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Assassins Creed: Unity Framerate Is Atrocious
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SkylineRKR
Member
Its deadlines, share holders etc. Basically, a game like this should arrive in time for Holiday season. And face it, this one is going to sell gangbusters regardless of its quality. Its like 1% or less actively complaining.
brandonh83
Banned
This gen?
Yep, I hate it. A lot. I can't even articulate just how much. I do want to play these games, but buying them tells them it's okay.
IAmRandom31
Banned
unfortunately Ubi will still make a hefty profit off this game though. Wish a big company would get punished where it counts for this type of thing. But nope, you'll have headlines by Friday about how much money this game made and how well received it was.
Curious if some outlets will delay their review considering the fact that co-op has only been available since yesterday.
alexandros
Banned
Who knows. What is very clear is that Ubisoft should have done a much better job when designing the game and setting performance targets. 20something framerates on consoles with frequent dips below that is not just poor performance, it's unplayable performance. The engine is clearly not up to the task or they just didn't have time for proper optimization. For the life of me I can't understand why they didn't just dial back the crowds and the scale of the game if they had so many issues with performance. I just don't get it.
Totilo yelled at me. It's actually called the Helix now.
Zen_Arcade
Banned
You can cancel a pre-order at any time. You aren't rewarding them with anything until the day you buy it. If you were going to buy day one any way, there is no difference between that and pre-ordering.
I was more thinking of the hilariously bad frame rate both consoles played the game at. Ubisoft didn't give a shit as long as it looked good for screen shots.
CambriaRising
Member
You only need one good frame for a screenshot.
WeAreStarStuff
Member
Enjoyed every second of FC3 on PS3; never had any problems with it. ::shrugs::
then whats the point of having a QA team anyway?
It all comes down to quantity of sales versus quality of product I guess
Its a shame really
Magnificent /thread
Ha! You got the development picture spot on
It's an engine problem plain and simple.
Played the PC version this morning and while it's playable on my rig, the amount of Pop in is atrocious.
Ubi needs to either scrap AnvilNEXT, or do some major work on it. Quite frankly they should consider tapping Massive and utilize Snowdrop in their next AC game as I have a sneaking suspicion that'll be a much better performing engine.
They needed another 6 months in the oven with this piece of shit. Real sad.
Played the PC version this morning and while it's playable on my rig, the amount of Pop in is atrocious.
Ubi needs to either scrap AnvilNEXT, or do some major work on it. Quite frankly they should consider tapping Massive and utilize Snowdrop in their next AC game as I have a sneaking suspicion that'll be a much better performing engine.
They needed another 6 months in the oven with this piece of shit. Real sad.
CambriaRising
Member
QA is only as good as it's management and how seriously they take these issues, unfortunately.
Clearly they just don't give a shit.
Yeah I think I'm on the same page as you. Before these news I thought i would hit the 89-90 mark
BrainZEROX
Member
Probably because the games go gold before the optimization round is even finished. What we get on retail disks is an unfinished game and day one patches are not exactly patches, they are more like the finishing touches of the game, that last round of optimization.
I love looking out from on top of a tall building. There's so much going on and it's really impressive minus the framerate issues and pop-in. It's too bad that Ubi seemed to have bit off more than they can chew from a tech perspective. Hopefully they'll have these problems ironed out before next year's inevitable entry.
Not really. The sea was just upgraded on the PS4 version, it wasn't completely different. Either way, disagreeing on the minutiae is irrelevant when Black Flag was clearly an entire generation behind Unity on graphics technology.
You might prefer the 1080p30 presentation of IV to the 900p~30 presentation of Unity, but let's not pretend that the reason for the downgrade in IQ aren't massively obvious to even a cursory glance.
Tell me where anything I said contradicts your reply.
Please. I advise you think on your posts longer before participating
I know, that's the point. XD
Leafhopper
Banned
Yeah and i would guess at least 90% of all pre-orders don't ever get cancelled, it still provides the dev and publisher with a pretty accurate estimate of how much they'll be making day 1, and as most games make most money in the first week after release, they can work out roughly how well the game is going to do before it is even done
This means they can cut their losses after a certain point, why pump another load of money into fixing and perfecting a game when it's already going to make what they had hoped it would make?
Why do you think pre-orders are such a big deal? Soon as a reveal trailer is out they're telling us to pre-order
kerotan_eater
Banned
I saw this at PAX Aus two weeks ago ... It looked bad.
You know the frame rate is one thing. The pop in is something else entirely. I don't mind devs pushing hardware but this pop in is absolutely fucking ridiculous.
I haven't seen pop in this bad in a very long time.
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
Anyone know when Digital Foundry put their analysis up? I'm tempted to buy it so I have something to play this week but I want some concrete info on the performance first. If this is as bad as things look and sound so far then it will be the first AC game I skip.
Well yeah, it's a mess. It's as if they believed they could get the game running up to speed, but late on realised they couldn't and it was too late to change it.
Ubi is pushing the lower fps limit before their the majority of their customers demand a refund.
I take it you don't go into specifics much.
Yeah, the pop up is way more glaring to me.
I don't think you know what 'unplayable' means. This is a video of a person playing the console version of Unity for nearly two hours, which is proof that the game is not 'unplayable' in any meaningful, non-hyperbolic sense of the word.
Just under 3.
Derpcrawler
Member
How about trying to parry/dodge (prison fight at the start) with 20FPS and huge controllers latency inconsistency? Not hindering at all? Lol.
blackdevil
Member
there is a day one patch. about 900 MB.
Ashad Mamood
Banned
They could of easily avoided all this by simply keeping the NPC count to about 2-3000 max. Sheer stupidity of boasting about 5000 NPC which makes little difference to the game. But the frame drops sure do make a difference
It's one bad idea after the next! This game could of clearly done with another months worth of optimisation!
He means he hoped-but-didn't-expect *Inquisition* to be good, and since the early reports are looking rosy, he's excited. Not AC in that instance.
One that didn't fix the game, I assume. Hahaha.
That's okay. The postrate in the OT will be more cinematic.
I doubt it. The hours of preview footage on ps4 and PC look good and not broken at all
In ACU's case we could already see the technical flaws in videos, and reports from Gaffers like Brazil at trade shows were critical of framerate/pop in etc
Oppo
Member
Actually in my experience, it more often goes like this:
Programmer: Sir, we've added the last few thousand protestors to the riot scene...
Designer: Good, good. Does it look realistic yet? Is the protagonist literally elbow to elbow with a sea of human dregs?
Prog: Yup.
Desi: Is it running fine? No drops?
Prog: Yup. It's fine.
Desi: You're sure? Really really sure?
Prog: Yeah we got this.
Desi: ... ok
Programmers often don't want to admit shit is on fire until its consumed half the building
It's amazing, how similar this is to the first Assassin's Creed, if these reports are correct. Like practically the same complaint – trying to do a little too much in the game engine.