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Post by Element Zero on Dec 11, 2017 1:26:42 GMT
Which weapon(s) and difficulty? I think I'd get murdered if I never blocked, particularly by archers firing into melee. Enemies gang up, too, and flank pretty well. (Reminds me of the cool skill that allows Bayek to put those blocked arrows into his quiver post-combat. Cool skill. It's pretty easy to keep the quiver fill in this game.) I just got that arrow perk, I am just hunting at the moment as I sold all my stuff accidentally. The way it asks you do you want to sell all made it sound like in MEA where it is just junk but alas no. Is charged attack where you hold down LMB? I am doing as much stealth as I can to avoid combat but the removal of insta death on assassinations makes it harder. I really do hate the new combat it just isn't intuitive for me and I have to stop concentrating on the enemy I am fighting to think about what keys I have to press. So I have set the game to easy and I am just hacking and slashing my way through otherwise I'd just stop playing. I have never been a fan of combo's etc and that was the worst part of Syndicates combat for me. I also dislike having to use F to assassinate just feels wrong having to take my fingers of WASD. I've only ever had the mini-boss megabrutes survive my assassinations. You don't begin with a hidden blade, so maybe that's what's happening to those strikes? Even then, most guys should be KO'd, in my experience. Combos aren't executed in quite the fashion I first believed, and I'd bet you're doing the same thing I was. You can execute combos by holding the light button. I can't recall if the extended combo skill is needed or not. (It's devastating with a spear.) It's not really a Street Fighter type of situation in which combos of light and heavy attacks combine for maximum effect. You certainly can do that, but it's not the only way. Once the combat becomes instinctive, rather than something you have to think about, I'm sure things will come together for you. You just finished playing AC Rogue, so it's not surprising that your reactions are temporarily muddled. I was just talking about this with HZD TFW. I'm playing on a Ultra Hard and just crushing every challenge. It's familiarity, since I've played it two times before. SofaJockey , it's a sign of a good system when markedly different styles work well. I nearly always lock onto an enemy. I get up close, generally, and use block liberally. (It triggers some powerful passives on my shields as a bonus.) I like using Overpower against the first or most dangerous foe, and then chaining a second autokill. I, too, tend to wipe out most enemies unseen via predator bow sniping and assassinations. Still, sometimes you get mobbed by 5 or 6 guys (bandit tactics!). That's mostly what I'm thinking of in terms of combat discussions. Your description sounds like my approach versus some of the phylakes; particularly if they manage to hurt me at all. I start kiting them with tactics similar to what you describe. Maybe I'm not patient enough to use it versus scrubs. Nightmare difficulty might cause me to adjust my tactics.
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Post by dazk on Dec 11, 2017 5:29:17 GMT
Well moved on after clearing Siwa and the movement and combat controls are becoming easier but still not intuitive. Discovered the joy of mounted combat especially hunting Just saved some poor drunk guy from a marriage trap and from having to pay a virginity tax
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I actually like trailing and stealth missions even when they drive me bonkers. It’s really the only time Ezio does become an assassin. Went through sequence 6. Ha-ha, when Ezio is asked which part of France he is from thanks to his da Firenze accent, he replies Montreal, and they let them through. Cute Easter egg. Hey @carefull you played Origins didn't you? Did you play with KB+M and if so did you re-map the key bindings? I just started and the key bindings are a struggle for me, just wondering if you did change them what you changed them to. I am thinking of changing: ALT (Climb) to SHIFT SHIFT (Shield) to Q Q to P I don't like how I have to hit C to crouch, why doesn't Bayek auto do that like in the games before? And why do I have to hit F to assassinate instead of just LMB? Nope, I am slowly working my way towards it. Looks like you are getting things under control
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Post by bizantura on Dec 12, 2017 13:47:27 GMT
Finally took the plunge and bought ACO. Just level 4 so not far into the game but it does not disappoint. Didn't believe Ubi made games I would be interested in. Glad they do because SP RPG looks grim with EA and eventually I got tired of replaying an old in my library RPG for the umpteenth time. Did not like the first AC and never played any after.
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Post by dazk on Dec 12, 2017 21:37:01 GMT
So now level 11 and in Lake Mareotis and am finally starting to enjoy the game. I spent a lot of time in Siwa and now in Lake Mareotis farming crafting materials, sorry to all the hippo's, croc's and Hyenas. I have got my breast plate enhanced 4 times and my melee brace enhanced 3, my quiver is 3/4 enhanced and my pouch is fully upgraded. Has made combat a lot easier and have done some of the missions in Lake Meriotis. Funniest moment was getting the run for your life achievement by stumbling upon a hippo killing mission that was way above my pay grade and had to high tail it out of there quick smart. Second funniest thing was sneaking up on a boss guy in a fort and swinging my sword to kill him but instead hitting a whole lot of pots filled with oil into a fire that caused an inferno that killed us both in seconds I avenged someone's death today for the first time which is kinda cool Enjoying the view: Bought me a horse: Fangs Bought a new outfit ( cmoe its purple): And I just can't seem to avoid the fire:
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Post by cmoe on Dec 12, 2017 21:53:56 GMT
Bought a new outfit ( cmoe its purple): I love it!! This is ACO, right? I have it on my wishlist waiting for a good sale. Would I enjoy it?
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Post by dazk on Dec 12, 2017 23:45:18 GMT
Bought a new outfit ( cmoe its purple): I love it!! This is ACO, right? I have it on my wishlist waiting for a good sale. Would I enjoy it? cmoe I think you'd like all the AC games tbh. Maybe @carefull is a better person to ask as she is starting at the beginning but I'd never go back and play Altair and the Ezio games but I'd replay from AC3 and that's what I'd recommend if you wanted to play Origins. If you wanted to just play one AC game to get a taste for Origins I'd play Black Flag, it is written by the same people that have written Origins and for me was the most fun. However I am probably not far enough into Origins to say whether you could play it without having played any of the other games, maybe Element Zero can answer that. I have personally struggled to figure out why Origins didn't wow me at first and I am just not sure to be honest but its definitely growing on me. The earlier games whilst stylistically different were very similar in structure and in combat. This is very different and more like TW3 I think and I found that daunting just like I did starting TW3. I'd hoped combat would devolve as well, back to the AC3, 4 and Unity combat but they have continued down the path of Syndicate with adrenaline bars and combo's etc and that sought of combat challenges me and doesn't add anything to the game for me but some people like it most likely a lot more than don't. They have also added a skill tree as well, so for me the simple game I could jump into and just worry about buying a sword and a gun and getting on with it is now more detailed and I kinda liked the simplicity, same as with a game like Crysis 1, 2, & 3 where you aren't forced to grind to upgrade stuff etc. You just put your gear on and get to it. Anyway sorry for the ramble but in a nutshell, play ACBF and then you could jump to Origins, just depends on how much lore you want to miss out on amd how many cities you want to explore.
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Post by Element Zero on Dec 13, 2017 1:57:19 GMT
I'm glad you're liking it better, dazk . Be careful about wasting crafting resources early in the game. You're aiming for end game level upgrades early. If you aren't careful, though, you won't have any resources available to upgrade your hidden blade. You'll get that early in the story. cmoe , I think you'll like it. If you're interested in going back and playing early games, I'd start with the remastered Ezio Trilogy. AC3 and AC4 aren't really representative of most of the series. They're good, but different, and hard to jump into cold. Unity is the most technically evolved and easy to begin. If you aren't looking to play catch up, Origins is really a great starting point. You'll see the birth of the Assassins and the Templars. You'll see the origin of many small customs of the Brotherhood. If you want to go back and play older games after playing Origins, they'll all make perfect sense right from the start. The only downside of playing Origins first is that you still won't really know or understand either the Assassins or Templars by the end of the game. All of the little nods to earlier games will be lost on you. I agree with dazk that the open world is reminiscent of TW3, only much prettier and not ruined by war. The combat is an easier version of Dark Souls, or so I read. It's not hard. You block, parry, dodge, and have light and heavy attacks, etc... There is a lot of depth and fun within that system. Each weapon type has its own move sets, strengths and limitations. You can play the entire game with one weapon, or you can use any and all to your taste. The skill trees give you more and better attacks; grants new skills (duh); and allows Bayek to develop the skills that would become iconic of later Assassins who followed in his footsteps. There is no roleplaying in this game. You are leading Bayek through an open world as you see fit; but you make no decisions that shape the story. Don't let the uninitiated who call this an RPG fool you. It's an open world action game with skill trees and very limited "crafting". (Crafting as in you spend collected materials to upgrade your existing stuff.) It's like HZD without the dialogue options, if you've played HZD. (I'm pretty sure you have and that we discuss it.) It's the prettiest, most interactive open world I've ever seen. If you get oil on you, you can easily catch on fire. It stays on you until you wash it off. You leave an oily trail that can be set alight. Campfires are your friends. Wildlife acts very realistically, excepting swimming hippos and large gatherings of leopards. There is an awesome photo mode. I think you get the point.
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Post by cmoe on Dec 13, 2017 2:51:26 GMT
I'm glad you're liking it better, dazk . Be careful about wasting crafting resources early in the game. You're aiming for end game level upgrades early. If you aren't careful, though, you won't have any resources available to upgrade your hidden blade. You'll get that early in the story. cmoe , I think you'll like it. If you're interested in going back and playing early games, I'd start with the remastered Ezio Trilogy. AC3 and AC4 aren't really representative of most of the series. They're good, but different, and hard to jump into cold. Unity is the most technically evolved and easy to begin. If you aren't looking to play catch up, Origins is really a great starting point. You'll see the birth of the Assassins and the Templars. You'll see the origin of many small customs of the Brotherhood. If you want to go back and play older games after playing Origins, they'll all make perfect sense right from the start. The only downside of playing Origins first is that you still won't really know or understand either the Assassins or Templars by the end of the game. All of the little nods to earlier games will be lost on you. I agree with dazk that the open world is reminiscent of TW3, only much prettier and not ruined by war. The combat is an easier version of Dark Souls, or so I read. It's not hard. You block, parry, dodge, and have light and heavy attacks, etc... There is a lot of depth and fun within that system. Each weapon type has its own move sets, strengths and limitations. You can play the entire game with one weapon, or you can use any and all to your taste. The skill trees give you more and better attacks; grants new skills (duh); and allows Bayek to develop the skills that would become iconic of later Assassins who followed in his footsteps. There is no roleplaying in this game. You are leading Bayek through an open world as you see fit; but you make no decisions that shape the story. Don't let the uninitiated who call this an RPG fool you. It's an open world action game with skill trees and very limited "crafting". (Crafting as in you spend collected materials to upgrade your existing stuff.) It's like HZD without the dialogue options, if you've played HZD. (I'm pretty sure you have and that we discuss it.) It's the prettiest, most interactive open world I've ever seen. If you get oil on you, you can easily catch on fire. It stays on you until you wash it off. You leave an oily trail that can be set alight. Campfires are your friends. Wildlife acts very realistically, excepting swimming hippos and large gatherings of leopards. There is an awesome photo mode. I think you get the point. I appreciate the feedback. I own ACBF, as Dazk had recommended it so I watched for a steam sale and bought it for $7. I also have Syndicate which came with my graphics card. I have only played an hour of both games and I'm not sure I will go back to Syndicate but I will go back to ACBF. I'm not big on stealth, or I should say I'm not good at it. I have seen a few videos of ACO and thought it may interest me, even more than the previous games... I tend to either get completely obsessed with a game and play it for several hundred hours before switching or the opposite where I keep switching back and forth between games. And yes, I did play HZD and love the game.
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Post by Element Zero on Dec 13, 2017 2:57:30 GMT
I'm glad you're liking it better, dazk . Be careful about wasting crafting resources early in the game. You're aiming for end game level upgrades early. If you aren't careful, though, you won't have any resources available to upgrade your hidden blade. You'll get that early in the story. cmoe , I think you'll like it. If you're interested in going back and playing early games, I'd start with the remastered Ezio Trilogy. AC3 and AC4 aren't really representative of most of the series. They're good, but different, and hard to jump into cold. Unity is the most technically evolved and easy to begin. If you aren't looking to play catch up, Origins is really a great starting point. You'll see the birth of the Assassins and the Templars. You'll see the origin of many small customs of the Brotherhood. If you want to go back and play older games after playing Origins, they'll all make perfect sense right from the start. The only downside of playing Origins first is that you still won't really know or understand either the Assassins or Templars by the end of the game. All of the little nods to earlier games will be lost on you. I agree with dazk that the open world is reminiscent of TW3, only much prettier and not ruined by war. The combat is an easier version of Dark Souls, or so I read. It's not hard. You block, parry, dodge, and have light and heavy attacks, etc... There is a lot of depth and fun within that system. Each weapon type has its own move sets, strengths and limitations. You can play the entire game with one weapon, or you can use any and all to your taste. The skill trees give you more and better attacks; grants new skills (duh); and allows Bayek to develop the skills that would become iconic of later Assassins who followed in his footsteps. There is no roleplaying in this game. You are leading Bayek through an open world as you see fit; but you make no decisions that shape the story. Don't let the uninitiated who call this an RPG fool you. It's an open world action game with skill trees and very limited "crafting". (Crafting as in you spend collected materials to upgrade your existing stuff.) It's like HZD without the dialogue options, if you've played HZD. (I'm pretty sure you have and that we discuss it.) It's the prettiest, most interactive open world I've ever seen. If you get oil on you, you can easily catch on fire. It stays on you until you wash it off. You leave an oily trail that can be set alight. Campfires are your friends. Wildlife acts very realistically, excepting swimming hippos and large gatherings of leopards. There is an awesome photo mode. I think you get the point. I appreciate the feedback. I own ACBF, as Dazk had recommended it so I watched for a steam sale and bought it for $7. I also have Syndicate which came with my graphics card. I have only played an hour of both games and I'm not sure I will go back to Syndicate but I will go back to ACBF. I'm not big on stealth, or I should say I'm not good at it. I have seen a few videos of ACO and thought it may interest me, even more than the previous games... I tend to either get completely obsessed with a game and play it for several hundred hours before switching or the opposite where I keep switching back and forth between games. And yes, I did play HZD and love the game. Syndicate is by far the worst of the series, in my opinion. It has likeable characters and an okay story, but it's mechanics are garbage. It ditched parkour in favor of the magical rope launcher, which sort of gutted the game. (And did it right behind Unity's parkour-perfection! Ugh.) Black Flag is a good game. It just isn't the best indicator of what most AC games are. For most of its duration, it's a pirate game that happens to involve Assassins and Templars. Unity was buggy in day one, but silky smooth by day 3. I'll never understand the Internet hate-train. It's a good game. It's the only one with movie-quality visuals and utterly perfect controls. The story was every bit as strong as any other AC game, and way better than AC Revelations and AC3. It can be had pretty inexpensively for console. I'm not sure if the same is true for PC, but imagine it is.
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Post by slimgrin727 on Dec 13, 2017 4:03:39 GMT
Started Black flag for the hell of it even though I'm not done with Origins. Two things straight off the bat: VOs and dialog are much better. Actually has a really good start. Parkour is not as smooth as Origins or Syndicate.
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Post by Element Zero on Dec 13, 2017 6:16:01 GMT
Ac Origins 1.10 was released today. It adds enemy scaling, Nightmare difficulty, Cyrene Colosseum horde mode and various fixes. Pretty solid.
What is not solid is Ubi's continuing insults via the equipment packs they're peddling. They've released the Nightmare Pack ($15 / £12), the First Civilization Pack ($10 / £8) and the Gladiator Pack ($10 / £8). That's a combined $25 cost for two outfits, two horses and a handful of weapons. Outfits and mounts are cosmetic. The Season Pass, going for $30, includes two story expansions and two equipment packs (Horus Pack and Roman Legionnaire Pack). Conspicuously, it does not include any of these over-priced equipment packs. Worryingly, it's apparently only worth $5 more than the aforementioned packs in Ubi's estimation. ($5 will buy you a single horse or outfit.)
I enjoyed this game, completing it 100% twice. None of this equipment is needed. Still, it annoys me to see cash-grabbing on this scale. They're negatively impacting my opinion of a good game while I'm not even playing it. I hate what the gaming industry has become-- a shameless cash-grab. Making money has always been the goal; but can't it be done with more grace and respect for the fans? These packs seem to me to be a big middle finger to the fans who were devoted (credulous?) enough to buy the Season Pass. (Not I, for the record.) A few minor assets like outfits, horses and a few weapons can't cost much to make. For all I know, they might already be on the disk. (We'd probably have heard about it, if so.)
If EA weren't stealing all the hate with their SWBF2 debacle, I think this would be earning some jeers for Ubisoft. I hate shameless cashgrabs.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2017 13:07:33 GMT
cmoe I was attracted by Origins, but I started at the beginning, and I found that for me the first game was the most immersive so far. But overall, the franchise is imo exceptional, as it is unexpectedly clever for a video game and unique in its premise. I think they strike an incredible balance of love for the background fealty with the entertainment value. Overall, I am very impressed despite numerous “not my cup of tea” bits. The historic city scapes, the unapologetic “cool” of the historic leads, the platforming and joy of life in writing simply tramples the collectatrons, repetitive overload, sometimes sluggish controls, lacklustre present day part, and a complete absence of any player input in the protagonist and the story.
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Post by dazk on Dec 13, 2017 21:13:50 GMT
Started Black flag for the hell of it even though I'm not done with Origins. Two things straight off the bat: VOs and dialog are much better. Actually has a really good start. Parkour is not as smooth as Origins or Syndicate. Yeah I found it the most engaging of the AC games, Kenway's character is a likeable rogue and the support cast are mostly done really well. Yeah the parkour is a bit sticky but that is a god send in some of the missions
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Post by dazk on Dec 13, 2017 21:20:47 GMT
I'm glad you're liking it better, dazk . Be careful about wasting crafting resources early in the game. You're aiming for end game level upgrades early. If you aren't careful, though, you won't have any resources available to upgrade your hidden blade. You'll get that early in the story. cmoe , I think you'll like it. If you're interested in going back and playing early games, I'd start with the remastered Ezio Trilogy. AC3 and AC4 aren't really representative of most of the series. They're good, but different, and hard to jump into cold. Unity is the most technically evolved and easy to begin. If you aren't looking to play catch up, Origins is really a great starting point. You'll see the birth of the Assassins and the Templars. You'll see the origin of many small customs of the Brotherhood. If you want to go back and play older games after playing Origins, they'll all make perfect sense right from the start. The only downside of playing Origins first is that you still won't really know or understand either the Assassins or Templars by the end of the game. All of the little nods to earlier games will be lost on you. I agree with dazk that the open world is reminiscent of TW3, only much prettier and not ruined by war. The combat is an easier version of Dark Souls, or so I read. It's not hard. You block, parry, dodge, and have light and heavy attacks, etc... There is a lot of depth and fun within that system. Each weapon type has its own move sets, strengths and limitations. You can play the entire game with one weapon, or you can use any and all to your taste. The skill trees give you more and better attacks; grants new skills (duh); and allows Bayek to develop the skills that would become iconic of later Assassins who followed in his footsteps. There is no roleplaying in this game. You are leading Bayek through an open world as you see fit; but you make no decisions that shape the story. Don't let the uninitiated who call this an RPG fool you. It's an open world action game with skill trees and very limited "crafting". (Crafting as in you spend collected materials to upgrade your existing stuff.) It's like HZD without the dialogue options, if you've played HZD. (I'm pretty sure you have and that we discuss it.) It's the prettiest, most interactive open world I've ever seen. If you get oil on you, you can easily catch on fire. It stays on you until you wash it off. You leave an oily trail that can be set alight. Campfires are your friends. Wildlife acts very realistically, excepting swimming hippos and large gatherings of leopards. There is an awesome photo mode. I think you get the point. I appreciate the feedback. I own ACBF, as Dazk had recommended it so I watched for a steam sale and bought it for $7. I also have Syndicate which came with my graphics card. I have only played an hour of both games and I'm not sure I will go back to Syndicate but I will go back to ACBF. I'm not big on stealth, or I should say I'm not good at it. I have seen a few videos of ACO and thought it may interest me, even more than the previous games... I tend to either get completely obsessed with a game and play it for several hundred hours before switching or the opposite where I keep switching back and forth between games. And yes, I did play HZD and love the game. Like EZ, Syndicate is the worst of the lot but having played all the others I felt compelled to play it. Be aware there is a lot of stealth in the AC games but it isn't compulsory and the game is designed for it so you'll pick up what to do pretty quick. It is also a fun way to play looking at a fort and figuring out how to achieve the objectives and stealth killing your way around without being detected. And combat is easy once you get the hang of countering although that has changed in ACO. Yesterday in ACO (and yes Element Zero I am enjoying it a lot now) I took out a whole palace in Alexandria and only got detected once as I had no other way to kill the last couple of guards
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Post by dazk on Dec 13, 2017 21:26:19 GMT
I'm glad you're liking it better, dazk . Be careful about wasting crafting resources early in the game. You're aiming for end game level upgrades early. If you aren't careful, though, you won't have any resources available to upgrade your hidden blade. You'll get that early in the story. Yeah mate I am really starting to get into it. The combat is still a challenge against tougher enemies but those ballista mounted on walls are priceless Took down some Roman Fort where the guys were 5 levels above me by stealth using my bow on the guys on the perimeter and then turned the ballista on the captain etc Straight up combat they killed me in two hits Re crafting materials, I never stop farming crafting materials on the way to every mission etc I spend time diverting and slaughtering the poor digital animals and raiding the boats on the lake in Alexandria and the caravans on the land. Sometimes I forget I was going to do a mission and I have ended up kilometres away from where I have meant to go
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2017 19:08:44 GMT
(happy dance) Finished Brotherhood!
So, on my scale it will be: AC1>AC2:B>AC2
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Post by dazk on Dec 14, 2017 22:07:49 GMT
(happy dance) Finished Brotherhood! So, on my scale it will be: AC1>AC2:B>AC2 Congrats @carefull
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Post by dazk on Dec 14, 2017 22:45:34 GMT
So what did I do yesterday in AC:O, it's a good question but there was so much............... So moved on from Lake Meriotis to Alexandria but still head back to LM to gather crafting resources on a regular basis. Gear upgrades are moving along nicely and have done the first two upgrades of the hidden blade after meeting Aya for the first time yesterday. Cleared a lot of markers from Alexandria but have not pursued the main quests yet. So I have struggled to figure out why I was so daunted at the start of Origins and I think essentially with the previous iterations of the game I have always been invested in the history of the time period it is set in such as The French Revolution etc but I have never studied or read about this period of time so it didn't resonate with me is I think the best way I can put it. However I am really enjoying "discovering" it in this game but I really wish I could understand what the all the NPC's are saying as you travel the streets. I am also loving the "space" of this game, Rome, London and Paris and even the old NY and Boston seemed quite small and closed in but in AC:O it is really open and the environment is beautifully done. The layout of most the palaces and buildings are so big it does make stealth archery my go to option. I have cleared out so many areas from the walls usually without ever being detected and then am able to just run around looting unmolested. Had a weird glitch yesterday, had cleared the Pharaoh's palace and was climbing the spire to synchronize when the game just kept taking me back to the main menu, it happened 3 times and as a person who struggles with heights even in games it was damn annoying. Funny moment, discovered a topless beach Few pic's, I accidentally found this website (https://assassinscreed.ubisoft.com/game/en-us.aspx) which is brilliant and you log in with your Uplay details and it has amongst other things the photos you take in Photo Mode stored on it. He went that way: Met this lovely lady (didn't we have a spa together on a spaceship once?) : New gear and a shave and a haircut: Those views:
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Post by Element Zero on Dec 14, 2017 23:37:01 GMT
Origins is beautiful and Bayek is a great protagonist. I started a MEA PT, so will not likely return to this during December. (I've never taken a 6 week break from a game so early.) I'll pick it back up if "The Hidden Ones" DLC moves me or if they add NG+. Of course I will log-in for the 5 minutes it takes to finish the Trials of the Gods next week.
Since I haven't touched it in about a month, I have to keep reminding myself that it's a game that I really enjoyed. Ubisoft released another $10 pack of weapons with an outfit. This time, one of the weapons is mechanically better than the gear gained by defeating Anubis. The cash grab is strong with Ubisoft. Great game, shameless financial tactics.
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Post by dazk on Dec 15, 2017 0:02:11 GMT
Origins is beautiful and Bayek is a great protagonist. I started a MEA PT, so will not likely return to this during December. (I've never taken a 6 week break from a game so early.) I'll pick it back up if "The Hidden Ones" DLC moves me or if they add NG+. Of course I will log-in for the 5 minutes it takes to finish the Trials of the Gods next week. Since I haven't touched it in about a month, I have to keep reminding myself that it's a game that I really enjoyed. Ubisoft released another $10 pack of weapons and outfit. This time, one of the weapons is mechanically better than the gear gained by defeating Anubis. The cash grab is strong with Ubisoft. Great game, shameless financial tactics. Yeah I honestly cannot see myself playing this game even twice, just because its so big and I am by nature a completionist plus unlike DAI or MEA there are no different relationships to try or different build combos to try other than different weapons. It was the same for TW3 the games are actually too big, I'd really like a longer more detailed story arc and fewer side missions or for the side missions to contribute to the main story more meaningfully. I have a stream of MEA screenshots as my desktop background and it is like a siren's call making me want to play again. I almost decided to do a few hrs yesterday as I started a new NG+ up to being on EOS first time round. But ACO has its claws pretty well sunk into me now Yeah I am so over the money grabbing. I think this what ruins franchises when companies like EA take over. They are about profit, studios are about making something they want to make, how they want to make it and that they "hope" others will enjoy and if it turns a profit yay. Must be a big source of friction and balancing of goals and priorities which always cruels the final product.
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Post by Element Zero on Dec 15, 2017 0:20:18 GMT
Origins is beautiful and Bayek is a great protagonist. I started a MEA PT, so will not likely return to this during December. (I've never taken a 6 week break from a game so early.) I'll pick it back up if "The Hidden Ones" DLC moves me or if they add NG+. Of course I will log-in for the 5 minutes it takes to finish the Trials of the Gods next week. Since I haven't touched it in about a month, I have to keep reminding myself that it's a game that I really enjoyed. Ubisoft released another $10 pack of weapons and outfit. This time, one of the weapons is mechanically better than the gear gained by defeating Anubis. The cash grab is strong with Ubisoft. Great game, shameless financial tactics. Yeah I honestly cannot see myself playing this game even twice, just because its so big and I am by nature a completionist plus unlike DAI or MEA there are no different relationships to try or different build combos to try other than different weapons. It was the same for TW3 the games are actually too big, I'd really like a longer more detailed story arc and fewer side missions or for the side missions to contribute to the main story more meaningfully. I have a stream of MEA screenshots as my desktop background and it is like a siren's call making me want to play again. I almost decided to do a few hrs yesterday as I started a new NG+ up to being on EOS first time round. But ACO has its claws pretty well sunk into me now Yeah I am so over the money grabbing. I think this what ruins franchises when companies like EA take over. They are about profit, studios are about making something they want to make, how they want to make it and that they "hope" others will enjoy and if it turns a profit yay. Must be a big source of friction and balancing of goals and priorities which always cruels the final product. I'm a completionist, too, and quickly went through it twice. I just do not have any desire to do so again right now. If there were a NG+ that allowed me to enjoy all of my (twice) hard-earned loot and skills, I'd probably be playing it now. The grind to do the same things, re-earning the same rewards, in such a huge game... Ugh. Silly tangent incoming. They really missed an opportunity to add a legendary chariot via the First Civilization Pack. Instead of an oddly armored horse, I think they should've done a chariot. It could've featured spectral horses of "hard light". It would've been like an armored, 1C BCE Segueway. (Google provides a perfect image, linked below! ) The Isu stuff feels totally out of place, as no one reacts to its frightening appearance. They could've added something sort of cool and definitely useful with a chariot. As it is, weird looking horse is weird. Locking the ability to purchase chariots behind skill investment is a very strange, illogical design choice. Maybe they wouldn't have wanted to undermine this weird skill? I don't know. Purchasing legendary mounts is skill dependent, yet they offer a bevy of those for $. One of my Bayeks skipped the chariot skill entirely, as will most future saves. It's pretty useless and entirely ridiculous. Roman-themed Segueway. Just add spectral, "holographic" horses of hard light! Black Flag version!
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Post by dazk on Dec 15, 2017 0:27:58 GMT
Yeah I honestly cannot see myself playing this game even twice, just because its so big and I am by nature a completionist plus unlike DAI or MEA there are no different relationships to try or different build combos to try other than different weapons. It was the same for TW3 the games are actually too big, I'd really like a longer more detailed story arc and fewer side missions or for the side missions to contribute to the main story more meaningfully. I have a stream of MEA screenshots as my desktop background and it is like a siren's call making me want to play again. I almost decided to do a few hrs yesterday as I started a new NG+ up to being on EOS first time round. But ACO has its claws pretty well sunk into me now Yeah I am so over the money grabbing. I think this what ruins franchises when companies like EA take over. They are about profit, studios are about making something they want to make, how they want to make it and that they "hope" others will enjoy and if it turns a profit yay. Must be a big source of friction and balancing of goals and priorities which always cruels the final product. I'm a completionist, too, and quickly went through it twice. I just do not have any desire to do so again right now. If there were a NG+ that allowed me to enjoy all of my (twice) hard-earned loot and skills, I'd probably be playing it now. The grind to do the same things, re-earning the same rewards, in such a huge game... Ugh. Silly tangent incoming. They really missed an opportunity to add a legendary chariot via the First Civilization Pack. Instead of an oddly armored horse, I think they should've done a chariot. It could've featured spectral horses of "hard light". It would've been like an armored, 1C BCE Segueway. (Google provides a perfect image, linked below! ) The Isu stuff feels totally out of place, as no one reacts to its frightening appearance. They could've added something sort of cool and definitely useful with a chariot. As it is, weird looking horse is weird. Locking the ability to purchase chariots behind skill investment is a very strange, illogical design choice. Maybe they wouldn't have wanted to undermine this weird skill? I don't know. Purchasing legendary mounts is skill dependent, yet they offer a bevy of those for $. One of my Bayeks skipped the chariot skill entirely, as will most future saves. It's pretty useless and entirely ridiculous. Just add spectral, "holographic" horses of hard light! Yeah I find the skill tree and its components quite strange. Why is auto-loot a 3 point skill that I have to unlock a whole lot of completely unrelated combo-skills to get to? Thanks for the heads up re the chariots, I bought a legendary horse (didn't realise at the time) when I started from Uplay with Uplay credits and so see no need to buy another horse or a chariot for that matter. I am so thinking of playing MEA tandem with ACO but there is so much to do,....... I am so glad you and colfoley are posting in the MEA WDYDT thread. I hadn't been there for ages as it dropped off my participated list and I assumed no one was posting there anymore
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