He's content with letting companies walk over him.
Unfortunately, there are way more people like him, hence why AC:U will sell tons.
Nope lol
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Performance Analysis: Assassin's Creed Unity (Digital Foundry)
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He's content with letting companies walk over him.
Unfortunately, there are way more people like him, hence why AC:U will sell tons.
Nope lol
Totally agree with you.
Then again i wouldn't even play this game if it was offered to me for free. I can't believe how bug riddled this game is ontop of the shitty performance issues across the board.
Blows my mind how this was allowed out the front door. Christ on a bike.
RedRedSuit
Member
Seeing the post he was agreeing with, he was in fact advocating NOT buying AC:U, so what you posted is apparently false in a straightforward way.
What I was saying, and he ostensibly agreed with, is that refusing to buy AC:U, a broken product, is perfectly reasonable, but I wouldn't go so far as to avoid buying anything else this large publisher ever puts out. Just as an example, AC1 may not have been a buggy mess, but it was also a 5-hour game repeated about 10 times -- it was unfinished in another way. However AC2 was great. It isn't that hard to assess this after the fact and then buy the game that actually is good.
PlumCantaloupe
Member
With the crowd densities and the infamously weak CPUs on the next-gem consoles this isn't surprising. The surprising part is why didn't Ubisoft just tone down the crowds and work within the consoles' strengths as opposed to force something down the throats of machines that can't handle it.
BrainZEROX
Member
I don't think the weak framerate is something that can be fixed with a quick patch but a rewriting of the power hungry algorithms so they can be processed in GPGPU tasks. That could take months and will more likely happen with the next iteration of the game. These are tales from my ass obviously...
Raitosaito
Member
Alex Amancio
+1
Looks like the devs bit off more than they could chew and AC is too big of a name to miss out on the holiday sales so ubisoft released it regardless of the performance. Sucks and I don't agree with it but that's business sometimes. Hopefully they'll patch it soon.
Edit:
Not everything is a good fit for GPGPU computing. Moving things over to that may not be an option.
mugurumakensei
Member
Oh, I agree. I think they probably should have delayed the game, but it's too late now. i do applaud the ambition though even if they failed to deliver something playable on consoles. At the least, it means the game will be a showcase for high-end rigs for the next few years given its implementation of tesselation and pcss on that version.
travisbickle
Member
You can't attribute slightly better frame rate performance to CPU difference in a badly performing unfinished glitchy game like this. It's pure luck the One version has a few extra frames inbetween all the glitches, pop-in, teleporting NPCs and their metamorphosising clothing.
Nobody is forcing anybody to buy anything, though. I find it very hard to sympathize with consumers who make poor purchasing decisions.
And yes, Ubisoft still has to put the game out. They cant just cancel the game because it didn't turn out great. And they will still try and convince people to buy it. That's what businesses do.
I was interested in the game. Now I'm probably not going to get it. Not anytime soon at least(will give it a chance if performance is improved later on). BAM. So simple. No anger. I will move on. When Far Cry 4 comes out, I'll check out how it runs. If its good, I'll get it. If not, I'll avoid it, too. Again, simple and no anger necessary.
Elginer
Member
Ah, indeed I read that wrong.
As for boycotting, a good course of action in that case would be to wait.
Wait for the reviews and performance analysis to come in before choosing to purchase.
Though personally I go all the way and just ignore the company all together or buy cheap used copies.
JonathanPower
Member
Oh boy...
Misterx is going to have a field day with this,lol.
Man this is just disappointing for X1 and even more so for PS4 owners, whatever the bloody reason is it sucks to have a game perform so poorly.
The media attention this is going to get there will be an inevitable patch, right
there must be, right...?
Misterx is going to have a field day with this,lol.
Man this is just disappointing for X1 and even more so for PS4 owners, whatever the bloody reason is it sucks to have a game perform so poorly.
The media attention this is going to get there will be an inevitable patch, right
there must be, right...?
I don't get the whole "video games" thing; it's as if it's kids stuff and expecting promised performance in return of monetary compensation is a sort of pie-in-the-sky fantasy.
No, it's not civil rights movement and yea, it is a mishandling of technical priorities allied to over-ambition. It is also a matter of ethics- pushing micro-transactions for a broken game, lying under the guise of PR etc are the subsequent actions that are tantamount to "fuck"ing the "consumer".
I worked in retail (at a furniture/electronics store) and i tell you the amount of complaints and returns the customers demanded for the smallest things. I had to handle a complaint when a customer wanted his money back for a scratch (inch long) on a wooden post at the foot of a leather lounge suite he received. I'm not talking about a swap for another set but a full refund.
People are allowed to complain and demand their money back if they feel they're not getting goods as advertised. Its within their rights as consumers and here in South Africa (and im sure most other countries) the customer ALWAYS WINS.
Fucking LOL, I thought it was bad but NOT THIS bad, the game simply can't hold 30 fps MOST of the time, not some times, most of the time, and somehow they managed to make the most powerful console run WORSE, Ubi you really have outdone yourself in incompetency with this game, holy shit.
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
Member
PS4's xmb go to game icon, press Option button on the controller and select check for updates.
Coolade
Member
Original Creative Vision + Marketing vs Time Constraints and Quarterly Earnings i'd imagine? Just a hypothetical guess. I don't know if these issues can be patched. All I can hope for is far cry 4 getting solid reviews and user impressions and I'll gladly just go along pretending AC Unity never existed. Dragon Age/GTA V will suffice in scratching that open world itch.
Synless
Member
Why the fuck should Sony send anyone to help fix Ubi's broke ass game on an architecture Sony made simple to utilize? Incompetence falls on Ubisoft alone.
It's fucking video games so we can bend over? Some standards, being intentionally oblivious just because ... video games!
Technically yes.
Bugs should be easily fixed with upcoming patches like a Bethesda game
Performance issues depend on how their game is built, how their engine accomplish the different tasks.They might do optimizations to help improve things, but if the problem is in how their code is engineered it might take a lot and they might decide it's not worth it.....they'll ship whatever they plan to ship anyway in November and December and they're already working on the next game....welcome to Ubisoft's world.
Different time of day + XB1pop.
I don't know if this is a glitch, but that sort of complete lack of shadowing doesn't scream better lighting to me.
Useless NPCs with poor AI. No step forward when comparing with older AC games.
BrainZEROX
Member
Absolutely, I just described the best case scenario here. The worst being "deal with it, we got your dollars anyway dumbass". Maybe that's also the most plausible...
Did you get fucked? Cuz I didn't.
Only people getting fucked are people who don't have the patience to learn about something before buying. And I feel absolutely no desire to stand up for these people.
TypuyBaran
Banned
I'm on xone...
Well that certainly paints a condemning picture. I think its pretty clear that the lead platform was XB1 here and they just did a quick code port to PS4 with essentially 0 optimization. It explains the frame rate difference adn the resolution and effects parity and it also fits the character of the company since they have a history of reusing assets, engines and animations across multiple titles to cut down development costs and time as much as possible. I think this gen is going to be a rude awakening for UbiSoft since now that the market is chock full of games and options for the consumer they have little reason to put up with their crap.
Vire
Member
Different time of day + XB1pop™.
I don't know if this is a glitch, but that sort of complete lack of shadowing doesn't scream better lighting to me.
Who the fuck cares? Seriously? The actual game runs like shit 95% of the time.
Yep I mean if people are going to go ham over 5 frames it has to be stressed from my personal first few moments of play the framerate on the Xbox One version isn't a resounding success. It's the opposite this game is poop technically on these boxes and Ubi really should have reconsidered those crowds, they really don't add much as the "immersion" they create is marred by all the janky stuff happening with them.
We bend over and say thank you. Where's your manners
SRTtoZ
Member
I think you're confused because the game is using baked lighting instead of dynamic. For the baked lighting I believe they use sort of presets that get cycled through, like 24 of them or something I remember reading.
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
Member
Ah my bad you didn't write in your post with the question
Digital-Hero
Member
Will look before I leap next time. I bought the turd on PS4. After the great AC4 Black Flag, I had high hopes.
This will not happen again.
This will not happen again.
Your lack of compassion for people who end up getting burnt is strange. Have you never bought something thats been mis-sold or broken? Maybe you expected better, or bought something based on an advert and you didn't have enough time to check the reviews. Maybe a busy parent might fall into this category.
Some people are too busy working around the clock for not a lot of money to research what they were sold was as advertised. I have fucking sympathy for them and so should you.
Like I said to the last person - are you bending over? Cuz I'm not.
I'm not buying the game. It seems like a mess. I just don't have any interest in being further outraged about a video game not being great.
Well yeah, but they won't. They have to focus on the next year's AC. Unity was developed since at least 2010 according to Ubi
I was this close to pre-ordering this game. So I was very close to being fucked over. The fact that I didnt doesnt mean I shouldnt be upset.
Plus we got this .. Assassin's Creed: Unity microtransactions were disabled and hidden in review versions
Why should we not buy other games from such a LOVELY publisher?
Regardless on the fact that its Ubi's fault it is still in sony's best interest that this game runs at least at parity, for the reason that this creates only negatives for sony.
Sony can do and maybe should nothing, but if they do nothing they will suffer slightly for it .
Dr_LucienSanchez
Banned
Given this whole fiasco, I think it might finally be time for you to get your 'Remove Shu' petition off the ground.
The fact that Sony/Shu didn't send elite teams of engineers to help out ubisoft with their ambitious project is unforgivable. I demand justice, as I'm sure you do also.