Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Is Finally Getting Fixed on PS5

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The PlayStation 5 is backwards compatible with a vast majority PlayStation 4 games, but, while most run even better on the stronger hardware, a handful of them are compromised on the newest machine. is arguably the biggest title on that list and has suffered from major flickering issues on PS5 since launch. And while it seemed like that would always be the case for the 2015 game, Ubisoft has officially revealed that it will be fixing its visual glitches.

We're happy to announce that Assassin's Creed Syndicate will receive an update tomorrow, February 23, on PlayStation 4. This update will provide a fix for flickering issues when playing on PlayStation 5. <a href=«https://twitter.com/hashtag/AssassinsCreed?src=hash&ref_src=» https:>#AssassinsCreed

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The official Twitter account posted the announcement, noting that update 1.53 is coming on February 23 and will address the rampant flickering. No other patch notes were given at this time and it is unclear if it will also come with a boost to 60 frames per second. Ubisoft had previously raised the frame rate for both and for PS5 users playing those games through backwards compatibility.

Hi I just got assassin‘s creed syndicate on my PlayStation five and it’s unplayable I don’t know if you guys are aware of the flickering glitch or not but it’s game breaking. pic.twitter.com/PcN4NFc9hA

As shown by the above video, the game’s flickering issues are quite prevalent and distracting. The three games on PS4 —,, and — also ran inconsistently on PS5, but Ubisoft put out an update that seemingly addressed those shortcomings, which was just after the trio landed on PlayStation Plus Extra. Ubisoft has known about these problems for some time, as it posted a blog