Putting an end to 900p

The frustratingly dubbed ‘resolution-gate’ is showing no signs of coming to a conclusion. Following reports that revealed that Call of Duty: Ghosts would require a patch to up its resolution to 1080p on the PlayStation 4, Ubisoft has now confirmed that the same applies to Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. Set sail in the open world excursion right now, and you’ll be playing in 900p – but an impending update will boost that figure to 1080p.

Community manager Gary Steinman noted on the Ubisoft Blog that the game originally shipped at the slightly lower resolution in order to ensure a more stable frame rate. However, after slaving away on the release during manufacturing, the developer managed to optimise the seafaring favourite further. “The team used the time between the ship date and the release to focus on a title update that could deliver native 1080p resolution on the PS4,” he explained.

Associate producer Sylvain Trottier pointed out that the next generation version already looks fantastic, but a newly implemented anti-aliasing system – also set to be added as part of the patch – really boosts the visuals over its current generation counterpart. “Along with the full 1080p native resolution, the visuals have been improved even further, simply because the engineers knew that with the additional time they could do even more,” he continued.

Trottier concluded: “Now, not only will you see every single miniscule pixel in glorious 1080p native resolution on the PS4 – exactly as the artists intended it – but you'll also see an even cleaner, clearer, and more brilliant moving image than anyone even imagined." There’s no date attached to the title update just yet, but the publisher states that it’s coming soon. It’s times like this when that later European release date doesn’t look so bad after all, huh?

[source blog.ubi.com, via eurogamer.net]