Sounds like it's a great game bogged down by a swamp of performance-related shit. I think most outlets will gloss over the technical issues, but a few will take this game to task. (Sounds like Sterling and Klepeck are already pissed) It would almost be better if the game had actually sucked, but as it is Unity appears to be a victim of Ubisoft's piss poor management and deadlines.
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Assassin's Creed Unity |OT| Liberté, égalité, parité
- Thread starter VisceralBowl
- Start date
Ah, I understand. Thanks!
keltickennedy
Member
Everyone else notice the lack on a middle jog speed in ACU? In like EVERY previous game if you went halfway on the trigger the character would go to a medium jog speed. This was great for navigating around crowd, down narrow alleys and especially on rooftops if you didn't want to accidentally jump of climb over something. Seems to only switch to an automatic jog speed indoors. Bummer. Now it's just walking, a little more quick sneak/couch and then full out sprint.
Or am I missing something?
Or am I missing something?
Signing the review embargo than bitching about it just makes reviewers look worse. If you don't like the conditions, don't sign it. They could have avoided this, got the game at GameStop at 12am EST (so 9pm PST) and had rolling coverage all day long as they played through the game and gave Ubi the finger in doing so.
Stop bitching about stuff you sign.
Stop bitching about stuff you sign.
cheststrongwell
my cake, fuck off
About two hours into the Xbox version. Game seems pretty good to me. I've seen a lot of NPC glitching through the ground though. One peasant was stuck in the fireplace. I just pretend Abstergo's software is in beta.
Every Ubisoft thread this year, especially when it's talking about resolution-gate/downgrade/glitches/PR-BS is for the archives.
keltickennedy
Member
Yeah, In Paris I have seen more than a couple running an clipping through entire buildings.
Just started the game about 20 minutes ago. Man, the visuals are really excellent. It's just a shame you can tell the framerate is pretty terrible even right from the beginning. It's worse in cutscenes than gameplay, weirdly enough, even though they seem to be realtime cutscenes.
Blue Ninja
Member
Firstly, even if I had turned off the mini-map, I still have the game's normal map to guide me. However, my post implied I turned it back on and I still had trouble finding stuff. 'Tried' is past tense, after all. I agree that my post may have been formatted a bit oddly, so that's on me.
Secondly, there's many faults with this game and I'm not going to be quiet about those. However, in thise case I was not upset, not complaining, I was just asking a question.
But hey, thanks for answering.
I can't breath lmao
Windom Earle
Member
Just cancelled it. Enough of this and game seems like a mess anyway.
Worth every single dime.
Devilinthiscity
Member
So far the game has been pretty buggy for me. I don't know how many times i've seen npcs sink into the ground and disappear. A lot of the animations glitch out too, especially when Arno tries to go through windows. Don't even get me started on the pop in 
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
All I asked for was a steady framerate. That's it. That's all. That's all I asked of these new consoles. I knew the graphics would get better. I knew they'd be more cinematic. I knew the worlds would get bigger, better.
But a steady framerate is all I needed. I don't 1080P0FPS to be happy. Just a rocksolid 30 is enough for me to be happy.
But a steady framerate is all I needed. I don't 1080P0FPS to be happy. Just a rocksolid 30 is enough for me to be happy.
m_shortpants
Member
Jeez...this is looking like a total shitshow...glad I didn't end up splurging last night on digital.
Why does Ubisoft have a later release date in Europe when they're so keen on keeping reviewers quiet? It's probably logistics, but I still don't get how Ubisoft don't see how futile the embargo is. That's the region where AC is most popular I'd think and that's where its success or failure will be decided. There's still enough time to cancel an order for Europeans. The embargo is a scumbag move, but I think reviewers overestimate their importance a bit here.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
What about the AC Unity demos were fake? What's fake about the gamescom demo?
That's hilarious! Is there a video of that?
Kazdane
Member
AC: Sleepy Hollow
Jesus christ...
Krappadizzle
Gold Member
Best Friends Club Unite!!!! 4 player coop heists. It's gonna be amazing.
BouncyFrag
Member
So much nightmare fuel.
We all know every footage seen before release was CGI or pre-rendered in-engine footage.
Windom Earle
Member
Did the E3 presentation have the horrible pop-in that is widely reported?
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
I've got my GIF collection at the ready for the embargo drop.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Sarcasm right?
No but there were glitches during the e3 demo. And a very unstabilized framerate.
Thaumaturgic Tomato
Member
Oh my goodness. That is horror. Not even Silent Hill could produce such horror. Wow. This thing needs a name. This is amazing. One can laugh or cry, probably both in terror stricken hysteria. Good stuff. How it stares at that man, and the man has no idea his soul's desecration is at hand.
Ether_Snake
å®å®å®å®å®å®å®å®å®å®å®å®å®å®å®
Theres definitly a lot of crowd poping bugs or npcs not knowing where to go. But other than the mission inside Notte Dame I haven't seen any bad fps (at least nothing troubling). Played on xbox.
Graphics look great, love the contrast going from dark interiors or alleys/underpasses to brightly lit areas. The lighting is really good.
Rapid descent is also such a game changer for navigation, it's really easy to just go down from anywhere, but I did die when going down like that from notre damme when Arno jumped from too high. But once you start to use rapid descent while freerunning mixed with how quickly you can climb, I can't imagine playing the previous ACs again, it's much faster now.
Still, the enivronments are quite cluttered so sometimes it gets in the way of navigation.
Fighting is better in the sense that guards don't wait anymore, you get attacked from all sides and the counter-kill is gone, now the timing is to parry. I got one-shot killed a few times, I'm guessing it happens when low on health or against specific enemy types? Not sure yet how it works. Reminded me of Dark Souls
But I still wish you would fight assassins like
, even if that was all scripted.
Customization is awesome. All the pieces fit together nicely, no clipping. I keep thinking I won't like this or that piece but then you mix them up and it works. Give me this 1000x over the ugly unlockable outfits of previous ACs. I hope this remains part of future sequels, should have been there since a long time ago.
Graphics look great, love the contrast going from dark interiors or alleys/underpasses to brightly lit areas. The lighting is really good.
Rapid descent is also such a game changer for navigation, it's really easy to just go down from anywhere, but I did die when going down like that from notre damme when Arno jumped from too high. But once you start to use rapid descent while freerunning mixed with how quickly you can climb, I can't imagine playing the previous ACs again, it's much faster now.
Still, the enivronments are quite cluttered so sometimes it gets in the way of navigation.
Fighting is better in the sense that guards don't wait anymore, you get attacked from all sides and the counter-kill is gone, now the timing is to parry. I got one-shot killed a few times, I'm guessing it happens when low on health or against specific enemy types? Not sure yet how it works. Reminded me of Dark Souls
But I still wish you would fight assassins like
the first mission in medieval Paris
Customization is awesome. All the pieces fit together nicely, no clipping. I keep thinking I won't like this or that piece but then you mix them up and it works. Give me this 1000x over the ugly unlockable outfits of previous ACs. I hope this remains part of future sequels, should have been there since a long time ago.
It seems very buggy.. Uncomplete development.
Windom Earle
Member
So it was fake, cool.
Swhaaa?!
Kensairabbit37
Banned
Besides all of the framerate and performance issues, is it just me or is it rediculous that my ~2 year old gpu (GTX 670) is below the minimum specs? Or is this just an indicator of how poorly optimized the game is?
didn't like sleep anyway
Indeed, i think if that happened suddenly while i'm playing it on my sony HMZ-T1, that would kill me, especially cause you don't expect that to happen at all
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
No, it was not fake. If it was fake there would've been a complete stable framerate, no glitches or hitches, and everything would've gone perfectly. That did not happen at all.
Yep but I read that somewhere a few days ago.
No faces comfirmed for release. Typical Ubisoft.
Windom Earle
Member
I don't remember those glitches and the framerate was over 30 which can't be said for the console versions now. Remember, game was demo'd at the MS conference.
Also if there were no pop-in issues back then, why are they in the PC build now?