Assassin's Creed

you're best off keeping the ship stuff to just the 'easy' islands until you upgrade a lot. spent way too many frustrating hours determined to beat a 'hard' fleet of brigs before finally giving up. hyggy, what would you say's the best order to upgrade the ship? kinda late for me as im 2/3 of the way through upgrading it all.

also, there's some kind of 'hunter's outfit' that claims to make less visible to predators. is that the only outfit that has any real use?

the templar quest with the two brothers is the only crappy mission i've played so far

Anything with stealth and following your target in this game is a total pain in the face.

I would get armour to about half first and then Broadside, Heavy Shot and finally Mortar. All to about half and then start ramping up armour as no matter how big the man o'war you'll be able to take a few hits. I never found the ram any good and fire barrels are a total waste imho.

Upgrading armour first meant I could get the forts. When I had the forts in the south I could attach bigger boats and have some firepower from the forts.

Storage when you have the wood is dead handy.

Never noticed any difference with sails so I'd sell the cloth unless you're a total completist.

I also realise that the above means I got way more invested in the grind element of the game than I realised...

i'd agree with all of that except to give mortars higher priority - if done well you can blitz an enemy from a good distance. ram and fire barrels are total meh

My take was less about what to upgrade than what you should pillage. I went hardcore for metal for a while but when I upgraded enough I needed money (to be a completist nerd and deck out my island cove) so just went after rum and sugar.

I was terrible with mortars. Even with elite it never worked (xpost).

Gukbe, I was really disappointed after all the upgrades. It didn't really add that much.

In fact in terms of empire building ACIV was a little disappointing (no upgrades on shops etc.) unless you had online. I'm not online with XBox so I don't know if this Kenway Fleet thing is worth it.

Did anyone carry out Kenway Fleet missions? Any good or as dull as the Novice training in ACIII?

It's like retreating to your cabin to play a crappy economy/annoyingly simple tactical combat simulator on a C64 to earn some peanuts while you could use your valuable playtime to blast forts, ride rogue waves and kill white sharks with your bare hands instead in real (simulated) life.

Maybe it appeals to pirate otaku idk

It doesn't sound worth the effort to get set up online for!

The sailing in this is fantastic. I was watching a Zero Punctuation review last week of it and he was pretty OTM where it did feel like you were being dragged back to land to perform missions.

Is there much interest in the new one at all?

Bring on AC WW1. That would be interesting: Modernish weapons but static fortifications to climb all over, shellholes to hide in, trenches to stealth through...

Anyone know if the Freedom Cry dlc is worth the dl.

what's the deal with ac: rogue and ac: unity? both released on the same day, former not on windows. is one a glorified dlc or are they really releasing two major games on the *same* day?

early/mid nov for both

Unity is PS4/Xbox One, Rogue is PS3, Xbox 360.

also rogue is a new pirate game

unity on the other hand is back to traditional AC style, in the french revolution era this time.

So Unity only comes out on next gen consoles? that sucks

I was looking forward to Unity until I played Shadow of Mordor. If Unity ends up being just a better-looking upgrade of the AC formula I think it'll look pretty flat next to the freeform emergent madness of Shadow of Mordor.

Also: no pirate stuff in Unity boo hiss

So Unity only comes out on next gen consoles? that sucks

aw, yeah, that's not cool. I was looking forward to roaming the streets and roofs of my city... but not sure I'm ready to upgrade the console just for that...

Think of it as the cheap game you pick up when you do decide to upgrade. Finish off the Kenway family story and hope it doesn't suck.

Well that is a bit crap. There's more chance of people having the older systems after upgrading so they get both.

Still, by the time I manage to upgrade this game will be about a fiver and we'll be on PS7.

I don't know if I care about non-piratey games after all the fun of the buccaneering.

It's like retreating to your cabin to play a crappy economy/annoyingly simple tactical combat simulator on a C64 to earn some peanuts while you could use your valuable playtime to blast forts, ride rogue waves and kill white sharks with your bare hands instead in real (simulated) life.

― the european nikon is here (grauschleier), Wednesday, September 10, 2014 5:35 PM

ahaha yes. i got back into iv, it finally clicked that letting your notoriety level rise is the way to get the bigger ships w/ metal etc. i like the fort attacks too, i just wish they didn't have the exact same layout. can't complain too much though. i was feeling that the stormy weather i'd seen was too brief and the game decided to give me a pretty bad storm with a huge waterspout and giant wave. i also like pulling up to a ship to board and just nailing guys with the side cannon without having to leave the deck

i like the fleet stuff actually, it just doesn't seem to pay that well considering you have to wait up to 10 hrs for some of them to complete

just seen that rogue is being released for windows in 2015 as well. thought it was weird that the next-gen one (unity) was being released for pcs but the 360/ps3 one wasn't.

enthusiasm has kinda waned for 4 at the moment. about 2/3 way through and it's ok but feel like i've seen everything i'm gona see. those first few days of playing though, up there with the absolute best

so apparently Unity is a shitshow, and the embargo on reviews until noon on release day shows they knew it

http://kotaku.com/assassins-creed-unity-has-the-best-glitches-1657939797

dying @ the characters with disembodied eyes and mouths

terrifying!!

Has anyone tried the game? Also wouldn't it be great if there was a mod available where that could be default?

lmao

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is unity really so bad?

Sounds more like a pc platform specific issue.. far cry 4 is having similar issues and the review versions werent even sent before release

haven't played ac4 in an age but feel ngh about jumping straight to unity without finishing it. hope it's just graphic glitches and not actual gameplay that's ropey

i wanna play unity but can't bring myself to buy it while major issues are still unpatched

'cenobites w/ collapsing bodies in paris' could be fun in its own right i guess

hear Rogue kind of sucks.

unity is dope so far

lol ubi have announced the next instalment already: http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/12/02/next-years-big-assassins-creed-set-victorian-london

how long until the world war 2 entry

Weimar republic would be cool

I think there's some ww2 action in unity isn't there?

So I just read the synopsis of Unity, and small spoiler, perhaps, but is the plot of the game that the assasins try to prevent the revolution?

not really

I don't know about the gameplay but Unity looks very cool. And many reviews, here in France, were raving (including historians experts of the revolution era !).
I guess I'll get it… when I'll make the jump to the new gen consoles...

Feel like next summer it might be Arkham Knight that tips me over into getting a next gen is I'll play this then. For now I'll consider Rogue.

paris looks great, just the detail in the natural lighting when going inside to outside or vice versa is crazy. the combat/parkour overhaul is good too. seems like the weapon variety they've added is very dark souls influenced. claymore?! ac4 was fun but felt like more a pirate spinoff. unity goes back to feeling like ac2. if they can just fix the floating npc glitches...

the ac unity patch blog is pretty lolsy for the comments. reminds me of the good ol days when ilx had random googlers posting

joseph55 2 hours ago
how do I get a patch 3 for ACU. game sucks. VERY POOR PORFORMANCE.

liongeek 2 hours ago
how do i clame my free game

RangoDj801 9 hours ago
i Assassins creed for the creew change. Thanks

grand_ekinoks 11 hours ago
Hi, my accounts are in Assassins Creed Unity Gold. Far Cry 4 free I want from you ...

Has anyone tried Rogue? Tempted!

so it seems this giant new unity patch has solved the problem of crowd pop-in by, uh, adding an animus highlight to it to make it a feature rather than a bug?

http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/350/9/9/ignor_by_chabbles-d8a3ukh.gif

good job ubi, keep on keepin' on