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Assassin's Creed Brotherhood |OT| where my bro's at?
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RiccochetJ
Gold Member
OK, Manhunt in MP is hilarious. It's a nice change of pace from the utterly stressful Wanted mode. It was great.. there were 3 of us in this massive group because I used the morph ability. As they came up to us, one would throw down a smoke bomb and we would knock them out. That is until they wised up and started shooting us from a distance :lol
Bebpo said:
Yeah this was EXTREMELY annoying. I touched upon it some in this post I made about things that irritate me in this game: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=24594327&postcount=2137
After taking a week off from any gaming whatsoever, I finally set aside the MP and dug into the SP without having played AC2. It's really easy to just jump right in, and even though I've just started sequence 2, I'm quite engaged. Desmond's story is as painfully dull yet as convoluted as ever, but the Tomb Raider sequence at the beginning was a pleasant treat.
I did run into a single glitch thus far. On one of the sequences where Desmond gives his partner a step-jump to the next platform, she disappeared somewhere before that point. I ran in circles for ten minutes in the underground passageway until I reloaded an earlier autosave and sailed straight through on my second excursion. I've read about a few other glitches, but did anyone else experience this?
Still, the SP is enjoyable to where I'm going to suspend my MP play until I've completed this portion of the game. So, I'll be out for a few weeks at least. When I last played MP, I was a level 26 and the highest level I came across was a 49, but most players were between 25 and 35. I fully expect to run into a plethora of 50's when I do pick it up again, hopefully before Christmas. I hope the upcoming DLC helps keep the community alive, too.
I did run into a single glitch thus far. On one of the sequences where Desmond gives his partner a step-jump to the next platform, she disappeared somewhere before that point. I ran in circles for ten minutes in the underground passageway until I reloaded an earlier autosave and sailed straight through on my second excursion. I've read about a few other glitches, but did anyone else experience this?
Still, the SP is enjoyable to where I'm going to suspend my MP play until I've completed this portion of the game. So, I'll be out for a few weeks at least. When I last played MP, I was a level 26 and the highest level I came across was a 49, but most players were between 25 and 35. I fully expect to run into a plethora of 50's when I do pick it up again, hopefully before Christmas. I hope the upcoming DLC helps keep the community alive, too.
Mr. B Natural
Member
I love manhunt too and find wanted too random for my liking. I try to play smart and strategically, but there's a 50/50 chance that will result in me dying before I get the chance to use actual tactics. Haven't had the guts to try advanced wanted yet.RiccochetJ said:
Yeah, the only counter morph + smoke I have found (at my level) is that firecrackers have a bigger range than smoke. So if I use the firecrackers at a safe distance, the opponent always smokes to respond...then runs like hell. That's when I dodge the smoke and catch em while they're blinded.
Is there a gaffer group that plays this regularly? I like everything about it but the long matchmaking wait.
Ledsen said:
Yeah, I finally figured it out how to do it thanks to the combat training challenges, but thanks. You basically gotta "bounce" off of enemies ala Batman:AA. Maybe it's because I have an SDTV that I couldn't read the text well. I beat everything that I said I needed to beat. I'm always looking forward to a fight now so I could take everybody out in a huge flurry of attacks, so it's a lot more enjoyable and more satisfying. The horses in this game do suck.
I still haven't gotten to the Brotherhood portion of the game yet, but I did
rescue Caterina from that big ass castle. The view at the very top of the castle is awesome and showcases the game's awesome draw distance.
If there's a GAF group on the 360, I'll join it.
It seems like Advanced Wanted was barely more strategic than it's less complex counterpart; simply by the absence of a vertical designation on the target, everyone is looking up before looking straight ahead. Loitering indoors around crowds out of an aerial hunter's reach is a much more defensible strategy since most hunters check the rooftops first. Scores seemed lower all-around on account of the additional time it takes to locate one's target; I'm not sure I participated in a single Advanced Wanted game where the high score was above 3,000. This made the lobbies of this game type among the slowest to load.Mr. B Natural said:
Since I didn't play it much, this may have changed.
MrCompletely
Member
MjFrancis said:
The compass will fully light up at a much wider range and there are more NPC's around. I found it much more challenging, but I think it may be the mode I go to once I feel that I've achieved a certain skill level in regular Wanted.
Mr. B Natural
Member
I'm gonna try advanced and see for myself.
If anyone wants to start a 360 group out, send me a PM with your Gamertag and I'll start one if we get enough people interested.
If anyone wants to start a 360 group out, send me a PM with your Gamertag and I'll start one if we get enough people interested.
iNvid02
Member
the last one, number 020
http://bit.ly/9UT0eY
http://bit.ly/9UT0eY
MoonsaultSlayer
Member
Any deals on this? I'm a huge AC1 and 2 fan but I'm being cheap with this one.
iNvidious01 said:
Hmm, probably shouldn't have read all the titles to the videos on that, since I haven't beaten the game. Oh well, I'm not that sensitive about that stuff.
You might want to spoiler the character name you put in your earlier post, since I imagine someone could be unhappy about seeing that there is a character named
Juno
LightofRohan
Member
What the flying fuck?
I sent 3-4 almost top Assassins on this one damn mission w/ a 75% chance of Success and they failed... so I sent MY TOP 2 Assassins on it with a ~78% and THEY failed!?! WHAT THE TITTY FUCK!?
ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS STEAL SOME FOOD! FUCKKKK - is this mission bugged? I'm sure if I sent an assassin on a mission at 25% chance success they would lose every single time, why are they losing so much at such high percent? GAHH
Lost around 5 of my best assassins... ftg
I sent 3-4 almost top Assassins on this one damn mission w/ a 75% chance of Success and they failed... so I sent MY TOP 2 Assassins on it with a ~78% and THEY failed!?! WHAT THE TITTY FUCK!?
ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS STEAL SOME FOOD! FUCKKKK - is this mission bugged? I'm sure if I sent an assassin on a mission at 25% chance success they would lose every single time, why are they losing so much at such high percent? GAHH
Lost around 5 of my best assassins... ftg
DualShadow
Member
Darknessbear said:
I'm not sure you understand how percentages work, he would lose 3 out of 4 times.
Darknessbear said:
You know you can send more than on assassin on a mission at once, right? There's no reason to ever send an assassin on a mission with less than 100% success rate. It's not like you get bonus xp for being risky. Just keep adding assassins onto a mission until you hit 100% success.
Dr Zhivago
Member
Ugh, there's some really shitty missions in this game. All the 'stay undetected' ones are borderline broken due to the arbitrary nature of the stealth. Is this a symptom of the game being rushed out inside a year?
DualShadow
Member
Dr Zhivago said:
The stealth in the Assassin's Creed series is more like kill the guards before they see me type of thing. You can't try and play it stealthy like a Splinter Cell game.
LightofRohan
Member
It divides that XP between all of them and I'm not sure if the missions are limited so I try to divide it up between who needs the biggest XP boost ect. Not anymore though!ZealousD said:
Yea? I didn't assume it was so literal in terms of percent. In some other games I've played if you have a 70%+ chance at something it's usually 100% and if you have lower than 40% it's always going to fail. It's just insane to lose a mission two times in a row at 75% and then at 80%.DualShadow said:
Don't worry I'm not saying the game is bad. Just that it was annoying to lose my best assassins GARRRR!!
Dr Zhivago
Member
DualShadow said:
But some of the missions want you to play it like that, but without the tools that Sam Fisher has. It's just bad design.
Dr Zhivago said:
The worst part is the goddamn loading after every screw up.
Honestly if there's was ZERO loading I could deal with the glitchy AI and jumping and other funky aspects of the stealth, but sitting through that loading (which is really bad on PS3) every time something screwy happens is frustrating as hell.
There is a point where instead of just having tons and tons content, you realize that cutting the fat and having a smaller roster of all great missions makes for an overall better game. I feel like there is an incredible amount of things to do in AC B, but a quarter of them are not fun. And the half-sync/full-sync thing could have been done better for sure.
DualShadow
Member
Darknessbear said:
Well to be honest I just assumed it was literal and from what I read around on it seemed literal. But I only sent my assassins out when it was 100% success. There seems to be more then enough missions (I have all my recruits fully ranked up) and I "think" they keep spawning.
I would hate to lose any of mine on a mission :lol
Dr Zhivago said:
Which mission(s) are you referring to? Spoiler tag as necessary.
ZephyrFate
Banned
I'm the complete opposite. I love pretty much everything in this game, and the full-sync concept makes things far more challenging than previous AC games.Bebpo said:
There's very few things that this game doesn't do amazingly.
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NinjaFridge
Unconfirmed Member
Bebpo said:
God, i hate the white loading world. Why do i need to go through this?! Everything is right there, it is already loaded!!
So, now that the game has aged a bit, how is this compared to Assassin's Creed II?
I just no rediscovered AC2 and have given it the attention it deserved. I found it rather dull initially, but my point of view has changed and the game has become addictive now that I actually perform side quests and manage everything else. Simply trying to rush through it destroys any chance at bonding with the environment.
I just no rediscovered AC2 and have given it the attention it deserved. I found it rather dull initially, but my point of view has changed and the game has become addictive now that I actually perform side quests and manage everything else. Simply trying to rush through it destroys any chance at bonding with the environment.
dark10x said:
The SP feels like a Blizzard-level expansion pack to AC2. However, the length of the main story quest is shortened but there's much more to do on the side. Some people prefer it to AC2, some don't. I guess it all depends on how much you like the side quests in this series.
Magic Mushroom
Member
The stealth missions work fine for me. I managed to 100% synch all the 'stay undetected' missions without too much trouble. Plotting your course, watching guard patterns and taking them out at the right time or sneaking past them works like a treat most of the times. The crossbow certainly makes things a lot easier though, best weapon in the game. I quite like the variety in this and the optional targets work great. Same with the optional missions. They put quite the amount of work into them, the war machine missions in particular.
I'm still working on the singleplayer. I think I am at the beginning of Sequence 7. Turned it on to play for a bit the other day and got no story missions done. Ended up doing a bunch of other stuff which is how this game seems to go. Might try and play this tonight if I can. Try to actually get some story progress in. I have one tomb open I haven't done which I'll need to do first though I think. I love those levels.
ZephyrFate said:
Did you try to get 100%? I did (did/got everything except full synchronization on individual missions), and I can tell you that there are many, MANY things that this game doesn't do amazingly, and they start to wear on your patience after 25-30 hours... some of this crap almost made my throw my controller. I wrote a pretty long post about it a couple of pages ago but even that didn't include everything that irritated me about this game. Still awesome, but man was it rushed and unpolished.
ZephyrFate
Banned
I'm at like 95%, the only mission that even really irked me was the tank one. The rest are honestly not that bad at all.Ledsen said:
DualShadow
Member
Servers down for everyone else?
BobTheFork
Member
No, it's not. IMO The stealth and detection is no different whatsoever from AC2. Yeah it's dodgy, but it's dodgy in your favor. Just be glad that guards have the memory of a goldfish and can forget they saw you if you move.Dr Zhivago said:
Dr Zhivago
Member
BobTheFork said:
AC2 didn't have as many missions that instantly failed if you're detected. The one I particularly hated was
following the assassin to the play in the Colosseum. Insta-fail if detected, too many guards to kill, also fails if he gets too far away from you so you can't spend time watching the guards patrol paths.
I'd certainly put this as being slightly worse than AC2. AC2 had better missions, and I liked the variety of the cities. The way the environment unlocked was also better handled in AC2.
NovemberMike
Member
The problem is that the stealth sections tend to be One Right Way when everything else has just been about doing it however you want. They always put it in a red zone so guards are automatically suspicious when suspicious guards make the stealth in this game just stupid.BobTheFork said:
Magic Mushroom said:
I haven't gotten to the War Machine missions yet, but I do agree that the crossbow is badass especially if you buy it early in the game and upgrade it ASAP. Stealth missions are a breeze with it although I gotta redo
the rescue Caterina mission again because I killed the guards that were outside her cell with knives and the game told me that I failed, so I'm gonna use the crossbow.
infinityBCRT
Member
The only issue I have is when I'm just barely detected as I'm stabbing a guard and no other guard is in earshot. They probably should restore sync if you kill the alerted guard if other guards aren't alerted.BobTheFork said:
I think they've really improved the crowd AI in this one over AC2. AC2 it seemed as though they pared it down to be really basic with only crowds of 4 or 5 people walking around and only standing in that crowd would blend you. Now if theres like a crowd of 3 people walking one way and 2 people walking the other way, when they intersect with you, you'll be blended as well. A lot of stuff in this game seems to be closer to the vision that they seemed to want in AC1.
The only big improvement that I'd want (other than for them to wait for a next gen system so that they can fit more cities on disc assuming the next Xbox will have Bluray and have even better LOD in the distance with better GPUs) is for them to use a weather pattern like system for your notoriety. Your notoriety should be location based, and it changes to it should gradually spread. And allowing you to use your Assassin's Guild to help reduce your notoriety would be neat as well (and it would be needed as with that system it wouldn't be as simple as just taking down 3 posters to remove your notoriety).