Patch 3 Rollout Begins This Week

Thanks to your collaboration and support via our Customer Support channels and this Live Update blog, we have assembled Patch 3 and are preparing to deploy it on console and PC this week. The rollout itself will begin later this week on PC.

Patch 3 includes over three hundred fixes designed to improve your Assassin’s Creed Unity experience. While you might notice some improvements to framerate as a result of Patch 3, we still have a future patch planned to further address framerate concerns.

You can find a detailed list of fixes in our Forums, but here’s a quick overview of some of the updates you’ll find in Patch 3:

Stability and Performance

• Fixed numerous random crashes in Campaign and Co-op modes
• Fixed specific framerate drops
  • Improved task scheduling
  • Tweaked performance for Reach High Points (Synchronization)

Gameplay (Navigation, Fight and Stealth)

• Fixed various navigation issues where players could get stuck
• Fixed various haystack issues
• Fixed various cover issues
• Fixed various camera issues
• Fixed various animation issues
• Fixed various Booster issues

AI & Crowd

• Fixed various animation issues
• Fixed various detection issues
• Fixed various crowd station issues (bonfires)

Matchmaking, Connectivity and Replication

• Fixed various matchmaking issues
• Fixed various host migration issues (hand-off occurs more smoothly)
• Fixed join-in-progress issues
• Fixed various replication issues between host and clients
• Fixed various issues in the My Club menu

Menus and HUD

• Fixed various menu issues and pop-up overlap issues
• Fixed Mission objective & updating issues
• Fixed issues in customization menu
• Fixed some localization inconsistencies in menus
• Fixed some issues in the credits

Mission Tweaks (Campaign, Co-op and Side Content)

• Fixed various low-repro walkthrough breaks
• Fixed various NPC navigation issues
• Fixed inconsistencies in some missions

World and 3D

• Adjusted various collisions and navigation mesh issues

Progression and Difficulty

• Adjusted various Community Event rewards

PC-Specific

• Fixed save game corruption in some cases
• Fixed temporal blur from SLI
• Fixed graphical corruptions in Character Customization menu
• Fixed crash in Character Customization menu on controller auto-switch
• Alt+Enter switches windows correctly
• NPC on side monitors show correctly
• Minor UI improvements

Additionally, we have already begun working on Patch 4 and we expect to have further updates on it in the coming week.

- The Live Updates Team