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Broken Cog posted:loving French people ruining everything. LA Noire was pretty good in terms of being believable, but creepy realism award goes to Heavy Rain, specifically the old clock repairman.
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Aphrodite posted:Watch Dogs is GTA but better because GTA isn't very good and that's not a high bar to clear. Wow. "GTA is a bad game. Realistically most games should be better than GTA V or they are failures." I think that's what you more or less just said. Is this a popular opinion? Because I felt GTA V was an amazing single player game and so far nothing released in 2014 has come close to it (though I share the love for Mordor and Aliens as good games).
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Funso Banjo posted:Wow. It's a popular opinion that one of the most successful and groundbreaking franchises in history is overhyped and overrated. Unfortunately for the ones who think that way, it's also a popular opinion that that opinion is garbage.
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In today's edition of Jethro Isn't Sure How He Feels About AC:Rogue, I have reached the part where Shay is no longer an assassin, and the plot is still confusing. However, when the territory control game revealed itself, I was actually surprised, and I don't mind it. Hunting stalkers is pretty fun too. I climbed a tower looking for one, and then I did a LoF, and halfway down I realized that my target was almost certainly hiding in the hay I was falling into. We both popped out, and she fell into the water and drowned. Good times. The plot, as I said, is still confusing. "Why are the Assassins so bad at managing people?" my wife keeps asking. Dear Achilles, when Shay returns to the homestead upset because he caused the Lisbon earthquake, and he thinks (reasonably) that you knew that this was a possible outcome of his mission and didn't warn him, telling him he must have not been careful enough isn't going to diffuse the situation. Maybe try a "calm down Shay" not a "I won't let you ruin all my work! *punch*" next time. I hope at least some of the questions I have (How did Shay get from the Homestead to NYC? Why is Shay's first reaction to losing something "oh good, it's lost forever" and not "oh poo poo, who has it now?"? Why are the assassins recruiting a whole bunch of total assholes? Why is Shay acting so strange?) are answered later, even if it's in ACII style DLC. In particular it seems like either Shay has some weird amnesia or the memory has been altered. I hope it's something like that, instead of just bad/sloppy/inconsistent writing.
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Nov 14, 2014 18:35
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Jethro posted:How did Shay get from the Homestead to NYC? I felt the game explained that well enough in the following cutscene. The tide carried Shay somewhere, where the Finnegans (or friends of theirs) found Shay in pretty dire shape. They brought him to their home in NY to recover. Finnegan assumed he was some sailor who fell off his ship half-drunk. That was what I thought I saw/heard in those cutscenes at least.
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So, is Uplay just not functioning on the PC at all at this point? The actions/rewards section seems to be nonexistent for every game now, and even though that rank stuff I mentioned earlier seems to be unfucked, I'm still getting "error code 0x60000001" whenever I try to access any online features in Unity.
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Lumpy the Cook posted:So, is Uplay just not functioning on the PC at all at this point? The actions/rewards section seems to be nonexistent for every game now, and even though that rank stuff I mentioned earlier seems to be unfucked, I'm still getting "error code 0x60000001" whenever I try to access any online features in Unity. uplay.com posted:There are intermittent issues impacting some Uplay services. I would suspect that a lot of the Uplay/Unity connectivity wasn't tested well enough, and that's been a large source of issues.
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Nov 14, 2014 18:47
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Eh Uplay seems to always be a hot mess whenever Ubisoft releases something big (See Watch Dogs, Anno 2070 etc etc). It usually gets better after a few days-a week. The only recent release I can remember that didn't melt the servers was Rayman Legends. 
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Nov 14, 2014 18:58
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Dang, the new patch really cleaned up the multiplayer crashing I was getting. Now I'm having problems with NPC AI not recognizing me, I'm running through co-op mission stabbing dudes in the face and even though they yell at me they don't seem to see me. Probably other users with hacked games or somesuch.
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macnbc posted:I felt the game explained that well enough in the following cutscene. The tide carried Shay somewhere, where the Finnegans (or friends of theirs) found Shay in pretty dire shape. They brought him to their home in NY to recover. Finnegan assumed he was some sailor who fell off his ship half-drunk. im pooping! posted:I think Colonel Monroe actually says his men picked you up. They were watching the Precursor Manuscript or whatever and scooped you immediately. Jethro fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Nov 14, 2014 |
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Jethro posted:It seems like that's what we're initially supposed to believe, but I hope something else happened since it seems like sloppy writing for him to just float 400 miles from Rockport, MA to NYC and then magically end up in the house of some Templar sympathizers. Especially since he freezes to death if you jump in the little stream near the Homestead, so how's he supposed to survive the ocean? I think Colonel Monroe actually says his men picked you up. They were watching the Precursor Manuscript or whatever and scooped you immediately.
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Still running 1.1.0 here and with a 970 performance is a hot mess. The difference at 1080p between max and min settings is 15-20fps, but we're talking 25-45 fps range here. Amusingly when you disable vsync the game doesn't have a frame limiter so loading screens will be at 500fps+. Enable vsync at the driver level so your card doesn't explode. Game has hilarious amounts of tearing, pop-in and isn't visually impressive for all the resources it's wasting. Since I don't recall anyone doing so here's some in-game shots: What you'll see after watching the intro video after the start screen:  Game progresses fine after that into another cutscene then an in-game tutorial. This is where you finally get access to the start menu with the ability to check out the options. Note that the first entry in the list at this moment in the game is the eStore spouting 30% off. Here's the price list for helix credits for anyone curious:  Progressing into the game a bit I disabled AA and AO to hopefully improve performance, by default everything else was at high:  Around here I noticed the framerate disparity with vsync disabled so quit out to enable it at the driver level. Start of sequence 3 here's the difference between the lowest and highest settings (Ultra High/Ultra High/PCSS/HBAO+/TXAA/Bloom):   For that particular scene with some visible NPCs lowest settings is 46fps, highest is 32fps. I just tried seting it to 3840x2160 to see what'd happen: the game and uplay crashed. On the plus side it's now found the patch so tune in next time for comparisons.
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Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:
Well the lowest setting gets you a hot bourgeois chick instead of a dumpy old man, so that's obviously the better setting. Edit: Is it just me, but as of memory 6 they still have yet to explain why Templars are bad guys? I get it since I played the earlier games, but in this it feels like she just calls you up and says "Hey work for us it will be awesome" and you do. BattleSausage fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Nov 14, 2014 |
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Nov 14, 2014 20:02
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Checking the same shot under 1.2.0 performance is exactly the same under lowest/highest. e: Trying 3840x2160 still crashes unsurprisingly, guess it was just some minor bug fixes. Wiggly Wayne DDS fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Nov 14, 2014 |
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Nov 14, 2014 20:22
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Something from LA Beast thats somewhat related https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeq1SHoIOXE
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So.... it turns out I wasnt paying attention and the patch had reset some of my graphics setting to be much higher. Disregard my performance being worse post, Im an idiot. Still not better though.
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Nov 14, 2014 20:40
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As in Black Flag the modern stuff in Rogue continues to be a tease and wink at the camera. On plans to Abstero-fy AC3 and the American Revolution, an email you can find says "George Washington, we can franchise. I don't know that we'd get more than one feature out of Connor. Plus, don't even get me started on his wife or the way he died. What a mess." Did that rumor about Connor having a cameo in Unity turn out true? Or is everyone guffawing at the game faceplanting on release?
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Mustang posted:Something from LA Beast thats somewhat related Well, that was certainly a video. What an odd fellow.
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I just fired up the game to check and it looks like 1.2 gave me a few FPS. I'm running 2-3 FPS faster in most crowds and significantly faster in more private areas. Climbing one of the towers I saw over 60 FPS for the first time ever, and I'm running 1080p Ultra High on a Geforce 970 with a CPU that only sort of meets minimums (2.7Ghz 6 core where the game wants a 3Ghz 4 core). My low point when running around is still 27 FPS in the heaviest crowds. The menus are a lot smoother running too.
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The patch fixed my crash issues in the southeastern districts so yeah, that was totally on my end.  The companion app is still a piece of poo poo but out of professional curiosity I attempted the nomad missions at Les Invalides to get the gear pieces. The first mission in the first branch is 4 hours, lvl 15 min. I sent 2 lvl 18, 1 17, 1 16 at a 100% success rate. The 2 18s came back at ~20% hp, the 16 had full hp and the 17 was DEAD. Why? The second mission is 10 hours but my assassin "store" doesn't have enough high level assassins left, need to wait 14 hours for it to refresh. The first mission of the second branch is 10 hours, sent a bunch of 21s and 20s, fully expect to have at least one of them to end up dead now. Since I'd have to wait for the store to refresh to replace dead assassins on top of the hours it takes to run the missions, plus the 10 assassin limit, I'd guesstimate it takes 3-4 weeks with that stupid app to get the 6 pieces of gear it's meant to unlock. Whoever designed this bullshit needs to be banned from working in the gaming industry. I could at least somewhat understand if this was some stupid web game making money off ads and selling time savers, but it's not. Even if you buy the premium app you don't get any "advantages" other than a few more slots for assassins. At least their old Facebook games for Brotherhood/Revelations had some sense of progression and content, some strategy, this is just pure button pushing and waiting, what's the loving point? It adds absolutely nothing to the main game and it's just frustrating bullshit.
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It's 100% success rate. Not 100% survival rate. Need that money flowing.
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Where do I begin? Playing some Co-op, and while it may be this game's only saving grace, it is also pretty abysmal. 1) Why is my character's mouth moving when the NPC lady is the only one talking? (Silly, dumb, not a big deal.. but wtf?) 2) Why is the animation so bad? It's like it skips large chunks of animation. 3) Why can I no longer reliably (or even half-reliably?) attack from above with Square? I see a guy and whether I'm on a third story ledge or just 10 feet above them, it doesn't allow me to attack. Instead I have to scramble down (often hitting areas I didn't intend) and everyone is FULLY loving AWARE of my presence by the time I hit the ground. 4) Why is traversal like a thousand times worse than past games? Hey let's jump back and forth between 2 things that aren't at all what I'm even looking at? 5) Why is there such a bloody latency on moves, combat or otherwise? It makes the combat unpleasant and the parkour feel stilted as poo poo. [edit] I only have one Heist and one Co-Op available. What do I need to do to unlock it? Please don't say Story. Feenix fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Nov 14, 2014 |
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Nov 14, 2014 21:36
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Found the patch notes for 1.2.0:
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Also something that is driving me crazy is how sometimes Arno can climb-leap a pretty decent vertical distance, and sometimes he refuses to do so on lesser distances, meaning I hang around like, trying for a long-rear end time because one EXPECTS it should work.* *and sometimes he doesn't, but then after a long time... he does.
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Jethro posted:In today's edition of Jethro Isn't Sure How He Feels About AC:Rogue, I have reached the part where Shay is no longer an assassin, and the plot is still confusing. However, when the territory control game revealed itself, I was actually surprised, and I don't mind it. Hunting stalkers is pretty fun too. I climbed a tower looking for one, and then I did a LoF, and halfway down I realized that my target was almost certainly hiding in the hay I was falling into. We both popped out, and she fell into the water and drowned. Good times. Isn't the game from a Templar's perspective? Of course all the assassins are gonna be assholes and really bad at their jobs.
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Darth Ballz posted:Isn't the game from a Templar's perspective? Of course all the assassins are gonna be assholes and really bad at their jobs.
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I don't know, I can buy Achilles just being an incompetent petty scumbag, it certainly fits his character in AC3 "Go start a riot while I gently caress off. Sure the Templars have the same goals as us and also know what the hell they're doing, but communicating in any medium other than stabbing would be wrong because they are jerks. Now go get something in a dangerous crumbling cave, you'll know it when you see it. No I will not give you the key to the chest it's in, figure it out yourself."Achilles can go get hosed, is what I'm saying.
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Jethro posted:Well, he starts as an assassin. I guess it will just be interesting to see if it's just sloppy writing, or if it's motivated by something. I'm guessing it's a reverse from that Daniel Cross/Lucy thing, where he's an Assassin plant and by the end he's working for the Assassins again. I'm of course speculating because I'm busy collecting all the things and not doing story missions. Some bullshit like that device you touched and disintegrated actually made the earthquakes much less devastating than they would have been. Then again, Achilles could just be bitter about his family dying in a fire or whatever.
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And now, your daily jank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm67EF7a9lQ
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im pooping! posted:Achilles could just be bitter 90% of his characterisation in AC3 was how he was a bitter, grumpy old man. Good to see that even during the 7 years war he was just as bitter.
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This game is a lot more fun when I'm not constantly falling through the world geometry. I have to play 720p Low for a playable framerate, but its still sucking me in. Never pre-ordering another AC again though.
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Probably a really stupid question, but how the hell do I close this drat game on console? I tried pressing everything...It just feels weird to me to just close the game by pressing the PS Button. Games have trained me to close out to the main menu before stopping playing.
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ayn rand hand job posted:regarding 0x60000001 connectivity problems... Yet while some people get that others are playing coop next door...
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Git Mah Belt Son posted:Probably a really stupid question, but how the hell do I close this drat game on console? I tried pressing everything...It just feels weird to me to just close the game by pressing the PS Button. Games have trained me to close out to the main menu before stopping playing. The worst part is AC games used to save when you quit. Now you need to make sure to trigger an auto save. Anything worthwhile you do does, but still.
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Rogue is great, you guys. It's basically "what if AC3 ran better and had seamless naval combat and a not terrible lead". I'm not really liking Shay, but the game is laying out the plot rather nicely in the early hours. And man, this one is made for the fans. Freedom Cry is repeatedly referenced, and actually keys off a large chunk of the plot. There's callbacks to Liberation, too.
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Today's PC patch seems to have improved my performance a decent amount. Sent a request to join goon_ass.
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Nov 15, 2014 01:57
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Lyer posted:So is the game still performing lovely on consoles? edit: oh never mind, it was just patched and never informed me. It didn't even put a notice in the notices list... Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Nov 15, 2014 |
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There was a patch today on PS4, seems the same but I never had the single digit FPS people on PC seem to frequently have. I don't even think it's possible for this game to have a great FPS regardless of the engine because of how many people there are and there a TON of buildings you can go inside and they're all well detailed and seem like somebody lives in them.
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