Assassins Creed - Unity

Dayum wrote: »

It's not mystifying. It's the ground they're running their company into....they're not giving 100% and f*cking the customer over. Calex is on Xbox...no idea what you're on....but PC has been given the two fingers...

This.

Ubisoft is now getting rightly deserved flak for shoddy business practices and releasing poorly optimized games. Watchdogs while not awful, was not the game they advertised and that's not even taken into account how craptastic the PC port was.

Unity is not only running badly on lots of PC's but also on the latest consoles. Add to the current ****storm utter bull**** PR rubbish such as 30 fps being better than 60 fps along with micro-transactions in AAA titles and you have a company that seems to being going out of its way to piss off it's customers and go out of business.

Agree with most of the but so far Far Cry 4 seems to be very solid all round. Just the story is a bit weak.

Gizmo55 wrote: »

Far Cry 4 is by a different team and uses a different engine so fingers crossed.

Far Cry 4 seems to be getting good user reviews so far with the only complaints being the villain is kinda meh.

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Isn't it more of the same though? Most of the lads I know that have a copy early say it's near identical to 3. There somehow managing to turn every single franchise into a cash cow.

Yeah it is the same, it's all they had to do with Unity was remake 2 but set it in France and they made a bollix of it. I'd rather a copy and paste job on Unity than what they did to it. Change is not good if it's rushed.

Can this thread just be merged with Gaming Humour please?

Dayum wrote: »

Looks like something out of Silent Hill....

I didn't know Mick Jagger was motioncaptured for the game.

I have to go against the grain here, I'm loving Unity so far. Looks great, the frame-rate drops are rare for me and I've only had a couple of graphical glitches.

It looks fantastic, and I love how you can seamlessly go from interiors to exteriors. And it's huge, I've spent a couple of days playing already and have barely gone outside the 3 central districts. The side-missions seem light-years ahead of Black Flag, much more variety and story in them. And the 'home' upgrades here are more meaningful, opening up new missions & back-story items rather than just making the garden shed look a bit less tatty! The customisation options are a bit nuts, there are so many.

The downsides, it can be a bit sluggish in places (and not necessarily the places you expect. Outside Notre Dame is a very complex scene with loads of NPCs and is never a problem, but there's another ordinary street where it always slows down a bit). There's just one place - climbing the stained glass windows in Saint Chappelle - where it became really choppy.

As for the glitches, I did fall through one building (oops!) but was able to fast-travel back to another location. And the floor of one hallway in the 'home' was flashing like a '80s disco dancefloor

The combat is more interesting for me. The stealth was really tough at first, but you have to do a few main missions and upgrade your character a little before tackling the side-missions or you'll really struggle.

One thing that got me though was the flood of add-ins/add-ons/tie-ins. Do this for Uplay points! Play the tablet companion app to open these Nomad chests. Sync to Initiates (don't even know what these are). Try a co-op mission (with who?). Check your contacts list here! Start a Club! Start a Brotherhood! Jesus, gimme a minute's peace to just go kill something. There are four different kinds of 'currency' for upgrading - why?

i find game very good, havent seen any flaws or problems,

Juan8 wrote: »

Thinking about getting this but have never played Assassin's creed before does that matter storyline wise etc anyone know? Or should I maybe get Black flag first?

The overall story doesn't seem to matter much past AC2.