Originally Posted by
Tyras_385
HI there,
So, I've been having fun since FC4's fantastic launch (sigh...) experiencing the beautiful vistas and exciting action of crashing on startup and blackscreens and I was stoked to see the news post about patch 1.4. Then I get to thinking, 'Why have I never seen any evidence of the game trying to patch itself?' I tried to verify the version of my game but had a lot of trouble finding the number until I checked the .exe itself and found it was at 1.0.1. I then tried to find a way to patch the game but I am at my wits end with it. :confused: So I thought I'd read up and try again today. I found out how UPlay does its patching and tried it on FC4. No dice. I even tried a complete reinstall of the game with no luck. I verified the game's files thinking it might work... nope! I then tried, in my desperation, to patch AC: IV just to see if it worked for any game. (Dun dun Duuuun!!) It patched just as it should have done. Seriously!!?! What is going on here. First Ubi releases a game without even the most basic of attempts at bugfixing, and then I find that I can't even patch it when they do!!?
Anyone else having this problem and, if so, anyone got any ideas on getting past it. I started AC4 and it promted me to patch or play offline. I start FC4 it syncs the saves I don't have, 'cause I've never gotten it running, and then trys to run... No prompt to patch... Just an appcrash with a little black window behind it... I just don't know whether I can be arsed with this any more. I can't say I'll be pre-ordering any Ubi games in the future, maybe even just avoid their games. Companies that only program for PC, as a ported afterthought, are just wrong especially when the best platform for showing off their creativity and vision is the PC!!!
Anyway, thanks for viewing this rant... :cool: Any help appreciated as I said before and, for what it's worth Ubi, I don't hate you, I just hate corporate philosophy toward consumers these days.