[AC1] Possibility of fixing Ubisoft logo crash to desktop?

[ks202005]

There's a surprisingly prevalent bug that doesn't seem to affect everyone involving the start up of the game. Apparently, the game attempts to connect to Ubisoft servers which no longer respond. For some users, this causes the game to crash, usually at the Ubisoft logo.

If the game is blocked from internet access via the firewall, this fixes the issue for some users. For others (like me), disconnecting from your computer's local network while the game starts is necessary (perhaps the game skips the connection attempt if it sees no network adapter has internet). Reconnecting once the main menu has loaded seems to be okay (though still others report stuttering issues unless their internet is disabled).

It might be possible to implement a fix for this in EaglePatch, thus eliminating one more step needed to play the game properly.