Good thing all AC games on PC natively support the 360 controller then.
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Assassin's Creed III |OT| Easier to read than Ratonhnhaké:ton
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Good thing all AC games on PC natively support the 360 controller then.
GillianSeed79
Member
360 controller and comfy couch PC gaming. It's great. I'm going to be a sad panda if the next gen systems launch next year and the games only look on par with a modern gaming PC. It's really hard going back to the 360 sometimes ever since I got a pretty good gaming laptop two years ago. Sometimes it's like night and day difference.
DoctorPayne
Banned
Yup, every single part with a horse is insufferable. Walk over a rock surface that's 3 inches higher than the ground? The stupid fucking thing gets stuck, and you're doing 180s for the next 10 seconds trying to get off. Just incredibly bad control, and exacerbated by the framerate.
I went back and played the start of Brotherhood yesterday, and horse movement is smooth as butter. How did they fuck this up so much?
(That statement applies to almost every other part of the game as well).
lunchtoast
Member
Same here. I'm not a mp guy but the impressions seem to be positive.
fucking shit. just found out that i cannot level my artisan's up completely now because i didn't do a bunch of shit in sequence 5 that the game never explained how to do let alone told me i had to do to level up my artisans. i'm fucking sick of this game not explaining things especially something as vital as leveling up the artisans. fuck this game. i love it but this not explaining shit is straight up fucked.
GillianSeed79
Member
Not sure. There's a bunch of them in the game world though. When you are running around, just hold the X button and you'll murder plenty of them. I always feel bad because they can't run really fast and their death knell is so sad sounding. : (
SJRB
Gold Member
Man I just entered the third battery but the Desmond storyline is fucking crazy, wow.
By the way, the binary code from the e-mail sender translates to
. As shallow and utterly boring as Connor's story is, I'm actually very curious to see how Desmond's story will end up. I just hope they can live up to the larger than life expectations after so many games.
By the way, the binary code from the e-mail sender translates to
Juno
I didn't start leveling up my artisans until the end of the game. It's all about finding the homestead missions. The more you complete, the more artisans you will receive and the more level up they will be. Check all map locations for homestead missions. They appear everywhere.
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Deleted member 80556
Unconfirmed Member
I loved that detail, I translated and was very glad to see that.
Yeah, I got a view of them already. But only by hunting is going too slow. I want quick money, I'm in the empire business.
Raitosaito
Member
It doesn't. One of the worst video game endings I've ever seen, so unbelievably dumb and anticlimactic. I think I now realise how the people invested in the Mass Effect story felt at the start of the year
Rubbish King
The gift that keeps on giving
Man i am raging at this game HARD
I love it but it is really fucking frustrating at times....anyone else struggling to relearn this shit? must say I'm surprised by the lack of guidance, i cant believe how little guidance there is towards some elements of the game, the fact it doesn't put shops and stuff on the maps is baffling, love the game but man its not great to play in a bad mood...
I love it but it is really fucking frustrating at times....anyone else struggling to relearn this shit? must say I'm surprised by the lack of guidance, i cant believe how little guidance there is towards some elements of the game, the fact it doesn't put shops and stuff on the maps is baffling, love the game but man its not great to play in a bad mood...
I've been looking for that one but still can't find it. ;_;
Oh well, I found another one. Very northeast corner of Troy's Wood.
were they able to get to their full potential though? my understanding is if you don't do everything available for them in each sequence they will never reach their full potential. game really should have mentioned that. of course this game is one of the worst i have ever played for not explaining shit. it would be understandable if there was an actual manual. the manual in the options menu is a fucking joke.
PinkCrayon
Member
You can buy pelts from your artisans I think. And to make the most money, ship them through your naval convoy.
I have the same problem, I turned off my game an hour ago and I hope the notification is gone when I turn it back on.
Yeah, I totally agree that a poor job at explaining how to make money with the convoy and building up your homestead with the artisans. The whole maintaining a homestead is definitely a step forward from the villa in AC2, but that was definitely implemented much better and explained better as well.
Thanks for the confirmation.
lunchtoast
Member
I can't do any naval convoys yet, but I wish income was more automatic like ACII.
Blue Ninja
Member
Nah, I've had it since yesterday. Still pops up.
Well that sucks.
Not really. I think they're just there for closure on the artisans story arcs.
razgriz417
Member
The Huntress will sell you beaver pelts at lvl 2 and you can find a ton of beavers along the river in the homestead map. Just head toward Norris' mine and go up and down the river beds.
It is a known bug and will be fixed in the next title update.
Do we know what bugs will be addressed in the next update? I hope this includes outfit color changes showing in cutscenes. That New York color is too badass to leave alone.
Do we know when the next update is yet?
This game really should have been delayed a few months.
What are artisans? How do I upgrade my homestead? How do I get new Assassin recruits? What do convoys do?
I love most aspects of the game so far, not encountered any bugs. But the menus and explanations all seem so chaotic - it's too much. It seems to me like they went with aesthetics over a user friendly menu design.
I love most aspects of the game so far, not encountered any bugs. But the menus and explanations all seem so chaotic - it's too much. It seems to me like they went with aesthetics over a user friendly menu design.
DualShadow
Member
I can't believe they got rid of the weapon wheels.
lunchtoast
Member
Blue Ninja
Member
Do the Liberation missions. I think you have to do them all in a district in order to get the assassin contact of that district to join you. I have 3 guys on my team so I'm pretty sure that's it.
Edit: See above for an even better description.
You got to complete all the liberation missions in specific sector of the city. Afterwards, you meet up with the NPC who gave you the liberation contract and he/she becomes an assassin.
EDIT: Beaten
Link?
Blue Ninja
Member
Also, those delivery missions? Not worth it. You get a thousand pounds, while you're often collecting dozens of pelts easily worth double that.
ii Stryker
Banned
This game is a steaming pile of garbage and getting traded tomorrow.
I've only played the game a few hours and between NOT playing as connor, the population popping in practically right in front of you, the frame rate dips to the speed of a flip book with parkinsons and the horrendous do the mission stealth or reload/retry it the biggest disappointment this gen.
I did have farcry 3 pre ordered but after Ubi shoveling this turd at me and the linear scriptfest that Ghost Recon:FS was, I'm leery about anything they develop from here on out and may wait to buy all their shit used so I can return for a full refund if it sucks.
I've only played the game a few hours and between NOT playing as connor, the population popping in practically right in front of you, the frame rate dips to the speed of a flip book with parkinsons and the horrendous do the mission stealth or reload/retry it the biggest disappointment this gen.
I did have farcry 3 pre ordered but after Ubi shoveling this turd at me and the linear scriptfest that Ghost Recon:FS was, I'm leery about anything they develop from here on out and may wait to buy all their shit used so I can return for a full refund if it sucks.
A shame. While the beginning few sequences are an acquired taste and rather 'marmite' in application, the game really picks up afterwards once you do get to Connor. Then when the game opens up, it's incredibly enjoyable.
I'd recommend giving it a bit more time but it's up to you. I wasn't a fan of the non-Connor beginning either but now I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
Crazymoogle
Member
Hmm, well that makes sense. I gave up on those icons because there have been three in Boston for the last 3 sequences, but when you go inside the building nobody is there apart from the usual "play this boardgame" types.
Thanks for the info. I'm gonna do that.
Thanks!
Other than that, I do not understand all the hate this game is getting. Have you not played any of the other games? Is gaf just being gaf?
The game is such a huuuge improvement from Revelations, and there's so much stuff to do, so much content. Never before has a city felt so alive in an AC game. Side quests everywhere. So much content. Huge frontier map, two big cities, both with underground tunnels, and naval missions. And then there's the badass new animations, new weapons (rope dart, wow), and the fluid tree climbing. And a great story on top of it all.
I can see that the game lacks polish, but IMO Ubisoft did a good job and I've been enjoying the game so far, currently at sequence 10. Maybe I'm just a blind fanboy, idk.
