I feel strongly about this as I've really liked the power you had in previous AC games. In Unity I think they've straight up ruined Assassin's Creed combat full stop. A lot of the coolest shit has been excised from the game. Here's a list.
- Using Hidden Blades as weapons in Open Combat
- Instantly Killing Enemies in Smoke Bombs
- Cool Murder Animations
- Counters instantly killing
- Counter Comboing
- Unarmed Combat
- Stealing a dude's weapon
- Murdering him with it
- Big weapons that kill enemies in one hit
- Gunslinging
Beyond those things the system they've replaced it all with is just awful. At a low level it's not fun at all because you have to wail on dudes to kill them due to the lack of counter killing and, judging from the Quick Look since I'm not interested in playing any more of it, at a high level there's no variety since you have to upgrade individual weapons to being overpowered murder instruments. Gone are the days where you can grab a broom and brain guards with it. In Unity you'll have the weapon you upgraded to full and that's it. Not that you're missing much though obviously since now there's no counter killing there's no cool murder animations anymore for each weapon. Ugh. Terrible. Oh, also I really don't like how apparently you can't counter if you're in the middle of another animation.
Anyway the thing that bothers me right now isn't that Unity is bad. Yes, it's clear that Unity is bad and I'll never play it again. The thing that bothers me is the next game. The one that takes after Unity that doubles down on these changes but fixes the other shit or puts in something new that's good. What if counters instantly killing isn't in Assassin's Creed games anymore? What if counter comboing is just gone from now on? What if you will actually won't be able to disarm dudes and murder them with their own weapons ever again? If that was the case... I don't think I'd ever want to play AC ever again.
Am I the only one who feels this strongly about that part of Unity?
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