So...even the patch is broken?

I think that gamers blow these things out of proportion, and the average gamer doesn't notice that much.  The same thing with Skyrim on PS3.  Every gamer online deemed it unplayable, but my friend played the shit out of it and didn't notie any problems. *shrug*

(Note: I haven't player ACU, so I can't really judge)

LOL 40 Gigabyte patch? MGS4 in its entirety is about 50 Gigabytes and thats easily one of the most biggest games in terms of bytes of last gen, probably the biggest one...

I don't get it. Why are some of you playin' stupid? Ok, the game is fucked, the patch is fucked.... but I still don't get it. U've got the disk.... it's ~7GB (no re-install needed in my case)... U've got the "digital" version then.... ok. A 40GB patch sounds completely stupid... but you already know that ain't only the patch. The game was fucked from the start and everybody knew it... what's there to add and discuss? As a side note (Is the Internet that bad in your area?)

because 6.9gb is MUCH better?  These broken games are getting rediculous on all consoles with their huge patches.

In my opinion, that's not a great viewpoint to take

The game never ran as badly as reported for the vast majority of actual users. I can only speak for the PS4 performance, but it has never been unplayable. It hasn't been a sold 30fps, but it's been good. It never got very choppy and it never got stuck. I have had literally one crash.

After the patch, things are smoother and the game generally runs well

There are one or two bugs and civilians do have weird glitches from time to time. But it's barely noticable

The reason that it didn't get awful reviews due to bugs is because they were always MASSIVELY overhyped*

So yeah. Keep an open mind and don't listen to all the "anti-hype". I know it's cool to bash Ubi, but not all of it is deserved. It's not game of the year and it's probably not better than Black Flag in many aspects. But it's not broken and it does have plenty of good things to offer

As for the patch, on Xbox One it causes some people to download the entire game. Not on other consoles, certainly I downloaded it without a problem. The reason it's so large is because they've redone a lot of the textures throughout Paris to help the game run better. It seems to have worked

* The PC release is quite possibly broken. But I personally rarely expect any PC game to properly work at launch

Yeah, they need to start fining companies for releasing broken games and then releasing big patches. Hopefully the EU passes a law soon to deal with the matter. 

Only the X1 had the 40GB patch glitch. I can't say for how the X1 fared post patch, but the PS4 version has been improved quite noticeably from the 6.7GB patch in my experience. It still isn't perfect, but it is a huge step in the right direction.

It is a shame Ubi couldn't be as effective with both platforms, but I hope it gets ironed out on X1 also. The game was never unplayable for me and it is saddening to see people are still having issues.

Cobretti -- i have seen my oldest brother play the game on his XO and most of the time the framerate is stable . It only drops a bit during crowded scenes. Its very playable and not that broken as many people would say. Skyrim on ps3 had fps in single digits. that to me is more broken. I agree that ubisoft should have released the game next year to do more testing and released rogue on all platforms this year. Its all about money these days and being holiday period , most companies owuld grab teh opportunity to cash on it

The frame rate for the most part is fine when you're making your way to an objective, exploring, etc. But sometimes during action scenes its so unstable it actually impacts gameplay. That kinda choppiness shouldn't exist for a series of this popular. Perhaps they should have stuck with the old engine until this one was ready.

Its not like cutting edge visuals is crucial to the AC experience. AC:Rogue is easily the better game of 2014.