The snow has been patched out! Statement from Discord
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  • 88 points Aries_cz

    Thank you unnamed developer who was forced to remote login and deploy the patch. And thanks to Community Managers who were hounding the developer to do it.

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    I liked the idea of having the snow, but it was way too much, and it should have come with an off switch.

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    13 points OrangeDit

    As I said before, I believe it was bugged.

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    [deleted]

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    0 points Mathijs5

    You dont work in it do you..

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    2 points elsisamples

    Wdym? This person is completely correct about QA testing. This should have been caught before being pushed to prod.

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    [deleted]

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    1 points elsisamples

    Poor you. This critique was fair, I actually made it a point to write a negative Steam review so they realize the issue. People want to play right now on their break lol.

    To their credit, they fixed it fast it seems. Just shouldn’t have made it to prod in the first place to your point. This is not a small Indie company, it’s Ubisoft.

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    2 points ThatPromotion4127

    Anyone who starts a paragraph by saying "I work at a Fortune 50 tech company" most likely does spend their holidays yelling at Wal Mart employees.

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    0 points ThatPromotion4127

    You honestly sound like someone who spends their holidays yelling at Walmart employees.

    Someone spent their Christmas correcting this. Thank them.

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    1 points ThatPromotion4127

    Triggered.

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  • 42 points AleixASV

    Thank you guys and Merry Christmas!

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  • 17 points Negative-Mammoth-547

    Thank god

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    15 points PM_YOUR_PUPPERS

    I logged on to play last night and it was completely unplayable so I'm like "that's unfortunate" and played something else

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    -7 points Negative-Mammoth-547

    Wasn’t so much as it was unplayable, it was playable but I couldn’t see Jack shit unless I zoomed right in which was just annoying.

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    6 points ToggoStar

    Sounds pretty unplayable to me...

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    -8 points lkl34

    "completely unplayable so I'm like "that's unfortunate" and played something else"

    Yep that is why peoples new cars catch fire

    Oh no my 80grand jeep is on fire all well i will take my bike attitude is killing this planet.

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  • 8 points Zealousideal_Buy6791

    whats the discord?

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    7 points Rooonaldooo99

    The Annoverse

    https://discord.gg/V4xhZ8Z

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    3 points Zealousideal_Buy6791

    thx

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  • 9 points Soft-Raisin4805

    I played for like 10 mins this morning and couldn't take it.

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  • 17 points tofagerl

    Considering the circumstances, that's probably as fast and good a reaction as we could have hoped for. I can only imagine the number of different steps involved in getting a fix deployed in all the different game stores involved... <shiver>

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    2 points OrangeDit

    Well, like 24 hours. Debatable, yes, no, I don't know.

    Thanks for the poor developer, who had to crank it out on Christmas, on the other hand, they screwed it up...

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  • 5 points justjules76

    Still unplayable on console. Half a job.

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    7 points lolKhamul

    OP forget to mention the patch was only deployed on PC. Console wont get it because patches need to be certified by MS/Sony which wont happen during the holidays.

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  • 5 points RelationFinal9194

    Still on console

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  • 7 points Best-Occasion-8889

    Imagine that one of the devs gets up from the Christmas table and quickly coding a hotfix to remove the snowstorm because the public anger produces million of memes about it. This is the real power of the Reddit community.

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    -3 points Background-House-357

    Someone made a mod, it was perfectly playable. People ought to stop whining.

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    7 points VisonKai

    the mod made it playable for people like me (and presumably you) with good PCs, but you can't mod the console version and lower-end PCs were struggling with the additional GPU load, which the mod didn't fix (all it did was make the snow transparent, not actually getting rid of the work being done by the GPU on the backend)

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    1 points celeb0rn

    Do mods work on PS5 version?

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  • 3 points lolKhamul

    Yo OP, at least notify the users this is PC only if you already repost the news.

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  • 5 points Hour_Pilot

    "Patchnotes : We've removed christmas from Anno!"

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    1 points Particular_Bug0

    Historically accurate in a way

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  • 5 points Oggi02

    I am sad .. they could have maybe fixed it. I liked the snow ist

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    1 points Hypno--Toad

    No job like a snow job

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  • 6 points taubenangriff

    I mean, good for the players, but man, first they fabricate bullshit, then a random dev is forced to do a patch on christmas eve.

    Sounds straight like corporate hellhole I'd never ever want to work in.

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  • 2 points Defalt404

    instead of just reducing it... didnt get a chance to see it besides screenshots from reddit xD

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    2 points jbroni93

    Fuck your Christmas break. Spend time figuring out what amount is best instead of flipping a switch /s

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  • 5 points DanDan1993

    It's a Christmas miracle!

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  • 3 points Thundercnt

    if they did their job and playtested for even a second they wouldn't have had to work Christmas. A well deserved disruption to their holidays.

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  • 1 points platypushh

    Any idea when this will make its way to GeForce now? 

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  • 0 points motku

    As someone who's played every Anno game with christmas snow, what is the issue? I've been having to play 117 on the lowest settings anyways, the snow only added visual noise, no slowdown or issues. Dang some of you are snowflakes for sure.

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    [deleted]

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    -1 points motku

    I had no issue with it. Was looking forward to another snowy day in 117, we'll be back to usual all too soon.

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  • 1 points BloodMisery

    Thank God. Its was a constant blizzard consuming the known world lol

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  • 1 points lkl34

    Good

    Glad there was enough of people like me not book licking and knew it was fucked up to have it in game glad its all gone.

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  • -1 points Omel_blu

    A dev had to work on Xmas because of a few spoiled kids bitching on Reddit

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  • -1 points AwarePudding2979

    I still have snow why? Who approved this Christmas morning ruined

    https://preview.redd.it/fgr3kasdtd9g1.jpeg?width=2252&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=53d684771e56a33f6aaec7b2ed3185556ce0966f

    Pls help

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    1 points Background-House-357

    There is a mod to make it disappear.

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    2 points AwarePudding2979

    On Xbox?

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    0 points lolKhamul

    I guess you are on console. OP forget to mention the patch was only deployed on PC. Console wont get it because patches need to be certified by MS/Sony which wont happen during the holidays.

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  • -3 points Fav0

    Maybe it's because I am on 1800

    But i barely saw Any snow? Only thing I saw Was snata claus

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    6 points stone_solid

    Maybe? Really? You're playing an entirely different game and wondering why you aren't seeing this bug?

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    -1 points Fav0

    There is snow in 1800 aswell just like this is not a specific 117 sub btw

    But yeah stay mad bruh

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    1 points stone_solid

    Lol not mad, just confused at your complete lack of comprehension. Every post about bugged snow has mentioned that it's worse in Albion and has shown screenshots of clearly 117 UI.

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  • 0 points retschebue

    Ich hoffe, ihr verwöhnten kindischen Hater, alle die an dieser Entwicklung beteiligt waren, seid stolz auf euch.

    Mehrere Devs an Heiligabend/Weihnachten rausgeklingelt, weil mimimi, es ist nicht Standard, mimimi, wie unrealistisch, mimimi Schnee und Rom?!, mimimi, was soll das, mimimi, ich mag das nicht, mimimi, mimimi, mimimi.

    Genau wegen sowas werden doch mittlerweile Spiele eingestellt und Studios geschlossen.

    Glückwunsch, ich denke Anno 117 wird dann das letzte gewesen sein. Wieder eine tolle Spielreihe, die dem sinnlosen Hass im Netz, wegen beschissenen Nichtigkeiten, zugrunde geht.

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    0 points No_Real_Deal

    Hm, ich sehe nur eine Person, die hier rumheult...

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