#after seeing Kassandra's hair being reused

[ilikedetectives]

Even if it is Kassandra's hair, I don't see why so many people made such a big deal out of it. Its a freaking side braid. Something many women wear every day. If Kassandra's hairstyle was a completely unique style, then fine but it wasn't. Also I don't understand the complaints about reusing a few minor assets like hair. Its not that big of a deal.

Tbh idc about assets being reused, with the scale Ubisoft wants in an open-world RPG game and only gives the devs 3 yrs, especially for a cross-gen title, reusing assets is the only way to ship the game on time. Ubi has a lot of talented devs, but Ubi doesn't give them the time, the tools, and the creative freedom that they need. This is why I often call Ubi stingy/greedy, rather than how most would call the devs “lazy”.

The majority of Odyssey's hair library is in Valhalla, but none of that bothers me. Compare the Roman architecture/statues in Origins and Valhalla, I actually think it's a clever the way the devs reuse the assets. I think a lot of people (myself included) have issues only w Kassandra's hair because to a lot of us, it IS her hair. To you it’s just a common hairstyles and that’s ok. The fact that a lot of people went nut thinking it might be her during the Valhalla trailer to the point the Narrative Director had to clarified it himself on Twitter shows it is not just a typical hairstyle; I also had to go and extinguish that dumpster-fire hope from a lot of people. I mean, nobody looks at Alfred and Basim and goes “OMG it it Leonidas??? That’s Leonidas’s hair!!!” So, why just Kassandra’s hair? The hairstyle itself is very common (I can do that side braid too), but in AC specifically, it IS Kassandra’s hairstyle and she is a protag who is loved by many (not sure about older games but are Aveline, Elise, Evie, and Aya/Amunet’ hair got reused in the same manners?). So for us to see Ubi reusing her iconic hairstyle in the AC game right after, on another female NPC who is crucial to the plot, that’s just stingy on Ubi’s end. I say stingy because Randvi already had her own character design, the sudden change in the end was prob the devs were pressed on time imo (Ubi higher-ups here thinking making AAA game is like making instant ramen). Now, I prob just overthinking this for a vg, but shouldn’t Randvi deserves her own individuality? She is an entirely different character with her own story, seeing her as being known as Kassandra’s doppelgänger is just sad tbh. At least mod the hair so it’s longer/shorter or something or reuse a different hairstyle, they don’t have to create a new one from scratch.

p/s: I do draw the line when it comes to reusing base game assets for selling mtx items in an offline, single-player game *looking at Galloglach/Hearthweru and HiddenOne/BlackRaven sets*. Free updates? By all means go ham.