Assassin's Creed Unity patch analysed

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This week, Ubisoft released a massive update to Assassin's Creed Unity, fixing an enormous range of bugs and promising higher frame-rates. Performance optimisations specifically noted were as follows:
Three of the four optimisations are clearly going to have highly localised effects and they are not platform-specific, but the first intrigued us - could the PS4 version of Assassins Creed Unity see genuine improvements to the performance level, and thus the game's playability, simply by tweaking the netcode? We decided to find out.
We dug out a selection of our existing clips, based on version number 1.01 - the day one patch. We tested the new update with the PlayStation 4 online in all cases, capturing a bunch of single-player missions, along with known trouble spots in the multiplayer co-op mode. We can't replicate gameplay 100 per cent, but we should be able to note any general increase in performance across the run of play.
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