Day 1 Patch

Coinciding with its release in North America on October 30th and worldwide on October 31st, Ubisoft released a patch to optimize performance.

If your Console is connected to the Internet when you launch Assassin's Creed III, you will receive a pop up to inform you that a title update is available for you to download. This day one update is designed to optimize your player experience and is highly recommended. [1]

A full list of patch notes is below.

Bug Fixes

• Animus Synching tutorial, fixed an issue where the player could think he's stuck in an infinite loading when getting to Boston after the end credits

• Fixed a bug where counter-killing with the bow does not always work

• NPCs spawned too far away could end up being of the wrong type

• Camera could remain stuck after the player being respawned

• Player could remain stuck after diving from a waterfall

• Player could remain stuck if he exits a slopped hay stack at a certain angle

• player would always get immediately detected when performing an unarmed stealth assassination in another guard's back

• Under rare circumstances, the crowd would stop spawning

• Fixed an animation glitch when interrupting the reception from high profile jump

• Fixed various occurrences of missing sounds

• In some cases, the Animus Database sound ambiance was not stopped when exiting

• Various stats and leaderboards were not showing up properly

• Online shop could sometimes appear empty if fetching the data from Xbox Live is taking too long

• Mission "RETURN TO ABSTERGO" - fixed a bug where the player would lose control over Desmond during a fight if he lures and kills some guards in the wrong area

• Mission "A DEADLY PERFORMANCE" - Mission would not continue if the player decides to climb the wall instead of using the ladder

• Mission "JOHNSON'S ERRAND" - fixed a bug where the game would remain stuck if the player runs during the black screen that occurs after exiting the tavern

• Mission "THE SURGEON" - Charles Lee could fall in the water and die while following the player, causing the mission to fail, if the player decides to take a certain path that involves jumping over the water

• Mission "THE SURGEON" - fixed a bug where we would show the desync effect if the player throws one of the target in the water, even though the mission is not really failed

• Mission "WELCOME TO BOSTON" - The courier side-quest next to the general store would not start properly

• Mission "EXECUTION IS EVERYTHING", fixed a bug where the mission would not continue if the NPCs you are eavesdropping react to a dead body

• Mission "THE BRADDOCK EXPEDITION" - Mission would not continue if the player kills all enemies in the camp, killing the required target last, without triggering open conflict

• Mission "FEATHERS AND TREES" - NPC's would not detect beams properly, preventing them from performing the trunk around move

• Mission "FEATHERS AND TREES" - Mission would not continue if the player doesn't follow the expected path

• Mission "HUNTING LESSONS" - Mission giver could not be there if the player goes away and comes back

• Mission "SOMETHING TO REMEMBER", fixed a bug where the screen could become all white or black for the remainder of the mission if the player set his brightness option to anything else than the default value

• Mission "ON JOHNSON'S TRAIL", fixed a bug that could cause the optional objective "Use powder kegs to destroy smuggled cargo" to not be saved properly if the player reloads during the mission

• Mission "THE TEA PARTY- Optional objective "Dump crates of tea in the water" could not be completed if the player threw all crates before having killed all guards

• Mission "THE MIDNIGHT RIDE" - Mission could not be completed if the player interacts with the delivery quest giver along the way

• Mission "BRIDEWELL PRISON", Player could remain stuck prison cells

• Mission "PUBLIC EXECUTION" - Crowd NPCs could be spawned in or walk through a cart during a cinematic

• Mission "SOMETHING ON THE SIDE" - Optional objective "Perform a successful static eavesdrop" could not be completed.

• Mission "MISSING SUPPLIES" - Optional objective "Do not hide in the hay cart while following the convoy" not being saved properly if the game is reloaded during second part of the mission

Crash Fixes

• Possible crash that could happen if the player blends in a crowd group where some NPCs haven't spawned yet, and while blended performs a kill.

• Possible crash that could happen if the player triggered a loading while being in a covert escort formation with his brotherhood trainees

• Possble crash that could happen when calling a brotherhood trainee with the snipe ability

Naval Mission

• "OAK ISLAND" - Player could pass through the ground when diving into the cave

• "OAK ISLAND" - Wolves could stop attacking the player and remain stuck

• Possible crash if the player spams the swivel guns with the semi-automatic cheat enabled

Homestead

• Mission "HAPPY EXPECTATIONS" - Game could remain stuck on a white screen when starting the mission

• On the Homestead, fixed a bug where the player could remain stuck if he performs a corner pose on the left side of Norris' cave's entrance

Side Quests

• Brawler Challenges 3 - Task "Own every weapon available in the stores" would not complete when the player expects it to.

• Fort Monmouth and Fort Division - Quest objectives would fail too early without the fort resetting properly

• New York delivery mission - Game asked for a different item (deer heart) than what was showed to the player (venison)

• New York Liberation Missions - Possible that the game would wrongly display that 2 of the districts were completely liberated when it's not the case yet

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