So does anyone else feel this is WAY WAY harder than previous AssCreeds?
Im having fun, but man am I getting my ass kicked. I just kind of feel like there was literally no "reaquainting" period with the game. And there's guards EVERYWHERE.
I still love it, still love the story and the characters, but it hasn't sucked me in right off the bat like all the previous installments. Its just rough.
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I don't think it's harder in general, but you're right about it not being a gentle intro. There are plenty of tutorials to get people up to speed, but they are hidden behind the back button as concepts get introduced, and if you ignore those you can miss important information pretty easily, I think.
Nowhere near as egregious as Arkham City, though.
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I made the mistake of attempting to take on some Janissaries somewhere in Act 3. Those guys are tough! Not tough enough to deal with poison darts, though.
I just LOVE this game so far. I'm only on sequence 3 but I've been taking over every territory and ranking up all my assassistance's. I have yet to throw money on the ground with a poisoned guard lurking, I'm glad there's a semi-related achievement for it. It's been a weird annual tradition for me with these games.
I'm kind of hesitant to pick this up, so I'll ask this: does the main story move along at all in this one? Because Brotherhood sucked in that regard.
To be honest the "Revelations" of the title don't actually reveal a whole lot new, but they clarify previous information and provide a very clear direction for AC3
I'm expanding into Byzantium ( :P) a bit and now the game is warming up to me. I agree the Tower Defence Interface is a bit painful: One time I was setting up a sophisticated defence, when I realised I had done it at the wrong end of the street and the Templars were a stone's throw from my base. :oops:
So as a result, I've strived to keep my notoriety down as much as possible, and frankly the game is better for it. Having a good time right now.
I'm kind of hesitant to pick this up, so I'll ask this: does the main story move along at all in this one? Because Brotherhood sucked in that regard.
To be honest the "Revelations" of the title don't actually reveal a whole lot new, but they clarify previous information and provide a very clear direction for AC3
Considering I just started playing tonight, this is really, really disappointing. Thanks for that. :P
so the multiplayer is vastly improved in just about every way. you can now back out of a match as a group if you joined together. the stun/contested kill system also is much better and very clearly has a 'breaking apart' animation for the B icon above enemies' heads when you can no longer stun an opponent successfully. toss in improved matchmaking, customizable characters, and a small bit of story tied in for good measure too.
the new modes are great, but the lack of new maps stings a bit (since these are maps we've played from AssBro mostly). corruption stands out as one of the cooler twists on the 'zombie/infection' gametype. my two gripes are A) it can be difficult to fill a game when searching as a party and NO DOCTOR. i seriously miss my doctor skin.
regarding the story elements tied into multiplayer
had a cool moment where, even though the game had started for my team mates, it instead showed the director of abstergo talking to me. he commended me for doing well and told me i was on my way to being a part of the 'inner circle' of abstergo. i'm not sure what triggers these things but it's neat; it is weird to be seeing a cutscene while everyone else keeps playing... like he's actually complimenting just me
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Have a guard incapacitate 3 civilians while he's poisoned.
I suppose you could do it without throwing money at him but it's really funny watching NPCs trying to get money while the guard stabs them.
I got this achievement completely by accident. Shot a poison dart at the lead templar near a den and he happened to be by a group of people. I think it helped that he had a giant halberd or spear.
Of course, later I would lose this territory in a failed Den Defense, and then proceed to screw up with retaking the territory at least 4 times because of its new cowardly templar leader.
edit: So far this game's music isn't really grabbing me, which is a shame. There's been a standout track in every console AC game for me up until now.
I finally got to throw this in last night.
I noticed they redesigned Desmond's face again.
Did anyone else think he looked like Adam Sandler in AssBro?
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Okay so what am I doing wrong in this den defense stuff? Is there some sort of rock-paper-scissors mechanic I'm just not getting?
I always truck along just fine and then a flamethrower tank shows up, 1-shots all my fully-upgraded barricades then kills the den while I would probably do more damage to it by pissing on it for all the good my attacks do.
I feel like this game does a really piss poor job of explaining new mechanics to you.
Okay so what am I doing wrong in this den defense stuff? Is there some sort of rock-paper-scissors mechanic I'm just not getting?
I always truck along just fine and then a flamethrower tank shows up, 1-shots all my fully-upgraded barricades then kills the den while I would probably do more damage to it by pissing on it for all the good my attacks do.
I feel like this game does a really piss poor job of explaining new mechanics to you.
I save my cannon shots for the flamethrower tanks.
Also, man the assassins level up quickly in this one. I also like finding
the "special" assassins, the ones that you have to do a mission to get and they start at a higher level. Fought one guy in a bare-knuckle boxing match. Every time I beat him and started to walk away, he'd yell, "Ha! You've fallen for my ruse." And I'd whup him again. I thought it was funny.
The Master Assassin misisons for your higher level assassins are pretty good too.
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One other thing I like, storywise, is how they eliminated a lot of the vague notions people came away with from the end of Brotherhood.
Lucy definitely seems dead, and this is not an Animus within an Animus situation.
Okay, so I sent one of my first assassins on a mission with an 'unknown' time estimate, is there something I have to do to get him to finish it? Because It's been a couple of hours at least, and he's still out there.
Okay, so I sent one of my first assassins on a mission with an 'unknown' time estimate, is there something I have to do to get him to finish it? Because It's been a couple of hours at least, and he's still out there.
Happened to me. I think he'll probably come back at a specific time in the story, because that was the first mission I sent my (at the time) only assassin on, and he was level 10 from the start. Maybe it's sort of a tutorial thing.
Holy fucking shit, I love you John DeLancie. My blackout must have been fairly successful if I didn't find out he was working on this game until I heard those sweet tenor tones. And then my face was like
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I want to punch the everliving shit out of Broject16.
so the multiplayer is vastly improved in just about every way. you can now back out of a match as a group if you joined together. the stun/contested kill system also is much better and very clearly has a 'breaking apart' animation for the B icon above enemies' heads when you can no longer stun an opponent successfully. toss in improved matchmaking, customizable characters, and a small bit of story tied in for good measure too.
the new modes are great, but the lack of new maps stings a bit (since these are maps we've played from AssBro mostly). corruption stands out as one of the cooler twists on the 'zombie/infection' gametype. my two gripes are A) it can be difficult to fill a game when searching as a party and NO DOCTOR. i seriously miss my doctor skin.
regarding the story elements tied into multiplayer
had a cool moment where, even though the game had started for my team mates, it instead showed the director of abstergo talking to me. he commended me for doing well and told me i was on my way to being a part of the 'inner circle' of abstergo. i'm not sure what triggers these things but it's neat; it is weird to be seeing a cutscene while everyone else keeps playing... like he's actually complimenting just me
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I just realized who one particular character in this game looks like. I'm only spoiling this silliness because I don't know if it'd be bad form to spoil that he's in the game even though he's in there right at the beginning.
Subject 16 reminds me very much of Val Kilmer in Real Genius. Must be the hair.
Why is my notoriety increasing when I renovate buildings? I'm in a "white area" even -- one controlled by the assassin's currently. And yet buying a bank and blacksmith has fill my meter by nearly half.
Speaking of notoriety, how do I decrease the meter in this game? So far I haven't seen any wanted posters on the walls to tear down or criers to bribe.
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There are definitely criers around. They cost 100 to bribe down 25%. There are also these courier guys that walk around with two armed guards you can kill for 50% off your meter.
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Why is my notoriety increasing when I renovate buildings? I'm in a "white area" even -- one controlled by the assassin's currently. And yet buying a bank and blacksmith has fill my meter by nearly half.
The game does a piss-poor job of explaining how you gain notoriety, I think. Basically, you get it for any illegal activity as well as property renovation.
I usually find it easiest to kill those officials (not couriers). They are marked on the UI with an eye symbol. Easy to kill. I usually throw a knife at them from atop a building.
I used those colored 3D glasses for the first couple of hours that I played, and it really is the best color-based 3D I've seen. It popped into 3D for my eyes immediately, and it adds an even better sense of height and scale in the game. It's not perfect, and certainly not as good as movie theater 3D or home 3D with shutter glasses, but it's great considering that I can do it with my existing TV. They seem to use the colors only around the edges of things (a guess) to get the 3D effect, so colors aren't nearly as jacked up as they are with old style color-based 3D. It's certainly worth taking the time to turn it on, and you can toggle it at any time from the options while you're playing. I don't think I'll be playing with it on at all times, but I probably will when I find some neat climbing bits.
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There are definitely criers around. They cost 100 to bribe down 25%. There are also these courier guys that walk around with two armed guards you can kill for 50% off your meter.
Fun fact: After bribing a crier, you can pickpocket him to get your money back.
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I just level up my assassins really quick and assign them to the den, I don't know if it's just me but they level way faster than AssBro
Im having fun, but man am I getting my ass kicked. I just kind of feel like there was literally no "reaquainting" period with the game. And there's guards EVERYWHERE.
I still love it, still love the story and the characters, but it hasn't sucked me in right off the bat like all the previous installments. Its just rough.
Nowhere near as egregious as Arkham City, though.
At least I don't have to wait months for this iteration.
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I suppose you could do it without throwing money at him but it's really funny watching NPCs trying to get money while the guard stabs them.
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To be honest the "Revelations" of the title don't actually reveal a whole lot new, but they clarify previous information and provide a very clear direction for AC3
So as a result, I've strived to keep my notoriety down as much as possible, and frankly the game is better for it. Having a good time right now.
Considering I just started playing tonight, this is really, really disappointing. Thanks for that. :P
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the new modes are great, but the lack of new maps stings a bit (since these are maps we've played from AssBro mostly). corruption stands out as one of the cooler twists on the 'zombie/infection' gametype. my two gripes are A) it can be difficult to fill a game when searching as a party and
regarding the story elements tied into multiplayer
Altair and Ezio's stories are pretty great and they get deserving endings, although Ezio's true ending is in Embers
Wal-Mart has been mistakenly selling this for $40 if that's low enough for you
I got this achievement completely by accident. Shot a poison dart at the lead templar near a den and he happened to be by a group of people. I think it helped that he had a giant halberd or spear.
Of course, later I would lose this territory in a failed Den Defense, and then proceed to screw up with retaking the territory at least 4 times because of its new cowardly templar leader.
edit: So far this game's music isn't really grabbing me, which is a shame. There's been a standout track in every console AC game for me up until now.
I noticed they redesigned Desmond's face again.
Did anyone else think he looked like Adam Sandler in AssBro?
I always truck along just fine and then a flamethrower tank shows up, 1-shots all my fully-upgraded barricades then kills the den while I would probably do more damage to it by pissing on it for all the good my attacks do.
I feel like this game does a really piss poor job of explaining new mechanics to you.
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I save my cannon shots for the flamethrower tanks.
Also, man the assassins level up quickly in this one. I also like finding
The Master Assassin misisons for your higher level assassins are pretty good too.
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Happened to me. I think he'll probably come back at a specific time in the story, because that was the first mission I sent my (at the time) only assassin on, and he was level 10 from the start. Maybe it's sort of a tutorial thing.
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Here's the link to the wiki on the MP characters list, their bios, and the maps.
http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/Multiplayer/ACR#Characters
Wiki link to MP weapons.
http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed:_Revelations_Multiplayer_weapons
Stumbled across MP DLC called the Ancestors Character Pack.
The new characters are The Privateer, Corsair, Gladiator and Brigand.
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It's definitely different. Cam Clarke did his voice in the two previous games; this can't be Cam Clarke.
Speaking of notoriety, how do I decrease the meter in this game? So far I haven't seen any wanted posters on the walls to tear down or criers to bribe.
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The game does a piss-poor job of explaining how you gain notoriety, I think. Basically, you get it for any illegal activity as well as property renovation.
I usually find it easiest to kill those officials (not couriers). They are marked on the UI with an eye symbol. Easy to kill. I usually throw a knife at them from atop a building.
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Fun fact: After bribing a crier, you can pickpocket him to get your money back.