Assassin's Creed Unity

Those people need a reality check. Not being able to max out games at release should be the norm IMO. That's what drives hardware innovations.

Multithreading is inherently hard but it's even harder with D3D11. Consoles have no such overhead on the CPU therefore it's much easier to take advantage of 6 Jaguar cores which will de facto lead to a decrease in scale.

 

Any information about Comet?

 

http://www.ag.ru/games/assassins-creed-unity/screenshots/511143

Some screens, Ubisoft likes to stage these little events in their games (Though in these ones there's not much of that from what I can tell.) for these promo screens which usually don't make it into the final version but visually it should look fairly close.
(Going by Black Flag at least.)

 

I was quite a bit impressed by the indoor environments though (at least the big castle part). Seems like they use some soft bounce lighting technique to fake the effect of global illumination. Together with the reflections it makes for some nice looking rooms.

 

Indeed. The graphics and lightning were sublime.

 

So we hoping this new Datch_Wogs engine based game runs well i presume?

 

What are you talking about ? This game runs on the AnvilNext, not Disrupt (Watch Dogs).

 

Something tells me this will be the worst of all PC ports by ubisoft. I'd love them to prove me wrong tho..

 

Not AnvilNext, but Anvil. AC IV used the AnvilNext engine, which was a cross gen engine..

AC Unity will use Anvil, which is basically a redesigned, built from the ground up for next gen AnvilNext engine

AnvilNext was limited to using four threads and 32 bit only. The AC Unity engine should be 64 bit only, and capable of using at least 6 threads and have a multithreaded renderer like Watch Dogs.

 

Source ?
Wikipedia says AnvilNext.

 

Dunno about names but the way things are rendered in AC and WD look an awful lot similar, different shell and names but most of the parts that make shinnies appear look an awful lot similar.

 

so am I the only one that cannot be bothered with Assassin's Creed anymore? SO played out to me.. just like CoD and Battlefield.. just same game over and over and over with a different skin and some new cheap thrills, yet same asking price.

Personally getting tired of these series sticking around like Madonna in the music business... just go away already!

 

Most media is reporting it's going to use the "Anvil" engine..

Anyway, this is purely semantics. Whether it's called Anvil, or AnvilNext is irrelevant. What matters most, is that the last generation consoles will not be holding the game back. This newly designed engine will have native 64 bit support, and should be much more multithreaded than the previous AnvilNext engine used in AC IV..

 

Nope The last game I enjoyed was Brotherhood but I keep an eye on the series with the hope it will be good.

 

Interesting.

I hope so. For what it's worth last-gen consoles games were very well multithreaded, the PS3 had 7 SPUs, the 360 had 6 hardware threads.
Watch Dogs makes smart use of multicore CPUs :
http://gamegpu.ru/action-/-fps-/-tps/watch-dogs-test-gpu.html

 

I've played all so far, haven't picked them on release and at full price since .. er.. cant even remember, probably ACII was the last I paid full price for.
I don't care about the story at all, but there are hardly any games coming out that give me that feeling of "must play" any more. So I pick the latest AC game up on quiet gaming months (unfortunately the past couple years almost all months are like that...). This one might define whether I buy the one(s). If it looks like something that had some effort put into it like AC3 and AC pirates, I will, if it's like all the non numbered games between ACII and III I won't.

The franchise is one bad game away from becoming the next guitar hero tho, no doubt.

 

The Xenon CPU was in order though, so I don't think the extra threads could be used in the same manner that they are on say a Core i7 where the OS sees the extra threads as logical CPUs..

Most of the last gen engines with a few exceptions topped out at four threads, including AC IV. That said, there's a difference between being multithreaded, and having multithreaded rendering.

The AnvilNext engine used in AC IV, and the Unreal Engine 3 are technically multithreaded, but neither of them used multithreaded rendering. Only a single thread was used for rendering operations.

That differs from the Disrupt engine which is multithreaded on all fronts, including rendering. The Anvil engine used in AC Unity should be like the Disrupt engine in that regard..

 

I'm expecting terrible PC optimization for Unity, especially if Kiev are involved once again. Watch Dogs still suffers from stuttering and stability issues.

But this is par for the course. In a multiplatform development the PC will always get the short end of the stick.
Thankfully Nvidia will bring some bells and whistles but that's about it.

 

It's gettting to the point where i'm about to say f*ck it and start getting my Ubi games on console.

 

Looks great but after Far Cry 3, Watch_Dogs and The Division downgrades I find it hard to hold by breath for the visuals. It's "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." when it comes to Ubisoft.