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Assassin’s Creed Unity & Far Cry 4 – PC Versions To Be Developed By Ubisoft Kiev

Oh, Ubi.

ThoseDeafMutes said:
Ukraine-based studio? At least they have a ready made excuse if they need to delay the PC release!
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Corine said:
They'll still be better than the console versions, but hopefully they'll be better than other Ubisoft PC versions of games. Either way they'll be tied to that horrible Uplay which is an instant skip for me.
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better has a lot of variables and many of those depend on budget, in other words, if you have a decent PC their games will run like shit, if you have a monster PC you can achieve 60 frames with mostly everything on the highest setting, ubisoft games are terribly optimized, i had to lock watch dogs to 30 frames to finish it and still the freaking game had stutter, i have a 770 4GB, not the most powerful card but not a slouch either, i think ubisoft games are a better experience on a console, at least until they get programmers that actually know how to code and optimize for pc
 
In case you’re not aware of, Ubisoft Kiev was responsible for the PC versions of Assassin’s Creed III, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. Now all of the aforementioned games had major performance issues, something that definitely worries us.
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I remember playing Splinter Cell: Conviction and Ghost Recon: Future Soldier on PC release day... not only was Uplay fucking up with constant connection problems and DRM errors, the games were horribly unoptimized, bugged and i took them ages to roll out patches for these titles. While Conviction ran like shit but managed to look quite good(to this day imho), Future Soldier was not only a disappointment optimization and graphics wise, it was also missing advertised content and gameplay mechanics(E3 demo?).
Fuck UBI Kiev, do they even do any QA for their pc ports?
 
lmbotiva said:
ps4 it is, i don't plan on loosing more nights trying to set a playable framerate with their ports
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Lock to 30 and play the PS4 version with better IQ. The problem with Ubisoft games comes when one wants to play at 60fps. It's impossible when the developers behind the ports are incompetent fools who literally don't give a fuck about anything besides being complete fools. :D

SneakyStephan said:
Black flag wasn't that bad a port was it? very cpu demanding but otherwise had all the bells n whistles?
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CPU demanding? It topped out at around 30% CPU usage but had the vast majority of the game code on one core. Exactly the thing an incompetent developer has wet dreams about at night.
 
Valnen said:
I don't even get why someone would even pay $10 for the trash ports Ubisoft puts out at this point. Console or nothing with their games.
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Yep. Watch Dogs is a stuttering mess for me still, and it seems Ubi isn't planning to do shit about it. So I guess I'm just never getting to play WD.

Fuck you, Ubisoft. Never again.
 
Valnen said:
I don't even get why someone would even pay $10 for the trash ports Ubisoft puts out at this point. Console or nothing with their games.
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Splinter Cell: Blacklist had an excellent port.
Made me hope for a moment, but apparently it wasn't made by Kiev.
 
Yep, waiting for a sale of this game. Seriously Ubisoft, fuck off with your PC shit. You give us the shitty UPlay and now you make us get a version done by a second rate team of people.
 
John Papadopoulos at DSO Gaming said:
In case you’re not aware of, Ubisoft Kiev was responsible for the PC versions of Assassin’s Creed III, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. Now all of the aforementioned games had major performance issues, something that definitely worries us.
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Yikes. While Assassin's Creed III ran fine for me, and it was actually gorgeous to look at, IV ran (actually, still runs) like crap.

I may be in the market for a PS4 sooner than I expected...
 
lmbotiva said:
better has a lot of variables and many of those depend on budget, in other words, if you have a decent PC their games will run like shit, if you have a monster PC you can achieve 60 frames with mostly everything on the highest setting, ubisoft games are terribly optimized, i had to lock watch dogs to 30 frames to finish it and still the freaking game had stutter, i have a 770 4GB, not the most powerful card but not a slouch either, i think ubisoft games are a better experience on a console, at least until they get programmers that actually know how to code and optimize for pc
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You were also running Watchdogs at much higher resolution and settings than the console versions. It's not like you were running Watchdogs at 900p or below.
 
Black flag runs like crap on gtx 780 ti sli setup. The stuttering is insane for the level of hardware I am pushing
 
So the team behind Ubisoft's worst PC ports is doing their biggest 2014 releases? Wow, awesome. Can't wait to pay $50 for FC4, install it, boot it up, get 20 fps on low/720p, uninstall.
 
Oh god another game I'm going PS4 or Xbone with. Really is a shame because I do love Ubi games but after having to buy Watchdogs twice it's defo another no for PC.
 
Pops Maellard said:
So the team behind Ubisoft's worst PC ports is doing their biggest 2014 releases? Wow, awesome. Can't wait to pay $50 for FC4, install it, boot it up, get 20 fps on low/720p, uninstall.
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They won't stop putting out shit PC releases until we stop give them money for them. That's all there is to it. We all bitch, myself included, and yet we keep buying them, again myself included, so why would they give a shit?

Watch Dogs was really it for me. I'm glad I got it for $25 on Origin, but I'm still pissed I basically gave them that money for free 'cause I can't play the game it's such a stuttering mess. I want 1080p60 Far Cry 4 for sure, but I'll be waiting until GAF chimes in on how it runs before I buy it. No more day one Ubi games for me. I have finally learned.
 
ACIV get's unfairly accused of being an awful port because, even though it did run like shit when it was first released, the first patches and drivers for it vastly improved performance. It runs well now and was a good port in the end.

I'm still waiting for a similar patch to come out and fix Watch_Dogs. Not holding my breath though at this point.
 
Well then. Both games were already in my "wait and see like six months later" pile. Hopefully patches will be out by then.
 
RedSwirl said:
Well then. Both games were already in my "wait and see like six months later" pile. Hopefully patches will be out by then.
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plus the game will be 50 % off by then as well.

This news is annoying hopefully theyve learned to dev and optimize on pc better by now, i was content with far cry 3 performance and was hoping for the same with this game we'll see.
 
Hero_of_the_Day said:
They won't stop putting out shit PC releases until we stop give them money for them. That's all there is to it. We all bitch, myself included, and yet we keep buying them, again myself included, so why would they give a shit?
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The flipside is that if everyone stops buying shit ubi PC ports (of which there aere a lot), the take home message Ubisoft gets is probably going to be "Nobody buys our games, but look how many people pirated them!"
 
ThoseDeafMutes said:
The flipside is that if everyone stops buying shit ubi PC ports (of which there aere a lot), the take home message Ubisoft gets is probably going to be "Nobody buys our games, but look how many people pirated them!"
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Fine with me. Renting ensures they don't get my money anyways.
 
Elixist said:
plus the game will be 50 % off by then as well.

This news is annoying hopefully theyve learned to dev and optimize on pc better by now, i was content with far cry 3 performance and was hoping for the same with this game we'll see.
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Unity will be 50% off on consoles on Black Friday a month after launch, as AC has been for like the last three years.
 
Assassin's 3 ran well on my computer, though I heard there were a ton of bugs for others.

Black Flag ran fantastically, as did Conviction however.

This looks good, as long as they release it at the same time as the goddamn console versions.
 
Go figure. FC3 and SC: Blacklist were the ones that ran extremely well for me and made me more optimistic of future Ubi PC ports. Now we go back to the studio that convinced me never to buy an Ubisoft PC game anywhere near launch again. So needless to say, I know what I'll be doing this time...
 
Evrae said:
Assassin's 3 ran well on my computer, though I heard there were a ton of bugs for others.

Black Flag ran fantastically, as did Conviction however.

This looks good, as long as they release it at the same time as the goddamn console versions.
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Conviction ran well for no one. I find the veracity of this post dubious.
 
PS4 it is, then.

I'll likely double dip to add to my PC collection when it goes on a Steam sale though.

Anyone want to take bets there will be another PC port delay for AC:U?
 
Am i the only person who's never had any problems with Uplay as a service? Maybe its because I'm in Australia and they might have local servers with fewer people compared to the US, but I have never had an instance of Uplay crashing.
 
I've had better experiences with Kiev PC ports than ports from Montreal, so not sure this is the end of the world. Hope they can get CPU utilization under control.
 
Leb said:
I mean, I like hating on Ubisoft as much as the next guy, but this article is mostly just a bunch of unfounded speculation whose central premise may or may not even be valid in the first place.
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Its not really 'unfounded' speculation at all. These guys have a history of terrible PC ports.

Intheflorsh said:
I guess people don't remember...

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Sacul64GC said:
I dont remember, what is this?
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luffeN said:
What is that?
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Its not bad like it seems. Its just a programmer's notice about some PC-specific code in Watch Dogs.
 
saunderez said:
Can't believe people are latching onto that still. In the context of the code it's obvious its innocuous.
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To be fair, it was only posted to explain a joke. And the two subsequent replies were just being curious, not jumping to conclusions.

So that's a fresh change of pace for once! :)
 
No surprise since they've done all PC Assassin's ports since II..

So, no hope for 60 fps then..

Edit: Wait, that was Mac. They have handled the PC versions since Revelations.
 
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