No more One Hit Kills?

[Marcus101RR]

Is the game meant to be like this? Everywhere I go, the enemies are exactly my level every time, I am never above them, and when I do aiming for headshots I do 20% of their health, and when assinsation I do 30%.

Seems the game is trying to tell me to just go guns blazing combat mode everytime. Why do they even continue to use the "Assassin's Creed" Brand, Can't stealth anything if you can't kill them in one hit...

I am Level 13, Most of my gear is 12 and epic/rare. god bit wtf? Wht am i doing wrong? Am I expecting this to be AC game or is this some other game now...

https://i.imgur.com/SLImnSy.jpg

[Darth Revan]

they are continuing to use the assassins creed brand because assassins creed is more then just assassins, it is a fictional univers with thousands of years of history and every game set in this universe will be called assassins creed regardles if you are a assassin or not or if it takes place during a time in which the assassins even existed.

just like a fallout game which takes place in 2030 for example (that would be pre war) would still be called fallout because it takes place in the fallout universe.

the game is indeed meant to be like this, the level scaling is there by design. however if you want to assassinate more efficiantly then you have to use the right gear and the right abilities.

[Mujokan]

There are different builds possible. For an assassin build you have to collect gear with the right engravings and get the right abilities. This takes a while but then it's a long game.

Every time you go past a blacksmith, check to see what gear there is. I don't really know what a good DPS number is at that level, but at 50 my assassin damage multiplier is over 150% with a crit chance of 50% and crit damage of 400%, my ordinary assassinations can crit for over 500,000 which kills just about anything.

[Marcus101RR]

Christ man, thats a grind fest then.

[Mujokan]

You don't have to grind for it in the sense of farming, it's not really possible to farm gear.

It's a hundred hour game. You get loads and loads of gear in the ordinary course of play, you just have to keep an eye out for the right engravings among it all.

But if you are walking past a blacksmith anyway, take 30 seconds to skim the epics and see if there's something good. Theoretically you can get a 29% boost to assassination damage from one piece if you get lucky (14+10+5).

And it's not the values that matter, it's the combination of categories. The values go up when you upgrade or re-engrave.

[Hollywood]

Originally posted by Marcus101RR:

Is the game meant to be like this? Everywhere I go, the enemies are exactly my level every time, I am never above them, and when I do aiming for headshots I do 20% of their health, and when assinsation I do 30%.

Seems the game is trying to tell me to just go guns blazing combat mode everytime. Why do they even continue to use the "Assassin's Creed" Brand, Can't stealth anything if you can't kill them in one hit...

I am Level 13, Most of my gear is 12 and epic/rare. god bit wtf? Wht am i doing wrong? Am I expecting this to be AC game or is this some other game now...

https://i.imgur.com/SLImnSy.jpg

You don't even need to min max like Mujo does. I play on Nightmare and have no problems with assassin or hunter, you just have to realize what is useful gear and what isn't useful gear. If you're going for assassin, then don't ever equip any gear that doesn't have assassin stats. Same for everything. Before I actually tried to get gear min maxed, I was able to clear out any camp completely stealthed with just assassinations and hero strike if they don't go down. Now with the min maxed set everything dies instantly except the occasional polymarch/merc. Just don't run into a camp and pick targets randomly, know who to go for to kill first then use the adrenaline you've gained from killing them to get the beefy dudes with critical assassination and hero strike.

As for headshots with bows, my hunter build can one shot everything through walls with the ghost arrows of artemis which is a free skill as you passively always have one adrenaline bar in the hunter tree. I've literally sat in corners outside of forts and cleared the entire forts without ever actually seeing my enemies or using more than just my mouse.

So, yeah, you can one shot everything in this game except for polymarchs/mercs who do indeed sometimes get one-shotted. You just need to actually use the stats for what you want, if you are running assassin, warrior damage gear won't help. Or for that matter, assassin damage with +20% beast health or something that's not in the assassin tree wont help either.

[cronic0_0]

Stack as much assassination + crit% and crit damage as you can on your gear and you will be one shoting in no time but to be honest with you ghost Arrow from the hunter tree makes every other ability in this game or tree completely garbage by comparison.
I do not use ghost arrows anymore because it takes all the challenge fun out of the game and just simply the ultimate cheese and yet it's the only ability you need outside of boss fights

[Mujokan]

Yeah I never touched ghost arrow. But Marcus is a ways off that anyway.

The nice thing about crit is that it works in every situation. But you can't get a really high chance % until high level. Still it doesn't hurt to stash away the gear from the start even if you don't use it.

[Rominvictus]

Invest in abilities, like Predator Shot, for eventual one-shot archery. Invest in core Assassin skills for eventual instant takedowns, even a critical takedown for bosses. RPG mechanics

[BirdOfPray]

Read this and you might one shot every mercenary you see (I once did 5 kill combo) also perfect for stealth gameplay:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1534615654

[Novadove]

the one hit kill is still in the game. except this time round, the game delay such mechanism till much later in the game when you amass the right gear and find the right skills. That's when the game begin to shine so brightly that you scream like a mad man.

i am thankful ubi didn't just give me the game breaking mechanism right after i install the game.

[NuclearSnail]

Assassin's Creed name sells. You could NEVER put out a game like this, and make the kinds of sales they're getting under any other name. I'm not happy with the loss of the creed either. I bought origins, and odyssey preorder, the most expensive editions but after these two lumps of disapointment I'll either not buy the next one at all, or I'll get it for 10 bucks on a steam sale after it's been out for a year or two. Literaly everything I loved about Assassin's Creed is gone. It's all been replaced by everything I've always hated in other games.

[BirdOfPray]

Originally posted by SpaceBones:

Assassin's Creed name sells. You could NEVER put out a game like this, and make the kinds of sales they're getting under any other name. I'm not happy with the loss of the creed either. I bought origins, and odyssey preorder, the most expensive editions but after these two lumps of disapointment I'll either not buy the next one at all, or I'll get for 10 bucks on a steam sale after it's been out for a year or two. Literaly everything I loved about Assassin's Creed is gone. It's all been replaced by everything I've always hated in other games.

I was also angry about the enemies and how tough(spongy) they were at first but my game is changed with one engraving. You should really try that. I felt like in the good ol' days like a true assassin:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1534615654