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William is in no Mood to be Trifled with Today - Guard Assisted Assassination

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An assassination of William that has another enemy take down the target.

Setup

Start by infiltrating the fortress right before the assassination (link in annotation). William's health makes it hard for him to die before killing all the other guards, so you'll have to lower it beforehand. Nineteen punches is the most you can do without knocking him out. Then start the scene.

Shenanigans

If you throw King Richard right before the scene, he'll teleport into the scene after getting up, but won't move at the same pace as the horse, resulting in a floating appearance.

Confession

To successfully confess William, he has to see another guard attacking Altair without actually seeing Altair. The target can see you through the bars on the wall around him, but there are thin potions of wall that are solid. Just make sure the SSI indicator is yellow instead of red. I chose to get the nearby posted guards' attention by killing on with a knife. The weird thing is that enemies can detect you through walls when nearby guards first detect you (probably hear them exclaiming), but in this case the enemies are far enough from Altair that that doesn't happen.

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Altair's Fists of Fury

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Turn targets into one-hit punching bags!
Read this description for the explanations of how each target was set up, as well as why other targets couldn't be killed this way.

Tamir

You can't take his heath down early without getting detected, which makes it impossible to progress.

Garnier

Get into the hospital early through the window.
http://thehiddenblade.com/garnier-easy-way-preassassination
Then take down his health until he's one punch away from death.

Talal

After killing his guards, take out Talal's health with throwing knives.
http://thehiddenblade.com/air-assassinate-same-height
You'll need to have done the Garnier assassination first to have the knives unlocked.
Now one punch is all you need to take him out, but it's easy to miss on the running target.

William

Get into his fortress early.
http://thehiddenblade.com/williams-instant-kills-and-king-richards-death
After punching him nearly to death start the scene. Afterward sneak up on him with a jump. If you get detected, William will get into combat stance and block the punch, which happened a lot until I jumped from the spot in the video.


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The Invisible Assassination of Garnier de Naplouse

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Many thanks to MAGLX for discovering an easier way of getting in the side window.

setup
The easy way to get inside the hospital early is to to edge jump to the window.
http://thehiddenblade.com/garnier-easy-way-preassassination
After that you will notice Garnier and two guards standing by the door inside the hospital. There are also two other guards and a civilian prestaged for the following cutscene.

Now for the invisible assassination. For those who are not familiar with it, it happens when characters for a scene prior to an assassination are assassinated in high profile (except for the target, he can be assassinated in low profile) while despawning. This causes the memory corridor to start, skipping the assassination mission entirely.

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Garnier - an easy way to preassassination

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Hey, guys. Here I find an easy way to climb this window, I believe you just read on to understand how to do it. But I'm not sure whether this method can be used on PS3 & Xbox360, if you had to try this, please tell me whether or not feasible.

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Top Ten Discoveries

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This video is the result of a collaboration between aurllcooljay, JoeyFogey and myself. Our goal was to document the ten greatest achievements in AC1 by members of The Hidden Blade. We hope to publish this video to a wide audience and let them see what THB is all about. To that end, I've joined the Union For Gamers program to partner with Curse. They have agreements with publishers like Ubisoft that let them monetize and promote gameplay videos (as long as they don't contain copyrighted music). If your channel qualifies it's a good deal: 90% revenue share, no lock-in, and no branding requirements.

See the following links for more information on the original discoveries.

1. Robert and Al Mualim Early Death
Reported on Gamefaqs
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/930278-assassins-creed/41477738
Original Robert Death
http://www.thehiddenblade.com/robert-de-sables-early-death
Original Al Mualim Death
http://www.thehiddenblade.com/al-mualims-early-death

2. King William's Death
http://www.thehiddenblade.com/williams-instant-kills-and-king-richards-d...

3. Shock and Awe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mRMw24xs2I

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Additional Back to the Future Assassinations

http://youtu.be/fJlv36uWC8c
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A collection of additional assassinations in AC1, made possible by back to the future exploit.

Maria
Start this the same way as the original early assassination of Maria.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaikxWTUYVI
Reinitialize the memory by going through the city entrance in the south of Jerusalem. The game doesn't recognize Maria as a target anymore. Now there is no memory corridor scene, and Maria stays dead. It's probably possible to get an instant kill from this by taking out her health and talking to the bureau leader, but I didn't have enough time to record more.

Sibrand
Start this the same way as the original early assassination of Sibrand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tww7kpXiA8
Reinitialize the memory by going through the city entrance in the north part of Acre (there's also an entrance in the eastern part, but you desynch before getting there from the game thinking you already started the mission). Sibrand usually goes onto the docks and walks back and forth along them just like the guard patrol. He's unresponsive to you, but still reacts to seeing dead bodies (in the original Back to the Future assassination he can detect you and would run back to the ship to get to the guard tower). Now that the game doesn't recognize him as a target there's no memory corridor scene. You can also take out his health for an instant kill, but it isn't very interesting.

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The Invisible Assassination of Not William of Montferrat

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Note: Aurel found this first and then told me about it, so I didn't really do anything.
You can do this by starting the William assassination at the bureau and then infiltrating the fortress without the scene starting (see this article). At certain points in the fortress, all the soldiers will disappear. You can then setup an 'invisible kill' with air-to-assassinate: you lock onto your target and make sure you jump through one of these spots. Near the back of the group is a great spot.
Altaïr then performs an air-assassination ( Big smile ) and the memory corridor scene starts. Afterwards, you can just stroll out of the area and get back to the bureau, after which you will have completed the mission.
I opted to get out of the city instead, to see if the back-to-the-future exploit worked. It didn't, but William's army has become substantially smaller, which makes setting up an anonymous kill very easy with a couple of knives.

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Sibrand Isn't Paranoid Enough (Early Death)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tww7kpXiA8
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An early death on Sibrand, made possible by glitching out of the city and restarting the mission. For those not familiar with this exploit watch the original video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKrs0HyY7hg

Early Death
Since the game knows you started the assassination mission Sibrand is already on ship before you start the cutscene. Getting to him is another matter entirely since he appears back at the scene location if you enter the shipyard directly. So enter it from the south wall by the way shown in the video. There are some guards along the way that can easily detect you, so be careful (or fight them all off like I did). Before you reach the ship Sibrand gets on the docks nearby. He seems to just walk back and forth along it. Killing him results in the memory corridor scene.

Setup
Getting out of the city after the assassination is trickier in Acre than in Jerusalem since Acre has two closed gates at the entrance. So I used a different method. I did the save citizen mission outside of Acre and gentle pushed the citizen all the way to the bureau, then started the mission. Then I moved the citizen all the way to the cutscene and afterward to the target. After assassinating Sibrand I talked to the saved citizen, which resulted in saving the game. Then I desynchronized. When I respawned it was outside of Acre. Saving the game by a talking to a save citizen results in spawning where the save citizen mission started.

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William's Instant Kills and King Richard's Death

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-rL2hsGhRM
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So I went back to find more things in King Richard's Citadel just prior to the scene in memory block four. And I'm glad I did, because I found a much easier way to get in there, as well as some interesting discoveries.

Easy Infiltration

Acre - Rich

Play along with the videos below the map to quickly collect all Templar flags, which are in Acre, Rich District.

Assassin's Creed maps by Asaic
Screen shots courtesy FiReStOrM of AssassinsCreed-Maps.com

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The first video starts near flag 17, near a town crier. The second video picks up where the first left off: south of Holy Cross, and east of Flag 24.

If you are looking for a specific Flag or Templar in the video, refer to this index:

First video:
Flags 1-5, 1:45
Flags 6-7, 1:00
Flags 8-11, 3:30
Flags 12-14, 5:15
Flags 15-17, 0:00
Flags 18-20, 5:50
Flags 21-23, 6:45

Templar 1, 2:40
Templar 2, 4:30

Second Video:
Flag 24-27, 0:20
Flag 28-29, 2:30
Flag 30-32, 3:00
Flag 33, 4:45
Flag 34, 4:10

Templar 3, 1:35

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