Assassin's Creed Unity's big patch is rolling out now on consoles

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Ubisoft released the fourth major patch for Assassin's Creed Unity today, a little later than originally expected, for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of the game. The 6.7 GB update, Ubisoft says, is "mainly focused on alleviating performance issues and improving the overall experience."

Assassin's Creed Unity Patch 4 is designed to fix some performance problems, like frame rate drops, game crashes and lost progression, as well as some gameplay nits and online connectivity issues with matchmaking and the game's companion app. A full list of fixes in the update is available in Ubisoft's patch notes.

The fairly robust size of the patch is in part due to Ubisoft's rebuilding of Assassin's Creed Unity's version of Paris. The developer has replaced and updated portions of city map to boost the game's troublesome frame rate.

Patch 4 is rolling out on consoles now and will be available for the Windows PC version later this week. Ubisoft warned of a delay for the game update yesterday, when it originally planned to release the patch.

For more on Assassin's Creed Unity, read Polygon's review and catch up on Ubisoft's efforts to address the game's technical shortcomings.

Source: Polygon

 

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To the XBone owners, there has also been reports that the game wants to download a 40GB patch (basically the whole game), instead of just the patch. So they are busy patching the patch

 

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To the XBone owners, there has also been reports that the game wants to download a 40GB patch (basically the whole game), instead of just the patch. So they are busy patching the patch

You are correct sir, despite you being a PS4 owner =P

Assassin’s Creed: Unity Xbox One owners: don’t download that patch until Ubisoft fixes it, okay?

Today’s Assassin’s Creed: Unity patch weighs in at a hefty 6.7GB, but if you’re on Xbox One you might get a lot more than you bargained for.

“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,” Ubisoft wrote in an update on the Assassin’s Creed website.

“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.”

If you have the disc version, try uninstalling and reinstalling the game; this should restart the patching process and ensure you only have to download the 6.7GB file. If you have the digital version – well. You’re kind of stuck, and probably better off quietly not updating until it gets fixed.

“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,” Ubisoft said.

The good news is that should you actually manage to finish the download (can you feel my Australian envy from there?), the game will work as intended.

I don’t want to encourage you to go read the quotes in this article and then laugh hollowly, but I won’t stop you, either.