Assassins Creed 3: American Revolution

ugh nearly at the end now

been wondering why the combat is so rubbish
kept googling it all week with no answers

finally found a user manual in game and turns out they changed all the combat keys for this game and didnt bother to tell me anywhere! lol! been playing it rubbishly all the way through!!! :rolleyes:
 
Anybody located all the NY underground sites. Could do with some help.
I have come to an entrance with an iron door but to open it you have to get to the other side to slide the bolt. I know where to climb(it is all rock with a few ledges) but when I jump round the jagged rock from the ceiling onto another ledge and then leap forward to a rock face, my problem begins. I cannot find any way to jump to the right, to another rock face. Every combination I try just either sends me back or throws me against the rock. This is all I have left to do and it is driving me frigging nuts.
 
Just finished it and couldn't uninstall the game fast enough :)
A sort of puzzling ending for Desmond's adventures but not too dissppointing either. Too many weak points all over this title to make it an AC game.
 
Just finished this for the third time and my overall opinion of this game, is one of utter disappointment.
Still cannot get all the NY underground sites, after spending an hour attempting to jump to a ledge that I cannot aim at due to the fixed camera angle.
Also cannot access Assassin Contracts with out remapping the keys. The left mouse button needs to be remapped every time and then reset when I exit.
Also one viewpoint left in the frontier, cannot seem to be able to jump to the next bough, either end up going left(leap of faith) or right and falling to my death(de-synced).
Lost count of how many invisible walls I have ran into, even when free running through the forest.
Sound problems, missing words in dialogue, muffled conversations, countless freezes or getting stuck and having to do a reset.
Just seems the more I do the more problems I run into. The first time I played this, my only problem was in the first time you are introduced to the ledger, it seems if I used the mouse at all, I would have to do a reset. But other than that, no other problems or glitches.
So I will not be playing this again until these issues have been resolved.
Have really enjoyed playing all the previous games but don`t have the same affinity with Connor as I did with the other characters. He just comes across as too arrogant and pigheaded. The dialogue is not brilliant and did not see the reason for some long pauses in some of the conversations.
As you can gather, not very happy with the game overall.
 
all that happens is they fight and connor is in the middle but doesnt move and they sorta glitch through him

edit, now ive exited the game while in that mission, ive now reloaded the game, its gone straight into the mission and its working now lol
 
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ace-rimmer said:
all that happens is they fight and connor is in the middle but doesnt move and they sorta glitch through him

edit, now ive exited the game while in that mission, ive now reloaded the game, its gone straight into the mission and its working now lol
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That is the trouble with this game, more so than all the others put together, just far to many glitches. I am still stuck on a couple of things and will not bother playing this again until some fixes are forth coming.
I also find it ridiculous that you don`t` get to level up everyone in the Homestead missions until near the end of the game.
 
I'm a massive AC fan and found it very hard to work my way through this game. Slow start to the game, 4 or so hours of tutorial/build up, then you are put into more tutorial type missions. Naval warfare is okay but gets a bit boring after a while.

Shame!
 
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I'm a massive AC fan and found it very hard to work my way through this game. Slow start to the game, 4 or so hours of tutorial/build up, then you are put into more tutorial type missions. Naval warfare is okay but gets a bit boring after a while.

Shame!
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MASSIVE shame.
I think they changed to much and not for the better.
 
trickycurve said:
Ubisoft have done a pretty good job with making the PC version of this game significantly better than its console sibling. That isn't to say the PC version of any game isn't better, but the fact that all textures (as far as I've seen anyway) are high resolution and the game runs well (among other things) is enough for me to tip my hat off to them.

So far I'd also say it's my favourite Assassin's Creed game in terms of gameplay and setting, so I think it's certainly worth a punt if you're a fan of the previous instalments.
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I agree my fave in the series too, i much prefer this setting, all those cod italian accents etc, used to grate on my nerves;)
 
Finished the game yesterday and so finally had a look at what the internet has all said about it. I'm really very surprised at all the negative comments, especially about the ending. Don't read on if you haven't finished.

For me, the game finally got rid of loads of niggles I had about the previous installments.

  • Climbing is now much smoother and faster. Whereas in previous games you would have to shimmy sideways quite often, in this one he'll just jump diagonally.
  • Combat is now much more challenging. You don't have endless supplies of medicine and increasing health like in the previous ones.
  • They haven't shoehorned an economy in. This time it's more meaningful and personal (I'm talking about taking on the quests to bring people in to your town and build it up).
  • There's less sci-fi effects that take you out of the immersion of being in that historic world.
Talking about immerssion, I found this game to be really atmospheric. I was amazed the first time I entered Boston and saw the foggy haze and soft light upon people everywhere sawing lumber and constructing things. To top it off, they had addressed a big issue I had with Revelations, which was that they used generic action game music. This time they've added instruments and notes from the culture of the time.



The story I thought was easier to follow (just by nature of the names being English really). They still have too many characters, but I like the fact that each one has a personality - especially the recruits and the homestead people. I thought Connor was great. Tbh, by the end of Revelations I was sick of Ezio. He had too much personality for a game and world that's supposed to be shrouded with mysteries. Connor has an inner struggle, but in the end overcomes them and has a resolve. His character grows (albeit into an *******).


The modern-day stuff was exellent. However I do think this is where they started biting off more than they could chew. All the environments looked really low-res compared to colonial stuff. In fact, even the gods' models were really poorly done. However the story itself definitely took me in with its great amount of intrigue and drama.



Desmond finally got a personality, so I'm really dissapointed that they've suddenly killed him off. Strangely, the only thing I thought was over the top was that Juno/Minerva was sending me really angry emails :confused:


Definitely a 9/10 game for me. I can't say whether it's game of the year because thinking about it.. I think it's the only release of this year that I've played :o

To end, I'm just gonna rattle off a list of issues that hopefully someone in Ubi will see (but probably won't).

  • The screen flashes every time you skin an animal, enter/exit a dialogue, start/end a cutscene... pretty much everything. It's immersion breaking and extremely bad for my eyes!
  • The animus database texts are too personal. I just want information, I don't want snide comments and bad jokes! This game was especially bad because I was being talking to as if I was an American. And yes, I know technically it's Shaun talking to Desmond.
  • There needs to be a display in the start menu that tells you what month and/or year you're in.
  • Personally I absolutely love the animations in this game, but I would be happier if the combat was more akin to Ninja Gaiden, where the rolling about and dodging were done by the player.
  • I don't want motion video effects every time I open the weapon selection and assassin options. It's too much.
  • The trade system was silly. Why does a raw bear pelt fetch way more money on its own than if it were crafted into something else first?
 
good game but according to UPlay I've spent 5 hours and 44 minutes playing this and I've already completed the main campaign.

Even if that's wrong I have definitely spent no more than 10 hours on it.That's worse than Brotherhood which in itself is an achievement :rolleyes:

I'd have put more effort in to the side missions had i felt the need to, but again just like brotherhood there seemed to be absolutely no reason to do so. I was impressed with the setting, the animations ect - the whole game is pretty slickly presented and bar a few hickups (ie, falling through the floor twice or getting stuck in scenery) I was really impressed with it. BUT, what a **** poor short story.
 
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Just bloody great, logged into Uplay today and my save(69%) has gone, even Uplay cloud sync cannot find my game, another client that is broken from crap company's like ubisoft.:mad::mad:
 
the negative points for me are

-mission length, not long enough
-fighting is to easy
-controls have been made even easier
-side missions are over to fast and are just copy paste
-i miss the massive buildings to jump around in and out
-forced stealth is limited
 
Been playing this for the past few evenings, and quite surprised by the many negative comments myself.

The game however does have some serious issues with performance however my system is able to overcome these and I’ve been getting steady 45fps or more in many areas with only a few areas dipping into the low 30, so I can live with that. This is with the game fully maxed out..

The attention to detail in many areas is really amazing. The story is a lot better then previous AC games, the graphics are very good and the flow of the game seems to be going well, it does get a little tedious in places, a lot of the missions I’ve played serve well for precursors for the next events which seem to incorporate training at the same time so I can forgive it for this.

Its certainly up there with AC2, but not as good however its better then the rest of the AC games, I’m enjoying it however like I’ve said it does seem to have some serious issues with performance.

The town of Boston has impressive details, it seems to be alive and the forest areas are nice, it sorta reminded me a little of Skyrim, the combat is excellent. Very fluid and easy yet not overly easy so as you don’t have a challenge at times…

Well, I’m enjoying the game so guess that’s all that matters, but it does grate a little when you know the hardware you have should be pushing solid 60fps but doesn’t, and you know its down to some dodgy coding or porting, it’s a console port, but graphically a good port, performance wise a poor port. Shame..
 
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