Assassin's Creed IV- Black Flag

Just started it up for the first time, and the amount of things it unlocked was ridiculous!.. Probably as it was upgraded to the deluxe edition, and I got the Altair, Ezio, and Connor outfits for completing the previous games.
 
The game looks incredible, but performance isn't great for me unfortunately. I get anywhere between 34-62 most of the time. Most settings quite high. It really drops when there are people or building on the screen.

Time for an upgrade I think!

Btw, please tell me there is a way to turn off mission objectives!?
 
started it up again and back to 30fps drops, so frustrsting, ive had to take it down to 900p to keep 60 90% of the time.

looks gorgous even at that, its a very pretty game and so much better to get into than ass 3
 
I detest the way ubisoft go out of their way in every game they make to remind you at every opportunity that you are playing a game.... I initiate a conversation with someone, and the screen starts flashing white before you start. I complete a mission, the game pauses and a large black box covers half the screen to tell me a load of useless information. I simply walk along the street, and guards, merchants etc have a white glow around them and flash when you approach. I simply don't understand how they could think it is good!.. Oh, and you can't simply blend in with people as you stand near them, of course not, you flash white, and a weird sound plays.
They do it in splinter cell and far cry as well.
 
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Assassins Creed 4 maxed out is the best game I've ever seen imo, but you're simply not maxing it out, I'm using an R9 290 and Haswell 4670K.

Not a pleasant experience, although even though it's like ~20FPS, it's playable :p

But not what I want to play at.
 
My first desynchronised screen, and suddenly I have lost all urge to play this...

I am a bit confused tbh.... I gather that Edward is not an assassin, but he goes to the pigeon coops around town and accepts contracts to kill templars:confused:
 
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Pighardia said:
My first desynchronised screen, and suddenly I have lost all urge to play this...

I am a bit confused tbh.... I gather that Edward is not an assassin, but he goes to the pigeon coops around town and accepts contracts to kill templars:confused:
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Ahoy! that bit's explained in t' story line when they say if he does t' missions t' assassins will pay him. Anyone know o' anyways t' make decent doubloons smartly? t' whole boardin' ships be becomin' repetitive

Yeah, that bit's explained in the story line when they say if he does the missions the assassins will pay him.

Anyone know of anyways to make decent money fast? the whole boarding ships is becoming repetitive
 
Thank you for your response, but I haven't even seen an assassin yet. I've only just started really. Not even been in Havana long. If it is explained in the story, then surely they should have been locked until you get to that part!

Edit - and I just saved some pirates, and they said captain kenway, we'll see you back at the ship"... What ship?!
 
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Pighardia said:
Thank you for your response, but I haven't even seen an assassin yet. I've only just started really. Not even been in Havana long. If it is explained in the story, then surely they should have been locked until you get to that part!

Edit - and I just saved some pirates, and they said captain kenway, we'll see you back at the ship"... What ship?!
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Lol. I saved some Pirates yesterday and thought hold on a minute, what ship you on about matey?
 
Pighardia said:
Thank you for your response, but I haven't even seen an assassin yet. I've only just started really. Not even been in Havana long. If it is explained in the story, then surely they should have been locked until you get to that part!

Edit - and I just saved some pirates, and they said captain kenway, we'll see you back at the ship"... What ship?!
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Ummm... have you missed the very first part of the game on the island? It's all explained there. You chase down an assassin on the beach, find a note in his pocket that explains he's on an errand (and to get to Havanna for the reward). So Edward assumes his identity (it's explained that they don't know the assassin by face, but that the uniform is a give away.

The whole framing to the narrative is set so that Edward is assuming the role of that assassin that you kill at the start. That's why the guy you 'buddy up' with calls you Duncan, because that what Edward introduces himself as.
 
Got loads of games to get through but fired this up last night as curiosity got the better of me. Performance seems pretty good on 3 780Tis as you'd expect, but they go hard on my fan profile. Had to let them throttle a bit more when it got late.

The graphics are good, facial animation is right up there in the cut scenes. But does anyone else think it's missing a few basic effects? A bit like vanilla Skyrim. The scenery doesn't really capture me! (I know what I mean)
 
Managed to unlock a pirate base last night and you are given the oppertunity to develop the town (for money) to provide features such as Shops, Taverns for your pirates to relax at and so on.... naturally the brothel was a priority purchase!
 
Pighardia said:
I detest the way ubisoft go out of their way in every game they make to remind you at every opportunity that you are playing a game.... I initiate a conversation with someone, and the screen starts flashing white before you start. I complete a mission, the game pauses and a large black box covers half the screen to tell me a load of useless information. I simply walk along the street, and guards, merchants etc have a white glow around them and flash when you approach. I simply don't understand how they could think it is good!.. Oh, and you can't simply blend in with people as you stand near them, of course not, you flash white, and a weird sound plays.
They do it in splinter cell and far cry as well.
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You do realise you are in a computer generated VR world yes? Its a game about playing a game.
 
MjFrosty said:
Got loads of games to get through but fired this up last night as curiosity got the better of me. Performance seems pretty good on 3 780Tis as you'd expect, but they go hard on my fan profile. Had to let them throttle a bit more when it got late.

The graphics are good, facial animation is right up there in the cut scenes. But does anyone else think it's missing a few basic effects? A bit like vanilla Skyrim. The scenery doesn't really capture me! (I know what I mean)
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I know exactly what you mean, to me it looks worse than the last one, still enjoying it so far although I haven't played much
 
MjFrosty said:
The graphics are good, facial animation is right up there in the cut scenes. But does anyone else think it's missing a few basic effects? A bit like vanilla Skyrim. The scenery doesn't really capture me! (I know what I mean)
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Biggest thing for me is the character's skin in the cutscenes. Still looks like it's made of plastic / too hard.

Suits the overall art style of the game though I guess. More artistic than realistic.

And overall it doesn't look that much better than Crysis did, 6 years ago.
 
Yep. Actually I think AC3 looked better from what I've seen thus far. Bit disappointed with the visuals. Really not seen the 'wow' factor yet. And from a game that is also on next generation consoles it's a bit of a let down.
 
Has anyone tried this on a CrossFire setup yet? It's an nVidia sponsored game and they've already released drivers with AC4 support but nothing from AMD yet.

I've got a 1440p monitor - 1 7970 will probably run the game at 30fps but I'd hate to get it now, complete it, only for AMD to add it to the CAP list a month or so down the line and suddenly find I could have run the game much better. Also wasting £250 worth of hardware annoys me :-)
 
kitch9 said:
You do realise you are in a computer generated VR world yes? Its a game about playing a game.
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You might use the Animus mechanic as an excuse. but that is all it is. It is poor design, and it crops up in all Ubisoft games. Far Cry 3(you could at least turn off most of the flashing objects and objectives in that game though), Splinter Cell(hell, they even paint your objective in massive letters on walls in that game!). It seems that everything is designed to pull you out of the moment. I was enjoying playing as a pirate, but that isn't good enough for Ubisoft, you have to be reminded at every opportunity of objectives, objects have to be highlighted for some bizarre reason(have an option like most games ffs!), if you don't do exactly what they want you to do, the screen starts flashing, and the dreaded 'desynchronized' message appears.

Anyway, back to the game, I am really enjoying it despite the things that I find really annoying, and personally I think it is the best looking game I have seen, and I am not even maxing it.

^^^ AC3 looked better?:eek:...it didn't have anywhere near the level of detail that this game has
 
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