EekumBokum
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Apparently the game's framerate increases substantially if you play while not connected to the internet. Has anyone tested this? I'm still waiting on my copy to arrive.
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Assassin's Creed Unity |OT| Liberté, égalité, parité
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So far I unlocked 2,so it's the very early chests and just got more money then the usual ones,like 300 a pop and a remedy or whatever...
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Was smoother for me during my second play session yesterday.
I've played with the internet disconnected the entire time and my framerate hasn't been nearly as bad as some people have been describing. I'm not sure if it's related though as I've never connected.
Was crashing continually when I first tried to play and disconnecting seemed to correct that.
Cool to see that it's not only mine lol. I swear the console is about to take off with the sound it makes.
tell me your secret and options settings pls, my 680 32gb 4790k dips to 1fps literally
Yeah,also does it when you read all the historical stuff,which I enjoy a lot by the way...also the first Elise letter does this also...
Seems like there's no fps cap in the menu. Generating all that graphics shit is probably quite demanding...
Spectromixer
Member
Anyone have any luck logging onto Initiates? Keep getting the "Please wait.." screen.
Kiraly
Member
Same here, PSN is Davidmagyar.
stufte
Member
I'm quite a few hours into this game and as annoying as some of the problems can be I'm really enjoying it overall.
Here's a nice LOD glitch I ran into last night:
Some purdy (sorry for the shit compression):
and a funny one of an NPC trying to talk to me with his back turned but still trying to keep an eye on me:
Here's a nice LOD glitch I ran into last night:
Some purdy (sorry for the shit compression):
and a funny one of an NPC trying to talk to me with his back turned but still trying to keep an eye on me:
Yeah, you're in the PSN club, not the PC club.
Here is the fucking hilarious glitch I mentioned before. If all of AC Unity's technical issues were this good this would be my favorite game of all time. Mild spoilers, but it's worth it.
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Lol, good one. They really sound obnoxious
Btw I don't like how they portrayed Napoleon in this game. They should have watched Henry Guillemin's dissertation of him. Also, he has the face of Michelangelo's David, but he wasn't a looker.
The acting is good though, but they could have done better with Napoleon's characterization. I guess it flies over most gamers' heads.
KiefbladeMaster
Member
Well you are obviously not the majority of people, I've played for over 12 hours on PS4 without any game breaking bugs or a single crash. Fallen through the floor once, but that seems to be caused by holding parkour down for too long and it hasn't happened since (it also resets in about 10 seconds). All of these games are glitchy, to an extent, Black Flag included, since a lot of dissenters seems to think that game was perfect.
cleveridea
Member
Ah I see I was failing the head mission because I wasnt using the stealth modifier of left trigger. easy to forget since its new in this one
The world is amazing looking for this game, there is some incredible work in the world building. if they released this running smoothly and without glitches (eg I often get stuck attached to an object trying to flee guards shooting me) it would be a great game. (Please lose these stupid blue DLC chest please)
The world is amazing looking for this game, there is some incredible work in the world building. if they released this running smoothly and without glitches (eg I often get stuck attached to an object trying to flee guards shooting me) it would be a great game. (Please lose these stupid blue DLC chest please)
stufte
Member
Yah I've probably had more glitches (so far) from playing Black Flag than I have in this game so far.
Krappadizzle
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twitch.tv/krappadizzle if anyone wants to see 720p/60(mostly)fps on a GTX 780/i7 4770k. Just doing random side missions trying to get into a PC Coop game.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
I finished my Assassin Initiation and the first mission or two after. No major glitches or frame rate issues for me (the frame rate seems roughly the same as all the other AC games, so it doesn't affect my enjoyment at all). The only glitch I had was that I got hung up while walking along a beam for a few seconds, and then when I was trying to do some sneaking I got stuck on a wall for a couple of seconds.
cleveridea
Member
Man GUI is confusing, so I got the first head in that side mission. But now there arent any green markers on the map, except for another quest. I cant see how to force my map to only show this mission and not any others.
I hate that games no longer come with manuals. It would help with something like this.
I hate that games no longer come with manuals. It would help with something like this.
KiefbladeMaster
Member
Yah I've probably had more glitches (so far) from playing Black Flag than I have in this game so far.
Haha, those teeth are terrifying.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
How come I can't pull out my Hidden Blades? In the other games, if you press 'Up', the blades emerge from the sleeves. I love just walking around unsheathing and sheathing them. Can't do that no more?
KiefbladeMaster
Member
Nope, unfortunately. I like fighting exclusively with the blade sometimes but oh well.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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No more fighting with the blades!?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GODDAMN YOU YVES GUILLEMOT
Stealth kills only. No more fist fighting either. Just three different melee weapon types and that's it.
I can play online but my friend is stuck forever on please wait too. He can't join my game either.
I find them both appalling but, what's fascinating is that they run similarly to Assassin's Creed games on last gen consoles (some of them).
AC1 on PS3, for instance, actually runs much worse than Unity on PS4 while Brotherhood was a choppy, screen tearing mess of a game on both consoles. AC3 was even worse. Oh and Liberation on Vita was bad too.
Unity is a mess but it actually runs better than a number of last gen releases in the franchise. I never found that acceptable in the past and I feel like it's much less acceptable now. I'm just not sure UbiSoft sees these low frame-rates as a problem...
bargeparty
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I played from the start without being connected to my internet and it hasn't been that bad. I will try tonight with it back online. I did find in the menu somewhere (under gameplay maybe?) there were options for online stuff, which I also disabled. Wondering if that might help. I have no interest in the companion app or initiates or any of that shit.
Yah I've probably had more glitches (so far) from playing Black Flag than I have in this game so far.
LOL. Yeah, AC has always had jank. Yet I never once encountered any glitches like that in any of the games. Likewise in Unity so far.
I love walking around with my gun out, tossing it in the air and scaring NPCs haha
I think it does have something to do with online. Sometimes I leave MP missions and my framerate is shit til I restart. Then it's fine.
I think it does have something to do with online. Sometimes I leave MP missions and my framerate is shit til I restart. Then it's fine.
cleveridea
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Its a mixed bag. The gameplay is smoother on Xbox One, the cutscenes on PS4. if you only have a PS4 then I recommend waiting on a patch, since gameplay > cutscenes
there are also some annoying ubisoft open world traits like how there are collectibles every few meters. and the new annoyance of DLC locked items visible on the main HUD
the world itself is incredible looking though, ie Paris and the life within it. The gameplay systems being redone is also a nice change, eg stealth and combat both feel very different in this game - not necessarily everyone's taste, eg combat is MUCH slower than say mordor. personally I like that it feels veyr different from prior games. Being able to navigate down is a big improvement since it prevents being stopped or falling too far.
Interiors are also a very nice change, it makes the world feel a lot more realistic and believable since exploring a town isnt limited to just being outside. Also the interiors for the rich are gorgeous with gold, extravagent painting and rugs etc. Whoever created the environment models and assets did a really good job here. Its not their fault the engine has issues.
its a very ambitous game that really needed to be delayed IMO esp for PS4
NotTheGuyYouKill
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If it had a rock-solid 30 FPS framerate and wasn't inundated with micro-transactions and that kind of crap, this is easily Game of the Year. Easily.
ioriyagami
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They also removed a feature not many people seemed to use or know about but that I loved it, which is holding the attack button while walking/running so it stabs automatically when in range of the target. If you do that here Arno will just draw his weapon, so in order to stab people you have to walk up pretty close to them, which sometimes cause them to notice you (basically because is easy to overshoot and collide with them before pressing the attack button).
I also miss pressing "B" in any direction while in mid-air to grab onto things. They have streamlined the control even further (they were already simplified in ACIV) in this version and makes navigation a bit duller...
Who knows? You might come away surprised that it is not as awful as it is being painted to be. Hell, you might even see that there is a great game here.
Looks like Ubisoft has started doing damage control, beginning with a "live update blog" where they detail what fixes they're working on.
http://assassinscreed.ubi.com/en-US/community/liveupdates/index.aspx
EDIT: Ah, nevermind, looks like this is old news.
http://assassinscreed.ubi.com/en-US/community/liveupdates/index.aspx
EDIT: Ah, nevermind, looks like this is old news.
damn, strong words!
Interesting, I have it pre ordered for PS4 so I might have to wait for a patch.
I'll see how I'm feeling when it arrives tomorrow. Thanks for the impressions, guys
Palette Swap
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FWIW, initiates and app chests don't counf toward completion. I wish they had a setting to turn them off, like Black Flag did with social events.
But yeah, I can somehow see how Ubi deemed it an acceptable performance/bells and whistles trade off, given the stellar sales of previous console games that had a totally shit framerate (AC3 and FC3 come to mind).
As I said earlier, the really jarring parts are the setpieces.
Edit because it should be posted on every page: holding R3 disables the HUD in one click. That's an actually good feature.
I'd argue the bad framerate had a lesser impact on gameplay in last gen iterations. Playing on PS4, there are a number of times where I found myself not knowing if input had registered, typically with smoke bombs. I don't remember that happening on 360.
But yeah, I can somehow see how Ubi deemed it an acceptable performance/bells and whistles trade off, given the stellar sales of previous console games that had a totally shit framerate (AC3 and FC3 come to mind).
As I said earlier, the really jarring parts are the setpieces.
Edit because it should be posted on every page: holding R3 disables the HUD in one click. That's an actually good feature.
Probably they played the game at 9-12 fps for 3 years before the optimization phase and then 22 is godsend for them.
Parity, bro.Who knows? You might come away surprised that it is not as awful as it is being painted to be. Hell, you might even see that there is a great game here.
At least I don't expect the game to crash on me like on the PC.