Actually, I’ve been meaning to post about how I’m playing AC:V for a while but kept getting distracted. Not quite the right thread but close enough. If you’ve got a Ubisoft+ subscription, you can play all the games on that service via Geforce Now as well as on your local PC. You need to bung Nvidia a fiver to get the proper service (the free option is pretty hobbled but useful if you want to test your network) but it’s jaw droppingly impressive. I can play AC:V at 1080p 60fps (the max my laptop monitor supports) with Ultra High settings. That’s nearly next-gen performance for the price of a few coffees. Which is just nuts. I know Ubi are going to be offering the same option to Stadia (and Luna) soon too. I would qualify this by pointing out that I do have fibre connection hovering around the 60-70mbs mark (which is quick but hardly state of the art) and in the evenings when the intertubes get busy (especially last tuesday when CoD, AC and Series S/X completely knackered the internet) the service does suffer, so it’s not perfect and certainly not a replacement for a PC or console yet. In my experience it agonizingly close though, certainly (with the appropriate expectations) good enough that I’m playing AC:V on it quite happily. It will be very interesting to see how the 5g roll out goes and how quickly we can standardise on decently quick connections so the services work for everyone, rather than those who are lucky to have quick interpipes. I think it’s still in early adoptor territory and all these competing services need to sort out their offerings to appeal appropriately but in a year or two it could be a completely different ball game. I know I’ve gone from being completely skeptical to playing one of my favourite games of the last few years entirely in the cloud in a matter of weeks.
