It crashed during the intro cinematic for me. Then it had trouble syncing my save with the server.

Then I played for a while and was halfway across the little island and it crashed again, and again had trouble syncing with the server.

I also experienced this pattern in Watch Dogs Legion, leading me to believe that if you lose internet or have any trouble connecting to the server, the game will crash.

I've even tried a VPN, but it doesn't help.

Please, don't crash the game if it can't connect to the server.

I'm on Uplay+ as well.

In my case, I *know* there's an internet problem that I can't solve.

I haven't had the issue in the last couple days, probably because my ISP finally fixed the problem. Or at least, it isn't as bad.

But in the future, I don't want my game to just crash if I lose internet connection unexpectedly. I don't think the game should exit in that case.

I could understand if you have an always-only requirement for Uplay+, but in that case maybe you just pause the game until the connection returns? It's much better than losing my progress for something out of my control.

If you guys have server problems and all your Uplay+ customers can't play, I think it'll get pretty ugly.

So far, if this is related to Uplay+, this is the only real downside I've found for the system. I'm on XB Game Pass, too, and they don't have this problem.

@ubi-swaggins I haven't noticed any patterns. For Valhalla, it happened during the intro and then while I was just in the middle of the wilderness shooting some deer.

For Watch Dogs, it happened at various times, but again, I couldn't tell a pattern.

The only pattern I've seen is that it always has trouble syncing the saves after it crashes. After trying for a while, or waiting a while and then trying, the sync completes and everything is good.

IIRC, if I skip the sync, I still wasn't able to re-launch the game until the problem fixed itself, and then everything was fine for a while.

I probably crashed 5-10 times in Watch Dogs total over the course of the full campaign.

It's worth noting that my internet is spotty right now because my ISP needs to repair the local neighborhood box. It seems to have random packet loss. The VPN has helped my mobile games, and I'd hoped it would help here, too. But it doesn't seem to.

Also, I noticed once after I saved that the little animation in the lower right stayed on the screen for like a minute. I assume that's because it was syncing to the server? Local saves should be very fast because I have an NVME.

It crashed during the intro cinematic for me. Then it had trouble syncing my save with the server.

Then I played for a while and was halfway across the little island and it crashed again, and again had trouble syncing with the server.

I also experienced this pattern in Watch Dogs Legion, leading me to believe that if you lose internet or have any trouble connecting to the server, the game will crash.

I've even tried a VPN, but it doesn't help.

Please, don't crash the game if it can't connect to the server.

@influencia Mine said "not available" until I opened the menu and chose "quit" in the uplay app, then opened it again. Then I could play.

I was able to pick my gender with the gamepad. I didn't try the mouse.