@shad0w-dragon You can't launch the game without Ubisoft Connect (However, in offline mode maybe, go look for that).
You can only link Anno into your steam library so you can launch it from steam and get the shift+tab overlay, but that will still start the Ubisoft Connect stack beforehand (to do that: Go to the bottom left corner in the steam main window, click the plus, 'add non-steam game' IIRC)

Hope i could help somewhat.

@shad0w-dragon You can't launch the game without Ubisoft Connect (However, in offline mode maybe, go look for that).
You can only link Anno into your steam library so you can launch it from steam and get the shift+tab overlay, but that will still start the Ubisoft Connect stack beforehand (to do that: Go to the bottom left corner in the steam main window, click the plus, 'add non-steam game' IIRC)

Hope i could help somewhat.

@ubi-peach I have my cloud-saves enabled and additionally set a save to upload so you have a frozen version. Can you access the save file like this (You have my consent for that)?
Or do you want me to send you an upload of that file?
Thanks for your work btw

Yes, I know, this is a duplicate. However, it looks like this bug has been brushed off as an issue that only happened to the previous poster (https://discussions.ubisoft.com/topic/125474/scratching-sound-when-use-numpad-to-move-to-old-world?lang=en-US). Also, i have additional info:
General Description:

• When swapping from a non-old-world session into a old-world session yousing the numpad, a loud "scratch" is heard.
• the camera must focus on an island in the old world.
• This only applies to Keypad actions. Jumping to a session after pressing space for the world map does not trigger this.

What i learned additionally to reproduce this:

• The specific sound that causes this glitch is the nature sound effect at night (tethered to sound FX)
• The glitch therefore only happens at nighttime
• It only occurs where there is nature on screen
• Zooming in makes the sound louder (just like the nature fx)