Assassins Creed: Brotherhood

Zero-Cool

chrislad wrote: »

I loved the Assassin Brotherhood part. I think it was perfect the way it was. Nothing beats walking through Rome to the Castello, taking a quick look at the 4 or 5 guards at the gate, doing a fist pump and having them all die in a hail of arrows, while you stroll past non chalantly in the panic that ensues.

Class.

Ya, didn't think i'd be using it much but when you are trying to get 100 sync by not being detected, it comes in quite handy. Love the little whistles and one of my guys comes flying out of no where. However, I didn't like when 2 of my guys were fighting a crossbow guard. They were all standing right beside each other and my guys were blasting him with pistols, like 4 or 5 shots. Theres me trying to be quite on the roof and there's a shoot out going on!

Thanks for the facebook game info lads, must give it a go!

Zero-Cool

Man that Project Leverage game is fair annoying. Takes way too long to build up AP. Then when you do, oh you need to do another memory to unlock a chance item first. Can't see me investing too much time in this. Crappy work, wanna play brohood!!

ShaneU

Not going to bother with the facebook game, it probably spams up your feed as well

tman

ShaneU wrote: »

Not going to bother with the facebook game, it probably spams up your feed as well

Hasn't done for me yet. It gives you the option of posting crap on your wall, but doesn't seem to do it behind your back.
If you liked Mafia Wars, then you'll like this. (and likewise if you hate Mafia Wars then you'll detest this!)

Zero-Cool

Ya, I liked mafia wars till it got to the point I needed chance items for missions. Became a balls then. Now with this one, I just tried to do a mission. Said I needed a chance item and took me to an earlier mission. Okay, tried that one and said I needed a chance item from an even earlier mission. It took me to that one. Finally got the item and couldn't even remember what I was doing in the 1st place! Bad game design. Glad Brotherhood is nowhere like this

Must look into the UPLAY points as well.

How is everyone getting on online?

L'prof

sheehy83 wrote: »

Ya, I liked mafia wars till it got to the point I needed chance items for missions. Became a balls then. Now with this one, I just tried to do a mission. Said I needed a chance item and took me to an earlier mission. Okay, tried that one and said I needed a chance item from an even earlier mission. It took me to that one. Finally got the item and couldn't even remember what I was doing in the 1st place! Bad game design. Glad Brotherhood is nowhere like this

Must look into the UPLAY points as well.

How is everyone getting on online?

You can keep hitting back and that will bring you through the missions you were on.

Zero-Cool

L'prof wrote: »

You can keep hitting back and that will bring you through the missions you were on.

Ya, I was doing that but point is it just became so mindless just to get a fancy cape or something. I'm mad for some unlocks in the real game, hope they come soon.

Frisbee

So much to do in this game, it's brilliant. I haven't touched a story mission since Friday night. Just been building up my recruits (5 assassins now), destroying towers, repairing districts and doing side missions like Leonardo's war machines and the templar agent ones.

Kingpin187

amazing game.

I was frustrated with the inaccessible map areas aswell, and thought it had glitched, but there is a way around it to get to the exclamation marks on your map, its just that the viewpoint is inaccessible so you will have to look for it

multiplayer is ok, could be better but makes a good change to the CODs etc.Just finished the story today and still not bored of it.

The Assassin recruitment is a nice touch, and being able to call them to help you out is great

Great game, and will be putting another hour or so into it when I get home from nightshift

Professey Chin

Story done, 10 fully trained assassins, everywhere rebuilt. Now onto the glyphs :pac:

Grayditch

I'm shocked at how well thought out the Multiplayer aspect is. Some people will love it because it's so different, and some people will get frustrated with it.

I've barely touched the single player. I can't stop playing online.

Zero-Cool

Grayditch wrote: »

I'm shocked at how well thought out the Multiplayer aspect is. Some people will love it because it's so different, and some people will get frustrated with it.

I've barely touched the single player. I can't stop playing online.

Ya, love how they did the multiplayer but really trying to finish Single player first. Sick of the spoilers all over the web, can't read about it any more.

Some great multiplayer vids by these guys. Voices are fair annoying but shows some great gameplay except everyone is mad for running round rooftops.

For anyone who hasn't played online yet, here is the jist of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH2F-s0QeS8

Grayditch

Oooh. I dunno. That's exactly how you shouldn't play it imo. Hyperactive Modern Warfare style. I've learned how to use the gun to take down a flaily rooftop running targets like that. Sometimes if my new target is just running frantically around the place, I'll just ignore it until the contract is over, because if you chase him, you'll trigger a run from the guy chasing you and it becomes a mess.

Running from the get go like that will work in some games with other players that are doing the same, I just think that makes it like every other game. I was playing a few higher level guys last night who were brilliant and calculated. I got up to level 20 with about 4 hours of gametime which is decent enough and the unlocks are so much fun. I'm so impressed with it.

Grayditch

I got killed FROM a bush last night too. I don't know if the guy was waiting there long to get the achievement or whatever, but he got loads of xp for it. I had to hand it to him, it looked amazing.

Frisbee

Grayditch wrote: »

I got killed FROM a bush last night too. I don't know if the guy was waiting there long to get the achievement or whatever, but he got loads of xp for it. I had to hand it to him, it looked amazing.

That's what Multiplayer is all about imo. Not running around rooftops and executing everyone you come near, player or NPC.

A guy got me fromon top of an archway the other day, he must have been following me and ran ahead and took up position, was cool to see him swoop down from about 12 foot and double blade my skull.
I also managed to kill someone in a hay bale on my first game, saw them jump in and just wandered up and stabbed it, great fun

humanji

After the warnings about not turning off the game while logged out of the animus, I decided to start off by logging out of the animus, searching the area and then going back into it. But when I tried to get back into the animus, even though it said "press any button to interact" it wouldn't do anything. I'd lined up a cornucopia of expletives to let loose when I luckily managed to get the right angle and it let me in.

I think I'm just not going to bother with logging out at all. It's not worth it.

Grayditch

Frisbee wrote: »

That's what Multiplayer is all about imo. Not running around rooftops and executing everyone you come near, player or NPC.

Exactly. On that carnival type level with the seats on top of this stands, some guy shot me from there. I remember seeing 3 identical guys sitting down and right enough, it was one of them. He must have sat down, morphed the bench to make it hard for his assasin to find him and just waiting in the stands until he saw me. Clever stuff.

Frisbee

Grayditch wrote: »

Exactly. On that carnival type level with the seats on top of this stands, some guy shot me from there. I remember seeing 3 identical guys sitting down and right enough, it was one of them. He must have sat down, morphed the bench to make it hard for his assasin to find him and just waiting in the stands until he saw me. Clever stuff.

It's stuff like that that's giving me an incentive to play MP. The upgrades etc you can unlock will make for a nice wide variety of executions. I've barely played MP, only level 4 or something. But once I finish the single player I'll get stuck into it proper.

Grayditch

I've only a basic level of Morph, so I can only turn 4 NPCs around me into my model. Sometimes people pick the right one and get me, sometimes they don't and I get a bonus for misleading someone to kill an NPC and sometimes they use Firecracker, which makes all NPCs scatter and identified your target (as he or she won't be on hunkered down clutching their eyes and it blinds them so if they do run they go straight into a wall.

Also, if you see an NPC with your model standing beside a bush, jump in and wait. There's no way your assasin will get that one right!

Zapp Brannigan

sheehy83 wrote: »

Ya, love how they did the multiplayer but really trying to finish Single player first. Sick of the spoilers all over the web, can't read about it any more.

Some great multiplayer vids by these guys. Voices are fair annoying but shows some great gameplay except everyone is mad for running round rooftops.

For anyone who hasn't played online yet, here is the jist of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH2F-s0QeS8

Ugh DSP, what a typical annoying American douche.

Zero-Cool

Just gave MP another lash before heading to work, almost on level 6 in 3 levels. Games is so addictive and brilliant!

I really like Blops but I figured out the reason that MP is so addicting is I just want to keep levelling up to get new weapons and perks. But with Brotherhood, the reason it's so addicting is because it has BRILLIANT gameplay. Ya, the abilities and perks are a nice bonus and adds variety but even with none, YOU are your best ability. I'm watching guys running round like mad men and it just doesn't pay off. I will head to a rooftop once in a while but only if my target is very far off or if I think i'm being followed.

Got 1st in one of the games and I felt it was really down to pure skill (not bragging) stalking my victims and choosing my escape routes. Never got that feeling with Blops.

Now the question....Do I keep playing single player first and finish it (on sequence 6 at the moment) or just keep lashing into MP. It's so f*cking addictive! I'm mad to play agains some boardsies!

Zero-Cool

Oh ya, lads, how do you unlock the Harlequin and Aquaducts like it says on the front of the game cover? I just unlocked Hellaquin with UPlay. She has some cool kills but i'd prefer Harlequin.

ShaneU

Did any of you know you can enter your hideout from underwater? randomly found it just there.

Zero-Cool

ShaneU wrote: »

Did any of you know you can enter your hideout from underwater? randomly found it just there.

class, did you go diving near there or something?. Not pushed with the hide out, villa was much better but at least this place is accesible and near middle of the map.

calex71

Just started the single player game there, is it right that I started with 53000 in money and a maxed out health bar It was hardly imported from AC2 probably just done for continuity ?

tman

calex71 wrote: »

Just started the single player game there, is it right that I started with 53000 in money and a maxed out health bar It was hardly imported from AC2 probably just done for continuity ?

Get back to playing the game and you'll soon find out!

Zero-Cool

calex71 wrote: »

Just started the single player game there, is it right that I started with 53000 in money and a maxed out health bar It was hardly imported from AC2 probably just done for continuity ?

Do you mean the intro level with the

attack on the villa

? I can't remember checking my stats during that level but starting the 2nd sequence I only had 5 health squares and no money as far as I remember.

nullzero

Finished the game alst night after coming back from football.

Didn't feel as much love for the game as I did for AC2, I'll still continue to play away with it as it's an amazing game just not as great as its predecessor.

The one area that dissapointed me the most was the music, AC2 had amazing soundtracks in each city/region, brotherhood just fell short of reproducing that magic which is of vital importance in a game where you're looking at a characters back for hours on end.
Years after their release I still love the soundtracks in the MGS games especially 1 and 2.
It might seem a very minor complaint to many, but to me it's a huge issue, but maybe I'm just weird (possibly varifiably so).

All in all for a game that arrived one year after AC2, Brotherhood was a good experience and I'm sure I'll get hours more enjoyment out of it, even if the main story part of the game was understandably shorter than AC2's.

Zero-Cool

Hey null, I actually love the music in brotherhood. Never really took notice of it in AC2 but in this I find myself listening to the music more as I'm jumping across rooftops

Grayditch

I'm going to continue to play the Multiplayer and maybe do the single player some time after Christmas. It doesn't feel long enough ago that I was putting a few too many hours into AC2. Not feeling the bite to play the SP.

Zero-Cool

Grayditch wrote: »

I'm going to continue to play the Multiplayer and maybe do the single player some time after Christmas. It doesn't feel long enough ago that I was putting a few too many hours into AC2. Not feeling the bite to play the SP.

Gray, you on PSN?

kearneybobs

sheehy83 wrote: »

Gray, you on PSN?

Check his sig!
Think ill drop into a couple of games tomorrow night too or thursday.

Zero-Cool

briankearon666 wrote: »

Check his sig!
Think ill drop into a couple of games tomorrow night too or thursday.

I can't see a sig. I have you added anyway Brian, will def be on Thursday for most of the day!

Grayditch

sheehy83 wrote: »

Gray, you on PSN?

I am, but I'm playing this one on the Xbox. I had more mates getting this on 360, so I had to bite the bullet and get it on that. I'd really prefer to be playing this on the Ps3, but I get to play with the lads every night or so, so yeah. Not so bad.

Grayditch

Peoples sigs don't show up when I sign in, anyway.

Zero-Cool

Ah everyone on my friends list either playing Blops, fallout or hot persuit. This multiplayer is way better than blops as well!

Professey Chin

Those glyphs nearly killed me

Grayditch

I think getting the a platinum on AC2 made me less pumped to play this SP in this. Those feathers. Never wanted to scale rooftops again anytime soon. This is out very soon after AC2. I will do it at some stage. It looks more cinematic or something.

Zero-Cool

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

Those glyphs nearly killed me

You got em all?? You near the plat?

Grayditch

Add me anyway sure, I'm sure there'll be other games!

Zero-Cool

Grayditch wrote: »

Add me anyway sure, I'm sure there'll be other games!

Cool man, got your PSN from your profile, will add ya tomorrow.

I only played Wanted in MP. Are the co-op modes any good? And how do you mute the mic? Had some yank talking shiite a while ago while I was trying to concentrate on my stalking.

kearneybobs

By the way sheehy83, his PSN is 'snorkledork'

Professey Chin

sheehy83 wrote: »

You got em all?? You near the plat?

I found most while waiting for my assassins to be trained.Only had a couple left.
Not near plat though since I havn't even started on MP yet

Zero-Cool

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

I found most while waiting for my assassins to be trained.Only had a couple left.
Not near plat though since I havn't even started on MP yet

I'm dreading the flag search but noticed some appear on your map? Do these show up on treasure maps as well?

kearneybobs

sheehy83 wrote: »

I'm dreading the flag search but noticed some appear on your map? Do these show up on treasure maps as well?

The ones that appear on your map are there because you spotted them with your eagle vision on. So it pays to occasionally turn it on when your looking down on a town/up high and it will automatically pick up on them and mark them for you on your map.

Grayditch

sheehy83 wrote: »

Cool man, got your PSN from your profile, will add ya tomorrow.

I only played Wanted in MP. Are the co-op modes any good? And how do you mute the mic? Had some yank talking shiite a while ago while I was trying to concentrate on my stalking.

Manhunt is my favourite. Teams of 3 or 4 take turns being hunter and hunted. Alliance is like Wanted, but teams of two take on other teams of two in a triangle, of you get me. Team 1 tracks team 2. Team 2 track team 3. Team 3 track team 1! Fun.

Advanced Wanted seems like Wanted win the radar not telling you if people are up or down on different levels. There's probably more to it, though.

Zero-Cool

Thatks Gray!

Advanced wanted doesn't sound great, sounds like it would encourage roofers. Manhunt sounds like a right laugh, giving you a chance to concentrate on just hunting or just escaping. Can't wait to unlock some new gear and clothes for the characters

Grayditch

That's just what happens, it's not great. I'm getting good at using the gun. Roofrunners beware!

Gunmonkey

Also once you find 25 flags, you can purchase a map from the Art shoppe that displays them all on the map.

Reaching them....thats the "fun" part.

Branoic

Does getting 100% syncronization mean anything gameplay wise or is it just something for completionists?

I was trying it on the first "real" assassin mission -

infiltrate Castille d'Angelo without Bering detected

and got right to the very last guard before being spotted. Fuming, as it was great fun, but don't want to retry the memory yet if it doesn't affect the game.