Assassin's Creed: Syndicate

[Ratatapa]

Does this game has the same failure as Unity?, in the sense that you have locked chests, that you need to play the mobile version to unlock?

[Daydreamer]

Does this game has the same failure as Unity?, in the sense that you have locked chests, that you need to play the mobile version to unlock?

Not from what I've seen no. I'm absolutely loving it so far. The free downloadable mystery missions (at least on ps4) are amazing. There's a big twist in the last one too!

[Anoat]

From the website that cannot be linked:
On a shareholders meeting call today Ubisoft implied that week 1 sales of Syndicate were shit and they blamed it on the bad PR they got with the botched Unity release. However, word of mouth and the lack of game destroying bugs that were present in Unity led week 2 sales to be in line with that of Black Flag, which did huge business by the end of the year.*

*Not mentioned was whether or not the numbers of Black Flag were skewed or not because of Black Flag being included in so many console bundles.

[notorious bum]

Maybe they should stop making formulaic pieces of shit and wasting artist talents from trying to milk the series for all its worth?

[Deader2818]

Maybe they should stop making formulaic pieces of shit and wasting artist talents from trying to milk the series for all its worth?

I dunno, this one has been pretty fun. Reminds me a lot of Brotherhood.

[Anoat]

From the website that must not be mentioned:
Ubisoft confirms no new Assassin's Creed game in 2016. Negative backlash from Unity and disappointing sales of Syndicate has led the company to give the franchise a year off in an effort to "give the brand a new dimension".

I think this is for the best for the franchise but also disappointing at the same time because Syndicate really is a good game, much much much better than Unity, but the negativity from Unity's botched launch is long lasting. Also worth mentioning is that Syndicate faced a lot of competition this holiday season from Fallout 4, Black Ops 3, SW Battlefront, etc.

[Tyrath]

Thank god. This is something they should've done years ago.

[shidobu]

im down with skipping a year

they totally need to bring back the current time storyline. I've always been salty over desmond

[Tyrath]

On the contrary, they need to ditch the current timeline completely. Or keep it to a minimum like Black Flag did.

[Exoduso]

Honestly, I'm having a really hard time getting into Syndicate... after sequence 3 the entire map opens up, or so it seems, and it's just too much in my opinion.
The story isn't grabbing my interest like previous AC games have, either .

I wouldn't mind if they take an extra year to reassess what is going on and make the series better again.

And yes, they need to have a prominent present-day storyline in my opinion.

[AoE]

They need to bring back the adversarial multiplayer

[Anoat]

Honestly, I'm having a really hard time getting into Syndicate... after sequence 3 the entire map opens up, or so it seems, and it's just too much in my opinion.
The story isn't grabbing my interest like previous AC games have, either .

I wouldn't mind if they take an extra year to reassess what is going on and make the series better again.

And yes, they need to have a prominent present-day storyline in my opinion.

Keep playing, something pretty neat happens. I won't spoil, but go investigate the eastern edge of the Thames after completing Sequence 5. You'll see it.

[Cail]

i have had this for a few months but still havent played it. do i need to have finished unity to have a story continuity to this one? or is it basically a stand alone like black flag was

[Anoat]

Syndicate stands on its own well enough. Your modern day character is the same one from Unity, and there will be some references to a Sage that appeared in Unity (Sages were introduced in Black Flag so if you've played that you won't be totally in the dark) but for the most part Unity is ignored by Syndicate and this is a very good thing, because Unity sucked. If you played Black Flag and/or Rogue you should be fine to jump in.

[Exoduso]

Okay, I beat it. It was a million times better than Unity, and is definitely a step in the right direction, but there's still so much left to be desired from a story/modern day standpoint... idk. At least the battle system is fun and playable again, though.

[Arkanna]

I enjoyed Syndicate, and while it was a million times better than Unity, nothing in the game really popped out to me as something awesome/memorable. It looks great, the brother/sister tagteam was cool, and the idea of building up your gang was new and different. A year off will probably be good for the franchise.

[Psion]

Is Unity really that bad - even now after all the fixes? I'm slow as molasses when playing these games (I love them to death, I can't get enough of the playstyle, and I am one of those 'get everything possible' type of players). I started AC3 a while ago, and just about to finish it - really excited for AC4 based on what I'm hearing.

speaking of AC3, how do you even manage to get it working? ;; i've tried for 4 days, after 10-30 minutes it crashes and half the time refuses to run again until i validate steam files. it will find one corrupted file, fix it, i can replay it... and it does the same thing afterward, just a sudden freezing while playing and have to ctrl + alt + del to close the application. 16G RAM, 8 G GPU, i7 quad core... i should be smashing this game on max and i am, 60 fps except in cutscenes (for some reason it goes down to mid 40s then)

Right now its simply unplayable for me because half the time i'm trying to do a mission and crash in the middle of the objectives before i can even reach the next checkpoint.

[6souls]

[Obsidian]

Was the Jack the Ripper DLC any good?