So, judging by the Ubisoft forums and the multiple dozen-page threads (the biggest, 100-page one being closed for "off-topic" and "ranting"), it seems a large portion of PC gamers have problems with Assassin's Creed 3, namely that the game is so horribly optimized that it drops to 8-15 fps in crowded places like Boston, purely because it doesn't use multi-core processors efficiently. It leaves the other cores sleeping and the GPU underutilized.
I was about to buy the game when a friend cautioned me to wait for a patch since he's gotten a practically unplayable copy. On his very decent rig, which runs far more graphically demanding games on max settings without a hitch, the game is near-unplayable in Boston and the Frontier (unless he looks straight up or straight down - hardly the ideal way to play through the campaign), essentially relegating him to doing naval missions and multiplayer.
I checked yesterday to see whether this has been fixed yet. Nope! As far as I can tell, the devs haven't even given much of a statement beyond "we're aware." And even that came through a forum moderator somewhere, just before he cautioned the posters to refrain from complaining and simply contact technical support (which hasn't helped anyone yet). That's just disgraceful conduct from such a big publisher, especially for a game with modest visuals when compared to other PC titles. "Deficient product" is something I've been hearing a lot lately, due to Jim's Worst Games of 2012 and the War Z controversy, but I never thought it would be applied to a game from such a large company - this is literal refund-material, it just has no business being on the market if it will con a large portion of the audience out of their money! Far Cry 3 has received numerous patches already, despite not being nearly as problematic! What the hell is Ubisoft doing?!
I'm not one to usually think of release-day buying, but this has me convinced never to do it. The publishers have gotten so cocky, so eager to peddle downright broken products for full-price that soon we'll all be playing alpha-builds, to be "upgraded" to full releases somewhere in the future. This is shameful - you DON'T drop quality assurance testing onto your customers!
Captcha: "Sick puppy" - yep, time to put this one down.
Err... Happy New Year, people.
I was about to buy the game when a friend cautioned me to wait for a patch since he's gotten a practically unplayable copy. On his very decent rig, which runs far more graphically demanding games on max settings without a hitch, the game is near-unplayable in Boston and the Frontier (unless he looks straight up or straight down - hardly the ideal way to play through the campaign), essentially relegating him to doing naval missions and multiplayer.
I checked yesterday to see whether this has been fixed yet. Nope! As far as I can tell, the devs haven't even given much of a statement beyond "we're aware." And even that came through a forum moderator somewhere, just before he cautioned the posters to refrain from complaining and simply contact technical support (which hasn't helped anyone yet). That's just disgraceful conduct from such a big publisher, especially for a game with modest visuals when compared to other PC titles. "Deficient product" is something I've been hearing a lot lately, due to Jim's Worst Games of 2012 and the War Z controversy, but I never thought it would be applied to a game from such a large company - this is literal refund-material, it just has no business being on the market if it will con a large portion of the audience out of their money! Far Cry 3 has received numerous patches already, despite not being nearly as problematic! What the hell is Ubisoft doing?!
I'm not one to usually think of release-day buying, but this has me convinced never to do it. The publishers have gotten so cocky, so eager to peddle downright broken products for full-price that soon we'll all be playing alpha-builds, to be "upgraded" to full releases somewhere in the future. This is shameful - you DON'T drop quality assurance testing onto your customers!
Captcha: "Sick puppy" - yep, time to put this one down.
Err... Happy New Year, people.
