2.2GB Update?

[Jay]

Anyone know the changelog?

[Masochistic Monk]

It should come up automatically. There's no way to disable or enable it as far as I know, but I could be wrong. Might be some regional thing?

Maybe you can try launching the game from uplay? I'm not sure what else to try. Your guess is as good as mine.

[Kamano]

Yeah, I would expect your savegames to work after you joined the beta branch or added the missing file manually, even if you do not get this popup.

People who do not got a second AC3 version from the Ubisoft anniversary in their Uplay library shouldn't get the version dialoge popup anyway after they start the game. Uplay doesn't seem to know what version to start, that's why it's displaying the popup.

When I was trying the first AC3 game option my savegames were damaged as well (probably that's the free anniversary version), but the second version in the list works for me after the missing file has been added, so that's probably the Steam version.

[Jack Goldfinch]

After I received the anniversary-gift AC3 I had this popup as well. Because I found it annoying I asked Ubisoft-support to remove the gifted AC3 from my uPlay-account and now everything is fine again. I can start AC3 directly from Steam without having to choose between two indistinguishable options in a uPlay-popup...

Thanks to

Początkowo opublikowane przez Finoderi:

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I can even load the savegames again!

[Kamano]

Do you actually have the missing file in your game folder?
However that your game displays smaged savadata makes me believe you'd be using the wrong AC3 version. The free Uplay version still also displays "damaged savedata" to me, while the Steam version loads my saves.

[Kamano]

Did you also try to verify your game files in Steam or to download and reinstall your game completely? Cause that's what I was doing shortly after the problems occurred. I know it's a huge download, I got a fast Internet atm, tho.

You could try to Start the game in Uplay than in Steam, but it actually shouldn't change anything as far as I can tell.

Also, maybe your savedata is actually corrupted. It could help to get fresh files from the Uplay cloud. (Backup, delete and then get them back automatically.)

[Maix]

In my case, I didn't have "damaged savedata" message, instead I had "missing dlc content" message. So Beta fix worked for me. That's because my save indeed was from full game, with all the dlc's, and patch deleted one or many of them.

Seems to me, that save corruption is a bit different, and probably more serious problem.

[Kamano]

Hm, I hope they didn't remove the wrong version from your UPlay account. Do you still start AC3 in Steam? To me it looked like the savegames of my Steam version wouldn't be compatible with the Uplay version after all. However I didn't try to play the free version until the patch destroyed the savegames ... hmm, weird. So according to my memory my savegames actually were displayed as damaged in my Steam version before and if I started the Uplay version I got the missing DLC error. And after I reinstalled it was vice versa. VERY CONFUSING!

[Crane]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Finoderi:

Guys, I think you will love it.
Tonight I decided to finish my playthrough and get last 5% of synchronization, but Steam didn't allow me to launch the game anymore without update. So I backed up the entire AC3 folder and allowed Steam to update AC3. And of course I couldn't load my save after that once more.

I compared two sets of files - from my back up and from the game folder - and noticed that in updated version of the game the file 'DataPC_DX11_4_dlc.forge' is missing. There are several '*.PC_DX11.forge' files from 'DataPC_DX11.forge' to 'DataPC_DX11_10_dlc.forge', but not the 'DataPC_DX11_4_dlc.forge'. I copied it from my back up to the game folder and guess what? Now I can load my old saves on updated version of the game.
Could somebody try to do the same and check, does it work for him (or her) or not?
Here is the link on 'DataPC_DX11_4_dlc.forge' - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B--LhVFm_ryCYk56bkxyNDNvOXc/view?usp=sharing

And please tell me you believe those ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ morons who lied they tried to fix the issue with saves for at least two days and couldn't notice so overwhelmingly complicated thing. God I hate those raffs.

Большое спасибо (Thanks) :)

[Maix]

After this fix my game starts again, however it has become very buggy - constantly crashing, npc's disappearing, some videos very laggy, despite my fps higher than 100.

[Finoderi]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it all happened because of that one extra file. Nice try.

[Kamano]

My game is fine with this fix. Running as before and no changes yet, except the beta participation in Steam.

[Don-Tan]

they could start to integrate the beta into the official release

[Kamano]

My beta version has just been patched again. And the regular version is still bugged to me, seems nothing changed there yet.

So the beta patch version includes these new files now compared to the standard version (with the latest language patch):
DataPC_DX11_4_dlc.forge
DataPC_DX11_DLC_AI_BossGym_GW_6_dlc.forge
DataPC_DX11_DLC_AI_Integration.forge
DataPC_DX11_DLC_AI_Integration_6_dlc.forge

Did I miss one file? I was just checking the main folder.

P.S: ah yeah, regarding the timestamp of today, at least these two files has been added to multiplayer:
multi/DataPC_brazilian_dlc.forge
multi/DataPC_DX10_CompiledResourceCache.forge

(I wasn't investigating any deeper tho.)

[stach122]

free bugs

[MeatSackGamer]

Looks like those are the only additional ones compared to the normal branch version. The DataPC_DX11_4_dlc.forge file appears to be the same as before the update since my install didn't bother getting a new version of it.