Lol, that sucks. View distance in the settings will probably have the most effect on performance for you.
Welcome to pc gaming…
I keed I keed (kind of…)
Well, checking if you meet the system requirements isn’t exactly brain surgery.
If the price of playing games at non-slideshow levels and graphics that are 10 times better than consoles is read 50 characters of text to make sure a game can run on my system, then by god, I’ll pay that price.
Let’s not kick off that discussion here.
LOL!
Ironies or ironies. So yeah. Fuck Haytham, didn’t see that twist coming though.
So I guess, at some point, one of Ezio’s descendats got nasty with a templar?
It’s still early in the game for me, but I never did finish Bloodlines or brotherhood. Were the Templar’s goals/motivations at all explained? Do they know of the impending apocalypse? Do they care?
The Templar’s motivations are essentially the same as the Assassins’ – freedom, prosperity, happiness blah blah blah for the human race. Despite all of the evil people you’ve met in the games, the core philosophies exemplify a difference between Lawful Good and Chaotic Good. (Well, okay, the writers are a bit schizo, they SAY this often enough but it rarely explains why they make such baby eating people Templar).
However, it’s unknown whether or not the Templar know about the apocalypse. I haven’t gotten super far in ACIII, but it’s brought up as a question by Desmond and Shaun pretty early on. (Very minor spoilers about a throwaway conversation):
They contemplate going to the Templar and pooling their resources to prevent the end of the world together, but throw out the idea just in case the Templar know about it and have bad intentions.
Given that bit of foreshadowing, I presume that at some point in ACIII, or at the very least a direct sequel we’ll know for sure if the Templar know and what they plan to do about/with the apocalypse scenario.
Oh, about the Ezio->Haytham line. It’s implied pretty early on, and maybe in the datalog, that Haytham was orphaned at some point early in his life, and then adopted by a Templar foster parent who brought him into the order. I don’t consider it a major spoiler since I think it may have actually been mentioned in the theater scene. It’s just really easy to miss.
Er… shit, I forgot that while the dialogue was a throwaway line, the actual implication isn’t known until the twist and I just accidentally let loose the hugest act I spoiler, can a mod spoiler that last paragraph?
Fixed that for you.
Thank you.
[spoiler]It should be remembered, though, that Altair’s not-yet-wife was a templar when he impregnated her. Granted, she switched sides to be with Altair. So Ezzio, Haytham, Desmond, etc. are all descended from Templars as well as assassins.
And I love the achievement/trophy name that you get for completing the sequence when the twist is revealed: “How d’ya like them apples?”
I must say I didn’t even see it coming. It wasn’t until right when he puts on the ring that I first wondered (seeing as how we know that’s not how the assassin’s initiate people) but when he mentioned a new world of law and order or whatever I knew what was coming next. He didn’t even have to mention Templar after that.[/spoiler]
Oh, I managed to make it playable, but only by shoving the resolution down to its lowest possible setting, making it look like ass. I think I know what the problem is, though - I bought the game through Steam, which means I have to launch it through Steam, but at the same time it launches through the Uplay browser, which means I have to run them both - total memory usage 130,000. Is there any way to cut out the middle-man here?
130 MB isn’t much of an issue. We could help you out more, hopefully, if you can tell us the exact specs of your PC: GPU, CPU, RAM, operating system.
Hell, right now Chrome says it’s using 500MB on my machine (and that’s only the first one listed, not each individual tab).
I’m guessing it’s a GPU issue, lowering the resolution really sounds like a GPU issue. Unless he has really, really low amounts or RAM or a corrupt stick.
The combination of places I’ve actually been and utterly implausible shortcuts is getting pretty damn odd. Who knew it was a 5 minute horse ride from Concord to Valley Forge? Last time I made that trip it took 6 hours by car.
Eh- Lawful Neutral and Chaotic Neutral at best. Each side is more dedicated to the Lawful / Chaotic goal, and just assume that Good will naturally flow from that. But when you’re stabbing everyone who gets in your way, you’re not Good. As someone said in the other AC thread going on - you’ve got to remember the Assassins are terrorists.
CPU: Intel Core i7 2670-QM CPU @ 2.20GHz
Installed Memory: 8.00 GB
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GT 555M (w/ latest drivers as of 2 days ago)
Exactly what I’ve been saying.
What makes them terrorists?
The GPU is your issue. It’s basically a console level GPU. Expect to play games at medium/low (console settings) at console resolutions (720p or less).
Try setting the game to 720p, lower the anti-aliasing settings to it’s lowest, but leave everything else at max except for shadows, lower that too. If you’re still suffering from bad performance, try lowering the texture resolution by a notch.
It should be playable at those settings at 30 FPS or so… in other words, exactly like the console version.
For gaming, a desktop is best, and if you’re going laptop, you need to spend more on the GPU.
Eh, in a world where these terms come from D&D, where murdering 5000 orcs can leave you with a Good alignment as long as you have good intentions, I’m not sure I see the distinction :p.
:dubious:
The fact that their tactics are basically to instill terror in their enemies through the use of mass killing and/or public “demonstration” murders, perhaps?
It’s generally amusing to me that the Assassins seem to take umbrage at the fact that the Templar go to great lengths to wipe them all out, when the Assassins are basically mass murder psychotics and seem to start the feuds just as often. Moral Myopia, I suppose.