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Leaked AC Unity gameplay videos up in the wild (edit: re-uploaded)
- Thread starter VisceralBowl
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At least the giant piles and carts of hay are accurate, since based on the Assassin's Creed series, they have been ubiquitous throughout history.
Rooftops in Paris are mainly made with slate and zinc, so this is why you have this blue (at least in some districts).
It's still in I (mapped to circle in the vid - "course libre bas"). It's a nice feature to have added, but considering the heights of some buildings in this game it probably ended up being a design necessity. The leap of faith is simply convenience as its always been.
a secret-boss
Banned
scale looks great
Eh, but this is the recurring theme of every bit of combat shown on GAF for every game in existence, barring maybe Dark Souls. Make it faster.
FF XV? Make it faster.
Dragon Age? Make it faster.
Lords of the Fallen? Make it faster.
It's far too subjective of a complaint and it's repeated ad nauseum here.
Honestly they've leap-frogged over "noticeable" straight into "extremely distracting". I was impressed for a flat second before seeing people pop into the universe from the Twilight Zone every two seconds
Same. It's propably the city for me.
Suprisingly, this was my biggest problem with the video. So jarring when the hay doesn't react. I mean can it be that hard to apply even a non-physic based, baked animation that plays when you hit the hay?
POP = Prince of Persia fucking confirmed!
The scale of the city is definitely on another level from any previous Assassin's Creed game, but other wise this looks A LOT like Assassni's Creed II, which is kind of disappointing given what previews have said. Unity is supposed to make a lot of really fundamental changes to the formula.
Hopefully what they've said about missions being a lot more open-ended and less linear is true. Same for the supposedly redone stealth mechanics and overall more systemic gameplay. It's what I've always thought AC needed. Other than the scale the only real difference I see here is that there are no more guards on rooftops.
Hopefully what they've said about missions being a lot more open-ended and less linear is true. Same for the supposedly redone stealth mechanics and overall more systemic gameplay. It's what I've always thought AC needed. Other than the scale the only real difference I see here is that there are no more guards on rooftops.
Confused Cheeseburger
Member
The pop-in is worrying, and damn it's kinda blurry. But the scale is pretty damn impressive. The city looks like an actual city size wise and that is a hell of a lot of NPCs. Despite what I'm seeing here in spots, it does look pretty impressive where it counts, but that pop-in is that "1st year and were really trying to push the tech" feel. Like mass effect 1, but I'm not sure if it was as excusable as it was there. Also, frame drops.
Teletraan1
Banned
My favorite is the hats that just pop on people. In some cases they have no brim until they get within so close to the character and then boom huge sun hat. It is so distracting seeing clothes a pop'in while you are running around.
Saint Gregory
Member
It's probably an error with how the game is handling the different LOD models. With that many NPCs it can't be easy to manage.
ROUGE_BLOCK
Member
So it looks and runs like an AC game then. We got the occasional framerate drops and characters/ buildings popping in. Graphics are quite nice and the lighting is great. The blurriness that we see looks like the game is giving a call back to AC1. Well to me it looks like the visual aesthetics were meant to reminiscent of the first game. Seeing it in motion the game looks good, but damn those fucking crowds. They look like a pain in the ass to get through
, and it looked fairly hilarious.
just like real life
Confused Cheeseburger
Member
The kinda of burn that has DOT
Messofanego
Banned
VisceralBowl
Member
Surprised it managed stayed up for so long.
PoweredBySoy
Banned
Scale and animations looked nice - but still not that impressed with it overall. Technically.
Still excited to play it though - day 1 - but for sure on PC.
Still excited to play it though - day 1 - but for sure on PC.
Kleegamefan
K. LEE GAIDEN
Its already up on youtube
We are all in Europe so no one was around. I actually have trouble sleeping so I just saw that while browsing on my tablet, otherwise I wouldn't have done anything until quite a few more hours. This really really sucks.
VisceralBowl
Member
Kleegamefan
K. LEE GAIDEN
Messofanego
Banned
Well first we wouldn't allow him to do that
Heh, got past your filters.
Confused Cheeseburger
Member
i gotta say.
The fact they everyone is speaking french is much MUCH better. I hope you can get subs and let everyone speak french because that makes sense. None of this British accents because American audience trash, that was such a turnoff for me.
The fact they everyone is speaking french is much MUCH better. I hope you can get subs and let everyone speak french because that makes sense. None of this British accents because American audience trash, that was such a turnoff for me.
Hitokiri03
Member
Besides the blurriness and the pop-in, looks pretty great.
I hope there is a good day one patch to polish things up.
The game doesn't look that blurry in this video.
I hope there is a good day one patch to polish things up.
The game doesn't look that blurry in this video.
This is why the game looks much better in motion than screenshots.
stufte
Member
It's from the french version of the game...
AScotAbroad
Member
The ambient crowd dialogue is always in French, regardless of the language you chose.
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
You can play the game in French with english subtitles.
I guess we are back to manual validation for all videos, right now the system puts it online until a moderator removes it if need be. We didn't have any incidents for months so I had just changed the approval system
Net_Wrecker
Member
I agree. I wasn't looking at it as a project still in development, those will be issues throughout the experience unless, as you say, they release a miracle patch.
With that said, good mission design and city interaction can absolutely save the game despite those issues. Unfortunately it's a Ubisoft title and they haven't proved capable in either category.
Well it's an assassin game with lethal weapons, grounded human enemies, and an athletic protagonist. You shouldn't be sitting there hacking with a sword to the body 5-10 times before some random kill animation against lightly armored enemies. It's slow, and lacking in impact and flow. I can't speak for those other games, but Assassin's Creed has always had awkward combat.
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
dat pop in
not a dealbreaker or anything, just noticeable.
Just don't get into combat
Nintendojitsu
Banned
The YouTube link 720p is not really helping things.
Messofanego
Banned
Shadow of Mordor is damn impressive, too.
Cloth physics and rain is the measurement of next gen.
All fronts.
So they're patching in the good image quality?
Looks better to me, pal. Sorry.
Shadow of Mordor is damn impressive, too.
Cloth physics and rain is the measurement of next gen.
The hood physics in Shadow of Mordor shit on Assassin's Creed. When Talion walks his hood moves so beautifully.
dat pop in
not a dealbreaker or anything, just noticeable.
Just don't get into combat
Dat Watch Dogs running animation.
Nintendojitsu
Banned
There isn't a day one 'Bad-Aid' big enough for this bullet riddled corpse.