Assassin’s Creed: Unity Framerate Is “Atrocious”

Assassin’s Creed: Unity is out today in the US, but some people seem to have been getting their copies early with videos of the game appearing on YouTube yesterday. Unfortunately, some of those people who got their hands on the game early are reporting that there are significant technical problems with Assassin’s Creed: Unity, most notably the framerate

[Palitera]

Hiding the game is always an important "Watch Out!" sign.

[bouzebbal]

but as long as people jump on some broken games day one, the devs will not feel pressure to solve the disaster for next time.
boycott is the only way to be heard and be treated correctly.
i dont buy AC games, i dont play COD and i dont play Battlefield. These 3 are for æe the most flawed games series, but also some of the most successful.. go figure out why!

[2pacalypsenow]

Because they are fun to play and people enjoy them?

[freshslicepizza]

i think the normal reaction would simply be to wait for them to fix the issues. i do agree though they should not be shipping games if they run sub-30 frames per second.

the reason those games you mention are successful is the same reason console owners buy blindly, its because they enjoyed what they put out before. the community did speak up about battlefield, which is why they delayed the next one and will no doubt want to focus on making sure it doesn't suffer the same launch as the last one.

boycotting has its drawbacks, namely a studio can go under or the franchise simply stops being made. buying the game and voicing complaints that are warranted is still your best bet but simply telling people to boycott all ubisoft or ea games because some of them had issues is not a reasonable response to me. at the very least don't buy them until you know they are running properly.

[Army_of_Darkness]

What happened to "parity" for better Gameplay and stability?? .....
Oh right, standard excuse.

[Saigon]

Look I really like the AC series, specifically AC2 and the extension and this last one I wanted, but Ubi has gone too far with what they did a while ago. It was uncalled for and I am not talking about the fact that they made each system similar in FPS and scaling it is the arrogance that made the comment and what followed after it. No more for me especially since WD wasn't as great, good, but not compared to the hype. Seriously I couldn't shoot from my car, but the people I was chasing/chasing me was able to shoot...bs. Look I hope they get this fixed, but for now they have a lot of proving before I jump back on the bus.

[Antifan]

@2pacalypsenow
He's asking WHY are the most successful franchises the most glitchy and technically flawed.
It's because developers can half-ass their games because they know people will buy it alway. It's easier to be lazy than to work hard.

[IGiveHugs2NakedWomen]

Ubisoft and EA are really churning out the turds. Watch Dogs was the last hoorah for spending money on Ubisoft games. The last Ubisoft game that I actually enjoyed playing was I Am Alive and that was almost 3 years ago. It's sad really. With all of the money that these developers make they could easily get a group together and make some truly original IP's, but the money from copy & paste annual franchises is just too easy I guess.

[wsoutlaw87]

Cod and ac are not at all the most flawed games, you just hear about them more and there are more people playing them. Their success is only why you see so many articles

[NCAzrael]

I've never cared for CoD, but Battlefield and Assassin's Creed are two of my favorite franchises. They aren't perfect by any means, but they are fun to play, and that's what's important.

That said, there is no excuse for a game to be released while being buggy to the point of unplayable. Publishers need to stop stressing release dates and follow the "we'll release it when it's done" rule

[Mr Pumblechook]

As I understand it the excuse Ubisoft gave for Parity was that it would deliver a better graphical experience. But if the game is running at 900p and sometimes 20fps on PS4 and not XBO then there is a real issue. It suggest that the platform that was sponsoring the game was the lead platform with lead testing, and that the PS4 is artificially neglected with poorer performance and second-class development.

I haven't played the game so I can't give my own experience but Ubisoft's anti-gamer comments mean that If i do play it, it will be a second-hand copy.

[traumadisaster]

I'm surprised this happened, I would hope a patch would fix this and really should have already been released. I don't doom the consoles I own them all but this may be the first example of a multiplat that must be played on pc.

That didn't happen for years last gen, I'm surprised it happened a year into this gen.

[Palitera]

Well, even yesterday I was talking to a friend about getting it or not and our opinions were the same: We were waiting on some great reason to buy it.

It happens that now we have pretty much the opposite.

[wsoutlaw87]

@traumadisaster I don't think this is a console power issue but more of a bug that needs a patch. A lot of pc gamers are experiencing the same issues, just not all.

[XanderZane]

Seems neither system can handle this game. If this was 1080P on the PS4 it would have been even worse.

[DonFreezer]

And the ps fanboys wanted the game to get to 1080p?For what to make it 5-10 fps average?

[DevilOgreFish]

“Seriously I get the game is massive, but jesus the framerate in this game is atrocious,” said Reddit user Merkwerk talking about the PS4 version of Assassin’s Creed: Unity. “It’s not even close to a locked 30 fps, it feels like it’s running at 20 something most of the time and I’ve had it drop way below that a couple of times already.”

Even at parity it's not getting 30 fps, It would seem that only high end PCs can really run this.

[showtimefolks]

What happened to that whole parity thing that UBI said

Also it's shameful none of the reviewers mentioned it smh

[Bansai]

People need to see what bullshit glitchfest this game is.

[morganfell]

It's the French Revolution meets Watchdogs...

[tordavis]

I don't like you morganfell, but that was hilarious! Take a bubble!

[teknx]

And that children, is why you don't pre-order Ubisoft games.

I'm sure there are people who would still pre-order The Division. Completely baffling.

[wsoutlaw87]

It sucks because i want so much for the division to be the game it is saying that it is. But, with it being a ubi game i know it probably wont be.

[Deividas]

Yup you are right. And it sucks because I want the Division to really succeed cause it can be amazing...but Ubisofts games are getting worse in terms of playability.

[DOMination-]

I'm not interested in the division myself but it is a bit different. Its not being developed at ubi montreal or toronto but at massive entertainment which is in Sweden. Although i believe Ubi own them and obviously will have some control over it, its not usong the anvil engine or whatever its called nowadays

[Deividas]

Dude I can handle random glitches and shit but the framerate is beyond a disaster....I have MSI R9 280X (Overclocked too) in Crossfire......and I get about 28fps on average on medium-high settings.....WHAT THE LIVING HELL IS THAT???? The PC version is by far the worst. Was gonna pick it up for the PS4 too but now there is no chance at all.

I mean yea glitches suck but If i can get good frames, a little more enjoyable to handle the damn random texture pop ups and people disappearing on my like no tomorrow. But damn...

[Orbilator]

Is this after the 900mb day one patch?
I only ask as I'm playing off line the now and not really noticing anything like that?

[q8kik]

Yup i'm playing it on ps4 and the first time i experienced it was (don't worry this is at the start of the game) when you're supposed to do a jumping puzzle thing (in an empty place!) after bellec gives you a small artifact.

And the funny thing is when there's alot going on the screen the game holds a steady 30 fps, but sometimes in empty places the fps drops severely, to the point that it throws you off a bit.

[FriedGoat]

Must be that incredible Ai......

[killswitchmad]

Did anyone consider the fact that in all likelihood the game has a day one patch that hasn't been deployed yet? Ubisoft are well known for day one patches that increase performance quite substantialy.....

[osprey19]

Exactly, people seem to forget that especially in recent years, games have day one patches that improve things like patches and stability, anyone who gets the game early and play it before the patch should expect some problems, if its still bad after the patch then people do have the right to be annoyed, but until then people need to calm down.

[Ares84HU]

That is just wrong man.

I'm sorry but whe I buy a game I expect it to work properly. I don't expect it to have problems.

[Mikelarry]

just because some do it does not make this practice right. you have paid $60 of your hard earned cash up front only for you to wait for a day one patch to enjoy your game, if anything it shows that ubisoft yearly release for this game does not benefit it.

[osprey19]

@ares84hu, i referring to the people who got it before release, like people who have a friend who works at a game store or something, gotta remember as well this isn't widespread either, its a few complaints and thanks to the internet blown out of proportion. Many people i knw say they dnt have any frame rate issues at all.

[morganfell]

News Flash:

DAY ONE PATCHES ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM, NOT THE SOLUTION.

[KrisButtar]

So anyone playing games should expect a day 1 patch? The game is released today, its not released early. We should not have to be "connected" and wait for a patch to be able to play a game.

[ThatOneGuyThere]

hard release dates and marketing costs are the reason for day 1 patches.

[pelida]

I remember the days when you bought a game and it worked

[Palitera]

Congrats for haiving a great long term memory, sir.

[aLucidMind]

That time is still alive today. If you think games back for when the original Nintendo or the N64 didn't have any bug-infested messes then you seriously must have only played a handful of games at most. Having well over 100 games from the N64 alone, I can say things are better nowadays now that patches are available. The DLC thing bugs me now and then, though; I miss my unlockables lol.

[XANDEO]

True but they are a lot harder to produce thease days then back in the ps2 era and before.

[Caffo01]

the patch has already been released..

[Mornzie]

I understand what you're saying but, what about people that don't have access to the Internet?

[Raider69]

The patch is been deployed and the game runs like ass Still!The real problem is that Ubisoft is releasing games that are not finnished to the consumers,Ubisoft expects people to buy there games even if they are broke or in very bad technical condition,and this only happens because most of the people are willing to accept this crap and dont talk with there wallet!People need to start talking more with there wallet and dont support or buy with this kind of technical problems because buying them in this kind of state is telling developers and publishers that crap sells!

[smellslikeralph]

Unity is laggy as shit on my pc and xbox one. Its horrible

[kstap33]

You bought 2 copies of the same game? Why?

[affrogamer]

obvious troll

[smellslikeralph]

Actually im not a troll i bought 2 copies because i like to play on console but i also like tweaking pc settings, ini files, mods n such.

I actually own 2 copies of black flag 1 on ps4 and 1 on pc. As well as metro redux i have it on pc and ps4

At the same time i got my pc version of unity for 29 bucks so why not buy 2 copies. Im not limited on funds so i can

[BVFTW]

@smellslikeralph, sometimes I do too, I had some games last gen that I bought again on PC to re-experience those titles with a sort of a remastered version XD (better framerate/resolution/details) or some mods, like GTA IV, Elder Scrolls IV or the AC series. I have AC1/2/brotherhood/3 on my PS3 and I have all the same games and the rest of them on PC, nowadays I just go for the PC version with multi-platform games.

[mkis007]

Ya That is why I was hoping for 60 fps from them...cause then at least they might have hit 30.

[teknx]

I like the way you think

[SJPFTW]

Apparently PC gamers with some high end graphics cards can't even get 60fps with all the graphical settings put on low. Ubisoft dropped the ball big time.

[kevnb]

Ubisoft can't seem to optimize their games... Even on pc these games suffer.

[Christopher]

This is what you get when they program to the full potential of both consoles and the PC. /s

[mrdxpr2]

If u can't get pc right how do they expect to get ps4 Xbox one right.. this I'd the reason why I didn't think about buying unity all their talking of using both consoles fully it was all bs. All they said to was blah blah we lazy let's send the game like this and use a day one patch where have we gotten to that all games require day one patch. If a game ain't finished don't release in hopes a patch will fix it.

[spence52490]

It slows down quite a bit on my PS4.

[Mr_Luke]

It seems horrible on every platform (speaking about consoles).
Well, Ubisoft, you won't get my money, unless you pull out some magic patch from the hat (in a fantasy world, maybe).

[Redrum059]

F*** this game, and it's parity, and Ubisoft. Too many games coming out this month to feel like I'm missing out for not buying this game.
Littlebigplanet3
Dragon age inquisition
Gta5 remastered
Far cry (maybe)
Are all around the corner, these alone should hold me off til bloodborn and the witcher3 release next year.

[ThatOneGuyThere]

isnt far cry ubisoft? Honestly, AC has always had a poor framerate. I think their designers on that team are overzealous and dont listen to the engineers.

[Redrum059]

Which is why far cry is under the maybe. Quite honestly I had trouble fully enjoying one game when I baught 2 at The same time (uncharted3, dark souls). Shuffling between 3 ( dragon age, Littlebigplanet3, gta5 remastered) will be trouble lol.

[Meltic]

Im playing the game on PC right now and the pop ups is insane... it looks blurry and ditchy. Im playing with a monster computer 4k and still POP ups...

[KiwiViper85]

Try lowering the res from 4k,

I'm sure it will help.

[Meltic]

Lol it did thank you

[marlinfan10]

was thinking about picking up the ps4 version but i might hold off a little while.

[q8kik]

Get Dragon age or LBP instead.

[marlinfan10]

LBP doesn't really interest me but ill definitely be getting DA soon. been playing the early access today and its great. Far cry on tues also

[BigShotSmoov007]

Yeah, I'm going to continue playing Sunset and Halo then until they get the game right. Have enough games to play and more to look forward too.

[DEEBO]

LoL for all the people that believes ubisoft and their lies,that push back was for a reason and if the game Can't run on upgraded gaming rigs then ubisoft really has a problem.

So dumb ai,framerate issues,pop in's,and resolution issues(on consoles) this game better get called out for this.
To be honest i Don't care,halo,dragon age,LBP,super smash brothers and COD can make happy without AC unity being in my gaming lineup.

[jmac53]

The day of release and there are still no reviews for this game. This is bad news.

[bauer007]

3 and a half hours until embargo is up, they clearly wanted as many sales as possible before reviews hit!

[XANDEO]

Comes out friday in uk, im already thinking of cancelling my pre order, doesn't sound to hot atm.

[bauer007]

Im UK too, still undecided...

[Nodoze]

When will Ubisoft learn? Watchdogs, now Unity. Not a great start for this new generation on ANY platform.

[ThatOneGuyThere]

watchdogs ran great on the PS4. framerate was solid from what i recall with my experience. They under-delivered in some areas, sure. Overall I enjoyed the game. The pacing was good, the side missions were fun. I didnt really enjoy the online and it bothered me how they handled co-op. I still need to play it again with all of the recent changes.

[KiwiViper85]

Agreed, Watch_dogs was a great game.

[bauer007]

Ubisoft are such failures...

[saber00005]

Didn't they have this issue when AC3 and AC4 came out? It wasn't until they pushed a patch, that fixes the problem. I'll be interested to see how it plays out when I test it tonight on meh ps4.

[Caffo01]

the d1 patch is out already...

[saber00005]

Did that fix this issue?

[Caffo01]

no..

[markyboy2181]

its got 2 8.8s so far n 9/9/10/9 in famitsu

[NicSage]

Glad I did not purchase this.

[ramiuk1]

i was just about to then i seen this article.
i watched a twich stream and it looked fine on ps4 yesterday.

[Stoppokingme]

Remember when Ubisoft made a polished game? pepperidge farm remembers.

[BVFTW]

Yep, recent games made with "UbiArt Framework" engine like Rayman Legends for example, but I agree that most AAA games from Ubisof are Ubershaft!!

[Perjoss]

So not only does it look like an arse, it plays like one too?

Thanks for saving me some cash.

[q8kik]

Ubisoft can't optimize for sh!t !
This game is laggy, glitchy AND clunky as hell.

[Mornzie]

From what I can remember, it's nothing new with an assassins creed game, black flag was a huge glitch fest.

I'm not going to support sloppy unoptimised games anymore, games should be finished on release.

[saber00005]

Interesting. I actually really enjoyed AC:Blag Flag, far more better than any other ACs before. Never once did I personally experience any glitches during the time I played and 100% complete assassins creed Black Flag.

[Predaking77]

Glad I skip it. Getting GTA V and Dragon Age next week.

[MookaTek]

I've played the game for a few hours on the Xbox One and oddly the only framerate dips I've noticed were in cutscenes. During the actual gameplay, even with hundreds of NPCs on screen, it runs pretty smooth. There is obvious pop-in, though.

I did experience one big glitch where the game froze and made a horrible buzzing noise for about ten seconds, then my Xbox One restarted itself; but otherwise I'm satisfied with the purchase. So far it seems to be moving the series forward finally, and it looks fantastic. I've spent more time just walking around slowly and looking at everything than actually advancing the story.

[aviator189]

Even at 900p??
Damn.

[DeadManMMX]

I wonder how much this has to do with all the controversy in the last month or so about parity. All of the uproar caused them to go back and rework the game in the 11th hour because everyone was cursing parity. They went into panic mode and this is what we get. After those petitions went up and twitter blew up they released that statement saying that "frame rate and resolution weren't locked in yet". Yes it was locked in they were a multi platform developer making a game across multiple platforms going for parity. Then they buckled under the pressure and fear. It would hurt sales and tried to appease the more entitled and loud of fans. To me that's the only thing that would make sense. Demanding a team rewrite the code on a game with a 2 or 3 year development cycle one month out is going to have bad implications. I don't blame Ubisoft as much as I blame this ridiculous notion that a game being anything other then 1080p 60 fps makes it not worth playing and worth whining about.

[Fez]

There's no way they would be making the kind of changes you're talking about within weeks of going gold. That just doesn't happen.

[Ingram]

this is worth underlining

[Hanuman]

That's an interesting statement you're making. Can you back that up with a link? I didn't know Ubisoft buckled under the pressure..

[Tzuno]

They will continue to deliver broken games as long as you the customer buy the game like that and say nothing, a wise gamer waits for the game to be released first and see how it goes and if the game is worth a buy, personally i played CODAW and that is a game so poorly optimized that doesn't deserve a buy and they wonder why the piratery exist, a man pays 60$ for a full functional game not a broken one, patches after release show that testing is not done before launch whatever they say or they test the game on NASA PC's and they say is ok

[OtakuDJK1NG-Rory]

Im surprised you people still support Ubisoft. I guess you finally catching on.

[hello12]

Of course people who don't know any better believed this game was capable of 1080p on PS4.

See again you guys are wrong.

I told you guys know why the PS4 version could be 1080p what you want a even worse frame rate?

[kenwonobi]

Yeah maybe its just the forced parity that caused it to not be optimized.

[BVFTW]

Is not forced parity as Ubisoft chose to go that way, either way most of their late AAA games are a bug/glitch fest, no matter which platform, with or without parity.

[Findingcrybabies]

if people...especially those that enjoy multiplayer gamers, haven't learned to NOT buy ubisoft games by now then they literally have no standards and don't care. nothing is going to stop them.

[Shadowstar]

You know, there's something sad when the rumor is "ACU's framerate is atrocious" and the rumor meter has "hopefully" as the positive. The YouTube video of it is pretty damning. Ouch...

[Ingram]

they aren't going to tweak the spine of the code or start swapping assets, that would take too much time. The situation is just asking for a 720p mode. Pretty sure they could lock at 30fps if they compromise resolution. They should do this on consoles, it's the best way cost-difficulty wise.

[kenwonobi]

Thats what happens when you worry about parity instead of optimization. Worst Assassins Creed version yet.

[AutoCad]

And people wanted 1080p on PS4 lol..Game would of ran at 10fps

[Ps4andxb1]

Strange how IGN reviewed this on XB1 and made no mention or bad frame rates.

I have a strong suspicion it is fine on the XB1.

We all know that the XB1 dynamically drops resolution, like in advanced warfare to ensure frame rate doesnt suffer.

The ps4 keeps the resolution but drops frame rates.

I cant find any bad reports on the xb1 version, other than comments that appear to either assume it does or simply groups it with the ps4.

IGN reviewed on xb1,made no frame rate mention, and their review video showed no signs of slow down anywhere.

[MasterCornholio]

"We all know that the XB1 dynamically drops resolution, like in advanced warfare to ensure frame rate doesnt suffer.

The ps4 keeps the resolution but drops frame rates."

False.

"In our initial performance analysis, we went in search of the first cross-platform 1080p60 first-person shooter and while the game mostly delivered, the discovery of a dynamic resolution suggested that, once again, PlayStation 4 had managed to trump its Microsoft rival."

http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...

Plus if you see footage of the XB1 version of Unity theres framerate drops as well.

[Ps4andxb1]

True.

I stated this happened in advanced warfare.

The xb1 keeps frames per second sacrificing resolution.

The ps4 sacrifices fps to keep resolution.

Since we know it happens this way in at least one game, it could also happen in unity.

[MasterCornholio]

Its still false though.

Your claiming that its a feature that the Xbox One has that the PS4 doesn't have.

But I proved you wrong by showing you that PS4 games can have dynamic resolutions. There's even a game on the PS3 called wipeout that had a dynamic resolution.

In conclusion, its up developers to use dynamic resolutions if they want to. Its not a hardware feature that's exclusive to one system or another.

P.S Eurogamers article is out and the Xbox One version has framerate issues as well.

[SynestheticRoar]

This game is sorry. LOL. It's going to make a killing.

[kenwonobi]

It sucks as a game so whatever on any version. I am not buying anyways.

[kurruptor]

Don't forget to pick up Assassin's Creed Rogue, the Companion App and the in-app purchases and also the Season Pass for $30!!!!!!!!!!

[Maxor]

Remember when AC: Black Flag had frame issues? Now it's a game you can play on a decent laptop. This is just Ubi rushing out games to meet the street date, they'll optimize this soon enough. Just be patience and wait for the patches. AC is one of their main franchises and there's no way they're letting this one stand.

[Give_me_head_strong]

Thanks PS4, your crappy CPU is holding the game back on consoles.

[NerdStar7]

Ubisoft is worse than EA. Fact.

[DarXyde]

Seeing as the community tried suing Sony over Shadow Fall, I encourage the early adopters to at least send a message to Ubisoft with a class action suit. It might not work, but I think Guerrilla and Sony will think twice before making that mistake again. Ubisoft will likely do the same and gamers would have a stronger case here because resolution in Shadow Fall's case is far less obvious than the blatantly not-locked at 30fps Unity.

Just a thought.

[PersonMan]

No different than AC3 on PS3 (which I thought was fantastic and I hardly noticed the framerate slowdowns). The PS3 versions of AC were often really laggy. The only Assassin's Creed game in recent memory that was a perfect 30fps consistently was ACIV on PS4.

[Amigaengine]

Guess those AMD Jaguar cores are how should we say .....lacking ?

[Visiblemarc]

My interest in this series has been officially assassinated.

[TheLastColossus]

Im Glad I didnt buy this piece of shit.

[TonTon]

Oh my god lol ! I am laughing so hard because some of you thought Ubisoft would finally change

[Youngindy21]

It can't possibly be as bad as Borderlands 2 was when it first came out on the Vita. The framerate in that game made it unplayable. It's a good thing 2K released some patches for that game.

[Sneakybudda]

Where is the review first?

[cabinotier]

hmm, "power of the crowd" smash consoles.
One barely stand, another knockdown.

[JMyers]

Gamer's need to speak with their wallets and not buy this unfinished drivel. This is the only way Ubi will learn. the game looks nothing like the demo, the gameplay and framerate is way too choppy... no wonder the embargoes for reviews were so late. They knew what they were releasing.

[holdmyown83]

You nerds kill me.