I wish this game had transmog so badly. I think a lot of the higher level armors are way too flashy and ugly but they have the best stats so i have to use them
@@Michaellearnsart i dont want to wear costumes though, i like the gear sets and i want to use them, but most of the legendary sets look awful in comparison to their earlier level counterparts
@@friccle_ I noticed this as well. Legendary Phantom looks like ass. Actually most sets above improved start to look overdesigned. My favorite ones were the tailored Sans-Cullotes and Napoleonic coats. Legendary Napolileonic has the stupid plate and Master-legendary Sans-Cullotes coats are made mostly of leather and don't match the majority of hood.
If ever they bring Co-Op back (and thus also bringing back the gear system) that they remember that they've had a transmog system in previous games so that we can select gear that fits our play style and then also make it look like we want with the different styles avaliable.
I def wouldn’t say underrated. As time goes on the game is getting more and more love. This is always what happens. Feel it’d be more accurate to say this game is finally getting its second wind.
From my understanding, the stripes on the trousers of the Sans-culotte outfits are actually important: They were a visual sign of the patriotism of the people during that period, since by wearing striped trousers like those, they were rejecting the clothing fashion of the aristocrats at the time (which consisted of breeches) by wearing the clothes associated to the common people: pants (hence why "sans-culotte", used to mock those patriots, as "culotte" is french for breeches and "sans" means "without"). The stripes were also to symbolize that intention of deliberatly choosing to wear the pants as a patriotic act. So the fact that Arno's trousers get more significant stripes as the set becomes more "legendary" is just a nice touch, showing an evolving defiance toward the aristocracy and a greater connection to the patriots' cause, just like I would imagine a real sans-culotte would do during this period. It's a good costume for role-playing as a french revolutionary, basicaly... and that's thanks to the stripes XD
No wonder why the set has the highest stealth stats, you're basically blending in with the revolutionaries so it makes it harder for the templar extremists to figure you out. But still that would not explain why the phantom set would have the second highest stealth stat as it clearly shows your allegiance with the nobles
@@dan_cheni think the phantom set is supposed to be the mysterious person at a noble party with mask and all. Giving it higher social stealth. Only problem is that every person would want to get to know the human peacock sliding through the crowd. Every extremist, guard, worker and noble would remember someone wearing that, nugding their partner saying "get a load of this guy" in french. But ezio was like that imo his drip is not ugly enough for any peasant with half their brain remaining to not supply a detailed description to any guard, let alone not staring at Ezio the entire time preventing him from doing anything illegal.
@@annointedbytalos5673 exactly, even with the mask you wouldn't be hiding shit with that fit even in a royal ball, the description even says that the set looked better than even the king's drip. If I really want social stealth in noble parties, the master bougoirs set would fit infinitely better
@@dan_chen Well to me the Phantom set looks like it would be worn at a masked ball, therefore blending in with the nobles while having the face hidden. It also gives me an impression of being a rather "theatrical" outfit, like an extravagant costume for an opera play or something of the sort. This would explain, in a way, those "jester-style trousers", which gave me that impression from the beginning. Therefore, I think that the idea behind it being a stealthy outfit could be "hiding in plain sight" but to the extreme, like it would be so extravagant or theatrical that people would just assume that is a performance. So the idea wouldn't be so much that you are discret while doing your things, but more so that nobody would recognize you because of the mask or that by the time they process what just happened and realize it's real and not a performance, you're already gone. Otherwise (and this is purely speculation), this whole idea of an outfit being so theatrical it gives a noble and theatrical vibe like for the opera (to me anyways), as well as the mask and most of all, the name, I would not be surprised if this is a reference to the Phantom of the Opera. Now, I realize that the time period doesn't match, but I imagine that if you're making an AC game set in France and know that you might not have another opportunity like this, you'd try to put as many popular reference as possible (a bit like how you end up climbing the Eiffel Tower even if it doesn't work with the time period of the rest of the game). I don't personnally have the game, so I can't really tell if there are informations contradicting this theory or if the reference would be elsewhere, but this just makes sense to me.
When the multiplayer co-op servers eventually shut down if they are smart, they'll make a quick patch that just adds the weapons and armor that are locked strictly to the multiplayer and just unlock them from the onset and make them free for everyone
@ghostwarrior3878 that will negate some of the purpose of playing those missions, the higher leveled mission are for high leveled players so if you can get 5 star or gold rated armor straight off the rip that would destroy the gear progression in the game however, ubishart can make it so you unlock them at 100 percent sync with each mission kinda like the cheats and animus hacks of games prior similar for the handmade phantom outfit and Altairs robes in the helix glitches
Mr. Willis! Thank you so much for this excellent analysis. I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of it. My favorite outfit is the Master Assassin outfit as it should have appeared on the 6 inch McFarlane figure. Next is Altair’s with Belloch’s as third favorite. Really appreciated your statement of the stripey pants which soooo needed to be said. Bless you for this and all of your previous analyses and studies. You’re the best!
Some things you missed that are worth mentioning; the Edward outfit is unfortunately NOT perfect, if you look at hidden blades on the bracers you'll notice the textures are horribly bugged and in gameplay and cutscenes the hidden blade itself is invisible (a trait shared with Arno's Fearless Outfit) An issue with Ezio's legacy outfit is the lining of the cape being white instead of red Shay's outfit is also missing the scarf/gas mask which makes Arno's neck look strangely naked. There's an interesting bug with Napoleon's outfit, if you equip it and then equip colors/dyes they will actually alter the saturation of the outfit, this is most noticeable when swapping between white eagle and pure shadow.
I've spent countless hours mixing those outfits when the game first came out. Such great memories. It's good to finally see your take on these ones, mate. Keep up the great content. Also, one thing that has always brothered me about most of these sets is the small number of long tailed coats. So many of these outfits would benefit from such treatment. The military ones could have long tails inspired by the guards' designs and the sans-culottes by the spearmen extremists'. It would look quite nice in the Master and Legendary versions.
goated addition to a goated series. keep up the good work man. also, am i the only who notices how weird and messed up the hidden blades on Edward’s outfit look?
I personally liked the Sans-Cullottes clothes simply because it's the most designated "civilian" outfit you can use that blends well with the poor and rich districts' crowds on account of the first variant being a flairless vest and pants duo. I have a similar view with the french duelist outfit and, dare I say, it's the only outfit that could do the pickaxe hammer weapon justice in the roleplay department.
I guess the feather of the musketeer hood is because the original feather in the hat of the real musketeers. Like, "you cant wear the cool hat, but take the feather instead". Anyway i love that oufit
Love this series man. Syndicate certainly has some *interesting robes*. I’m slightly disappointed by the lack of legacy outfits, although it was nice to see Aveline get a shout. The RPG era will certainly be a lot. I certainly don’t envy you! Will Chronicles get a video? I know there aren’t many, but they generally don’t receive invites to any sort of ranking lists.
I intend to make a deep dive on the chronicles games at some point but I don’t think there’s enough outfits to warrant a video, also the 2.5D style makes the outfits difficult to see.
15:21 the brigand coats are actually my favorites, especially the master version. I often use the master and legendary version for the stats and they go so well with the heavy weapons like the claymores and the guillotine guns, which all of them are my favorites too. Get a nice looking pair of pants and hood then you got yourself a brawler-esque looking fit
The McFarlane outfit is my personal favorite, as I hate 99% of Unity gear and I dont like using Legacy Outfits much so I use it most of the time. Its just peak costume design to me at least in Unity
The trailer and concept art of the raider outfit would’ve looked much better than the in-game one. I thought the mask looked awesome and the cloak around the one arm looked much nicer than an odd cape.
As for me, I've personally liked only 1 gear outfit in Assassin's Creed Unity, and it was the legendary Medieval gear set. I can overlook all the design flaws because of the boosts that you get from it. Especially if you upgrade all 5 pieces.
There’s a mod that adds new physics to the hood and cape along with the mask to make it resemble that look from the trailer that you should check out, massive improvement
Maybe I'm mistaken but it looks like you don't know the purpose of the iron mask, it probably comes from a day when a high ranked military guy put an iron mask on a prisoner to make everyone think he captured a very important person. From that point, everyone started to wonder and theorise on who was this person with the iron mask. They thought it was impossible to remove the mask. Most theories and legends said it was related to the king, Louis XIV, the Sun King. It was said it's his brother, and he emprisoned him so that he can take the trhone. Some also said it was his son, but he was a shame for him so he decided to hide his existence from the world. Other said the king's wife cheated on him with this man, so as a punishment, the King put an iron mask on the man. I was really young when I first saw a documentary about the man with the iron mask, the iconography of this mask and the settings terrified me
i use a mix of the Legendary Phantom n Musketeer sets n Im probably one of the only few to do that. Colour:Peaceful Tales Hood:Legendary Musketeer Coat:Legendary Phantom Forearms:Legendary Phantom (I am planning on getting the Legendary military one tho) Waist:Legendary Phantom(I am planning on getting the Legendary Musketeer one tho) Legs:Legendary Phantom
I allways wore most of the legendary Napoleonic set, with the legendary military belt. it is a shame that the Transmorg system from Oddysey wasn't included yet. My favourite belt design is the regular Napoleonic belt, but it gives little-to-no supplies compared to the Legendary belts.
I find it so weird you say they should add stuff and colours and etc to some outfits so they are more striking but that’s like the complete opposite of an assassin, you shouldn’t stand out😂 you should blend in
7:20 those aren't trousers, are pants, the main prupose of that outfit is to represent the low-class workers who can't afford nobel robes like breeches (culotes) (Sans = Without, Culottes = Breeches)
6:29 the flapping problem is caused by the shitty physics engine that only works properly at 30 fps. You either have to lock the fps to 30 or install a mod to make it work at 60 fps then lock it at 60
You must not be in touch with the community if you think the Brotherhood outfit is "nobody's favorite". It's been brought back countless times for a reason.
9:30 its not medieval, thats literally a cuirass made to stop bullets, there's a lot of lore in uniforms and weaponary after the medieval age, I think I would never allow you to design characters of any ages but modern times 😢
Sorry for bother, 1) you had the napoleonic set wrong you put it 2,1,3 instead of 1,2,3. 2) what you were saying around the 19:30 mark arnos master outfit perfectly encapsulates what he was witnesssing during this time, the thriving upperclass (the kings, lords, nobility and such) heavily opressing the the uprising lowerclass(the peasants, searfs, people like me and you, jokes) Also its pronoused san-c_uuu_ lotte with a heavy emphasis on the you sound in the middle and you got close on bougeois its borgewah (or at least thats how i pronounce it) not meant as disrespect just help in the least passive aggression yt comments allow
That hooded version of Shay’s robes has got to be a top 5 for me when it comes to Assassins creed robes.
NGL, it is quite literally the only reason I played rogue only to be disappointed it doesn't exist
Ah yes, Shay's outfit. Wearing your father's killer outfit really set the tone
I wish this game had transmog so badly. I think a lot of the higher level armors are way too flashy and ugly but they have the best stats so i have to use them
You can equip the legacy outfit like Altair or Ezio
@@Michaellearnsart i dont want to wear costumes though, i like the gear sets and i want to use them, but most of the legendary sets look awful in comparison to their earlier level counterparts
@@friccle_
I noticed this as well.
Legendary Phantom looks like ass.
Actually most sets above improved start to look overdesigned.
My favorite ones were the tailored Sans-Cullotes and Napoleonic coats.
Legendary Napolileonic has the stupid plate and Master-legendary Sans-Cullotes coats are made mostly of leather and don't match the majority of hood.
God, I’ve found my people. lol.
If ever they bring Co-Op back (and thus also bringing back the gear system) that they remember that they've had a transmog system in previous games so that we can select gear that fits our play style and then also make it look like we want with the different styles avaliable.
Always remember us playing co op and you hating my drip. Beautiful times. Always love Unity content a very underrated game much love ma dood
I def wouldn’t say underrated. As time goes on the game is getting more and more love. This is always what happens. Feel it’d be more accurate to say this game is finally getting its second wind.
From my understanding, the stripes on the trousers of the Sans-culotte outfits are actually important:
They were a visual sign of the patriotism of the people during that period, since by wearing striped trousers like those, they were rejecting the clothing fashion of the aristocrats at the time (which consisted of breeches) by wearing the clothes associated to the common people: pants (hence why "sans-culotte", used to mock those patriots, as "culotte" is french for breeches and "sans" means "without").
The stripes were also to symbolize that intention of deliberatly choosing to wear the pants as a patriotic act. So the fact that Arno's trousers get more significant stripes as the set becomes more "legendary" is just a nice touch, showing an evolving defiance toward the aristocracy and a greater connection to the patriots' cause, just like I would imagine a real sans-culotte would do during this period.
It's a good costume for role-playing as a french revolutionary, basicaly... and that's thanks to the stripes XD
Ohh that’s so cool!
No wonder why the set has the highest stealth stats, you're basically blending in with the revolutionaries so it makes it harder for the templar extremists to figure you out. But still that would not explain why the phantom set would have the second highest stealth stat as it clearly shows your allegiance with the nobles
@@dan_cheni think the phantom set is supposed to be the mysterious person at a noble party with mask and all. Giving it higher social stealth. Only problem is that every person would want to get to know the human peacock sliding through the crowd. Every extremist, guard, worker and noble would remember someone wearing that, nugding their partner saying "get a load of this guy" in french. But ezio was like that imo his drip is not ugly enough for any peasant with half their brain remaining to not supply a detailed description to any guard, let alone not staring at Ezio the entire time preventing him from doing anything illegal.
@@annointedbytalos5673 exactly, even with the mask you wouldn't be hiding shit with that fit even in a royal ball, the description even says that the set looked better than even the king's drip. If I really want social stealth in noble parties, the master bougoirs set would fit infinitely better
@@dan_chen Well to me the Phantom set looks like it would be worn at a masked ball, therefore blending in with the nobles while having the face hidden.
It also gives me an impression of being a rather "theatrical" outfit, like an extravagant costume for an opera play or something of the sort. This would explain, in a way, those "jester-style trousers", which gave me that impression from the beginning. Therefore, I think that the idea behind it being a stealthy outfit could be "hiding in plain sight" but to the extreme, like it would be so extravagant or theatrical that people would just assume that is a performance.
So the idea wouldn't be so much that you are discret while doing your things, but more so that nobody would recognize you because of the mask or that by the time they process what just happened and realize it's real and not a performance, you're already gone.
Otherwise (and this is purely speculation), this whole idea of an outfit being so theatrical it gives a noble and theatrical vibe like for the opera (to me anyways), as well as the mask and most of all, the name, I would not be surprised if this is a reference to the Phantom of the Opera. Now, I realize that the time period doesn't match, but I imagine that if you're making an AC game set in France and know that you might not have another opportunity like this, you'd try to put as many popular reference as possible (a bit like how you end up climbing the Eiffel Tower even if it doesn't work with the time period of the rest of the game). I don't personnally have the game, so I can't really tell if there are informations contradicting this theory or if the reference would be elsewhere, but this just makes sense to me.
FINALLY SOMEONE AKNOWLEDGE THE GEAR COSTUMES
I was hoping for a part to talk about the best color options for the outfits, like with an all-black prowler outfit looking like batman
Ouch! The legendary napoleonic set is my fave 💔 but seriously THANK YOU for making this video!! I love to see someone talking about Unity fashion!
When the multiplayer co-op servers eventually shut down if they are smart, they'll make a quick patch that just adds the weapons and armor that are locked strictly to the multiplayer and just unlock them from the onset and make them free for everyone
@ghostwarrior3878 that will negate some of the purpose of playing those missions, the higher leveled mission are for high leveled players so if you can get 5 star or gold rated armor straight off the rip that would destroy the gear progression in the game however, ubishart can make it so you unlock them at 100 percent sync with each mission kinda like the cheats and animus hacks of games prior similar for the handmade phantom outfit and Altairs robes in the helix glitches
Mr. Willis! Thank you so much for this excellent analysis. I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of it. My favorite outfit is the Master Assassin outfit as it should have appeared on the 6 inch McFarlane figure. Next is Altair’s with Belloch’s as third favorite. Really appreciated your statement of the stripey pants which soooo needed to be said. Bless you for this and all of your previous analyses and studies. You’re the best!
Thanks man! Loving your top 3 aswell great choices!
Some things you missed that are worth mentioning; the Edward outfit is unfortunately NOT perfect, if you look at hidden blades on the bracers you'll notice the textures are horribly bugged and in gameplay and cutscenes the hidden blade itself is invisible (a trait shared with Arno's Fearless Outfit)
An issue with Ezio's legacy outfit is the lining of the cape being white instead of red
Shay's outfit is also missing the scarf/gas mask which makes Arno's neck look strangely naked.
There's an interesting bug with Napoleon's outfit, if you equip it and then equip colors/dyes they will actually alter the saturation of the outfit, this is most noticeable when swapping between white eagle and pure shadow.
Thanks for the corrections! I never noticed those especially the napoleon outfit that’s so strange
I've spent countless hours mixing those outfits when the game first came out. Such great memories.
It's good to finally see your take on these ones, mate. Keep up the great content.
Also, one thing that has always brothered me about most of these sets is the small number of long tailed coats. So many of these outfits would benefit from such treatment. The military ones could have long tails inspired by the guards' designs and the sans-culottes by the spearmen extremists'. It would look quite nice in the Master and Legendary versions.
I will say that Unity has the best graphics and lighting system for the legacy outfits, like they don’t look as good in any other game after unity tbh
goated addition to a goated series. keep up the good work man.
also, am i the only who notices how weird and messed up the hidden blades on Edward’s outfit look?
I personally liked the Sans-Cullottes clothes simply because it's the most designated "civilian" outfit you can use that blends well with the poor and rich districts' crowds on account of the first variant being a flairless vest and pants duo. I have a similar view with the french duelist outfit and, dare I say, it's the only outfit that could do the pickaxe hammer weapon justice in the roleplay department.
It’s crazy because I’ve always wanted someone to make a video like this!
The first prowler outfit was perfect
I guess the feather of the musketeer hood is because the original feather in the hat of the real musketeers. Like, "you cant wear the cool hat, but take the feather instead". Anyway i love that oufit
Love this series man.
Syndicate certainly has some *interesting robes*. I’m slightly disappointed by the lack of legacy outfits, although it was nice to see Aveline get a shout.
The RPG era will certainly be a lot. I certainly don’t envy you!
Will Chronicles get a video? I know there aren’t many, but they generally don’t receive invites to any sort of ranking lists.
I intend to make a deep dive on the chronicles games at some point but I don’t think there’s enough outfits to warrant a video, also the 2.5D style makes the outfits difficult to see.
Connor definitely had those tassels on his legs in three. What are you talking about? You can even see them in the picture you showed.
Never had a good look at the McFarlan outfit and now that I have it's one of my favourites. Wish it had the shoulders from the toy though
15:21 the brigand coats are actually my favorites, especially the master version. I often use the master and legendary version for the stats and they go so well with the heavy weapons like the claymores and the guillotine guns, which all of them are my favorites too. Get a nice looking pair of pants and hood then you got yourself a brawler-esque looking fit
The McFarlane outfit is my personal favorite, as I hate 99% of Unity gear and I dont like using Legacy Outfits much so I use it most of the time. Its just peak costume design to me at least in Unity
My personal look for Arno:
Colors: Darkest Alley
Head: Master Musketeer Hood
Chest: Master Bourgeois Coat
Forearms: Arno's Master Bracers
Waist: Belt of Franciade
Legs: Arno's Master Breeches
One-Handed: Snake Hilted Sword
Pistols: Gold-Plated Pistol
The trailer and concept art of the raider outfit would’ve looked much better than the in-game one. I thought the mask looked awesome and the cloak around the one arm looked much nicer than an odd cape.
Unity is one of the best assassins creed games beside brotherhood and 3
As for me, I've personally liked only 1 gear outfit in Assassin's Creed Unity, and it was the legendary Medieval gear set. I can overlook all the design flaws because of the boosts that you get from it. Especially if you upgrade all 5 pieces.
great video. great game
Why the dead king's outfit look better in the dlc trailer
There’s a mod that adds new physics to the hood and cape along with the mask to make it resemble that look from the trailer that you should check out, massive improvement
I love master arno outfit it's my favorite it really screams arno
Wait, this was uploaded 2 weeks ago?
I literally just started my first playthrough like a week ago
Thanks!
Maybe I'm mistaken but it looks like you don't know the purpose of the iron mask, it probably comes from a day when a high ranked military guy put an iron mask on a prisoner to make everyone think he captured a very important person.
From that point, everyone started to wonder and theorise on who was this person with the iron mask. They thought it was impossible to remove the mask. Most theories and legends said it was related to the king, Louis XIV, the Sun King. It was said it's his brother, and he emprisoned him so that he can take the trhone. Some also said it was his son, but he was a shame for him so he decided to hide his existence from the world. Other said the king's wife cheated on him with this man, so as a punishment, the King put an iron mask on the man.
I was really young when I first saw a documentary about the man with the iron mask, the iconography of this mask and the settings terrified me
The prowler set is so fucking sexy tbh
i use a mix of the Legendary Phantom n Musketeer sets n Im probably one of the only few to do that.
Colour:Peaceful Tales
Hood:Legendary Musketeer
Coat:Legendary Phantom
Forearms:Legendary Phantom (I am planning on getting the Legendary military one tho)
Waist:Legendary Phantom(I am planning on getting the Legendary Musketeer one tho)
Legs:Legendary Phantom
I allways wore most of the legendary Napoleonic set, with the legendary military belt.
it is a shame that the Transmorg system from Oddysey wasn't included yet. My favourite belt design is the regular Napoleonic belt, but it gives little-to-no supplies compared to the Legendary belts.
My favourite outfit is the medieval outfit
My second is thomas outfit
Third is Altair
Fourth is sans coulett
Fifth is master assassin's outfit
My favorite is Altair or Edwards
I prefer the simple look of Altiar's robes
and Edward just looks cool
I like when you say trousers
love em
I find it so weird you say they should add stuff and colours and etc to some outfits so they are more striking but that’s like the complete opposite of an assassin, you shouldn’t stand out😂 you should blend in
"Oh god here we go"
Whats with the audio quirk at 22:46?
I actually hate how the higher tier outfits don’t have the lower robe part like Arno’s main outfit, such a waste.
Great video and Ilove your accent man! Are you Scottish?
close! I’m from the north east of england
7:20 those aren't trousers, are pants, the main prupose of that outfit is to represent the low-class workers who can't afford nobel robes like breeches (culotes) (Sans = Without, Culottes = Breeches)
53:20 disagree. the hidden blades are glitched and pop out of arno's elbows
In my opinion Thomas de carnillion 's outfit is easier to get than altair's outfit 😂
16:17 yup from my understanding it’s about right. Bor-zhwa
6:29 the flapping problem is caused by the shitty physics engine that only works properly at 30 fps. You either have to lock the fps to 30 or install a mod to make it work at 60 fps then lock it at 60
29:23 why da heck he would use THICK LEATHER, Is just a normal Coat with Templar motifs
Hey pls make outfit video on AC Mirage
I will once I’ve done the others!!
@@willismakesmovies thanks
You must not be in touch with the community if you think the Brotherhood outfit is "nobody's favorite". It's been brought back countless times for a reason.
@@KhaosKontroller I for one actually got sick of it by the time I played black flag
How do u get the French duelist outfit
It’s available in the Secrets of the Revolution pack which I think is available in the store?
@@willismakesmovies I’m on pc and I couldn’t find it but I deleted ac unity anyways since I finished it for the 3rd time
9:30 its not medieval, thats literally a cuirass made to stop bullets, there's a lot of lore in uniforms and weaponary after the medieval age, I think I would never allow you to design characters of any ages but modern times 😢
what just happened to arno's right hand? XD 31:26
I love how terribly you say the French words, you're just making obnoxious noises and it's friggin hilarious🤣😂
Sorry for bother,
1) you had the napoleonic set wrong you put it 2,1,3 instead of 1,2,3.
2) what you were saying around the 19:30 mark arnos master outfit perfectly encapsulates what he was witnesssing during this time, the thriving upperclass (the kings, lords, nobility and such) heavily opressing the the uprising lowerclass(the peasants, searfs, people like me and you, jokes)
Also its pronoused san-c_uuu_ lotte with a heavy emphasis on the you sound in the middle and you got close on bougeois its borgewah (or at least thats how i pronounce it) not meant as disrespect just help in the least passive aggression yt comments allow
@@theguvnor1171Oh no I appreciate it really! Can’t get better if I’m not aware of the errors so thank you ◡̈
what up with the ai upscaling. it looks like shit
Hate stripey trousers? You, sir, have no taste.
Most of the colour schemes are dreadful so it's good we're not including them
Yeah they really should have included a colour slider instead of set colour schemes lol
Thanks!