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[Foshy]

the whole situation around this game is ridiculous as fuck :lol

 

[Nozem]

That is pretty sad. Definitely skipping this one.

 

[Backfoggen]

Microsoft should put "better on Xbox One" on the packaging.

"Better But Still Fucked on Xbox One™"

 

[nelchaar]

So let me get this straight..

- shit performance on both consoles
- slightly less shitty performance on the weaker console
- 900p and pop up
- micro transactions up the wazoo, including a delicious $100 one.
- different colored chests that require using a mobile app to unlock
- "Parity" comments

Am I missing anything? Screw this game to hell.

 

[w00zey]

In that video is the xb1 the green or blue line?

 

[SeanTSC]

Well, it seems that people overreacted about parity.
It also looks like that Ubisoft ran out of time... this should've been a 2015 title.

Yeah, they should have just released Rogue this year as a cross-gen game and let the pile of technical shit that is Unity bake for another year at least. Unity clearly wasn't given enough time for either console. It's reviewing worse than Rogue to boot.

 

[TangoAlphaLima]

So Ubi's decision to go 900p across both platforms was to ensure the PS4 could keep up with the Xbox One?

 

[Mogwai]

Can they patch out npc to increase perf?

What are you talking about???

NPCs are the new metric to measure games by. Screw resolution and frames per second. The more dress-swapping NPCs
the merrier.

 

[dmr87]

It never ends.

 

[Stone Ocean]

Sub 20 framerates? Holy moly

 

[Coolade]

 

[GribbleGrunger]

Sony, have a word. Don't let them take the piss for too long.

How can anyone look at this and not feel a tad suspicious?

 

[omonimo]

Nope; if they are processing & running 10k AIs; the CPU is almost certainly the limiting factor.

That said, I'm pretty sure this is just massive performance failures all around; it's like they lost revision control and sent the wrong version of the game to go Gold. That or they have one hell of a patch coming up.

Can you be more clear? I'm not sure to understand how a 10% of more cpu (if it's the case, we don't know at all) could count more of the bandwith/unified ram advantages of the ps4, especially in a free roam.

 

[GhostTrick]

Yeah, they should have just released Rogue this year as a cross-gen game and let the pile of technical shit that is Unity bake for another year at least. Unity clearly wasn't given enough time for either console. It's reviewing worse than Rogue to boot.

Yeah, exactly !
And I think Rogue would've got a lot more sales !
Plus...

Spoiler

It seems that Rogue ending is tied to AC Unity... that would've built more hype.

 

[cakely]

How did this happen?

Both consoles have the same architecture, but the PS4 has 50% more CU and no weird memory bottlenecks.

It appears to go beyond "lazy developers" into the realm of incompetence.

 

[nelsonroyale]

The CPU clock speed is roughly 10% higher on XB1 I thought.

But it doest make sense. Even if the CPU clock provides advantages in some areas, the GPU advantage on PS4 should confer advantages in other areas.

 

[Xando]

From what i've played i had far worse frame dips inside buildings than with 1000 npcs on screen. (PS4)

 

[Amir0x]

Ladies and Gentlemen, your generation for the next 5 years.

 

[Interfectum]

So Ubi's decision to go 900p across both platforms was to ensure the PS4 could keep up with the Xbox One?

ParityMNightTwist.jpg

 

[Nirolak]

So let me get this straight..

- shit performance on both consoles
- slightly less shitty performance on the weaker console
- 900p and pop up
- micro transactions up the wazoo, including a delicious $100 one.
- different colored chests that require using a mobile app to unlock
- "Parity" comments

Am I missing anything? Screw this game to hell.

Their first controversy was when people asked why there weren't female playable characters in the game and they gave a constantly changing set of reasons (especially after other devs and their ex-employees called them out on their first reason) and didn't even throw anyone any bones in terms of promising female playable characters in a future mainline entry.

 

[Kazuma Kiryu]

Well, I guess after Black Flag they just decided to go back to the good old last gen framerate standard for AC.

 

[bigbaldwolf86]

Press F to Ubi



This is ridiculous

 

[Endoplasmatisch]

Did they use FW 2.02 or FW 2.01?

 

[Metaroo]

mhm

 

[KillGore]

This is amazing LOL

 

[Asd202]

Yeah, they should have just released Rogue this year as a cross-gen game and let the pile of technical shit that is Unity bake for another year at least. Unity clearly wasn't given enough time for either console. It's reviewing worse than Rogue to boot.

Absolutely

 

[Windom Earle]

So if we explain this with the slightly stronger CPU on the XB1, this means there is a lot of GPU headroom left on the PS4 that was wasted for parity. Meanining PS4 version could run with identical (terrible) frames but at least at a higher resolution/better AA, etc.

 

[hagege_s]

This framerate is UNACCEPTABLE. I will ask for a refund as soon as I receive my copy from Amazon.

 

[Superflat]

Good lord. I hope no one picks up either copy.

 

[SRTtoZ]

The game looks loads better on PS4 if that means anything...

Still don't see why they couldnt get a 1080p resolution.

 

[admartian]

But I thought they were Digital Fraud?

 

[Seanspeed]

MS co-marketing dollars at work.

Cpu limited and heavily demanding in general.

There is no conspiracy theory necessary.

 

[Sini]

Last gen seems to be back. Frame rate wise. Even image quality is worse than anything I've seen yet on current gen consoles.

 

[SuperSonic1305]

Dat sabotage

 

[FlashbladeGAF]

Woah. XB1 version is better.

Of course it's gonna run better on Xbone.
They made the game for it.

In my mind they made it on xbone ported paritied it over to PS4 which is why we have the same mess on both systems

that M$

 

[Ryaaan14]

This whole time "The Cloud" has actually been the name of a small team operating at Microsoft who go to developers making them offers they can't refuse. Someone write a fuckin screenplay for this pls.

 

[MR ARCADE FOREVER]

Parity? Xone wins! WTF

 

[nelchaar]

Their first controversy was when people asked why there weren't female playable characters in the game and they gave a constantly changing set of reasons (especially after other devs and their ex-employees called them out on their first reason) and didn't even throw anyone any bones in terms of promising female playable characters in a future mainline entry.

Oh man, of course, how did I forget that jewel.

 

[The Llama]

Just to play devil's advocate here for a second, its not hard to see why they went with so many NPC's. There's been a lot of people complaining about how there's been no "nextgen gameplay" and how dead games like inFamous were. Well, Ubi tried to change that. They gave us a city that wasn't dead and tried to give "nextgen gameplay" (a term people use but which I'll never understand) and this disaster is the result.

 

[martino]

seems the dev wasn't lying....except they don't improve things enougth to get a correct framerate for laucnh

 

[FlyStarJay]

Yup i think i predicted this. On my mobile so can't check post history. The x1 week out Pyworthy the ps4. I will not be buying till price drops before £20 and second hand

 

[SEGAvangelist]

So Ubi's decision to go 900p across both platforms was to ensure the PS4 could keep up with the Xbox One?

Yup. PS4 holding XB1 back. Disgusting.

Spoiler

/s

 

[Durante]

But it doest make sense. Even if the CPU clock provides advantages in some areas, the GPU advantage on PS4 should confer advantages in other areas.

If you are CPU limited in a particular scenario GPU power is immaterial for that scenario.

 

[Papercuts]

Sony, have a word. Don't let them take the piss for too long.

How can anyone look at this and not feel a tad suspicious?

The cavalry has arrived.

 

[phanphare]

Ubisoft gonna Ubisoft

somewhere Jim motherfucking Sterling son is smiling, thanking himself for himself

 

[Guile]

That FPS (low 20's) really is absolutely disgusting.

 

[Zoned]

MS co-marketing dollars at work.

More like incompetent work across every platform.

 

[Piggus]

Worse performance on a more powerful console. Well done Ubisoft!

*golf clap*

 

[inky]

I can't wait for all those people crying for 30fps locked patch. Pshhh, why would you want your game to look like it was shot on video instead of dat current cinematic feel.

 

[iNvid02]

19fps at one point, awful.