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Assassin's Creed Unity

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Assassin's Creed Unity
Assassin's Creed Unity cover
Developers
Ubisoft Montreal
Windows Ubisoft Ukraine
Publishers
Ubisoft
Engines
AnvilNext 2.0
Release dates
Windows November 11, 2014
Reception
Metacritic 70
OpenCritic 71
IGDB 71
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, DLC
Microtransactions Currency, Boost[1]
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Stealth, Open world
Art styles Realistic
Themes Europe, Historical
Series Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed Unity on HowLongToBeat
Assassin's Creed Unity on IGDB
Assassin's Creed Unity guide on StrategyWiki
Assassin's Creed Unity on MobyGames
Assassin's Creed Unity on Wikipedia
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Assassin's Creed II 2010
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood 2011
Assassin's Creed: Revelations 2011
Assassin's Creed III 2012
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag 2013
Assassin's Creed: Liberation HD 2014
Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry 2014
Assassin's Creed: Pirates 2014
Assassin's Creed Unity 2014
Assassin's Creed Rogue 2015
Assassin's Creed Chronicles (series)
Assassin's Creed Syndicate 2015
Assassin's Creed Origins 2017
Discovery Tour (series)
Assassin's Creed Odyssey 2018
Assassin's Creed III Remastered 2019
Assassin's Creed III: Liberation Remastered 2019
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 2020
Assassin's Creed Mirage 2023

General information

Official forums
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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Windows
Epic Games Store
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Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
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Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
Ubisoft Store
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Included with Ubisoft+
Windows
Amazon.com (unavailable)
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Windows
Origin (unavailable)
Origin
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Windows
All versions require Ubisoft Connect DRM.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Season Pass Includes DLC and Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China. No longer sold.[2]
Windows
Dead Kings Released as a free download, added automatically when updating the game. Required for Update 1.5.0.[2]
Windows
Revolutionary Armaments Pack
Windows
Secrets of the Revolution
Windows

Companion app

The Assassin's Creed Unity Companion once provided access to additional maps, challenges and outfits, but following the termination of the companion app the content was made available to all players.

Essential improvements

Physics Patch

Fixes the leather and cloth physics at high frame rates
Re-enables wind effects which were cut from the game
Includes a 60 FPS patch
Fixes the drag and wind resistance
Tweaked certain outfits to look better

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename video files[3]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\videos\.
  2. Delete or rename UbisoftLogo.bk2 and pc_TWIMTBP.bk2.
  3. Navigate to <path-to-game>\videos\<locale folder>\ (e.g. en for English).
  4. Delete or rename warning_disclaimer.bk2 and pc_WarningSaving.bk2.

Game data

Configuration file location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Assassin's Creed Unity\ACU.ini
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/289650/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <Ubisoft-Connect-folder>\savegames\<user-id>\720\
Steam <Ubisoft-Connect-folder>\savegames\<user-id>\857\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/289650/pfx/[Note 1]
Russian-only version has different ID - 944 or 945[citation needed]

Save game cloud syncing

Video

Graphics options
Graphics options
Advanced graphics options
Advanced graphics options

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Hor+ scaling and stretched FMVs.[4]
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
FXAA, up to 8x MSAA (combined with FXAA), or TXAA (Nvidia only).
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
No frame rate cap;[5] however, frame rates above 130 FPS will prevent the game from fully loading in models and assets that are far away, even if the player reaches them. Most of the interior areas won't be rendered either. Mouse sensitivity is also tied to frame rate and will be reduced the higher the frame rate gets.[citation needed] See Mouse sensitivity for a workaround.[dubious – discuss]
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Mouse smoothing is forced and cannot be removed.

Audio

Sound options
Sound options

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, Sound FX, Voice.
Surround sound
5.1
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Game pauses on focus lost.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Arabic
Traditional Chinese
Czech
Dutch
French
German
Hungarian
Fan translation.
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Persian
Fan translation By SubRan Team, download
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play
4 Co-op
Single-player and co-op missions are separate.

Connection types

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
Z3D
Officially supported game, see official vorpx game list.

Issues fixed

Mouse sensitivity tied to frame rate

Mouse sensitivity will be reduced the higher the frame rate gets.
Use Cheat Engine[citation needed]
  1. Download and run Cheat Engine
  2. Start the game, get to a playable area and then go to "Options", "Controls" and set "X Axis Sensitivity" and "Y Axis Sensitivity" to any value, e.g. 10. Go back to the previous menu.
  3. Run Cheat Engine and search for 10.000000 as a float.
  4. Go back to the game and set both sensitivity values to something else, e.g. 1. Go back to the previous menu.
  5. Search for 1.000000 next.
  6. Continue the above process until only two values are left.
  7. Set both of them to any desired value e.g. 30.
  8. Start playing the game to a point where it automatically saves its progress. If this step is skipped, the entire process will have to be repeated with the next launch for changes to take effect.
Do not open the "Controls" menu again as it will revert the sensitivity values to one of the predefined ones.
The sensitivity values are shared between the mouse, arrow keys and the right analog stick of a controller; however, the latter two are not affected by changing the frame rate. Increasing mouse sensitivity could, in turn, make them overly sensitive.

Crash after 15 minutes on Windows 10

May be caused by a weird interaction between one version of XAudio2_7.dll and the on-screen keyboard service.
Check if this is indeed the cause of the crash with Windows error log[citation needed]
  1. Open the Start menu, type msinfo32, and press Enter.
  2. In Software Environment\Windows Error Reporting look for entries with ACU.exe and check that the faulty module is XAudio2_7.dll.
Stop TabTip.exe[citation needed]
  • Stop the TabTip.exe process, also referred to as Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Helper, before launching the game.

Notes

To simplify this process, create a batch command to run the game.
taskkill /f /im "tabtip.exe"
cd /d "{{P|game}}\Assassin's Creed Unity"
start ACU.exe
  • Use your actual installation folder and save as a .cmd. Launch it as an administrator.
To simplify this process, create a shortcut to the .cmd and choose Run as an administrator in the shortcut's advanced options.

Game fails to launch if installed on a Storage Spaces drive

The game will fail to launch if installed on a Storage Spaces drive. This will either cause the ACU.exe process to get stuck on the splash screen or in the background.
Storage Spaces is Microsoft's new software-based RAID solution for Windows 10, allowing users to create and make use of virtual disk drive(s) that spans across multiple physical drives in a desired RAID configuration.
Move the installation folder to a regular non-Storage Spaces drive[6]
  1. Copy the <path-to-game> folder over to a new appropriate location on a non-Storage Spaces drive.
  2. When the game folder have been copied over completely, open Uplay and select the game.
  3. Click on Properties and then on Uninstall to remove the existing game install folder.
  4. After the uninstall have been completed, click on Locate installed game below the Download button.
  5. Browse to and select the new <path-to-game> folder, then click on OK.
  6. The game will be playable again after Uplay have verified that all game files are present.

Game changes resolution to lowest compatible (ex: 320x200)

Edit configuration file[citation needed]
  1. Open %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Assassin's Creed Unity\ACU.ini.
  2. Edit these lines and set the resolution as preferred:
    DisplayWidth=XXXXX
    DisplayHeight=XXXXX
    
  3. Save the file and change the file to read-only.

Game won't work with DS4 v2 Controller

The game has native support for DS4 controllers on PC with it loading the PlayStation button prompts in-game, but only on connecting the DualShock 4 version 1 model. On connecting a version 2 controller, the game will load the Xbox button prompts and not work correctly.
Follow this guide on Steam.
For the Uplay version of the game, do not follow the first step of disabling the Steam Input.

Issues unresolved

Massive pop-in and poor LOD quality, even on highest available graphics settings

Assassin's Creed Unity is plagued by very noticeable pop-in and poor level of detail at all times. As this appears to be hardcoded, currently and likely forever unfixable.[7]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Shader Model support 5
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Havok
Audio Wwise
Cutscenes Bink Video

Other information

Reset progress for a new game

Unity does not inherently support multiple save files. This fix allows you to backup a current save file and start over with a new one.
Backup save[8]
  1. Go to UPlay's Settings > General and untick Enable Cloud Save Synchronization for supported games to disable cloud saves.
  2. Navigate to save game data location and make a backup of the folder then delete it.
  3. Start the game and play until it saves once.
  4. Re-enable Cloud Saves and allow the local save file to overwrite the online one. Repeat the process above to restore original save file.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7 SP1
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-2500K 3.3 GHz
AMD FX-8350 4.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 6 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 50 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 680
AMD Radeon HD 7970
2 GB of VRAM
DirectX 11 compatible
Shader model 5.0 support
A 64-bit operating system is required.

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/289650/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (289650) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. How Assassin's Creed Unity's micro-transactions work - last accessed on 2020-10-05
  2. 2.0 2.1 Assassins Creed Unity Offer FAQ - Assassin's Creed Unity Updates | Ubisoft (US)
  3. Skip all the intro videos and warnings. - last accessed on 2020-10-05
  4. Verified by User:Rose on 2020-10-05
    Multiple screenshots of various frames taken at the native display resolution of 2560x1080, then compared to a 16:9 video found online.
  5. Gabriel Graziani on Twitter: "@thewhitestigvk @VolumeRX @assassinscreed No caps." - last accessed on 9 June 2023
  6. Ubisoft Forums - SOLUTION: AC games won't launch when installed on Windows Storage Spaces - last accessed on 2022-01-31
  7. Forum - Unity's Building/Texture Draw-Distance is Woefully Low [missing title] - last accessed on 2021-09-10
  8. Reddit - last accessed on 26 May 2023