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Assassin's Creed Brotherhood |OT| where my bro's at?

MMaRsu

MMaRsu

Member
Damn I met a gorgeous girl today who was eying me even though she was with her ( I think ) boyfriend, could have been her brother too ofcourse but I don't think so but anyway she said she played all Prince of Persia games and loves AC. Holy shit :( FML
 
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TTG

Member
I really want to purchase the Crossbow from the blacksmith but I just want to ask if it will be given to me later on in the game through a story mission or something. The reason I ask is because even though the weapon isn't terribly expensive and I can easily afford it now with all the money from my renovations coming in, but I always like to play the game fairly and I feel like I'll abuse the crossbow if I get it now. I like to challenge myself to only work with the equipment I have now and wait for the crossbow to be given to me if possible.
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The crossbow really solves a lot of the problems with sneaking around that were in previous games. For example, say there's a courtyard with 2 patrolling guards. No way to get above them, no way to get them from a ledge below. Before the crossbow it would be a pain in the ass. Trying to figure out the range on the visibility cone of the AI, fumbling around behind some random pillar so you're out of their site... Now you just make sure the other guard can't see the first fall and boom, you're done. It's really seamless and easy to use... unlike the throwing knives and shit. :lol Also it's obviously nerfed, guards in armor aren't going down. And it's still more fun to just run up to a rooftop guard and stab him instead of breaking pace and lining up a shot, there's really not a lot of room to abuse it.

I'm not that far ahead of you, so I don't know if you eventually get it anyway. I don't see why, you have the pistol and the knives, why would it be required for something?

On to another subject, I pushed the story missions further to open up some other side quests. There are so many things going now that it's cluttering up the map. They've been making AC more and more "dense" with content since the first, but I feel like they should feed this stuff in a little slower. Also, maybe cut out some of the filler and focus on fewer but more rewarding missions. Not really a complaint, it's just weird that I can't move 50 yards without encountering another recruit/guild mission/renovation/pigeon coup etc etc.

Oh, and the extra little challenges for full synchronization are brilliant way to sort of target the casual audience and the people looking for a bit of a challenge.
 
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bobs...onGaf

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TTG said:
The crossbow really solves a lot of the problems with sneaking around that were in previous games. For example, say there's a courtyard with 2 patrolling guards. No way to get above them, no way to get them from a ledge below. Before the crossbow it would be a pain in the ass. Trying to figure out the range on the visibility cone of the AI, fumbling around behind some random pillar so you're out of their site... Now you just make sure the other guard can't see the first fall and boom, you're done. It's really seamless and easy to use... unlike the throwing knives and shit. :lol Also it's obviously nerfed, guards in armor aren't going down. And it's still more fun to just run up to a rooftop guard and stab him instead of breaking pace and lining up a shot, there's really not a lot of room to abuse it.

I'm not that far ahead of you, so I don't know if you eventually get it anyway. I don't see why, you have the pistol and the knives, why would it be required for something?

On to another subject, I pushed the story missions further to open up some other side quests. There are so many things going now that it's cluttering up the map. They've been making AC more and more "dense" with content since the first, but I feel like they should feed this stuff in a little slower. Also, maybe cut out some of the filler and focus on fewer but more rewarding missions. Not really a complaint, it's just weird that I can't move 50 yards without encountering another recruit/guild mission/renovation/pigeon coup etc etc.

Oh, and the extra little challenges for full synchronization are brilliant way to sort of target the casual audience and the people looking for a bit of a challenge.
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I think its a lot more rewarding figuring out how to get past the guards stealthily rather than just crossbow them, I think there was only 1 situation where I couldnt really figure out how to stealth through and reverted to using the Crossbow - and that was a Borgia Tower! So its well worth trying to do all the missions and side missions without using the ranged weapons. Dont get me wrong though the crossbow is fun - but I think its more fun to do it the old school way.

As for the map - ive completed the game and it still looks like someone vomited over my map of Rome - there are so many useless icons - I suggest using the filters to get rid of the stuff you just straight up dont care about - it makes important things a lot easier to see. I like how theres always something nearby - but 9/10 I dont need it.
 
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The Antitype

Banned
MMaRsu said:
Damn I met a gorgeous girl today who was eying me even though she was with her ( I think ) boyfriend, could have been her brother too ofcourse but I don't think so but anyway she said she played all Prince of Persia games and loves AC. Holy shit :( FML
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If you're in Vancouver, it could have been my girlfriend. We're on the verge of breaking up anyway, so I can give you her number if it's her. What did she look like?
 
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-Pyromaniac-

Member
The Antitype said:
If you're in Vancouver, it could have been my girlfriend. We're on the verge of breaking up anyway, so I can give you her number if it's her. What did she look like?
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just came in to say this guy is a real trooper. Sharing is caring.
 
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The Antitype

Banned
Am I going nuts? I could have sworn I had seen a certain persona, but now I can't find it.

Male, medium length hair, long black coat, and he has a staff/cane thing with a hidden blade in it.

Seriously, am I taking too many drugs, or does that persona exist? And if so, how do I get him?
 
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Flipyap

Member
The Antitype said:
Am I going nuts? I could have sworn I had seen a certain persona, but now I can't find it.

Male, medium length hair, long black coat, and he has a staff/cane thing with a hidden blade in it.

Seriously, am I taking too many drugs, or does that persona exist? And if so, how do I get him?
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Officer. It's a limited edition exclusive.
 
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heavyness

Member
Was at GameStop yesterday and they said the price of Brotherhood was reduced to $40... and this days after I bought it on Amazon. Anyways, don't know if this is a sale or price or its being permanently slashed, but a good time to get yourself a nice Xmas gift.
 
CAW

CAW

Member
I bought the CE for $99.99. Should have learned my lesson from getting the first CE for Assassins Creed (the toy dropped from my desk to the floor and shattered into pieces due to cheapness). This CE is really cheap, quality wise, but oh well. I'm a sucker for these CEs and the doc-in-the-box does look nice sitting on top of my PC tower.

Enjoying the game itself. Sadly I never did finish the first one or the second one so I tried to learn as much as possible about the story of those games before getting into this. It helped a bit but I'm running into 'old friends' in this game who are new to me. :lol
 
iNvid02

iNvid02

Member
CAW said:
I bought the CE for $99.99. Should have learned my lesson from getting the first CE for Assassins Creed (the toy dropped from my desk to the floor and shattered into pieces due to cheapness). This CE is really cheap, quality wise, but oh well. I'm a sucker for these CEs and the doc-in-the-box does look nice sitting on top of my PC tower.

Enjoying the game itself. Sadly I never did finish the first one or the second one so I tried to learn as much as possible about the story of those games before getting into this. It helped a bit but I'm running into 'old friends' in this game who are new to me. :lol
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I had a video on my page giving the back story to the whole AC universe, was pretty good but its not available until i get my channel back. Damn
 
CAW

CAW

Member
iNvidious01 said:
I had a video on my page giving the back story to the whole AC universe, was pretty good but its not available until i get my channel back. Damn
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Ah, crap. Any way to upload the raw file by chance? Maybe even over at Vimeo briefly or something. Blast my timing on getting the game! :lol
 
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Sai

Member
CAW said:
I bought the CE for $99.99. Should have learned my lesson from getting the first CE for Assassins Creed (the toy dropped from my desk to the floor and shattered into pieces due to cheapness).
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The Ezio statue that came with the AC2 CE was slick though.
 
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Flipyap

Member
iNvidious01 said:
I had a video on my page giving the back story to the whole AC universe, was pretty good but its not available until i get my channel back. Damn
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You do realize that your video would only confuse him more, right?
He hasn't even finished the first one, it would sound like you're talking about a different franchise (and genre). :lol
 
LightofRohan

LightofRohan

Member
CAW said:
I bought the CE for $99.99. Should have learned my lesson from getting the first CE for Assassins Creed (the toy dropped from my desk to the floor and shattered into pieces due to cheapness). This CE is really cheap, quality wise, but oh well. I'm a sucker for these CEs and the doc-in-the-box does look nice sitting on top of my PC tower.
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Yea I regret it to... but I loved the AC2 CE so I had to get this one.
 
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Incitemaybe

Member
I'm kind of starting to understand how to go about playing multiplayer.

I take it the game doesn't pair you up with people who are higher levels then you, seems like they would have a huge advantage.
 
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riceandbeans

Member
Just got this game today for Christmas. Wasn't expecting it. I've never played the first or second game so I have no clue what's going on.

Even with the recaps, I don't understand what's going on.
I can't tell whether they're going back in time and altering the past, how Ezio knows about Desmond, if they're just altering his memories or what.
 
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-Winnie-

Member
riceandbeans said:
Just got this game today for Christmas. Wasn't expecting it. I've never played the first or second game so I have no clue what's going on.

Even with the recaps, I don't understand what's going on.
I can't tell whether they're going back in time and altering the past, how Ezio knows about Desmond, if they're just altering his memories or what.
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You should probably go back and play AC2 at least if you have the chance.

But basically,
Desmond uses a machine called the Animus to relive his ancestors' (in this case Ezio) memories. Through some ultra mindfuck, the past civilisation was able to forsee that Desmond would be doing this, so they pass on a message to Desmond using Ezio as the medium.
Yeah.
 
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TTG

Member
I gotta keep the frustration levels in check when doing some of the more tedious side missions. Leonardo flying machine full synch is a good example. Go through like a 20 minute segment to get to the flying machine, full synch is not getting hit once while flying. Well, it loads and I'm fumbling around with the controls so I get shot at. Have to restart the whole thing... go through it again. It loads up again, I forget that there's a little encampment of archers immediately to my left as it starts, get shot within 5 seconds... :lol


Looks like I cleared the map off all thief/mercenary/courtisean missions for the time being though. I've been enjoying all the ranged trickeration too. Poison darts, sending in the helpers to distract guards and all that stuff is loads of fun. Still don't have smoke bombs, that will be cool as well.
 
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Ledsen

Member
riceandbeans said:
Just got this game today for Christmas. Wasn't expecting it. I've never played the first or second game so I have no clue what's going on.

Even with the recaps, I don't understand what's going on.
I can't tell whether they're going back in time and altering the past, how Ezio knows about Desmond, if they're just altering his memories or what.
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Yeah you reeeally should play the second one first...

TTG said:
I gotta keep the frustration levels in check when doing some of the more tedious side missions. Leonardo flying machine full synch is a good example. Go through like a 20 minute segment to get to the flying machine, full synch is not getting hit once while flying. Well, it loads and I'm fumbling around with the controls so I get shot at. Have to restart the whole thing... go through it again. It loads up again, I forget that there's a little encampment of archers immediately to my left as it starts, get shot within 5 seconds... :lol


Looks like I cleared the map off all thief/mercenary/courtisean missions for the time being though. I've been enjoying all the ranged trickeration too. Poison darts, sending in the helpers to distract guards and all that stuff is loads of fun. Still don't have smoke bombs, that will be cool as well.
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Don't try for full sync. There's no point, it doesn't give you anything.
 
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GillianSeed79

Member
Got this for Christmas and dig it so far, but I just have to ask one thing. I had some spare MS points in my account, so I decided to download what was described in the Extra's DLC section as an animated short film bridging the story between AC2 and AC Brotherhood. Why not? It might be kind of of cool, I though. It was like five minutes long followed by a "making of" that was longer than the actual short film I though I had just purchased. Please tell me that was just a teaser episode or something, because I said WTF.
 
Trickster

Trickster

Member
Just completed Assassins Creed 2, thinking about getting this now. I'm curious about how the storyline progresses in this game, does it expand upon the big overarching plot of the Assassin Creed series, or is this game mainly just about giving us more about Ezio and his life?
 
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ZephyrFate

Banned
Trickster said:
Just completed Assassins Creed 2, thinking about getting this now. I'm curious about how the storyline progresses in this game, does it expand upon the big overarching plot of the Assassin Creed series, or is this game mainly just about giving us more about Ezio and his life?
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it's more like assassin's creed 2.5

but yeah you get a lot more of Ezio's backstory

but a helluva lot more Desmond
 
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hamchan

Member
Trickster said:
Just completed Assassins Creed 2, thinking about getting this now. I'm curious about how the storyline progresses in this game, does it expand upon the big overarching plot of the Assassin Creed series, or is this game mainly just about giving us more about Ezio and his life?
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Both, though not as much advancement in both cases compared to AC2.
 
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rataven

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Incitemaybe said:
I have the ps3 version and it just made me download and update the game. Does anyone know what that was for?
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Last week Ubi announced there would be an upcoming patch to fix a handful of issues, including the animus glitch, some problems with trophies, and improve matchmaking. So hopefully that's what this was for.
 
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Nakiro

Member
How hard are the multiplayer trophies without boosting? Since I've seen lots of place that focus on boosting, so I'm just curious how hard are they to obtain legit.
 
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Killthee

helped a brotha out on multiple separate occasions!
Nakiro said:
How hard are the multiplayer trophies without boosting? Since I've seen lots of place that focus on boosting, so I'm just curious how hard are they to obtain legit.
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Only 2 of them are hard to get without boosting, Abstergo Employee of the Month and Role Model. AEotM because you need to get the Extreme Variety bonus and that requires you to get a crap load of bonuses in one game. Role Model because you need to get 6 bonuses in a Co-Op game and most people don't coordinate/bother to use lock on. Everything else is easily doable on your way to the lv 50 trophy.
 
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My Name Is Luke

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Just powered through the ending of Assassin's Creed 2 (snow day, I had nothing else really to do :lol) and all I can say is

"What. The. Fuck." Desmond had that right on the money with that ending.

Extremely excited to get Brotherhood soon, hopefully tomorrow of the snow dies down some.
 
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ant_

not characteristic of ants at all
Got Brotherhood today. It was between this and Dead Rising 2, and Brotherhood was 20$ less, and I wanted my Assassins Creed fix. Fucking love it so far :D
 
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SamuraiX-

Member
So can anyone tell me where
Lucy went at the start of Memory Sequence 6? I looked outside and throughout the city and can't find her. No spoilers, please!

Also, another quick question about the foot prints (?) that you see marked in red when in Eagle Vision when you exit the Animus chamber in 2012. Do they have some kind of purpose that will be revealed later? Just want to ask. Please, please, please no spoilers! Thank you!
 
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Flipyap

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SamuraiX- said:
So can anyone tell me where
Lucy went at the start of Memory Sequence 6? I looked outside and throughout the city and can't find her. No spoilers, please!

Also, another quick question about the foot prints (?) that you see marked in red when in Eagle Vision when you exit the Animus chamber in 2012. Do they have some kind of purpose that will be revealed later? Just want to ask. Please, please, please no spoilers! Thank you!
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No one really knows what's up with Lucy disappearing, it might just be her day off.

The best guess I've seen regarding the footprints is that it's Ezio's blood. The trail is similar to the path you take after being shot in the first memory, and they've already established that Assassins' blood marks show up in red in Eagle Vision.
It's kind of a bummer, because those footprints are ominous as hell, I was really excited to find out what it means.
 
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big_z

Member
any word on when the multiplayer patch is dropping? the game says i've spent 10 hours in multi and i damn well know that 4 of those have been sitting in the damn match making.
 
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-Winnie-

Member
big_z said:
any word on when the multiplayer patch is dropping? the game says i've spent 10 hours in multi and i damn well know that 4 of those have been sitting in the damn match making.
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Seriously. The matchmaking is horrible!
I hope it's something that can be fixed and it isn't due to a lack of players.
 
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big_z

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-Winnie- said:
Seriously. The matchmaking is horrible!
I hope it's something that can be fixed and it isn't due to a lack of players.
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its a bug and they said it would be fixed in patch 3. you would think they would have it out in time for christmas so that people can you know... play the game.

only thing worse are the retards that do nothing but run on top of buildings shooting people with guns. this isnt COD you idiots!
 
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Cruzader

Banned
Quick Q. Do you need to play previous AC games to understand or atleast enjoy this game? I may buy this today as a gift to my friend but not sure if he won't like it or don't "get it" at all.
 
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Killthee

helped a brotha out on multiple separate occasions!
big_z said:
any word on when the multiplayer patch is dropping? the game says i've spent 10 hours in multi and i damn well know that 4 of those have been sitting in the damn match making.
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It went out last night in the US. It also seems like they were tweaking something on their end too cause the servers were having issues saving Profile Sets/Persona settings and displaying player levels in the lobby.
 
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