Assassin’s Creed Unity is busted. You can play the game, for sure – but it’s not a particularly pleasant experience a lot of the time. If our ghastly glitches roundup didn’t already get that point across, then know that during a co-op session with associate editor Robert Ramsey last night, this author’s game slipped into a slideshow. And we’re not exaggerating here – it was literally running at five frames-per-second for a lengthy span of time.
Fortunately, publisher Ubisoft is aware that you’re having problems – in fact, it’s launched a live blog to outline some of the fixes that it’s working on. These include simple errors such as protagonist Arno Dorian getting stuck in hay carts or falling through the floor. It also claims that it’s busy investigating framerate issues, graphical and collision problems, and matchmaking co-op errors. Basically, you’re beta testing the game.
To be honest, despite all of the flaws, we’re still having a decent enough time with this Parisian escapade – even if it isn’t especially revolutionary in the slightest. It’s insane to think that the title has launched in this sorry state, though – after all, this is a blockbuster release from a major publisher and not an indie game developed in someone’s shed. Are you managing to enjoy yourself despite all of the product's problems? Glitch through a wall in the comments section below.
[source assassinscreed.ubi.com, via eurogamer.net]
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Have Ubisoft even heard of QA? Theres nothing fortunate about a Big Budgeted release with this much bugs, with publisher awareness.
EA had the balls to delay Battlefield H, Ubisoft lacks that.
I can understand some bugs, but this much?
is it just the PS4 version playing up or is it all versions?
@FullbringIchigo Its all versions as far as I know. I watched a Total Biscuit video yesterday and he was playing thorough the PC version which is rife with bugs & glitches too.
The review embargo being 12 hours after release should have been ringing enough alarm bells to be honest.
@Punished_Boss_84 its not a bug, its the most true definition of a 'sandbox' game that there is.
While there are a lot of bugs in the game, I am still having a lot of fun with it.
@MadchesterManc you would think a big publisher like Ubisoft would do better
I miss the days when games were actually finished when they were released, not pushed out to stick to a date and then fixed later
updates are good and all but I think the whole being able to fix after release via patch thing has made devlopers lazy it's as if they say "just put it out and we will fix it later"
Just to expand on this, me and Sammy had a decent time with the co-op, but like the article says, the frame rate slowed to an absolute crawl at one point, and almost every fight we got into was rather glitchy.
The worst technical issue I've found, however, is that the game can crash if you lose connection to the Ubisoft servers. Which is just atrocious.
@FullbringIchigo pushy publishers, not lazy developers
@MoleZandor but isn't Ubisoft both pulisher and devloper?
if so then ther wouln't be any pushing would there?
Remember back in the day - games used to work like they were supposed to. We've gone backwards in many respects...
"it’s busy investigating framerate issues"
Surely Ubisoft knew there were framerate issues before it released? I mean they developed the game, everybody has the issue and they are "investigating" this issue as though they knew nothing of it? BS
My copy is in the post as we speak and I'm half tempted to send it back for a refund.... Hmmm....
Tell us the truth.... these are not glitches.... it is just an hidden Zombie mode in AC Unity
Good to know these idiots are aware of the problem, too bad they somehow 'missed' it prior to release.
I'm staying well clear of the game for now...I'm not paying to be a beta tester on a 'finished' game.
I'm also very wary of games that release with restrictions on reviews having to be delayed until after the launch...it increasingly reeks of having things to hide and consumers to dupe.
So while it's been widely reported that Unity is a broken, but still enjoyable, mess, I'm curious as to the status of the new PS3 assassins creed game? Is that a mess as well?
@Dodoo : agreed , and if there was a problem all you had to do was eject the cart , blow the dust off the insides and you were good to go again !
some game developers take real pride in the games they make,
they want to make the best games out there.
ubisoft is no longer one of them, i'm worried for far cry 4 now.
@fozzie-mpd
Yup, any company with a dipshi*t on staff who openly admits to the fact that the dev team gimped its game to 'avoid debates and stuff' is a company that clearly doesn't give a damn. Ubisoft has become a complete joke, sadly the sheeple will continue to rush out in droves to buy the latest AC, Far Cry, etc though. However, I can't be too hard on them, I was one of the sheeple who got suckered by 343.
Unacceptable.
What blows my mind is how the publishing end would let this be released. Surely they are smart enough to know that delaying a release, whilst not ideal, is much better than forever having what is meant to be a revolutionary refresher in a franchise known as an absolute wreck of a glitched game. Bring out Rogue, keep people happy enough with the re-skinned Black Flag (I love AC but am short on cash, will get it after the games bonanza that is November) and release it just in time for Xmas. Push your devs & fix this crap. What were they thinking? No on will ever forget this & as I have said before, if Ubi keeps pulling dodgy crap they will go the way of Activision. We will turn our backs on them. I am interested in the DLC though, I mean it's not like Black Flag where it was just a short story in the same areas with a side character, it's in a whole new country so sounds interesting. I bet they started making it after the "no females in co-op" media crap (which btw imo is ridiculous that one can't have a female assassin in co-op)
@joseth418
Publishers only know $ and sadly this game will sell millions and be near the top of Nov. and Dec. charts. As long as people continue to buy, publishers and developers can keep releasing broken a$$ garbage.
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