Hi Guys!

The first patch for Assassin’s Creed 2 has been announced!

Thanks to the feedback you provided the developers were able to quickly fix some of the issues that would prevent some of you from fully enjoying the game. The patch will be released today on Playstation 3 and on December 11th for the Xbox 360.

We hope you are all looking forward to the upcoming downloadable content, and we would be glad to hear about your feedback on the patch. If you have any remaining or new issues, feel free to contact our support http://support.ubi.com/ or post a thread here in the forums.

The patch notes are listed below. Thank you all for your patience and feedback.

Patch notes

Fixed: Situation specific bugs

Glyph
After the player has resolved a glyph (when the unlock code message appears), if the player presses A and B (for 360, X and O on PS3) repeatedly and quickly, the video will appear in full screen, and he will get stuck in "the truth menu".

Fast Travel
Some feedback states that Ezio loses the ability to interact with the fast travel stations.

Free roaming/Parkour
In extremely rare occasions a bug allows Ezio to walk on air.

Auditore Cape
When first equipping or re-equipping the Auditore cape, users in the Villa become notorious even if the cape description says otherwise.

Altaïr’s armour
While wearing Altair's armour the game crashes when performing multiple consecutive double assassinations.

Toscana
The game occasionally crashes if the player dies in Toscana, the player is stuck in the animus loading screen.

Water
Ezio and NPCs may get stuck beneath map if pushed in water.

Animus Loading Screen
There were reports of the game crashing while the player is in the Animus loading screen


Fixed: Mission specific issues

Sequence 05 Mission 01
The game froze after completing the mission and following certain steps.

Sequence 06 Mission 02
An extremely rare issue could make the game freeze while Ezio is fighting the guards.

Sequence 07 Mission 02
Sometimes the civilians knocked down by Rosa could “float”.

Sequence 07 Mission 07
When the user is in an open conflict, under specific situations the game crashed.

Sequence 08 “Venezia”
If a player desynchronises during the flying machine sequence, the player sometimes spawned near Leo's workshop and not on the tower.

Secret Location: “Vizitatione”
The user remains stuck after locking onto the agile guard with the gun.

Sequence 11 Mission 05
The user cannot continue gameplay after quitting and loading the game. They are stuck in the hideout.

Sequence 14 Mission 02
The user falls through the texture if he is hit with rocks by the guards while climbing


Sound enhancement:

5.1 LPCM support

So they didn't listen to the replaying missions requests, and the getting rid of swords and armour options? Awwww I really want the original assassin outfit back.

Hi Sackboy. We have noted the feeback given but for the first patch fixing any major bugs and issues is our first priority

No mention of replaying missions.How completely ignorant.A complete disappointment.

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Originally posted by kazzoo:
Hi Sackboy. We have noted the feeback given but for the first patch fixing any major bugs and issues is our first priority

That's good I suppose. I just hope Ubisoft listen to the additions they can put in.

Hi there is this scheduled to come out later today because I just put the game in and didn't get notified of an update.

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Originally posted by kazzoo:
Hi Sackboy. We have noted the feeback given but for the first patch fixing any major bugs and issues is our first priority

I understand what your saying, major bugs should be sorted out first, but being able to replay missions is what this type of game is screaming out for. It would greatly increase the longevity of the game and its what all the fans want. I just wish ubi would at least tell us if this is going to be included in a future patch.

Damn I have more framedrops cause of the update ... :S ?

please look at this thread for some things that should be tweaked http://forums.ubi.com/eve/foru...1069024/m/1371028608

Cool ! Thanks guys !
I love having a stable program.

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Originally posted by Cpt_Yanni:
Damn I have more framedrops cause of the update ... :S ?

I only noticed this in between the initial loading screens. the screen just goes white for about 2 seconds and then goes to the next loading screen, which it never did before, so looks like this patch needs a patch lol

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Originally posted by sackboy411:
So they didn't listen to the replaying missions requests, and the getting rid of swords and armour options? Awwww I really want the original assassin outfit back.

Thanks to UBI for the patch but I also agree with this post..

WTH, everyone is bashing on the update???

I think it's fantastic that Ubisoft is patching, and fixes all these problems in 1 (big 77MB) update!

The story missions replay is a thing for the next patch

Good job on the update Ubisoft!

I'm out in Cali and see that there are people that have downloaded this patch but I'm not getting notified of an update when I start the game up is it only out for a certain regions???

It's probably just not online yet, wait a few hours then it will probably be online.
(Are u sure that your connected to the internet? :P)

Guys as a reminder, our goal with the patch was to get get sure that everyone would be able to enjoy the game at its full potential.

PS from myself:

Regarding an option to play again all story related missions it is more tricky. As you've noticed your character evolved during the game, gaining new abilities, weapons and skills. Allowing you to start with that will completely unbalanced the whole game, not mentioning technical difficulties with the autosave feature for example. Once again, that's my 2 cents, but YES we have hear you and we will investigate that.

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Originally posted by mikefacts:
It's probably just not online yet, wait a few hours then it will probably be online.
(Are u sure that your connected to the internet? :P)

Yup I'm online even got the new Madden 10 update before I put AC2 in there.

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Originally posted by Atmon:
Guys as a reminder, our goal with the patch was to get get sure that everyone would be able to enjoy the game at its full potential.

PS from myself:

Regarding an option to play again all story related missions it is more tricky. As you've noticed your character evolved during the game, gaining new abilities, weapons and skills. Allowing you to start with that will completely unbalanced the whole game, not mentioning technical difficulties with the autosave feature for example. Once again, that's my 2 cents, but YES we have hear you and we will investigate that.

I don't mind if they don't put the New Game+ option but the ability to replay certain main missions or just assassinations is all I need to keep replaying this game forever lol...otherwise probably just gonna wait till the DLCs next year.

Yeah! That's a good thing! I came here today because that bug with double assassinations happened to me for the first time yesterday!

Guys, I love you!

atmon, although you're right that it's more tricky to put that feature and the fact that the character evolves throughout the game, it seemed to me that the abilities that were strictly plot driven were the different assassination methods( from bench, hay or air) and the hidden blade upgrades, basically every upgrade given by the codex. these things and buyable items i'm okay that you take out if there's a possibility of a replay feature but the other unlockables like the altair armor or auditore cape would be a plus in this feature since many people including myself would like to keep those hard earned items and see them throughout in the cutscenes as well.