This game needs a LOT of work. There are bugs at every level of it. Not just some here or there, bugs are literally the norm for the function of this game. There are bugs with the UI on nearly every screen. There are bugs with climbing and pathing. There are bugs with riding mounts. There are bugs with the combat, hitboxes, and tons of enemy i-frames. There are bugs with multiple skills. There are bugs with the NPCs interacting with objects and the player. There are bugs with the audio and music. There are bugs with the graphics displaying incorrectly and physics wonking out. There are bugs with questing and story advancement. There are various bugs that are serious and potentially gamebreaking or derogatory to the core experience of the game, making it very difficult to avoid them at all. Even if you don't get a bug that effects your gameplay directly by causing a death that can set you back 20-30 minutes of time in some cases, there are annoyances that can happen like the menu UI breaking and displaying the top bar directly across the center of the menu, or NPCs breaking and forcing you to directly fix the issue by shooting them out of an object they clipped into, or for the worst case, you get a bug that breaks a quest and you literally have to start the game over entirely.

People that paid pre-order price for this game or bought extremely expensive editions of the game deserve better. This is a AAA game that feels worse than an indie title in a lot of way. There is good here that deserves to be represented much better, too. Yet right from the beginning rather than releasing a game with minimal bugs, instead it's riddled with them but somehow there was time to put together a fully-functional in-game real money shop with tons of equipment, mounts, and cosmetics? It's almost as if the QA period was skipped entirely in lieu of making sure the game would have real money purchases on release. It's insulting.

So, as a matter of respect for the people that have bought the game: I request that no microtransaction items be released until the game is in a much more playable and complete state. You know what's better than a stupid looking rainbow longship? Having a $70 game that's actually finished.

@valtyrnine +1 No more store items until this game is fixed; we need bug fixes, better AI, and for sake of everyone who bought the game ... a response from Ubisoft.
Their attitude to just not communicating with their player/customer base is terrible.

True, until today i can't even launch the game, and no reply from ubisoft..

@valtyrnine

Agreed, and on top of the microtransactions also the ultimate editions, where you pay for cosmetic items which you are unable to use due to bugs (I am unable to customize my ship and raiders crew due to a settlement bug).