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[Derrick01]

So I just got this today for $20 new (spring sales yay). I've heard talks about only having to do that awful tower defense mini game once if "you play the game right". Well, how does one play the game right? I just finished the forced mission on it really early into the game, and yeah it's as terrible as advertised.

 

[Roto13]

So I just got this today for $20 new (spring sales yay). I've heard talks about only having to do that awful tower defense mini game once if "you play the game right". Well, how does one play the game right? I just finished the forced mission on it really early into the game, and yeah it's as terrible as advertised.

Templars will only attack your dens if your notoriety is at max. Keep it below max and they'll never attack.

 

[Derrick01]

Templars will only attack your dens if your notoriety is at max. Keep it below max and they'll never attack.

Ah that's simple enough, thanks.

 

[Dan]

So when I reached the point of the game introducing the assassin missions, it only had "The Little Prince" available in Busra. You don't really have a choice, so I send my brand new and only assassin out and it says it'll last an unknown time. It also strangely offers something like 13000 XP.

I swear I've played maybe 3 hours beyond this and the mission still isn't complete. What the hell? I've been sending my new recruits out all kinds of missions, but my veteran is still fucking lost in Busra.

 

[7echnicolor]

So when I reached the point of the game introducing the assassin missions, it only had "The Little Prince" available in Busra. You don't really have a choice, so I send my brand new and only assassin out and it says it'll last an unknown time. It also strangely offers something like 13000 XP.

I swear I've played maybe 3 hours beyond this and the mission still isn't complete. What the hell? I've been sending my new recruits out all kinds of missions, but my veteran is still fucking lost in Busra.

You'll get him back later, at the end of Sequence 3, if I remember correctly.

 

[Dan]

You'll get him back later, at the end of Sequence 3, if I remember correctly.

Cool, thank you. It just seemed really bizarre.

 

[Stat!]

So I just got this today for $20 new (spring sales yay). I've heard talks about only having to do that awful tower defense mini game once if "you play the game right". Well, how does one play the game right? I just finished the forced mission on it really early into the game, and yeah it's as terrible as advertised.

Like someone said, keep notoriety down.

I went through the whole game - played it once (the tutorial) and then after the game when I was picking up achievements. Supereasy.

 

[Curufinwe]

Ah that's simple enough, thanks.

You should focus on leveling up Master Assassin's because when you assign one to a den, that den can no longer be attacked. Once all the dens are locked down you don't have to worry about your notoriety any more.

http://kotaku.com/5859671/before-you-start-tips-for-playing-assassins-creed-revelations-the-best-way

4) Start the story, but break away early and do the Den stuff You can play the campaign of Assassin's Creed: Revelations straight through without touching the heaps of side-quests tossed into the streets of the game's beautiful, busy main territory of 16th-century Constantinople. You can't even start the side quests until the game's linear action-movie-style first chapter ends. Let the second one begin but then do like I did and break out on your own by the middle of chapter three. The reason I suggest this is because the game's city is essentially one grand chemistry set.

Doing the right sidequests will make the game a pleasure... and makes it the most fun. The main thing you want to do is keep the Templars from over-running the city. If they do, you'll have a harder time getting through the city and the missions baked within the city without constant hassle from the authorities.

Keeping those Templars at bay is complex. Here's what you do: go to the six Templar Dens in the main, southern landmass of Constantinople. Hunt down the captains of those dens and light their signal towers. That will cause handy ziplines to be built in the region around the Den but, more importantly, will let you start recruiting assassins to your brotherhood. Those recruits can be summoned at any time in the game to help you in a fight, but what you want to do is to also dispatch them into the game's Mediterranean Defense strategy game, where you can assign them missions and level them up. Getting them to level 10 lets you go on a fun mission with each of them in Constantinople. It also lets you assign them to a Den and rank them up to level 15, at which time you get to go on another mission with them (these missions are good!) and, more importantly, locks the Den off from Templar incursion.

All of this is useful because, until the Den is locked off, the Templars will try to reclaim it. They'll attack if and when you commit enough suspicious or aggressive actions to fill an awareness meter atop the screen. You don't want to fill that meter up because it will put your Dens in jeopardy and because the tower defense mini-game you have to play to protect a Den isn't very fun. Get your folks to level 15 and so many of your problems are solved!

 

[astroturfing]

i dont get it, im pretty sure i have several assassins at level 10, but i havent been on any missions with them that would then allow me to level them to 15...

so what exactly do i do?

 

[Irish]

i dont get it, im pretty sure i have several assassins at level 10, but i havent been on any missions with them that would then allow me to level them to 15...

so what exactly do i do?

Did you install them at an Assassin Den? You have to do that before you can level them up the rest of the way.

 

[astroturfing]

Did you install them at an Assassin Den? You have to do that before you can level them up the rest of the way.

but the post above me said that just getting them to level 10 lets you go on a mission with them. didnt happen to me, or i just dont know what to do.

 

[Irish]

but the post above me said that just getting them to level 10 lets you go on a mission with them. didnt happen to me, or i just dont know what to do.

If I am remembering things correctly, you have to assign them to a den before you can go on the mission with them.

 

[astroturfing]

If I am remembering things correctly, you have to assign them to a den before you can go on the mission with them.

hmm alright then.. i think i cleared out some dens but dont remember being able to assign any assassin to them. weird.

 

[Najaf]

How many hours is this game? I have it on PC and am maybe 4 hours in, but I put it down after a steam sale and have not gone back. I have quite the backlog and am trying to prioritize my list with relatively little time for gaming. Is it worth the playthrough?

 

[Derrick01]

You should focus on leveling up Master Assassin's because when you assign one to a den, that den can no longer be attacked. Once all the dens are locked down you don't have to worry about your notoriety any more.

It was a non issue in my playthrough. I only did it once and that was the forced one, every other time in the game my notoriety was pretty low.

How many hours is this game? I have it on PC and am maybe 4 hours in, but I put it down after a steam sale and have not gone back. I have quite the backlog and am trying to prioritize my list with relatively little time for gaming. Is it worth the playthrough?

It depends what you're going for. It can be a 20+ hour game if you try to collect everything even with the map help. If you want to blow through the single player it's probably only 10 hours or so. It was a decent game but like brotherhood it's easy to see that it's just an expansion to AC2.

 

[LightofRohan]

I'm replaying AC1 (it's been a while) and my god, I forgot how great the graphics are. I still think they are the best in the series surprisingly. Not necessarily in terms of art direction, but in terms of polish/graphics ect.

 

[RoninChaos]

Picked this back up. Enjoying it so far. I'm only in act three but got all the dens and I'm playing the Mediterranean defense game a lot and buying property.

 

[def sim]

So, I didn't read up on the Lost Memory DLC to avoid spoilers. All I knew is that it's single player DLC and would tie up some loose ends for subject 16.

It turns out that it's more of those horrible, first person puzzle sequences.



God damn it. Lesson learned.

 

[nel e nel]

So, I didn't read up on the Lost Memory DLC to avoid spoilers. All I knew is that it's single player DLC and would tie up some loose ends for subject 16.

It turns out that it's more of those horrible, first person puzzle sequences.



God damn it. Lesson learned.

Awww, I kinda liked it. I didn't find it nearly as frustrating as the Desmond sequences, and there was something....serene about it. The totally abstract environments, the music, the bits of dialogue and flashbacks. I found it relaxing in a way.

Ironically enough, the DLC is where the only (major) revelation is.

Spoiler

Lucy you backstabbing Templar whore!

 

[TheSeks]

Did they fix the PS3 trophy issue with the books that the 1.02 (IIRC) patch added? I don't really want to play the game offline and deleting the patch with the multiplayer fixes just to get that trophy later. :/

 

[def sim]

Awww, I kinda liked it. I didn't find it nearly as frustrating as the Desmond sequences, and there was something....serene about it. The totally abstract environments, the music, the bits of dialogue and flashbacks. I found it relaxing in a way.

Ironically enough, the DLC is where the only (major) revelation is.

Spoiler

Lucy you backstabbing Templar whore!

They weren't so much frustrating as they were tedious. The puzzles aren't difficult or interesting and the exposition spread too thin. I paid $10 for an uninspired puzzle game.

As I said, it's my fault for not looking it up. It boggles my mind why Ubisoft thought people would want this rather than DLC with actual Assassin's Creed content.

 

[voodooray]

Did they fix the PS3 trophy issue with the books that the 1.02 (IIRC) patch added? I don't really want to play the game offline and deleting the patch with the multiplayer fixes just to get that trophy later. :/

Yes, there has been an update recently and i got it when loading the game up.

 

[Mohonky]

So i just started playing this after getting my video card going again. I have played the entire series and love all of them, even the first but this one is just sending me into a rage. The fuck is up with the weird AI? I have tried one templar den capture a dozen times now and it just will not happen. The guards can see me a mile off. It doesnt seem to matter what i do and that has pretty much set the tone for me for most missions. Some how i get spotted all the time. I had 4 escorts at one point, no awareness and i have no idea what happen but it seemed like an escort bumped a guard and then suddenly i have a dozen icons indicating line of sight immediately.

I cant get my head around it. I have never had this problem before, the game has always been about blending but this one seems more about stealth and it just seems so fucking broken i cant be bothered at times. I just go ah fuck it and proceed to carve my way though the enemy instead because i cant be bothered fighting with the erratic hit and miss nature of being spotted.

It just seems different some how. The game needs a crouch, hide behind cover as well in this one. It just seems more about being spotted than blending. Its infuriating. Can not work it out why this game feels so off.

 

[RoninChaos]

Awww, I kinda liked it. I didn't find it nearly as frustrating as the Desmond sequences, and there was something....serene about it. The totally abstract environments, the music, the bits of dialogue and flashbacks. I found it relaxing in a way.

Ironically enough, the DLC is where the only (major) revelation is.

Spoiler

Lucy you backstabbing Templar whore!

I really wish that wasn't in the DLC. I didn't know what happened until I read the wiki. So when I found that out I was like "...wha?"

Anyway, I really liked the ending, and I liked Embers especially. I can't think of a game series that's had me go through someone's entire life. Ezio is a really well defined, and well fleshed out character. I think Revelations suffered a bit from the once a year thing, but as a story, I really liked it's conclusion.

Is there a spoilers thread?

 

[EYEL1NER]

I just pulled this out of my backlog and while I am enjoying it ( not as much as the others though), I am getting frustrated by the fact that I am not earning money.
My vault can hold 100,000+ gold and I should be earning 15,000+ every 20 minutes. But after hours of playing, I've gotten nothing deposited.
I read where Ubisoft said that it is not a glitch and that there are certain things that reset the timer, like main story missions and den defenses. It sounds like a glitch to me though. Money is supposed to get deposited every 20 minutes and it isn't. Sounds broken.
It's frustrating because I've got no money now and my bank should have a ton, but it doesn't.

 

[Roto13]

Yup. Money is too rare in Revelations. I did every mission and found every doohickey and chest and didn't even come close to having enough to buy all of the buildings or books.

 

[iNvid02]

I think they fixed the money bug glitch, but yeah it's unbalanced

I found early on I had no cash, and towards the end I was rolling in it - but there is nothing to buy afterwards

 

[nel e nel]

Yup. Money is too rare in Revelations. I did every mission and found every doohickey and chest and didn't even come close to having enough to buy all of the buildings or books.

You know you earn money from your owned buildings every 20 minutes of gameplay right? The more you own, the more you earn.

You also earn money and resources from the Mediterranean defense missions as well. If you control the city you get a deposit once a day from each city you control.

The books in

Spoiler

Cappadocia

are a grip though. You need something like 350k.

I really wish that wasn't in the DLC. I didn't know what happened until I read the wiki. So when I found that out I was like "...wha?"

Yeah, that was a little iffy, but I had pretty much come to that conclusion based on the ending of Brotherhood.

 

[EYEL1NER]

I think they fixed the money bug glitch, but yeah it's unbalanced

I found early on I had no cash, and towards the end I was rolling in it - but there is nothing to buy afterwards

I don't know. A couple days ago I was playing and was rolling in cash. Last night and today though I would start getting low after buying tons of stuff and hit up a bank to find nothing in it. I would think 'Oops, must be too early for a deposit. I'll check back in a few.'
After a couple hours and quite a few 20-minute long missions I would send assasins on, i realized something was up and checked the net and saw that there was a problem. I played earlier from 9-12 AM and got one deposit.

 

[Roto13]

You know you earn money from your owned buildings every 20 minutes of gameplay right? The more you own, the more you earn.

You also earn money and resources from the Mediterranean defense missions as well. If you control the city you get a deposit once a day from each city you control.

The books in

Spoiler

Cappadocia

are a grip though. You need something like 350k.

Yes, dear, this isn't my first Assassin's Creed game. The bank doesn't update right. Owning stuff only helps if you stand around and never do anything.

 

[nel e nel]

Yes, dear, this isn't my first Assassin's Creed game. The bank doesn't update right. Owning stuff only helps if you stand around and never do anything.

Hey, wasn't trying to be a smartass, you didn't mention that you had a bug, only that cash was rare. This is the first I've heard of this issue.

 

[Roto13]

Hey, wasn't trying to be a smartass, you didn't mention that you had a bug, only that cash was rare. This is the first I've heard of this issue.

You're the first person I've heard of that apparently hasn't run into this bug that Ubisoft says isn't a bug at all, implying it's the same for everyone.

 

[nel e nel]

You're the first person I've heard of that apparently hasn't run into this bug that Ubisoft says isn't a bug at all, implying it's the same for everyone.

I dunno, maybe I had it and didn't notice. I finished the game back in November. By the time I got around to finish buying all the books I was done with the SP so I would blend in with a crowd and go read a book for a while.

I was more miffed about not being able to dye my cloak with certain armor sets.

 

[Roto13]

I dunno, maybe I had it and didn't notice. I finished the game back in November. By the time I got around to finish buying all the books I was done with the SP so I would blend in with a crowd and go read a book for a while.

See, this is something you never had to do before, and shouldn't have had to do this time to 100% the game. It's basically grinding without really doing anything.

 

[Card Boy]

I got an Assassin to level 14, but i missed the popup message. It said something about it requiring new training? Anyone got any idea what it was? I'm at the start of Sequence 4 if it helps.

 

[Big Papa Husker]

I am on the mission to

Spoiler

search the lighthouse for Marco Polo's clues for the key

in Sequence 5 (I think). I was curious how much longer the game is because I was trying to finish it before Diablo III comes out. Any chance?

 

[Blue Ninja]

Well, finally started playing it. Holy fuck, does Desmond/Ezio's face look weird.

Music is fantastic, though. Works a lot better in-game than I expected.

Tower defense isn't as horrible as I expected, either. It's not exactly a fantastic addition to AC gameplay, but it's tolerable.

 

[iNvid02]

yeah after finishing it i played it again just to mess around and tower defense didnt seem that bad at all, was actually kind of fun.

would have been better as a completely optional side quest thing, the problem lies with how they implemented it.

 

[ZZMitch]

Just finished this guy today. It was fun, but I can safely say I have no idea what is going on with the story at this point.

 

[Blue Ninja]

Jesus, those first person sections are nauseating. Terrible.

 

[Stallion Free]

Jesus, those first person sections are nauseating. Terrible.

I wouldn't be surprised if the field of view was depressingly low. It sure felt it.

 

[Blue Ninja]

And there's this filter during the sessions in Constantinople that, I dunno, tries to make the city look more foggy? It's especially prominent at night. But, in any case, it's applied to the screen instead of the city, so it's really noticeable and ugly.

"Yo, there's a lot of fog in the sky. Now it's on the ground. Now it's on that wall. Hey, now it's in the sky again."

 

[Speedymanic]

So I finished this a couple of days ago and now I have to ask, what exactly were the revelations?

Did I miss some missions or something? Didn't bother doing those animus first person missions as the first one sucked something awful, were the revelations in those missions?

I'm honestly confused, apart from that cool apocalyptic cut-scene and that 'guy' appearing at the end, there were literally no answers or revelations.

What gives?

 

[xKilltheMx]

So I finished this a couple of days ago and now I have to ask, what exactly were the revelations?

Did I miss some missions or something? Didn't bother doing those animus first person missions as the first one sucked something awful, were the revelations in those missions?

I'm honestly confused, apart from that cool apocalyptic cut-scene and that 'guy' appearing at the end, there were literally no answers or revelations.

What gives?

There were no damn revelations except for stuff relating to Altair and his death. I may be wrong but thats how I remember it.

 

[LightofRohan]

Damn replayed this for a bit, it's so damn janky. What a mess and the setting is so dull. I'm so glad AC3 is going where it's going, with a new engine, rehauled animation cycles. It's what this series needed. They definitely had a smaller team on ACR that were rushed... but I'm still glad I bought it and supported the real AC3 production for the last 3 years.

 

[malfcn]

Just picked this up after awhile. I have a little bit in Seq 3, (and a few sequences of Desmond)..and cannot remember a thing. Forgot all the controls, and whatever story.

Should I restart the game, or just go and remember/relearn/pick it up the rest of the way?

Also, I unlocked the Turkish Armor, but it doesn't let me use it. Is it selectable after a certain period of time in the game story?

 

[Blue Ninja]

So far, storywise, this one blows Brotherhood out of the water. Seriously, not that that's hard or anything, but I'm enjoying it a lot more.

 

[malfcn]

I really don't want to start over, but I barely remember what the heck a Masyaf key is, and how I got one.

 

[Blue Ninja]

I really don't want to start over, but I barely remember what the heck a Masyaf key is, and how I got one.

That glowy circle-thing on your desk in the Assassin HQ. You got it inside some tomb of which I forgot the name. It can make you relive Altaïrs memories, like an Animus inside an Animus.

 

[Kazzy]

So far, storywise, this one blows Brotherhood out of the water. Seriously, not that that's hard or anything, but I'm enjoying it a lot more.

Cesare was a great villain, he just wasn't featured enough.