Assassin's Creed Unity Patch 4, which promises to 'alleviate performance issues', has been released on Xbox One and PS4, Ubisoft has announced.
The PC update will follow soon.
The 6.7GB update might seem pretty hefty, but Ubisoft explains the reason for the file size.
"Part of the team's effort to enhance frame rate for players involves replacing and updating portions of the Paris city map where we are seeing issues. This explains the large size of this title update (6.7 GB). However, since a large portion of the patch replaces existing files the net increase to the game's overall size will be less than 6.7 GB."
Fixes in the patch include:
- Performance & Stability: Frame rate drops, game crashes, lost progression
- Gameplay: Navigation, lock picking chests
- Online: Connectivity, matchmaking, companion app
Ubisoft has acknowledged the issue.
"We have received and confirmed reports that some Xbox One players who have previously applied Patch 3 are seeing a 40GB download instead of the expected 6.7GB download," said Ubisoft. "Unfortunately, an issue with the patch downloading process is replacing the entire game instead of just the parts affected by the patch. This is obviously not the expected behaviour, and we apologize that many of you will have to wait longer than expected to complete this download. This issue isn't causing any other problems and once the download is completed players will have the most-up-to-date and fully patched version of Assassin's Creed Unity.
"We are working with Microsoft on a solution to reduce the total download to the intended size so that you can get back into the game faster, but as of now we have no ETA on when this will be resolved."
There is currently one known workaround: "Owners of the disc version of the game can uninstall the game and reinstall it," Ubisoft says. "On starting the game, the patch process will start with the correct download size."
