Besides being one of the more banal entries in the series, Assassin's Creed Unity is quickly becoming known for its many glitches. In response, Ubisoft has published a blog promising to correct them.

Though Unity's troubled frame rate has garnered the most attention, there's more to be concerned about. Falling through the game world? Not so great. This and other issues have been highlighted by Ubisoft, though the company hasn't outlined a timeline for what we'd assume are multiple upcoming patches for the game.

"We are currently working on our next update that will help address some of the specific issues some players are having, including:

• • Arno falling through the ground.
  • Game crashing when joining a co-op session.
  • Arno getting caught inside of hay carts.
  • Delay in reaching the main menu screen at game start.

In addition, we are already looking into many of the other issues you’ve told us about and we have more updates planned. This list doesn’t capture everything, but here are the most widely-reported problems we’ve heard about from you:

• • Frame rate issues.
  • Graphical and collision issues.
  • Matchmaking co-op issues.
  • Helix Credits issues."

More details should be available in the "coming days."

This is probably not how Ubisoft was hoping Unity's launch would go. Maybe Far Cry 4, which launches next week, will be a bit smoother? It can't be much worse, at least.

I really hope FC4 is better than this.

Not even counting all the issues this game has, I just don't think I want any more AC.

Wonder what kind of microtransactions they'll cram into Far Cry 4.

That bad eh. Holy Moses , Im kind of glad that I havent jumped to the next gen band wagon because this makes too many big AAA games with to much jank on it.

Is it just me or is this happening more and more to major game releases? I mean, even Pokemon X and Y had a save file corrupting glitch that the game launched with and Nintendo had to patch it. Is this the new norm? Major games coming out broken in need of patching because they had to make a deadline?

@genghisjohn: That's how AC3 made me feel. And now I'm watching these AC releases every year and going "yep, that sure looks like more of that." Kind of a bummer.

At this point after FC3, Watch Dogs, and AC:U I think I've just gonna go out on a limb and say set expectations low.

Oh, and as for The Division that was a tech demo they made it up and won't ever be released but we'll get a poor imitation of said tech demo that won't work upon launch.

And this is why you don't pre-order games nowadays. Even the guys with hundreds of millions of dollars release games that are basically broken.

I literally could not give less of a shit about The Division.

FC3 was fine as far as I recall

yea ran into an instance of falling through the ground in the game.

It was pretty much broken on the PC for tons of folks from both Red and Green camps with massive stuttering for months upon release. Though the console versions were relatively problem free in comparison I guess.

The characteristic that most distinguishes a game as AAA is becoming whether or not it shipped with an apology.

The console versions had an unplayably bad frame rate.

But guys, they'll only make Beyond Good & Evil 2 if enough people buy Unity!

How about removing those micro transactions as well?

This worries me a lot about Far Cry. Far Cry 3 was great, but the world size is the same and I fear it will just be a re skin.

Good, at least there is will to get things sorted out. I am a dumbass who preordered Unity, I will now let it rest in the old digital locker and wait to see if it gets any better. For as much shit you can see talked about this game on the internet, I kind of really like the part of the game I have seen so far - the combat is actually not trivial, the story seemed interesting to say the least and the city is beautiful. Just get the framerate to a solid thirty and I'll be happy enough.

I guess I would consider that as more of a "expected" "feature" of the last gen consoles. I was surprised the port was as good as it was based on the vram limitations of last gen.

@naoiko: With these huge releases it certainly is. Hitting the release date is more important than anything else especially for a holiday season release like this. They likely knew of the issues and were already working on fixing them but they can't come out and say "the game is busted give us a week to patch it." They hope for all the day 1 sales they can get and then play dumb about the bugs/glitches.

It's a real shame they couldn't have fixed these issues before launch. It's almost like game development needs a period before release where bugs and issues are sought out and fixed or something...

Co-op matchmaking problems... on UPlay... NO WAY! I will buy a single player game on UPlay still, but not multiplayer. Multiplayer UPlay games are the same as throwing my money in the trash.

It sounds like they just watched the YouTube glitch video and said, "oh yeah we'll fix that"

I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. I'm playing on pc and I have had zero problems. It runs fast and I haven't seen any real glitches like falling through the world. It did crash once but it happened as I went to close the game and my save was fine so I didn't care.

I think it's pretty fun but I'm a bigger fan of AC2 than I was of 4 so I like climbing around the big cities. Also the big assassinations remind me of the way they were in the first AC which was the only part I liked about the first one.

I am bummed they can't do something right with the modern story. I really liked it but I feel just ignoring it is lame.

Its a little bit of a mess. I am near the end and so far I have fallen through the world once, and been stuck in geometry twice. Both times while scaling down buildings. Thankfully I was able to fast travel out of all those situations because its not like the game has a save/load option anywhere.

Also, frame-rate has been okay for the most part, only dipping when I get near large groups of people but never to the point of unplayable. However anytime you get near the any thing where the game has to talk to a server, it also hitches. The stupid Ubisoft point stuff has not worked yet so there is gear that is locked for the time being as well.

I wont get into all the micro-transaction shit that is thrown in your face. This is the first Assassins Creed game I have been truly disappointed with. This feels like a huge step down from Black Flag on many levels.

I am playing on the PS4 version.

Edit: I will also like to add, I do not like the new combat system at all. You are supposed to wait for visual queues on their health bars to parry and dodge, but it is so zoomed in, I cant see half the attacks before they happen.

I feel bad for the thousands that worked on this game. Unity is my favorite ac so far but they'll never here things like that over the the shit talk.

Oh, good: now that the game is out, they've decided to beta test - how kind of them.

I recently set my 29 year old brother (I'm 21) on a new game Renaissance and one of the games he really enjoyed was AC:Black Flag and he was super excited about Unity. So we split the cost of Unity and I'm not disappointed because I feel as if I've wasted my money, I'm disappointed because I know it's not going to live up to his expectations no matter how much I temper them. Just needed to get that off my chest.

Well I'm so happy that they are such good developers as to come out and admit that they rushed the game out because they had to meet their one-year release cycle and...wait.

Seriously, it's good that they're at least acknowledging the issues. But this should never have been said. All games have issues, and all games get patches. But to have this much stuff broken is just nuts.

It makes me remember that guy who wrote into the Bombcast from overseas who has terrible internet. And my friend who lives a few miles away in a more rural area that gets like less than 1mbps internet.

Hmm Kotaku's story for this has a very similar opening line:

Aside from being one of the dullest entries in the best-selling series, Assassin's Creed Unity appears to be riddled with bugs.

Although GB articles aren't timestamped, judging by comment timestamps it looks like Patrick was first.

Maybe, no, they should have fixed those issues before releasing the game. I don't know if it's because I've been playing more PC games and realizing a lot of them are a complete mess or just seeing games being released (somehow) in a less-than-appropriate state but I'm on the road to never buying a game at launch. No matter how big of the release I'm going to wait until it's patched and playable how it should be.

Such a shame....Oh AC, I love you, but you are making so difficult for me....I guess I will wait and see if this can be sorted before buying...

Helix Credit issues? Are people not able to spend the credits they payed $99.99 for?

Hopefully Ubi can get these issues ironed out quick, because the game itself is quite solid.

I've been fortunate enough not to run into any big problems myself. The frame rate has been fine for me as well

@hammondoftexas: @patrickklepek: Why do I have the sudden urge to go watch Mars Attacks?

• Arno getting caught inside of hay carts.

It's about time some one started booby trapping those damn carts.

Why promise to fix something we expect to not find in a game gone gold on the shelves for $60.

I think most of the people calling the game broken haven't actually played the game. Sure there are some glitchy things going on, but most of them are just silly. Nothing gamebreaking or anything close to a broken game.

At least on PC the game is fine.

Your statement is bug-free and polished.

Lessons learned:

- Don't pre-order games

- Don't pre-order games from ubisoft

- Hope FC4 is better than this, but don't pre-order it

- Come on ubisoft, why u do dis?

- Console ports are the worst

@hammondoftexas: it's not whats on the outside, but what's on the inside that matters.

@mbradley1992: this is all corporate and upper management mandated stuff, i wouldn't outright blame the developers. Im pretty sure they worked round the clock thankless hours to keep the game from being more on fire than it is. I don't think they can put up any protest short of quitting en masse and starting their own studio(s); meanwhile if you really want you can vote with your wallet.

The game doesn't even seem as broken as i would expect it to be, considering all the moving parts involved. Maybe more of a case of looking bad in context with arguably less complex games that are as a result more polished.

@thesillymonkey: yes cause if we set fire to that hopefully it will die

When are those fixes coming though? None of these news articles mention any sort of timeline. Is it by the end of November or by the end of the year? Sometimes I wish videogame news was bit more "meaty" in it's content.

I'm surprised they didn't catch these "issues" during testing.

If they did catch these "issues" and decided not to fix them, then I'm surprised they let THAT happen.

Hell, getting a broken product out of the door quickly is better than taking an extra year to ship a well polished deliverable, right?

I'm still looking forward to AC, I really enjoy the franchise, but I decided to wait on this with Dragon Age coming. Hopefully a lot of this stuff will be sorted out by the time I pick it up in a month or so.

@patrickklepek Are the images from your post captured in game?

Not sure this is enough to win the coveted Apology of the Year award but probably good for a nomination at least.

I'm glad that I didn't get this.

Glad I didn't bother with this.