shiherlis21
Member
Ergh! Why ubisoft persist in torturing us with these missions. Black flag went to town with them too..
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Assassin's Creed Unity |OT| Liberté, égalité, parité
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Ergh! Why ubisoft persist in torturing us with these missions. Black flag went to town with them too..
You don't instant fail if you get out of range anymore. You just lose their exact location and have to find them again.
Assassination missions are also more freeform. You have a big area and are told to kill a target. Of course if you want the full synchronization bonus you have to do it a specific way so the freedom is a little pointless.
Are the assassination missions integrated into the main storyline and are they any good? It's one of my biggest peeves of the series (from 3 Brotherhood onwards) that there are a distinct lack of focus on the assassination missions.
fargofallout
Member
Hahahaha, damn, you beat me to it. I was trying to figure out the best way to embed that Tweet in a post.
I was thinking Ubisoft had learned some lessons after Assassin's Creed III, but I guess not? Dammit, I want to know!
Whoa. If reviewers take this game to task, then this is going to be real entertaining.
I'm only sequence 1, memory 3. I have no idea at the moment. As much slack as I give AC3, it was pretty amazing 2 hours in. Unity hasn't been as engrossing in the same time span, but I'm hopeful it will get better. Not much as far as present day story: It's nearly non existent at this point, just the usual freedom fighter, "Abstergo = bad" narrative (which is there for a second, and poof, gone).
Who's this guy?
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
That's retarded.
Works for Joystiq.
TurtleSnatcher
Member
Editor at Joystiq. How hard is that to google?
Between the LOD pop-in on NPCs and the lowered resolution, I'm really starting to wonder if the game is hitting memory limitations more than anything. If it was GPU starved then lowering shadows on consoles would have most likely made a huge difference, but they didn't. If it was the CPU usage causing all of the issues then you'd think they would have cut back on the crowds to help, but they didn't. Instead they went with a severe cut back on NPC LOD. That just seems like it would be the fastest and easiest way to free up memory if they didn't get the game as memory optimized for launch as they were hoping. It could also explain why both console versions are running at the same resolution, since they have a similar amount of available RAM. I don't really know enough about this kind of stuff though, so who knows? Just my theory.
Story based assassination missions:
there are 2 within the first 4 sequences, out of 12 sequences total. They seem to be a significant part, they give you wide spaces to explore.
Might right up a mini review before this game hits. Like a minute before the embargo breaks.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
I see.
SliChillax
Member
Works at Joystiq.
shiherlis21
Member
Sounds like a good improvement. I'll be picking it up this weekend I think, warts and all.
Lan Dong Mik
And why would I want them?
Yeah it is. Can't remember the last time a mostly single player game had its review embargo come after the game comes out. pretty ridiculous.
montycliff13
Member
!!!!!!
Codeacious
Banned
Any NeoGaf clubs on PC? The stuff the club system's offering seems pretty cool, and I get the feeling that I'm going to be playing a lot of co-op.
Windom Earle
Member
This is gonna be great.
I wonder if Rogue will score better than Unity
Just 2 in the first 4 sequences. That's as far as I've played. Sorry to confuse. There's only ten missions within the first 4 sequences, and quite a few of them short. The assassination missions are probably the meatiest ones. Don't be too disappointed.
According to IGN, outlets didn't even get Rogue so we'll probably be waiting on those.
Embargoes often come with conditions e.g. don't spoil certain aspects of the story or talk about anything past World 8. Sterling may object to conditions that came with this game's embargo that would affect his ability to give a fair and informative review.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Because it's very easy to ignore logic while hating on a title that you hope will be bad. Especially when the specific title also follows the trend of embargoes from the same company. >.>
CitizenCope
Member
It's actually easier to just ask here grumpy.
Blue Ninja
Member
I need to find better weapons and armor to continue with the story, but I have no idea how. :lol
This fucking game.
This fucking game.
I Thought that outside of the technical issues it is a very good AC according to impressions around here, why they would tear it apart than?
Especially when critics usually care less about technical issues than people around here on GAF.
I think it's gonna review great.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Don't the side missions give out better equipment as rewards?
Blue Ninja
Member
And how would you go about finding those? I can't find anything. I tried playing it with the mini-map off and it's just impossible. :lol
Can't wait.
ComputerBlue
Member
Because they never held them off until noon.
I didn't know about it and expected to see the reviews when I woke up just like every other AC game that released.
jim2point0
Banned
This game's visuals are flat-out ruined by LOD. Anything beyond 20 meters just looks like paper 
But often the release date embargo ends at midnight, not noon. Means that theoretically, a person can wake up, look at the reviews, and then pick up the game first thing in the morning.
This has the embargo end hours after people can walk into stores and buy a copy.
Really?
Embargoing critical reviews to just after the release of the game keeps consumers in the dark and creates a mess for people reviewing the game.
Moosehole
Member
You turned off the mini-map and you're upset because you don't know where to go.
Ok
Embargoed until 12 p.m. EST.