#tips and tricks from teecup

[teecupangel]

Yes? Sorta?

As someone who finished the AC games in 3ish months (although I have finished AC1, 2, and Syndicate before this ordeal), I can say for certain that it's doable... depending on what you consider as side quests.

The old AC games are fine in that regard BUT, for the love of god, get a guide for the collectibles.

Also, if you're going for speed, fuck immersion, get the highest possible weapon and armor as soon as possible.

Brotherhood

The ult armor isn’t as pretty as the Armor of Altaïr but get it as soon as possible.

Use your recruits, make them work for it like they’re unpaid interns and you’re Miranda Priestly. (also applicable to Revelations)

Do you… do you plan on doing all the challenges? If you did the challenges in AC2, you have an idea of what’s going to happen.

Revelations

The Defense thingie is random af and I was lucky enough to never have to do it after the tutorial so I hope you get as lucky as I am?

No, seriously, are you going to do the challenges? The defense thingie will count as complete if you get all dens. You don’t have to actually play the defense game. The Assassin’s challenges unlock the Sword of Altaïr though so you know which one I bothered to get XD

Desmond has his own freerun sections but you can do all of them in one go after finishing the main game.

3 and Liberations

If you want to 100% sync AC3, there's a Haytham mission that's hard to 100% during your first playthrough, skip it and get back to it when you have access to smoke bombs and use smoke bombs to make things easier.

Are you still going to do all the challenges???

Ropedart is OP.

Fuck the flying pages in this game, man.

The tree viewpoints of this game are screwed up and Ubisoft didn’t bother patching it up. It’s doable, just painful.

The DLC’s last boss is a pain and has a bullethell-like section that I died on a lot. Good luck.

Liberation: the canoe section will kill you. Repeatedly. I will say that pressing down all shoulder buttons help but it will kill you. Repeatedly. I suggest you skip Liberations for last if you’ve wasted more than an hour trying to finish the canoe section. No. Seriously. There’s no real trick to that canoe.

Black Flag and Freedom Cry

Okay, so… are you going to try and take down the legendary ships? Because they’re hard as hell even with a fully upgraded Jackdaw. They each have a specific hard defense section so if you know which it is, don’t fire there.

Berserk is OP.

Fuck the flying pages in this game, man. (They do have the sea shanties and I hate it because I love listening to their sea shanties)

Rogue

Fuck the pigeons in this game, man.

Grenade them all.

Even if your ship is underleveled, mortar them all while strafing will keep you alive while dealing damage.

No seriously, mortar is your best friend in the naval combats of this game.

Legendary ships are also in this game.

Unity

Don't bother with the locked red chests in Unity. What they have is not worth it and, as far as I know, there are no unique collectibles in those chests?

Do not, I cannot stress this enough, do not try to max out Arno’s level. The exp grind is not worth it and there’s really no reason for you to do it.

Unity leans heavily in stealth so get the outfits that ups your stealth but belts (and I think the bracers???) should focus on increasing your tools amount. Also, any outfit that ups your Eagle Vision time (because someone in Ubisoft thought it would be a goooooddd idea to make Arno’s Eagle Vision have a limited time) is nice too.

Berserk them all.

Phantom Blade can be used to stun enemies if you need a few extra seconds.

The Disguise ability is OP as long as you have nearby NPCs.

The coop missions can be done alone but it would be easier if you have at least one person playing with you. You can still get people playing online… last year. I don’t know how it is this year. (since you’re playing on the PS5, you’d have to have a PS+ membership to go online though :() I think they shouldn’t count as sidequests btw as they have minimal ‘story’.

Helix rift guide to get Altaïr’s outfit (๑•̀ᴗ- )✩

Syndicate (not much ‘cause you did say you already got all collectibles)

Main Evie and get her camouflage skill to make stealth missions easier.

Jack the Ripper DLC is pretty good and has fun terror mechanics but there are also ‘challenges’ there.

Odyssey

This dude has the best OP builds so if you wanna blaze thru it, check his videos (do not get the nimean lion set, just getting armor with crit abilities will work)

Speaking of which, get the Bighorn Bow from your free helix credits in this game. It’s the only thing worth it with what small amount they give and, in a nutshell, that bow gives all its dps to your left melee weapon, helping it maybe get twice the amount of damage.

Burn them all.

Don’t bother with the daily and weekly missions unless you know you can do them while you’re doing sidequests or story missions. They’re a huge time waster (especially the naval combats).

Are you… are you planning to take the top spot of the mercenaries? Um… Good luck???

Valhalla

Ignore Reda’s daily and weekly requests but accept them. If you finish them, good, if you don’t, it doesn’t matter. Weapons are the only thing in the shop that really matters because outfit ‘bonus skills’ only really make a difference if you have more than one or two of the same set.

Gungnir is OP. Pair it with Wrath of the Druids DLC’s Gae Bolg. Unfortunately Gungnir is a late game weapon :(

If you can sneak your way past the high-level enemies, you can get the skill books and stuff and hightail out of there. The free Isu armor you can get by doing the 'cave' thingies is nice.

Get explosive arrows as soon as possible so you can take down cracked walls.

The rock physics of this game will screw you over.

Viking your way and leave a trail of death and destruction (and apparently human-eating pigs) behind.

Unorganized Notes:

Ezio’s games and Unity have a wait and profit type of money making so if you're okay with it, keep the game on while you go to work (keep our boys in a safe place though) and get the money afterward. (I'm not saying you should remote access your ps5 using the remote access ps app on your phone during your free time to get more money buuuutttttt)

Look for guides on how to make money the fastest in the other games and buy the highest armor you can get as quickly as possible to lessen the headache of the story missions.

I can’t believe I’m saying this but get an Ubisoft Connect account. They have free weapons and stuff for the AC games it detects you playing (and it can detect it if you just connect your PSN account to it). The free weapons aren’t anything gamebreaking BUT they will make early game easier. Don’t bother participating in the weekly missions unless you like the reward though. They’re too much of a time waster.

BACKUP YOUR SAVE FILES. Don't be like some poor unfortunate soul who was halfway to Unity and got her save file corrupted because it was saving when the power went out and the dumbass forget there was a schedule blackout that day.

I have no tips for Chronicles because… well… they’re pretty straightforward??? Oh yeah, the PS app on your phone will say Chronicles is only playable in the PS4, that's a lie.

PSN Trophy Guides usually have tips and tricks sections that might help

How Long To Beat gives you an idea of how bad this idea is if you want to also do the sidequests by the way XD

Also:

Probably going to be an unattainable goal but...seeing as AC MIrage has been announced for October, I'm going to try my best to beat ALL the AC games before it's release.

I've already finished AC2 and Origins, I'm decently through AC1, I think, I have a good 12+ hours in both Odyssey and Valhalla, and in Syndicate I have all of London's collectibles already collected, so I should be able to stroll through the story easy enough.

But that still leaves 6 games I haven't touched at all, plus Bloodlines and the 3 Chronicles. Does anyone think I will be able to accomplish this?

(BTW, by beat I don't mean platinum the games, but I do mean get all the collectibles and side quests and such.)