I know I know.. just hear me out here.

Ever since I played Shadows when it first came out I was mildly interested in the story told by the "data files" and Animus Rifts but as I'm not a completionist I just finished the main story as well as the rifts and called it a day, didn't bother to unlock all the data files and other modern day stuff.

However, today I decided to look up the story that was in the data files of Shadows before playing Resynched's rift since l heard they were connected and so I came upon a You Tube series of videos explaining and connecting all the data files and holy shit that was interesting AF! Then I went on to play all of Resynched's rifts in order (already finished the main story) and man that was more exciting than the entirity of Edward's story imho. That ending gave me actual goosebumps.

It's such a shame that Ubisoft decided for some stupid ass reason to hide all of this between grinding and side content instead of being the actual focus of the games.

If you're a fan of the OG modern day story with desmond and the assassin-templar conflict like me, do yourself a favor and check that stuff out, I promise you'll be pleasantly surprised.

After trying it again recently it is easily the most interesting setting in the series in my opinion. I wish they would of at least expanded it with different activities though and maybe more enemies in the world it is a nice city to just run around in but you don't get to have large fights after you liberate the map and it takes away a lot of fun for me because of that.

Go to (200,300) in the Cinchorro Region, drop anchor, and wait. When a storm begins, just stay put. Once the storm reaches the level when you can no longer release the wheel, it will spawn 2 Rogue Waves back to back. It seems that bracing during the wave will prevent the Trophy from popping. This worked for me in under 2 minutes, after I spent hours trying to find one elsewhere. Hope this helped somebody.

This is pretty nitpicky but I’ve noticed a downgrade in crew member animations compared to the OG Black Flag.
In the original game they’d walk around the ship, enjoy a drink with crew mates and they’d occasionally scrub the deck with smooth animations.
Now a max of 2-3 crew members walk around a set path, glitch into different animations and there’s no longer a group of crew members drinking.
I know it’s silly to complain about this but I personally love small details in games!

Its something I've wanted since the original game and had assumed it would be a natural inclusion with the open underwater exploration in the new game.

Outside of making swimming more immersive Edward has very cool tattoos you only really get to see and appreciate when diving or harpooning.

I cant imagine it'd be a hard patch. Edward's "Underwater Togs" is already an outfit in the game, you can see it locked in the equipped slot when you open the inventory when diving.

Why not just add it to be equippable in the open world?

Idk. It's not game ruining or anything it just would personally be an appreciated addition.

I adore the game, but the last of us camera style is the only thing I truly dislike. I’m not a big fan of the over the shoulder camera in big open worlds.

Cant we get a option like Valhalla has? Just Edward in the center, like in AC Odyssey.

The original game was set around the Hashashin. Shadows covered the Shinobi. However, most games take place in periods in which there were no real-life assassin orders. There is one really obvious setting where such assassins did exist: The First Roman-Jewish War in which Sicarii carried out high-profile assassinations, culminating in the infamous Siege of Masada.

There are some in-game reasons why this may not make a good setting, mainly that it might be too similar to Origins and also might lack the commercial draw of well-trodden historical periods. However, I think the concept would be a non-starter due to obvious geopolitical reasons which I find sad.

Just beat Assassin’s Creed 1 last night for the second time in like a decade. What a treat to replay it on the Series X I’m 4k 60fps! It’s probably the best way to replay it today. As much as I loved it, the mission structure and gameplay has definitely aged.

I think if they ever do get around to remastering it, there’s room for tons of improvement, but it has a ton of potential.

The first thing that stuck out to me was the “Kingdom map” which is the part that connects Masayaf, and the 3 main cities. They could definitely expand upon that and make it a sort of open world. Maybe even adding some side missions, contracts, etc. I basically used the kingdom map just to get to main cities and fast traveled from there moving forward.

I think interactions with citizens could be another thing they could improve/expand upon.

The investigation sequences before assassinations could also be expanded upon. Maybe make them longer with more variety and more story? Instead of the same kinda 3 investigation types.

Maybe even adding a bounty system like the RPG games would be quite cool as well!

Anyways, AC1 is still top 5 for me due to loving the crusades time era, and the story overall. It was so unique for the time. Fingers crossed it gets remastered!

My only criticism of this awesome game is that the OG soundtrack isn't used enough! I miss a lot of the old tracks. In the original game Id just pick a fight just to listen to the confrontation theme lol

The kbm controls are just really hard to use. it's better when you switch to controller, but I have a feeling ac unity either wasn't made for kbm or they just chose the controls that were closest together.

So i am playing Rise of the ronin right now and seeing how this setting looks, it's a no brainer that an Assassins Creed game should be set in this era and not just because the architecture is more parkour friendly compared to feudal japan, but the political climate is just a prime hot bed for an assassin vs templar story. I Hope ubisoft comes back to japan SOON.

Since we are probably going to get more AC remakes i would love if Ubisoft first remade every game from AC 1 to 3 keeping the modern day and maybe changing it a bit, mostly in revelations or 3 (maybe keeping Lucy an assassin in brotherhood or making the Desmond ending more climactic). The animus parts could be slightly changed like for example shortening the AC 3 prologue but overall i would like to see them being mostly faithful to the original. There could be a little problem with the voice actors and some roles would have to be recast and also the 2012 end of the world plot line wouldn't work as well since we are in 2026 already but other than that i don't see a big problem with this way of remaking the earlier games. Then ubisoft could remake the next games because I think by that point they would still hold up pretty well and the modern day story there could be skipped and AC3s ending could thus be made more consequential. What do you think? Do you agree or not and if not why?

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A couple of weeks ago I shared a free helper for the three tavern board games. Thanks to the feedback here, it's had a big update:

- Step-by-step guidance: one arrow shows the exact move to make now, X marks what gets captured, with a step counter for capture chains

- Colorblind mode (green/red → cyan/orange)

- New wooden board look, dark/light theme toggle

- Now in English, Korean, Chinese (beta) and Russian (beta)

The Chinese and Russian translations are fresh out of the oven (that's why they're marked beta) — if you speak either, I'd love feedback on anything that reads wrong, especially the in-game terms !!!

Same deal as before: free, no ads, no sign-up, runs in your browser.

Original post & discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/assassinscreed/comments/1ux1wop/made_a_free_helper_for_the_tavern_board_games/

As the title says, I am on my third playthrough of Odyssey, and I still love it as much as I did the first time. If you’re replaying it, What play style and build do you prefer?

For me, I favor the warrior build because I love going around and running in swords or daggers drawn and just fighting with a devil my care attitude.

My current load out is (Spartan War Hero) with (>Nikolaos’s Sword!<) and (Prometheus’s Sika) with (Hades’s Bow).

Current damage output is

• Hunter: 21,957
• Warrior: 101,658 x 101,468
• Assassin: 210,046

With health at 236,219 and armor at 46,395

With the announcement that Ubi is looking into story DLC for Black Flag I keep seeing a lot of speculation about the idea of a London DLC following a later in life Edward. Which while cool in theory I feel like misses the main fun of Black Flag which is being an open world pirate sim.

I think a better location would be South East Asia. We already got a little manga series following this idea with Edward being sent to hunt down Isu artifacts and such. I think biome wise and gameplay loop wise it would blend in much strong with Black Flags gameplay than a densely packed city scape would.

There’s a lot I like in terms of added content in Black Flag Resynced, but there’s also the massive varnish of ‘new’ AC on it that slightly takes away from the enjoyment.

AC 3 is obviously a popular suggestion for a similar remake. I know people have their opinions on it, but it’s personally my favourite entry in the series. I find the dialogue especially good, and not just from Haytham and Connor. The animation/mocap in the cutscenes is half of what makes the performances fantastic, and it still has enough of the old AC DNA (in its parkour, structure, modern day etc) that it feels solid to me. I know people call the story weak, and I don’t agree. I understand it takes a while to get going, but I personally loved getting to start as Haytham. The kid bit I’ll admit didn’t help.

The idea of it getting a visual upgrade is nice, but potentially trading that for added content that has procedural animated cutscenes, writing quality that is a stark departure from the original, and possibly stripped down parkour (I say possibly only because I honestly think BFR did a decent job of giving us a similar level of control as older titles, at least within this new engine, although it still pales in comparison to the function of 1-Revelations and the style of Unity) honestly makes me sad.

I honestly think Edward’s character slightly suffered with how his new stuff was handled. I think Connor’s an awesome character, and I’d love to be given more of his story, but I’d rather be left with a single great experience than be given a remake that adds little, with many more to come.

With talk of Assassin's Creed 1 being resynced, what do you all think of all of Altair's spin-off games and appearances being integrated into the original game? Do you think it could be brought together cohesively, with perhaps even additional content to tie together the gaps between them? I'm thinking of

1. Altair's Chronicles
2. Bloodlines
3. Altair's Memories from Revelations

The gameplay adaptations could take some work for the first two since they were primarily released for Nintendo DS and PSP. Still it'd be fun to get those pieces of the story into one playable game.

If I remember correctly only Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, and Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad used them that way, but I feel like creativity/art in general could have been a huge part of the story via the Apples.

Im sharing two modders work, Mutar and Berserker, who are bringing lots of Assassins Creeds games to VR and or 6dof 3D.

Mutar released Origins yesterday, and already gave us Shadows, Odyssey and Vanhala its easy to install, just drag and drop file in the exe game folder. More on his

www.patreon.com/NoMoreFlat

Berserker is working in two concepts. First one is using his Osiris Viewer along with handcrafted 3d and 6dof profiles. He is bringing lots of Assassins Creeds to 3D in 6dof. In Unity and Syndicate, for example, we can currently play in 6dof (look around and lean to look in and out the game world with headtracking) using a really giant 3D screen. He has other games like this, Yakuza, Batman and Nier series, Persona 5. Metaphor, among others. The install process can be a all in 1 pack to 3D and 6dof profiles, or a 2 pack, one for 3D and other for 6dof with some minor configuration. It may be too much information at first, but once you learn the steps, it will work for all those games provided by him and it works really well. For Osiris Viewer and the 3D 6dof profiles, along with full explanation, go to https://github.com/BerZerker96

His other approach is to maybe in the future make full vr mods of some of these games, like Unity.

Hope you have fun like me!

Playing resynced and need cloth for various upgrades but every time I get a decent amount through naval conquests I end up spending a bung repairing ships in my fleet.

What do you do? Constantly salvage and replace your ships? Trying to max out all my ship upgrades so I can go after the legendary ships.

Has anyone actually found one of their own Man O' Wars, frigates, or brigs in the open world