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.....