Play Notes

Play Notes

The Assassin's Guild Challenge Board

If you have been playing other Ubisoft titles and you joined their fledgling U-Play Program, you probably already have some points banked that you can use right away as soon as you start playing the game.  One of the bonus items you can purchase with your U-Play Points is the Gun Capacity Upgrade, which costs 30 points.  This upgrade increases your gun ammo capacity by 10 bullets, which is actually a pretty good thing, so you will want to snag this if you have the points!

In addition to the ammo upgrade, you can also score the multi-player Hellequin Character for 40 points if you plan on taking advantage of the online side of the game, and for 20 points each you can grab the Armor of Altair, Altair's Robes, and Florentine Noble Attire -- though for the most part these are simply aesthetics for the game and do not provide you with any significant bonus to play.  They look good though, and that can be important if, like me, you are into game immersion.

-- Achievements Easily Missed --

The lion's share of the Achievements in the game are part of the story, and so they cannot be missed because you will unlock them as you play regularly, but there are a handful that you can actually miss, and we would not want that to happen, so I will be providing instructions for obtaining them in the body of the relevant section -- all you will need to do is remember to grab them when prompted to, but on the off-chance that you are not using this as a play-through guide but just consulting it as needed, here is a list of the ones that you might miss otherwise:

- Dust to Dust (20 GP)  Find 1 Artifact in the Present.

This Achievement must be unlocked prior to completing the game, because it cannot be completed in replays after that.  It can only be unlocked after Lucy tells you to return to the Sanctuary before dawn, and you receive the communications ear piece as you leave the main room.

The easy way to unlock this is to depart from the main room, heading up the stairs to the courtyard outside.  Do not go past the generators on the right -- instead look left and you will see the fountain on the wall.  Climb up to the roof here then to the next roof using the cargo-lift to reach the top, then look to the left and you will spot a hole in the roof tiles, inside of which is the glowing Artifact.  The Achievement will unlock once you take it.

- Mailer Daemon (20 GP) Access your email in 2012

In Sequence 2 as soon as the "Leave Animus" command is added to the Pause Menu, use it to return to the Sanctuary.  When you exit the chair, head to the back of the room and use the (now glowing) computer there to check your email.  You do not actually have any but that does not matter, the point is that you tried, and as any good Little League player knows, it is not about winning, it is about checking your email.

- Your Wish is Granted (10 GP)  Throw money in a well.

This is not really one that you can miss by moving through an area, rather it gets missed because most gamers are not aware that they are supposed to throw money in the well..

That is it -- the rest of the Achievements either come with the story, or are ones you will be actively working towards anyway, and so cannot miss like these.  While Achievements are not why we play these games, they do make nice bragging score cards hey?  So you should get as many as you can legitimately obtain in every game!