Assassin's Creed 3 PC "will be less buggy" than console, says Ubisoft

Assassin's Creed 3 - hunting redcoats

In a Reddit AMA thread posted yesterday, development team members of Assassin's Creed 3 assured that the PC version of Connor's American vacation will include a new patch ironing bugs present in the console version and sprinkling in DirectX 11 improvements.

Other questions answered by Graziani and the rest of the participants—including Writer Matt Turner, Creative Director Alex Hutchinson, and the enviable-sounding Team Historian Maxime Durand—touched upon design decisions, requested multiplayer modes (naval battles!), and an island full of bears. (Yes, it exists.) One poster queried the team on their awareness of complaints against a perceived "pro-American" take on the War of Independence through Connor's Redcoat wreckage. As Hutchinson put it, the team staunchly opposed any discriminatory intent, but everyone felt "depressed" as a result.

"We started laughing, then we were depressed as we realized nobody would believe us until the game shipped," he wrote. "Then we felt validated when it did ship and most people noticed. Then we were depressed again when we realized all the people who carried on about it before we shipped weren't going to say sorry."

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