History GameBreaker / AssassinsCreed

Breaking the ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' games are as easy as throwing a guard off a roof.

* Rope arrows are cheap, plentiful and can be exploited very quickly early on in the game. Not only can the player get easy silent kills on enemies with them, but they can be used to instantly trip any enemy (up to and including EliteMooks) and can be used to hang soldiers from trees without breaking stealth. Tellingly, they only show up in the last couple chapters of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag''.

* The Templar and Mayan Armor. Templar armor goes hand in hand with DiscOneNuke, as it is available after doing some easy, if lengthy, mission lines unlocked in the first fourth of the game, and makes Edward a walking tank that takes an extreme amount of damage before dying. Mayan armor makes Edward ImmuneToBullets, albeit without the damage-reducing effects of the Templar armor, and can let the player snipe enemies without getting damaged by riflemen.

* Qualified in that you have to be able to defeat ''a'' Legendary ship, but in [[DualBoss the HMS ''Fearless'' and HMS ''Royal Sovereign'' boss fight]] both ships drop one half of the normal reward, and if you loot one of them before going down to her sister ship you keep the drop -- ''10000 reales''! After about an hour or two of grinding, you'll never have to worry about running out of money for the rest of the game.

** Qualified in that you have to be able to defeat ''a'' Legendary ship, but in [[DualBoss the HMS ''Fearless'' and HMS ''Royal Sovereign'' boss fight]] both ships drop one half of the normal reward, and if you loot one of them before going down to her sister ship you keep the drop -- ''10000 reales''! After about an hour or two of grinding, you'll never have to worry about running out of money for the rest of the game.

* The Hidden Blade's biggest change in ''II'' was a little feature missing from version one: the ability to block (okay, they also added a standard attack for it, but that was rather pointless unless you wanted to see some of the spectacularly gruesome combo kills). This may sound odd, but because you couldn't block with it in ''1'', you pretty much had to be perfect on the timing or lose a lot of health as the guards wailed on you while you were staggered. Before, if you weren't too good at the game, you had to stick with the sword to avoid the previous previous; now, there really wasn't any excuse ''not'' to use the Blade. (It does less damage than the primary weapons, but who needs a few more points of damage when you're one-shotting every enemy that attacks you?)

* Rope arrows are cheap, plentiful and can be exploited very quickly early on in the game. Not only can the player get easy silent kills on enemies with them, but they can be used to instantly trip any enemy (up to and including EliteMooks) and can be used to hang soldiers from trees without much of a problem. Tellingly, they only show up in he last couple chapters of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag''.
* You can buy the Duck Footed Pistol from the General Store, which is ostensibly a sawed-off shotgun with three barrels. Not only is it extremely dead at short range (killing multiple enemies in a OneHitKill), but when mixed with the multiple holsters, you can carry several at once and plow through enemy forces like they're tissue paper. It's incredibly easy to get throug hthe final chase misson just by running full tilt and using the DFP's to clear out groups of enemies.

* The Templar and Mayan Armor. Templar armor goes hand in hand with DiscOneNuke, as it is available after doing some easy, if lengthy, missions lines unlocked in the first fourth of the game, and makes Edward a walking tank that takes an extreme amount of damage to take down. Mayan armor makes Edward ImmuneToBullets, albeit without the damage-reducing effects of the Templar armor, and can let the player snipe enemies without getting damaged by riflemen.
* Berserk darts can make assassination targets a breeze. Why chase a target down when you can snipe them from the bushes and watch as their own guards cut them down in self defence?

** In the game's defense, switching weapons does change the timing on the counter move, adding variety, if not difficulty.
*** Even with the change of the timing on the counter move as weapons were being switched, guessing the correct timing to perform a counter is just as good as doing it, and that's if you're able to see every attack through to fit with your timing. Which makes surviving the whole game with ONLY the Hidden Blade possible if you have the ability time EVERY single counter correctly, not to forget that you can use that Hidden Blade to do a high-profile assassination during a fight if an enemy is taunting you or is cowering from fear. Not even the game's BigBad is spared (although he doesn't taunt or cower in fear like how your enemies will usually do)... Let's just say Altaïr and his trademark Hidden Blade near the end of the game is pretty much a GameBreaker himself.

* The Hidden Blade's biggest change in ''II'' was a little feature missing from version one: the ability to block (okay, they also added a standard attack for it, but that was rather pointless unless you wanted to see some of the spectacularly gruesome combo kills). This may sound odd, but because you couldn't block with it in ''1'', you pretty much had to be perfect on the timing or lose a lot of health as the guards whaled on you while you were staggered. Before, if you weren't too good at the game, you had to stick with the sword to avoid the previous previous; now, there really wasn't any excuse ''not'' to use the Blade. (It does less damage than the primary weapons, but who needs a few more points of damage when you're one-shotting every enemy that attacks you?)

* The Crossbow, which is like the Hidden Pistol, except without the stealth-breaking loud noise. If you're moderately quick on the draw, you can kill any guard before they raise the alarm, even if you haven't even drawn the weapon when they initially spot you. This makes rooftop archers in particular completely cease to be a threat, since they tend to move on their own.

* Ishak Pasha's armor set (think IronMan with a hood) can be acquired as early as Sequence 5. Collecting 25 Animus data fragments will unlock the ability to purchase a map revealing every memoir page location (there are 10 of them) throughout the city, and after collecting them, a final tomb to complete. The armor is one of two unbreakable sets in the game (along with the Master Assassin Armor, which is usually acquired much, much later) and causes guards to freak out and run away when they see Ezio.

* Ishak Pasha's armor set (think IronMan with a hood) can be acquired as early as Sequence 3. Collecting 25 Animus data fragments will unlock the ability to purchase a map revealing every memoir page location (there are 10 of them) throughout the city, and after collecting them, a final tomb to complete. The armor is one of two unbreakable sets in the game (along with the Master Assassin Armor, which is usually acquired much, much later) and causes guards to freak out and run away when they see Ezio.

* The three main "breakers" are executions/kill streaks, the Assassin recruits, and Arrow Storms -- executions/kill streaks allowing the player to OneHitKill most mooks (and in some cases, even mini-bosses) while going on the offense[[hottip:*:the developers increased the size of enemy encounters as well as their aggressiveness specifically to compensate for this new mechanic...and it's STILL hilariously overpowered]], the Assassin recruits allowing Ezio to be credited for kills while completely avoiding detection (the recruits also potentially becoming [[OneManArmy one-man/woman-armies in their own right]] upon reaching the highest rank), and Arrow Storms [[OneHitKill one-shotting]] any enemy in Ezio's vicinity.

* While ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'' expanded ''II'''s economic redevelopment system to the entire city of Rome, it was given some reasonable limitations in the way of requiring you to seize control of an area from the Borgias by destroying designated towers before allowing you to renovate the buildings there. Certain towers were inaccessible until later parts of the game, preventing players from 100% renovation too soon. However, the system was taken to absurd levels in ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations Revelations]]'' with the city of Constantinople, which had basically the same setup as Rome and none of the limitations, since all of the Templar Dens are accessible almost right away. There was the very minor addition of increasing notoriety every time you renovate a building, which is very easily sidestepped. It is entirely possible to have the city almost entirely rebuilt as early as Sequence 3, making the economy an even bigger joke than it usually is in AC games. Revelations has a few breakers and {{DiscOneNuke}}s in general because of the decision to allow access to the vast majority of the city and side content very early on in the story, unlike previous installments that utilized gating.
* Ishak Pasha's armor set (think IronMan with a hood) can be acquired as early as Sequence 3. Collecting 25 Animus data fragments will unlock the ability to purchase a map revealing every memoir page location (there are 10 of them) throughout the city and completing a final tomb. The armor is one of two unbreakable sets in the game (along with the Master Assassin Armor, which is usually acquired much, much later) and causes guards to freak out and run away when they see Ezio.

Breaking the ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreed'' games are as easy as throwing a guard off a roof.

* The three main "breakers" are executions/kill streaks, the Assassin recruits, and Arrow Storms -- executions/kill streaks allowing the player to OneHitKill most mooks (and in some cases, even mini-bosses) while going on the offense, the Assassin recruits allowing Ezio to be credited for kills while completely avoiding detection (the recruits also potentially becoming [[OneManArmy one-man/woman-armies in their own right]] upon reaching the highest rank), and Arrow Storms [[OneHitKill one-shotting]] any enemy in Ezio's vicinity.

Breaking the ''AssassinsCreed'' games are as easy as throwing a guard off a roof.

*** Even with the change of the timing on the counter move as weapons were being switched, guessing the correct timing to perform a counter is just as good as doing it, and that's if you're able to see every attack through to fit with your timing. Which makes surviving the whole game with ONLY the Hidden Blade possible if you have the ability time EVERY single counter correctly, not to forget that you can use that Hidden Blade to do a high-profile assassination during a fight if an enemy is taunting you or is cowering from fear. Not even the game's BigBad is spared (although he doesn't taunt or cower in fear like how your enemies will usually do)... Let's just say Altair and his trademark Hidden Blade near the end of the game is pretty much a GameBreaker himself.

* The Hidden Blade has a slightly wider window of opportunity than in the previous games, although that [[ItMakesSenseInContext is probably a subtle nod to Ezio's experience]], while Hidden Pistol's much faster aiming time (making it an actually viable combat weapon) is a more overt example.

* The games counter mechanic was greatly buffed from the previous games, reducing difficult fights to spamming the counter button, with no regard to timing. In addition, the game's "kick" option while fighting reducing even the toughest enemies to whimpering babies.

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** The player, with patience and a couple hours, level several recruits up to max experience (and subsequently complete most of the recruit quests as a result), giving the player an unbeatable advantage very early in the game.

[[folder:Assassin's Creed Revelations]]