Assassin's Creed [merged]

I gave up after I looked through all the areas and got around 90 flags in the Kingdom. I dont have the time or patience to do it again, especially considering its annoying as **** when you always have to run away, or fight when you past an guard tower.

That is probably the most annoying thing in the game.

But Inner is right, once you restart the game, all your collectibles will have to be redone. I'm assuming that the achievement works when you find all the flags in the game with that save, and not a new one.

Well I have a guide/map of all the flags in backup in case I get sick of searching.

As for guards, now that I am so good (all upgrades etc) fighting off guards take about 2sec per guard, so that doesn't bother me anymore. Altho it could be nice to take a stroll with my Horsey (Horsie?) without being attack constantly.

Yeah, I really doesnt make sense at all.

It's really annoying.

Okay, maybe I gotten dumb but my combos are working right properly. I can block but keep pressing X to strike and hold aftewards. It's not working.

I heard that if you get 20 combos in order you get a fair amount of points.

You mean the Counter Attacks?

To do a counterattack you have to be in guard mode, however, just before the enemy weapon strikes your weapon (or head if you are using handblade) you quickly let go of the guard and press X, no holding down Guard while pressing X, that's why it is such a powerful move, because you have to open your guard to perform it.

You can still hold down Guard while preforming the countermove.

Or that's how I've been doing it.

Hard to explain without actually doing it, I thought you had to release guard a fraction of a small milisecond before you press X.

I'll try again....

Originally posted by Morridini
Hard to explain without actually doing it, I thought you had to release guard a fraction of a small milisecond before you press X.

Yep, it does.

I thought you had to hold down the Guard button before you counter, because if you dont hold down Guard, dont you just attack when you hit X when you try to counter.

Yeah, that's what I said...

Some people have sat down and really tried to piece down all the info at the end of the game, all the (spoilers about present day stuff after last mission)

Spoiler:
blood patterns etc you can only see with Eagle Vision that are of images, numbers, letters etc.

Spoiler:
the Satellite will be launched on December 21st, and the year is 2012 (the year I think came from the blood), which most of you probably recognize as Judgement Day, if not, check this site: www.survive2012.com There are also indications that with too long use the Subject will have trouble remembering exactly who he is, meaning that Desmond might one day be Desmond/Altair.

Is it just me, or did anyone else find that using the short blade or the assassin blade in combat was more effective than using the sword? I noticed with the sword, many of the counters resulted in simply knocking people to the ground. The short blade had the same problems, but many of the enemies in the game had trouble blocking the short blade. I used the assassins blade the most, because ever counter resulted in death.

Originally posted by ragesRemorse
Is it just me, or did anyone else find that using the short blade or the assassin blade in combat was more effective than using the sword? I noticed with the sword, many of the counters resulted in simply knocking people to the ground. The short blade had the same problems, but many of the enemies in the game had trouble blocking the short blade. I used the assassins blade the most, because ever counter resulted in death.

Yup, see my post on previous page:

Originally posted by Morridini
Oh, also, what weapons do you usually use in fights? I stopped using the sword once I got the big knife (possibly qualifies as a small saber?) and kept on using it for quite some time. But lately I have only been using the hand-blade, it makes fights a lot more intense as you can't block with it, you have to dodge and counter to win fights. For instance I only used the hand-blade when fighting my way towards

Spoiler:
Robert De Sable, ie, the place where there was a small war with Salahaddin going on

, much more interesting fights that way.

However lately I have fallen in love with the combo attacks, it was something I never really used until I started my collect flags/templars after ending the story. I never used it out of the training ring so I didn't know that we got those cool "cutscenes" with each kill, like we do with counters.

No people, you don't have to let go of the Guard Button when you press "X" to counter. You can keep it pressed down the entire time.

Anata wa wakarimasu ka.....

Hmm, ok, but Altair does "let loose" his guard if you time it incorrectly right?

Actually, you don't even need to time it. You can just stand there and keep both the Guard Button and the "X" Button pressed and as soon as someone goes to attack, you'll automatically counter.

Of course if you're one who likes to time it, you can press the "X" Button at the wrong time and just keep guarding or if you like to time both the Guard Button and the "X" Button, then if you press them both too late, then you'll get attacked.

Is that what you were asking?

Anata wa wakarimasu ka.....

No idea, I just know that if I don't time the counter exactly I get hit, maybe I improved the game by letting go of the guard button. If it is as easy as you say it is, it doesn't sound as cool.

However I haven't tried countering with a weapon that can block in ages, so don't really notice it. Handblade FTW.

It happens to me all the time because I get impatient and hit X way before I have to.

Originally posted by Morridini
No idea, I just know that if I don't time the counter exactly I get hit, maybe I improved the game by letting go of the guard button.

you didnt know you could hold down the guard button through the entire battle? I mean, in order to attack you have to let go of the guard button. You must be more pro active in your style of play. I simply exploited the lack of difficulty by waiting for them to attack so i could score a one hit kill. I felt like i was playing winnie the pooh's great adventure rather than a mature challenging game. IT was far to easy. When i got bored i would act as though i was in an actual battle.

The AI in that game is PS1 pathetic. The enemies take their turn in attacking. They will see you assasinate someone, but as long as you start to pray. You can walk behind the person that just saw you commit a murder and assassinate him...,wtf is that?