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Rogue has a cool mechanic were random assassins will stalk you and launch surprise attacks on Shay. Its maybe my favorite mechanic in the game, but its also underused and really basic. Also things like "you can't sabotage the alarm bell unless no one sees you!" is super irritating.
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I've just done the first assassination mission and rift in Unity and this game owns. I'm enjoying it way more than 4. Frame rates are high and stable, no crashes, screen tearing fixed with that Nvidia helper prog. This is far and away the best looking game I've ever played. The cover system is still poo poo and I occasionally grab something that's not connected to the scenery but overall the changes to that core mechanics seem really really good. I enjoy the parkour a lot more now. Was it really bad at launch? I've not played many AC games to completion so I'm not burnt out on them, but this is my favorite game in the series by far.
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Lollerich posted:I hate everybody who didn't like the modern day part of the rear end Creed games. You're all traitors and need to get stabbed in your kidneys. Ok seriously what card do you have? I can barely get playable framerates on medium-low and I have an exceptionally powerful system.
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Nov 25, 2014 13:10
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It's a roulette from what I've heard. There are defnitely people who have problems with the game on GTX 970.
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Nov 25, 2014 13:39
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Palpek posted:It's a roulette from what I've heard. There are defnitely people who have problems with the game on GTX 970. Considering how a number of sources, including Ubisoft, have blamed many of the game's performance issues on Uplay, I'm wondering whether a person has issues or not may be dependent on the quality of their internet connection, or possibly even other factors like distance from Ubisoft servers or time of day. To those in the thread having the game poo poo the bed regularly: how's your internet typically?
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macnbc posted:Considering how a number of sources, including Ubisoft, have blamed many of the game's performance issues on Uplay, I'm wondering whether a person has issues or not may be dependent on the quality of their internet connection, or possibly even other factors like distance from Ubisoft servers or time of day. Not a bed-shitter, but for an example at the opposite end, I had very few issues (PS4) and very good internet.
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im pooping! posted:It took me over 20 tries and when I beat it, I actually did really really well. The trick is avoiding the broadside attack, which you can do if you frequently switch to full stop. It throws off the timing of the Storm Fortress and it will rarely hit you that way. Same with its mortar attacks, move to full stop, turn in the direction of the Storm Fortress, then go to full sail and get a speed boost by doing the ram charge move. This works really well, I finally got it done last night. After this, the most hazardous parts of the battle are the very beginning, when you've got to navigate around your allies and get in a good position, and when the next two ships show up. I also used cannons more than mortars, but this is the best way to avoid Storm Fortress's mortars and the very deadly broadsides.
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Wish my computer could handle Unity because then I'd use the 25% of all games at GMG to grab it, but despite being able to run Shadows of Mordor on very high settings I'm not sure my computer could handle Unity at all, and I am not interested in spending $350-400 for a video card capable of running it, or for a console that really has nothing else that interests me.
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Khisanth Magus posted:I am not interested in spending $350-400 for a video card capable of running it
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Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:That won't fix it either Well, there seem to be people in this thread saying "It ran great once I bought a 970, just not on my previous card!"
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Khisanth Magus posted:Well, there seem to be people in this thread saying "It ran great once I bought a 970, just not on my previous card!"
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Patch 3 is being deployed on consoles "tomorrow" and PC "later this week". Patch 4 still wip. Stability and Performance
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Finished up Rogue last night, and I'm not going to go into spoiler territory here, but yeesh. There's some fun fan service throughout, but the idea that it "Fills in important blanks" in the series is comic gold. Curious how Edward Kenway died? How did Haytham, arguably the central character of this entire 'trilogy' end up a templar? gently caress if I know. Some wikia bullshit tells me I should pick up a novel about all that, but the complete lack of ANY depiction of these events in the "core" entries in the series (IE any of the drat video games) is some awful franchise management. Shay's character is reasonably well portrayed, with the second act a particular highlight. But he also largely exists as narrative spackle.
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The Iron Rose posted:Ok seriously what card do you have? I can barely get playable framerates on medium-low and I have an exceptionally powerful system. I play at 1080p with Vsync, because my monitor can't handle higher resolutions anyway. It's possible framerate would go to poo poo at higher resolutions and because to me at least the game looks OK so far I haven't tried what happens without Vsync. macnbc posted:Considering how a number of sources, including Ubisoft, have blamed many of the game's performance issues on Uplay, I'm wondering whether a person has issues or not may be dependent on the quality of their internet connection
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Narcissus1916 posted:Finished up Rogue last night, and I'm not going to go into spoiler territory here, but yeesh. I thought it was kind of neat to learn that Haytham was the one who crippled Achilles. Not that I was dying to know that piece of backstory before, but it does cast some bits of AC3 in an interesting light. Totally agree about the novels, though. It's nice when they can add some extra information, but it's a bad thing if something feels lacking unless you read them. As for Shay's story, I felt it was a pretty decent portrayal about how someone can believably go from the Assassins to the Templars, but I lost a lot of sympathy for Shay when it turned out that he was 100% wrong about Achilles being a power-mad guy who didn't care what might happen to civilians as long as he found the Pieces of Eden—Achilles clearly decided on his own to leave these particular PoE be, and I took from the scene that he went to verify for himself what Shay had been screaming about. I mean, I don't blame Shay for leaving; it's hard to say for sure since we don't see any detail on what went down in Haiti, but it's believable enough that they're guilty of wishful thinking and not wanting to believe that the Haiti earthquake was caused by their PoE search (and therefore thinking it's fine to send Shay after another one.) So negligent homicide, I guess? They hosed up for sure. But imo their actions didn't square with Shay's revelation that they are so bad and so much worse than the Templars.
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Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:Patch 3 is being deployed on consoles "tomorrow" and PC "later this week". Patch 4 still wip.
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Aphrodite posted:Nemesis system wouldn't work in a Batman game because nobody escapes. Just go down the line of B-list villains all the way to Z-list no problem.
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Uh oh you guys, Assassin's Creed Unity is literally the next ET! He does have a few good points (microtransactions, Initiates, companion app, which are things nobody likes) but most of this reads like he has no idea what the gently caress he's talking about. Yes, female assassins (new voices, animations, models, storyline scripting, etc etc) are totally the same level of effort as a new hood. Anybody in the comments with the least amount of sense is being downvoted into oblivion.
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Thanks for keeping us updated about the goings-on at CRACKEDDOTCOM.
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Is initiates still broken? I unlock a chest in the app and it tells me I can go collect it but then the game tells me to unlock it. Good thing money is so easy to come by in this game.
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frozenpeas posted:Is initiates still broken? I unlock a chest in the app and it tells me I can go collect it but then the game tells me to unlock it. Horrifically. I still don't have the Edward Kenway outfit that I had at one point and now it's gone again.  Bloody Hedgehog posted:Thanks for keeping us updated about the goings-on at CRACKEDDOTCOM. You sure sound upset about something!
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I'm up to sequence 10 in unity, and I feel as though people are being a little unfair by saying that Unity has no modern day story progression. Maybe not in the Paris stuff, but the data rift stuff has uncovered some pretty tasty morsels with the Abstergo emails and so forth. Given the glacial pace of "real world" progress compared to the 1000x stabbings of the main plot of AC games in general, this one doesn't feel different. Despite having the whole "be an abstego employee!!!" trappings of AC4, it's not like you actually Found Out major storyline stuff except for the fact they were looking for poo poo in DNA and they had Desmond's body blah blah
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The thing that really irritates me about the modern-day storyline and Ubisoft's lack of momentum with it is that not long ago I was listening to a podcast where Ubisoft people were discussing AC Initiates, and they were talking about how the cool thing about the modern-day storyline is that ever since AC3 that it has, essentially, been going on in realtime. Everything up until AC3 was "in 2012" but since 2012 it's been "today." They talked about how that presented a lot of cool possibilities and such. I love ARGs. If you go look in the LP Archive I did one for a game called Missing Since January that was essentially an adventure game ARG. My absolute favorite thing ever in the whole AC series were the Subject 16 puzzles in AC2 and Brotherhood. Ubisoft has a wide open door to do a fantastic ARG with the modern-day storyline, one that works as a better framing narrative for the games, as well as keeps people engaged between when they come out. But they keep wasting opportunity after opportunity and have totally failed to capitalize on it in every possible way.
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Ubisoft would work on an ARG between releases, but they are too busy polishing cinematic videos and mating them to current pop songs.
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Polygon is now reporting that the Dead Kings DLC for Unity, which was supposed to be part of the Season Pass, will now be made available for free as a mea culpa for all the tech issues Unity's had. Something else will be offered in compensation to those who already got the Season Pass. EDIT: Now confirmed. Ubisoft posted:An Update on Assassin’s Creed Unity from Yannis Mallat macnbc fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Nov 26, 2014 |
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macnbc posted:Polygon is now reporting that the Dead Kings DLC for Unity, which was supposed to be part of the Season Pass, will now be made available for free as a mea culpa for all the tech issues Unity's had. If you were retarded enough to buy the Gold Edition(Hello!) or the Season Pass then you get a free game: quote:Am I eligible to receive a free Ubisoft game?
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The Crew blows but to make a brand new game available like that is actually pretty cool. And of course Far Cry is brand new as well.
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Ok that's pretty cool to be honest. Get Far Cry 4. It's awesome and doesn't have (m)any technical issues.
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So if I go and buy a Season Pass now, will I have a get a cheap copy of Far Cry 4?
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Shockeh posted:So if I go and buy a Season Pass now, will I have a get a cheap copy of Far Cry 4? Yes, if you can find one. The listings have been pulled from Steam/PSN/XBL.
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Shockeh posted:So if I go and buy a Season Pass now, will I have a get a cheap copy of Far Cry 4? It's been removed from most stores.
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People are complaining for a refund, because somehow they can't see they still get everything they paid for plus a free $60 game.
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Nov 26, 2014 19:39
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Talk about buying goodwill (that's fine with me!).
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Aphrodite posted:People are complaining for a refund, because somehow they can't see they still get everything they paid for plus a free $60 game. Well, to be fair, there's a fairly good chance someone already has any game they'd want from that list.
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As a observer without any skin in the game since I'm still saving for a PS4, this is a real class act by Ubisoft. Not only apologizing, but trying to make it better with something tangible and actually at a potential cost to Ubisoft. It doesn't, of course, excuse releasing it so buggy, but it's pretty much the best response a company can do in my eyes. I'll be making sure to pick this up now, good behaviour should be rewarded (of course I probably would anyway since I'm reading a thread about a game I can't play at this time, but still).
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Even though I miss out on a free game, I'm still glad I saw Unity streams the day before it was released, saw the condition the game was in, and decided to get Rogue instead.
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hiddenriverninja posted:Does this mean Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China will be a separate product? Presumably. Though it probably would've been anyway like Freedom Cry was last year. All the FAQ says is that it will still be offered to people who had already bought the season pass.
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ImpAtom posted:Well, to be fair, there's a fairly good chance someone already has any game they'd want from that list. But then you still get everything you paid for.
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