Reddit’s member ‘w3r3w0lv33‘ was granted a wish by the Make A Wish Foundation, in order to visit Ubisoft Montreal. That wish was recently fulfilled and w3r3w0lv33 shared some information about the state of Unity at its time of release.
As Ubisoft’s employee (in order to protect the dev we’re not sharing her or his name) told w3r3w0lv33, the team realized during the game’s late development stage that it was not ready yet, however it refused to delay it as that would have an impact on the future Assassin’s Creed titles.
“We talked about nearly everything, including some pretty cool stuff.
He acknowledged that Unity wasn’t ready, but they didn’t find out until the very end. He said that since the game was always-online, it had a huge impact on performance. This is why when you play without Internet connection there’s generally better performance. However, Ubisoft didn’t want to delay the game to this year because that would have impacted the future Assassin’s Creed titles.”
In order to back up his visit to Ubisoft Montreal, w3r3w0lv33 also provided a number of screenshots that can be found here.
Furthermore, w3r3w0lv33 was used for mocap for the new Assassin’s Creed game that will be revealed on May 12th.
“I can’t talk about it, but perhaps in a few days”
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Can we just have the tessellation patch please?
Yes, it’s called Patch AC6 and will cost you $60.
The incompetence at Ubisoft is stunning. They have some brilliant artists but absolutely sh**e programmers and management.
‘refused to delay it as that would have an impact on the future Assassin’s Creed titles.’
What a crock of $hit.
Yeah, a short delay or something wouldn’t have had any impact on any other titles. Oh wait, actually yes, they would have sold more as people wouldn’t have hated ubisoft as much.
What they really meant to say was.. “If we delayed it.. the 30 Assassins Creed Titles we already got in the works would have been crunched together even more than they already are.. and We simply cannot have that.”
blah blah blah ubishi$##@ you lost the game long time ago
It might be the most buggy high profile game in recent history but at least it was not downgraded to hell like all other games have been this gen and it still is the best looking game of all time.
Excuse me? Unity looks like s**t in terms of draw distance, LOD, lighiting and overall texture quality
Is the game fixed now?
Yes, after 5 patches it is pretty stable.
not for me though
Get a better PC.
stop sucking ubisoft’s c**k. that game run like horses**t on most PCs
It runs sh**ty on low to medium end PCs. You need a high end PC to run it at a good framerate, but the majority of the bugs at the launch of the game have been fixed.
That crippling physics hitch that DSO reported on at launch is still in the game though.
most annoying Pop-Ins I have seen in any games
“stop sucking ubisoft’s c**k. that game run like horses**t on most PCs
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yeah maybe if your poor. build a real pc kiddo.
“Build a real pc” Alpha nerd –__–
Not everyone’s like you who dedicate everything to gaming
770 4gb+i5 2500k @ 4.2ghz. Still has popins and stutters like hell.Just dont jump to conclusions. Still a large majority are suffering.
nope
now if only restaurants starts this business practice, we will have a perfect world
They didn’t want to delay the game because of the next game… THEY DIDNT WANT TO FIX IT BECAUSE THEY ARE IN THE PROCESS of milking the series… nice.
I didn’t know i could hate on Ubi even more.. They somehow did it tho. Good job Ubi. Now every single excuse you had is out of the window. What a BS company.
Not delaying it has had a bigger impact. For about the last 5 years I’ve bought every ubi title day 1. Since unity launched and remained garbage I’ll never buy another game day 1 again. In fact I’ll probably switch to buying ubi games used or wait for a major steam sale. I’m done giving them full price for busted crap.
it’s actually playable now
Thats debatable. I have it on ps4 and x1. Neither can hit a stable 30 fps and both still have bugs. I haven’t played on pc yet but I’m confident I could max it at 1080p 60fps with no worries. I’m just not willing to give ubi soft any more money.
“Playable” isn’t exactly the best word for a game as broken as that.. I mean… It is technically “playable” but it still is quite the crappy experience.. Its amazing how the reviews for it are still upwards of 8.5+.. what a joke.
It was playable in Feb.
I guess not having to experience any of the issues others had because I waited till after some patches (been doing this awhile now) makes me seem contrarian, but I loved Unity, enjoyed the hell out of it, and can’t wait for the next one as I love the Victorian period.
And again, anyone who buys this game day 1 should know by now, they will struggle with port issues. They will ruin their experience. And they will likely post in anger about it here.
You are everything thats wrong with the gaming consumer sidd of things. Everything you say screams of a Fanboy, that believes THE COMPANY, can do know wrong. I can’t even begin to qoute some of the rubbish you just said. If the automobile company took the same approach to what you think about “Day 1”, we’d all be in the morgue. Do you even hear yourself? You sound like one of those indoctrinated fool @Cerberus. How long have you been working for the Reapers? *SMH*
I disagree. I have patch 5 and Arno gets stuck in places. I have no choice but to fast travel.
You and a lot of other people are thinking just like that right now. It’s totally understandable why one might change their view on a company like Ubi.
Not only that, but their games of late have lost a lot of flavor. Farcry 4 lost a lot of it’s story elements, Unity buggy and got boring very quickly, Settlers 7 as well got bored after 3 levels, might and magic heroes VI is still unbalanced as hell, watchdogs, the crew, … to even creating co op games without real co op campaign. To be honest, I’m not investing another dime into ubisoft games.
Its sad when we can’t even find a reason or motivation to finish games we buy.
I know. FarCry 4 bored me after 5 hours. I didn’t feel like finishing the game. Same goes For Unity, AC 3 and MAYBE AC2. AC2 had a great story, with some of the most epic music ive heard. That alone made it worth it. AC4 was probably the only Ubi game i enjoyed, and even that one made me so bored during the land parts of the game. Going back on the boat was like a breath of fresh air.
WatchDogs IS one of the most boring games I’ve played. I can’t explain why i feel that way, but i do. The water and the some parts of the city are just SO NEXT GEN. I cried how good it looks, and yet… GTA 5 looks better in almost every other aspect, and it plays better too!
Funny you say that I’m in the middle of plqying Far Cry 4 and GTA V and the difference in anticipation in playing both us staggering. Far Cry looks good but its so boring.
Tell you what – make sure you demonstrate your displeasure by never buying another Ubisoft game ever again alright? That is the only real way a company will get the message.
Oh, i assure you. I don’t think i’ll be buying another title from Ubi again. Not at least in the next 3 years. I hope they realize all the wrong things they are doing and come to their senses.
Almost as bad as EA shutting down servers for (basically) multiplayer-only games and also single-player games that require a sign-in … right after they put those games on sale.
I was disgusted by that actually. I still remember it, because i went to buy all of those games for my friends. Imagine my disappointment after reading about it.
If found two workarounds for Battlefield 2142: GameRanger (is that safe?) and starting the game with a profile found online and starting the game (and Origin, apparently) with your Internet connection disabled.
Then you can at least play with the meager single-player features offline.
We play on GameRanger and Garena with our original coppies of the game. Yeah. It is the only way we can think of right now. It doesn’t often work, and a lot of the times the server crash mid game (ruining the fun and stats) but at least we can play the game we bought.
This kind of thing that EA are doing should be illigal.
Absolutely.
they knew? who told them?
No, it wasn’t the “future of AC” that they were worried about…it was the Xbox One bundles and the MS payday they were worried about.
Thank You MS and Ubisoft. Make sure you do that again. Next up Tomb Raiders.
If the next AC is announced next month at the Xbone Press Conference at least I will know with 100% certainty this time to AVOID AT ALL COSTS. Not buying another AC game with an engine built first for bottle necked Xbone infrastructure.
I think you meant xbone architecture, so yes I agree with you on that.
Lol yes that is what I meant, thanks 🙂
Except the last game was cpu bound so it ran better on xbox and if the next one also uses huge crowds it too will be cpu bound and run better on xbox. The xbox has 1 more core dedicated to gaming than the ps4, each core is faster than ps4 and cpu bound tasks perform better on ddr3. So if you wanna complain about which platform held unity back you have to point the finger at Sony.
ACU was a GPU bound title unlike past AC games
You actually believe that? That was Ubisoft who said that right? And you BELIEVE THEM? It was SO obvious that there was something messed up with the development of this game when they said they were dumbing down the PS4 version to “avoid the arguments”. That was a big siren warning right there that something suspicious was going on. And sure as hell we were all right to suspect it. Its so funny that people who want to defend Xbone use the most controversial and butchered game of 2014 as some form of defense.
It was DEVELOPED on Xbone FIRST and the 2 other platforms were an after thought. Isn’t it proof enough when the game managed to just barely hit that sweet spot and signature of the Xbone that is 900p resolution even after getting priority development time?
So that extra 150mhz that the Xbone has that my Windows 95 PC had was enough to make it run BETTER than the GDDR5 PS4 version? Cop yourself on. And the crowd WASN’T smart, it acted like last gen AC crowds. You would know this by playing the game for 3 minutes.
Is anyone really surprised?
What a waste..just so that the crank out more of them
“Unity wasn’t ready, but they didn’t find out until the very end”
ok, 6months passed, is it ready now ? NO and never will be
I second this motion
Is the game fixed yet? Is it worth buying if I see it on sale?
that depends:
– can you endure remaining problems for the sake of the game itself? many problems are solved since launch but the core of the game is broken i think so doubt they will fix all of it.
– there is no Naval Combat in this one. if you liked the Naval combat i suggest AC Rogue
– the game follows the same formula most Ubi games have. towers, tailing enemies, revenge story.
Thanks Ginryu, im mainly looking to play it for the story and was hoping it would be a little bit of fun as well. If the bugs are too much of an annoyance then ill probably get fed up of it.
I found the Naval combat quite tedious in the older games TBH, the added exploration was nice but the combat itself felt too simplistic and got quite repetitive for me after Black Flag.
Kinda. In my rig I have to set the resolution to 1280×720 to have decent frame rates. Arno still gets stuck in weird places. Sigh.
If you spend twice what you paid for your console on a new pc that you build yourself and then buy the game again, AC:Unity should run pretty smooth about85% of the time. Isnt that fair enough? I mean come on guys, why would you expect to get a working product just because you spent money on it? Also why dont we all just bend over and keep taking what these companies keep giving us? some of you sound use to it.
Who the f*ck would make their dying wish a visit to Ubisoft?
I would just to personally slap every employee there for doing a terrible job.
Hey you gotta make a reason to visit Ubisoft anyway and this is a good reason as any other. That may not be his real reason to visit. I think he personally went their to give a weird look to the developers. And now the developers has burned in their brains that gamers are persons too and they should think twice before delivering a crap game.
Ubisoft’s statements are so obvious, incredibly stupid and boring.
What a stupid comment.
whats the logic behind that? releasing a broken game will probably hurt the franchise a lot more than just a delay
They have great programmers. The issue is how they develop. They split games into chunks and have anywhere from 5 to 20 different studios working on a single title. This leads to a mad scramble at the end when all the pieces are combined and sudden and suddenly nothing works right. Its also why some aspects of their games might seem top notch while others are absolute garbage.
They develop this way so they can pump out new games every year. Its proven time and time again to end up bad for consumers because the games have no soul and are bug ridden messes. They need to get back to single teams making single games and only doing so when they have ideas and a passion. When you dev a game without passion for the project you get unity. When you have a passion for it you get blood dragon.
Well said! 🙂
On console yes, but on a high end PC few games can match it terms of visual fidelity.
LOD is worst than console on PC, and you really need a high end PC to get 60fps not all the time but at least most of the time
I’m talking about PC Ultra
Ubisoft method is assembly line game making. Unfortunately they dont seem to throw out the bad bits on the assembly line, they just rush them through and package them up anyways.
The thing is the games are so high budget that to casual gamers they are still more epic than what most games can offer.
Just for the record, the only reason a lot of people enjoyed AC4 more is because it wasn’t really a creed game. It was pretty much a straight up pirate game. Either way, Revelations tops all the creeds.
Let me get this straight. They’d rather release an unfinished, broken game on time because of their roadmap schedule than releasing a quality, functioning game. I think they need to fix their priorities.
releasing broken game was actually more impacted future of assasins creed franchise
You don’t even know if they are going to use dx12 for the next AC game (which is called Syndicate not victory) or not.
They haven’t said anything.
And with all this “new ” revelation. WHICH WE ALL ALREADY KNEW; people will still combustible to buy their games and support this filth of a company. A single FUQ was given, as you idiots will still support them with your wallets. So why would they change their practices? Gamers of today are just a laughing stock, because y’all encourage this type of behavior by going on twitch and youtube and hyping the shit out of these games. Those people are the worse because they get paid to do that shit and you fools like up to Subscribe. The whole system is corrupt and shitty, can’t wait till the industry crashes hard. The only regret is that the poor innocent Dev coming fresh out of school will lose their jobs and the rest won’t be able to feed their families, if a great big crash happens. But it’s definitely needed. FUQ UbiSoft….