Watch Homefront Online MichaelsUbisoft Removes Fourth Of July Fireworks From Watch Dogs 2 After Noise ComplaintsA temporary Independence Day celebration in Watch Dogs 2 was suspended early on July 4 because it was enraging too many people who still play Ubisofts late 2. The fireworks had been added to the game as part of the 1. They were set to erupt during the games night cycles from June 2. July 1. 0. On Twitter, they were described by gamers as completely obnoxious, fucking annoying and too frequent, too long and too loud. Watch The Colors Of The Mountain Full Movie there. Someone else said they were scaring their dog. Initially, Ubisoft defended the fireworks. Watch Fruitvale Station Hindi Full Movie. Three days ago, in reply to a forum thread titled Annoying Fireworks At night missions, a Ubisoft community representative noted While you may find them loud in game, they are really loud in real life too The sound carries over the water and you can hear them all over the BayBy yesterday, Ubisoft yielded. On Reddit, a company rep noted The people have spoken and we have carried out their will There was an annoying bug that snuck into our Independence Day Event that made the sound effects from the fireworks noticeable from everywhere on the map. They have been turned off as to avoid any further noise complaints. Ubisoft Its not possible to rush a fix for this so we made a tough choice to remove them. Watch Dogs 2 got its final patch today, which makes impossible to use mods while online if youre playing on PC. The games publisher, Ubisoft, says that this is. A temporary Independence Day celebration in Watch Dogs 2 was suspended early on July 4 because it was enraging too many people who still play Ubisofts late 2016. Watch the latest Featured Videos on CBSNews. View more videos on CBS News, featuring the latest indepth coverage from our news team. IGN is your site for Xbox One, PS4, PC, WiiU, Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, 3DS, PS Vita iPhone games with expert reviews, news, previews, trailers, cheat codes, wiki guides. Watch Homefront Online Microscope' title='Watch Homefront Online Microscope' />The heart says no but the ear drums say yes. When Tweeting the news, the official Watch Dogs 2 Twitter account ccd the outlet Ars Technica, likely because of the publications Tuesday morning story headlined Ubisoft wishes Watch Dogs 2 players a terrible Fourth of July. Of course, as fans of whatever pop song you hate can tell you that even the most cacophonous noise has its fans. Sure enough, a Watch Dogs 2 player on the games subreddit lamented the firework deletion. The Ubi rep replied We liked them too But when youre playing the game at night for hours and cant escape the popping no matter where you are, thats not a positive experience for the player. Its not possible to rush a fix for this so we made a tough choice to remove them. The heart says no but the ear drums say yes. Watch Dogs 2 Modders Hate The Games Final Patch. Watch Dogs 2 got its final patch today, which makes impossible to use mods while online if youre playing on PC. The games publisher, Ubisoft, says that this is to ensure fair online play, but the games small modding community is very frustrated. The 1. 1. 7 patch wasnt announced as a modding blocker. The features rolled out in it include tweaks to the recently added four player party mode, as well as bug fixes for co op. Shortly after it was released, some modders noticed and began to complain. If Watch Dogs 2 had been the blockbuster Ubisoft hoped it to be, that complaint might be loud, but instead it manifests as less noticeable venting on places like the increasingly barren Watch Dogs 2 subreddit. There, loyalists who stuck with the game expressed their anger. As of this morning, I found out that the latest update on PC killed modding, Deebz, an active and vocal Watch Dogs 2 modder, posted on the subreddit this morning. Any positivity from my original message has been rescinded. Instead, Ill just leave you with the list of a few issues in this utter mess of a game that you have failed to fix. He listed a half dozen issues, including players on the opposite team being unmarked or marked as friendly during multiplayer modes and the game outright crashing when you shoot people. Watch Homefront Online Microbiology' title='Watch Homefront Online Microbiology' />The Watch Dogs 2 modding community is small. The modding community of WD2 in particular consists of like 1. Kotaku over reddit. According to Steam Spy, the game currently reaches a maximum of about 1,0. Modders use the game to to fix graphical issues as well as a few bugs. Deebzs favorite mod allows players to use the camera mode while in the helicopter. Deebz says he helped pave the way for modding Watch Dogs 2 and remembers multiplayer for the original Watch Dogs as being a lawless wasteland, with most players using mods to cheat. He says that he and his fellow modders use their mods ethically. Only a few of us know how to mod the game properly, and weve all agreed to use our knowledge ethically, he told Kotaku over reddit direct messages. We only play online with mods that do not give us an advantage, and we never released anything that could be used to cheat. According to those players, modding was a means to having a smoother gaming experience. Watch Homefront Online Microphone' title='Watch Homefront Online Microphone' />Ubisoft, however, says modding has also at times hurt online play. Though we appreciate that many in our community are very careful about not using mods while being online, this isnt true of all players, Kris Young, producer on Watch Dogs 2, told Kotaku over email. In order to create a healthy and fair environment for all our players, we had to fix this problem. You can now still enjoy your favorite mods while playing offline and disabling the Easy Anti Cheat system though we cant offer official support for this or enjoy a more fair online experience when playing online with your friends. Even knowing they can still use mods, this isnt an acceptable solution for members of the modding community. Watch Baby Mama Online Mic. The online modes are too much of a part of the game, Deebz said. Watch Dogs 2, like its predecessor, has passive online modes where other players can invade your game, as well as Pv. P multiplayer, all set in the games shared open world. Considering how few of us there are who actually do mod the game, and the fact that we do not release or even use any mods that give unfair advantages online, there really was no reason for this change in my opinion. Deebz was an obvious person to talk to for coverage of Ubisofts mod blocking patch, because Deebz has been visible in discussions about this game. He is the kind of outspoken gamer who uses the tools available to him to tell developers how they can improve their game. When he noticed a problem with the escape key being bound to too many functions in the game, he didnt just complain about it on reddit, he typed out changes to the games code that he said would solve the issue and posted them for Ubi reps who monitor the games subreddit to see. A Ubisoft representative told me that they would not fix this issue because it would allow players to skip scenes in the story that they were not supposed to skip, breaking the game in some cases, he told Kotaku. He insists that his solution was totally fine. I can say this with absolute certainty, because I actually played through the entire story a second time after using this fix, and skipped just about everything I could in the process. Deebzs problem now may be that Ubisoft says they cant distinguish between mods that help players cheat and mods that dont. This solution was a compromise they had to make, Young told Kotaku. Its a topic that has been on our minds since it was raised by community members who visited the studio well before the game launched, Young said. Weve come back to it several times since, but with the nature of our seamless technology, its a tradeoff we had to make to maintain healthy and fair online play.