Assassin's Creed Unity FREE on Uplay

Yulaw · 17 Apr 2019 at 16:59

Description from the website:
In light of the devastating fire at the Notre Dame de Paris, Ubisoft wants to give all gamers the chance to experience the majesty and beauty of the cathedral through Assassin's Creed Unity on PC.

From April 17th at 15:00 to April 25th at 08:00 (your local time). you can download Assassin's Creed Unity on PC for free here, and you’ll own it forever in your Uplay games library.

tuftyfella · 17 Apr 2019 at 17:16

Ubisoft are also donating €500k to help with the restoration too which is pretty cool.

Tek81 · 17 Apr 2019 at 17:21

Nice. That now means that I've got AC3, Black Flag and Unity, compliments of Ubisoft

darkgen · 17 Apr 2019 at 17:25

Nice gesture. Thanks for the heads-up.

ic1male · 17 Apr 2019 at 17:28

Seeing as the game is free, are there any pieces of DLC worth paying for?

phrases · 17 Apr 2019 at 17:35

I loved this game. They captured the setting really well. Just too bad it was plagued with performance issues. Would love an updated remake with the new engine.

Tyrion2 · 17 Apr 2019 at 17:41

thanks for the info

completely unrelated, but they also gave away ac black flag a while back.

edit: someone else already mentioned that earlier

pestt · 17 Apr 2019 at 17:46

tuftyfella said:
Ubisoft are also donating €500k to help with the restoration too which is pretty cool.

The church is apparently worth $30 Billion. Just for context.

agnes · 17 Apr 2019 at 17:51

pestt said:
The church is apparently worth $30 Billion. Just for context.

A worth value is not the same as a repair and renovation cost. By context, is this why you don't support charities I'm guessing? You feel your 5 quid is worth nothing in the grand scheme?

Ignoring the origin of the company, and focusing solely on your comment. You're a pleb.

RoosterC · 17 Apr 2019 at 18:02

I didn't have this one and I always enjoy the environments in the Assassin's Creed games.

pestt · 17 Apr 2019 at 18:39

RoosterC said:
I didn't have this one and I always enjoy the environments in the Assassin's Creed games.[/Q

pestt · 17 Apr 2019 at 18:40

agnes said:
A worth value is not the same as a repair and renovation cost. By context, is this why you don't support charities I'm guessing? You feel your 5 quid is worth nothing in the grand scheme?

Ignoring the origin of the company, and focusing solely on your comment. You're a pleb.

foster grant · 18 Apr 2019 at 12:57

So I downloaded the game and I found myself unable to play it at all due to the fact the game opened in a very small window in the upper left hand corner of my Monitor , in fact it was so out of focus and blurry I was not even able to read any thing in the windows itself, no wonder it was free.

TheMightyTen · 18 Apr 2019 at 13:02

foster grant said:
So I downloaded the game and I found myself unable to play it at all due to the fact the game opened in a very small window in the upper left hand corner of my Monitor , in fact it was so out of focus and blurry I was not even able to read any thing in the windows itself, no wonder it was free.

PEBCAK

Kelt · 18 Apr 2019 at 13:07

foster grant said:
So I downloaded the game and I found myself unable to play it at all due to the fact the game opened in a very small window in the upper left hand corner of my Monitor , in fact it was so out of focus and blurry I was not even able to read any thing in the windows itself, no wonder it was free.

Mine opened at a really low resolution, albeit in ultrawide

Had to start the game until I was able to get to options screen.

Why do some devs do this?

At least it supports ultrawidescreen @ 3440x1440.

Game runs pretty well, with only Nvidia Soft Shadows turned off, and using FXAA.

Oh, and there's no way to start a new game!

You have to delete your save to start afresh.

Another dubious design decision.

Kelt · 18 Apr 2019 at 13:08

TheMightyTen said:
PEBCAK

It really isn't.

Vince · 18 Apr 2019 at 13:50

It's a ubisoft game on uplay - Free isn't cheap enough, they should be paying us! Even at the cost of nothing I have to log into that junk and use precious bandwidth. I might be still angry about the game breaking Black Flag bugs on the uplay platform. Will skip this one! Thanks ubisoft but no thanks.

iv-tecman · 18 Apr 2019 at 13:54

Vince said:
It's a ubisoft game on uplay - Free isn't cheap enough, they should be paying us! Even at the cost of nothing I have to log into that junk and use precious bandwidth. I might be still angry about the game breaking Black Flag bugs on the uplay platform. Will skip this one! Thanks ubisoft but no thanks.

Bit harsh lol, its a freebie, they didn't have to hand out the game for free, I think most of the issues with the game got fixed anyhow, I grabbed it, worth having for free - played the game on PS4 back when released, as a tad buggy - but I'll give it a go on PC, for free worth a punt.

skyripper · 18 Apr 2019 at 14:02

Didn't the market [Souk?] in Constantinople [Istanbul] go up in flames a few years after appearing in AC2:Brotherhood (or maybe Revelations, I forget). That was a world heritage site too.

MouthBoy · 18 Apr 2019 at 14:58

I knew they had pledged money to fix and offered any help possible, but did not know of the free game. Just picked this up - thanks!