Performance Optimizations Currently Being Tested For Assassin's Creed: Unity

Ubisoft Live Updates Team: "Though crowd size was something we looked at extensively pre-launch, it is something we continue to keep a close eye on. We have just finished a new round of tests on crowd size but have found it is not linked to this problem and does not improve frame rate, so we will be leaving crowds as they are."

[GarrusVakarian]

So it seems that the abysmal framerate was nothing to do the amount of on-screen NPCs whatsoever. Nor is it anything to do with either console having a CPU bottleneck. Just plain old shoddy developing.

Funny, because I was told my multiple Xbox fans on here that the reason the PS4's framerate was so low was because it's CPU is weaker than the X1's and it couldn't handle all of those next-gen NPC's. Lol. So much for that.

[starchild]

Well, this game has a lot more going on than massive crowds. It's a very cutting edge game in most of it's graphical makeup. It's personally the best looking game I've ever played on my PC or PS4.

I also wonder why the Rift sections run so much better if the NPCs aren't affecting framerate. Those sections don't have the large number of NPCs and they run a lot smoother. So I'm not quite convinced.

In any case, the fact that reducing the number of NPCs doesn't give them a framerate boost doesn't mean that those NPCs aren't demanding or that they don't have a rendering cost. It just means that the bottleneck is somewhere else. It means that other aspects of the graphics are the more limiting factors.

[Amuro]

why they didn't do this before releasing the game? This is ridiculous.

[GarrusVakarian]

Because Ubisoft care more about filling their pockets than they do giving their paying customers a quality product.

The classic 'release now, fix later' approach. Can't wait to play my *used* copies of FC4 and AC:U.

[Elit3Nick]

Honestly how did Ubisoft stoop so low, not so long ago they were one of the most respected companies and now they decide to do all this BS and alienate a decent chunk of their fanbase

[skulz7]

They are saying that apparently pre-launch it wasn't like this.

"We can tell you that we have detected a distinct discrepancy between what we observed in the pre-launch versus post-launch environment."

Don't know what to believe though.

[BigBosss]

This is what you get for being so greedy Ubisoft.

Money is the root of all evil!

[buyakabuyaka6199]

Release a patch for 1080p for ps4 too.

[brads4]

Go home, you are drunk.

[skulz7]

No the game has the prettiest open world I have ever seen, its the frame rate that's the problem. Increasing it to 1080p would make the frame rate even worse.

Its funny, before the launch people were complaining about the game getting a graphical downgrade, but once people started playing they realised the graphics were incredible, but the frame rate was the problem.

[Greyfoxdbz]

"E̶n̶s̶u̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶g̶e̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶e̶s̶t̶ ̶g̶a̶m̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶e̶x̶p̶e̶r̶i̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ Money is part of the reason we make games in the first place"
-Ubisoft

[brads4]

Money is the ENTIRE reason ALL(almost) companies exist. To assume they are there for your pleasure is absurd.

[Nodoze]

I would disagree. Great companies provide superior products and/or services. They deliver these because they want to be the best/deliver the best possible solution. They enjoy what they do. They want to be the best. They take pride in their product. Money comes as a result of these efforts.

SOME companies are in business solely to pursue their own enrichment. In many instances these companies do not care about the products they release, but instead are only concerned about profit margin.

Which one do you think applies here?

[starchild]

@Nodoze

That's such a simplistic and unrealistic way of seeing things. Companies are not entities. They are comprised of many different people.

The investors and leadership in a company have to be concerned with making a profit otherwise they can't stay in business, can't invest in new products, can't pay their employees, and everyone that works there has to find new jobs to put food on the table and the whole enterprise collapses.

Then you have all the artists, programmers, directors, etc. more at the ground level making the games. And of course these people have to care about making money just like the rest of us, but that doesn't mean that they don't love what they do or that they don't strive to deliver the best game they can.

Achieving financial success in any industry is generally synonymous with delivering a product that people enjoy. People have nearly infinite choices in terms of what they can spend their money on. If a company is successful, it is because they are producing products that people like, plain and simple.

I bought AC Unity because I did my research and knew that it would be a game I would like. It has been a fantastic game to me and I honestly don't care what any of the haters say. There are plenty of people on both consoles and PC that are really enjoying this game.

[UNKLE]

im glad i did not buyed ubisoft games especially this uniy not just the bugs but the game itself hardly call asassins creed more like france soap opera.

[chaldo]

wat.

[BludoDaSmelly]

I think this is the sad new world we live in. Games are now just being pushed out the door and the developer not given the proper time to make it right.