Ubisoft Explains Australian DRM Scenario | Kotaku Australia

The official line on what happens in the event of lost connectivity is that the game will pause and automatically try to reconnect once your connection is restored. However, with Assassin’s Creed II this will actually drop you back to your previous checkpoint. For Settlers 7, the game will pause at current state and continue from that point when you resume.

The long slow death of PC gaming continues.