Ah then I'll probably get it. I'm doing the buy 2 get 1 deal at target. Maybe by the time I get to AC U it will have a decent framerate.
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Assassins Creed: Unity Framerate Is Atrocious
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man, these hypothetical conversations between designers and programmers are like I'm really there!
Sho_Nuff82
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Far Cry 3 on consoles regularly dips to 25 FPS or below. Nothing like FC2 which is almost constantly 29-30. I found it perfectly playable, it's not a very fast paced game.
Chobel
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That's bullshit. CPU has nothing to do with resolution.
I know it's OT and LTTP, but this BS has to stop
WeAreStarStuff
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The frame rate didn't bother me; lucky me. Even platinumed the game.
ghostwritingduck
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It's bad enough that ign didn't get review copies.
They've hugely upgraded the visual technology to take advantage of the shader power of the new consoles.
That's just so sadly true. I remember playing AC 1 when I was a youth, my older tech savvy cousin tried to show me how framerate impacted gameplay when spinning the camera, bring focus to draw distance problems etc.
All I could think of was "yeah whatever, I just enjoy climbing and killing shit!"
Thank fuck I changed a lot from then
In that case, three cheers for Bubisoft!
KojiKnight
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Sending out late review copies... did ANYONE expect there not to be issues? The hundreds of unimmersive NPCs seem to have added nothing to the game except pop-in and slowdown... I'd have preferred if they just used the last gen engine and given a more stable performance ala BF honestly.
I bet it was like:
Programmer: mon Cherie poo poo, we need to make zees game 100% pc eckslusive to realize zee vision for parii
Executive: SCREW YOU programmer I want MONEY MONEY MONEY
Programmer: but zee graphics
Level designer: I will just design a new level to fix this *turns crank and factory line restarts*
Programmer: mon Cherie poo poo, we need to make zees game 100% pc eckslusive to realize zee vision for parii
Executive: SCREW YOU programmer I want MONEY MONEY MONEY
Programmer: but zee graphics
Level designer: I will just design a new level to fix this *turns crank and factory line restarts*
Going completely OT here but if you've actually had a programmer do that you were either talking about things in completely different (and misunderstood) contexts - or he wasn't actually a programmer.Nerfgun said:Programmers often don't want to admit shit is on fire until its consumed half the building
Engineering brain generally sees problems everywhere, all the time - not the other way around.
I know right, its like they are gunning for EA crown
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The visible lod and constantly changing look of the npc's represent the change of the times of the french revolution, some deep shit right there!
DanQ8000 has the first hour up on his channel and to be honest, the framerate doesn't look that bad at all. It does jerk a bit when turning when there are a lot of people on screen but its far from unplayable from what i saw.
I certainly wouldn't boycott it over it, its playable unless it gets really bad later on in the game or something.
I certainly wouldn't boycott it over it, its playable unless it gets really bad later on in the game or something.
As empathetic as I am with those upset when tech issues raise their ugly heads, your story doesn't really suggest your outlook on gaming actually improved...
As disappointing as a game with frame drops, tearing, aliasing and so forth is, it seems to me that many times these blemishes don't really impact the playability of the titles. Yes, there is technically always going to be a hit to the interactivity and gamer response time, but really, this is Assassins Creed, not Virtua Fighter.
I'll second this (but not in gaming industry)... at least for me, my teams have always been overly pessmistic about risks and estimates. We think about everything that can go wrong.
The_Intruder
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Jeez ubisoft what have you done!
Sho_Nuff82
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Don't worry guys, Rainbow Six will be good. And 60 FPS! They can't possibly mess this one up, it's closed quarters combat. No siree Bob.
It's Shunpo. It's a feature.
Please be good please be good please be good
Jeez ubisoft what have you done!
It's Shunpo. It's a feature.
Spoilers for Rogue/Unity:
This is what Versailles looks like in Rogue: http://i.imgur.com/9XAvw4o.jpg
This is what Versailles looks like in Unity: http://i.imgur.com/1iDWYlx.jpg
This is what Versailles looks like in Unity: http://i.imgur.com/1iDWYlx.jpg
The purely visual engine updates are pretty extensive as far as lighting etc. goes.
I make this post fully expecting some people to claim that Rogue looks better.
digoutyoursoul
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Looks decent to me from that video
Literally last night told my friend to look out for ACU Black Friday deals because it would be the first game for our PS4 that was truly next-gen and none of that PS3 crossover crap, and it's triple-A so it's sure to look amazing.
And now this.
blackdevil
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well, looks like back then you had fun playing the game for what it was and now you look at the stuff besides the gameplay and wont enjoy it, even though the core gameplay is fun....
don`t think that`s " great"...^^
stump sock
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you sure you didn't get those screenshots backwards?
I should probably edit in that I'm joking before someone gets mad
JackAubrey
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I agree. There's something to be said about being able to watch the puppet show, enjoy it, and not notice the wires holding up the puppets. Sometimes I wish I could go back to the innocent days when my only technical concern was whether I'd have to adjust the tape heads to get a game to load.
What's worse is there are many gamers these days who don't see the difference between 50 and 60fps but will happily bitch on about the lower frame rate on another console, or a lower resolution. But they'd never have noticed it for themselves and had to half read a DF article.
I'm certainly not excusing Unity here, I stopped playing GTAV because the games jerky frame rate gave me terrible headaches. And I'll pass on Unity now unless some patching gets it to a regular 30fps. The only performance issues that bother me are ones I can see for myself. If a game looks good to me then telling me it's 720p isn't going to suddenly make me stop enjoying it.
I'm quit nitpicky, I hate tearing - and I hate juddering framerates - even more than locked low ones. But I won't ever be bothered by numbers I can't see for myself.
Well you know what they say. Better to be an unhappy 'real gamer' than a happy, stinking, awful, stupid, almost certainly totally evil, filthy 'casual'.
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I played for 2 hours on ps4 and the game runs fine. Not sure what the issue is
WeAreStarStuff
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Jeez ubisoft what have you done!
That's so bad. Won't be spending money on this, but Ubi will still get money from me for FC4.
That's the problem.
Nice. I love the difference even though the lightning shows how much graphics can be improved upon with it.
Yeah, I watched some guy who had a full hour of just running around the environment up on YouTube. Very few drops that I could notice. He avoided big crowds for the most part, though. Pre patch as well.
NaNoWriMo...
"Minor" spoilers haha
Petrae
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Gen8 is really a continuation the Gen7 trend of releasing unfinished games with the knowledge that significant patches within a week of release will (probably) fix them.
Consumers seem fine with it.
fixed.
Sodding_Gamer
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Oppo
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That's not a Quebecois accent
Oh I'm not rally slagging programmers. The ones I've worked with have had a very gung-ho attitude, i.e. "I can fix this", which sometimes modulated their feedback. Programmers are the ones up against the wall at the end, not designers.
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I'd argue they probably just don't care or don't even realise most of that.
Mendax
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it wasn't a pr thing for ubi, but it is one for the scummy company that paid them for it