AC1 | Arsuf - Hidden Blade Only
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- Hey guys, felt like playing some AC1 today and I thought I would make an Arsuf video. This is my attempt at looking cool/speedrunning Arsuf. Could I do better? Yes, but I don't have the patience to, lol. Hope you guys enjoy, and as always, thanks for watching.
0:14 love how he sends him off the edge
I never noticed that until you pointed it out, that looks dope.
Cool
Is it just me who freaking loves loves LOVES this part of the game? I don't know why, it just seems so empowering. Shows how Assassins might strike from shadows, but when needed, they can easily defeat many guards in open combat
You are not the only one, and you’re totally right. People often see Assassins as these people that strictly stick to being the Blade in the Crowd, but tend to forget that they have _always_ been deadly as hell in combat.
I totally agree with you, it's so badass, and when you look at modern "ACs", it's just ugh
@@MalikIbnSeydeh exactly
@@jcers not every Assassin is good in combat tho like the guy who always asks Altair that he can show how to use a sword properly to he's students or something
it's too unrealistic though. Not one man could survive 2:33 for example.
That's my favourite assassination animation at 5:28
I appreciate that when you countered Robert's grab and threw him to the floor, you didn't run over and assassinate him instantly but instead waited for him to recover and attack you once more so you could counter with the cool Hidden Blade animation. It made this semi final fight much more fun to watch.
1:51 Epic View
Tfw leaf
everyone's gangsta 'till Altair hugs his enemies
_shiiing_
The hugs of death😂
That should be his new nickname instead of The angel of death 😂
How ironic, that it's the high-profile assasination animation where you gently lay down the body on the ground.
Lol. Certainly going to draw attention if performed in the middle of a crowd, though.
the two things that occasionally screw you over with this method are random guards running in for support and hitting you with their sprintstrike from nowhere, and when the staggered guard suddenly goes full roadblock because you started sprinting while in combat lol
I still remember when I first realised those stagger animations were good for more than just getting an unblocked hit in, best day of my gaming life (right after the one when I realised altair could vault) never again has a game motivated me this much with its borderline hidden mechanics, what a gem
Yea, there’s definitely room for improvement here, and I’ll probably get around to it sometime after Valhalla. I think the biggest thing that screws me over is that I have to focus my energy on putting away Altaïr’s sword every time I lock onto an aggro’d enemy, lol
@@jcers I usually put hb on 3 and spam it every time I'm about to lock onto an enemy, altair grabs the hilt of his sword, releases it instantly and carries on blading people. you really need to time it well or spam it though so I feel you, it really is pretty annoying.
if there were two things I could add to ac1's mechanics it would be faster, smoother climbing more like in the trailer and for altair to stop auto switching weapons when engaging in combat
@@oyblech8671 yea, I play on controller, so it’s a bit more awkward for me, lol. I definitely agree about wanting to change those two things.
@@jcersxbox or PS?
@@ikilledthehellforfun I use a DS4
Shock and Awe was amazing
Arsuf with the Hidden Blade only.... I wouldn't have believed it, had I not seen it myself. Great work!
you make it look easy friend.
Boy, I can't see some of these stagger animations at all. I don't know how you guys can even do this semi-consistently, let alone that one time Leo killed like, 14 guys without breaking his chain
I also wish there were a workable glitch to remove weapons in this without screwing with the game files every sequence. That auto sword draw looks really annoying. I've been able to do this with every subsequent game in the Desmond saga, although I'm having a bit of trouble replicating it in AC3 lately. Walking the streets with no visible weapons is totally the Assassin way
Arsuf is the hardest place to shock and awe because there are just so many guards that the one who’s cowering can literally be anywhere, so it’s very easy to miss compared to when you’re dealing with like, 4-5 guards. Other than that, a technique that I use is re-centring the camera in the middle of the action camera cuts to have it go back to normal so I can start looking for the enemy who’s cowering even before Altaïr finishes his counter-kill/grab break. Try that out, it changed my effectiveness with shock and awe in a big way, so hopefully it’ll help you out as well.
I was today years old when I realized you could terrify people in AC1.
0:55 Cold blooded murderer
Lmao, Altaïr wasn’t exactly known for being merciful at this point in his life.
@@jcers He did put him mercifully tho 😂
Altair pulling out the sword everytime looking like a puppy who mistakes every action for walkies. This is super impressive mate
LMAO, it do be like that. Thanks!
man i didn't realize you could do it this way, I did the hidden blade only method but only using counters which I had to practice alot to get the timing down and not take hits
I hate as Altair every time ignores the chosen weapon and draws his sword at the beginning of the battle. One of the many things that don't seem to matter but because of them together I never want to play it again.
Altaïr defaulting to sword is the first thing on my wish list to remove/change in any provisional AC1 remake.
@@jcers brother I am using controller in pc but how to kill them with hidden blade I am not able to do it even once
@@sarangparmar9785Either you counter or take the opportunity when you see the guard lowering his guard (Wavering or taunting)
@@eduardopereira1915 With the hidden blade you don't have the option to counter attack
@@Mac-vm6sc You do have, just unlock the Counter move, then practice
I hate how much more difficult this is on console than on pc
Pc version hidden blade counters are still challenging but fair
I suspect there isn’t even consistency in the timing for console but maybe it’s just REALLY precise
The man who timed other man fear......
1:10 I used that audio for an Altaïr edit I did on my channel but I still don’t know what it means 😂 (I know hashash is assassin). Also love that shock and awe combat with hidden blade. I do it whenever I need to kill quickly without looking flashy
Shock and awe combat is fantastic because for what it lacks in visual appeal, it makes up for it in how engaging it is. You’re constantly scanning your enemies, watching for which one is cowering so you can run over to him in time to end him. Super fun.
It means kill the assassin
@@abdelrahmanahmed2692 thanks
@@FarazIFM you're welcome
@Faraz
Wich made your edit worse
Remember how they removed the crossbow from this for historical accuracy?
No. The crossbow was removed from AC1 because the developers found that it was too unbalanced and they wanted to ensure that the primary stealth weapon remained the Hidden Blade. The "historical accuracy" myth was invented by people on the internet after the game's release. Crossbows did exist during the Crusades and it would not have been historically inaccurate for Altair to have one.
duuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUDE ERMAHGAWD SO SHMOOOOOTH!💜💜💜 I see what you were talking about on Discord with sword draw constantly messing you up. Maybe after Vallhalla hype has died down you could perfect this into a Combat Reaper
Yea, it’s just something that I constantly have to focus energy on instead of watching to see who’s attacking me, and in such a long sequence of combat, I’m bound to make a mistake eventually. You’ll notice a few instances of Altaïr being uncooperative with me in here, too, which is just ugh, lol. And yea, I definitely do plan to come back and perfect this at some point, the game definitely deserves that level of care and attention, and I plan to fulfill that need.
Using hidden blade only in this game makes it actually easier
You're on a roll my G❤️
Expect Valhalla content very soon >:)
@@jcers less go 😌
Abusing the 'fear & distraction' mechanic like this is almost cheating. At times, it felt like you were mocking the game's AI system.
Cool concept, for sure, but it ends up being just repetitive stabs with the occasional counter.
I've played this sequence 100 times in a variety of styles and I would say the best-looking and most exciting is the 'Assassin in a Hurry' style, whereby Altair is killing somebody every three seconds, relentlessly making rapid Dagger attacks and switching between weapons to achieve the highest possible variety of kill moves. Needless to explain, flawless countering throughout the run.
Important to kill all off Robert's men by countering with the Hidden Blade, before humiliating Robert with a long sequence of dodges and unexpected Dagger stabs in front of all the soldiers.
How you finish him is up to you. My preference is a Hidden Blade counter, though it's unfortunately unpredictable which animation plays out. I might make a video. :)
Shock and awe is great. You should make a video, I think that would be sick!
It’s weird how they actually allowed for hidden blade counters at all.
i can agree about it being repetitive but disagree about it feeling like cheating. One, it was an intentional mechanic put in by the developers. 2, it is by no means easy to do. One, you have to figure out who is the vulnerable target and then get to him fast enough to exploit it. If you can bring down an army in this game by a chain of shock and awe kills, you deserve the kills. You sound like you're good at this game but i assure you most people can't do it that easily.
Amazing bro ❤ thank you
Fucking beautiful!
“God had nothing to do with it. I was the better fighter”.
Good quote
yo, question about the shock and awe assassinations. i can't seem to do a low profile assassination at all, despite only holding the movement key and then attacking. even without legs and high profile being held down, i still get the high profile assassinations constantly. is there a certain technique to guarantee that it'll be a low profile one?
I’ll need some more context. This is happening when you are already in combat and you’re trying to perform shock and awe techniques, right?
@@jcers that's correct. ill have my hidden blade selected, ill move towards an enemy that's cowering without high profile held down (so its just me holding down the movement keys), and then ill click once. for some reason, it always make Altair jump on the target and do the high-profile assassination rather than the "hugging" low profile one
@@frostbaka are you unlocking from combat before trying to use shock and awe? Maintaining lock-on when trying to shock & awe results in Altaïr always performing a HP assassination. That’s my best guess as to what’s going wrong.
@@jcers forgot to respond to this, but yes, that was my exact problem. for some reason, i didn’t realize unlocking was required. working great for me now, thanks!
I don't know why, but for some reason getting hit in an assassin's creed game is so frustrating. Even if it was unavoidable Any other video game where you take damage it's no big deal, but in AC it just makes you want to punch someone.
It breaks the feeling of being unstoppable, untouchable, and intimidatint. Atleast thats what happens for me.
Bro is it consle? I tried it in my pc but the soldiers are way ore aggressive, 3 of them are attacking at a time thus I can't find a lazy one to use the blade on.
No, this is on PC.
fuck i miss this game
AC1 is beyond amazing.
4:25 You can crouch in this game?!????
How in the hell do you do that.
You hold High Profile and the Legs button without moving. What you’re actually telling Altaïr to do is to cue up a jump in place, but it gets the job done. You just can’t move, because then he’ll just start sprinting like normal. To exit bootleg crouch, just release High Profile. And yes, this does also work in the Ezio games (and even the Kenways, but it’s much less useful there)
@@jcers Well it's good to know there's at least some way of crouching in this game, even if it is super limited, thanks.
I love counter kills 😂
Not bad dude, but I've seen better. Keep it up as always!