John Caboose
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What the hell. That webm has some atrocious npc pop-in.
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AC UNITY patch worsens NPC pop-in. Ubisoft actually puts in new spawning animation.
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Quadraphonic
Member
Well, reading everything, it seems like Patch 4 is still ultimately a step forward, but there is more work to do.
Revolutionary
Member
that's actually hilarious
Yeah. I don't think it's terrible, at this point I think it's funny. I'm glad the game is playable now, but this has been a great carnival of stupid.
SocksAndShoes
Banned
I laughed out loud reading this. Ubisoft is the most unintentionally hilarious company I've ever seen.
It's like they're trying to parody themselves at this point.
It's like they're trying to parody themselves at this point.
3rdamention
Member
Are you not even watching those gifs? It is so ridiculous. Running through the street and people just pop right up in front of you slowing you down? It breaks any type of immersion the game was "selling" with its 1000NPCS and rebuilt Paris. I mean, the 1000NPCs was a feature to make the city feel like a living breathing city. To make it feel like a real place or what it might have been like.
Now, they totally break whatever they were trying to accomplish by allowing these people to just pop up out of nowhere. Its awesome that you are going to go ahead and enjoy this game. I am not going to argue with you over that. But to say the game has been shit on enough, and we shouldn't complain about these is pretty sad. This has nothing to do with an apparant improved framerate, I hope that is improved. This pop in seems to have gotten worse.
You can enjoy the game, I will never touch it, ever. I am not going to support this shit.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
I'm not even mad, this is great and hilarious.
Astral Dog
Member
That looks kinda cool,.
they said this is the last patch....
anyways, so I suppose now they will say all glitches and bugs are intentional, as it is part of the in game story of a buggy Animus. Maybe the Animus is being hacked by Aiden Pierce?
beat me to it.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
It did, and it also did that in this game as well before the patch. However most people who didn't play the game wouldn't know that. >.>
BananasWithGuns
Member
Doesn't make sense to me to make the pop in worse. It was bad before but it least it was understandable and not too distracting. But having NPCs pop in two feet in front of you? Come on, Ubi. Unity is great, stop giving people less of a reason to play it.
Is this a widespread thing after the patch or is just a one-off as of now?
Is this a widespread thing after the patch or is just a one-off as of now?
they said this is the last patch....
Then I guess the question is, does the game feel finished? Or still undercooked?
7DollarHagane
Banned
wow.
Why don't they just cut back the NPC volume???
What good is it to have NPCs pop in 8 feet in front of the camera??
Why don't they just cut back the NPC volume???
What good is it to have NPCs pop in 8 feet in front of the camera??
texhnolyze
Banned
I don't really mind if it can actually improve the performance.
It's kinda cool, and I've actually seen this on previous games.
It's kinda cool, and I've actually seen this on previous games.
Summer Haze
Banned
Whether it's new or not is besides the point, really. Maybe Ubisoft should do their jobs properly and maybe then they wouldn't need to give their bugs cool little animations/effects in an attempt to distract people from the fact that their games are unfinished.
kittenbreath
Member
This is so fucking funny. I'm almost tempted to get the game now.
SocksAndShoes
Banned
Yeah but look how good the pop in looks now. That's some next level shit.
I wouldnt know, havent played it. Though I was hoping to at some point.
I have only watched videos, but I have never noticed the effect. its not even in the webm in the OP. Or does it only do it when they are super close?
AmethystEnd
Member
Welp, this made me giggle. Bravo.
Bermuda_IX
Neo Member
Haha, you gotta give them points for creativity though.
I've worked on a game that explored pop-in as a means to alleviate framerate issues. When I did it, it absolutely wasn't "a sign of incompleteness" that I "covered up with graphical effects" - it was a fully-intentional optimisation and a sacrifice that I felt was necessary to make the game run adequately.
In other words, I don't think this is viewed by the developer as something incomplete - I think this is viewed as a necessary and effective sacrifice to achieve framerate goals. Now, of course, whether it is an effective and acceptable sacrifice is ultimately up to the user; but I think it's as far as they feel they can realistically optimise what they currently have.
Edit: Wait. I'm talking about popping in visually. Now I look closer at the animation, it seems that it's more that they're spawning in?
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
This is actually kinda awesome.
Sho_Nuff82
Member
So it's simply not an option to dial down the NPC count?
Dear god.
Just lessen the number of NPCs on screen at once time Jesus fucking Christ Ubisoft.
Whatever, will pick this game up used once it drops below $10. What a joke.
DylanTackoor
Member
To be honest I actually kinda like the little animation, though it obviously doesn't make up for the horrible pop in.
If the pop in was within an acceptable level and still had the animation, it could've been kinda interesting.
If the pop in was within an acceptable level and still had the animation, it could've been kinda interesting.
CassidyIzABeast
Member
Did they make the pop in worse specifically for the animus glitch to work or was it always as terrible as it look in the 2nd gif? They're less than foot away from him.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
I remember it happening when new sequences would load or at least something very similar as the environments were loading. I've never seen them pop in that literally a as i'm running through the town however. I posted this earlier today in new threads.
http://a.pomf.se/zzhzgx.mp4
Kabuki Waq
Member
Ugh they are popping in right infront of him. Is that normal on the console versions?
Summer Haze
Banned
This.
From the videos I've seen of this game, the world they've created looks beautiful and looks like the kind of world I would get super immersed in, but all of that is potentially ruined for me when I see just how buggy it is. NPC's popping in like in that GIF would be a huge immersion-breaker for me. Such a shame.
Naughty_Doge
Member
LOL, the game's terrible performance is all part of the fiction.
I would love to meet the person who came up with this idea. You know they probably just said it as a joke.
ProfessorMoran
Member
Pop-in is a feature.
20-25 fps cinematic framerate is a feature.
Shitty gameplay is a feature that makes you feel closer to nature, you can almost smell the great outdoors.
Ubisoft has hit the JACKPOT.
20-25 fps cinematic framerate is a feature.
Shitty gameplay is a feature that makes you feel closer to nature, you can almost smell the great outdoors.
Ubisoft has hit the JACKPOT.
This shit is hilarious. It's remarkably clever if it wasn't also so sad lol
Ubisoft just admit you guys tried to make a game fit on platforms that couldn't do it and instead of appropriately toning down your "vision" - whatever loose tangle of objectives can be classified as a vision in your milked out world - you guys keep trying to find alternative routes to getting the game not to run like complete watery shit.
Ubisoft just admit you guys tried to make a game fit on platforms that couldn't do it and instead of appropriately toning down your "vision" - whatever loose tangle of objectives can be classified as a vision in your milked out world - you guys keep trying to find alternative routes to getting the game not to run like complete watery shit.
Boogalogist
Member
So instead of just these NPCs just appearing, they appear by way of teleportation!
AC: Unity is now Sci Fi....purchase redeemed!
AC: Unity is now Sci Fi....purchase redeemed!
No, I didn't buy it
CassidyIzABeast
Member
Leaving out features can also be seen as anti-piracy measures rather than just being missing features as well.
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