Assassin’s Creed: Mirage (PC/PS5/XSX/PS4/XB1) - October 12, 2023

[Anoat]

https://www.eurogamer.net/baghdad-se...Q4Od0vRYT64gmk

Expected release date spring 2023

Set in Baghdad, Iraq circa 860-870

AC Valhalla character Basim is expected to play a significant role, may or may not be the player controlled character

The leveling system of Origins/Odyssey/Valhalla is reportedly scrapped, will go back to earlier AC style character progression

Rumor that it will not be multiple cities and open world, majority of the game will take place in Baghdad.

[Vil]

The less like Valhalla, the better. There was a lot I enjoyed in that game, but a ton that I hated. A real frustrating experience with the gameplay of it.

[Anoat]

Title confirmed, more info on September 10th

https://twitter.com/assassinscreed/s...69047461642240

[Anoat]

Cinematic trailer, no gameplay

[6souls]

[Salodin]

Is this like a reimagining of the original game? I like the vibe so far

[bori]

Thank god they are returning to the game's roots!

[Anoat]

Is this like a reimagining of the original game? I like the vibe so far

It’s a continuation of the series, the main character is from AC Valhalla

[Salodin]

It’s a continuation of the series, the main character is from AC Valhalla

And now he's in Baghdad? The Viking? o_O

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[Qalbert]

its not the main character from valhalla

[Salodin]

Oh right right I forget about the Animus backstory always going on. I used to be real interested in that part but they lost me right after brotherhood or something like that. Still waiting for one of these games to get it's grip on me like Brotherhood did, but so far they haven't done it for me

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[Anoat]

And now he's in Baghdad? The Viking? o_O

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Basim was a side character in Valhalla that ended up being pretty important by the end. Mirage takes place in the early parts of Basim’s life, it seems.

If you reeeeeeeally want to know I’ll spoiler Valhalla here

Spoiler: show

Basim is an Assassin that teaches Eivor (the playable character and Viking) how to be an Assassin. The Maguffin of the game is “Valhalla” but it’s actually a stasis device that the ancient people used to try to avoid their apocalypse. It didn’t work as they thought it would but remained dormant. Eivor and Basim fight near the machine and it activates and traps Basim there for centuries. In the modern timeline, the player character Layla finds the corpse of Basim at the machine but accidentally activates it, the machine releases Basim’s corpse and captures Layla. Layla happened to be holding the staff of Tresmisgustus (the maguffin from AC Odyssey that grants eternal life) so when Basim’s corpse touched it, he was reanimated. So now Basim appears to be the main character for Mirage in both the past and present timeline. There is even more with Basim’s story from Valhalla that I left out, some big details actually, but that’s the gist of it

[Anoat]

Ubisoft announced that Mirage has gone gold and will now be releasing a week earlier than scheduled, on October 5th.

Huh. Don’t usually see major studio games release early so that’s something

[6souls]

I hope the game controls better than Valhalla. I've had so many rage moments just because the game controls like ass. The Paris DLC is just the worst.

[Anoat]

The gamescom trailer holy shit this looks BAD. Like PS3/360 generation. What the fuck.

[6souls]

Of the modern-era AssCreed games, this is my favorite and I am happy to see new content for it.