Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

T4CT

don't hate on emma watson bro

Speed Racer

which one was it

Dichotomy

also did everyone break or was it only me and hunter I think?

is the band still together if I care to log on again

Speed Racer

I broke

I might get on again later but iunno

T4CT

number six speed racer

Tommy2Hands

I'll head back on in 10 minutes if anyone is online

Blue map

Good games gents, I might be up for some more games later but for now I think i'll go write a twenty page thesis on how awesome I am and how anyone who beats me is just a lagging, cheating whore.

KrunkMcGrunk

God dammit, I fucking love this game.

the multiplayer alone is probably my favorite thing this generation

DarkPrimus

I want to get on and play but the television is currently occupied. Gonna eat some food and maybe be on in 20 hopefully.

Gorilla Salad

So I beat brotherhood and yeah...

Spoiler:

WHAT THE FUCK?! I had read some spoilers beforehand but that still managed to make me be confused as all hell.

Although now I have to play Assassins Creed 2 to see how shit got as crazy as it did.

VALVEjunkie

I actually got to play a few rounds!

as long as no one else is online in the house I can play, but it's still laggy

I got two levels!

tommy I sent you a message what the hell dude?

YaYa

Gorilla Salad wrote: »

So I beat brotherhood and yeah...

Spoiler:

WHAT THE FUCK?! I had read some spoilers beforehand but that still managed to make me be confused as all hell.

Although now I have to play Assassins Creed 2 to see how shit got as crazy as it did.

you didn't play Creed 2 first?

what the hell is wrong with you?

Vivixenne

Brotherhood, from what I have seen, is not a game that should be played without playing AC2

you can skip AC1, sure, I did

but nothing in the opening sequences would have made very much sense at ALL if you didn't play AC2, and I have a feeling that such is the case for much of the remainder of the game

Gorilla Salad

It makes a fair amount of sense, truth be told. You can pick the basics of the plot up pretty easily. Going through AC2 has really helped, though, and I feel really bad about not playing it first.

ieyeasu

I'm just finishing up AC2, and I must say--I hated the meta-plot at the beginning, but they did a really good job making me care about it with the flavor-puzzles.

101

Fucking poison.

Also I shouldn't stay up till 3am playing this.

#pipe

Anyone playing some assbro on the PS3?

Maybe later tonight?

Blue map

Foefaller wrote: »

Something interesting I've found out in Multiplayer...

If you lean over the edge of a building and use Smoke Bomb or Firecrackers, instead of activating right at your feet, the effect will instead take place on the ground beneath you...

Neat little trick if you want to use firecrackers to weed out your target without being close enough to get hit with the nigh-inevidable smokebomb counter.

Also, Fast Getaway make the chase meter empty faster when you are the one being chased.

If you lean over the edge of a building and use Smoke Bomb or Firecrackers, instead of activating right at your feet, the effect will instead take place on the ground beneath you...

Why do they not state this anywhere in the tutorials?

#pipe

because maybe it's not meant to happen?

101

apparently stuns can be countered.

some
bullshit

Veretas

#pipe wrote: »

Anyone playing some assbro on the PS3?

Maybe later tonight?

I am down for dis

101

and some times you're just stuck there.
mashing b as your attacker repeatedly leaps out of the way somehow.

Do not like this mechanic.

e:Couldn't even get the guy when I threw a smoke-bomb

KrunkMcGrunk

101 wrote: »

apparently stuns can be countered.

some
bullshit

Yeah, this generally comes as a surprise to people. Really, stuns aren't meant to be the beat-all counter to everything. They're more of a punishment for an assassin that is carelessly approaching his target. The only sure way to stun somebody is to smokebomb them first.

Usually the best way out of getting aced is running away. If you escape, you get points and the guy trying to kill you will lose his contract.

Captain Cthulhu

KrunkMcGrunk wrote: »

101 wrote: »

apparently stuns can be countered.

some
bullshit

Yeah, this generally comes as a surprise to people. Really, stuns aren't meant to be the beat-all counter to everything. They're more of a punishment for an assassin that is carelessly approaching his target. The only sure way to stun somebody is to smokebomb them first.

Usually the best way out of getting aced is running away. If you escape, you get points and the guy trying to kill you will lose his contract.

If you're hidden in a crowd or something stunning is really easy. Also, last night, I was moving effortlessly through a crowd, perfectly slow, and as I walked up behind my target, I moved to strike and he, like, stepped out of the way as I stabbed at him and stunned me. I was so pissed. I have no idea how he did it, I was 100% behind him and moving really slowly.

Bad-Beat

If you've morphed into a group, waiting for your opponent to come stab you, can you just hammer the stun button constantly?

I was going to try it early but forgot.

Dichotomy

I have concluded that the ability to stun is based off of an individual's aptitude for magic and his FIGHTING SPIRIT


because in no other way can I map out the whimsical mechanics of it

DarkPrimus

Blue map wrote: »

If you lean over the edge of a building and use Smoke Bomb or Firecrackers, instead of activating right at your feet, the effect will instead take place on the ground beneath you...

Why do they not state this anywhere in the tutorials?

Because the tutorial just covers the bare-bones of the mechanics and doesn't teach you how to use any abilities that you will unlock later?

Captain Cthulhu

Bad-Beat wrote: »

If you've morphed into a group, waiting for your opponent to come stab you, can you just hammer the stun button constantly?

I was going to try it early but forgot.

I've always found that stunning works better if you wait for the actual cue from the game and just hit it once. When you're morphed into a crowd, you've got a pretty good chance that they'll either just kill the wrong guy right away, and give you 100 pts for the lure, or they'll stand there thinking about it, giving you plenty of time to stun them. However, if it's me and I see my target morphed, I just jump into their crowd and morph them right back.

World as Myth

Dichotomy wrote: »

I have concluded that the ability to stun is based off of an individual's aptitude for magic and his FIGHTING SPIRIT


because in no other way can I map out the whimsical mechanics of it

loving this post

Speed Racer

fidgety stun timing I have come to terms with

the dodging though

hurrrrrgh

Blue map

DarkPrimus wrote: »

Blue map wrote: »

If you lean over the edge of a building and use Smoke Bomb or Firecrackers, instead of activating right at your feet, the effect will instead take place on the ground beneath you...

Why do they not state this anywhere in the tutorials?

Because the tutorial just covers the bare-bones of the mechanics and doesn't teach you how to use any abilities that you will unlock later?

Sorry, i meant more generally (Uplay manual, paper manual etc.). Really looking at it though, the Uplay manual is pretty bad. It doesn't even have all the game types listed (it's missing manhunt and adv. wanted).

Comahawk

so, is there another hidden movie or something about adam and eve in this one?

Because I basically played the last game up until I finished that movie and then stopped.

Bad-Beat

Also, I hate Templar Vision and I wish it wasn't in the game.

Local H Jay

templar vision is just about balance really. with so many different powers about concealing, some have to be about revealing as well. templar vision is very balanced, though, as you are remarkably visible when using it, and it is very short in duration. charge is the one that's a bit unbalanced, but it's less overpowered in advanced wanted since it's not as easy to spam there.

Speed Racer

I've never been stunned or killed by charge so I really can't say it's unfair

also, in addition to all those other downsides to templar vision, it also has limited range. I learned that last night after using it on a distant crowd and it looked like they were all NPCs

only to have one of my teammates stunned by them

KrunkMcGrunk

Captain Cthulhu wrote: »

KrunkMcGrunk wrote: »

101 wrote: »

apparently stuns can be countered.

some
bullshit

Yeah, this generally comes as a surprise to people. Really, stuns aren't meant to be the beat-all counter to everything. They're more of a punishment for an assassin that is carelessly approaching his target. The only sure way to stun somebody is to smokebomb them first.

Usually the best way out of getting aced is running away. If you escape, you get points and the guy trying to kill you will lose his contract.

If you're hidden in a crowd or something stunning is really easy. Also, last night, I was moving effortlessly through a crowd, perfectly slow, and as I walked up behind my target, I moved to strike and he, like, stepped out of the way as I stabbed at him and stunned me. I was so pissed. I have no idea how he did it, I was 100% behind him and moving really slowly.

Yeah, I don't understand the dodging thing either. I had that happen to me in a game a couple days ago. I had three unsuccessful attempts on this one guy who just kept dodging every attack.

Is there a dodge button or something?

Speed Racer

it's something like if you hit the stun button at just the right moment you dodge

the same goes for when someone's trying to stun you. Time the kill button just right and you'll interrupt their stun animation and go for the kill

if they're behind you you flip them over your back to kill them and if they're in front of you you do like a cross-counter

Speed Racer

there's also a glitch where someone will become incapable of hitting or being hit by anyone

DMAC

Don't know if it's been posted yet but I took advantage of this GameStop Canada deal to pick up the Collector's Edition for the price of the regular edition:

http://www.gamestop.ca/browse/ProductMerch.aspx?groupid=321

KrunkMcGrunk

God, even the weirdass stun mechanics make me love this game more.

I'm such a homo.