Rayman Legends

[ItzalDrake]

Now that I'm active again here it's time to share some of my old findings!
One year ago, I made some research about the E3 Rayman Legends CGI trailer made by Nki studio, I've found some making-of videos and images that I've already shared on Discord at the time.

Here are the links

https://vimeo.com/87339489
https://vimeo.com/69550107
https://vimeo.com/69088361
https://vimeo.com/69088360
https://vimeo.com/76167634
https://vimeo.com/76660265
https://vimeo.com/69753196
https://vimeo.com/69753195
https://vimeo.com/109437973
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/EV0O8
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMd4-k4hdFa/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMd5Lzqhbd4/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMd5S0SBLns/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMd5jLohbyK/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMd6H_8BBgS/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMd6XMnBtw3/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMd6Qomhl7h/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMd6LjRBePr/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMd6ftmhjfF/

I've noticed that Ubisoft has set to private their making-of video on their YouTube channel and so is impossible to watch it, I would like if someone can reupload it somewhere!

[hoodlumsworld]

Wow, that's a lot of content! I had never seen this before, it's very insightful regarding the game's development.

[Hunchman801]

Yeah, quite a lot of stuff indeed. The wiki doesn't even have pictures of those dark creatures in 3D, that's definitely something we need to fix! Same goes for the armored toad, the regular toads and the missile.

[PluMGMK]

Sooo… Are the challenges on this game still working on platforms other than PC? Or are they all gone down now?

[ItzalDrake]

It seems there has been an issue that has been fixed, as far I know they all work now (except for the PC port obviously),
Ubisoft scared me a lot when they weren't ensuring the challenges would work again.

[PluMGMK]

I love how you say "obviously" as if that's the way it's always been! I remember well a time when they were up and I played them every day!

But anyway, so Challenges are still a thing. Thanks!

[ItzalDrake]

Haha you're welcome

I used to play challenges every day on PC for like 5 years when they were up until the servers went down, I've even reached the Top 10 on Cup Rankings, good times..
As I've passed all these years playing this port I became pretty fond of it and when the challenges weren't working I've always tried to understand the reason and if possible also fix the issue to make them work again
Sadly this time the problem is due to the servers themselves for some reason, I guess the only way to bring challenges back on PC is reverse-engineering the game and make it connect to new servers that act like the old ones?

[PluMGMK]

Indeed, that's probably the only solution, but I'd be worried about getting banned from Uplay. Dunno why, since nobody got banned for h4xxing their scores when the servers were up! The other thing would be the effort of maintaining challenge servers…

[dr_st]

If one was to hack in custom servers, it would be a good idea to start with the cracked Rayman Legends PC version that works offline and does not require Uplay. This way you cannot be banned since you are not connected.

[ItzalDrake]

Indeed, that's probably the only solution, but I'd be worried about getting banned from Uplay. Dunno why, since nobody got banned for h4xxing their scores when the servers were up! The other thing would be the effort of maintaining challenge servers…

Yeah, I've never seen cheaters being banned unless they have been reported to Ubisoft support.
I've been lucky to meet a developer that worked for Rayman Legends and ask him if he knew why the servers have suddenly stopped working, he was kind enough to ask his colleagues and he told us they found the problem but they are unable to patch the game for a security hole.
The PC port is the only one that has not been developed by Ubisoft Montpellier but Ubisoft Chengdu and the servers are located there, I've no idea if it would have gone differently if this port would have been developed in Montpellier

[PluMGMK]

That sounds nasty! But surely they have the infrastructure to push game patches. Are we really to believe that nobody in the company has access to the source code anymore?

[ItzalDrake]

As Ubisoft tweeted yesterday: "Because we love Rayman of course..."

[Steo]

The Rayman 3 HD leaderboards are the worst. The score was 2147483647.

[PluMGMK]

So a strange thought occurred to me that the Toads in 20000 Lums under the Sea could be kind of expies of the Rabbids… After all, they both have "bwaaaah"-type vocalizations, and it's otherwise strange that Toads are used as the main enemies in two different worlds. There are also spy Toads that are very like the spy Rabbids – I know their appearance is a Splinter Cell reference in both cases, but still, seeing Rayman beating up the latter in the new Prototype Restoration Mod made me think of the former… It's pretty tenuous I know, but it was fun to think about for a while!

Weren't the Rabbids originally rumoured / semi-confirmed to appear in Legends, before they realized that that wouldn't be a good image?

[MasterHero]

Weren't the Rabbids originally rumoured / semi-confirmed to appear in Legends, before they realized that that wouldn't be a good image?

Yes, they appeared in one of the leaked teasers. But they were not used until the Rayman Adventures Easter Event.
I also thougth the whole time the teensies sound very rabbid-ish. I guess they were voiced by the same person.

BTW not sure if this was discussed before, the end music of this trailer is from Back To The Future (Movie).

[PluMGMK]

Ah, that trailer shows the Toads appearing in even more worlds! But it also shows Rabbids, so I guess that confirms that my "theory" was moonshine

[ItzalDrake]

So, apparently Rayman Legends has a Stadia port now

[PluMGMK]

The Challenges appear in that trailer, but something tells me they won't actually work…

[ItzalDrake]

I am sure that the challenge leaderboard shown in this trailer is wrong, that only appears in Wii U Gamepad iirc
Also, it is the same exact video as the original Rayman Legends trailer, I'm not surprised by all this effort that Ubisoft has towards Rayman

[PluMGMK]

Yeah, I figured, especially given the 2013 copyright date at the end. Well, let's see what transpires…