Assassin's Creed series

Due to my play throught being so far apart and inconsistent, I didn't remember much of Desmond's story to be honest.

"TiP54 wrote:

Due to my play throught being so far apart and inconsistent, I didn't remember much of Desmond's story to be honest.

They show refresher videos, and you can always read summaries or watch the previous game's ending on YouTube.

So pumped about this game. Haven't played any AC game in months, I'm starting to get an itch for it again.

Time to buy AC4 on steam ($20).

"Stitches wrote:

Time to buy AC4 on steam ($20).

Monstblitz is waiting until Ubi pays him $20 to play it. :shifty:

Really like the idea of "leveling up" as part of the game. That improves almost any game.

Kotaku has some details on ACU. Read the full article as it's stuffed with information (this is a great article that should be more common in gaming journalism), but here are some highlights.

The addition of a crouch button that activates Unity's series-first stealth mode. While in stealth mode, Arno will crouch and be harder to detect.

The fact that when you climb to the top of a roof, you'll suddenly see all sorts of icons appear among the buildings below. "What we're revealing is not missions or side stories," Amancio said. "[We're revealing] opportunities—the hide spots, the alarm bells, all of the stuff you need to create strategy. The idea, he said, is to emphasize that the assassin is strongest when he's on the roof. "To me assassin on rooftop is akin to the eagle circling its prey."

The idea that combat will be tougher thanks in part to the removal of unblockable assassin combos. "What we wanted to do in ACU is to make a game where you're playing like an assassin," Amancio said. "How we did that is, first, we made combat much more challenging. If the path of least resistance is to fight, that's what you're going to do." The difficulty of combat will encourage players to sneak and it will force them to learn how to more effectively fight different foes. Some enemies will be too fast for dodging to be effective, others too strong for you to parry. And if there are a lot of enemies? They will shoot and kill you. "More than five, you're going to get killed."

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The removal of the automatic day-night system, in favor of locking the time of day in the game at various times. The idea is to keep players from feeling rushed and from having some of their in-game progress reset by the quick passing of sunrise and sunset. (I wonder, but didn't ask, if it's also because of changes to how the game world will be illuminated and animated.)

The assurance that, yes, the four-player co-op might be cool but that all missions can be solo'd if you've leveled up your Arno enough.

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"We changed the way we make missions," Amancio said. "There's like two major categories of missions, AMMs—adaptive mission mechanics—and blackboxes."

The AMMs are Unity's way of getting away from designing missions that can only work as tailing missions or only work as eavesdrop missions. An example of an AMM: "You need to get here, that dude has the key—or you need to know where he's going. You start as a tail. He spots you, he bolts. No desync. [Translation: The mission doesn't fail.] It turns into a chase. You lose him. It becomes a locate. Let's say he goes into a riot and he gets killed. You loot the body, and you might find a letter that tells you where it is. Now the dude's missing so there's going to be twice as many guards on the other side."

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There's also something called mod missions, missions that might change part of the game world and make the next mission easier. Amancio shared an example in which you might lock some grates in one mission that would allow you to fill the area with smoke in the next and use eagle vision to hunt your target.

So, when Kotaku revealed the Assassin's Creed Unity leak, they also made mention of a game called Assassin's Creed Comet that would be for the previous gen consoles (Xbox 360, PS3, presumably PC).

It's apparently real.

An Assassin's Creed game for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 could be revealed "soon," Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said during an investor call today.

In response to a question about Ubisoft's plans for the franchise on "current-gen" systems, a term the questioner used to exclude "next-gen" systems PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, Guillemot said that news about other systems will come soon.

"At the moment, that's what we have, yes," he said, referring to the company's plans to release Assassin's Creed Unity, on PS4 and Xbox One. "We said that we were going to give more info soon on that, and it will come soon."

AC Unity preorder is up on Steam.

Assassin's Creed Rogue announced for PS360 only. This appears to be the rumored Assassin's Creed Comet game for previous gen platforms only.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoOsv0FBpaU

The protagonist is a Templar, Shay Patrick Cormac, who hunts assassins along the eastern seaboard in and around 1758, during the middle of the French and Indian War. So it's a safe bet that Haytham Kenway is coming back. Apparently, Adewale from AC4 is confirmed to be returning. So I guess we get to shoot Adewale now.

According to VG247, the game ties AC3 to AC Unity and plays like a mix of AC3 and AC4.

Interesting.

I'm a little worried with 2 Creeds in one year, worried one will suffer so I'm holding back on any pre-ordering AC3 was the last time I get burned. Granted I did really like 4.

Torn on whether to play the one on the PS3. Moving up to the PS4 in a few weeks, and planning on moving to the new system in total. If the PS4 could play older games, that would be awesome, but they insist on building them so that they cannot these days.

"Unlucky 13 wrote:

Torn on whether to play the one on the PS3. Moving up to the PS4 in a few weeks, and planning on moving to the new system in total. If the PS4 could play older games, that would be awesome, but they insist on building them so that they cannot these days.

Sorry, it's impossible to make AMD x86 CPUs backwards compatible with the Cell monstrosity. Just ain't happening.

I would say if you guys are on the fence about a game, play Unity if you can. That's clearly the lead title. And I wouldn't worry about quality loss. There are something like 10 studios involved with each AC game, with every studio doing a piecemeal part (one studio did all of the Romulus dungeons in Brotherhood, for example).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtRXXmseZgI

"Desides wrote:

Sorry, it's impossible to make AMD x86 CPUs backwards compatible with the Cell monstrosity. Just ain't happening.

I would say if you guys are on the fence about a game, play Unity if you can. That's clearly the lead title. And I wouldn't worry about quality loss. There are something like 10 studios involved with each AC game, with every studio doing a piecemeal part (one studio did all of the Romulus dungeons in Brotherhood, for example).

Oh, I'll absolutely be playing Unity. I was just saying that I'm on the fence for the other, as I'm otherwise not going to buy PS3 games any more but don't want to miss a part of the series.

"Unlucky 13 wrote:

Oh, I'll absolutely be playing Unity. I was just saying that I'm on the fence for the other, as I'm otherwise not going to buy PS3 games any more but don't want to miss a part of the series.

Well, if you have the PS3, and want to play the game, it doesn't make sense to skip it.

For me, I have a problem with it being available only on the PS360. I don't intend to start playing AC games with a controller if I can help it. Mouse look is too useful in this series.

Maybe I'll just watch a no commentary playthrough on Youtube.

"Desides wrote:

Well, if you have the PS3, and want to play the game, it doesn't make sense to skip it.

For me, I have a problem with it being available only on the PS360. I don't intend to start playing AC games with a controller if I can help it. Mouse look is too useful in this series.

Maybe I'll just watch a no commentary playthrough on Youtube.

I used to work with a guy who played all of the AC games on his PC. I can't imagine doing that! I need my controller.

As for the PS3, I'm going to have such a backlog of PS4 games soon that I'll likely never get around to it. Playing The Show now, & Madden next week. Dragon Age in November, then Unity, and I'll likely get Lego Hobbit and Little Big planet to play with my wife after that, and I'm curious about The Order as well, though since they let on that it has a strong horror edge, its no longer a must buy.

How was that add-on game in AC4, when you played as Aveline or whatever her name is? Worth the bother?

AC Unity delayed 2 weeks to November 11.

"Sethdaddy8 wrote:

How was that add-on game in AC4, when you played as Aveline or whatever her name is? Worth the bother?

You're thinking of Freedom Cry, the DLC for AC4. The game starring Aveline is an HD remake of the PSP game she appeared in. And yes, it's worth the bother, it's a full fledged AC game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zZTHkxOstQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83gmiey7S7w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQEocdLSgZ8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-h8me2zrRw

PC minimum and recommended specs are out

64-bit operating system
Required

Supported OS
Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8/8.1 (64bit versions only)

Processor
Minimum
Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.3 GHz or AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0 GHz or AMD Phenom II x4 940 @ 3.0 GHz

Recommended
Intel Core i7-3770 @ 3.4 GHz or AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0 GHz or better

RAM
Minimum
6 GB

Recommended
8GB

Video Card
Minimum
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 or AMD Radeon HD 7970 (2 GB VRAM)

Recommended
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 or AMD Radeon R9 290X (3 GB VRAM)

DirectX
Version 11

Sound Card
DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card with latest drivers

Hard Drive Space
50 GB available space

Peripherals Supported
Windows-compatible keyboard and mouse required, optional controller

Multiplayer
256 kbps or faster broadband connection

Supported Video Cards at Time of Release
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 or better, GeForce GTX 700 series; AMD Radeon HD7970 or better, Radeon R9 200 series
Note: Laptop versions of these cards may work but are NOT officially supported.

Those are some really high end minimum specs. My PC is not quite two years old, and was the best Win 7 laptop that the store I used to work for ever sold, and it would just scrape by. I don't game on the PC at all anymore though. PS4 all the way now.