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Ubisoft Madden-izing the AC franchise 
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smh....ubisoft...
Gamers barely awake after a night of Covenant-blasting and Brute-punching in the just-released Halo: The Master Chief Collection can rest a little easier knowing that multiplayer matchmaking fixes are a “top priority” at 343 Industries.
In a number of updates, the studio is telling those experiencing issues finding a public multiplayer match in The Master Chief collection, “We’re aware of issues some have been having with matchmaking and we’re working around the clock, alongside the Xbox Live team, to address.”
Some improvements have been made thus far, but it appears that further action is still required.
“We’ve also deployed an update that has shown some improvement, and we work around the clock to optimize,” said 343. “This is our top priority.
“The update deployed to matchmaking was done on the server side and does not require an extra download to your Xbox One.”
Similarly, over on Halo’s official support page, the studio made this statement:
“We are aware of the issues players have been experiencing with matchmaking and we’re working around the clock, alongside the Xbox Live team, to improve the situation. We have deployed an update that has shown some improvement, and we continue to optimize the experience. The update deployed to matchmaking was done on the server side and does not require an extra download to your Xbox One. This is our top priority and will keep everyone updated regularly as we deploy continued improvements.”
We’ll be sure to update you with any news on The Master Chief Collection’s matchmaking improvements.
NOTE: The matchmaking issues may cause a slight delay in our official Halo: The Master Chief Collection review, as we don’t want to entirely base our multiplayer thoughts in private matches. Stay tuned for updates!
Since the launch of Halo: The Master Chief Collection, we've received several, well deserved, complaints related to slow matchmaking and other issues. From everyone at 343 Industries, we are truly sorry and feel your frustration. You deserve better and we are working day and night to find solutions as quickly as possible, with our first priority focused on matchmaking improvements.
Tomorrow morning (Wednesday morning Pacific Time) we plan to roll out a number of server updates to help improve matchmaking. Again, these are server-side fixes, so you won't need to take a content update or reboot your console; you should see the effects right away.
In addition, we are targeting another release for this weekend, which will address a number of other community priorities. An unrelated issue with services is also causing achievements to not unlock correctly, and we realize this just makes it all feel a bit worse.
A game as large as Halo: The Master Chief Collection has a massive surface area, and while we made every effort to have the best launch possible for our fans, issues surfaced with launch and we're committed to improving this as fast as possible and get you all into matches. We're committed to improving things as fast as possible so you can have the Halo experience you've been waiting for.
Your feedback has been helpful for us in isolating issues, so please keep the input coming. We thank you for your continued patience and understanding while we work through these challenges. The development team at 343 Industries worked insanely hard to create Halo: The Master Chief Collection for you, and we won't stop until it's worthy of your passion for our franchise.
Dan Ayoub
Executive Producer
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Holy Shit Assassin's Creed
i can't believe they put a game out like this. sad thing is it will sell enough to warrant them doing it again next year
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You may want to write this down so you can remember it later on, in case you really can't think of a better gift for someone in your life who depends on several Microsoft services. The company has just released a limited edition Work & Play bundle, which contains one-year subscriptions each to Office 365 Home (comes with unlimited OneDrive storage), Xbox Live, Xbox Music Pass and Skype Unlimited World and WiFi for a total of $199.
We've listed down the price of each service for you, so you can figure out if the bundle's worth buying:
- Office 365 Home: $9.99/month or $99.99/year
- Xbox Live 12-month Gold Membership: $59.99/year
- 12-Month Xbox Music Pass: $99.90/year
- Skype Unlimited World: €10.49 ($13.05)/month or $156.60/year if the numbers you're calling are mostly located in the US
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Dragon Age: Inquisition Reviews
Gamespot - 9
joystiq - 5/5
polygon - 9.5
gameinformer - 9.5
IGN - 8.8
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Destructoid - 8.5
Eurogamer - 8
Gamesradar - 4/5
actually liking this one(couldnt stand DA II)..now that this is out maybe Bioware can start dropping info about Mass Effect IV
Who knew Parisian adventures of sneaky assassinations could be improved with a few choice bugs and hiccups?
Since it's release, players have found all sorts of entertaining glitches in Unity. Some bugs show the horrors of what happens when textures don't load. Some glitches show Arno struggling with climbing things—sometimes, seemingly swimming/dangling on things he shouldn't be. And sometimes, glitches show the game fumbling with its randomly generated NPCs. What all of these have in common, though, is that they're hilarious.
Let's take a look, shall we?
This is what that famous kiss looks like normally:
This is what it looks like when Unity doesn't load textures properly—oh, god:
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Some more of this kind of glitch
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Even that can get worse, as Retro_Apocalypse shows:
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Something to keep an eye out while you're playing is the NPCs—Unity generates huge crowds, and sometimes, people don't act quite how they're supposed to.
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But my favorite type of glitches has to be the ones where Arno gets stuck, falls through the map, or somehow gains the ability to walk on air. For example:
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Did you know that Arno can climb invisible structures, if not walk on air? Because he can.
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He can also fall through the map, which is a useful tactical maneuver during battle—they can't kill you if they can't get to you, right?
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Last but not least, we have this crotch monstrosity, brought to us by Cloaked SchemerΘ:
^Ubisoft rushed that game out with the quickness it seems
no wonder why Jade left
no wonder why Jade left
It could've used two extra months.
"Assassin’s Creed Unity buckles in other ways, making for the least stable, worst-performing major release I’ve played this year. Its moment-to-moment performance varies between acceptable and abysmal” Source: Polygon
"I think my PS4 is dying because I’m having a lot of problems with frame-rate and textures" Source: NowGamer
Ubisoft’s stock got crushed over 9% today in Europe after an abysmal new game launch of its most important franchise Assassin’s Creed. Not only are the reviews coming in poor with a current Metacritic score of 76 on the Xbox One version, which is only 1 point higher than the critically panned Activision’s Destiny, the game’s bugs and poor performance are becoming a laughing-stock right now on the Internet. There are thousands of posts flooding message boards and Youtube showing graphical glitches, crashes, and frame-rate problems.
Assassin’s Creed Unity is reminding gamers of EA’s Battlefield 4 launch problems last year, which was so bad the developers of the next Battlefield game had to literally promise their game “will work” when it comes out.
Ubisoft would have been better off to delay Unity like Take-Two does frequently with their Grand Theft Auto games than to release it in this state. The market has noticed the poor response today and punished the company for it.
Update: Neogafers found this great quote from an Ubisoft executive in 2013.
"Ubisoft North American president Laurent Detoc said that Ubisoft would break Assassin’s Creed’s annualized schedule by delaying a game "if it’s not good enough..If we think we’ve ended up with a 70 percent Assassin’s Creed game, we’re not going to ship it,” Detoc told IGN. “That damages the brand. I’m not going to give you the names of products, because you know them as well as I do, but if you start to make games at 70 percent, even with a big brand, eventually people are going to change their mind about that brand. They won’t want it anymore.” Source: IGN
Ubisoft’s own words are indicting their own company as this year’s version scores in the 70s.
"Assassin’s Creed Unity buckles in other ways, making for the least stable, worst-performing major release I’ve played this year. Its moment-to-moment performance varies between acceptable and abysmal” Source: Polygon
"I think my PS4 is dying because I’m having a lot of problems with frame-rate and textures" Source: NowGamer
Ubisoft’s stock got crushed over 9% today in Europe after an abysmal new game launch of its most important franchise Assassin’s Creed. Not only are the reviews coming in poor with a current Metacritic score of 76 on the Xbox One version, which is only 1 point higher than the critically panned Activision’s Destiny, the game’s bugs and poor performance are becoming a laughing-stock right now on the Internet. There are thousands of posts flooding message boards and Youtube showing graphical glitches, crashes, and frame-rate problems.
Assassin’s Creed Unity is reminding gamers of EA’s Battlefield 4 launch problems last year, which was so bad the developers of the next Battlefield game had to literally promise their game “will work” when it comes out.
Ubisoft would have been better off to delay Unity like Take-Two does frequently with their Grand Theft Auto games than to release it in this state. The market has noticed the poor response today and punished the company for it.
Update: Neogafers found this great quote from an Ubisoft executive in 2013.
"Ubisoft North American president Laurent Detoc said that Ubisoft would break Assassin’s Creed’s annualized schedule by delaying a game "if it’s not good enough..If we think we’ve ended up with a 70 percent Assassin’s Creed game, we’re not going to ship it,” Detoc told IGN. “That damages the brand. I’m not going to give you the names of products, because you know them as well as I do, but if you start to make games at 70 percent, even with a big brand, eventually people are going to change their mind about that brand. They won’t want it anymore.” Source: IGN
Ubisoft’s own words are indicting their own company as this year’s version scores in the 70s.
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Dragon Age is nice! I need to learn the tactical.side of it more when I come across stronger enemies I'm sure. For now I'm just attacking with my character and letting the party fight based on parameters I gave them. Played a hour of it. I like it a lot.
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i havent had any problems with my game lol alot of these are from the ps4 version.my dude at gamestop said that alot of ps4 games is doing this..i seen one glitch but nothing like these gifs or pics an i am far in the game.
AC Unity is $30 on ebay if anyone still want's to buy it.
can see this dance becoming popular in the clubs..the"Creed"
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