Xbox Gaming in South Africa

Ubisoft has announced a patch to fix a number of issues experienced by gamers in their brilliant stealth-em-up, Assassin's Creed 2.

The following "situation specific" fixes will be included in the patch:

• Glyph: After the player has resolved a glyph (when the unlock code message appears), if the player presses A and B (for 360, X and O on PS3) repeatedly and quickly, the video will appear in full screen, and he will get stuck in "the truth menu".
• Fast Travel: Some feedback states that Ezio loses the ability to interact with the fast travel stations.
• Free roaming/Parkour: In extremely rare occasions a bug allows Ezio to walk on air.
• Auditore Cape: When first equipping or re-equipping the Auditore cape, users in the Villa become notorious even if the cape description says otherwise.
• Altaïr’s armour: While wearing Altair's armour the game crashes when performing multiple consecutive double assassinations.
• Toscana: The game occasionally crashes if the player dies in Toscana, the player is stuck in the animus loading screen.
• Water: Ezio and NPCs may get stuck beneath map if pushed in water.
• Animus Loading Screen: There were reports of the game crashing while the player is in the Animus loading screen

The patch also resolves a number of mission specific bugs:

• Sequence 06 Mission 02: An extremely rare issue could make the game freeze while Ezio is fighting the guards.
• Sequence 07 Mission 02: Sometimes the civilians knocked down by Rosa could "float".
• Sequence 07 Mission 07: When the user is in an open conflict, under specific situations the game crashed.
• Sequence 08 "Venezia": If a player desynchronises during the flying machine sequence, the player sometimes spawned near Leo's workshop and not on the tower.
• Secret Location: "Vizitatione": The user remains stuck after locking onto the agile guard with the gun.
• Sequence 11 Mission 05: The user cannot continue gameplay after quitting and loading the game. They are stuck in the hideout.
• Sequence 14 Mission 02: The user falls through the texture if he is hit with rocks by the guards while climbing .

The update, which also includes 5.1 LPCM sound support, will be available this Friday via Xbox LIVE.