I tend to wear gear based on what I’m doing. If I’m clearing out chests, I’ll get the gear with higher lockpick capacity. Going on a stealthy mission, make sure to have a lot of smokebombs and darts. If I’m just running around, having some fun, I’ll just throw on something I think looks nice. Unity is fairly easy to play, and I don’t get too caught up with having “high end” gear.
I actually love that approach to respond to whatever scenarios you anticipate. Things like that make me wish Unity had something like loadouts because swapping gear is something I find tiring in this game, and I'd do it a lot more if I had the will. As it is now I'm way too comfortable on my one General setup that "basically works for everything." 😅
Agreed, in any game with gear or stats you usually should just equip & upgrade what’s best for you & your playstyle. For example, if you don’t plan on entering combat at all, there’s no need to equip gear that boosts health.
For sure, and there can even be some satisfaction in predicting things not going according to plan sometimes, so tacking on a _little bit_ of extra help in specific parts of your setup to easily respond to those feels good. Getting the balance between those and your "main" focus is a special kind of tension that can be really fun, the best RPGs make _this_ part of their buildcrafting/setups feel interesting.
wow, I really like how you answered all of these questions! you actually put in words everything I learned myself throughout my playthroughs and you let me reflect on my playstyle, on why I always didn't understand why to try to get «best» gear (in stats, not in usefulness for me), but not just working with the best you already have and using it rationally.
Thanks so much. :D Yeah, most players won't need it for most missions, even though there can be a kind of fun in working toward being as strong as possible. Still, it takes enough time for minimal difference in your gameplay experience, that it's not really worth getting it "perfect."
I love using Arno's tailored set, i love using the canon gear and i feel even more immersed , even though the stats arent the best, visually im so satsifed and i like the challenge of course.
I never noticed a big difference in terms of stealth in the endgame gear except for change the clothes sometimes for aesthetic purposes, great video btw
Thank you. There's definitely some difference, mostly on Coats in Restricted Areas giving you slightly more time to hide when being observed. This is especially visible if you're being detected from someone at long range, so if you really really hate Gunners or want to move through their sightlines in RAs, getting a much stronger Coat than what I'm happy to sit on _can_ be pretty good.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 this is what I'm talking about. Playing it now this video speaks to the ART. Games are a medium and interactive and allows for immersion and this gives an avenue for a player to encourage themselves to enjoy it more than take a hammer to it and try to cap out stats
Minimal approach is the best. Path of least resistance is something I wanna strive but I’m not good enough to focus on that yet. For me right now I focus mainly on reduced detection by blend (I think it had 100+ percent but it’s lower variant was better), military bracers and the band are my go to gears. For blend I’m saying more on the lines of disguise since I use that skill a lot. But yeah. Edit: never mind. I am a Rogue now i guess XD same stuff I am holding except for the main weapon. But I’m good XD
Disguise is underrated by the community which is insane because of how freakishly overpowered it truly is. It straight-up lets you do things that should normally be impossible.
Most stealth points: Sans Cullote gears Most health points: Medieval gears Most ammo friendly: Military gears Also, equip the special ability based on your mission you're currently doing. Disguise for stealth, health regen for health so u don't use many medicines that are so expensive, and cache if u go playing on range. The group eagle vision is pretty useless to equip
Yeah, it's really that simple. Communal Sense / Group Eagle Vision has a "hidden" effect where it actually increases how long your EV lasts, stacking on top of your existing EV Duration from Hood. A viewer of mine did tracked that manually on a spreadsheet a while ago and I was considering making a short video on it at some point.
The Group Eagle Vision or Communal Sense is actually the only thing I use. It makes Eagle Vision last 25 seconds per activation l, with a massive range. (With Legendary Phantom Hood.) It's absolutely invaluable to me.
Fun fact: on PC, the in-game clock kept running even if you had switched to another app. Meaning you could perfectly well launch the game, switch to doing something else on your computer and just regularly pick up the money from the café théatre to unlock the most expensive gear in the game without really grinding
@@LeoKRogue To be honest, I do agree with what you laid out in the video. Legendary gear is most often overkill unless you're soloing one of the really hard heists/coop missions, so you shouldn't spend too long trying to get it. It's just that, since I got most of it without doing any effort, I didn't really relate with the "having to grind to get the legendary gear" part haha
Maybe like 3 or 4 months ago I got back into ac and Unity was my favorite when younger and I wanted like 4 of your videos around that time cool to see you are still making Unity videos
Thanks for hanging out! It's pretty rare that I do anything with Assassin's Creed nowadays since Ubisoft aren't doing anything I enjoy with the games anymore -- and Mirage news is basically dead for over half a year. But sometimes it's nice when I get an idea or something I like to talk about.
Exactly bro Leo keeping the assassin's Creed community alive I'm getting unity again after this video I just beat origins it's amazing I watched Leo's ng+ playing through years ago
The point about the belt is legit, though. What I like to say is that your remaining ammunition count a better indicator of how long you have left to live than your actual HP. Items are your *lifeblood*
I gotta say, I definitely respect your passion and how you look into the mechanics. I have my weird quirks, and it basically always leads me to get gold diamond gear out the window. The absolute moment Arno is spat into Paris, at 1 diamond, I'm off spamming It Belongs In a Museum. I start off buying the Legendary Sans Culotte Chest for better navigation in the museum in general, than the Gold Pistol, Cinqudeas, Military Belt, Napoleonic Bracers, Phantom Hood, and Culotte Breeches. Then I hammer through Tournament and Moving Mirabeau and such for points. Basically I'm outright hardwired to go from the starting 1 diamond gear DEAD to the fifth gold tiers. Then I go and just dump whatever money I get after to random gear I find appealing, until there's nothing left to buy. I do it very messed up.
Hey, if it's fun, it's fun. If you're doing it because it's your choice and something you genuinely enjoy, that's very different from doing it because a TH-cam guide told you to and you feel like you _have_ to.
But oh what fun it is to do so. Truly, the visual side is so much more impactful on moment to moment experience than anything else. Unity still stands out as the single game in the entire series that has the biggest number of _different Assassin-looking_ cosmetics, 99% of which you can just unlock by playing the game. That's amazing.
I grinded for Thomas’ master assassin robes. It was worth while as it serves as closure for arguably the biggest problem the Templars had to deal with for how criminally short the screen time was for him. Sometimes, I put it on just to remind the Templars of the legendary character.
A mod called “Outfit Manager” allows transmod system now, so hello high gear for me! Awesome thing with the transmod is that it allows me to create the outfit that you see in the cover art of the four main assassins. Judging by their weapons and cinematic trailer, it’s very clear what class they are. First guy on the left is a warrior class with his axe, second left is Arno being a Jack of all trade but master of none, and the last two on the right I assumed are range class, one loud with the pistol/rifle, and the other is quiet with the phantom blade, poison gas, and smoke bomb. With outfit manager, I was able to recreate the axe assassin on the far left by using the entire medieval gear, but transmod it to look closer to the cover art. One example is the medieval chest gear being transmodded into the Tailored Phantom Coat, since it’s the only chest gear that has similar front design and a folded sleeves on the right arm.
I love how, on this channel, a simple discussion about this game and styles of playing it, can turn into philosophical and almost mentally challenging problems that this legend of a man, can then spell out for us. I love it, and please don't take it the wrong way, the whole puzzle aspect of your videos is not found ANYWHERE else on TH-cam. Fantastic job. That, and your funny, always a big plus. 🥰 Oh and you listen to your communities, very few TH-camrs do that.
Not to mention helpful. You are THE Mentor here. Again, the perfect mix of what to prioritize; what to NOT chase, humour, smart analytics, and an awesome voice. Thanks for the tips on smoke, berserk and phantom. You were right, underneath it all, Unity is a laughably easy game. I really do struggle with certain games that overwhelm you with how many things there are, or what to get, but once again, you made it easy. Thank you for the video, and thanks for replying, (again the thing on the initial comment with you caring about your community.)
My perception of you was almost shattered when you started listing "Leo K [Other Class]"...I thought "There's no way..." Amazing video, love your loadout, hope to complete a no upgrades run one day
holy shit that really opened my eyes to something that I have been struggling or suffering from but I haven't realised it. ever since the load of my classes got higher and higher I began to feel like I was wasting my time because there was some invisible voice in my head trying to tell me to just grind the shit money giving missions to get the money to get the end game gear and ending up not really enjoying the game but now that I have heard this it has completely changed my perspective on enjoyment of games and the tools required to do it. You probably just saved me a shit ton of my time that I would have spent otherwise grinding, thanks a lot Leo :))
Wow, if that's really true then I'm so glad you saw this because you're exactly the kind of player I was hoping to reach and help out with it. Of course if you ever find yourself struggling with something you can THEN grind a bit to get better gear and overcome it, but don't feel a need to start spending that time until you make sure that you actually need it.
@@LeoKRogue I'm glad I saw this too, and funny as it is, the reason I had this habit of grinding my ass off for every last piece of good gear in every game(even the ones that didn't need it like unity) was that I had a lot of time to play these games as a kid and also didn't get bored easily because I was a kid, but as I grew up not only did it waste my time but also made me hate many games that I otherwise would have enjoyed, I never really needed the top gear to progress in any game but it was just an artificial compulsion that I had forced upon myself for some reason, I literally would finish the whole game and then just waste my time grinding out the top gear before proceeding to uninstall the game to make space for a new one. Lol sounds pretty stupid now but at least I have stopped doing this now. well, it was literally one of the most impactfull video that I ever watched concerning anything which could be correlated to with a similar situation as video games, meaning that something that can be done should not always be done. LOL that was long, anyways, love your vids :))).
I wouldn't have made this if I didn't keep getting DMs from people about my reasoning behind it. If I can save even one player some time running Museum over and over again, I'm happy.
if you renovate cafe theatre + the social clubs, you get rich really quickly. aside from that, there are heists und the occasional mission that gives you like 30.000 (in the harder districts). AND you can get legendary gear as reward from some missions. you'll reach the 5 diamonds really quickly. I grinded a bit for 5 golden diamonds, not because of the usefulness but for the drip
Great points about Unity. I remember a lot of the marketing (and even the in-game stat bars) was trying encourage delineated playstyles where you could focus in on ranged, melee, or stealth builds as if it was Odyssey. In reality, Unity fundamentally does not support this kind of build crafting-melee is awful (and getting good weapons is incredibly easy), there is literally no dedicated ranged playstyle (rifle has the same range as the pistol lmfao), and stealth, like all classic ACs, is based off your *movement, your tools, and your knowledge* first and foremost. Stats do not reasonably effect gameplay enough to actually mean anything in Unity. It’s telling that the best gear in the game is the gear that specifically increases your *tool* capacities, just as the tool upgrade capacities are the most important upgrades you can get in previous AC games. In reality, Unity is a classic-ish AC game that follows the typical formula with an ill-fitting gear system overlaying it with almost zero tangible benefits except for playing barbie doll dress up with Arno.
I felt exactly the same about this game basically on Day One. If they wanted to make builds genuinely matter, every facet of those had to be appealing enough to actually make a player want to focus on it, but as it is only Stealth and Ranged really make any appreciable difference, along with your Weapon. Movement has no stats associated with it. Combat feels so horrible and has such a low skill-ceiling / potential-cap that speccing into it is basically trolling yourself.
Good advice I subscribed. I was surprised when you said “Womens March” was one of the hardest missions to do because I actually completed it solo my first time. I couldn’t do the smuggler mission or the museum heist at all by myself though. The main missions in this game isn’t that hard I bought alot of the high ranked gear just because I like to wear stylish combos during cutscenes and stuff even if it dosent give me the best stats I need for that particular mission.
Thank you for this video. I was looking for something like this. I have every end game gear and item so I was geared down to make the game more challenging, when I realize it made very little difference. So I was seeing if anyone else chose to do this as well.
a lot of the endgame gear is way too flashy for my taste and i end up just putting on a random gear set i think looks good or an outfit. a lot of the times i just keep the belt and bracers the same no matter what i wear because i feel they’re incredibly important to my play style. i like using pistols as a tool in stealth so i have the phantom belt, which gives me all the stealth tools i need but as well as extra ammunition. the bracers are usually the napoleonic ones for that small damage boost. honestly, the way i play changes quite a bit and i feel like the items i use reflect that.
What I like most in a game is that item progress for me. It's fun to start from nothing to having best items in the end. right now I like to progress this game slowly (Level up, Do side activities, Get better equipment as game progress with story) It makes it better for me. Arno starting from just a rookie to a master.
Yeah, that's fine and actually the best way to engage with progression. If you enjoy it and don't feel forced to participate in it, keep doing that and having fun with it. This video is only meant to free people who feel like they _have_ to have the best stuff just to play the game, and make themselves miserable, which is obviously not true. It doesn't apply to players who love the grind and find it enjoyable.
@@LeoKRogue I agree with your point. Sometimes a game can become too annoying to grind or becomes too easy that u prefer to enjoy the challenge. Giving yourself a challenge in a game is best way to enjoy it too.
I wear the Tailored Medieval Coat. The stats of armor percentage and health that it has are irrelevant to my playstyle, I just like the way it looks. The other pieces of gear I have equiped in conjunction with it make me look like a member of the Levantine Assassin's Brotherhood, while putting a unique twist on the look.
i really hope the devs have taken the same approach to gear in AC Mirage as they did in ACU because i really want to have some fire drip with abhorrent stats or something of the sort. while sometimes the gear did have better stats and might be worth it you can still get by with whatever looks the coolest if you play your cards right. the customisability in ACU was the best in the whole series imo. i will never get enough of how each of the clothes pieces look, even the weapon design was awesome, you could find any set of gear to suit your specific playstyle it was so fun. i could ramble about it for days lol. anyway great video Leo, im gonna go boot up Unity again now
I don't even think gear is going to _have_ stats in Mirage, honestly. I could be wrong, but nothing they've mentioned so far has made me think otherwise. I get the sense that our outfits meanwhile are just limited to whatever robes Basim wears as an Initiate, then as a Master. Maybe some Legacy Outfits. Other than that, the only variance that's been confirmed for clothes is Dyes.
Mirage is a copy and paste of Valhalla as it was suppose to be a dlc and they diverted to a full game last minute. It won’t play anything like the “back to the roots” idea
im hyped for the all side missions AC unity video youre probably working on. as much as we enjoy branching out, its good to come back to this broken franchise every once in a while.
Yeah, me too honestly. I'll remind you that it's just gonna take a hell of a while since it's so annoying to work on, going from Destiny to Assassin's Creed feels like rubbing sandpaper on my face. The difference in extremes is just a _lot,_ one is really smooth and polished and the other just "fights" me and refuses to do what I want all the time :/
Recently finished this game (for the 8th time), and I actually got 100% completion (3rd try), was a fun time ngl, personally I rocked the Legendary Musketeer hood with the legendary phantom coat, legendary military bracers and legendary brigand belt with those legendary sans cullote legs (White Eagle color btw) and yes, I am one of those overkill guys, but it looks great ngl, but it wasn't the most fun, I still missed my old brigand builds because they just looked better and I was more rushed to complete the game as quickly as possible while still having a good looking robe
Up until AC Origins and the following games, it was possible to beat the AC games without upgrading your gear apart from mandatory story upgrades that you can’t opt out of. It was less of a numbers game since combat was animation based rather than using a hitbox system. It wasn’t until the rpg based games that using higher level gear became more of a necessity than option. The older games allowed players to test their skills by using their characters skills/weapons and played how they wanted to. Now I’m not saying the older game’s combat system was better, as that is up to player preferences, I’m just noting a difference between the two.
I loved that about the older games, it really is so much more of a raw in the moment skill emphasis. I have No Upgrades runs of Unity and Syndicate on the channel, which are really the latest in the series you can go without engaging with leveling/gearing. (Except Mirage.)
I use my gears based on my playing style. I mainly use max stealth head, chest, pants and max tools for range/diversion for my belt. (max smokebombs and poison bombs for crowds and gunmen) and braces (max berserk darts and normal darts) for heists and coop. for abilities, I use disguise most of the time as my tools are enough to compensate not using assassin cache.
I usually solo every coop mission and actual coop with real people is just an occasional bonus for me. So yeah, I need the best gear. I can't stand idiots who fight and kill everything that moves just for the sake of it. UPD. There is another thing. I try to ghost the mission and never kill anybody unless it's unavoidable.
If you're hellbent on Ghosting then yeah, you do need the best you can equip. You're a rare player though, and someone like you wouldn't be watching these kinds of videos anyway since your mastery and will to challenge yourself is way higher than the average player.
I always interpreted it as that, of course Arno's Master gear isn't "the best" in the game, comparing the numbers is simple enough. The focus was on the items and Eagle Vision range, which realistically are the only things that really make much of a difference in gameplay.
I play with mates, and we're always doing the hardest coop missions, so we need the best gear to not get rekt. Also doing heists constantly means we have way too much money, and can afford every legendary item
Yes but Thomas De Cornillon outfit is also canon as well once you reach legendary rank. That outfit was meant for the next legendary assassin who would lead the brotherhood in France.
Belt is all I worry about. Ammo hold for whatever I feel like I'm doing. I just flat out ignore stats. I've literally beaten the game with low level gear only because I found most of it ugly. Stealth, just avoid line of sight in general and you well be fine in most situations. So Those stats are just dumb. Hell high damaging weapons flat out outweigh low defense in fights. Give them slice and dice faster than they kill you. Also I'ma just say it. AC has a habit of making you 3 and 5 times stronger than you need to be for even the hardest parts.
Belt is massive, yeah. Can't really go without it for personal comfort. Also you're right, this is something myself and a few other gameplay-heavy creators have noticed, Assassin's Creed is basically "balanced" around the starter power-level across most of the series. Hence why... th-cam.com/video/9b1pV3K8ooY/w-d-xo.html
In my gear I'm using, Legendary sans culottes hood Legendary brigand coat Legendary military bracers Legendary phantom belt Legendary prowler Beechers. Im not 100% stealthy player. And not always getting into fight. Also I need a good looking gear. (So according to my preferences I have built this gear 🙂)
I alternate between Arno's outfits and the Bourgeois outfits. They have the same perks and they build off of each other perfectly. I just lament that there's no legendary Bourgeois outfit to build off of Arno's master outfit.
I don't have to grind ... I got my Cafe to max income and set my mouse to auto collect from the box and left it on overnight ... but I actually just wear different outfits depending on the area I'm in ... not the stats. 🙂
Totally fine. This is to assuage the concerns of players who don't even want to go through that much, but if you enjoy going for that and playing that way, this isn't meant to deter you, play however feels good!
i still remember when i was a kid playing unity, going into the endgame and obviously wanting the best stats for stealth, but goddamn did i changed my mind when the legendary sans-culottes didnt have a cape since i looked like a pleb. feeling cool and having drip was priority number one LOL
If only the endgear didn't affect the look of Arno. Arno's canon outfit is probably one of the best. It's so clean and blue just perfectly fits him. I remember after finishing the story, I decided to use his original gear and boy it did not disappoint
Yes indeed. Being able to set your own appearance would've gone a long way to making more of the gear enticing. On PC there are mods that let you do that now but they're hardly 'comfortable' to use IMO.
I understand this video, yet some of the end game gear looks cooledt, which tends to make me lean towards it. An example, being the legendary brigand coat.
I simply wear Arno's tailored attire, because I think it looks best. Master attire looks great, but too flashy. A lot of the attire in the game does. Assassins don't want to stand out at the best of times (Machiavelli wanted Ezio to look his best in Rome), but the French Revolution is not a period you want to dress ostentatiously. Brigand and Sans-Culottes would blend well, but look too common. His tailored attire is a perfect middle-ground (probably why it was in most of the marketing). Although, of course, the colour scheme you use for your attire can make anything look less or very flashy (using brown or white, respectively). Just wear what you like, basically.
I always use: Medieval Hood (Because what do I need Assassin Cache and Communal Sense for if I play single player, I also use Hood of Franciade if I'm early in the game to get more Creed Points that non-Legendary gear can provide me) Sans-culottes Torso and Trousers Military Bracer and Belt It looks ugly as sin but thank Jaysus for outfits and Unity's economy being so easy to the point where Arno can swim in his Livres like Scrooge McDuck
The only things I wear for stats is the bracers and belts since they tend to look good on most outfits anyway, everything else is dependant on look. I still wear handmade stuff in the endgame if it looks cool. Stats are not worth as much to me as making my assassin look cool
Frankly the only reason for NG+ on Unity and even Syndicate is just for the convenience and tedium you save in presumably already having all collectibles and 100% sync. Just having multiple save files on those games (an issue which can be sidestepped on PC) would be enough, because you genuinely don't need endgame gear to complete either game as you've said and as I've done. For me in AC, I've always prioritized chasing the gear that actually matters (belt, boots and bracers in Unity's case) while still looking classy because the games are largely easy enough to get away with that. The San-Culotte belt having a red sash to break up the otherwise monotony of Arno's blue coat and a snappy-looking bracer does it all for me.
Definitely. I'm much the same, Unity is playable enough without upgrades that you can finish the entire game on Default/Starter gear with no Skill Unlocks, so at the end of the day wearing what looks sick is the play.
Nah, legendary sans culottes coat is the objectively best coat for detection rates and overall stealth. Legendary end game gear don’t really have diminishing returns as Eagle vision duration, cooldown, max ammo capacity, blade capacity, all bomb capacity and many more superior utility boosts. For those watching this and thinking that you should listen to what he is saying, don’t even worry, end game gear is end game gear for a reason. Depending on your play style, end game gear is actually very suggestible. Also, museum mission gives you 70k per completion so it’s easy to acquire end game gear while you learn how to be more stealthy in those missions. So yes, grind for end game gear
@@LeoKRogue im surprised you still made a video. Also "I got taunted by people who do not deserve my shadowy cunning" was more than a burn, was a solar eruption lol.
They tell me I NEED a SOCK on my head FLOPPING around and have absolutely NO trench coat+robe-like CLOTH PHYSICS around my WAIST fluttering in the WIND. I will NOT wear your clown ass circus attire I will look like a fucking boss and play like a boss thank you ver-(game crashes)
I've been using Arno's tailored outfit, as he wears on the cover, with the Sans Culottes belt for tools. I would switch to a higher level arms piece for more Phantom Blades, but I want to challenge myself to finish missions without using all of my Phantom Blades.
I recently bought the game and i didn't understand the stats bar for equipments. They actually do something or is just the game showing which playstyle the gear buffs?? Take the ranged stat as example: a gear with high ranged stats buffs the range of projectiles or it is just a graphic way to show you what ur build looks like?
They mostly show what your build looks like but the exception is the Damage Stat on your Melee Weapon and Ranged Weapon, how strong your bullets and Phantom Blades are is actually taken from *both* for some reason. Of course the actual stats on individual items are important. Ammo Capacity, Detection Rate etc.
Thanks! I was trying to explore the ranged approach of the game but the range for muskets and pistols is too short. Also +1 sub for awnsering a recent comment of a video of 10 months ago. I couldn't find this info untill now :)
Unity? Well, my No Upgrades video is around 3 hours glitchless and you could consider that a category of its own. ^_^ I probably wouldn't do Any%, no real interest in that. Having way too much fun with Destiny and Honkai Star Rail nowadays. th-cam.com/video/9b1pV3K8ooY/w-d-xo.html
Okay, yes, but also no. You’re correct to say that items come before gear in Unity, and higher stats will never beat raw skill and experience, so the focus should be on improving your skills and relying more on items than gear stats. However, it’s also objectively the case that certain gear is just better than the rest. The Legendary Military Bracers and Belt are far and away the best of their types in the game because they give the maximum amount of Phantom and Berserk Blades, as well as the maximum amount of Ammunition, Smoke Bombs, Cherry Bombs and Stun Grenades. And yes, the Legendary Military Belt over the Legendary Sans-Culottes Belt. The only upside of the Legendary Sans-Culottes Belt is having more Lockpicks, and you don’t ever need 35 Lockpicks. If you do then you seriously need to focus on improving at lockpicking, it’s not that hard. Beyond that, the Legendary Napoleonic Hood or the Legendary Sans-Culottes Hood are both arguably the best in the game. The former gives you double duration on the Assassin Cache ability and so allows you to replenish all your items every so often, critically being long enough in duration to replenish one Phantom Blade with every activation. The latter gives you a powerful boost to the range, duration and cooldown of Communal Sense. No other hoods have anything like this level of power, and they both compliment gameplay - one allows you to replenish items and tackle situations with more verbs at your disposal, whilst the other allows you to keep track of enemies much more easily on the fly. The Legendary Sans-Culottes Coat and Breeches are also both the best in the game, without a doubt. The coat gives you the largest boost to Restricted Area Detection Time, Blend Fade Time and Time to Blend, thereby massively increasing your social stealth and aggressive stealth abilities. It’s that simple, no other coat matches it. As for the breeches, they’re the least important part of gear in the game - health or stealth, that’s all breeches affect, and if you want to reduce noise by the largest amount possible then it’s the Legendary Sans-Culottes Breeches all the way. I’m not saying that the message of this video was incorrect, you’re right to say that the focus should be on skill, experience and item usage instead of gear stats to compensate. But there is also an objectively best gear set to use which enhances active gameplay and allows the player to have more options at their disposal, rather than just compensating for the player’s weaknesses. Unity is easy when it’s not bugging and if you play it correctly, as you said, but you can make it easier still and have more items and opportunities available to you for every micro-decision if you wear the best gear, and that seems obvious to me.
You missed the point of the video. Yes, some gear is objectively better. I even admit this. Because it's an obvious truth. The other side of that truth is that it costs SO MUCH MORE TIME to acquire for MINIMAL benefit past a certain point that the average player would just be wasting their time. If you disagree we have nothing else to talk about. If you have the TIME and the willingness to farm LONGER for more stuff, yes you will obviously be stronger but no one needs to be told that, it's not some hidden secret.
Okay, but does it really take that much longer? You recommended doing Political Persecution, one of the hardest Co-op Missions (which in all likelihood you’d have to play solo 3 times at least due to how difficult it can be to beat the time limit at the start) to get Arno’s Master Coat. In that same time, you could have played It Belongs In A Museum several times over, made 70k per go and could have bought all the best gear I listed. They only cost 125k-165k each, that’s 3 completions at max and usually only 2 completions of the mission to get each piece of gear. Even if it took you 15 minutes a round, which is miles longer than the optimal routes and strategies would take, you’re only looking at around 3 hours of grinding that mission. AT MOST. If you’ve already made a load of money from the Café Théâtre income and literally any other source of money in the game, it will take you a lot less time, perhaps only an hour or two. An hour or two of play to get the best gear, which is by your own admission better than the rest. Even if that’s only marginal. Your recommended alternative was successfully playing and completing Political Persecution up to 3 times, which would likely be solo and could take well over an hour and a half itself. I didn’t miss the point of the video, I think you’ve just exaggerated how long it would take to get the best gear, and underplayed how much better that gear is. No, you don’t need it. Your No Upgrades runs showed that, and I’ve played Unity No Upgrades myself, I know it’s fairly easy. But that better gear can make a world of difference, and I think *you’ve* missed that. I would appreciate you have not being so quick to be defensive and say “If you disagree we have nothing else to talk about”. Disagreement is the start of learning and discussion. I’ve been a subscriber of yours for years and found a lot of your content helpful, I’ve commented helpful advice before which both you and others have read and appreciated, and I watched and enjoyed your AC Charity event livestream after the recent earthquakes. Please don’t just offhandedly dismiss my input and tell me “I missed the point”.
And that’s another thing, why are you trying to cater towards what the average player would or would not do? You’re Leo K Rogue, you’re the stealthy shadowy badass who teaches us how to be the best rogues we can be, appealing to a certain fantasy and audience. Why are you so loathe to recommend to your audience that they invest a bit of time and effort into getting better gear? The skills you recommend learning also take time to learn and master, and practice to get used to - I don’t see you telling others to avoid those because they take SO MUCH LONGER. Why should spending a bit of time on obtaining better gear be any different?
@@barneysaggers1637 by doing hard missions you level-up in real life. You gain knowledge and experience that makes the game more fun. Grinding easy missions for hours is fun for the very few players. For most, it's boring after the first time. It literally turns into a job. To you the efficiency is more important, but other players for the most part want their time in the game to be fun. Leo talks to that majority of players. I know I'd rather spend 5 hours to challenge myself than spend 3 hours doing the same thing over and over again.
I thought the ability of the phantom blade to quick shot enemies was dependent on your diamond level, which is majorly influenced by your gear level. If your a gold diamond level you can quick shot everyone except for level 5 brutes, isn't that right? Wouldn't that alone make grinding for the top gear worth it, as in the footage here of your run of Hoarders your quickshotting lots of guards instead of carefully aiming.
No. A viewer of mine tested this way too thoroughly for something he wasn't paid for, and found out that the ONLY thing that determines Phantom Blade quickshot damage is your Pistol, and the Improved Phantom Blade skill. Even if you have default gear apart from those, you should still be able to quickshot basically anything. Don't watch the video since it's outdated, but read the Pinned Comment here (just skip to the end, it's... a lot hahahaha) th-cam.com/video/BlZ-Y8n7Tw0/w-d-xo.html
Oh god my favorite game my favorite franchise I have missed you Leo K Rogue this will be perfect for my 20th replay of AC Unity becoz RPG ruin the franchise and also if you have played after the most recent patch (February 20th, 2015) its really really really good now plz do Dead Kings stealth reaper it really makes you feel like an Arno
"if you have played after the most recent patch (Feb 20, 2015)" actually destroyed me loool Here's the only Dead Kings reaper I've ever done th-cam.com/video/WcmB2QP17bY/w-d-xo.html
I hope you're having fun with it. It _can_ be tricky and you have to be a lot more careful (and sometimes the game just falls apart and it feels awful) but for the most part I found it a very interesting experience.
So im playing Fallout New Vegas: Dead Money dlc and people either hate or love it, no in between. Why? For one simple reason. The dlc removes all of your gear from the outside and locks you in. Deal with it. Scrounge for weapons, ammo and junk to make something usefull. Stealth is key (although it could be implemanted better), because you and 3 more people have connected bomb collars and it just so happens that various radios interfere with those collars, causing them to detonate, requireing patience. The enemies are also quite though, requiring dismemberment to put them down permanatly, so its best to avoid them or fight one on one, or better yet two on one with your companions. And while other 3 dlcs dont take gear from you and 4th dlc even lets you go back, from now on, im playing any and all dlc as fresh as i can, using only my skills. Highly recommended, even if many dlcs are really made for this
Well you are absolutely right i used the arno master hood, master borgeious coat, master militry bracer, some belt i dont remmember and master brigand breehers until i got the legendary militry bracher, napolic belt and napolic breehers only to realise i can finish the game with the gear i had
7:03 My luck is extraordinarily bad with co-op mission rewards. Lol. If i try to get a piece of gear from a co-op mission, than it's always the last to unlock. Whether it's tailored, master, or legendary. If i want it, than, boom. Its the last of the 3 i get.
Leo, has the AC community ever hosted tournaments? like, a bunch of channels getting together and submitting clips of the same missions or different ones, and the community decides the best clip
SneakyServer used to do that, when it first started, but it eventually became too tiring to maintain, and the amount you can actually be creative in Assassin's Creed games is fairly limited. In time, it became very same-y.
If you think it will help your enjoyment, then sure. Note that gear in those games basically only really gives you more item-capacity which is the limiting factor behind most of your gameplay anyway.
Yes, that is a factor in games like AC III in which you start only with 3 smoke bombs and can only upgrade up to five later on, once you've built the Homestead further. In my case, I do prefer to have as much bullets and rope darts as possible, so the work is fruitful.
Another way to think of it is, maybe you're _a lot better_ than you _think,_ and you would still be just fine without them. (In fact that is probably closer to the truth.)
Use Eagle Vision any time you're uncertain what's directly in front of you, or before you're about to start taking out guards nearby. Use Smoke bombs to "prep" a guard or target for yourself, then run in and Hidden Blade. Berserk Blades can stun guards from a distance and give you a good number of seconds to run at them and stab them. Their "going crazy" animation lasts quite a while after being stuck with a Berserk Blade, and during that time they can't see or hear anything (and stop moving completely) so this stun-and-stab approach is very strong on lone guards who you can't headshot.
There's possibly a mental effect of wearing it that makes us too comfortable with less "clean" stealth play, since we know we can shrug off stray detection meters way easier with it on. I definitely play better overall without it because I _have_ to, I know its powerful effect isn't there to save me.
Personally I aim for higher end gears for that sense of accomplishment. You know, that satisfaction you get after grinding knowing that you earned them all. But for gameplay purposes, it's just like you say, they're not that much better than mid-tier gears.
That's a great reason to do it, if that's the feeling you're chasing. You actually enjoy the process of it, out of pleasure, not fear. You're not one of those players who is worried about playing 'wrong' or like they have no choice, like they HAVE to get the best gear otherwise they don't get to play. Really this is for them, to show them that, hey, you can grind armor if it feels good (it does to me in most games as well) but you don't have to feel forced to if you just want to enjoy the game.
Xbox Controller: Hold B PlayStation Controller: Hold O Done as you're approaching a guard while Walking. (You can run up to him but you do need to have sprint released while you're going for the choke.)
That's totally fine, and on your first playthrough I'd even recommend it. But also consider how much _time_ it takes to actually engage with all of those mechanisms. On a first run, you won't even feel it, it'll even be fun. But on repeat playthroughs (which, I know a lot of players do in this game) it becomes a genuine decision, and this video speaks more to that.
@@LeoKRogueI dont much understand the ''repeat playthrough'' on this game. You have your progression system that allows you to replay all missions. There is no need to start a new game and if you go for 100% completion... lets just say there is no rush. You have to do these annoying activities like collecting all the chests anyway.
Unfortunately, there's a fair bit of content in ACU that actually can't be replayed from Progress Tracker -- all Paris Stories for example -- and players have all kinds of reasons for starting a fresh save, especially if they're creators themselves.
Its one thing to be able to beat a level because of gear. But it's another thing to beat a level because of skill. I mean, i dont know about you, but when i beat ac unity without upgrades (or any other game on hard) it feels amazing knowing that, that was all me. Not because of gear that overpowered the enemies, but because of my abilities as a player.
It's definitely a point of pride to know that you can do that. Unity doesn't have selectable difficulties, so No Upgrades is essentially our Unofficial "Hard" Mode.
@@LeoKRogue yeah. If unity had transmog (with actual gear pieces, instead of just outfits) than pretty much all my playthroughs would be no upgrade runs
Hey man I really don’t know if you still read comments on older videos but I wanted to ask you something. I 100 sync dead kings and main campaign and I really don’t know what to do besides co op and heists but I already bought most the gear in the game anyway. I just need something to look forward to while playing the game bc I feel like if I just free roam and do co op theres really nothing Im doing it for. Thanks.
Copy / backup your save somewhere, and start a new playthrough. Unity's not the kind of game that offers much of the "endgame" style of replayability. Now that you've basically done everything in the game, try finishing a run as the weakest possible Arno with no skill unlocks, no upgrades to weapons or armor and the starter/default gear. There's really not that much left for you, other than testing how good you are by playing it in its hardest state like that. th-cam.com/video/9b1pV3K8ooY/w-d-xo.html
So im probably missing the point of the entirety of this video, but is it technically bad to have the highest level gear? Ive been using the sans culotte hood, chest, belt, and footwear along with the military bracers, or "the best gear." Should i switch off it or should i stick with it? Im genuinely confused.
Oh no, it's not bad at all, it's just not _necessary._ Think about it like this, if there's a player who just started the game, or even deleted their save and began a fresh playthrough, there's a chance they might find how long getting the best gear takes to be tiring or boring. The nice thing about ACU is that unlike some other games, not having all that gear is not actually bad for you. So the point of the video is to free players who don't want to go through that lengthy process of getting everything, and telling them, "it's okay to play without those items since you won't have a bad experience if you decide not to chase them down." If you're someone who already has that stuff, go ahead and use it because it's only gonna make you stronger! :D Besides, you already got it all anyway. If a player really enjoys pushing their power level to be as high as possible, there is absolutely nothing wrong with having a great time pursuing the best gear they can get their hands on. I use Legendary Military Bracers and Arno's Master Coat and that has me all set. As for switching off, you don't need to do that unless you think it'll be fun to play that way, like to do a No Upgrades run for example; th-cam.com/video/9b1pV3K8ooY/w-d-xo.html Thanks for the question, I hope I could clear things up. If you're having fun, you don't need to change anything.
@@LeoKRogue Hey thanks for the reply, and now I understand alot better. I was looking at it from the perspective of: Well if A is the best, then why use B, especially if it doesn't offer As much as A. Rather than looking at it in the perspective of not needing it because it doesn't do much better than its counterpart. I also was asking because I'm very much one of those people who goes for BIS in almost all video games I play. But honestly I love this game, and I want to improve, so I think downgrading might help with that. Thanks for the input!
I mean my outfit doesnt have 100% legendary pieces, but when I first completed It Belongs in a Museum and saw how much money I got, I was like "damn this heist is fun" so I did it over n over again, faster each time, I thought I might as well max my Arno out. (I still use the Katana over the endgame sword cuz its cooler lmaoo)
Yeah, if you enjoyed it and didn't feel like you have to do it because a video told you to, that's completely fine, that's different. In your case you were having fun and actually liking the process. (And yeah the Katana is cool as hell, heh.)
My setup was always the legendary sans-culottes chest and pants, the legendary military bracers, and the legendary napoleonic hood. I wanted max smoke bombs, max phantom blades, and max disguise duration. In my opinion it looks really ugly so I also wear the ancient assassin cosmetic.
I actually love the different cosmetic that each gear give you, its not like i dont like the classic hood and coat Assassin has, but everytime i play co-op mission everyone is using the legacy skins which get boring real fast so i rather be the odd one of the group
So what build would you recommend for a unga bunga build. As in the most efficient build for combat. Cause my friend wants to play like this but I don't know too much about the game so we just grinded for the highest damage and health weapons with a heavy sword.
Definitely go for high-tier Medieval Stuff which will give you a lot of Health so you can tank bullets or weapon hits in case you mess up avoiding damage - which in larger fights, eventually you will. Getting the Thick Skin line of upgrades in the skill screen is also really useful. Other than that, yeah just go for weapons that hit really hard. Having some amount of Smoke Bombs is also helpful since it lets you drop one in a fight and stun everyone, giving you a lot of free openings to get a bunch of hits in before everyone comes back to their senses. Because of that, looking for a Belt that lets you carry a lot of Smoke is good. If you want to play Unity in combat there is a level of acceptance involved, that you're always going to struggle a bit more than a player who sneaks around, since the game is designed with combat feeling weak on purpose. It's not impossible, but prepare for a challenge and to be cheap to the game right back, for sure.
The end game gear is overpowerd for me having fun is the game being harder i sometimes in unity use lower tier gear cuz its better and its kinda harder to do stealth
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There's another reason I made this btw 💀💀
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Leo K goes to dark places when destiny doesn’t work 😢
Lmao
@@SandmanURL it’s quite the opposite he goes to good places :)
The way you approach people’s questions and dissect everything is so nice from you
Thanks!
I tend to wear gear based on what I’m doing. If I’m clearing out chests, I’ll get the gear with higher lockpick capacity. Going on a stealthy mission, make sure to have a lot of smokebombs and darts. If I’m just running around, having some fun, I’ll just throw on something I think looks nice. Unity is fairly easy to play, and I don’t get too caught up with having “high end” gear.
I actually love that approach to respond to whatever scenarios you anticipate. Things like that make me wish Unity had something like loadouts because swapping gear is something I find tiring in this game, and I'd do it a lot more if I had the will. As it is now I'm way too comfortable on my one General setup that "basically works for everything." 😅
@@LeoKRogue yeah loadout swap is something Splinter Cell Blacklist did flawlessly
I need to do this more
All legendary medieval gears for freeroaming lol
it’s also frustrating to switch gears and having to refill all your stuff
Agreed, in any game with gear or stats you usually should just equip & upgrade what’s best for you & your playstyle. For example, if you don’t plan on entering combat at all, there’s no need to equip gear that boosts health.
For sure, and there can even be some satisfaction in predicting things not going according to plan sometimes, so tacking on a _little bit_ of extra help in specific parts of your setup to easily respond to those feels good. Getting the balance between those and your "main" focus is a special kind of tension that can be really fun, the best RPGs make _this_ part of their buildcrafting/setups feel interesting.
wow, I really like how you answered all of these questions! you actually put in words everything I learned myself throughout my playthroughs and you let me reflect on my playstyle, on why I always didn't understand why to try to get «best» gear (in stats, not in usefulness for me), but not just working with the best you already have and using it rationally.
Thanks so much. :D Yeah, most players won't need it for most missions, even though there can be a kind of fun in working toward being as strong as possible. Still, it takes enough time for minimal difference in your gameplay experience, that it's not really worth getting it "perfect."
I love using Arno's tailored set, i love using the canon gear and i feel even more immersed , even though the stats arent the best, visually im so satsifed and i like the challenge of course.
Definitely, definitely. ^_^
I never noticed a big difference in terms of stealth in the endgame gear except for change the clothes sometimes for aesthetic purposes, great video btw
Thank you. There's definitely some difference, mostly on Coats in Restricted Areas giving you slightly more time to hide when being observed. This is especially visible if you're being detected from someone at long range, so if you really really hate Gunners or want to move through their sightlines in RAs, getting a much stronger Coat than what I'm happy to sit on _can_ be pretty good.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 this is what I'm talking about. Playing it now this video speaks to the ART. Games are a medium and interactive and allows for immersion and this gives an avenue for a player to encourage themselves to enjoy it more than take a hammer to it and try to cap out stats
Thank you for giving my thoughts a chance and seeing it my way. ^_^ All I'm trying to do is help people enjoy their games more, always.
Minimal approach is the best. Path of least resistance is something I wanna strive but I’m not good enough to focus on that yet. For me right now I focus mainly on reduced detection by blend (I think it had 100+ percent but it’s lower variant was better), military bracers and the band are my go to gears. For blend I’m saying more on the lines of disguise since I use that skill a lot. But yeah.
Edit: never mind. I am a Rogue now i guess XD same stuff I am holding except for the main weapon. But I’m good XD
Disguise is underrated by the community which is insane because of how freakishly overpowered it truly is. It straight-up lets you do things that should normally be impossible.
Love how you phrase your arguments and beliefs. Inspires me a lot
Thank you!
Exactly bro
Most stealth points: Sans Cullote gears
Most health points: Medieval gears
Most ammo friendly: Military gears
Also, equip the special ability based on your mission you're currently doing. Disguise for stealth, health regen for health so u don't use many medicines that are so expensive, and cache if u go playing on range. The group eagle vision is pretty useless to equip
Yeah, it's really that simple. Communal Sense / Group Eagle Vision has a "hidden" effect where it actually increases how long your EV lasts, stacking on top of your existing EV Duration from Hood. A viewer of mine did tracked that manually on a spreadsheet a while ago and I was considering making a short video on it at some point.
The Group Eagle Vision or Communal Sense is actually the only thing I use. It makes Eagle Vision last 25 seconds per activation l, with a massive range. (With Legendary Phantom Hood.)
It's absolutely invaluable to me.
Fun fact: on PC, the in-game clock kept running even if you had switched to another app. Meaning you could perfectly well launch the game, switch to doing something else on your computer and just regularly pick up the money from the café théatre to unlock the most expensive gear in the game without really grinding
You could do that, yeah. Lots of people are on console though.
@@LeoKRogue To be honest, I do agree with what you laid out in the video. Legendary gear is most often overkill unless you're soloing one of the really hard heists/coop missions, so you shouldn't spend too long trying to get it.
It's just that, since I got most of it without doing any effort, I didn't really relate with the "having to grind to get the legendary gear" part haha
Maybe like 3 or 4 months ago I got back into ac and Unity was my favorite when younger and I wanted like 4 of your videos around that time cool to see you are still making Unity videos
Thanks for hanging out! It's pretty rare that I do anything with Assassin's Creed nowadays since Ubisoft aren't doing anything I enjoy with the games anymore -- and Mirage news is basically dead for over half a year. But sometimes it's nice when I get an idea or something I like to talk about.
Exactly bro Leo keeping the assassin's Creed community alive I'm getting unity again after this video I just beat origins it's amazing I watched Leo's ng+ playing through years ago
The point about the belt is legit, though. What I like to say is that your remaining ammunition count a better indicator of how long you have left to live than your actual HP. Items are your *lifeblood*
Absolutely true. And yeah, B and B, brother. Belt and Bracers. That's what really matters.
I gotta say, I definitely respect your passion and how you look into the mechanics.
I have my weird quirks, and it basically always leads me to get gold diamond gear out the window. The absolute moment Arno is spat into Paris, at 1 diamond, I'm off spamming It Belongs In a Museum. I start off buying the Legendary Sans Culotte Chest for better navigation in the museum in general, than the Gold Pistol, Cinqudeas, Military Belt, Napoleonic Bracers, Phantom Hood, and Culotte Breeches.
Then I hammer through Tournament and Moving Mirabeau and such for points.
Basically I'm outright hardwired to go from the starting 1 diamond gear DEAD to the fifth gold tiers.
Then I go and just dump whatever money I get after to random gear I find appealing, until there's nothing left to buy.
I do it very messed up.
Hey, if it's fun, it's fun. If you're doing it because it's your choice and something you genuinely enjoy, that's very different from doing it because a TH-cam guide told you to and you feel like you _have_ to.
Honestly the only real reason to get different gear is to barbie doll Arno
But oh what fun it is to do so. Truly, the visual side is so much more impactful on moment to moment experience than anything else. Unity still stands out as the single game in the entire series that has the biggest number of _different Assassin-looking_ cosmetics, 99% of which you can just unlock by playing the game. That's amazing.
I grinded for Thomas’ master assassin robes. It was worth while as it serves as closure for arguably the biggest problem the Templars had to deal with for how criminally short the screen time was for him. Sometimes, I put it on just to remind the Templars of the legendary character.
They look awesome too. Though, to be clear, Thomas' Master Assassin robes aren't actually gear, they're just a cosmetic.
@@LeoKRogue Correct, I just wanted to add to what you were explaining about with covering gear with cosmetic appearance to suit our style.
Arno's tailored gear,Arno pistol and Offciers saber is my way to go
Going with the gear from the cover is always fun
A mod called “Outfit Manager” allows transmod system now, so hello high gear for me!
Awesome thing with the transmod is that it allows me to create the outfit that you see in the cover art of the four main assassins. Judging by their weapons and cinematic trailer, it’s very clear what class they are. First guy on the left is a warrior class with his axe, second left is Arno being a Jack of all trade but master of none, and the last two on the right I assumed are range class, one loud with the pistol/rifle, and the other is quiet with the phantom blade, poison gas, and smoke bomb. With outfit manager, I was able to recreate the axe assassin on the far left by using the entire medieval gear, but transmod it to look closer to the cover art. One example is the medieval chest gear being transmodded into the Tailored Phantom Coat, since it’s the only chest gear that has similar front design and a folded sleeves on the right arm.
It's really good.
That only changes colors.
@@IndividualQuestion You’re not using its full feature. Read or watch the instruction.
@@atlasprime6193 I have. "Outift manager" is only to edit the colors. I think you're confusing it with something else
@@IndividualQuestion I’m using “Halzoid's Outfit Manager”. There’s only one outfit manager in AC Unity, so you’re doing something wrong.
I love how, on this channel, a simple discussion about this game and styles of playing it, can turn into philosophical and almost mentally challenging problems that this legend of a man, can then spell out for us. I love it, and please don't take it the wrong way, the whole puzzle aspect of your videos is not found ANYWHERE else on TH-cam. Fantastic job. That, and your funny, always a big plus. 🥰 Oh and you listen to your communities, very few TH-camrs do that.
Haha thanks so much, I appreciate that. I'm glad you find it interesting or entertaining to listen to. ^_^
Not to mention helpful. You are THE Mentor here. Again, the perfect mix of what to prioritize; what to NOT chase, humour, smart analytics, and an awesome voice. Thanks for the tips on smoke, berserk and phantom. You were right, underneath it all, Unity is a laughably easy game. I really do struggle with certain games that overwhelm you with how many things there are, or what to get, but once again, you made it easy. Thank you for the video, and thanks for replying, (again the thing on the initial comment with you caring about your community.)
It's good to hear from you about Assassin's Creed after so long
Sometimes it's just nice to talk about, if I feel I have something to say or correct.
@@LeoKRogue yeah. Either way, I like listening to you speak
My perception of you was almost shattered when you started listing "Leo K [Other Class]"...I thought "There's no way..."
Amazing video, love your loadout, hope to complete a no upgrades run one day
If you really want it, it's not that difficult, like I said. ^_^ But I think we're both on a very different game now hahaha.
holy shit that really opened my eyes to something that I have been struggling or suffering from but I haven't realised it. ever since the load of my classes got higher and higher I began to feel like I was wasting my time because there was some invisible voice in my head trying to tell me to just grind the shit money giving missions to get the money to get the end game gear and ending up not really enjoying the game but now that I have heard this it has completely changed my perspective on enjoyment of games and the tools required to do it. You probably just saved me a shit ton of my time that I would have spent otherwise grinding, thanks a lot Leo :))
Wow, if that's really true then I'm so glad you saw this because you're exactly the kind of player I was hoping to reach and help out with it. Of course if you ever find yourself struggling with something you can THEN grind a bit to get better gear and overcome it, but don't feel a need to start spending that time until you make sure that you actually need it.
@@LeoKRogue I'm glad I saw this too, and funny as it is, the reason I had this habit of grinding my ass off for every last piece of good gear in every game(even the ones that didn't need it like unity) was that I had a lot of time to play these games as a kid and also didn't get bored easily because I was a kid, but as I grew up not only did it waste my time but also made me hate many games that I otherwise would have enjoyed, I never really needed the top gear to progress in any game but it was just an artificial compulsion that I had forced upon myself for some reason, I literally would finish the whole game and then just waste my time grinding out the top gear before proceeding to uninstall the game to make space for a new one. Lol sounds pretty stupid now but at least I have stopped doing this now. well, it was literally one of the most impactfull video that I ever watched concerning anything which could be correlated to with a similar situation as video games, meaning that something that can be done should not always be done. LOL that was long, anyways, love your vids :))).
I bought unity yesterday because it was on discount... and god it is good. Thank you for teaching me what i should aim!
No worries!
Can't believe people still make videos about Unity. Despite everything, its a great game
I wouldn't have made this if I didn't keep getting DMs from people about my reasoning behind it. If I can save even one player some time running Museum over and over again, I'm happy.
if you renovate cafe theatre + the social clubs, you get rich really quickly.
aside from that, there are heists und the occasional mission that gives you like 30.000 (in the harder districts).
AND you can get legendary gear as reward from some missions.
you'll reach the 5 diamonds really quickly. I grinded a bit for 5 golden diamonds, not because of the usefulness but for the drip
Drip is the best reason to do anything, if you think any of the later-game gear looks better than the starters, yeah.
When you said “I know you, I know why your here”… you couldn’t have grabbed my immediate attention any better than that 😂
hahaha
Great points about Unity. I remember a lot of the marketing (and even the in-game stat bars) was trying encourage delineated playstyles where you could focus in on ranged, melee, or stealth builds as if it was Odyssey. In reality, Unity fundamentally does not support this kind of build crafting-melee is awful (and getting good weapons is incredibly easy), there is literally no dedicated ranged playstyle (rifle has the same range as the pistol lmfao), and stealth, like all classic ACs, is based off your *movement, your tools, and your knowledge* first and foremost. Stats do not reasonably effect gameplay enough to actually mean anything in Unity. It’s telling that the best gear in the game is the gear that specifically increases your *tool* capacities, just as the tool upgrade capacities are the most important upgrades you can get in previous AC games. In reality, Unity is a classic-ish AC game that follows the typical formula with an ill-fitting gear system overlaying it with almost zero tangible benefits except for playing barbie doll dress up with Arno.
I felt exactly the same about this game basically on Day One.
If they wanted to make builds genuinely matter, every facet of those had to be appealing enough to actually make a player want to focus on it, but as it is only Stealth and Ranged really make any appreciable difference, along with your Weapon. Movement has no stats associated with it. Combat feels so horrible and has such a low skill-ceiling / potential-cap that speccing into it is basically trolling yourself.
Basically you only need to buy legendary gear if you want to 100% the sequence missions. On Arno's base form, the game is pretty much easy.
I’m so glad u make videos on this amazing game, watched a ton of ur vids ur a great content creator ❤
I appreciate that!
Good advice I subscribed. I was surprised when you said “Womens March” was one of the hardest missions to do because I actually completed it solo my first time. I couldn’t do the smuggler mission or the museum heist at all by myself though. The main missions in this game isn’t that hard I bought alot of the high ranked gear just because I like to wear stylish combos during cutscenes and stuff even if it dosent give me the best stats I need for that particular mission.
Thank you for this video. I was looking for something like this. I have every end game gear and item so I was geared down to make the game more challenging, when I realize it made very little difference. So I was seeing if anyone else chose to do this as well.
The legend has returned! I have been waiting for a unity video for ages.
Thanks for waiting. Get ready to do that again for a while💀
a lot of the endgame gear is way too flashy for my taste and i end up just putting on a random gear set i think looks good or an outfit. a lot of the times
i just keep the belt and bracers the same no matter what i wear because i feel they’re incredibly important to my play style. i like using pistols as a tool in stealth so i have the phantom belt, which gives me all the stealth tools i need but as well as extra ammunition. the bracers are usually the napoleonic ones for that small damage boost. honestly, the way i play changes quite a bit and i feel like the items i use reflect that.
Makes perfect sense to me! ^_^
What I like most in a game is that item progress for me. It's fun to start from nothing to having best items in the end. right now I like to progress this game slowly (Level up, Do side activities, Get better equipment as game progress with story) It makes it better for me. Arno starting from just a rookie to a master.
Yeah, that's fine and actually the best way to engage with progression. If you enjoy it and don't feel forced to participate in it, keep doing that and having fun with it. This video is only meant to free people who feel like they _have_ to have the best stuff just to play the game, and make themselves miserable, which is obviously not true. It doesn't apply to players who love the grind and find it enjoyable.
@@LeoKRogue I agree with your point. Sometimes a game can become too annoying to grind or becomes too easy that u prefer to enjoy the challenge. Giving yourself a challenge in a game is best way to enjoy it too.
The True Endgame is _always_ Fashion.
Yes.
I wear the Tailored Medieval Coat. The stats of armor percentage and health that it has are irrelevant to my playstyle, I just like the way it looks. The other pieces of gear I have equiped in conjunction with it make me look like a member of the Levantine Assassin's Brotherhood, while putting a unique twist on the look.
Hell yeah. The way something looks in this game truly is the best reason to use it.
i really hope the devs have taken the same approach to gear in AC Mirage as they did in ACU because i really want to have some fire drip with abhorrent stats or something of the sort. while sometimes the gear did have better stats and might be worth it you can still get by with whatever looks the coolest if you play your cards right. the customisability in ACU was the best in the whole series imo. i will never get enough of how each of the clothes pieces look, even the weapon design was awesome, you could find any set of gear to suit your specific playstyle it was so fun. i could ramble about it for days lol. anyway great video Leo, im gonna go boot up Unity again now
I don't even think gear is going to _have_ stats in Mirage, honestly. I could be wrong, but nothing they've mentioned so far has made me think otherwise. I get the sense that our outfits meanwhile are just limited to whatever robes Basim wears as an Initiate, then as a Master. Maybe some Legacy Outfits. Other than that, the only variance that's been confirmed for clothes is Dyes.
Mirage is a copy and paste of Valhalla as it was suppose to be a dlc and they diverted to a full game last minute. It won’t play anything like the “back to the roots” idea
im hyped for the all side missions AC unity video youre probably working on. as much as we enjoy branching out, its good to come back to this broken franchise every once in a while.
Yeah, me too honestly. I'll remind you that it's just gonna take a hell of a while since it's so annoying to work on, going from Destiny to Assassin's Creed feels like rubbing sandpaper on my face. The difference in extremes is just a _lot,_ one is really smooth and polished and the other just "fights" me and refuses to do what I want all the time :/
Recently finished this game (for the 8th time), and I actually got 100% completion (3rd try), was a fun time ngl, personally I rocked the Legendary Musketeer hood with the legendary phantom coat, legendary military bracers and legendary brigand belt with those legendary sans cullote legs (White Eagle color btw) and yes, I am one of those overkill guys, but it looks great ngl, but it wasn't the most fun, I still missed my old brigand builds because they just looked better and I was more rushed to complete the game as quickly as possible while still having a good looking robe
Makes a lot of sense. Sometimes it can be interesting to see how your experience changes by using different stuff.
So that's why I had the military bracers lol. I was looking at my gear and thought it was weird that I didn't use on full set
Up until AC Origins and the following games, it was possible to beat the AC games without upgrading your gear apart from mandatory story upgrades that you can’t opt out of. It was less of a numbers game since combat was animation based rather than using a hitbox system. It wasn’t until the rpg based games that using higher level gear became more of a necessity than option. The older games allowed players to test their skills by using their characters skills/weapons and played how they wanted to. Now I’m not saying the older game’s combat system was better, as that is up to player preferences, I’m just noting a difference between the two.
I loved that about the older games, it really is so much more of a raw in the moment skill emphasis.
I have No Upgrades runs of Unity and Syndicate on the channel, which are really the latest in the series you can go without engaging with leveling/gearing. (Except Mirage.)
I miss your AC content, King. I miss AC...
We all do, it's on Ubisoft, really. If they make something I actually enjoy playing, I'll be back.
I use my gears based on my playing style. I mainly use max stealth head, chest, pants and max tools for range/diversion for my belt. (max smokebombs and poison bombs for crowds and gunmen) and braces (max berserk darts and normal darts) for heists and coop. for abilities, I use disguise most of the time as my tools are enough to compensate not using assassin cache.
I basically do the same.
I usually solo every coop mission and actual coop with real people is just an occasional bonus for me. So yeah, I need the best gear. I can't stand idiots who fight and kill everything that moves just for the sake of it.
UPD. There is another thing. I try to ghost the mission and never kill anybody unless it's unavoidable.
If you're hellbent on Ghosting then yeah, you do need the best you can equip. You're a rare player though, and someone like you wouldn't be watching these kinds of videos anyway since your mastery and will to challenge yourself is way higher than the average player.
I always interpreted it as that, of course Arno's Master gear isn't "the best" in the game, comparing the numbers is simple enough. The focus was on the items and Eagle Vision range, which realistically are the only things that really make much of a difference in gameplay.
Glad you picked up on that. ^_^
I play with mates, and we're always doing the hardest coop missions, so we need the best gear to not get rekt. Also doing heists constantly means we have way too much money, and can afford every legendary item
That is one of the few examples where strong gear actually matters.
I always played with Arno’s Tailored outfit, because that’s his cover/promotional outfit, so I try to keep it close to canon in my playthrough.
I quite like that too, yeah.
Yes but Thomas De Cornillon outfit is also canon as well once you reach legendary rank. That outfit was meant for the next legendary assassin who would lead the brotherhood in France.
Belt is all I worry about. Ammo hold for whatever I feel like I'm doing. I just flat out ignore stats. I've literally beaten the game with low level gear only because I found most of it ugly.
Stealth, just avoid line of sight in general and you well be fine in most situations. So Those stats are just dumb. Hell high damaging weapons flat out outweigh low defense in fights. Give them slice and dice faster than they kill you.
Also I'ma just say it. AC has a habit of making you 3 and 5 times stronger than you need to be for even the hardest parts.
Belt is massive, yeah. Can't really go without it for personal comfort. Also you're right, this is something myself and a few other gameplay-heavy creators have noticed, Assassin's Creed is basically "balanced" around the starter power-level across most of the series.
Hence why...
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The only legendaries I really wanted were the san culottes chest, it just looks so cool.
In my gear I'm using,
Legendary sans culottes hood
Legendary brigand coat
Legendary military bracers
Legendary phantom belt
Legendary prowler Beechers.
Im not 100% stealthy player. And not always getting into fight. Also I need a good looking gear.
(So according to my preferences I have built this gear 🙂)
Wake up babe, new Leo K Unity video just dropped
I alternate between Arno's outfits and the Bourgeois outfits. They have the same perks and they build off of each other perfectly. I just lament that there's no legendary Bourgeois outfit to build off of Arno's master outfit.
I don't have to grind ... I got my Cafe to max income and set my mouse to auto collect from the box and left it on overnight ... but I actually just wear different outfits depending on the area I'm in ... not the stats. 🙂
Totally fine. This is to assuage the concerns of players who don't even want to go through that much, but if you enjoy going for that and playing that way, this isn't meant to deter you, play however feels good!
5:26 didnt have to go so raw on those poor guards😩
i still remember when i was a kid playing unity, going into the endgame and obviously wanting the best stats for stealth, but goddamn did i changed my mind when the legendary sans-culottes didnt have a cape since i looked like a pleb. feeling cool and having drip was priority number one LOL
YES you get me lol
If only the endgear didn't affect the look of Arno. Arno's canon outfit is probably one of the best. It's so clean and blue just perfectly fits him. I remember after finishing the story, I decided to use his original gear and boy it did not disappoint
Yes indeed. Being able to set your own appearance would've gone a long way to making more of the gear enticing. On PC there are mods that let you do that now but they're hardly 'comfortable' to use IMO.
Thank you the Beautiful insight once again Mentor!!
Thanks for listening.
I understand this video, yet some of the end game gear looks cooledt, which tends to make me lean towards it. An example, being the legendary brigand coat.
Looking cool is the best reason to do anything.
I simply wear Arno's tailored attire, because I think it looks best.
Master attire looks great, but too flashy. A lot of the attire in the game does. Assassins don't want to stand out at the best of times (Machiavelli wanted Ezio to look his best in Rome), but the French Revolution is not a period you want to dress ostentatiously. Brigand and Sans-Culottes would blend well, but look too common. His tailored attire is a perfect middle-ground (probably why it was in most of the marketing). Although, of course, the colour scheme you use for your attire can make anything look less or very flashy (using brown or white, respectively). Just wear what you like, basically.
I always use:
Medieval Hood (Because what do I need Assassin Cache and Communal Sense for if I play single player, I also use Hood of Franciade if I'm early in the game to get more Creed Points that non-Legendary gear can provide me)
Sans-culottes Torso and Trousers
Military Bracer and Belt
It looks ugly as sin but thank Jaysus for outfits and Unity's economy being so easy to the point where Arno can swim in his Livres like Scrooge McDuck
The only things I wear for stats is the bracers and belts since they tend to look good on most outfits anyway, everything else is dependant on look. I still wear handmade stuff in the endgame if it looks cool. Stats are not worth as much to me as making my assassin look cool
You get it! Yes!
Frankly the only reason for NG+ on Unity and even Syndicate is just for the convenience and tedium you save in presumably already having all collectibles and 100% sync. Just having multiple save files on those games (an issue which can be sidestepped on PC) would be enough, because you genuinely don't need endgame gear to complete either game as you've said and as I've done. For me in AC, I've always prioritized chasing the gear that actually matters (belt, boots and bracers in Unity's case) while still looking classy because the games are largely easy enough to get away with that. The San-Culotte belt having a red sash to break up the otherwise monotony of Arno's blue coat and a snappy-looking bracer does it all for me.
Definitely. I'm much the same, Unity is playable enough without upgrades that you can finish the entire game on Default/Starter gear with no Skill Unlocks, so at the end of the day wearing what looks sick is the play.
Nah, legendary sans culottes coat is the objectively best coat for detection rates and overall stealth. Legendary end game gear don’t really have diminishing returns as Eagle vision duration, cooldown, max ammo capacity, blade capacity, all bomb capacity and many more superior utility boosts. For those watching this and thinking that you should listen to what he is saying, don’t even worry, end game gear is end game gear for a reason. Depending on your play style, end game gear is actually very suggestible. Also, museum mission gives you 70k per completion so it’s easy to acquire end game gear while you learn how to be more stealthy in those missions. So yes, grind for end game gear
Yes, obviously.
You are awesome content creator Man
saw your 1 video in random suggestion
After that i subscribed your channel instantly
Wow, thank you!
Missed your acripts and that angel voice of yours
Aww! ^__^ Perhaps I should do more, then. Might not be Assassin's Creed since I've said what I want to say about most of them already though.
@@LeoKRogue im surprised you still made a video. Also "I got taunted by people who do not deserve my shadowy cunning" was more than a burn, was a solar eruption lol.
They tell me I NEED a SOCK on my head FLOPPING around and have absolutely NO trench coat+robe-like CLOTH PHYSICS around my WAIST fluttering in the WIND. I will NOT wear your clown ass circus attire I will look like a fucking boss and play like a boss thank you ver-(game crashes)
hell yeah
Fuck that head piece indeed. It looks so damn stupid
I've been using Arno's tailored outfit, as he wears on the cover, with the Sans Culottes belt for tools. I would switch to a higher level arms piece for more Phantom Blades, but I want to challenge myself to finish missions without using all of my Phantom Blades.
Makes perfect sense. With no selectable difficulty, we define our own level of challenge through what we decide to wear.
Babe wake up, leo k uploaded
I recently bought the game and i didn't understand the stats bar for equipments.
They actually do something or is just the game showing which playstyle the gear buffs??
Take the ranged stat as example: a gear with high ranged stats buffs the range of projectiles or it is just a graphic way to show you what ur build looks like?
They mostly show what your build looks like but the exception is the Damage Stat on your Melee Weapon and Ranged Weapon, how strong your bullets and Phantom Blades are is actually taken from *both* for some reason.
Of course the actual stats on individual items are important. Ammo Capacity, Detection Rate etc.
Thanks! I was trying to explore the ranged approach of the game but the range for muskets and pistols is too short.
Also +1 sub for awnsering a recent comment of a video of 10 months ago. I couldn't find this info untill now :)
Im not sure if youve already done this but I think you should speedrun this game
Unity? Well, my No Upgrades video is around 3 hours glitchless and you could consider that a category of its own. ^_^ I probably wouldn't do Any%, no real interest in that. Having way too much fun with Destiny and Honkai Star Rail nowadays.
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Leo talking about assassin's Creed yes please
Okay, yes, but also no.
You’re correct to say that items come before gear in Unity, and higher stats will never beat raw skill and experience, so the focus should be on improving your skills and relying more on items than gear stats.
However, it’s also objectively the case that certain gear is just better than the rest. The Legendary Military Bracers and Belt are far and away the best of their types in the game because they give the maximum amount of Phantom and Berserk Blades, as well as the maximum amount of Ammunition, Smoke Bombs, Cherry Bombs and Stun Grenades.
And yes, the Legendary Military Belt over the Legendary Sans-Culottes Belt. The only upside of the Legendary Sans-Culottes Belt is having more Lockpicks, and you don’t ever need 35 Lockpicks. If you do then you seriously need to focus on improving at lockpicking, it’s not that hard.
Beyond that, the Legendary Napoleonic Hood or the Legendary Sans-Culottes Hood are both arguably the best in the game. The former gives you double duration on the Assassin Cache ability and so allows you to replenish all your items every so often, critically being long enough in duration to replenish one Phantom Blade with every activation. The latter gives you a powerful boost to the range, duration and cooldown of Communal Sense. No other hoods have anything like this level of power, and they both compliment gameplay - one allows you to replenish items and tackle situations with more verbs at your disposal, whilst the other allows you to keep track of enemies much more easily on the fly.
The Legendary Sans-Culottes Coat and Breeches are also both the best in the game, without a doubt. The coat gives you the largest boost to Restricted Area Detection Time, Blend Fade Time and Time to Blend, thereby massively increasing your social stealth and aggressive stealth abilities. It’s that simple, no other coat matches it. As for the breeches, they’re the least important part of gear in the game - health or stealth, that’s all breeches affect, and if you want to reduce noise by the largest amount possible then it’s the Legendary Sans-Culottes Breeches all the way.
I’m not saying that the message of this video was incorrect, you’re right to say that the focus should be on skill, experience and item usage instead of gear stats to compensate. But there is also an objectively best gear set to use which enhances active gameplay and allows the player to have more options at their disposal, rather than just compensating for the player’s weaknesses.
Unity is easy when it’s not bugging and if you play it correctly, as you said, but you can make it easier still and have more items and opportunities available to you for every micro-decision if you wear the best gear, and that seems obvious to me.
You missed the point of the video. Yes, some gear is objectively better. I even admit this. Because it's an obvious truth. The other side of that truth is that it costs SO MUCH MORE TIME to acquire for MINIMAL benefit past a certain point that the average player would just be wasting their time. If you disagree we have nothing else to talk about. If you have the TIME and the willingness to farm LONGER for more stuff, yes you will obviously be stronger but no one needs to be told that, it's not some hidden secret.
Okay, but does it really take that much longer? You recommended doing Political Persecution, one of the hardest Co-op Missions (which in all likelihood you’d have to play solo 3 times at least due to how difficult it can be to beat the time limit at the start) to get Arno’s Master Coat.
In that same time, you could have played It Belongs In A Museum several times over, made 70k per go and could have bought all the best gear I listed. They only cost 125k-165k each, that’s 3 completions at max and usually only 2 completions of the mission to get each piece of gear.
Even if it took you 15 minutes a round, which is miles longer than the optimal routes and strategies would take, you’re only looking at around 3 hours of grinding that mission. AT MOST. If you’ve already made a load of money from the Café Théâtre income and literally any other source of money in the game, it will take you a lot less time, perhaps only an hour or two.
An hour or two of play to get the best gear, which is by your own admission better than the rest. Even if that’s only marginal. Your recommended alternative was successfully playing and completing Political Persecution up to 3 times, which would likely be solo and could take well over an hour and a half itself.
I didn’t miss the point of the video, I think you’ve just exaggerated how long it would take to get the best gear, and underplayed how much better that gear is. No, you don’t need it. Your No Upgrades runs showed that, and I’ve played Unity No Upgrades myself, I know it’s fairly easy. But that better gear can make a world of difference, and I think *you’ve* missed that.
I would appreciate you have not being so quick to be defensive and say “If you disagree we have nothing else to talk about”. Disagreement is the start of learning and discussion. I’ve been a subscriber of yours for years and found a lot of your content helpful, I’ve commented helpful advice before which both you and others have read and appreciated, and I watched and enjoyed your AC Charity event livestream after the recent earthquakes. Please don’t just offhandedly dismiss my input and tell me “I missed the point”.
And that’s another thing, why are you trying to cater towards what the average player would or would not do? You’re Leo K Rogue, you’re the stealthy shadowy badass who teaches us how to be the best rogues we can be, appealing to a certain fantasy and audience.
Why are you so loathe to recommend to your audience that they invest a bit of time and effort into getting better gear? The skills you recommend learning also take time to learn and master, and practice to get used to - I don’t see you telling others to avoid those because they take SO MUCH LONGER. Why should spending a bit of time on obtaining better gear be any different?
@@barneysaggers1637 by doing hard missions you level-up in real life. You gain knowledge and experience that makes the game more fun. Grinding easy missions for hours is fun for the very few players. For most, it's boring after the first time. It literally turns into a job. To you the efficiency is more important, but other players for the most part want their time in the game to be fun. Leo talks to that majority of players. I know I'd rather spend 5 hours to challenge myself than spend 3 hours doing the same thing over and over again.
I thought the ability of the phantom blade to quick shot enemies was dependent on your diamond level, which is majorly influenced by your gear level. If your a gold diamond level you can quick shot everyone except for level 5 brutes, isn't that right? Wouldn't that alone make grinding for the top gear worth it, as in the footage here of your run of Hoarders your quickshotting lots of guards instead of carefully aiming.
No. A viewer of mine tested this way too thoroughly for something he wasn't paid for, and found out that the ONLY thing that determines Phantom Blade quickshot damage is your Pistol, and the Improved Phantom Blade skill. Even if you have default gear apart from those, you should still be able to quickshot basically anything.
Don't watch the video since it's outdated, but read the Pinned Comment here (just skip to the end, it's... a lot hahahaha)
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@@LeoKRogue Oh wow, for years I thought that was the case. Thanks for the correction.
Oh god my favorite game my favorite franchise I have missed you Leo K Rogue this will be perfect for my 20th replay of AC Unity becoz RPG ruin the franchise and also if you have played after the most recent patch (February 20th, 2015) its really really really good now plz do Dead Kings stealth reaper it really makes you feel like an Arno
"if you have played after the most recent patch (Feb 20, 2015)" actually destroyed me loool
Here's the only Dead Kings reaper I've ever done
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Nowadays i mostly play with everything default, also practicing a No Kill/No Upgrades run
I hope you're having fun with it. It _can_ be tricky and you have to be a lot more careful (and sometimes the game just falls apart and it feels awful) but for the most part I found it a very interesting experience.
I want to look cool with fingerless gloves so I wear the master brigand coat with the sans culottes bracers
ok but leo k mage sounds like a great channel
There is a small chance provided I can use cursed blood magic. v_v
I just wear Arnos tailored gear because I think that’s the best version of his outfit, better than the master assassin outfit lol
Yes. Taste hahaha
So im playing Fallout New Vegas: Dead Money dlc and people either hate or love it, no in between. Why? For one simple reason. The dlc removes all of your gear from the outside and locks you in. Deal with it. Scrounge for weapons, ammo and junk to make something usefull. Stealth is key (although it could be implemanted better), because you and 3 more people have connected bomb collars and it just so happens that various radios interfere with those collars, causing them to detonate, requireing patience. The enemies are also quite though, requiring dismemberment to put them down permanatly, so its best to avoid them or fight one on one, or better yet two on one with your companions. And while other 3 dlcs dont take gear from you and 4th dlc even lets you go back, from now on, im playing any and all dlc as fresh as i can, using only my skills. Highly recommended, even if many dlcs are really made for this
That is really cool, this is my first time hearing about this DLC.
@@LeoKRogue dead money is infamous for anyone who played bethesda/obsidian games, mostly Fallout
Well you are absolutely right i used the arno master hood, master borgeious coat, master militry bracer, some belt i dont remmember and master brigand breehers until i got the legendary militry bracher, napolic belt and napolic breehers only to realise i can finish the game with the gear i had
Yeah! ^_^
7:03
My luck is extraordinarily bad with co-op mission rewards. Lol.
If i try to get a piece of gear from a co-op mission, than it's always the last to unlock.
Whether it's tailored, master, or legendary. If i want it, than, boom. Its the last of the 3 i get.
Ouch, that must be exhausting, heh. Maybe the delayed gratification can be nice? ^_^"
@@LeoKRogue well, at least by the third time i figure out how to get it done faster, usually.
Leo, has the AC community ever hosted tournaments? like, a bunch of channels getting together and submitting clips of the same missions or different ones, and the community decides the best clip
SneakyServer used to do that, when it first started, but it eventually became too tiring to maintain, and the amount you can actually be creative in Assassin's Creed games is fairly limited. In time, it became very same-y.
Would you recommend endgame equipment from other AC games like the Ezio trilogy or the Kenway Saga?
If you think it will help your enjoyment, then sure. Note that gear in those games basically only really gives you more item-capacity which is the limiting factor behind most of your gameplay anyway.
Yes, that is a factor in games like AC III in which you start only with 3 smoke bombs and can only upgrade up to five later on, once you've built the Homestead further. In my case, I do prefer to have as much bullets and rope darts as possible, so the work is fruitful.
I'm the type of person to overprepare and just realized how bad I am that I need all these good gears
Another way to think of it is, maybe you're _a lot better_ than you _think,_ and you would still be just fine without them. (In fact that is probably closer to the truth.)
@@LeoKRogueDo you have any tips for beginners in stealth?
Use Eagle Vision any time you're uncertain what's directly in front of you, or before you're about to start taking out guards nearby. Use Smoke bombs to "prep" a guard or target for yourself, then run in and Hidden Blade. Berserk Blades can stun guards from a distance and give you a good number of seconds to run at them and stab them. Their "going crazy" animation lasts quite a while after being stuck with a Berserk Blade, and during that time they can't see or hear anything (and stop moving completely) so this stun-and-stab approach is very strong on lone guards who you can't headshot.
@@LeoKRogue thanks
I somehow played better without sans culottes gear. I don't know why but I don't use it anymore
There's possibly a mental effect of wearing it that makes us too comfortable with less "clean" stealth play, since we know we can shrug off stray detection meters way easier with it on. I definitely play better overall without it because I _have_ to, I know its powerful effect isn't there to save me.
@@LeoKRogue Yeah I thought like this too
Personally I aim for higher end gears for that sense of accomplishment. You know, that satisfaction you get after grinding knowing that you earned them all. But for gameplay purposes, it's just like you say, they're not that much better than mid-tier gears.
That's a great reason to do it, if that's the feeling you're chasing. You actually enjoy the process of it, out of pleasure, not fear. You're not one of those players who is worried about playing 'wrong' or like they have no choice, like they HAVE to get the best gear otherwise they don't get to play. Really this is for them, to show them that, hey, you can grind armor if it feels good (it does to me in most games as well) but you don't have to feel forced to if you just want to enjoy the game.
@@LeoKRogue Yep. I'm sure there are madlads out there who completed the whole game using the starter outfit
Like this guy for example?
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@@LeoKRogue my mannnnn!!!! 😂😂😂
:0 HE DID IT it’s ac untiy
(When are we getting ghost of Tsushima stealth reaper?)
When I get a Ghost of Tsushima PC port. Until now, this is all I have;
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@@LeoKRogue how have a PlayStation/Xbox
Off topic, but i saw from a video that you can still put a guard in a chokehold even after you become an assassin. How do i do that on a controller?
Xbox Controller: Hold B
PlayStation Controller: Hold O
Done as you're approaching a guard while Walking. (You can run up to him but you do need to have sprint released while you're going for the choke.)
Only Game I subscribe to the "Git gud"-Society... 😎
Nice explaining, as always... 😊
Thanks!
I got to say, i took quite a different approach. I invested early on renovations and club houses so... money is like toilet paper for me!
That's totally fine, and on your first playthrough I'd even recommend it. But also consider how much _time_ it takes to actually engage with all of those mechanisms. On a first run, you won't even feel it, it'll even be fun. But on repeat playthroughs (which, I know a lot of players do in this game) it becomes a genuine decision, and this video speaks more to that.
@@LeoKRogueI dont much understand the ''repeat playthrough'' on this game. You have your progression system that allows you to replay all missions. There is no need to start a new game and if you go for 100% completion... lets just say there is no rush. You have to do these annoying activities like collecting all the chests anyway.
Unfortunately, there's a fair bit of content in ACU that actually can't be replayed from Progress Tracker -- all Paris Stories for example -- and players have all kinds of reasons for starting a fresh save, especially if they're creators themselves.
Its one thing to be able to beat a level because of gear. But it's another thing to beat a level because of skill.
I mean, i dont know about you, but when i beat ac unity without upgrades (or any other game on hard) it feels amazing knowing that, that was all me. Not because of gear that overpowered the enemies, but because of my abilities as a player.
It's definitely a point of pride to know that you can do that. Unity doesn't have selectable difficulties, so No Upgrades is essentially our Unofficial "Hard" Mode.
@@LeoKRogue yeah. If unity had transmog (with actual gear pieces, instead of just outfits) than pretty much all my playthroughs would be no upgrade runs
Hey man I really don’t know if you still read comments on older videos but I wanted to ask you something. I 100 sync dead kings and main campaign and I really don’t know what to do besides co op and heists but I already bought most the gear in the game anyway. I just need something to look forward to while playing the game bc I feel like if I just free roam and do co op theres really nothing Im doing it for. Thanks.
Copy / backup your save somewhere, and start a new playthrough. Unity's not the kind of game that offers much of the "endgame" style of replayability. Now that you've basically done everything in the game, try finishing a run as the weakest possible Arno with no skill unlocks, no upgrades to weapons or armor and the starter/default gear. There's really not that much left for you, other than testing how good you are by playing it in its hardest state like that.
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So im probably missing the point of the entirety of this video, but is it technically bad to have the highest level gear? Ive been using the sans culotte hood, chest, belt, and footwear along with the military bracers, or "the best gear." Should i switch off it or should i stick with it? Im genuinely confused.
Oh no, it's not bad at all, it's just not _necessary._
Think about it like this, if there's a player who just started the game, or even deleted their save and began a fresh playthrough, there's a chance they might find how long getting the best gear takes to be tiring or boring. The nice thing about ACU is that unlike some other games, not having all that gear is not actually bad for you. So the point of the video is to free players who don't want to go through that lengthy process of getting everything, and telling them, "it's okay to play without those items since you won't have a bad experience if you decide not to chase them down."
If you're someone who already has that stuff, go ahead and use it because it's only gonna make you stronger! :D Besides, you already got it all anyway. If a player really enjoys pushing their power level to be as high as possible, there is absolutely nothing wrong with having a great time pursuing the best gear they can get their hands on.
I use Legendary Military Bracers and Arno's Master Coat and that has me all set.
As for switching off, you don't need to do that unless you think it'll be fun to play that way, like to do a No Upgrades run for example;
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Thanks for the question, I hope I could clear things up. If you're having fun, you don't need to change anything.
@@LeoKRogue Hey thanks for the reply, and now I understand alot better.
I was looking at it from the perspective of: Well if A is the best, then why use B, especially if it doesn't offer As much as A. Rather than looking at it in the perspective of not needing it because it doesn't do much better than its counterpart.
I also was asking because I'm very much one of those people who goes for BIS in almost all video games I play. But honestly I love this game, and I want to improve, so I think downgrading might help with that.
Thanks for the input!
I mean my outfit doesnt have 100% legendary pieces, but when I first completed It Belongs in a Museum and saw how much money I got, I was like "damn this heist is fun" so I did it over n over again, faster each time, I thought I might as well max my Arno out. (I still use the Katana over the endgame sword cuz its cooler lmaoo)
Yeah, if you enjoyed it and didn't feel like you have to do it because a video told you to, that's completely fine, that's different. In your case you were having fun and actually liking the process. (And yeah the Katana is cool as hell, heh.)
My setup was always the legendary sans-culottes chest and pants, the legendary military bracers, and the legendary napoleonic hood. I wanted max smoke bombs, max phantom blades, and max disguise duration. In my opinion it looks really ugly so I also wear the ancient assassin cosmetic.
Outfits provide some saving grace to gear that doesn't look that great, for sure. Not perfect but better than no visual customization at all.
I actually love the different cosmetic that each gear give you, its not like i dont like the classic hood and coat Assassin has, but everytime i play co-op mission everyone is using the legacy skins which get boring real fast so i rather be the odd one of the group
So what build would you recommend for a unga bunga build. As in the most efficient build for combat. Cause my friend wants to play like this but I don't know too much about the game so we just grinded for the highest damage and health weapons with a heavy sword.
Definitely go for high-tier Medieval Stuff which will give you a lot of Health so you can tank bullets or weapon hits in case you mess up avoiding damage - which in larger fights, eventually you will. Getting the Thick Skin line of upgrades in the skill screen is also really useful.
Other than that, yeah just go for weapons that hit really hard.
Having some amount of Smoke Bombs is also helpful since it lets you drop one in a fight and stun everyone, giving you a lot of free openings to get a bunch of hits in before everyone comes back to their senses. Because of that, looking for a Belt that lets you carry a lot of Smoke is good.
If you want to play Unity in combat there is a level of acceptance involved, that you're always going to struggle a bit more than a player who sneaks around, since the game is designed with combat feeling weak on purpose. It's not impossible, but prepare for a challenge and to be cheap to the game right back, for sure.
wow I was not expecting an immediate response thanks for the help
The end game gear is overpowerd for me having fun is the game being harder i sometimes in unity use lower tier gear cuz its better and its kinda harder to do stealth
That's totally fair, limiting ourselves is always an avenue we have available to us as players, if we just want to have a different experience.
@@LeoKRogue Or it could be just i like harder more challenging games like Dark Souls or Elden Ring
You're definitely not going to find "fair" challenge in Assassin's Creed, I can tell you that.
Using high end gear makes the game veeerry easy adding up to the fact that unity is one of the hardest ac games
It is pretty hard, but not hard enough to really justify "needing" gear. Like so;
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Fashion > stats
Hell yeah.