has anyone mentioned the AMAZING music in this game? The strings and percussion just sound perfect.
Is there some memory leak or something going on? I'm playing on PS4 and it feels like framerate steadily declines the more I play in a single session.
One of the best soundtracks for me. I prefer it over to Unity's easily.has anyone mentioned the AMAZING music in this game? The strings and percussion just sound perfect.
Is there some memory leak or something going on? I'm playing on PS4 and it feels like framerate steadily declines the more I play in a single session.
has anyone mentioned the AMAZING music in this game? The strings and percussion just sound perfect.
agreed. I feel like the game really struggles in giving the two protagonists individual narratives. It feels like one characters work being split amongst two.Hate how shockingly short the main sequences are it usually wrapped up in 3 missions then time to assassinate onto next sequence. This is supposed be most complex and locked down Templar system in the era but takes few seconds to dismantle with little effort.
Good enough. That mechanic had been surprisingly absent since brotherhood, especially considering how much that game is beloved. Ubi Kiev don't let me down!
You can get an upgrade that lets you hold R1 to manually call a cart full of them anytime you want.AC3 had it too but to be fair it was locked away behind a number of long questlines and only available in cities, but the skills they had were really cool. syndicate has the worst implementation for me because you never feel in control of the gangs and as mentioned they don't appear through a call but have to be manually found and recruited.
The thing that would've really sold that the narrative takes place over a year is changing seasons. Imagine Westminster during the Fall or Winter. :OHate how shockingly short the main sequences are it usually wrapped up in 3 missions then time to assassinate onto next sequence. This is supposed be most complex and locked down Templar system in the era but takes few seconds to dismantle with little effort.
Haha. That ending.
Rebecca telling Shaun to go after the Shroud and Shaun deciding to call off the mission to rescue her. No, you idiot, she probably means "Get the Shroud, it can heal me". What a dolt.
An anti-climatic final mission, but all in all I enjoyed Syndicate. It's a relatively good game, albeit janky throughout.
I seem to hate AC games more and more each year... But this damn game has me interested as I don't see much negatives coming from it.
How does it play on PC?
You can buy maps from in-game vendors instead. 😃Might be a dumb question, and yes I'm a sucker, but I usually buy the timesaver packs that reveal all chests and activities, and I'm not seeing them available anywhere? Are they not selling them for this game? Odd to stop me from giving them a free $2 for practically nothing.
Unlocking all the free rewards on Ubisoft Club was a welcome addition though
You can get an upgrade that lets you hold R1 to manually call a cart full of them anytime you want.
You can buy maps from in-game vendors instead. ��
It's pretty funny actually.Gtfo!?? Not as awesome as jumping out of haystacks or off of roofs but I will absolutely take it. Just got way more excited for this game.
Glitch tracker reveal helix glitches on the map, secrets of london reveal the locations of music boxesAh, okay, so they are not available as a one-time buy like Black Flag and Unity?
I suppose I could do that
On a side note, I see the E-store has a "Glitch Tracker" and "Secrets of London" maps that both cost like $10...seems a bit high...what do they do?
Yes the present day storyline has always been there, this is actually quite toned down compared to some other entries in the series where there was a main character named Desmond.This is my first AssCreed, and I'm having an absolute blast. I'm struggling to see why this series gets so much hate if the previous games were of a similar quality. Or is it just franchise fatigue?
Anyway, I love Jacob and Evie, and it's great being able to switch between them on the fly. I thought I'd be using Evie most of the time (and I do enjoy playing as her, she's an absolute badass) but I've found myself maining Jacob so far (about 15 hours in, 4 boroughs conquered). Can't beat an assassin in a top hat and frock coat.He's also super cute, IMO.
The gameplay is amazing - I love free-running across the rooftops, swooping down to assassinate someone and then making my escape by leaping back onto a roof like Spring-Heeled Jack. I'm not sure how well the carriage sections have been received but I love ramming Blighters out of the way and destroying lampposts and market stalls (never said I was a good driver, but at least it's fun). The murder mysteries are great, too. Not really sure what I was expecting, gameplay-wise, but I love the variety of the missions and all the optional stuff (I usually hate collectathons but I'm hungrily hunting down every locked chest and pressed flower).
Wasn't expecting historical figures to appear in the game (again, this my first one, so not sure if there's a precedent), so it was fun seeing the likes of.Charles Dickens and Alexander Graham Bell
Victorian London is a fantastic setting, and I really think they've nailed the atmosphere. I like that the boroughs are fairly distinct and offer a wide range of scenery, from the almost idealised, Christmas card-esque quaint avenues to the grimy slums and smog-filled factories. Even the little background events are done well and help to draw you into the setting - I've just been walking past Big Ben in the early evening and saw a group of people singing "God Save the Queen" under a streetlamp. I've never felt so patriotic, lol.Then I had to excuse myself to go and slit the throat of a nearby Blighter.
As I said, maybe I wouldn't be so impressed with Syndicate if I'd been playing the previous iterations every year, but right now I'm loving it. Never knew jumping off the top of St Paul's Cathedral into a hay cart was a secret ambition of mine, but now I've achieved it.
EDIT: Forgot to ask, has the present day/genetic memory stuff always been part of the series? Because it's pretty silly and not even necessary, IMO.
Oh cool !You can get an upgrade that lets you hold R1 to manually call a cart full of them anytime you want.
It's pretty funny actually.
Is it always gang dudes? Is it ever assassins? (Assuming it isn't, but I can hope)
Actually it was established that the modern day assassins don't go around killing everyone who got too powerful and greedy anymore.Good god Jacob is such a fucking clown. Of all the Assassins so far he is by far the biggest tool, and the dumbest.
That entire sequence 5 stuff was so utterly daft I'm beginning to wonder if Ubisoft even intended for the player to like him or if they actively sabotaged him to get people to like/play as Evie more.
I absolutely HATE how he assassinates a completely innocent man and there are literally zero consequences. If he had done even the slightest of research instead of running to his appointed target like a psycho because a foxy lady tells him to the entire half of sequence 5 could've been prevented. In fact, I hate how they both run around unchecked. There's so much blood on their hands, and for what..
"What do you mean, they're family" motherfucker if you had asked one of your 1000 contacts before jumping in the deep end they probably could've told you that the lady you're following orders from is the cousin of Starrick and a Templar. You know, Henry, the dude freeriding your train? He knows stuff like that, it's his job.
As always, the Templars seem like the more sane faction by far. Assassins are once again a band of terrorist lunatics.
I always wonder if Ubi does this strange meta commentary on purpose or if it's just an accident of their writing, because literally since the very first game the Templars seem like the better party by far.
Good thing about AC6 is that its ridiculously easy to platinum, if you finish the main game its 2-5 hours of extra stuff to do and most of it you could do just playing the normal campaign (break stuff in carriages).
I traded my copy in already to best buy (they are giving $40 for it this week, $44 with GCU!) and miss it already. Great game, some of the "politically correct" changes they made I'm not thrilled about like getting rid of the prostitute rings, the romance stuff being super juvenile, or no one saying anything about Evie going into a fight club against like a wave of 15 dudes (haha) but all in all a really fun and enjoyable game.
Series is due for a reboot though, the modern era stuff is needed to keep a good back flow but its getting cripplingly bizarre and incoherent.
The novelStory was good fun but the side storieswere incredibly out of place.(such as Evie/Henry felt incredibly tacked on and poorly done. The marriage thing which I got mid-game)
Is the novel good? Haven't picked one up after Foresaken.The novel, so the pacing there is extra weird.has the marriage thing after the end of the main story
It's... okay? It's more Oliver Bowden, so the writing is still all very same-y, and characters don't really have a "voice" so it can get boring. But if you're invested in the plot of Syndicate and are okay with a bunch of backstory for Henry Green and the twins' father it's okay. Of course, if you want that backstory you could just wait a week or two and then read a wiki with all the information.Is the novel good? Haven't picked one up after Foresaken.
I always wonder if Ubi does this strange meta commentary on purpose or if it's just an accident of their writing, because literally since the very first game the Templars seem like the better party by far.
It's... okay? It's more Oliver Bowden, so the writing is still all very same-y, and characters don't really have a "voice" so it can get boring. But if you're invested in the plot of Syndicate and are okay with a bunch of backstory for Henry Green and the twins' father it's okay. Of course, if you want that backstory you could just wait a week or two and then read a wiki with all the information.
All in all, I wouldn't recommend it. (But I wouldn't recommend Forsaken, The Secret Crusade or Unity which are supposed to be the "good" ones)
Hah, okay fair enough. Thanks.
Didn't know that Unity's was supposed to be good as well. Was it just because it was Elise's standpoint.
Yeah the soundtrack is great, sadly is poorly used, specially the ambient music.
Curious about this - how so? I've heard the game has ambient tracks while free-roaming. Does it not?
Boom Platinum! And just in time for Fallout 4