Rumored PVP Assassin’s Creed game could be the next one on the chopping block after ‘f**king awful’ private playtest

Though Assassin's Creed fans are doing relatively okay now that Ubisoft has finally confirmed the Black Flag remake, giving them something to be excited about, it seems other projects in the franchise aren't feeling so good. Following a supposed private playtest, Ubisoft's Codename Invictus, a PVP Assassin's Creed game, is reportedly facing an uncertain future.

That is according to YouTuber and streamer j0nathan (via Kotaku), who apparently spoke with those who participated in the private playtest. The game, which Kotaku writes is apparently something like Fall Guys but with an Assassin's Creed spin, is "fucking awful," according to j0nathan.

"There were some tests for Assassin's Creed Invictus last month (exactly on April 30), and I was told it was really fucking awful," he wrote on X yesterday. "It's supposed to come out by the end of the year, but there's a good chance it'll get delayed or even canceled," he added.

He further asked other participants to tell him more of their experiences with the game, but if what he already gathered is anything to go by, we could be in for another Ubisoft wreckage given just how trigger-happy the company has been lately. And to note, Assassin's Creed games all used to have a multiplayer component essentially focusing on players taking each other out in elaborate ways, and though that's been largely forgotten nowadays, it doesn't mean that multiplayer is some sort of novelty for the franchise.

What the team at Ubisoft Montreal, which develops one of my favorite games, For Honor, is exactly aiming for is anyone's guess. It could be challenge-based, level-based, utilizing parkour or assassin mechanics, or just something else entirely whose mass-multiplayer approach reportedly resembles Fall Guys, as mentioned above. Either way, we simply don't know, but j0nathan seems to think it's nowhere near good enough to see the light of day.

Which is a shame, really, since the For Honor folks are a clearly talented team that has managed to create and maintain one of the most unique and fun multiplayer games in recent memory. In fact, no other game comes close to For Honor in core gameplay, leaving it as more or less the only game doing what it does. Perhaps attempts to make Invictus stand out and be "unique" aren't working out, but this is just me trying to make sense of it all.

At any rate, Ubisoft has been canceling projects left and right as the company continues to bleed money and go down in value year after year. According to Google's stock tracker, Ubisoft has lost more than 92 percent of its stock value in the last five years and is showing no real signs that it'll ever bounce back to its golden days. Partnering with Tencent and creating a new company to handle signature franchises sounded like a good move, but we haven't really seen the fruits of that effort materialize yet.

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