The Hidden Blade Assassin's Creed in Depth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X31O38Jpyw0
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A superfast blitz on William is possible because of how the game works. When you get to the assassination jump from a certain spot on a roof to grasp the edge of a railing and pull yourself up. The scene won't start because you're not in an upright position. Jump from railing to railing and other structures to get near the gate entrance of the citadel. When you reach this destination and Altair is standing the scene will start and you are in the huddle of William, King Richard, and other soldiers. You can now walk inside the citadel to where William will appear after the scene. The camera view will focus on the scene outside, so steering your way in there can be tricky. You'll know if you've reached the target's room because there are two guards posted on either side of the entrance outside of it. Stand behind the table on the far side of the room and wait for William to appear by it after the scene ends, mashing the assassinate button. You know what happens next- William gets owned!!!

This mission is similar to the parachute air assassination as shown by Arrrogance:
http://www.thehiddenblade.com/cardinal-sin-horse-exploit-and-parachute-k...
The parachute eagle strike is a lot easier than it looks. I estimate that I have about a 50% success rate on the eagle strike (maybe better).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzrfX96PVEU

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Our featured member for February is none other than LisaMurphy. She only gets 28 days because the man wouldn't give her 31. Lisa wanted to say a few things before getting into the interview:

First, I'll tell you some info about me. I live with my family in Marin County, over the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. My husband is a computer programmer and co-founder of a company developing grade-school math teaching tools. I've been a homemaker for the last 20 years. We have two daughters: Elaine (who is 20) is a student at an art school in S.F. and Elizabeth (18) is finishing up community college and studying political science.

I got interested in video games about 10 years ago as a way to spend time with my daughters while they played. I enjoy being around them, so it was fun to sit with them and help them figure out the puzzles and strategies. Then I decided to give it a try myself and games have been a big part of my life ever since.

Altair92 has already shown a nice mysterious death on the Banker (Juan Borgia) using the hidden blade:
http://www.thehiddenblade.com/banker-assassination-variety-pack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XHnGjPn6Jo

Since thrown heavy weapons cause instant death, the developers intentionally made Cesare impervious to this type of attack in combat. Thrown heavy weapons bounce off of him and then fall to the ground. You can circumvent this when you are not in open combat with Cesare, which happens automatically if you are more than 15 meters away from him. Thankfully, there's just enough room on the castle wall to pull this off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz5iqbX-JRE

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For the Baron and Banker assassinations detection will result in desyncronization. You can avoid being detected by the target if you throw a smoke bomb then quickly grab him with a weapon (kill all the nearby guards first). Then you can move him anywhere you want, just be sure to throw him instead of let him go since he will probably see you. In addition there are other detection tricks on both targets.

Poetic Justice
Kill the target with the shovel that the man was using to bury his fiancee (or wife... he contridicts himself in the dialog). The shovel is an improper weapon that Ezio carries as a backwards mace, i.e., Ezio points the shovel in the wrong direction, even when sheathed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq9j-ixTH2w
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The Banker Juan Borgia can be turkey shooted by waypoint separation. To do this first kill the guards in the area to avoid detection. Then lure the Banker with a dead body to the edge of the ruins right above a haystack (you can either throw money and kill the character there or carry a dead body to that spot). Throw a smoke bomb to avoid being detected by the Banker, grab him, and drop him right over the edge above the haystack. If done correctly he will fall into the haystack, which will prevent from him taking any damage. He will no longer move since his waypoint is up in the ruins, and although that isn't far away he would have to walk around to the other side to get up there.

Eagle Strike After Waypoint Separation: Even after Waypoint Separation the target can be lured to places with dead bodies. I do an eagle strike from the top of one of the pillars (sorry if it wasn't fast enough).

Waypoint Separation Stunt: This is simply doing a stunt assassination where the Banker stands after the turkey shoot. I get as close as I can get without accidentally doing a leap of faith and perform a sideways jump.

Alright here is how offensive decoy works. If you see a stationary group, eliminate as many as possible by using obstacles to block the compass. You will normally narrow it down to 2 people. Use decoy on one of them, if it is the player it will say you can only use it on civilians, and if it isnt well it will turn into a copy of you and you know the other guy is the real target. This could work with poison, but I wanted smoke for now to get focus kills.