This is a bit more of an angry rant than anything else, but nevertheless, I feel everybody needs a reminder on just how bad uplay can be.
So, after discovering that my masterfully mid-range rig could actually run it properly. I recently decided to buy Assassin's Creed Unity for £16 off G2A. Needless to say, despite my earlier post defacing Ubisoft, I was pretty hyped. I knew I had a monolithic download ahead of me. "50 GB? Sheesh." But I continued my download regardless. So it took the best part of an evening, more accurately staying up until 2:30 AM and the thing hadn't even finished downloading. I think it was about 95% by the time I called it a day.
Next morning I boot up uplay to continue the download, only to have the download continue from the
VERY BEGINNING. I was a little annoyed but I decided to just let the download resume for the rest of the day. This time, the game had actually finished its download. I pressed the virtual button to finally launch the game only to have an error obstruct me. I tried a few more times before thinking, "It's probably a corrupt file, I guess I'll verify the game cache..."
Now this is when I get
REALLY MAD, you see if you've ever verified a local game cache in Steam, you'll know that it handles the situation very well by just re-downloading the files that are corrupted. Wanna know what uplay did?
Restarted the download, all. Over.
AGAIN.
So yeah, I did expect bugs with Unity, but this is really testing my patience. We don't all have a super-fast fiber optic broadband you know...
But this time, it is claiming that the download is a patch. So maybe it's just a patch that replaces all the files that were broken in Assassin's Creed Unity... oh wait, isn't that all of them?