Well, that Patch 4 has been released for Assassin’s Creed Unity. And fittingly, it’s come with yet another problem for Ubisoft.

The regular patch is already fairly large at 6.7 GB to fix most if not all of the rest of the issues with the game. Somehow though they’ve made a mistake with the Xbox One version which means users will end up redownloading the entire game. All 40GB worth of it. Yikes.

Writing about the issue on the official Assassin’s Creed site Ubisoft stated “Unfortunately, an issue with the patch downloading process is replacing the entire game instead of just the parts affected by the patch. This is obviously not the expected behavior, and we apologize that many of you will have to wait longer than expected to complete this download.”

They went on to say they are working with Microsoft to find the problem so the download size can be cut down and that at the moment they have no ETA on when players can expect this to be. However if you own the disc version, you can simply uninstall then reinstall and it should download and install just the 6.7 GB patch instead of trying to download the whole game over again.

Patch 4 comes with many fixes, including some to framerate and performance issues that required an entire rebuild of the Paris map which accounts for the large size even of just the patch alone.

Microsoft have a bit of a reputation for not being wonderfully indie-friendly with their consoles, a reputation they’ve been trying to change recently. However, there are some suggestions that they still have quite a ways to go.

A few months ago they neglected to pay some indie developers who had published their games on the Xbox Live Indie Games Market their rightful share of the revenue from sales. They give themselves a fairly lengthy 45 days before payment can be considered ‘late’ and they exceeded that by about a week before those developers got paid. And now, it’s happened again but this time it’s already 19 days late. Oh dear.

To sum up what should happen, the Market was meant to be a self-publishing option. Games are passed by peer review, allowed to be sold on the system and each quarter Microsoft pay the developers their portion of the money taken. The quarter concerned here is the Q3 one, which was due to be paid September 30th. Although developers were told that payment might be a few days late, at this stage quite a few of the developers are rightfully beginning to ask where their money is. There’s even rumours that similar payment issues are taking place for developers of apps and games for Windows Phones.

Even speaking to developers on our Indie Game Show, we know that Microsoft was not doing enough to attract the developers to release games on their consoles, and with this on top of the parity policy that means indie games need to release first on Xbox One or release at the same time across all platforms you have to wonder how Microsoft is hoping to improve their reputation among the Indie community.

Microsoft have released a public statement calling this incident an “unfortunate error” and saying that they are working hard to resolve it and get the money to the developers who are missing it.

 

Enclosed is an official statement and apology from Microsoft on the Xbox Live Indie Games for Xbox 360 payment issue pic.twitter.com/FJJ2hqqffG

— ID@Xbox (@ID_Xbox) December 3, 2014

Although us PC gamers still have months yet to wait for a version of GTA V on our preferred console (seriously, it’s going on my Steam Wishlist asap), the next-gen/current-gen versions of GTA V are due to be released on the newest console this week. They’re enhanced just as the PC versions will be so they let us see just what can be expected from it.

The first-person view has been trailered and shown off many times through Let’s Players on Youtube, in chases, fights and even sex (that last one is bound to cause some controversy). Also re-done is the amount of traffic, the foliage and the wildlife you can expect to see, along with the songs on the radio stations. A lot of new ones have been added and thanks to Pitchfork we now know what music to expect.

Here’s the list of new tracks and the stations they’ll be played on:

Lowdown:

• Pleasure: “Bouncy Lady”
• Ohio Players: “Climax”
• Jackson Sisters: “I Believe in Miracles”
• War: “Magic Mountain”
• The Delfonics: “Funny Feeling”
• Brass Construction: “Changin'”
• Johnny Guitar Watson: “Superman Lover”
• The Chakachas: “Stories”

Space:

• Dazz Band: “Joystick”
• Imagination: “Flashback”
• Fatback Band: “Gotta Get My Hands (On Some Money)”
• Central Line: “Walking Into Sunshine”
• Cameo: “Back and Forth”
• Billy Ocean: “Nights Feel Like Getting Down”
• Parliament: “Flash Light”
• Zapp: “Do It Roger”
• Parliament: “Mothership Connection”

Blue Ark:

• I-Octane: “Topic of the Day”
• Danny Hensworth: “Mr. Money Man”
• Vybz Kartel: “Addi Truth”
• Demarco: “Loyals (Royals Remix)”
• Busy Signal: “Kingston Town” [ft. Damian Marley]
• LSP: “Money Come and Money Go”
• LSP: “Roast Fish & Cornbread”

Mirror Park:

• The Ruby Suns: “In Real Life”
• Panama: “Always”
• !!!: “One Girl One Boy”
• Yeasayer: “O.N.E.”
• Niki and the Dove: “The Drummer”
• Hot Chip: “Flutes”
• Holy Ghost!: “Hold On”
• Scenic: “Mesmerized”
• Dom: “Living in America”
• Little Dragon: “Crystalfilm”
• Twin Shadow: “Forget”
• SBTRKT: “Pharaohs” [ft. Roses Gabor]
• Toro Y Moi: “New Beat”
• Kauf: “When You’re Out”
• Neon Indian: “Polish Girl”
• Mitzi: “Truly Alive”
• Cut Copy: “Strangers in the Wind”
• Age of Consent: “Heartbreak”

Los Santos Rock Radio:

• Creedence Clearwater Revival: “Fortunate Son”
• Mountain: “Mississippi Queen”
• Alannah Miles: “Black Velvet”
• Kansas: “Carry On, Wayward Son”
• Survivor: “Burning Heart”
• ZZ Top: “Gimme All Your Lovin'”
• Broken English: “Coming on Strong”
• Boston: “Peace of Mind”
• Yes: “Roundabout”
• Harry Chapin: “Cats in the Cradle”
• Pat Benatar: “Shadows of the Night”
• Humble Pie: “30 Days in the Hole”
• Starship: “We Built This City”
• Belinda Carlisle: “Circle in the Sand”
• Kenny Loggins: “Danger Zone”

Rebel Radio:

• Homer and Jethro: “She Made Toothpicks”
• Tammy Wynette: “D-I-V-O-R-C-E”
• Marvin Jackson: “Dippin’ Snuff”
• Charlie Feathers: “Get With It”
• The Highwaymen: “Highway Man”
• Ray Price: “Crazy Arms”

West Coast Classics:

• Jayo Felony: “Sherm Sticc III”
• CPO: “Ballad of a Menace”
• Conscious Daughters: “We Roll Deep”
• South Central Cartel: “Servin’ ‘Em Heat”
• Westside Connection: “Bow Down”
• Spice 1: “The Murda Show” [ft. MC Eiht]
• Warren G: “This DJ”
• E-40: “Captain Save a Hoe”
• Lady of Rage: “Afro Puffs”
• Bone Thugs-N-Harmony: “1st of the Month”
• Eazy-E: “No More Questions”
• Luniz: “I Got 5 on It”

Punk:

• D.O.A.: “The Enemy”
• The Zeros: “Don’t Push Me Around”
• D.R.I.: “I Don’t Need Society”
• Red Kross: “Linda Blair”
• X: “Los Angeles”
• MDC: “John Wayne Was a Nazi”

Pop:

• Blow Monkeys: “Wait” [ft. Kim Myzelle]
• INXS: “New Sensation”
• Bobby Brown: “On Our Own”
• Sly Fox: “Let’s Go All the Way”
• Living in a Box: “Living in a Box”
• Taylor Dayne: “Tell It to My Heart”
• Bronski Beat: “Small Town Boy”
• Naked Eyes: “Promises, Promises”
• Simply Red: “Something Got Me Started (Steve Silk Hurley Mix)”
• Backstreet Boys: “I Want It That Way”
• Morcheeba: “Tape Loop”
• Sneaker Pimps: “6 Underground”
• Jamiroquai: “Alright”
• Moloko: “The Time Is Now”
• Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue: “Kids”
• Cassie: “Me & You”
• Gorillaz: “Feel Good Inc.”
• Dirty Vegas: “Days Go By”
• Maroon 5: “Moves Like Jagger”
• M.I.A.: “Bad Girls”
• M83: “Midnight City”
• Lorde: “Tennis Court”
• Lady Gaga: “Applause”
• Black Eyed Peas: “Meet Me Halfway”
• Mike Posner: “Cooler Than Me”

Radio Los Santos:

• Danny Brown & Action Bronson: “Bad News”
• G-Side: “Relaxin'”
• A$AP Ferg: “Work”
• Kendrick Lamar: “Swimming Pools (Drank)”
• Danny Brown: “Kush Coma” [ft. A$AP Rocky and Zelooperz]
• Schoolboy Q: “Collard Greens” [ft. Kendrick Lamar]
• Skeme: “Millions”
• Ab-Soul: “Hunnid Stax” [ft. Schoolboy Q]
• Problem & Iamsu!: “Do It Big” [ft. Bad Lucc and Sage the Gemini]
• Chuck Inglish: “Came Thru/Easily” [ft. Ab-Soul and Mac Miller]
• Young Scooter: “Work” [ft. Gucci Mane]
• Trouble: “Everyday”
• Travi$ Scott: “Upper Echelon” [ft. T.I. and 2 Chainz]
• Ace Hood: “Bugatti” [ft. Future and Rick Ross]
• Young Scooter: “I Can’t Wait” [ft. Trinidad James]
• Freddi Gibbs & Mike Dean: “Sellin’ Dope”

Vinewood:

• Bleached: “Next Stop”
• Coliseum: “Used Blood”
• The Men: “Turn It Around”
• No Bunny: “Gone for Good”
• Soft Pack: “Answer to Yourself”
• JEFF the Brotherhood: “Sixpack”
• Mind Spiders: “Fall in Line”
• The Orwells: “Who Needs You”

Worldwide FM:

• Sinkane: “Shark Week”
• William Onyeabor: “Body & Soul”
• Four Tet: “Kool FM”
• Mount Kimbie: “Made to Stray”
• Anushka: “World in a Room”
• Smokey Robinson: “Why You Wanna See My Bad Side?”
• Randy Crawford: “Street Life”
• Flume: “What You Need”
• Earl Sweatshirt: “Hive” [ft. Casey Veggies and Vince Staples]
• Portishead: “Numb”
• Jonwayne: “Black Magic”
• Roman GianArthur: “I69”
• Lion Babe: “Treat Me Like Fire”
• Dâm-Funk: “Kill Dat”
• Jamie Lidell: “Run Away”
• Chvrches: “Recover (Cid Rim Remix)”
• Jimmy Edgar: “Let Yrself Be”
• Clap! Clap!: “Viajero”
• Maga Bo: “No Balanco De Conoa”

FlyLo FM:

• Curtis Mayfield: “Eddie You Should Know Better”
• Doris: “You Never Come Closer”
• Flying Lotus: “Meditation Meditation” [ft. Krayzie Bone]
• XXYYXX: “What We Want”
• Lapalux: “Make Money”
• Mono/Poly: “B Adams” [ft. Thundercat]
• Flying Lotus: “Osaka Trade”
• DOOM: “Masquatch”
• Flying Lotus: “Early Mountain”
• Dimlite: “Into Vogon Skulls”
• Knower: “Fuck the Makeup, Skip the Shower”
• Kaskade: “4 AM”
• AraabMuzik: “Streetz Tonight”

Evolve’s gameplay mechanic for a 5 player game sets 4 of those players against the lone 1, with that 1 playing what is essentially the ‘boss’ monster. The Hunters are there to trap the Monster, the Monster needs to eat and evolve to better lay down some hurt onto the Hunters. There was an Alpha back at the start of the month for both Xbox and PC and Turtle Beach have been looking over the records to see how matches went.

Out of all the matches played it seems that the Hunter team won more often with there being around a 200,000 victory difference between a Hunter win and a Monster win. To be exact, it’s a 753,414 Hunter victories opposed to 574,079 Monster victories, which can feel a bit disconcerting when you realise that the Hunters are essentially harassing the poor creature on its native habitat.

Other stats reveal that the Assault class was the most popular class to play as, just beating out playing as the Monster itself. Simple as the Assault is to use, I’m a little bit surprised that the appeal of smashing your friends to a pulp and toasting them with fiery breath didn’t result in the monster being most popular.

Matches lasted all kinds of lengths of time, and would be down to how well the Monster player was able to evade the Hunter and how well the Hunters worked together as a team. The longest match on record was around 40 minutes long and I can only imagine how much chasing occurred during it.

Evolve will be released in the new year, around the February mark.

For the month of November, Xbox Live Gold members can look forward to three new free games on Xbox One and Xbox 360.

Volgarr the Viking, the newest ID@Xbox game, will debut on Xbox One as a free download. For Xbox One gamers, this is a journey back to the days of yore, when times were tougher, and you really only needed a couple buttons to play a game.

On Xbox 360, starting Saturday, November 1st, Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise ($14.99 ERP) will be free for Xbox Live Gold members through November 15th.

Then on November 16th, Xbox Live Gold Members can download Red Faction: Guerrilla ($19.99 ERP) for free through November 30th

*Titles are available as free downloads for qualifying Xbox Live Gold members in all markets where Xbox Live is available. Some regions may offer different titles depending on market availability.