Assassin’s Creed Animus Hub could be a nightmare for Xbox achievements

I despise Name of Responsibility HQ, and I am apprehensive that Ubisoft (like Activision) might use the launcher-style Animus Hub to deal with future Murderer’s Creed video games and their Xbox achievements as DLC packs. I actually hope the Murderer’s Creed Shadows achievements do not find yourself as part of a convoluted new launcher system alongside different achievement lists for brand new entries on the subject of enjoying the most recent Murderer’s Creed video games so as — it could be the improper transfer.

With 2023’s Name of Responsibility: Trendy Warfare III, Activision rolled out Name of Responsibility HQ, its devoted CoD launcher that’s broadly disliked by each ardent Name of Responsibility followers and achievement and trophy hunters. To play Trendy Warfare II, Trendy Warfare III, Black Ops 6, or Warzone, you now must enter Name of Responsibility HQ, discover the precise recreation you need to play, after which load that up.
Simply let me launch the sport I would like immediately, Activision. Why do I’ve to enter a separate software to get to the sport I need to play? Going by this course of would solely be a gentle annoyance if HQ did not require a web-based connection, fixed updates, and quite a few irritating restarts.

Nonetheless, probably the most egregious factor Activision has completed with HQ is combining the Trendy Warfare II, Trendy Warfare III, and Black Ops 6 Xbox achievement lists into one mega listing. As an alternative of getting particular person lists for every recreation, we now have an enormous listing of achievements that requires buying and beating all three video games if you’d like the completion.

In fact, when a brand new Name of Responsibility is launched (there are three issues sure in life: demise, taxes, and a brand new CoD annually), it’s important to then full that recreation’s achievement listing to maintain your good and glossy 100%. PlayStation gamers seemingly have it worse, although. Because the launcher can solely have one platinum trophy hooked up to it, each Trendy Warfare III and Black Ops 6 on PS5 have launched with out platinums.

I fear that Ubisoft will copy Activision’s Name of Responsibility HQ with its upcoming Animus Hub. Again in 2022, Ubisoft introduced the Animus Hub (then referred to as Murderer’s Creed Infinity), which Ubisoft’s Marc-Alexis Côté has described because the “single entry level for our followers into the Murderer’s Creed franchise.”

Releasing alongside Murderer’s Creed Shadows, the Animus Hub will function a launcher for Shadows and all future Murderer’s Creed video games, together with Murderer’s Creed Codename Hexe. Whereas particulars concerning the Animus Hub are nonetheless skinny on the bottom, presently, all of it sounds very Name of Responsibility HQ-ish.

It is doable that Ubisoft will take a distinct path with the Animus Hub and launch all of its video games with good, neat particular person achievement lists for every recreation. Nonetheless, with so many builders treating Xbox achievements and PlayStation trophies as an afterthought as of late, I think that will not be the case, and we’ll find yourself with an Murderer’s Creed Animus Hub mega listing, which might be an enormous disgrace.

For extra on the subsequent entry into the Murderer’s Creed franchise, try all the pieces we find out about Murderer’s Creed Shadows. What are your ideas on the upcoming Animus Hub? Tell us down within the feedback.