Assassin's Creed: Unity

I´m looking for anyone who wants to help me on the coop misions in AC Unity, they´re just impossible, i´ve been a week trying them alone but i just can´t do them. Any good samaritan? This is my Discord: 680203029542207590 i hope at least one can help me, in less than 1 hour we can get em all, im from Argentina but i know english perfectly :)

Who else thinks Lenormand from AC Unity and the egg lady from AC Valhalla may share a voice actor?

I read that some people don't understand why Shay didn't appear during the story of Unity. I find a logical explanation. For the writer of Unity, Shay didn't exist.

Let's rewind time: In late 2009, AC2 is released. Big success.

-Early 2010: the development of AC3 is launched but also Unity for the next-gen (which was at the beginning a story about an artifact through different periods in Paris). Ubisoft also launched the development of Brotherhood to keep the fans waiting and using the Roman part that was cut from AC2.

-Late 2010: Brotherhood release. We have a hint about a period

(I think that the French Revolution was maybe thought of as the next installment but they changed their minds later).

-Early 2011: Revelations begins its development as a DS game and later as a main title. AC 4 also begins its development. (I think the writing of Forsaken was made during this time as a way to coordinate the writing teams of AC3 and 4 on the lore of the Kenway family.

-Late 2011: Revelations released

-Early 2012: Quebec begins the development of Syndicate (this is why we have reference to the Kenways)

-Late 2012: Both AC3 by Montreal and Liberation by Sofia are released.

-Early 2013: Sofia begins the development of Rogue. They wanted to use Haytham, but they wanted to decanonize Forsaken, so Shay is created and Rogue needs to be linked to Unity. So Unity was in its third year of development, too late to record dialogues or scenes about Shay. Maybe Charles Dorian's murderer was someone else in the scenario or he was meant to be a mystery for Arno, a lesson you could have answers to sometimes.

It explains also why the present was more disconnected, Unity begins at the same time that 3 and adds the Sage that was created for AC4 (but Aita was referred to in AC3 so maybe it was part of the connection)

I'm back playing my Assassin's Creed Unity on PS4 😎

It's still awesome to me 😊❤️❤️

The release of Assassin's Creed Unity is one of the most infamous in all of gaming. In many ways, it was a predecessor to the modern trope of releasing a game before it's fully finished, as seen in the likes of No Man's Sky, Cyberpunk 2077, Fallout 76, Pokémon Scarlet & Violet and MANY more. And yet, if you give this one another go, you might be surprised. Unity takes players to France during the revolutionary years between 1789 and 1794. It puts you in control of an assassin named Arno Dorian, who attempts to uncover the secrets behind the revolution and gain revenge for the murder of his adoptive father. There is also, naturally, a 21st-century framing device, but no one ever cares about them. It is by no means a groundbreaking story akin to the best of the Ubisoft franchise's portfolio, but Unity is far more playable now and nowhere near as bad as you remember. For this, it deserves more positive attention. The title's simplicity harkens back to the franchise's old days, providing a very tight and compact assassin experience. The Paris setting is also beautifully depicted, and the stealth/combat mechanics are deeply enjoyable. Looking back, it really is an encapsulation of what makes this series so awesome.

So im starting revelations and im womdering if the cherry bombs in this are actual audio lures or visual lures like in unity, my tests so far are inconclusiv3

I've been playing this game for almost 50 hours and there's still something i don't understand. What am i supposed to collect or do for the thing i circled?

I thought it may have been the extra sync points in each coop mission but i've done most of the coop missions and the counter Hasn't gone up. Then i thought it was the paris stories but after doing some i realised the counter also didn't go up.

I'm wondering if the counter is just bugged or if i'm missing something.

So, I’ve played some more of this game since my last post. And… wow. The side content really does not hold up compared to the story missions. I think I can comfortably say it’s far worse than in any previous title, which is even more annoying when they absolutely flood the map with them. Some of the better ones are the murder mysteries, which are a cool concept (though sometimes a key piece of evidence like two characters being sisters, is never revealed in the clues and then treated as the lynchpin in the post-mission summary). The Paris stories missions are a bit repetitive, but at least HAVE a story and make some minor impact on the world. Similar to the way side quests function in the rpgs, but a bit less variety. The Belle Epoque stuff is interesting the first time you do it, and thereafter is just you running around on rooftops grabbing glowy shit. Loses its charm quick, particularly because you have to play each level THREE TIMES to unlock full codex entries. The multiplayer missions are also alright, but it’s aggravating having to wander away from objectives to get skill points, and even more aggravating that, again, you have to play three times for full rewards. And the Nostradamus things… what the fuck even. They’re always such wildly obscure shit, like giving you an amount of pieces of a window for you to work out what building has it. I can’t even imagine someone who grew up in Paris being able to use these, and I’m at the point of just looking up a walkthrough every time. I should also mention that the repetitive collectibles, the cockades and “artifacts,” which are all just a shield that looks identical, are uninteresting and offer terrible rewards, made more annoying by not being revealed with viewpoints. And hiding artifacts in random spaces of the timed belle epoque missions was just a horrendous decision.

But as if that egregious padding wasn’t bad enough, the idiots did even worse. “Companion missions.” Fucking blue markers on the map. You press start. Map marker appears 50 meters away. It’s either a nameless npc you defend from about three enemies, or a nameless (they really hammer this home by showing the healthbar labeled nothing but “extremist”) enemy who you have to assassinate. No introductory dialogue. No name. No story. No rewards but a tiny amount of money. Odyssey had an entire free dlc series adding fairly basic and uninteresting quest series, and I can still comfortably say, this is worse filler.

I started Unity a few days ago, and… wow. I have a lot of mixed feelings about this game already. This is a wildly ambitious rework of not just how the series looks, but how about every aspect of it plays. And when it actually decides to work, it can be pretty neat. But obviously the launch was buggy as shit, and I can confirm not everything’s been squashed. Had some weird issues with vanishing textures, sometimes when trying to climb downwards I start hopping like a fucking spider between bits of wall and suddenly just fall 15 feet down while the game tries to figure out where to put me. In addition to that. Holy shit, only ubisoft or EA would think it was cool to make common collectibles and a shitload of gameplay helping items be locked behind not one, but two companion services. Thank god they bailed on that. The online is also a nightmare, crash or disconnect regularly on it, which is particularly annoying when the best way to get skill points, is those online missions.

But as far as specific thoughts.

The parkour is, obviously wildly different. In addition to totally new controls that make it much easier to move sideways in particular, movement speed is down, jump length and safe fall distance each get a MASSIVE hike. I assume the lower speed is following the theme of greater control to make less accidents, and it works okay for a game mostly set within one city, though it obviously wouldn’t be as well suited for one of the more exploration-based games like 3 or black flag. Whiiiiich is probably why they seem to have scrapped a lot of this for the rpg trilogy. While the city is also well designed for traversal, unfortunately that makes the issues even more annoying. The most common I’ve found is some climbable route halfway up a building, before I realize I can’t move up, down, or to either side from this little bit I was climbing. But they made it climbable anyway. While more an annoyance than an actual issue, it’s also pretty aggravating how they put a ring of snipers around some viewpoint sites, seemingly just to slow you down. And while I love the downward parkour option and think it’s smooth as fuck, the existence of an up version that actually affects jump length makes the “default” parkour setting something you basically never wanna use, which is a bit annoying after a while.

The combat. It’s pretty annoying if you’re underleveled as you basically unlock all the tools to handle superior enemies later in game. You don’t even get the chance to unlock heavy attacks until chapter 9, and you have to unlock the ability for basic things like double assassination (and aerial double assassination which is separate and locked for longer), and just having a gun. But I’m starting to work out patterns and strategies, which makes it seem like I’ll like it. Once I can, ya know. Actually play it properly.

The story, I’m a bit torn on, though obviously I’m still early on. The cast have a natural charisma that has me immediately fond of Arno, Bellec and Elise, despite not yet knowing much about them. That’s a credit to both the actors and the writers. The idea of an assassin-templar truce is also pretty cool, but we hardly get to see it before it’s just… gone. I’m also fairly disappointed in their choice to more or less skip the start of the revolution and relegate it to a codex entry, and even more by them essentially skipping the TWO YEARS of the constitutional monarchy era. You spend all of it either in the Bastille or training… with the brotherhood that you arbitrarily decide to join because your girlfriend’s mad at you and you heard your real dad was in it. That reasoning just wasn’t fleshed out. Similar deal with the theater club. You’re told the brotherhood owns it but it’s run down, and that you should check it out. Next thing you know, the manager girl’s telling you that you get all the profits and are expected to do all the renovations too. Nobody gives this place to you, it’s just… suddenly yours. Also while I enjoyed the Far Cry-esque hallucination mission for joining the brotherhood, it’s a bit weird this has never been a thing in previous games. And the entrance to the massive brotherhood sanctuary being an absurd mechanical device rigged to move all the chandeliers and open the floor of a massively popular public church… fun as that was, shit like it in this game is so goofy, despite it being the most self-serious title in a while. That said, I just did the first main story target mission, the dude who ambushes Le Serre. That was a lot of fun, and I hadn’t realized that the missions in Valhalla’s Paris dlc were essentially a copy paste of that idea, with the optional special entrances and cutscene kills.

I’m also a bit curious. A lot of the classicists who hate the rpg trilogy praise unity. But I’ve heard the concept of skill points and unlocks and the existence of a sneak button both as common critiques of the rpgs? Are these just two different camps, the classicists and the even-more-classicists?

Need to rant on this because I'm kinda pissed off. Let me preface this by saying I have played this game to death, along with older and newer titles.

I grabbed Unity on a sale in 2020, when people talked about how "underrated" it was. They praised the parkour, combat, story, stealth, and co-op. I didn't necessarily have high expectations, but hope that at least it excelled in one of these categories.

My first thoughts. Unity was only my second AC game. Origins was the first, and so I could only really compare Unity to Origins. Graphically, these games were on par with each other; Paris looked as stunning as , say, Memphis. The parkour also looked prettier. The combat, more dangerous. I could only see the positives because it was hyped up so much, and I'd played so little of AC.

In time, I uninstalled it because I simply forgot about the game. Come November this year I decided to install it again and come back at Unity with a refreshed mind and interest after finishing Rogue, Black Flag, and the Ezio trilogy. I was severely dissappointed by every aspect of the game and uninstalled it after 20 more hours of gameplay.

Let's start with the big one. Parkour. I have to admire the effort they put into the system. The animations were beautifully done, and Parkour Down was a godsend and worthy successor to AC1's vaults. But there were some jarring changes. Side ejects were now contextual for some reason, and catch ledge was just gone. Furthermore, (and this is the big one), the snap system was horrible. Unlike in previous games where it worked like a charm, Arno's jumps were incredibly inconsistent.

The stealth suffered too, quite heavily. Using items from cover was an instant detection, and their line of sight was broken; about 1 in every 4 walls could be seen through. Firecrackers worked only by visual detection, and double assassinations were straight up impossible if you were on a ledge. Every aspect of the game was compromised to favor and encourage stealth, yet it was frustrating and unpredictable. No stealth game should have inconsitent mechanics.

The combat. On the (extremely common) chance you get detected, you'll unsheathe your weapon and fight anywhere from 1 to 15 guards. In Unity, almost every guard type has access to a pistol, and if they're holding it when you're detected they will fire it with no warning. Even if you do get warned of a gun, dodging it will almost never work, and you'll probably be caught in one of the game's beautiful, but painstakingly slow counter or finisher animations. These enemies love to use guns and bombs. Fighting 1 or 2 at a time is decent enough since their distance and attacks are manageable, but anything more than 4 is at best a slog, at worst a death sentence.

Customization is one aspect of the game I honestly loved, and I wish it was further expanded upon. Having vanity slots would allow me to tailor my outfit to my aesthetic appeal, instead of solely to my playstyle. The tier system was pointless and most people just used tier 1 equipment until they could farm enough money to buy tier 5 items.

The story was enjoyable... for the first hour. After Arno donned his cape and hood, every character, without fail, became uninteresting and even boring. The story revolves around avenging Arno's adopted father (He apparently doesn't care about Shay killing his actual father), but the story becomes extremely repetitive. Arno's motives become muddled and many of the side characters we meet dissappear into obscurity. It's a generic, cliche revenge story with lifeless characters and a boring ending I don't even want to talk about.

The environment I truly loved. Paris was a joy to behold. There was always a huge swarm of french "people" to blend into, an interior to run through, and an event going on at every corner. The sewers were forgettable, though, and the rift areas felt like hamfisted gimmicks for the already-dead modern day aspect of AC.

Co-op worked pretty well, and I didn't encounter any technical issues. Playing it certainly alleviates some issues because of the difficulty reduction as opposed to playing solo. The missions, however, were... (not) interesting.

I should get to mission structure in general. The black box missions were a hit and a miss. It felt like there was only one right way to do a mission, and the opportunity system was not handled right. Sometimes there was no apparent benefit to doing an opportunity because you don't know how it'll help. Or it could be detrimental and give you an equally difficult route. I wish there was more thought put into opportunities and the black box assassinations as a whole.

Co-op missions were meh. Playing through them with friends was alright, although they were somewhat tedious. Heists were more of the same, but only benefitted stealth players (come to think of it, I dont think anyone favors combat over stealth). Yes, I replayed that one painting heist for hours on end.

All in all, I can see why Unity feels like the best assassin fantasy on a surface level. However, its different systems don't work and don't complement each other. For all its shortcomings, it had many good ideas with which I want Ubisoft to experiment more with.

It's 12:02 am and I sure as hell am not going to edit this.