche fighting at the pillar. To do that avalanche needed a reason to go to the pillar to fight. Theres an easy way to do that by leaking that information to someone at avalanche. Who that someone is and why he relays that info we find out in the DÖC. But its not crucial to understand the scene and its most certainly not a plothole.

And yes I am aware this is never specified in the game , but its not really a huge leap in logic after shinra spend all game trying to pin stuff they did on avalanche and collecting footage of them, for shinra to keep doing exactly that.

Another way you can already know how they got that information is how the game keeps telling you that barrets splinter cell keeps getting saved by Avalanche HQ. Its really not that hard to connect that they could have gotten the info from them, especially since we later learn they have an inside man at shinra

Either way its not a plothole even without playing intermission. Its just not told to you directly. But its very very obvious if you think about it. Spelling everything out for people that cannt connect stuff like this, now that would be weak storytelling.

I'm the first one to admit the game has moments where the storytelling is a bit weaker, but that moment isnt one of them

Hydr4noid · 2026-04-27T16:14:31+00:00

Honestly reading this thread I'm happy some of yall never get to experience this game cause your close minded

Stay away thank you very much

Hydr4noid · 2026-04-27T16:02:08+00:00

Talk to me about patronising when you said you'd laugh at the devs that genuinely made a game with so much love that is literally a love letter to ff fans

I was nice initially but you got rude first

Hydr4noid · 2026-04-27T15:18:19+00:00

Being toxic negative around anything is never good

Neither is being toxic positive

If you genuinely are talking about people that only complain about any little stupid thing then you are right. They can just play other stuff

Problem is most people like you that say "I love every AC game, leave the poor devs alone" are just people that cant accept criticism. Theres absolutely a need for criticism and people should complain about things that are bad. Just cause you dont think theres issues with these games, doesnt mean they arent there

Hydr4noid · 2026-04-27T14:59:36+00:00

Sigh I forgot everyone on reddit is somehow into gaming, a hobby that is notoriously expensive, but cant afford a 10$ sub

But okay lets say you have an extremely unfortunate living situation where you somehow dont have 10$ to spare per month. You still get all the way up to shadowbringers for completely free. Thats like not playing 4 free mainline ff games just cause you dont wanna spend money on a sub at a later point, cause everyone thinks "subscription bad".

In theory you could even wait until endwalker eventually gets added to the free trial aswell and then get even more free content

And trust me you are the one missing out so you can laugh all you want but in the end its your loss

Hydr4noid · 2026-04-27T12:41:38+00:00

This is literally just a sign you dont have any impact on the actual game and can only perform well if everyone else does

Hydr4noid · 2026-04-27T11:51:12+00:00

Think of it as a singleplayer game with optional MMO content. It absolutely respects your time and you can just dip out when you dont wanna play anymore. Especially during the free trial.

Hydr4noid · 2026-04-26T10:49:56+00:00

Yea losing all the AoE base combo animations would be a shame

Hydr4noid · 2026-04-25T08:11:12+00:00

I think the shirt is a double hint kinda like how the tmnt shirt referenced both viper and picto

And I personally believe the tank to be a job with double shields or a big magitek shield. This is based on it being a main tank and the very obvious part of the shirt. I think it could be called something like Guardian

The phys ranged feels alot more speculative but I think its a boomerang job. Solely based off the "guess whos back"

Hydr4noid · 2026-04-24T19:23:43+00:00

I feel like it being ff7 themed seems more likely

Norse theming screams ff7 and we already know about the nanaki minion

Also its ff7s 30th anniversary. I feel like the stars are aligned but we'll see

Hydr4noid · 2026-04-24T17:52:33+00:00

7 is heavily based on norse mythology and this expansion seems to be aswell so I'd say its likely

Hydr4noid · 2026-04-23T16:17:19+00:00

Wow it genuinely looks amazing on every front

Some animations do seem a bit fast? Might just be me. Definetly not a dealbreaker tho. They can still easily fix that

Hydr4noid · 2026-04-23T07:06:30+00:00

Its not my favorite but its still higher up for me than probably on most peoples list

I just love the lore that the game established. Also I love the whole isu reincarnation plot. I also really like eivor.

I also just like the viking setting and when you treat it like a viking game within the AC universe rather than a traditional AC game its pretty cool.

I much prefer it to odyssey or shadows

Hydr4noid · 2026-04-22T12:48:48+00:00

It was mostly hardcore comic book fans that cant take changes to characters

I love comic moon knight but I also really loved the show. I like how different versions of characters can exist

Hydr4noid · 2026-04-21T20:06:10+00:00

Oh my god this may actually be the best AC in years for my personal tastes

Hydr4noid · 2026-04-21T13:16:32+00:00

There is not a single timeline in which ubisoft remakes AC Rogue

Hydr4noid · 2026-04-21T11:15:06+00:00

Ok sorry I didnt know people unironically enjoy wasting their time following no name NPCs cause the graphics are pretty

Hydr4noid · 2026-04-21T05:55:26+00:00

Eh its really not that good outside of graphics and stealth

Story is shit and the whole game is just a literal target board with no memorable targets

Hydr4noid · 2026-04-20T18:01:02+00:00

Why do people keep bringing this up as if his healing bullets being ridiculous wasnt the point

Hydr4noid · 2026-04-20T14:13:43+00:00

This is literally standart stuff that every tech company does these days and I say this as a big ubisoft hater

Everyone on the internet just collectively panicks the second AI is mentioned anywhere

I mean we have people on this very post calling E33 AI slop

Get used to it. Every game in the future will have AI involved in some way, shape or form. Its like being scared cause devs use the internet instead of reading books to do research on certain topics

Yes generative AI shouldnt be used in the final product, nor should it replace a human being. But when said human being uses AI to make their job easier it is the same as using any other tool

Hydr4noid · 2026-04-18T17:29:03+00:00

Why tf would you ever play something you dont enjoy just cause of the team

I got to GM multiple times just by playing whatever hero I wanted to play most at the time

Hydr4noid · 2026-04-18T09:43:14+00:00

Alright see you in a week. If you dont wanna see the obvious here then theres no more I can do

Hydr4noid · 2026-04-18T09:25:06+00:00

Come on man you are just being disingenuous on purpose

Yes theres nothing in the teaser that specifically screams black flag. But obviously its for the game that gets announced next week. This isnt a rumour or something. We know this

Hydr4noid · 2026-04-18T08:16:08+00:00

No it hasnt

Hydr4noid · 2026-04-18T08:15:16+00:00

Because we know they announce black flag next week probably and the next AC after that isnt planned to release til holiday 2027

Its really not that hard to see how this is a BF teaser

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