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Assassin's Creed Syndicate: Video game sites debate how buggy it is relative to Unity
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Well, there it is? Maybe?
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Wait what?! So they might be misleading people with b-roll footage? That'd be fucked if true and I absolutely do not support that. Last year, the b-roll footage was very clearly not smooth, it showed the issues that were in the game like the framerate drops.
WEll there it is.
So how bad is it.
This is actually a deal breaker for me. Why would I play any game if it stresses me out. Sometimes input lag can be tolerated if it is consistent and thus can be accounted for. But at some point a big enough input lag is going to be too much for me. I stop playing games with erratic input lag. I definitely wouldn't buy this game if that is present throughout its lifetime.
Reading the review he clearly managed to get by so the state of the game should vary from person to person. Anyway this isn't acceptable from Ubisoft.
Xamtheking
Member
Magical Mystical Zip Lines!
(Thank you based Nirolak)
(Thank you based Nirolak)
Man, how far we have fallen. I used to be so excited when Assassin's Creed games would come out. Last time I let myself get hyped was ACIII.
And now I don't buy Ubisoft games at all since the Unity fiasco last year, was the last straw. Not until they apologize to gamers sincerely, and change the practices. It's stupid at this point.
And now I don't buy Ubisoft games at all since the Unity fiasco last year, was the last straw. Not until they apologize to gamers sincerely, and change the practices. It's stupid at this point.
AHA-Lambda
Member
This was needed ._.
Anyway, on topic, if Syndicate ends up broken again as Unity, this franchise is done for.
Anyway, on topic, if Syndicate ends up broken again as Unity, this franchise is done for.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
I thought it would be something else, as Syndicate being potentially broken isn't shocking. But good to know now I guess.
Disappointing. I was hugely hyped for Unity but ended up not buying or playing it due to the reviews. Now it looks like Syndicate will be the same.
lol
lol
JumPeRJumPzZ
Banned
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
If there really are issues, you can't help but delay this game. No way can they survive another shitstorm. This would kill the franchise.
Khalifa Jayy
Banned
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SolidSnakex
Member
Love that magic zipline:
I foresee many funny glitches with this mechanic. Invisible line, stuck in mid-air with disappearing facial features, the whole nine yards.
What's going on here? Is it some tool that he shoots out that allows him to be able to do that or is it just a glitch where the existing line just pops into place out of nowhere?
There are "tech problems", and then there are TECH PROBLEMS ala Unity. Not every AC game has been as utterly shit as Unity was at launch, not even close. If you need evidence of that, look toward Ubisoft's unprecedented response to the complaints.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Other gaffers have said that the game runs relatively smooth as well. And this dude was allowed to upload 26 minutes of uncut footage. which is running fine. Wtf is going on with this preview event.
If you're gonna post glitches at least post glitches of the footage we got today. :/Love that magic zipline:
I foresee many funny glitches with this mechanic. Invisible line, stuck in mid-air with disappearing facial features, the whole nine yards.
Eurogamer seems to think it improved
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...arned-from-unitys-mistakes-but-is-that-enough
GHG
Member
If this is true I think it's the end of the series as we know it.
It needs a reboot anyway.
I mean, they did release TWO AC games last year.
Mass_Pincup
Banned
Really shameful to make fun of someone just because he doesn't share your opinion, especially when he always provides argument for his opinion.
iNvid02
Member
maybe jim was watching it on a TV won from bullseye. the eurogamer preview is quite the opposite
need a few more sources to see the general consensus
need a few more sources to see the general consensus
orthodoxy1095
Banned
You can see when the line snap back into views, and there's a bunch of the line behind the character. So it doesn't look like a tool, it seems to just be glitching out of visibility. Which is kind of ridiculous if a traversal feature isn't visible.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Haha of course it was going to be AC, here I thought ubisoft would be more careful about this when they've got people still reeling from Unity's disastrous launch performance. But I suppose not, I guess they expect their customers to buy the game anyways or be too ignorant to even know it's a problem.
The sad thing is I full expect the fans to defend this and say "it's fine as long as the game is fine" without realizing the impact this has on the industry standards as a whole.
On an unrelated note: It really bothers me when people use "this a la that" phrasing for some reason. It comes off as very english 101 to me. Like that one kid who learned how to use thus and starts covering his paper in it.
The sad thing is I full expect the fans to defend this and say "it's fine as long as the game is fine" without realizing the impact this has on the industry standards as a whole.
On an unrelated note: It really bothers me when people use "this a la that" phrasing for some reason. It comes off as very english 101 to me. Like that one kid who learned how to use thus and starts covering his paper in it.
It would be straight up baffling if Ubi released Syndicate in a similar state to Unity. Even if this game isn't rock solid on a design level, they need to make sure it works well to save face. I hope, for their sake, they delay it if that's what it takes. Their confidence can't blind them to the fact that customers are pretty savvy about the whole "fool me once..." thing.
This is what actually worries me. As someone who didn't play AC for a long time, my first entry to the serie was AC4, and it was actually fun. But, i'm just playing AC Unity and man it's boring :/
More than technical issues, it's the fun factor that worries me
johnnydrama
Banned
Guy's alright. He presents valid arguments for a series he loves. Been seeing this bullshit in a few threads so thought I'd bring it up. It's not okay at all.
Yeah, they're gonna find the choppiest, least appealing footage they can to promote their game with.
That guy with the video sounds like he's promoting the game.
Oohhh, this is setting up quite the showdown in the game journalism circles. If Videogamer is right and these other outlets are wrong, someone is reasonably going to ask how people whose job it is to catch these things consistently failed to.
If Videogamer is wrong, it'll start to seem like they were pushing FUD. I can't remember, weren't they like on some weird reflexive negativity campaign on Sunset Overdrive and got annoyed when they were like the odd man out on their view of the game?
Another preview notes technical issues in the preview version, akin to Unity (in German): http://www.gameswelt.de/assassins-creed-syndicate/vorschau/unity-2,245523
Someone in the other thread said according to a French preview they had technical problems too.
