Assassin's Creed series

PC requirements naturally jump up with each console generation, in part because developers are lazy as hell and don't optimize their PC ports.

Still, it's not like previous AC games, or other contemporary games, are light on the system requirements. They're also being more honest about the system requirements; for a long time, requirements were a joke, because they were always understated.

Man, it looks incredible. I probably won't preorder it like I did last one though, mainly because I didn't touch it for 6 months after lol got a back log.

Definitely am going to pick up in 2015 tho.

"TiP54 wrote:

Man, it looks incredible. I probably won't preorder it like I did last one though, mainly because I didn't touch it for 6 months after lol got a back log.

Definitely am going to pick up in 2015 tho.

I'll get it as a gift from my wife for the holidays, but I won't touch it until I'm done with my first playthrough of DA3. Might not be until February or March, but by that time maybe there will be some patches and DLC out, so I'll start the game in a better place anyways.

Meanwhile, I took 2 days off from work to play this and get drunk. And not in that order. :lol:

"Desides wrote:

Meanwhile, I took 2 days off from work to play this and get drunk. And not in that order. :lol:

I used to do that kind of thing with Final Fantasy games :up:

"Unlucky 13 wrote:

I used to do that kind of thing with Final Fantasy games :up:

They haven't made an FF game worthy of doing that since I turned 21, sadly.

Well, maybe FF12.

"Desides wrote:

They haven't made an FF game worthy of doing that since I turned 21, sadly.

Well, maybe FF12.

Yeah, that was my last. I'd just turned 28 at that point. I did spend quite a few days off entirely playing Skyrim though.

If I weren't a stay at home dad, I'd totally be doing so for DA3. Can't take a day off from the kids though. All my gaming is now after 9pm.

"Unlucky 13 wrote:

Yeah, that was my last. I'd just turned 28 at that point. I did spend quite a few days off entirely playing Skyrim though.

If I weren't a stay at home dad, I'd totally be doing so for DA3. Can't take a day off from the kids though. All my gaming is now after 9pm.

Nothing some duct tape can't solve.

"Desides wrote:

Nothing some duct tape can't solve.

Ah. So you're back in the dating scene?

"lmeister3 wrote:

Ah. So you're back in the dating scene?

Just as soon as my nondescript white van gets back from the shop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYfYekrAPAE

They're starting to advertise DLC. Looks like a World War I setting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW_-exDp3CE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ1jJ9p4v08

My body is ready

It's out. Rogue, too.

Play it.

Played an hour of Unity, mainly spent collecting things in the early area.

The free running is a little odd to me. It looks like the developers were more interested in making sure you could get almost anywhere than they were in making sure your actions were plausible. I've seen Arno make a 30 foot jump with animations making him look like he's being pulled by magnetism to the building he's aiming at.

The "last known position" mechanic is nice. Basically, the game will place a ghost at the exact spot the guards last determined your location, so you can determine line of sight and also lure them away from posts. It's a neat idea, and I wonder how much it comes into play. It seems more like an exploring tactic than something that's critical to the core game.

Combat is tougher. You can and will get your ass kicked, sometimes for reasons not your fault—a lot of combat takes place in enclosed areas where the camera has trouble zooming out far enough to show you all the guys attacking you. So you're fighting one guy, and suddenly his buddy appears from nowhere off screen to slice you. If the camera had been further out, you would have seen his flashing attack icon and could have countered. And if you take a few hits, you're dead, period. No more Connor-like bloodbaths in city streets.

So far there have been some fun cameos. The intro sequence takes place in 1776, and Ben Franklin appears in a crowd at the end. I'm wondering if some other AC3 characters appear, like Lafayette. He was pretty decent for a French guy.

"Desides wrote:

Played an hour of Unity, mainly spent collecting things in the early area.

The free running is a little odd to me. It looks like the developers were more interested in making sure you could get almost anywhere than they were in making sure your actions were plausible. I've seen Arno make a 30 foot jump with animations making him look like he's being pulled by magnetism to the building he's aiming at.

The "last known position" mechanic is nice. Basically, the game will place a ghost at the exact spot the guards last determined your location, so you can determine line of sight and also lure them away from posts. It's a neat idea, and I wonder how much it comes into play. It seems more like an exploring tactic than something that's critical to the core game.

Combat is tougher. You can and will get your ass kicked, sometimes for reasons not your fault—a lot of combat takes place in enclosed areas where the camera has trouble zooming out far enough to show you all the guys attacking you. So you're fighting one guy, and suddenly his buddy appears from nowhere off screen to slice you. If the camera had been further out, you would have seen his flashing attack icon and could have countered. And if you take a few hits, you're dead, period. No more Connor-like bloodbaths in city streets.

So far there have been some fun cameos. The intro sequence takes place in 1776, and Ben Franklin appears in a crowd at the end. I'm wondering if some other AC3 characters appear, like Lafayette. He was pretty decent for a French guy.

Thats going to make the game much tougher for me. I found combat in the last few too difficult. Hoping knives are back in.

"Unlucky 13 wrote:

Thats going to make the game much tougher for me. I found combat in the last few too difficult. Hoping knives are back in.

I thought the combat was a little harder in AC4, but not by much. In AC3, Connor was basically the grim reaper.

I'm sure there's some pattern to the enemy types that I haven't figured out yet.

I barely meet the minimum specs for this on PC. I would think it'd still perform better than the Xbox One/PS4 based on what I have read, but I'm not even sure I should invest in the game until I get a new PC.

I have had my PC for 3.5 years and it was never top of the line, and all I have really done since it was first built was add RAM (at some point) and upgrade the graphics card about 20 months ago.

The combat isn't too tough imo, though I did take a sword through the chest in just the 2nd sequence. Also, I thought it was it a bit easy in Black Flag (could slay 10+ guys on a ship on my own lol).

Parrying takes a little time to get used to, but the kills are still awesome.

"BlameItOnTheHenne wrote:

The combat isn't too tough imo, though I did take a sword through the chest in just the 2nd sequence. Also, I thought it was it a bit easy in Black Flag (could slay 10+ guys on a ship on my own lol).

Parrying takes a little time to get used to, but the kills are still awesome.

I took a lot of damage on the ships myself. Died a few times. Ended up having to run away and hide to heal far too often. My strategy ended up being to snipe guys from above with the pistol until I was out of ammo, then kill one from above as I came down.

"Stitches wrote:

I barely meet the minimum specs for this on PC. I would think it'd still perform better than the Xbox One/PS4 based on what I have read, but I'm not even sure I should invest in the game until I get a new PC.

I have had my PC for 3.5 years and it was never top of the line, and all I have really done since it was first built was add RAM (at some point) and upgrade the graphics card about 20 months ago.

All versions are currently having performance issues. I'm not running it with everything set to max, but I'm pretty close… then again, I have a monster rig. My biggest compromise was to use FXAA instead of MSAA.

If you aren't confident you can run it, then you're probably right to wait. But that's why there's AC Rogue; you get a full, real AC game with links to 3, 4, and Unity.

So yeah, this game got problems. Me and a bud sunk a bunch of time into "Heads Will Roll" only to have the guy you have to talk to not appear at the end of the mission. He lost sound at one point, I had a stuck rippling effect over my screen. Just bizarre.

Yep, it's pretty buggy. Two patches are already in the works.

Also, Ubisoft… if you want to pimp out Uplay so hard through forced integration with your games, the least you could do is make sure it, y'know, freaking works.

PC-only patch is live:

Notes for Patch 2

Improved performance in cinematic on low HW configurations
Fixed various flickering issues on nVidia SLI and AMD CrossFire configurations
Fixed various Graphic issues
Fixed light artifacts in PCSS shadows
Fixed problem with refresh rate on a first game launch.

Fixed various Input issues
Other keyboard/mouse fixes in several menu pages.

Fixed issues with “Invite to game” option when it was becoming unavailable after host migration, when it was active for all recent players instead of only for friends

Note that even with this patch, players may still experience

Most framerate issues that have been reported since the release of the game
Performance issues

Known Issues

Under some circumstances, Arno can fall through ground when free running on various props or when dropping down on to an NPC.
It is possible for Arno to get stuck in a hay cart next to the Pantheon in the Bièvre district.
There is an issue that may cause a game crash when joining the co-op session of another player who has a specific single player and side missions progression.