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Calaveron posted:Upgrading your poo poo to max level takes around 8 carbon crystals per piece of gear so you quickly run out I've got over 40 of them with Quiver already maxed and everything else 2 or 3 levels from max. 
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precision posted:I've got over 40 of them with Quiver already maxed and everything else 2 or 3 levels from max. Every item's last couple of levels take 3-5, and I'm certain at least a couple take 8. Either way, congrats. Fucker. Also: I don't know how practical it is, but I'm happy I got Animal Taming:  Croc on a roof!
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Nov 13, 2017 00:10
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I found more Carbon than I could ever use just by exploing around. There's normally a bunch scattered through tombs and caves, just have to look around a bit.
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Nov 13, 2017 00:26
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If you're looking for carbon, there's one in every two or three spear camp, usually in the commander's quarters.
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Nov 13, 2017 00:27
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Calaveron posted:Why am I wasting my time then Track down the stone circles  Also, every tablet is a free skill point, so that's nice.
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Nov 13, 2017 00:28
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Calaveron posted:Do I get anything for getting the five tablets? I’m fairly sure I got them all (the one way at the beginning, three for the pyramids and the one extra from the bandit hideout with the dogge) there's well more than 5 tablets, Giza just has the highest concentration of tombs in any region. people tend to take pictures at the entrances if you really want to find the location of them finding the tablets and resting at the hermit locations net you a free skill point whenever you accomplish that Calaveron posted:Why am I wasting my time then the Isu recordings are in 5 tombs (4 of them after you find the tablet) as well as a super secret bonus area that technically requires the 12 stone circles to access also again its a free skillpoint for 10 minutes of exploration mostly plus a ton of poo poo only 3 of the tombs have any combat in them, so its a quick way to gets skills quick at lower levels OJ MIST 2 THE DICK fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Nov 13, 2017 |
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Nov 13, 2017 00:41
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Calaveron posted:Why am I wasting my time then There are like five of those Isu recordings and I'm pretty sure you need them for the glowy outfit so you do have to do at least some of the tombs. Also each tomb gives you an ability point so you still get something.
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Nov 13, 2017 00:44
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Hermit’s resting areas?
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Harrow posted:There are like five of those Isu recordings and I'm pretty sure you need them for the glowy outfit so you do have to do at least some of the tombs. Nope. I've only found two of them and I got the thing. You just have to find all 12 stone circles.
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I just assassinated the crocodile, but I did so by actually sneaking up the roofs and doing a proper assassination on them. As a result I didn't kill the bodyguard. Is there any plot based thing that changes because of that? The cutscene kicked in and the game's just carried on as normal now. Oh and I really hope Ubi update the menu controls to allow the dpad to move around the screen rather than take you to the Ubi shop. This 'not quite a mouse cursor' is kinda poo poo.
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Nov 13, 2017 01:38
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Calaveron posted:Hermit’s resting areas? There are 5 areas that are hermit retreats and if you find the bed and rest on it. Most of them are in the northern half of the map. One is in the black mountains and is like the only ? spot there. There's an oasis on the Qattara depression that has one but also has a bunch of hyenas There's an abandoned city of cats There's one in the series of islands near He Hurs in the NE of the map There's also one other I think in the SE of Faiyun on top of some arches and columns
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exploded mummy posted:There are 5 areas that are hermit retreats and if you find the bed and rest on it. I think I found one on my way to Cleopatra but I didn’t find a bed or anything
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Calaveron posted:I think I found one on my way to Cleopatra but I didn’t find a bed or anything It's usually just a cloth on the ground or something similar. "A place to rest" is what they call it, I think.
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Are there any important main quest beats that you should beeline for before busying yourself with sidequests and collectibles? I've finished the one early on where you get the hidden blade (I'm not putting this in spoiler tags, if you're mad that I've spoiled the fact that you acquire a hidden blade in an assassin's creed game go gently caress yourself), is there anything else like that that I should focus on before getting distracted? Or is the world now as open to me as it's going to get?
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Ainsley McTree posted:Are there any important main quest beats that you should beeline for before busying yourself with sidequests and collectibles? I've finished the one early on where you get the hidden blade (I'm not putting this in spoiler tags, if you're mad that I've spoiled the fact that you acquire a hidden blade in an assassin's creed game go gently caress yourself), is there anything else like that that I should focus on before getting distracted? Or is the world now as open to me as it's going to get? yes and no do you want to unleash about 10 specific hard enemies into the world now, or wait till you have some more prep done (they start around level 20 and go to the level cap of 40) otherwise the world is basically your oyster well you should probably eliminate the snake since you get the bath towel outfit
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exploded mummy posted:yes and no I've also already done both of the things you're referring to so it sounds like I'm set. I even tried taking on Anubis which was....a mistake. looking forward to his next go round when I manage to hit level 40
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Ainsley McTree posted:I've also already done both of the things you're referring to so it sounds like I'm set. you can unlock some more sidequests if you do the next plot beat and open up hte second tier of targets but thats kind of about it
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Ainsley McTree posted:Are there any important main quest beats that you should beeline for before busying yourself with sidequests and collectibles? I've finished the one early on where you get the hidden blade (I'm not putting this in spoiler tags, if you're mad that I've spoiled the fact that you acquire a hidden blade in an assassin's creed game go gently caress yourself), is there anything else like that that I should focus on before getting distracted? Or is the world now as open to me as it's going to get? The only ability that's tied to a story quest is the hidden blade. There's another quest that unleashes some high-level boss enemies that wander around but you definitely can't kill them until later anyway, so don't worry about that
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I'm playing Syndicate waiting for the Origins' price to drop. They really need to make up their mind on the currency. I have 750 pound on my train, which is 85,000 pounds today, but gear is like 2000 pound which is 220,000 today. I doubt even the finest belt would be even half that.  MY IMMERSION
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Kin posted:Oh and I really hope Ubi update the menu controls to allow the dpad to move around the screen rather than take you to the Ubi shop. yea it's baffling, i mean i know Destiny was a popular game but i doubt its popularity was because of the lame "fake mouse cursor" business. it is just not at all necessary for this game one thing i found out last night is if you place the cursor over equipment and click L3 it shows a screen that gives you the hard numbers on every gear attribute, ie exactly what percent chance things like "Sleep on Block" give you or what each rank of "critical damage" gives you etc
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skooma512 posted:I'm playing Syndicate waiting for the Origins' price to drop. in watchdogs 2 a car is 20,000$ and a hat is 10,000$
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corn in the bible posted:in watchdogs 2 a car is 20,000$ and a hat is 10,000$ That sounds accurate, depending on where in the Bay you’re shopping.
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Is there any other way to get the costumes in the store? Pharoah, Scarab etc. I'm kinda tempted to get the mummy one. Also you can totally light the alarm braziers in camps with flaming arrows. I dunno why you would, but it works.
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It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out that all you have to do to get into certain places is to light the floor on fire.
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:Is there any other way to get the costumes in the store? Pharoah, Scarab etc. I'm kinda tempted to get the mummy one. It summons local Phylakes, in case you want to clear out the base and fight them on your terms. Or maybe you just want to fight more poo poo in general.
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precision posted:It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out that all you have to do to get into certain places is to light the floor on fire. You can also smash them with your weapon, or use arrows.
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One thing that kind of bugs me with the level system is that guards who are like 20 levels lower than you and can be one-shotted don't run away from you in abject terror.
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precision posted:One thing that kind of bugs me with the level system is that guards who are like 20 levels lower than you and can be one-shotted don't run away from you in abject terror. Yeah, that would be cool, but it only triggers if you one shot an enemy. I guess the alternative could be a hidden counter that tracks how many enemies you kill in an area. After a certain volume you get a 'reputation' that leads to them first approaching you cautiously before just fleeing in fear. Only downside to that is that it breaks your stealthy assassin type immersion, but it's not like you're that unknown in this game anyway.
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Calaveron posted:I don’t know how to find tombs. I think I missed the tutorial mission kinda how I missed the star aligning mechanic for like 30 levels They are the yellow, sparkling '?'s on the map.
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Aranan posted:Is it just me, or is it harder to get actual sneak-up-and-stab assassinations in this game than older ones? I've only played AC3 previously, but I felt like sneaking around and shanking people was a large part of the game. In this one, I'm lucky if I can stab a couple people before the alarm goes up or I get caught immediately. I can't tell if I'm just rubbish at sneaking or if the relative flatness of most places makes it harder to get into position. The sneaking in this game is ridiculously easy, it is very hard to get spotted. There is grass everywhere that let's you hide very close to the enemies and you can usually kill whoever spots you before they alert anyone else. Also, only people that actually see you get alerted when the alarm is triggered, anyone else in the base you can still assassinate even though the alarm has been set. Enemies also don't raise the alarm when spotting dead bodies, they just go "Huh?" and look around for a minute. I usually start bases by clearing the walls and towers, then I move down to ground level and assassinate everyone from bushes and tall grass. I find aerial assassinations are not as powerful/useful as they used to be in the other games since you can hide from the enemies pretty much everywhere on the ground. The enemies are also much less aware of their surroundings, you can stalk behind them forever as long as they don't look straight at you you are safe. I did not want to make it sound like you are bad, it's more like this game works differently than the other rear end Creeds. You can be much more aggressive since getting spotted is harder (more places to hide, enemies not as aware) and getting spotted is not that big of a deal (the enemies don't all instantly know where you are).
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I honestly prefer to go sneak-bowing. Mark all soldiers with Senu and then start taking out layers of enemies with the predator bow starting from the outside going to the inside as if the camp is a giant matryoshka doll.
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And I actually enjoy getting spotted and going all Achilles on everybody in the base, which I’m relieved to find is a valid approach, at least so far.
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I almost never use Sanu during missions or to mark enemies. It just makes things too easy and takes away the tension of sneaking
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I'm almost at the end of the main story and Bayek is definitely my favorite assassin. He feels a lot more human than most of the AC protagonists have and I enjoy the contrast between how level-headed and mature he can be and how utterly berserk he goes on people who deserve it. He's a good player character.Aranan posted:Is it just me, or is it harder to get actual sneak-up-and-stab assassinations in this game than older ones? I've only played AC3 previously, but I felt like sneaking around and shanking people was a large part of the game. In this one, I'm lucky if I can stab a couple people before the alarm goes up or I get caught immediately. I can't tell if I'm just rubbish at sneaking or if the relative flatness of most places makes it harder to get into position. If you're having trouble sneak-and-stabbing, use the whistle to lure enemies. It's frankly overpowered but I find it pretty satisfying. Just hide in a hay bale or tall grass/plants and whistle enemies over to you to stab them. A lot of bases also tend to have alternate entrances (the actual bases, not the camps that are out in the open). There are often tunnels you can use to sneak inside the base and start in an easier position than climbing up over the wall or going through the front gate. Even then, I don't mind getting caught too much in Assassin's Creed games. In general, they make it easy enough to take out a few enemies and then go back into hiding, so it doesn't feel as much like sneaking or getting caught is an all-or-nothing thing like it can be in some other games. Oh, and always try to trap any of the alarm braziers so that if anyone does get away to light the brazier, they just get blown up instead of calling reinforcements. Harrow fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Nov 13, 2017 |
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There are really only three things that trouble me in combat now at level 40; getting smoke-locked by dual bladers, getting bullrushed by tower shields or tons of archers in certain situations. Hard is a good difficulty, combat is good.
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I'm still terrible at fighting enemies with big shields. If there's only one enemy, or just a couple enemies and only one of them has a shield, I can usually dodge around behind them pretty reliably, but otherwise I just cheese them with my own smoke bombs. I'm getting better at parrying, though, and now I wish it had the awesome *boom* sound parries make in Dark Souls because it's always fun to do.
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So, after 55 hours of stabbing, I'm pretty much finished, I think. After I saw the ending, I had a couple of tasks that I had set for myself: open up the whole map, sync all the viewpoints, align all the constellations, get to level 40 and upgrade gear, and finish off the phylakes. That took about seven hours, and a bit of frustration when I couldn't find the last viewpoint on the map (turns out there's one you only get when you start the "The Flea of Cyrene" quest -- which was ultra-cute, btw). I still have a couple of quests in the log, quite a few ?s uncovered and tasks undone (including whatever that ancient mechanism that costs 50 crystals to activate is... yeesh), but that can all wait... ...because for the first time ever I am actually considering buying the season pass for a game. I really, really enjoyed this game, and would like to see the story expansions. I don't really care about the other stuff, which is why I wish we knew if the story DLC will be available separately for less, but that's just quibbling. When the DLC hits, I'll mop up some of of the stuff that's left for leveling purposes. In any other year, this would be an easy GOTY pick for me, but there's been so many good games this year, y'all.
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I can’t decide if I like bayek or not yet. He seems like he swings pretty wildly between angry and charismatic and the game can’t decide which one he wants to be. I’m glad though that given his origin story, they avoided making him another broody Aidan Pearce because that would have been dull as hell
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Ainsley McTree posted:I can’t decide if I like bayek or not yet. He seems like he swings pretty wildly between angry and charismatic and the game can’t decide which one he wants to be. I’m glad though that given his origin story, they avoided making him another broody Aidan Pearce because that would have been dull as hell He reminds me of the quintessential dad, which makes sense given his story. When he's just chilling out he's kind of goofy and he wants to help everyone with their problems. If you cross his moral compass though, for whatever reason, he loses his poo poo and descends upon you with righteous fury.
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