Ubisoft withdraws Far Cry 1.2 patch
Needs patching, see.
Blabbering about the increasingly protracted development of the Far Cry 1.2 patch has become a staple of our news roundup lately, but for once it's more than worthy of mention in grander surroundings: because publisher Ubisoft has now withdrawn it citing "unexpected behaviour on specific hardware configurations".
The file, which was released last Wednesday, is now largely unavailable, and presumably you're not advised to use it. "Far Cry patch 1.2 has shown unexpected behaviour on specific hardware configurations. These matters are mainly due to incompatibilities with several optimisations brought lately to the code, with the intent to please a large number of users," Ubisoft stated on the game's official website on Friday.
"We're currently asking CryTek to work on delivering a new patch as soon as possible. Until then we have decided to remove the patch 1.2 from the official Ubisoft websites," it added. Hopefully we'll hear from Crytek soon then, because the 1.2 patch, which added quicksaves, tweaked various balancing issues and so on, was quite useful.
Indeed, it was supposed to improve the experience for people using NVIDIA graphics cards. Which, in a way, it did - the patch seems to be incompatible with certain ATI-based set-ups, resulting in crashes and lower frame rates. For 'NVIDIOTS' everywhere, that's bound to be considered an improvement...
We'll let you know when the 1.2 patch is back.