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Revisiting Assassin's Creed
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Xbox Live: Kunohara
It's not too difficult to do it but the thing about doing it is the stealth assassinations basically rely on the mid-air hidden blade which has a pretty picky placement.
I never asked for this!
I figured that was how you have to do it...but honestly I've never done the flying hidden-blade thing except on a few rooftop archers that I was bounding towards. That's obviously my fault and not the game's.
Still, there are other ways to be high profile other than just running in and starting a fight WWE-style.
I did finally managed to do it to one guy, forgot who it was though.
Xbox Live: Kunohara
So I killed the following guys stealthy like, where stealthy like is defined as with the assassin blade before they could react:
The guy who poisons his guests I killed by going to the left and up near where his entrance is then going straight up the balcony. I had to knock an archer over, but I got to sprint right up to him before he could respond, much like in the trailer.
Sure you can't avoid every guard and get out like in Tenchu, but you can have your first offensive action be their death and perhaps the guard closest to them, and then just run.
It requires a lot of patience, but judging from those experiences I'd say by waiting till the right moment (which the extra info tells you about if you read it and have cased the area) you can have your only kill be the targets via the stealth knife, and then just run from everybody else.
This right moment is certainly not handed to you on a platter though, you do have to really search for it.
I think there was a video on youtube a while back that had the one shot assassinations on every target possible in the game. It is possible just really hard and not really worth the effort on some of them.
I never asked for this!
Yeah it's the same as in Tenchu where you can get bonus from not killing anybody or anything but I never did that I cut the most efficient path straight to the end guy without being seen by anybody who lived for longer than half a second. Oh and you get no bonus because all the game cares about is that they're dead.
I do read the info, and I even follow the "sneaky" routes that are usually pointed out, but lot's of the time it just seems to stick me above or near the target, but not close enough to kill them outright.
Don't target them till you get close. Targetting alerts them. I mean how would you feel if a suspicious dude is coming at you staring straight at you? Instead move untargetted slightly to the left or right of them and do the manual autotarget thing at the last second, where they get shaded but not locked.
Practise on the guys harrassing people you have to save, you can usually run straight up to the more difficult captain type guy and stealth kill him, but if you target him manually they get alerted.
One funny fuck up I remember doing this is an innocent tried to pass by too close to them and the target wandered over him just as I hit the flying leap.
So I flying leap killed an innocent right in front of a group of armed guards.
"Hi guys"
Actually I do remember going through the game with killing the target before being spotted in mind and while you cannot do it for all of them you can do it for most of them.
Hardest one was the guy on the scaffold who was executing people, it was hard to get close to the monks because of one of the retards in the crowd.
It was a stick.
I haven't gotten to him.
And I mean the thread is about a guy planning to buy it.
Everyone in an obviously wide open space can be done though.
I never asked for this!
I usually do open up the Save the Citizen fights though with a hidden-blade takedown on the hard guy. I suppose if I looked at those as mini-practices for assassinations, it would be helpful (I always wondered why those guards would just come at me once I had spent like 5 seconds in their area...I guess the targeting was the culprit).
Like, it doesn't tell you that the shorter the length of the blade you wield, the tighter the timing is for combo and counter kills but the more likely they are to be lethal.
ALSO, if you knock someone over, untarget, hit stealth knife and immediately run over to them and stab them on the ground.
If you get the timing right you can literally throw people into a wall and stab them the minute they hit the ground after the rebound. The stealth kill is available at any frame after or during he does the little release the blade thing and overtakes most other animations in the game when it's available.
I never asked for this!
Yeah but if you don't you get your ass absolutely smashed.
This way is easy for people new to the game and still increases their effectiveness.
Also, when loading a level, sometimes the Animus voice gives a tip that involves something about breaking an enemy's legs. I never figured out how to do this. Is this even possible?
My Backloggery
It's the main reason the hidden blade works so well when you counter them they probably are really freaked out by aguy who can dodge every strike and kill people in one hit.
So then you stab them too.
If you are really good with counters the last guy or two will often break and run as well.
I never said that I minded the way it worked.
@gamefacts - Totally and utterly true gaming facts on the regular!
Heh.
That sure would have been interesting.
My Backloggery
You can kill someone from jumping off a roof or wall, but you have to be very close to them and it would be an action kill, not a stealth kill.
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I never asked for this!
the terrible, terrible fucking AI totally ruins the game, though
and the fact that "social stealth" was as much of a loaded marketing term as "blast processing"
As for me, I loved the hell out of this game. It played along well with my OCD tendencies and my love for religious conspiracies.
I never bought into the hype initially though. That would explain why I also liked the original Fable when I played it.
That and I don't really see what is so bad about the AI, it's not really a step up from anything else in combat, but the people walking around in crowded areas look the part and do it so seamlessly you don't notice if it's good or bad.
Most people don't notice that, but I do, and it's impressive to me considering the numbers on screen at any given time.
But yeah the guards are dumb as bricks and that's the way I like em. *shunk*
Steam: Feriluce
Battle.net: Feriluce#1995
I never asked for this!
Easiest way I found was to target them first, then just hold down RT and hit A. Takes them out no problem so long as they are reasonably close.
Great way to begin the fight in the save citizen missions. You just leap from the rooftops and crash onto the most badass looking guard, stand up and say "Who wants some?"
It was a stick.
I hate to, but I figure I'll just get a map for the flags. I've found the orbs in Crackdown and the smashes in Burnout Paradise (without a map for that one) so I know what I'm getting in to.
Steam: Feriluce
Battle.net: Feriluce#1995
As someone said, getting to the top of Acre Cathedral, moving the camera around, then diving down was bloody awesome.
Ending sucked balls though. I was left wondering "ok what next?" for 15 minutes before I got bored and turned it off.
"You dare steal in my presence? That will cost you your life!!"
Nothing like charging that guy at full speed leaping right into the middle of his group of thugs, and doing a hidden blade kill. The whole crew standing there stunned like
Every opportunity I get I will try to do this. Many times I will get a chance to stab one or two more with the hidden blade before getting into combat. 8-)