Subscribed to UBISOFT+ just to try out this game and so far it's been a massive disappointment.

The performance in this game is absolutely bad. Especially when you compare the looks / graphics of this game with Origins and Odyssey - because in some cases, the older games look cleaner, better.

I am having 90% GPU utilization in the (animated) loading screen. I repeat: THE (animated) LOADING SCREEN, where all that your PC must render is your character, some fog and the sky. That's all. 90% GPU utilization!
Further more, there many places in the game where the 90-99% GPU utilization stays up, NO MATTER the graphical setting, as I tested from ULTRA to LOW. Yes, on lowest graphical settings, the GPU struggles and the utilization is still incredibly high, even if the details are ALL to set to the LOW setting.

My system can run Odyssey, Origins and RDR2 on a combination of MEDIUM (clouds) - HIGH - ULTRA settings at 60 FPS on 1080p and Ultra Wide HD (2560x1080). Yes, even during a rainy night in Saint Denis, the system keeps 60 FPS.

My system:
i7 6700k
1070Ti
24GB

I am very sure you are aware of this issue, as all benchmarks show how poorly the game behaves in terms of performance. A 3070 GTX barely reaches 64 FPS on 1440p. This is just...

Thank you and please give input on this matter.

Image with guru3d benchmarks below:

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I've dropped off the crate of apples (no quest completion) and now I get this popping up every couple of seconds, which makes the game unplayable. Wandering more than 5m from the crate causes it to reappear down the road back at the apple cart, but moving it does nothing. Fast travelling to the nearest point did nothing (still leaves the popup), but fast travelling home to Ravensthorpe seems to clear it and fully rest the quest. Attempting the quest again results in same situation with the popup message.

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I'm playing on an original PS4 with a disc version of the game. My game has been crashing since day one at random intervals. The crashes have only increased in frequency as I progress through the story (or since the 1.0.4 patch). It crashes the most often between 0010 and 0030 (EST), but this was after several hours of constant play.

More recently, in addition to the midnight crash, it is happening multiple times throughout the day. I've been turning the PS4 off or closing the game entirely periodically throughout the day, but this did not stop it from crashing twice within an hour while completing part of the Winchester arc. In that case, I did notice the game improved once I left the city.

I've already turned off HDR and checked for HD space on the PS4. There is plenty of room on my HD.

I know that there are already a number of posts about this topic, but I wanted to add to the count because sometimes in some organizations number and metrics are how issues are dealt with.