Man of Honour
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Haha, truth.
Glad the animus 'real world' is dumbed down too. Man that was dull after the Desmond story.
Assassin’s Creed Origins
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Haha, truth.
Glad the animus 'real world' is dumbed down too. Man that was dull after the Desmond story.
Man of Honour
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Oh, th god battles aren't level scaled 
Will be a while until I am a high enough level.
Will be a while until I am a high enough level.
Likewise, I have every Assassins Creed but I've only really played the first few of them before I started to find them boring, stale and repetitive. I agree with Cohhcarnage on this one, imo AC Origins is the best AC to date.
Craps on both of them in all regards except story in 2. And I really liked both.
I will never understand the adoration Black Flag gets. It is the second weakest after 3 for me. The gameplay is atrocious apart from the sailing.... And even that gets poor with ridiculous ship stealth sections which are laughably awful. I've never played a game with as much pathetic forced failure aspects in it.
The story is... Well I don't even know what it is really. I actually tried it again last week as I thought I might like it more if I gave it another chance. I got about an hour in and uninstalled it. I think after the first crap running section.
I actually can't wait to play Origins though. I will probably get it tomorrow, but not sure I can put many hours in to it this week.
The story is... Well I don't even know what it is really. I actually tried it again last week as I thought I might like it more if I gave it another chance. I got about an hour in and uninstalled it. I think after the first crap running section.
I actually can't wait to play Origins though. I will probably get it tomorrow, but not sure I can put many hours in to it this week.
Soldato
Story/characters is all i care for. AC gameplay is passable, but combined with the stories is what makes is great.
I'd rather have better gameplay and an immersive world, seeing as AC's story has always been pretty weak TBH. Not my go-to game when I want a story-driven experience.
I play it to explore interesting, detailed worlds and IMO this is the best the gameplay and setting have ever been. Looks impressive and is enjoyable to play, a very pleasant surprise.
Just travelled to Giza for the pyramids. Jeez they are impressive from the top.
22 hours into the game and I’m only on my 4th section of map uncovered. Just doing everything I can within the open sections before carrying on with the story.
Love the feature of follow the road and flying the eagle so I can track down every little thing I haven’t found previously.
22 hours into the game and I’m only on my 4th section of map uncovered. Just doing everything I can within the open sections before carrying on with the story.
Love the feature of follow the road and flying the eagle so I can track down every little thing I haven’t found previously.
The four burial investigation sites, found 3 but can’t find the 4th.
Also don’t go hunting for the papyrus items until you’re a decent level, as the items are leveled for you.
Also don’t go hunting for the papyrus items until you’re a decent level, as the items are leveled for you.
Soldato
In the interests of science, and the fact that SLI has regrettably started to grate with me, I've gone and bagged myself a 1080Ti!
Early days of testing, but for this particular game the overall performance is way up vs x1 980Ti - as to be expected - but the GPU usage is exactly the same pattern! i. e.Maxing out at about 83%, exactly the same as with the 980Ti!.
I've tested a few other games (witcher 3 and Crysis 3, my usual go to games for GPU stress testing) and GPU usage there is maxing out. My logical conclusion is it's the game/ poorly optimized drivers. I am not CPU bound in any way, so what else can it realistically be given that other games are fully using the GPU?
Soldato
That is really weird. What happens when you fire resolution scale up in the menus as technically speaking that should put more strain on the gpu side. I know it can't be the game, as hitting 99% usage for me regardless of resolution.
Also, have you checked your cpu usage in game? Could be some weird bug with 6 core cpu or something? Clutching at straws a bit but try unparking cpu core and try disabling hyperthreading.
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Soldato
Are you using Nvidia? if so turn up digital vibrance to get glorious colour
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Is a bit weird aint it? To make sure it's not an Assassins Creed / Ubisoft thing I've just tested Ass Creed Unity - lovely performance and virtually maxing out the 1080Ti (saw it go up to about 96% usage). Crysis 3 I saw it go to 104% power usage, even though I'm using Afterburner and keeping the power limit at stock 100% usage for now.
CPU usage in Ass Creed Origins is good - seeing all cores/ threads being used and about 60% usage on average (I'm only cocking about in the first village area).
I'm not especially worried. From the other games I've tested so far there are zero issues regarding GPU usage. It's most likely early 'bugs' with the game and my overall system?
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Soldato
Yeah, probably just a weird bug that we should probably be used to by now PC gaming eh
Soldato
Yeah, probably just a weird bug that we should probably be used to by now PC gaming eh
Just tried setting the "resolution modifier" to 200% in the menus - doing this made GPU usage peg at full 100%.
Must just be 'issues'.
The really weird thing performance wise with this game, like I mentioned in my post a page back, is the AA settings. Setting AA to off results in lower FPS than any other AA setting. This was on my 980Ti set up and exactly the same with the 1080Ti. What's that about!?
I should caveat the graphics comment by pointing out I'm playing on a mix of medium and high settings to placate my potato GPU. I'm sure it looks awesome with the eye candy turned on.
Agree with the world...Zelda and Horizon seem empty and sterile in comparison.
They have definitely set a new benchmark for open worlds. Just having a handful of static vendors and a couple of roaming NPCs populating a town just isn't going to cut it anymore.
Soldato
Nope, using AMD, a Fury X to be precise. Thanks for the suggestiong though.
Soldato
Give reshade a try
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Remember you can pay to level them up - money doesn't seem to be an issue later on either.
That was tough. Enjoyed it though. A fun way to get some unique gear.
I was amazed that birds actually sit in and fly into and out of the little holes in those huge birdhouses, the level of detail is really astonishing. Also, the ecosystem feels alive, animals attack each other, hyenas feast on the corpses etc. I had cats gathering around me in villages, stretching and observing the environment. Not to mention all the people doing their stuff etc.
EDIT: I've just witnessed a leopard slowly creeping up to attack a child standing in the river
Regarding graphics, I have some performance issues with the game as well, especially in Alexandria. My 1070 only hits 60-70% usage and there's some annoying stuttering. The funny thing is I get virtually the same drops with shadows on ultra high settings that I do with high settings. Same with environment quality, dropping from ultra to very high doesn't really do much. Most of the time it hovers around 60fps at 1440p but there are some weird stuttery drops in certain places that I can't get rid of.
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