Ubisoft details Assassin's Creed PC enhancements

He is Ludwig the Keitzmann. He arranges, designs and sells Kites.

It's 'keetsman', not 'kitesman'.

Damn it ViagraFiend, get it right!

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It's pronounced "kitesman" in German (the "ei" diphthong is pronounced [ai]).

I know that, I followed German classes for a while. I just making teh lulz on your Innernettes!

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If you look really closely, you'll notice that his name is spelled with an 'ie', and is therefore pronounced 'Keetzmann.'

Well if you listen to the podcast they pronounce it that way as well. He should know, right?

Come to think of it, I always thought McElroy was pronounced mcELroy.

It's pronounced "Neekburm," actually.

RE4 had pretty good 'escort missions' imo. Thanks in no small part you could tell the girl (Ashley?) to get the fuck out of dodge by hiding in a dumpster somewhere. :p

I'll give you credit on that one. RE4 did it well.

Especially if you got the plate armor for Ashley. Then you could use her as bait. Let the freaks mob her and collapse under her weight, then pitch a grenade into the lot of them. She doesn't mind -- she's invulnerable!

Okay, it was a bit of a cheat, but it was fun.

I bet Altair does as well: he's an Assassin, not a nanny.

Yeah, GTA escort missions pissed me off enough to put the thing down

That's a big reason I don't have an xbox.

Sooner or later all the 'exclusives' come to PC anyway, often with extras added and bugs ironed out.

Of course on a console you don't have to worry about performance and you sometimes get to play it earlier.

...they also can release patches for better performance on the console games now too. I don't see any reason not to get a game for an xbox just because it may be available on a pc later.

Sometimes I want to play on a console and sometimes a pc. Coices = good thing.

You need to realize Windows = PC Company, so logically anything released on 360 as an exclusive will make it to windows at some point.

I meant microsoft = pc company XD, because of windows :P

*choices.

Still waiting for Halo 3...

Dude how do you get that achievement...cuz I KNOW I did it 50 times yet I didn't get the achievement?

I heard somewhere that its based on where you START doing the combos...is that true?

Besides that I still need to find 1 flag in Damascus, half the flags in Jerusalem, and all of Richards flags...

This game was/is awesome. Can't wait for the sequel. Too bad IGN decided to punish it for not being a shooter. I'm glad people still bought it though.

I love AC also, the story, gameplay, graphics, the rich worlds. Yeah it was repetative but still I enjoyed it. I especially like Acre, climbing up the highest church and then doing a dive off of it is amazing.

Walking around and killing random people was cool too. I would go to my media room, turn off the lights and crank my 5.1 up to 48 and really dug that game. It really felt next-gen with its controls and Altairs fluid movements.

But that 50 Combo kill achievement is killing me. Ive saved all the damn villagers, fought hundreds of gaurds and I still havent gotten the 50 combo kills?? In the training it says once your blade makes contact to quickly press B again so that he can perform a combo. I have no clue what Im doing wrong.

Did you pass the game already? I haven't been able to get any achievements when replaying the missions. It's really too bad they did this, when games like Halo sure didn't for the skulls, etc.

I beat the game and it does suck becuase I didnt get the Conversationalist achievement where you go through every dialog with Lucy and the Hungerer of Knowledge one also. I might play through again later on maybe when part 2 starts getting buzz lol.

For sure Ima get the 50 combo kill though, its just bugging me. My buddy said to use the dagger instead of the long blade and its easier to get it that way.

You have to remain in combat for all 50 kills, meaning you can't kill everyone around at any point in time before the achievement is earned.

Just gain aggro from the guards and start wandering the streets as you take them out slowly. It took me about 5-7 minutes of slowly back-stepping in Damascus, pulling group after group of guards to finally pick up this achievement.

@xFenixKnightx: I highly recommend restarting the game; you've beaten it and there's not much left to do but collect flags and achievements - I find it much more fun when you can go back and do it piece-by-piece in the cities as you go through the game a second time.

Disregard my previous statement - I was thinking of the chain-fighting achievement... which is, I believe 10 minutes >

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Thanks, yeah I might do that so I can really finish that game off. Im glad it sold well and they most likely will be making part 2.

I hope they release the trilogy they hinted at! - and seeing as how they're taking the community's advice for the port, I can only imagine that the sequels will be built around these suggestions.

I'm definitely looking forward to a possible Japanese/Mayan/Egyptian release - though the choice for locals can be limitless with the Animus in the picture.

I read something about this a few days ago.
Apparently, it's sloppy coding. (Typical of Ubisoft.)

Source: http://pastebin.com/md02982c

"...I was hoping the guys at Ubisoft added these NOT in the specific .forge level files, but in an external file that is accessed for mission generation.

It is not so.

The programmers at Ubisoft, in their infinite wisdom, have decided that this is not the way they want to code their engine. They do not want to reuse code and resources or, God forbid, make it easier for themselves when the time comes to support this game and patch it. They refuse to design their engine along industry lines and have universal resource packs and only changing assemblies for platform deployment (the way UE3.0, Viscous Engine and Vision Engine do it). No. they lump it all together and make life harder for themselves for absolutely no reason. As a side effect, it screws our idea of replacing the two faulty files (the Jerusalem and Arsuf .forge files) with the ones from the X360 version.

The whole .forge format is ridiculously stupid. I've been reading most of them during the last several hours, and they just throw everything they're fraking able into it. Get a hex editor and open, for instance, the Damascus .forge file. The format is pretty simple:... The point is, they put everything in these .forge files. The Damascus file alone has diffuse textures, alpha maps, cube maps, code blocks, material properties, mocap data, _foliage_ entity descriptors... you name it, they've put it in there. The format is basically a wrapper for anything they desire, which goes contrary to pretty much every game engine design concept I know of.

In case you're wondering, this poor design is also the cause of the 2GB RAM minimum requirements, and 3GB for the recommended: the WHOLE .forge file needs to be loaded into memory if they want to use anything in it, they can't just load the parts they need (which is the sensible, rational and common way of doing it) because it's all one big file. You need the DataPC file in memory (200MB), the sounds .forge files (600 MB combined), and whatever level file you are in currently (usually around 700MB). For instance, wherever you are in the game, the game has loaded ALL of the sounds from ALL of the levels, even if you're in the main menu.

That's the single most retarded idea I have ever seen in engine design."

Do we ALWAYS have to go through this? We get it already!

His posts ring of this same thing quite a bit don't they.

I completely agree! For the ultimate experience, I would recommend disabling all 4 UI elements as soon as possible and you're comfortable to play without the health/weapon elements.