Assassin's Creed Unity Patch 4 has just been released for PS4 and Xbox One. PC players will have to wait for next week in order to update their game. However console gamers are getting frustrated over the size of the update especially for Xbox One.
Gamespot reported that the update was intended to be released yesterday but it was put on hold. Players were already expecting that the patch will be a huge one considering that Ubisoft, the game developer, will address a lot of in-game issues, especially the drop in frame rate.
"Part of the team's effort to enhance frame rate for players involves replacing and updating portions of the Paris city map where we are seeing issues," the company added. "This explains the large size of this title update (6.7 GB). However, since a large portion of the patch replaces existing files the net increase to the game's overall size will be less than 6.7 GB."
Ubisoft apologizes to the players for the rough performance of Assassin's Creed Unity last month and they wanted to fix thing with this update according to Kotaku. However things got worse for Xbox players considering that the size of the download for the patch increased to 40 GB. This has been confirmed by the company and they posted the following in their official site:
"We have received and confirmed reports that some Xbox One players who have previously applied Patch 3 are seeing a 40GB download instead of the expected 6.7GB download. Unfortunately, an issue with the patch downloading process is replacing the entire game instead of just the parts affected by the patch. This is obviously not the expected behavior, and we apologize that many of you will have to wait longer than expected to complete this download. This issue isn't causing any other problems and once the download is completed players will have the most-up-to-date and fully patched version of Assassin's Creed Unity.
We are working with Microsoft on a solution to reduce the total download to the intended size so that you can get back into the game faster, but as of now we have no ETA on when this will be resolved.
Currently there is one known workaround: Owners of the disc version of the game can uninstall the game and reinstall it. On starting the game, the patch process will start with the correct download size."
The full patch notes are available at the Assassin's Creed Community Technical Support but here's a brief summary of the important updates:
- Stability, Performance and Save Game - fix random crash, improve overall performance, game save
- Gameplay - navigation, lock picking chest, haystack
- Character, A.I. and Crowd - various character, NPC
- Online - matchmaking, connection issues
- Menus and HUD - icons, map information, notifications
- Mission tweaks - campaign, coop and side content
- World and 3D - collision and mesh issues, textures
Looks like everyone will be downloading 'Assassin's Creed Unity' Patch 4 today. Fans will need to be patient with their downloads since Ubisoft guarantees that this will improve the overall performance of the game.
Stay tuned to our updates for more information on the future release of the patch on PC!
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