If you've not been paying attention, Assassin's Creed Unity's launch last month was as messy and convoluted as the franchise's storied timeline. Performance issues plagued the title, while terrifying glitches ran amok. Admittedly, Ubisoft was quick to respond, but the developer has now announced that the title's latest patch – which was originally planned for 15th December – will be delayed.
"Rigorous quality control is of paramount importance to us, and your feedback over these past weeks has indicated that it is important to you as well," the studio said in a blog post. "As stated last week, we'd expected to release the patch today (and we know that many are anticipating its release), but we are choosing to hold off until we can give you the improvements that we've promised.
"We are committed to delivering major performance improvements, which requires that we refurbish the Paris map and that will take a few more days to hit the high level of quality that our players deserve," it continued. "Thank you very much for your understanding and continued patience."
This comes soon after the news that the firm will be handing out DLC at no extra cost, as well as a free game to season pass holders. Are you still playing Assassin's Creed Unity, or are you holding out till it's in better shape? Perform some peculiar parkour in the comments section below.
[source assassinscreed.ubi.com, via eurogamer.net]
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Still playing it, still loving it.
I'm glad they are holding off a bit, but in hindsight maybe they should have done so at launch.
"Rigorous quality control is of paramount importance to us"
It didn't seem it was important on release day a month ago.
In fact it looked like quality control came a distant second to getting the game out there asap to cash in on the looming thanksgiving shopping season no matter what state the game was in...
Im waiting to continue playing this game until they fixed it compleatly.
Dose any one know when the DLC will come out? Or when you will get the free game?
Oh and another questions, do you get the free game if you bought the season pass frome the Playstation store the same day the game was released?
@Remixora Yeah, if you bought the Season Pass at all, you're eligible for the free game. No idea when it will be available, or the DLC.
@Remixora They reckon there may be a delay if you activated it after the 25th nov.
Must admit, to operate at a potential loss to apologise is a big deal in my opinion, two recently released titles are playable for free.
Ubisoft seem to be making a habit of this, get the cash in and worry about the quality later eh?
LOL @ "Rigorous quality control is of paramount importance to us" ))
Its beginning a custom for ubisoft to say a big and hype word containing their games but eventually its only give us dissapointed by not matching the hype to the actual product.. It happens especially on watch dogs and ac unity containing its patch, well we just wait and see if this patch really matters to the gameplay..
I'm happy they keep improving on the game. I never plan to buy Ubisoft games at launch, because I don't want to deal with all the patches. So for me it's good to hear they actually still worry about quality control, even though it's way too late for the greater half of the gamers.
Then again, people who buy video games on Day 1 from developers that aren't called Nintendo, have themselves to blame.You should know better by now...
@Kidfried "Then again, people who buy video games on Day 1 from developers that aren't called Nintendo, have themselves to blame.You should know better by now..."
Big thumbs up.
Still loving the game. Zero glitches or framerate drop so far and I'm in sequence 7. I only got this game because it was my free game in targets buy 2 get 1 free and I almost didn't try it. I'm glad I did.
I don't think they're gonna do this again. Some of the free games are worth twice as much as the season pass. The free DLC must hurt too. I think someone's in trouble for rushing the game, and it's definitally possible next year's AC will have less glitches than usual for an AC game barring Unity.
It's on hold only because GTA V came out if not I would've been playing 😁 but I was kinda enjoying it.
I read that as "we are going on vacation for the holidays, so the patch will have to wait. Thank you for your patience, early adopters".
played from day one. experienced a small amount of popin or whatever it's called but that's it. apart from that the game is a dream, Im well on my way to 100% completion. There are a few coding niggles with collecting a couple of things ingame but apart from that all grand in AC world. Thanks ubisoft for an overall solid game and cheers for throwing in far cry 4 for nothing (season pass holder hehe)
@ToOGoodOfAPlaya Well according to my billing information I bougt the season pass the 13 of Nov. So hopefully ill get a free game.
@get2sammyb Thanks!
And this is why I buy games used after they've been out awhile. Ubisoft doesn't deserve anyone's $ for releasing unfinished, glitchy trash.
Neither, though that's because I won't own a PS4 until Christmas 2016.
I'll be honest though, I'd still wait to play the PS4 version, even if it was on PS3 too.
Its a disappointment of the AC franchise ive been around since 2008 when the first one came out. Had everyone each year and loved every single hour ive spent on all of the games. As soon as unity got announced i was very chuffed from what they were making it out to be graphical, and game play. Had a lot of hope because of last years black flag what was beautiful and very good, but it turns out that unity is so lame the graphics are rubbish and lightning well there aint any really. The story is plain not a lot of breathtaking moments, over all not a good story and the combat well why would you take out the conter with different wepons its just a single basic sword fight. Overall im really disappointed in ubisoft for this years AC been the worse yet :/
The game was $30 on amazon the same day this patch was supposed to go out... more reason to wait until it's only $20 then.
@get2sammyb I went to play just and there was a patch over 6gb to install so looks like they have rolled it out now
I picked it up cheap (£30 brand new) but it's still sealed as I've got tons of other stuff to play... My thinking was by the time I get around to playing it; they'll have sorted all the issues out
Be nice if it's frame rate is locked to 30fps by the time I get to play!
I want play in dead king
@Kidfried even you bought it later. You still need to download all the patches (hence dealing with them)
Decided to give the Xbox One version a try and begrudgingly have to admit it is a good game. Too bad it was marred by stuff that could've been easily avoided without the yearly release schedule otherwise this might've been a real winner. The patch had some issues on Xbox though, 40GB download, that was a royal pain in the a$$.
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