Eagle Strike
Charles Vane Assassination Variety Pack
Thu, 10/23/2014 - 14:35 — aurllcooljay
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Early Death
When you first start chasing after Charles Vane he appears at a view point. The mission is scripted to make him escape before reaching him, however they overlooked the fact that you still have a throwing knife available. by climbing to the spot shown in the video you can knife him without activating the next checkpoint. Killing him has no effect on the mission, and you continue as usual.
Early Death 2.0
During part when Charles shoots from a log you can also knife him, causing him to disappear (counts as a kill in stats) and activating the next checkpoint.
Use of Poison
Normally you can't use poison with the blowpipe gone during the mission and no ammo. However after crafting a dart you can counter tool with it.
Blitz
Another time the throwing knife comes in handy. To avoid his gunshot run behind a ruined wall and proceed to a part of the building you can climb up to (ironically located by a scaffold the target collapses to prevent you from getting up there). When you get in range knife him.
Woodes Rogers assassination variety pack
Wed, 03/12/2014 - 21:27 — Altair Auditore
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Since the assassination in memory 1 of sequence 12 has a relatively high amount of freedom (Except for the detection desync sadly) I decided to make a compilation of cool/unique ways of killing him.
The set-ups of most of the assassinations are included in the video so detailed explanations aren't really neccesary.
In the video you can see that I get rid of 3 dancers before luring the target, this is because guiding 1 NPC is easier than guiding 4.
Eagle Strike: Julien du Casse
Sun, 12/01/2013 - 08:07 — stabguy
The first target in Assassin's Creed IV, Julien du Casse is the captain of a Spanish Galleon in port at Great Inagua. For full sync you need to stay out of combat and finish du Casse with an Air Assassination. I chose to do an Eagle Etrike, which can fulfill both requirements.
The controls have been further simplified for AC4. Basically all sprinting, free running and climbing can be done with two buttons: 
+ 
. Even the climb leap maneuver at the beginning of this video is automatic. The only time you need to add 
is to force an unsafe jump (such as to initiate an Eagle Strike).
The range of Air Assassinations has been extended to nearly equal the height of a fatal fall. This makes Stunt Assassinations quaint because in most cases you'll be passing up an opportunity for an air in order to do a similar aerial assassination that doesn't work quite as well.
Getting back to the controls, an Eagle Strike begins with + + as usual. Catch Ledge has been simplified. You no longer hold 
. Instead, you just aim Edward's hands using left 
. In this video I held it 
. Air Assassinate has also been "simplified" in a way: no more target locking 
. Now you just look at someone and press 
. This can actually make some assassinations more difficult if your target is in a group or behind you. For this video I used right during the fall to aim the camera at du Casse.
