Assassin's Creed III

[N51_rob]

I've spent way to much time hunting. Question, is there a way to lower your notoriety in the frontier? I haven't seen any posters or print shop.

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[acarrero]

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I was playing Red Dead Redemption for the first time in a while. Really impressive game I reserved AC3 but have yet to pick it up. Is the horse riding as smooth as it is in RDR? Are there lots of similarities between the games?

[Jr.]

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I've spent way to much time hunting. Question, is there a way to lower your notoriety in the frontier? I haven't seen any posters or print shop.

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I don't think so

[cdawg44]

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Just noticed an Issue I am having with the game. I am one mission away from doing the last mission in liberation of North Boston and West New York. However, the missions won't pop up on the map for me so I can get my last assassin recruits. My other 4 recruits are master assassins, but I still cant get the last two I need. I am on Sequence 10 now and doing Boat side missions so I can get ready for the rest of the game. I've already learned my lesson.

[franch1se]

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at what sequence does this game begin getting fun? This is my first assassins creed game. Got it with the buy 2 get one 1 free deal at target. I'm doing Ben Franklins almanac search mission now.

[Mabster]

at what sequence does this game begin getting fun?

I'd say 6. By then you have a ton of different types of side missions and most if the game mechanics taught to you.

[CC]

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Yeah... I thought the whole tutorial part/prologue wasn't good at all and I almost gave up on this game. I'm now really glad I didn't didn't because the last two sequences (6-7) have been awesome.

[franch1se]

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I'd say 6. By then you have a ton of different types of side missions and most if the game mechanics taught to you.

thank you. I didn't mean it as a knock against the game. I was just curious.

[Burns11]

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I was playing Red Dead Redemption for the first time in a while. Really impressive game I reserved AC3 but have yet to pick it up. Is the horse riding as smooth as it is in RDR? Are there lots of similarities between the games?

Horse riding is terrible in this game, unless you strictly stick to main roads/trails. Riding through the wilderness you'll get caught up on the environment, small (<1') ledges, horses refuse to go in water deeper than their ankle. It's faster getting to places on foot and fast traveling over greater distances. I just played a mission where you have to ride horseback and I've never wanted to kill a horse, or the douche I had to escort that wouldn't walk the 3 feet to the destination because we hadn't tripped the "we better walk from here" script. Of course, the game wouldn't let me because they initiated some you can't kill anything you want contextual fighting nonsense, so I had to let the douche and his oat eating glue factory live.

[Jr.]

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Just noticed an Issue I am having with the game. I am one mission away from doing the last mission in liberation of North Boston and West New York. However, the missions won't pop up on the map for me so I can get my last assassin recruits. My other 4 recruits are master assassins, but I still cant get the last two I need. I am on Sequence 10 now and doing Boat side missions so I can get ready for the rest of the game. I've already learned my lesson.

I'm having the same issue. My guess is that you have to get to a certain point in the story and they will open up

[8]

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Question about one of the early missions shortly after you get to Boston.

Spoiler

when you have to go listen to the two people talking, how do you complete that? After they initially stop talking because they sense you listening I went and stood between two different groups of people and they never started talking again, am I missing something?

[K0ZZ]

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I'm having the same issue. My guess is that you have to get to a certain point in the story and they will open up

The missions only show up on the map if there are the overlook points [actually terminology I can't remember but it's the eagle on the map]. The missions you are looking for can be accomplished at any point but your going to have to actually find them for yourselves, as the portions on the map they are located on lack the overlook points.

[SlimKibbles]

Question about one of the early missions shortly after you get to Boston.

Spoiler

when you have to go listen to the two people talking, how do you complete that? After they initially stop talking because they sense you listening I went and stood between two different groups of people and they never started talking again, am I missing something?

Spoiler

Can't remember the exact details but I thought they just picked up their conversation again after I moved in between the two people standing off to the side. Not sure why that wouldn't have happened with you. Have seen some glitchy things in the game at times though.

[Mabster]

Question about one of the early missions shortly after you get to Boston.

Spoiler

when you have to go listen to the two people talking, how do you complete that? After they initially stop talking because they sense you listening I went and stood between two different groups of people and they never started talking again, am I missing something?

Make sure you're still within that circle that surrounds them.

[K0ZZ]

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After beating the game I would say that an 8 sits right with me, there are a lot of glitches that stop it from being a 9. The story is great, the ending.. won't get into that. Some plot twists are plausible, some are a bit odd. They would've benefited from explaining things out more. Stealth is a bit awkward now, gunshots don't cause investigation even in quiet towns at night, which is odd. Really takes away the need to use something like the bow and arrow.

Weapons aren't handled as nicely as the Ezio arc, I unlocked a sword at the beginning and never found anything better, pretty much the same for pistols, which cannot kill a lot of mid to late game enemies in one shot which severely reduces their effectivenesss. I guess this was done to keep this from drawing into a third person shooter or to balance out complaints that it was too overpowered but with the lengthy load time of the gun, it definitely would've been balanced out late game with a stronger one.

Horses are awful, straight line implemention is solid but especially in the frontier. The only combat available from horseback is ranged weapontry which becomes a bit of an issue specifically late in the game during a quest arc. Boarding combat is awkward sometimes too, will randomly not attack and instead swing his weapon around in his hand.

Aiming is done somewhat poorly, if you lose sight of your target for even a moment, your character stops aiming. This is more annoying with something like a bow which you have to readjust once again.

I don't care for the pursuit missions, either I end up trying to parkour over things that weren't even in my path of running or my target will glitch and get stuck behind an object. (While convenient prevents completion of synchronization goals]

The typical combat however feels much better. I only died a few times much like other titles, but enemies were much more aggressive. Firing lines add enough of a variety that you have to calculate who to attack, and overall the rest of the game is great, just a few gripes that keep me from calling it in the elite. Luckily a patch can alleviate most of them.