The Hidden Blade Assassin's Creed in Depth

It's from a political cartoon drawn by benjamin franklin.

EDIT: Remember when AC2 was announced, and the way they presented it was as the typical renaissance that we get taught about in history class? With the paintings, inventions, and parties? And then the actual game took an accurate and mainly non-biased (seriously though, it's very hard to spin the borgias as being anything other than thugs) look at renaissance society. The promos reflect the way people usually perceive the history, so as not to confuse people, and the game is always more accurate to the actual historical record, rather than the popular thinking.

The actrocities that the Borgia commited are so vast in magnitude and scale that if I listed all of their fiendish acts, this forum site would've probably be extremely laggy.

Some prime examples:
- selling your daughter for political power
- incest *ahem**CesarexLucrezia**ahem*
- raping Caterina Sfortza (why was this cut out from the game - they didn't even mention it)
- murder

I'm sure you're right about the lag lol.

Yes, multiple times.

This is only speculation and rumour, though. There's no way to prove it one way or another.

Actually, it's mentioned in the in-game historical files. Rape isn't something that sits well with a lot of people. Even if it's mentioned as a past event from the characters.

Yes. There's actually a story behind that. In one Stabby chat Stab said Ian had found a way to kill a kid in the game. Shortly afterward Ian showed up. Not long after that he asked me what I should call that one exploit. So I put two and two together and said, "So that's how you killed a kid in the game." But anyway he showed that in his video Silvestro Sabbatini - Assassination Variety Pack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSTFX_FMhbU

Yeah, whatever restrictions they're going to put in there, they're breakable.

Not if they make npcs able to swim

I'd totally get all NPC's on screen into the water.

I thought about that, but since some structures disappear after a certain distance (there is no spoon) we are going to have situations where characters are glitched under the map.

You can make TINS work on NPC's as well.

i really don't wanna bring up my dislike of amercian chest pounding, but they are not giving me much choice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tpbsg-HsWQ

It's a theme of the time period. That's what the war was about. And really, at that point it was British chest-pounding. And many other European countries, who sided against the "imperial" brits. At this point, none of the marketing has wavered for a minute from "period recreation", down to glorification of the current america. "Join or Die" was a popular slogan of the times, "Freedom" a popular rallying cry. What possible neutral name for the special editions would capture the themes of the era? It was not a neutral era, not at all. The Crusades are more iffy, since no-one really won that. But a small portion of britain splitting off and beating off the larger british empire? There's only one clear symbol of that conflict, really. That's all I gots ta say bout that.

http://nzgamer.com/ps3/features/1075/assassins-creed-iii-q-a.html/page-3/

Cool parts: "And if you’re in a city and you see any group of people in the crowd performing an action like painting a house or cleaning, if you approach slowly Connor will begin mimicking their actions to hide amongst them."

"He can also free run and climb on moving surfaces for the first time, so expect windmills, moving logs and more which allows us to create fresh puzzles and challenges for the player."

"Finally, of course the hidden blades are back and we’ve made some style changes so he can actually spin one of them in his hand and use it as a knife, but it’s the key to silent kills." (One, as in there is another? confirmed?)

"We’ve also added various new mission delivery systems like the Clubs, and allowed players to layer their experience: you can now have more than one active mission at a time, and more than one task on your plate, so people will be more in control of how they play their game."

All of this sounds like they're giving us back the freedom we've been wanting. I'm already excited as hell and even preordered already, but until I see a few gameplay videos, I'll still be VERY slightly cautious about this one.

That detachable blade thing was spotted in an earlier screenshot, no? Awesome lookin'.

Welp, there are a lot of links to view. Still haven't worked my way through all of them.

crisis averted

I'm planning on preordering the Freedom Edition. As I did with the Codex Edition of Brotherhood and the Animus Edition of Revelations, I'm also selling a few copies on eBay to make back the cost of my own copy (plus a little extra ).

http://i.imgur.com/3QK5z.jpg

New MP skin.

Yeah the Redcoat Multiplayer Pack is a Preorder bonus on certain preorders of the Freedom Edition, although I've olny actually seen this offer on eBay so more than likely it's a separate code that the seller is providing as an extra.

EDIT: Turns out she is available as a preorder bonus through the German Gamestop site.

new outfit http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/assassins-creed-iii-pre-order-bonus-...

Really informative.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgZIodps7D8&feature=g-vrec&context=G2dab9...

"You can't kill Benjamin Franklin or George Washington."
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

Well maybe he said that cause...ya know...they are both dead.

I'm fine with you bringing it up. I share that dislike, as do many other Americans. It's a legitimate dislike.

I'm willing to trust that Ubisoft won't be stupid enough to feed into that. Not 100% trust by any means, but hope springs eternal.....

That's surprisingly true. Not that we hate our own country so much that we'd just up and leave, but we understand the views of most other countries in the world. A lot of times, I see on BBC (love that channel) their depictions of Americans. Usually this consists of the uneducated Southern hick types that make up only a small amount of our population. Most of the time, they're the ones that ARE the "chest-pounding" kinds of people.

I actually had an "ignorant American" moment my first time playing ACB with Phi. It was also the first time I heard his voice. I forgot he was from the Netherlands and I said something about him being British. I felt like the BBC Americans for a few minutes...

In the game, smartypants.

STATUS:
[ ] Not told
Told
Toldasaurus Rex
The Good, the Bad and the Told
The Told and the Beautiful
Told Case
In Told Blood
How I Told Your Mother
Assassin's Told
Assassin's Told II
Assassin's Told: Tolderhood
Assassin's Told: Toldelations
Assassin's Told III
Crank 2: High Toldage
Sherlock Toldes
The Told Identity
The Told Supremacy
The Told Ultimatum
The Told Network
The Boy in the Told Pyjamas
The Day the Earth Got Told
American Pie: Told House
The Mating Habits of the Told Human
You Don't Mess with the Told
The Toldfather
The Toldfather: Part II
The Told Knight
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Told
The Lord of the Rings: The Told Towers
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the Told
One Flew Over the Told's Nest
The Silence of the Told
The Told Suspects
Told to the Future
Eternal Sunshine of the Told Mind
Monthy Python and the Told Grail
2001: A Told Oddysey
Star Wars: Episode IV - Return of the Told
Indiana Jones and the Told Crusade
Told Torino
Told Story
Told Story 2
Told Story 3
The Told Lebowski
No Country for Told Men
The Wizard of Told
The Told Rush
Told in 60 Seconds

Sorry, couldn't resist.

I believe I had it established I would be the one to attempt killing George Washington.

Speaking of which, I was wondering how this new engine would be handled by our "exploit experts" (see what I did thar?) since reports indicate that collision detection and AI would be overhauled for a better experience. It might be more of a challenge to find ways to be as creative.

Can't wait to be proved wrong!

I wouldn't be surprised if the new engine is a result of the exploits.
*Ubi looks on youtube*
"What!? Super/hyperblend, grab-move, superjump, splitting headache, waypoint separation? We need a whole new engine for the next game."

i have no idea what this is

Yeah, you're going to attempt killing him. I'm going to actually kill him.

It's a very obscure, old meme.

Here's some more little nuggets of newer info. Apparently, the voice actor for Connor is actually Native American. Woo!

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/03/30/assassins-creed-iii-qa-revolut...

A quote clarifying the control scheme for free running:

"In Assassin’s Creed III, if you hold R1 you’ll free run safely. You’ll stay relatively horizontal, so Connor will run past trees and he’ll only take “safe” jumps. But if you hold X as well, then the run becomes “unsafe” — he’ll try to go vertical, and if he hits the edge of a cliff, he’ll jump. Hopefully it’ll give peoples’ hands some relief, but it’s also a way of telling the game whether you want to take risks or not."

So basically , R1 is run. And R1+ x = Free-run like in the other games.

Edit: I WANNA SEE DIS FACKIN DEMO!!! O_0

R1 is still freerunning, but R1 + X will make you do whatever you want. If you just hold R1, you'd do normal free running moves. If you go to an edge of a cliff or something, you won't leap off on accident like an idiot. Also, just holding this will keep you from accidentally running up walls in narrow areas or around corners. If you hold it with X, you can climb surfaces and do stunts such as an Eagle Strike.

That's what I understood from the article, at least.

If you hold r1 you'll also do the new free-running moves like vaulting over or sliding under/ ducking under objects, as well as take small, safe jumps.

Note that by X in that article they mean the A button on the Xbox.

I was wondering if the interviewee actually used xbox terms and they just "translated" it when they posted the article.

More Desmond sequences than ever before: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/342572/assassins-creed-3-will-have-...

I added a last update notice and two new links. It's a European date, as the American convention is pants-on-head retarded.

I just found out Connor can detach his hidden blade and use it as a dagger !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-OHnK4tiAk&feature=channel

Comments:

There is no medicine at all. Regenerating health. Only regens out of combat.

Bows are not obselete in the Revolutionary war. They were far more accurate than guns. Natives used them when riding on horseback because of this. They've stated they're limiting the amount of ammo the player can have, since they want the game to still be about close-combat.

Calvar, you've got a source on that?
NO MEDICINE FUCK YEAH

I would like that, Medicine made things waaay to easy... xD

Plus it would be amusing to see Tobuscus react when he discovers this as he plays... xDDDD

I can back Calvar up on that. I forget where I saw it, but they did say medicine was out and regenerating health was back.

I read it at the Game Informer website. Sorry I can't say which article/video.

The "more than one active mission at a time" feature sounds highly exploitable. Remember Aurel's exploits of starting a primary mission while still having an active Save Citizen (AC1) or Herald Bribe (AC2) mission in progress? I expect even more opportunities in AC3 since they're encouraging you to multitask missions.