Assassin's Creed Unity system requirements (Confirmed)

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The one in my signature is the DTU (Technical University of Denmark) speed. :thumbsup:

 

Hey that's cheating. I too can brag about my school's fiber connection.

Nonetheless, your home Internet is still quite impressive.

 

Ubidiots still unable to fix the game ! on ps4, dont get too much hope for the PC

 

i'm hinging my bets on GTAV and dying light!

 

Off-topic or not, I think this thread should live as long as it can, so that Ubisoft remembers the kind of crap they pushed on gamers. Might even make them think about it and released a properly (highly doubtable though) polished AC game next year.

 

If it's coming out next year it won't be polished! It'll be just another year after year turd like fifa or call of duty...


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I've been a pretty strong supporter of Ubi for a while now but this last AC game was the worst optimized POS I've ever played, worse then Dead Rising 3. So yeah, I'm with you man. Lets bump this crap until the next AC game!

 

Expecting the next game to be good and jumping in headfirst is exactly how titles like AC and CoD get away with their huge sales each year though. AC has been awful on PC for years; terrible optimization starting with AC3, awful always-online-DRM that they ALWAYS end up patching out since AC2 (maybe they don't do this anymore... but it lasted at least until revelations), quite a few bugs with Uplay, the lack of even being ALLOWED to select 120Hz in fullscreen if you're above 720p (black flag started this; no idea if the previous versions did it or not).

On console it's been pretty decent, I won't lie... but the fact that it takes a broken console game to cause all but the absolute most die-hard fans to spit venom at Ubisoft should give you some insight to how bad things are. It's the same with Watch Dogs too... only the PC crowd hated on it, and then most of the casual gamers didn't even care about their FPS or whatever and just played.

Just boycott their bad stuff =D. Wait until things release to see if it's good. The more people that do this, the better. It'll cause a collapse of the AAA market.

Devs lie about the game they sold? Don't buy.
Devs lie about how finished it is? Don't buy.
Devs dictating what DLC will contain before game is released? Don't buy.
Devs including microtransactions for anything that's not purely cosmetic DLC (Black Ops 2's gun camos are an example of acceptable versions)? Don't buy. (Example of non-acceptable stuff is "agility perk" DLC for Tomb Raider 2013, where it becomes much harder to fail climbing on objects etc. Basically, you bought "easy mode" for a large portion of the game's challenges.)

If you really want it, wait for it to be on a sale after it has reached end-of-life. Once a game is declared "dead" by the devs (updates/dlc/etc stops), they don't consider sales from that game to mean anything. It's basically "free money" to them. That's a great time to buy, as it's not counted toward the profits it made.

If enough people start acting this way, it'll collapse the AAA gaming market. The games'll take too much to develop, be rushed out half-finished, then sell not even half of what they expect. And it'll be their own fault, as it should be. When it collapses and people start to focus on making the games as best as they can be for the consumer a lot more than they are now, we'll start getting a lot more quality games going.

 

I honestly don't plan to buy the next AC game on PC, if any Ubi game at all for a couple of years. I have a PS4 and if the console versions are better optimized then w/e, I'll get it. I love PC gaming, I prefer it; but not enough to sit for 6 months+ while the devs figure out how to optimize a game. Back in the day I would support all of them no matter what, mainly because we didn't have any console ports; but things have changed, I don't need to fight that fight anymore. I'm too old for this crap and I've lost my patients with crap devs.

 

How many FPS do you get for SLI 980M?

 

I kinda get the feeling if what you described happened often enough, devs will simply developing games for the PC platform.

 

It would take a level of corporate stupidity far beyond even Ubisoft to come to that decision considering all current-gen multiplats are developed on PC first before being ported to consoles. So not releasing the already finished PC version makes zero fiscal sense.

 

Creed unity

Clevo 370sm 32g ram 4910mq 980m sli stock toshiba 256g ssd

1080p ultra mssa 4x max fps 70 average 55
1080p ultra mssa 8x max fps 50 average 39
1080p ultra Tssa max 60 average 45

 

This is kind of why they don't put a lot of effort into it... because the sales return is bad. But it's usually their own fault it's bad; they'll just never admit it. Honestly, if devs don't play something on a PC, they often don't get WHY a PC needs the things it needs. If you want to know, there was an old video by Drift0r where he was talking about him speaking to devs doing the PC versions literally not understanding why people want/need what they want/need.

Believe me, they develop on PC, but they barely touch an actual working PC version until after the console versions are made (in MOST cases. Not every studio does this; but multiple activision studios and some EA studios definitely do) and the PC version is more like a port built from the beta of the primary console version. I would not be surprised if people who make enough from consoles and not enough from PC decide that the development costs of a PC version is too high for the returns and simply don't make one. But regardless of what they say... I GUARANTEE YOU... if a game franchise consistently appears on PC, it's because PC is bringing in enough money. Because people BUY IT.

I'm a bit extreme here, but I MUCH rather a game not come out for PC at all than it come out broken, buggy, unplayable and worst of all? People buy the crap out of it.

 

Is this under the new patch 1.4? What are your drivers?

 

With Ubisoft it's a viscous cycle. There was a quote floating around somewhere that some Ubi exec mentioned "90% of PC games are pirated anyway", so of course they don't bother putting much effort into PC ports. So we get stuff like Watch Dogs and ACU. Those who actually bought the game rightfully feel ripped off, and those who haven't will likely be playing the *ahem* Jack Sparrow edition instead. So it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy for Ubisoft, and the cycle never ends.

 

New patch 1.4 and 344.75 drivers.

 

Thing is, this self-fulfilling prophecy began at marked dates for many developers and publishers. It was shortly after the last generation of consoles were launched. What I think happened was that when the big AAA race began, cutting corners and giving a ported console version of a game to the PC crowd became something they felt was okay which would still get the sales from the casuals... and it did. It's just deteriorated very far now to where developers are flat out lying about features of the games they're about to sell us. Watch Dogs lied like crazy; MANY games promised 1080p and 60fps and when failing to deliver began explaining that those were not necessary instead of simply saying "we misjudged the power of the new systems; this is all we could do while keeping this graphical fidelity". Destiny promised a ridiculous amount of features and a game projected to last 10+ years... but released on last-gen systems with about 30% of the content promised, with RIDICULOUS constant updates that just artificially increase the amount of time people play the game. They limited the number of a certain kind of item needed to level up gear (to break the level cap of 20) you could acquire in drops to a WEEKLY limit. This means you have to basically come back and do your "weeklies" instead of doing your "dailies". The random world events are nowhere to be found; Iron Banner (PvP where gear matters) was a limited time deal... they lowered the difficulty of some of their existing raids such that my friend said he did a raid meant for 3 people by himself and didn't even die once. And he isn't a great shooter (but he loves WoW).

It's a big pack of lies; people asking $60+ for a game with 30 hours of REAL content (including 100% hunters). This is spilling over onto PC too, who are accustomed to sales and have a larger ease of piracy than the console users (bet your bottom dollar, console users pirate their butts off. I even know people who would "share" their DLC in Call of Duty. One person buys it and installs it on multiple Xboxes and everybody in the house benefits etc) and then it's suddenly easy for people to justify not spending the time or effort because of the little sales. But the same people who do that are the ones who started the ball rolling, which is the stupid part. It's like an analogy someone gave:
You go to a trusted seller and they charge you to put your hand in a bucket of boiling water, telling you it's okay. You do it because you don't know better, and get burned.
You go back to the same seller later and they try the same thing. This time you're saying well maybe it was a mistake last time. You get burned again.
You go back to the same seller later and they try the same thing. You're wary about it but everyone else is doing it. If you do it, continue reading. If not, you say "I don't trust you" and wait till the water cools. Then you do it safely, or not at all.
You go back to the same seller later and they try the same thing. You're not believing even others doing it now, so you want to wait till the water cools. They're mad you're not trusting them when they don't care about you getting burned, then use it as an excuse to denounce the water bucket as being sellable to you. But they're the ones to blame, not you.

Now if the seller starts putting a nice warm bucket with perfect temperatures and try to charge you to put your hand in, you're not doing it. Because of the stigma attached. Then they're further discouraged (EA's current situation is a great example: everyone is in a wait-and-see position with their games) from doing it, by saying they put the effort in and nobody listened, or didn't until it was too late. But it's still their fault. Trust is harder to build than to lose, and with trust taking so long to be lost? It'd take too long to build for them to make enough money to be worth it.

Edit: the above book is a result of it being after 2am when I saw this message.

 

I would totally like to see game devs playing their crappy ported games as a punishment for releasing an unoptimized piece of turd.

This.

D2 Ultima, seriously, you are on a roll here - so many great posts! Unfortunately I can't rep you anymore, but here, have this:

 

Here's another problem. A casual user (such as one of those devs, or a person switching from Console to PC) who doesn't know jack about the game is going to do the following:

Sit down. Not check buttons. Ask people around them what the default buttons are that they did not check or bother to change. Decide they rather use a controller. Use controller. Play game like if playing console, not thinking about or bothering to use any PC-centric features aside from turning down graphics IF their game perceptibly drops below a framerate count that makes it extremely unpleasant to play on (such as below 20; remember they're accustomed to many games being 30fps). They're not gonna run fraps and they're not gonna use 120Hz screens or see a need for it; counting it off as a gimmick saying "well humans can't see past 60fps blah blah". This is what people do the first time they go on a PC. They just toss everything to ultra with their shiny new midrange gaming GPU, be amazed at the graphics and think their system is the best thing ever (I had a woman with an i5-4590 and a 750Ti try to tell me my 4800MQ + SLI 780M system might not be capable of running Tomb Raider 2013 and streaming it... something she was doing RIGHT THAT MINUTE, because she assumes her PC is da bomb and thinks all laptop hardware is like her old iGPU system) and will not accept anything to the contrary unless you FORCE them on some exceptional experiences (like setting up two Titan Blacks on a ROG Swift and letting them experience 144Hz 1440p in its glory), and then they might have a chance of starting to "get it".

All the above statements are directly from numerous people I've witnessed over the years on twitch tv and twitter who decided to change from purely console to a decent midranged PC and for months not actually GET why people complain about the state of PC ports of games.

 

You gotta stop writing books after 2am. Like really really gotta stop. XD

 

But but... BOOKS

 

Write them BEFORE 2am, problem solved.

You should make that your new year's resolution.

 

Technically, after 2am is also before 2am...next day...

 

I already made an actual new years' resolution (first one in my life) that I plan to follow. Gonna give time and effort to those who give it back, and give little time and effort to those who give the same back. It's my grand plan to cut out a ridiculous amount of depression I have =D. The books after 2am though... I'll think about it. If my mind would work as well as it did at 2am in other parts of the day, I'd be golden.

 

I made a resolution in 2010 and have stuck to it since. The resolution? Stop making new years' resolutions.

 

Well then you and I have the same track record for making and following new years resolutions XD. One each XD

 

I wish Ubisoft (and not only) would make a resolution not to release unfinished and unpolished games...

 

That's funny.

That's like an an alcoholic saying he's gonna quit drinking.

 

HAHHA keep dreaming

I'm hoping that with all the delays at least Tom Clancy's The Division will work properly when it's released

 

You never know with Ubisoft. Watch Dogs was delayed and look how it turned out. SLI still broken to this day.

 

because it was delayed to make sure it kept its sales. No matter what anybody feels, or how much hype that game had, nobody can deny that if it launched within 3 weeks of BF4, AC:4 and CoD: Ghosts, that it would have gotten the sheer amount of sales that it got in May when no other hyped AAA titles were coming out for a month forward and backward.

 

That's not true. Wolfenstein: The New Order came out a week before Watch Dogs.

 

I said "hyped AAA titles". I didn't even know it was coming out, but avoiding the hype for CoD, Titanfall, Battlefield, Watch Dogs and Assassin's Creed is all but unavoidable online.

It was first an october release then it was a march release, Both times had SERIOUSLY hyped titles coming out, which would have competed with Watch Dogs' sales by the people who would make a decision. Those early sales numbers are pretty important for it, and once hype dies down... well. Yeah.

 

That's just, like, your opinion, man.

Speaking of opinions, W:TNO is also TB's 2014 GOTY. None of those other games even made it onto the list.

 

Well I didn't mention which games were good or not... I only said what had the hype trains rolling. Marketing has the power to push for some delays OR push for a release date (regardless of development state) if thy feel it's best for sales. Basically, it's a whole lotta crap. #BigTimePublishers

I'm actually amazed that W:TNO gets such high reviews and praise from every critic ever. I really have to play it myself. I've seen a good deal of it being streamed, and I never felt it was... fantastic. But I haven't seen enough that I have the game ruined. Maybe it'll be on a super sale at some point.

 

Is it worth picking up the game now?

 

This game is never worth picking up ;P

 

i stopped caring for the story and i just want to see what the performance is like.

 

Don't give Ubisoft any money for this. Please.

 

your concern has been noted. haven't bought it yet....if i can find it for cheaps then i might consider it cos i don't think it's worth the full asking price.

 

I reinstalled it a month or so ago and it still played real sluggish. It's just a horribly optimized game and will probably be the last AC I buy for quite some time.

 

They must be desperate to sell them... GAME here in the UK had a 2 pack of Unity+Watchdogs for £29...