Great video! One thing I think you didn't mention is that holding high profile and crouch lets you sprint while also disable any climbing/jumping/sliding moves. Very useful for interiors where you recommended to let go of high profile.
Oh damn, I didn't know that. It would make sense that I wouldn't know that because of how infrequently I use the crouch button in Unity, lol. I'm gonna pin your comment so people can see this.
AC is a series that leans _heavily_ on player fantasy. The reason you would buy an Assassin’s Creed game used to be that you wanted to feel like an Assassin. I don’t think it’s any coincidence that so many people prefer to go for the flashy, badass approach to things over the simpler, more efficient approach.
@@bish0p3473 I’m of the same mind. I much prefer AC3’s parkour animation choreography over Unity’s for that exact reason; Connor’s movements are efficient and quick, but they still manage to be smooth and cinematic nonetheless.
The parkour is nice but it's still very frustrating for me to execute. It never runs as smoothly as people fawn over it for, and it keeps me from fully liking the game
This is fantastic, thank you for making this. Most people won't understand the ridiculous amount of effort and time-investment needed to build this kind of video, especially one of this length, with this amount of information in it. You kicked ass, buddy.
Yea, I knew going into making this that it would be a long haul, but I think I underestimated even then, lol. I appreciate the kind words, Leo, they mean a lot!
I watched a lot of Leo K's videos and it was really insightful to see some of lesser known but inner mechanics of the game and it made me appreciate it a lot more and sometimes the game will let you down horribly but when it's working and doing its thing its absolutely exhilarating. This is a great video and I learned a lot from it. Yourself and Leo have made content that helps players feel in control of this game, the reason people are here are clearly because they want to love it and you help that process so again I thank you .
It's kind of odd how the game never really gave a clear example of how to do side hops, so some players would have probably never known about it despite it being such a vital piece to Unity's parkour.
Assassin’s Creed has very notably never taught the player about ejects, outside of a few moments in Assassin tombs in AC2, as well as equivalent missions in later games. The game manuals have never once included a single mention of the mechanic. Why this is the case is absolutely beyond me.
ACUnity's parkour is just.... mesmerizing! Half the time I was rewinding the video just to listen to the instructions properly, cause I was constantly drifting with the parkour.
I choreographed a lot of the parkour sequences you see in these short clips so everything looked video-worthy and professional, and I must confess that I’ve had the same thing happen to me when watching this, lol. If you need clarification on anything, I have my entire written script linked in the description.
Nicole Song yea, trying to do long, complex parkour chains consistently in Unity without at least one thing going wrong is an absolutely nightmare compared to other AC games, lol. Thanks for the kind words!
I recently bought unity and put some hours on it. What i can say is that im in love with the parkour but didnt know the parkour can be this smooth! So yeah its a blessing to have this video on my recommended. Thank you!
I like how Arno is referred to by his name and not by 'your character' or something else, it puts so much life into him for me and feels so nice. great video.
Glad you noticed that! There’ll be a lot more use of the term “player character” in my upcoming AC3 guide because a bunch of the stuff applies to Haytham, Connor, and Desmond, but in this game, there’s only one PC, so I was able to be a bit more personal with the writing.
Reminds me of that one time I jumped from top of bastille, and somehow managed to use breakfall, right before hitting the bottom of the mote, surviving.
@@itzmrinyy7484 I mean, except maybe RDR2 you can say that for every game released after 2017 or so. Not that there's anything wrong with that imo, I do prefer stylized art over realism in videogames, but still
Unity is definitely a game that is very important to this community right now, considering how much it tried to appeal to the original vision of AC and also the direction the franchise has taken in the recent titles. Thanks for the kind words!
Finally took the time to give this video a proper viewing. You really broke down everything I could think of in regards of movement, covered some stuff I never bothered to think about (for example tree parkour) and some of the stuff I unconsciously knew from having played the game so much, but not something I'd think about when trying to teach somebody about the game (like movement after high profile kills). Very well done, I've bookmarked the video for when I encounter someone else struggling with Unity :)
If I was gonna put the word “ultimate” in the title, I had to live up to it, didn’t I? Haha, thanks for the kind words, Trevi. Your original stealth reaper video for Confession was the first seed sown in my brain that I should buy this game, so I have to thank you in a big way for being an inspiration to me from way back when I had only played Origins and Odyssey. You’re a major reason as to why this video even exists, so I just wanted to say thanks for inspiring me to give this game a chance :)
thing is that this is the game that broke the old school AC style of gameplay, after this people were begging for something new & that lead to "if realism gets in the way of gameplay, gameplay takes priority" which tbf is not always a bad thing, but, we've certainly lost a lot of what this franchise was.
Jcers, the last few weeks, I've been playing unity extensively and your guide is partly responsible since it helped me understand the game mechanics better. A lot of the frustrating moments where Arno seemed to not do what I instructed him to do have simply disappeared, and I have no words for how liberating that feels. Thank you for this detailed guide 🤗
Bloody hell i thought i needed a new controller and maybe i do because i can just not not do that tournament flag challenge.....i can be gitting b to let go and drop and nothing happens or he just randomly grabs onto things and goes up when i know i have not done that. Arggghhh i will watch this a few times and hope for improvement.....
I love Leo's videos, but I think you did a better job with this particular one. You have a great way of explaining bits of information, and specific ways you input commands. All in all, you're really making me want to play more Unity!
First of all, your voice is very reassuring! I think it's really great that ACU is still being talked about in 2020, I think the game has the best parkour mechanics the series has ever had, I have 500 + h and I'm glad that it will remain a real Assassins creed for me! Good video bro!
Awesome work man! This is prolly the best video of this kind I’ve seen. You clearly have a great understanding of Unity’s movement and have done a great job at communicating that understanding to others with this video.
There are entire rooftops you can vault over in a single bound. Experiment with holding parkour down in places you think it might work. Hell, experiment in places you don't. You just might pull off something super rare and crazy like the elusive long kong Unity's fall damage is very forgiving, especially with certain boots and the recovery roll skill. If you get stuck midway down a wall with little or no furniture to catch yourself on, you can safely back eject as many as three stories to get down very, very quickly. Just make sure there aren't any enemies in your landing zone since you can't cancel out of this if you change your mind Really impressive stuff figuring out how to recognize the geometry for the dive. That was always a move I loved, but had no idea how to use it reliably
Almost 9 years and I have finally gotten my hands on playing the most renowned AC game in the franchise. From my already 1 hour of gameplay I can see everything that Unity has shown to the players and damn am I impressed. Years of AC gaming and I still couldn't prep for how even more in depth and the amount of button discipline is already testing me as an Assassin way more than any of the Kenway's have ever did in my recent playthrough.
Great video, I just downloaded the game and after watching this I'm extremly overwhelmed, I didn't know the system was this deep and thought about by the developers.
Just got around to checking this after seeing it all over reddit, Leo K posted it on his community tab and I got to say this made me subscribe, and hyped me up for more videos lol
Thanks for the sub! I had no idea this was being shared on Reddit lol, I made a post about it on the Leo K sub when it came, but that’s all I saw. As for more videos, stay tuned!
great work fellow assassin. and this game is sooo good. loving a no upgrade challenge as it puts even more emphasis on skilled movement being the difference between life and death.
Just got Unity 2 days ago and This video has helped a lot. I will be using everything in this video so I can better understand the movements in each area I am in.
Thank you for the video, the "BASE jump" and the "tap parkour down" and "HP makes Arno jump to the nearest thing, and jump + HP makes him jump to the farthest thing" those are great reminders for me
Seeing this in 2021, I am still convinced that AC Unity is one of the most misunderstood AC games. This game not only brought a stealth mode, but also great parkour, movements, and assassination animations. Having played all AC games after Unity, Including Valhalla, I still believe this is the last true AC game. The new games are fun to play as standalone games, sure, but apart from the story they miss so much of that assassin's vibe that Unity had.
@@IsuiGtz agree. I mean I liked black flag as well but for some reason AC 3 felt more like an ending. Considering it was the last part with Desmond as well.
I bought Unity about a week ago on my PS4 Slim purely for the parkour memories, even though I knew very well the performance isn't great. I'll definitely be rewatching this tomorrow and trying out some of these tips to unlock the full potential of the parkour system : )
I don't like how Unitys parkour feels and controls at all but i appreciate the amount of effort you put into this video. Unity tried to be good AC game on all fronts, and that's something rare these days. I'm glad there are still people out there that care about this kind of stuff. Parkour needs a comeback, that's for sure.
I agree with you on all counts. Unity’s input lag, heaviness and lacking freedom gets on my nerves every time I play it. Still, what we have in this game is several orders of magnitude better than what we’ve had since. AC won’t really be AC until complex parkour returns to the games.
Most of the stuff here I already knew through my many hours of playing this as both a kid and a young adult, but that doesn't take away the fact that this video is very informative and well done.
Hi Jcers, thank you for this. Playing all the AC games and at this very moment AC Unity. Love the game despite things I really miss, like picking up weapons, throwing knives, hide bodies, fist fights, etc, still many bugs, but I also miss the ‘old’ parkour. Now it doesn’t feel the same, it even feels like Arno is ‘flying’ instead of jumping. I also had trouble with the framerate (ps4). Thank you for the movement tips, it really helped with going down a building and the camera positioning. Thanks.
Thank you for making this video. I recently reinstalled Unity b/c I seen all the cool Parkour tricks in RUclips Videos, but had no idea how to perform them myself 👍
Beautifully made and well explained video. Glad to see there are others who know the parkour mechanics but I was surprised with the break fall. I swore you couldn't catch a wall from a free jump. Amazing.
Thanks! :) Yea, breakfall is a weird mechanic. The fact that the game lets you jump to your death if you want but doesn’t tell you how to grab onto walls is pretty strange. Oh well, at least we have it.
Great video, bro :D the most detailed one that i have ever seen. I'm really glad youtube recomended it for me because i was sure that Unity's parkour system has great potential but i didnt have enought time to get to the bottom of it. Soon i will be replaying Unity and i will remember about your tips. Thanks a lot man, good job! :D
The breakfall thing was always hilarious to me, like Arno and other assassins' using it would have their shoulders destroyed or their arm popped out of the socket
Amazing video. Although I am pretty good at the parkour in Unity and knew almost all the tips and tricks, I could watch this video for just how good your parkour was. Thank you for the top-notch 20 minute entertainment! I will come back again sometime when this pops up in my recommended again.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious vid bro! Alot of time and effort has been put in. You've covered everything in the best way possible 10/10. I never actually knew how to properly execute these side hops and everything until i watched your vid in depth! Keep up the awesome work!!👍👍👍👍👍
I spun around once when climbing a ledge in AC Unity and i though "What was the purpose of that exactly?" But this video kinda answered so much AC Unity parkour questions that i had and didn't have
I am leaving a comment in 2023 because this video has been SO INCREDIBLY HELPFUL! Ive been so frustrated with Arno because I have played through every single AC game on the ps4 (except Mirage) at this point, and he is the most difficult one to control. I thought I just sucked at stealth because I always get detected due to the janky controls, but it turns out I just didnt know how to use them correctly!!! Thank you so much for this video, seriously!
I’d suggest playing BF first, actually. It introduced a plot line that ends up being mildly relevant to Unity’s main story. It’s not the end of the world if you don’t play them in order, though.
I think the next creed game is going to return to this style of parkour and assassin mechanics. People complain about the series direction starting with Origins but they quickly forget how burnt out everybody was from every AC's that came before them. Enough time has passed now that a Unity style (polished) AC game would sell like hot cakes. I know i'd buy it no question.
This is super helpful. All in all, the parkour down thing rocks in my opinion. I wish they would just kick it back to the basics of the first few games. They worked so well, they relied on the player, and the player would learn as they went. It explained the moves and let you piece things together, instead of trying to run everything for you. The stuff about profile discipline is I think the most important. The most frustrating moments for me are when Arno is just hopping on and off barrels and walls and stuff when I'm not pushing him anywhere, but a release of the profile button tells him to knock it off.
I always thought how others were able to vault over objects while I was just jumping and then stepping over them. Thanks to this, I found out that I actually have to Parkour DOWN rather than UP 🤦♂ Great vid!
Thanks man, great effort. Getting back into the game for some relaxation. And I recalled Zwooosh being so smooth in his movement, so I set out to find a video explaining how, and you made one! Awesome!
I learned a lot today, bought Ac Unity disc version again and have solid 60 fps unpatched on my ps5 now! Absolutely love the game, lately AC unity is blowing up on RUclips damn!
I've been playing this game for years and i never knew you could roll over things like overturn carts. Of Unitiy's system I will say this: It wasn't perfect but it was best, and second to last, parkour system we got. I say that because, after Syndicate, AC no longer used a parkour system but, instead, started using a basic climbing system that allows the player to climb on virtually anything and greatly dumbed down the system.
lets just say Unity was the last.. Syndicate has no manual jump cuz of the jump spamming reviewers and people alike did in this game... With input buffering you can do some crazzy things I aint see alot of people do (in Unity ofcourse) Syndicate has alot of buildings which you cannot even climb on you must grapple.. the whole grappling hook zipline thing ruined the point A to B parkour style.. cuz it was just a fckkng 1 button zipline... In Origins I actually felt the rocks wete textured enough.. for it to be "realistic" but not as good as rock climbing in 3, but still better then those automated animations for yhe interiots in 3 ,4 and certain trees in Rogue.. They added vaulting back in Odyssey (in origins you could only vault in tombs) In valhalla the textures feel improved and less flat like hes grabbin on to sumthing. (The forts were okay ish climable I like the ody frontflip) but it will never be as immersive as Unity or heck even Ac1s parkour which is better then the ezio games. ( i like the lamps ezio swings on tho.) I do feel as tho 3-4-rogue, felt better then the ezio games but not the first one for some reason.. A fix for Unity's input delay is *buffer your inputs* and be very very carefull with your jumps.. the only thing that truly bugs me about Unity is that last seen feature 🤢.. *In my Opinion* unity has the best parkour .. and dont start about input delay.. work around it buffer sum inputs time the jumps... .. for me I never had an issue with the delay cuz I usually already know what im gonna do before im doing it.. :) too bad your on pc otherwise idd show some pretty weird cancels... since this is my fav ac.. I ran around like a ffn madman inthis game.. :) I do parkour irl Ps. I also have to add that just like in WD2 horrible but yet fun parkour system camera/crossair placement plays a huge role in the animation you trigger.. like sum parts might seen unreachable but with the right camera angle you might just do a jump that seemed impossible before.. my point being this is the same case for all Ac games since Unity.. I hope this gives you sum weird info you might not have thought about before ;P Camera angles are key in Unity
Great video, thank for the lessons! Unity is such an awesome game! The visuals, the open world, the Parkour, the stealh, the future missions etc.. are amazing!
I've been replaying the AC franchise from the the first instalment for some time now. I reached AC Unity today. Sir, this tutorial is golden. Thank you for being a hero, together with Leo K. By the way, anybody experienced an input lag in Unity? I feel like there is an ever so slight delay in the input when pressing buttons both on a controller and keyboard. It's, like, 0,5-0,8s.
Awesome video! Just started Unity for the first time about a week ago, and I am having an absolute BLAST! The parkour is amazing but surely takes some getting used to. This video is such a huge help. So when freerunning, instead of holding parkour up, you're saying to only press it based on the surroundings, and that makes it faster n more fluid? Got it. And so I'm guessing the same goes for parkour down, but more contextual. Thank you so much for making this video. Over half my playtime is just me messin around, and this video is gunna make that so much more fun.
October 21, 2023 Just Finished Unity. While I do love the game, I can't overlook the game's unpolished state. When flow gets interrupted, the enjoyment fades away. These tips were helpful. Thank You. Will put them to practice.
Great video - I've honestly done some of this stuff without thinking after awhile. I just enjoyed free running around after doing missions. I definitely should play Unity again soon and do some of the side content
My favorite AC game. France seems so alive, the parkour is satisfying (when it functions correctly). I wish they would remake this one and perfect the co-op.
Unity certainly isn’t one of my favourites, by I respect the _hell_ out of it for what it wanted to be. AC Unity said “Damn! Being a Brotherhood Assassin is fucking cool as shit! Let’s show everybody that!”, and it was the last game in the series to ever do that.
I played ACU for the first time about 3 or 4 years ago, and originally hated it because I wanted to breeze through the story the way you could Black Flag or AC3. I didn’t understand the complexities in the progression system or the beauty of the parkour mechanics. I’m now on my 3rd playthrough of the game, simply because I love the story and love Arno as a character, but this playthrough has given me the chance to truly explore Paris in a way I never had before. This video is why Paris can truly feel like a playground to the player. I appreciate the amount of effort you took to explore these mechanics. It’s made the game infinitely more fun for me. Kudos.
Happy to help! That’s the cool thing about Assassin’s Creed games: they’re usually very accessible on a surface level, but allow for so much more mastery than is immediately obvious. Even AC3 or BF, which you can kind of breeze through, have room for so much more, which is something I’ve been exploring ever since I started making content for AC3. These games are pretty special.
Thank you so much for this ! All this time i was thinking that the movement were so clunky and bad in unity, it turns out i was just so bad at it. Time to watch this video 10 times to understand everything :)
Haha, no problem! The truth is that Unity is always somewhat clunky. This video isn't so much a "this is why Unity's parkour is actually good", it's more of an attempt to reign in an untamable beast, lol. Still, I hope you have fun with parkour in Unity going forward!
Thank you for this video! I have been playing the game since release and I never knew how to control the movement perfectly. I’m so glad there is a vid on this. This will aid the creed brother!
parkouring to a certain direction (spin pull ups, side leaps) is more responsive when you don't use the camera. If you master the timing of button inputs, you don't even need to look where you are going to move in that direction. so instead of: high profile + off-angle up, for spin pull up, do: high profile + W+D (wd at the exact same time). For consistent side hops, do: high profile + space on wall and stop holding W+space once arno begins the animation for climbing and switch to A or D all while holding shift to side hop.
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Great video! One thing I think you didn't mention is that holding high profile and crouch lets you sprint while also disable any climbing/jumping/sliding moves. Very useful for interiors where you recommended to let go of high profile.
Oh damn, I didn't know that. It would make sense that I wouldn't know that because of how infrequently I use the crouch button in Unity, lol. I'm gonna pin your comment so people can see this.
Thumbs up bro!
Wow this is extremely useful actually. Never knew about this thanks 👍
I love you, I really needed this
I thought I knew it all. This is an awesome feature, I had no idea!
I love how ac has a community that can and will often sacrifice effectiveness for style
AC is a series that leans _heavily_ on player fantasy. The reason you would buy an Assassin’s Creed game used to be that you wanted to feel like an Assassin. I don’t think it’s any coincidence that so many people prefer to go for the flashy, badass approach to things over the simpler, more efficient approach.
@@jcers I know I'm in the minority here, but I don't care for Unity's flashy parkour because it is so inefficient.
@@bish0p3473 I’m of the same mind. I much prefer AC3’s parkour animation choreography over Unity’s for that exact reason; Connor’s movements are efficient and quick, but they still manage to be smooth and cinematic nonetheless.
@@jcers I do like watching other people do it. It is very nice to watch...but when I'm running for my life, no thanks.
The parkour is nice but it's still very frustrating for me to execute. It never runs as smoothly as people fawn over it for, and it keeps me from fully liking the game
This is fantastic, thank you for making this.
Most people won't understand the ridiculous amount of effort and time-investment needed to build this kind of video, especially one of this length, with this amount of information in it.
You kicked ass, buddy.
Yea, I knew going into making this that it would be a long haul, but I think I underestimated even then, lol. I appreciate the kind words, Leo, they mean a lot!
@@jcers great job! I wish I made videos this good lol
Thanks lol
I watched a lot of Leo K's videos and it was really insightful to see some of lesser known but inner mechanics of the game and it made me appreciate it a lot more and sometimes the game will let you down horribly but when it's working and doing its thing its absolutely exhilarating. This is a great video and I learned a lot from it. Yourself and Leo have made content that helps players feel in control of this game, the reason people are here are clearly because they want to love it and you help that process so again I thank you .
@@consistentlyaverage hey thanks, I appreciate the kind words and I’m super happy I was able to help :)
I can't begin to think of what a complete version of this system would play like.
I feel like the input lag would still bother me, but...yea, who knows what else they would have put in it given another year.
AC 5 maybe, Arno vs shay?
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@@ogway1772 exactly
It's cool how deep this parkour system is
I kinda miss it in newer games in the series
Same. I just want something with some level of player expression available.
It's kind of odd how the game never really gave a clear example of how to do side hops, so some players would have probably never known about it despite it being such a vital piece to Unity's parkour.
Assassin’s Creed has very notably never taught the player about ejects, outside of a few moments in Assassin tombs in AC2, as well as equivalent missions in later games. The game manuals have never once included a single mention of the mechanic. Why this is the case is absolutely beyond me.
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I’m proud of myself for figuring out some of these naturally. Great video goes very in depth
Yea, some of these are fairly intuitive. Others, not so much, lol. Glad you liked the video!
ACUnity's parkour is just.... mesmerizing! Half the time I was rewinding the video just to listen to the instructions properly, cause I was constantly drifting with the parkour.
I choreographed a lot of the parkour sequences you see in these short clips so everything looked video-worthy and professional, and I must confess that I’ve had the same thing happen to me when watching this, lol. If you need clarification on anything, I have my entire written script linked in the description.
Wow. 21 and a half minutes worth of script isn’t easy to coordinate. And Arno doesn’t even consistently do these cool things
Nicole Song yea, trying to do long, complex parkour chains consistently in Unity without at least one thing going wrong is an absolutely nightmare compared to other AC games, lol. Thanks for the kind words!
The controlled decent was one of my favourite features in Unity. It was really important too as so many buildings are really tall.
Yea, it was basically necessary that they added Controlled Descent in Unity. Paris just has way too much verticality for it not to exist.
@@jcers what is high profile
@@ghostflunder7210 the button that makes you sprint and makes your assassinations loud and flashy. Default bindings are RT, R2 and Shift.
@@jcers Thank you!
I recently bought unity and put some hours on it. What i can say is that im in love with the parkour but didnt know the parkour can be this smooth! So yeah its a blessing to have this video on my recommended. Thank you!
No problem! Glad you’re enjoying the game :)
I like how Arno is referred to by his name and not by 'your character' or something else, it puts so much life into him for me and feels so nice. great video.
Glad you noticed that! There’ll be a lot more use of the term “player character” in my upcoming AC3 guide because a bunch of the stuff applies to Haytham, Connor, and Desmond, but in this game, there’s only one PC, so I was able to be a bit more personal with the writing.
"So much life into him" bro Arno is lame, he isn't no Geralt or Kratos
@@Ligmaballin The fact that he sometimes just does whatever he wants and ignores my inputs makes him feel more lifelike than Geralt or Kratos
@@justacatto7765yeah certainly feels more like Arno than just a player character with how he has a life of his own lol
Reminds me of that one time I jumped from top of bastille, and somehow managed to use breakfall, right before hitting the bottom of the mote, surviving.
Exhilarating stuff!
Its crazy how this actually looks way better but came out way before the new AC games
It is. We paid a heavy price for that, though, being that the game still has awful performance on consoles.
@@jcers Played it at release on regular PS4 and recently on PS4 Pro. There’s a huge difference in performance… it almost feels like a great game now
Not on next gen. It really was made for next gen it plays really good on the new consoles
I mean the character models are a bit plastic but hold up great considering it's an ubusoft game released in 2014
@@itzmrinyy7484 I mean, except maybe RDR2 you can say that for every game released after 2017 or so. Not that there's anything wrong with that imo, I do prefer stylized art over realism in videogames, but still
This is a gift to the ac unity community thank you!
My pleasure!
Man this is absolutely amazing. Gotta love that there is still so much love for unity!
Unity is definitely a game that is very important to this community right now, considering how much it tried to appeal to the original vision of AC and also the direction the franchise has taken in the recent titles. Thanks for the kind words!
The community needs to get together and give Unity a rebirth! I'm in!
Finally took the time to give this video a proper viewing. You really broke down everything I could think of in regards of movement, covered some stuff I never bothered to think about (for example tree parkour) and some of the stuff I unconsciously knew from having played the game so much, but not something I'd think about when trying to teach somebody about the game (like movement after high profile kills).
Very well done, I've bookmarked the video for when I encounter someone else struggling with Unity :)
If I was gonna put the word “ultimate” in the title, I had to live up to it, didn’t I? Haha, thanks for the kind words, Trevi. Your original stealth reaper video for Confession was the first seed sown in my brain that I should buy this game, so I have to thank you in a big way for being an inspiration to me from way back when I had only played Origins and Odyssey. You’re a major reason as to why this video even exists, so I just wanted to say thanks for inspiring me to give this game a chance :)
One of the best Unity videos i have ever seen....Definitely have to go back for some unity again
Thank you, I appreciate it!
@@jcers how are you so good omg these mechanics are so complicatively diverse
@@princedelamifax2543 I had good teachers. Also, I’ve played this game for like 700 hours, lol
That breathtaking almost leap of faith jump is soooo satisfying , I still can't believe they never thought of keeping such movements in later games.
thing is that this is the game that broke the old school AC style of gameplay, after this people were begging for something new & that lead to "if realism gets in the way of gameplay, gameplay takes priority" which tbf is not always a bad thing, but, we've certainly lost a lot of what this franchise was.
Jcers, the last few weeks, I've been playing unity extensively and your guide is partly responsible since it helped me understand the game mechanics better. A lot of the frustrating moments where Arno seemed to not do what I instructed him to do have simply disappeared, and I have no words for how liberating that feels. Thank you for this detailed guide 🤗
No problem, Nova! I’m glad I’ve been able to help!
Bloody hell i thought i needed a new controller and maybe i do because i can just not not do that tournament flag challenge.....i can be gitting b to let go and drop and nothing happens or he just randomly grabs onto things and goes up when i know i have not done that. Arggghhh i will watch this a few times and hope for improvement.....
I love Leo's videos, but I think you did a better job with this particular one. You have a great way of explaining bits of information, and specific ways you input commands. All in all, you're really making me want to play more Unity!
Thanks for the kind words! I put a lot of work into this video, so I’m glad it’s been helpful!
First of all, your voice is very reassuring! I think it's really great that ACU is still being talked about in 2020, I think the game has the best parkour mechanics the series has ever had, I have 500 + h and I'm glad that it will remain a real Assassins creed for me! Good video bro!
Glad you liked the video!
@@__leaf__6364 of course, I Player every Ac
Awesome work man! This is prolly the best video of this kind I’ve seen. You clearly have a great understanding of Unity’s movement and have done a great job at communicating that understanding to others with this video.
Thanks! :)
There are entire rooftops you can vault over in a single bound. Experiment with holding parkour down in places you think it might work. Hell, experiment in places you don't. You just might pull off something super rare and crazy like the elusive long kong
Unity's fall damage is very forgiving, especially with certain boots and the recovery roll skill. If you get stuck midway down a wall with little or no furniture to catch yourself on, you can safely back eject as many as three stories to get down very, very quickly. Just make sure there aren't any enemies in your landing zone since you can't cancel out of this if you change your mind
Really impressive stuff figuring out how to recognize the geometry for the dive. That was always a move I loved, but had no idea how to use it reliably
Almost 9 years and I have finally gotten my hands on playing the most renowned AC game in the franchise. From my already 1 hour of gameplay I can see everything that Unity has shown to the players and damn am I impressed. Years of AC gaming and I still couldn't prep for how even more in depth and the amount of button discipline is already testing me as an Assassin way more than any of the Kenway's have ever did in my recent playthrough.
Great video, I just downloaded the game and after watching this I'm extremly overwhelmed, I didn't know the system was this deep and thought about by the developers.
I love back ejects, when done in the right places it's epic
This really is the ultimate guide, all of the techs, and all in one video, thank you for making this impressive piece!
If I was gonna put “ultimate” in the title, I had to live up to it, didn’t I? Lol, thanks, and I’m glad you enjoyed it!
This is fantastic! Thanks for this guide.
No problem! Glad you found it helpful!
no way
I thought I was a pro at the game and then I saw this. I may be good, but not as good as it gets! Amazing video man!
Just got around to checking this after seeing it all over reddit, Leo K posted it on his community tab and I got to say this made me subscribe, and hyped me up for more videos lol
Thanks for the sub! I had no idea this was being shared on Reddit lol, I made a post about it on the Leo K sub when it came, but that’s all I saw. As for more videos, stay tuned!
just as beautiful as leo’s guides, fantastic video friend.
Thanks!
This will help me soo much when I get around playing Unity again. Amazing video!
Thanks for the kind words, I appreciate them a lot! And glad I could help!
I knew some of these by experimenting by myself, but this helps so much! My main issue is almost (always) camera movements.
Great job on this!
Thanks!
Great tips and you are correct in saying sometimes nothing will save you from "death by jank".
Lol, yup. Glad you found the video helpful!
great work fellow assassin. and this game is sooo good. loving a no upgrade challenge as it puts even more emphasis on skilled movement being the difference between life and death.
The only AC game where you DO need a guide for good parkour
(i meant that as a compliment)
Just got Unity 2 days ago and This video has helped a lot. I will be using everything in this video so I can better understand the movements in each area I am in.
That’s great to hear! Glad I could help out!
Great video man, very good tips in there thank you!
Happy to help!
never knew side hop was a controllable parkour trick until I watched your video, thanks!:)
No problem!
Thank you for the video, the "BASE jump" and the "tap parkour down" and "HP makes Arno jump to the nearest thing, and jump + HP makes him jump to the farthest thing" those are great reminders for me
Seeing this in 2021, I am still convinced that AC Unity is one of the most misunderstood AC games. This game not only brought a stealth mode, but also great parkour, movements, and assassination animations. Having played all AC games after Unity, Including Valhalla, I still believe this is the last true AC game. The new games are fun to play as standalone games, sure, but apart from the story they miss so much of that assassin's vibe that Unity had.
Same.
For me, the AC franchise has two endings, where AC3 is the canon ending, and Unity is the spiritual ending.
@@IsuiGtz agree. I mean I liked black flag as well but for some reason AC 3 felt more like an ending. Considering it was the last part with Desmond as well.
I bought Unity about a week ago on my PS4 Slim purely for the parkour memories, even though I knew very well the performance isn't great. I'll definitely be rewatching this tomorrow and trying out some of these tips to unlock the full potential of the parkour system : )
Sounds like a plan! Thanks for coming to check this out :)
@Spiral Oh that's a great tip, thanks! I haven't played the game in a few months now but now that you've told me this, I'm itching to get back : )
I haven't used half of these techniques for a long time, side hopping or jumping too and I was used to it, now I'll freezing effectively. Thank you
I don't like how Unitys parkour feels and controls at all but i appreciate the amount of effort you put into this video. Unity tried to be good AC game on all fronts, and that's something rare these days.
I'm glad there are still people out there that care about this kind of stuff.
Parkour needs a comeback, that's for sure.
I agree with you on all counts. Unity’s input lag, heaviness and lacking freedom gets on my nerves every time I play it. Still, what we have in this game is several orders of magnitude better than what we’ve had since. AC won’t really be AC until complex parkour returns to the games.
Very useful video. Thanks you. And the choice of music is absolutely amazing
Most of the stuff here I already knew through my many hours of playing this as both a kid and a young adult, but that doesn't take away the fact that this video is very informative and well done.
Hi Jcers, thank you for this. Playing all the AC games and at this very moment AC Unity. Love the game despite things I really miss, like picking up weapons, throwing knives, hide bodies, fist fights, etc, still many bugs, but I also miss the ‘old’ parkour. Now it doesn’t feel the same, it even feels like Arno is ‘flying’ instead of jumping. I also had trouble with the framerate (ps4). Thank you for the movement tips, it really helped with going down a building and the camera positioning. Thanks.
No problem! Yea, Unity definitely took a lot away from us. Never gonna forgive it for removing Hidden Blade combat.
THIS IS THE MOST WELL-MADE GAME IN THE FRANCHISE. THE ENVIRONMENT, THE PEOPLE, THE MAP DETAILS, THE CUTSCENES. SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE NEWER GAMES
people judge its shitty release tho
@@dakomata9090 with all the mods made for it its pretty nice now
The 'Moving Before Arno' was great Advice and even better to highlight. Great job
No problem! Glad you found it helpful :)
God I love this...... the unity community is bigger than I thought
Thank you for making this video. I recently reinstalled Unity b/c I seen all the cool Parkour tricks in RUclips Videos, but had no idea how to perform them myself 👍
Beautifully made and well explained video. Glad to see there are others who know the parkour mechanics but I was surprised with the break fall. I swore you couldn't catch a wall from a free jump. Amazing.
Thanks! :) Yea, breakfall is a weird mechanic. The fact that the game lets you jump to your death if you want but doesn’t tell you how to grab onto walls is pretty strange. Oh well, at least we have it.
Great video, bro :D the most detailed one that i have ever seen. I'm really glad youtube recomended it for me because i was sure that Unity's parkour system has great potential but i didnt have enought time to get to the bottom of it. Soon i will be replaying Unity and i will remember about your tips. Thanks a lot man, good job! :D
Thank you for the nice comment :)
The breakfall thing was always hilarious to me, like Arno and other assassins' using it would have their shoulders destroyed or their arm popped out of the socket
“That’s the beauty and the horror of the Animus” -William Miles
Great video Mate, mad props
Thanks :)
The one for enter window really helped me i know this video is old but almost ever tip helped me only 2 tips i already knew ty
This was amazing. I just recently pulled Unity out again.....enjoying it....this video will make it even more so...thank you 🌸☮️🌸
No problem! I’m glad you enjoyed the video :)
Amazing video. Although I am pretty good at the parkour in Unity and knew almost all the tips and tricks, I could watch this video for just how good your parkour was. Thank you for the top-notch 20 minute entertainment! I will come back again sometime when this pops up in my recommended again.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video :)
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious vid bro! Alot of time and effort has been put in. You've covered everything in the best way possible 10/10. I never actually knew how to properly execute these side hops and everything until i watched your vid in depth! Keep up the awesome work!!👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you :D I’m really glad you found this helpful!
I spun around once when climbing a ledge in AC Unity and i though "What was the purpose of that exactly?" But this video kinda answered so much AC Unity parkour questions that i had and didn't have
Just bought the game, this is very helpful!
I am leaving a comment in 2023 because this video has been SO INCREDIBLY HELPFUL! Ive been so frustrated with Arno because I have played through every single AC game on the ps4 (except Mirage) at this point, and he is the most difficult one to control. I thought I just sucked at stealth because I always get detected due to the janky controls, but it turns out I just didnt know how to use them correctly!!! Thank you so much for this video, seriously!
I just bought the triple pack that has this, black flag, and syndicate. Never played any of them but definitely trying this one first
I’d suggest playing BF first, actually. It introduced a plot line that ends up being mildly relevant to Unity’s main story. It’s not the end of the world if you don’t play them in order, though.
I think the next creed game is going to return to this style of parkour and assassin mechanics. People complain about the series direction starting with Origins but they quickly forget how burnt out everybody was from every AC's that came before them. Enough time has passed now that a Unity style (polished) AC game would sell like hot cakes. I know i'd buy it no question.
I’d like that to be true. I don’t really share your optimism, though, lol
Holy moly i completed the tournament after only watching this twice....i think i love you! And i love the game suddenly much more too! Thankyou!
I declare this video to be truly one of the best on RUclips. Incredibly well-made.
That’s high praise, thank you :D
10 years later and Unity is still on my mind.
Unity really is like that one toxic ex gf
@@jcers lmao good one
Thank you so much Jcers for this video, made me perfect the movement, the game is much more fun now.
No problem! I’m glad you found it so helpful :)
This is super helpful. All in all, the parkour down thing rocks in my opinion. I wish they would just kick it back to the basics of the first few games. They worked so well, they relied on the player, and the player would learn as they went. It explained the moves and let you piece things together, instead of trying to run everything for you. The stuff about profile discipline is I think the most important. The most frustrating moments for me are when Arno is just hopping on and off barrels and walls and stuff when I'm not pushing him anywhere, but a release of the profile button tells him to knock it off.
I always thought how others were able to vault over objects while I was just jumping and then stepping over them. Thanks to this, I found out that I actually have to Parkour DOWN rather than UP 🤦♂ Great vid!
Just found this and thank God, I've been struggling with the side hop and the horizontal wall run
Glad I could help!
Thanks man, great effort. Getting back into the game for some relaxation. And I recalled Zwooosh being so smooth in his movement, so I set out to find a video explaining how, and you made one! Awesome!
Thank you! Glad you found the video to be helpful!
I learned a lot today, bought Ac Unity disc version again and have solid 60 fps unpatched on my ps5 now! Absolutely love the game, lately AC unity is blowing up on RUclips damn!
Unity has garnered something of a cult following over the last few years, haha
Who is here in 2023 taking out the dust of this wonderful game but forgot the must basic stuff and now it's feels so advanced that I feel like a newb
I've been playing this game for years and i never knew you could roll over things like overturn carts.
Of Unitiy's system I will say this: It wasn't perfect but it was best, and second to last, parkour system we got. I say that because, after Syndicate, AC no longer used a parkour system but, instead, started using a basic climbing system that allows the player to climb on virtually anything and greatly dumbed down the system.
Glad I was able to teach you something new! Yea, it’s a shame what happened to movement in this franchise.
@@jcers Agreed 👍
lets just say Unity was the last..
Syndicate has no manual jump cuz of the jump spamming reviewers and people alike did in this game...
With input buffering you can do some crazzy things I aint see alot of people do (in Unity ofcourse)
Syndicate has alot of buildings which you cannot even climb on you must grapple.. the whole grappling hook zipline thing ruined the point A to B parkour style.. cuz it was just a fckkng 1 button zipline...
In Origins I actually felt the rocks wete textured enough.. for it to be "realistic" but not as good as rock climbing in 3, but still better then those automated animations for yhe interiots in 3 ,4 and certain trees in Rogue..
They added vaulting back in Odyssey (in origins you could only vault in tombs) In valhalla the textures feel improved and less flat like hes grabbin on to sumthing.
(The forts were okay ish climable I like the ody frontflip)
but it will never be as immersive as Unity or heck even Ac1s parkour which is better then the ezio games. ( i like the lamps ezio swings on tho.) I do feel as tho 3-4-rogue, felt better then the ezio games but not the first one for some reason..
A fix for Unity's input delay is *buffer your inputs* and be very very carefull with your jumps..
the only thing that truly bugs me about Unity is that last seen feature 🤢..
*In my Opinion* unity has the best parkour .. and dont start about input delay.. work around it buffer sum inputs time the jumps... .. for me I never had an issue with the delay cuz I usually already know what im gonna do before im doing it.. :)
too bad your on pc otherwise idd show some pretty weird cancels... since this is my fav ac.. I ran around like a ffn madman inthis game..
:)
I do parkour irl
Ps. I also have to add that just like in WD2 horrible but yet fun parkour system camera/crossair placement plays a huge role in the animation you trigger.. like sum parts might seen unreachable but with the right camera angle you might just do a jump that seemed impossible before.. my point being this is the same case for all Ac games since Unity.. I hope this gives you sum weird info you might not have thought about before ;P Camera angles are key in Unity
After watching this my climbing and stealth skill got better than before
That’s awesome! I’m glad to hear it :)
glad to see people still make content for this game!
I think it’ll be a very long time before people stop making content for AC Unity.
Just another tip is if arno starts moving slow in crowds perform a manual jump to regain speed
Ah, I’ve never thought of doing that. Thanks for posting!
Such a good game once you get hang of it. Thank you for the guide, stay awesome!
Great video, thank for the lessons! Unity is such an awesome game! The visuals, the open world, the Parkour, the stealh, the future missions etc.. are amazing!
No problem! Glad I was able to help :)
Great job on this video, very informative for sure. AC Unity definitely isn't perfect but when the game works, Its always a joy to play :]
I have more hours in Unity than I do any other AC game, and not for a bad reason. Thanks for the kind words :)
I've been replaying the AC franchise from the the first instalment for some time now. I reached AC Unity today. Sir, this tutorial is golden. Thank you for being a hero, together with Leo K.
By the way, anybody experienced an input lag in Unity? I feel like there is an ever so slight delay in the input when pressing buttons both on a controller and keyboard. It's, like, 0,5-0,8s.
Awesome video! Just started Unity for the first time about a week ago, and I am having an absolute BLAST! The parkour is amazing but surely takes some getting used to. This video is such a huge help. So when freerunning, instead of holding parkour up, you're saying to only press it based on the surroundings, and that makes it faster n more fluid? Got it. And so I'm guessing the same goes for parkour down, but more contextual. Thank you so much for making this video. Over half my playtime is just me messin around, and this video is gunna make that so much more fun.
I did a really great job understanding the mechanics without tutorials on youtube
This is just a way for me to know how exactly things work
In case you, like I, did not know, pressing R3 will center the camera, meaning less manual cameracontrol.
Great video Jcers!
Thanks, guys! Looking forward to coming on the show soon!
October 21, 2023
Just Finished Unity. While I do love the game, I can't overlook the game's unpolished state. When flow gets interrupted, the enjoyment fades away. These tips were helpful. Thank You. Will put them to practice.
Great video - I've honestly done some of this stuff without thinking after awhile. I just enjoyed free running around after doing missions. I definitely should play Unity again soon and do some of the side content
my first ac is odyssey, valhalla then. I just start my unity today. So helpful information bro
My favorite AC game. France seems so alive, the parkour is satisfying (when it functions correctly). I wish they would remake this one and perfect the co-op.
Unity certainly isn’t one of my favourites, by I respect the _hell_ out of it for what it wanted to be. AC Unity said “Damn! Being a Brotherhood Assassin is fucking cool as shit! Let’s show everybody that!”, and it was the last game in the series to ever do that.
I love this guide, plus its so calm and relaxing
Thank you! I appreciate that :)
this video is my new bible. putting it on repeat and frequently tabbing in during practise is my plan for the next days.
I played ACU for the first time about 3 or 4 years ago, and originally hated it because I wanted to breeze through the story the way you could Black Flag or AC3. I didn’t understand the complexities in the progression system or the beauty of the parkour mechanics. I’m now on my 3rd playthrough of the game, simply because I love the story and love Arno as a character, but this playthrough has given me the chance to truly explore Paris in a way I never had before. This video is why Paris can truly feel like a playground to the player. I appreciate the amount of effort you took to explore these mechanics. It’s made the game infinitely more fun for me. Kudos.
Happy to help! That’s the cool thing about Assassin’s Creed games: they’re usually very accessible on a surface level, but allow for so much more mastery than is immediately obvious. Even AC3 or BF, which you can kind of breeze through, have room for so much more, which is something I’ve been exploring ever since I started making content for AC3. These games are pretty special.
Thank you so much for this ! All this time i was thinking that the movement were so clunky and bad in unity, it turns out i was just so bad at it. Time to watch this video 10 times to understand everything :)
Haha, no problem! The truth is that Unity is always somewhat clunky. This video isn't so much a "this is why Unity's parkour is actually good", it's more of an attempt to reign in an untamable beast, lol. Still, I hope you have fun with parkour in Unity going forward!
thank you this helped so much
No problem! Glad you found it helpful :D
Thank you for this video! I have been playing the game since release and I never knew how to control the movement perfectly. I’m so glad there is a vid on this. This will aid the creed brother!
parkouring to a certain direction (spin pull ups, side leaps) is more responsive when you don't use the camera. If you master the timing of button inputs, you don't even need to look where you are going to move in that direction. so instead of: high profile + off-angle up, for spin pull up, do: high profile + W+D (wd at the exact same time). For consistent side hops, do: high profile + space on wall and stop holding W+space once arno begins the animation for climbing and switch to A or D all while holding shift to side hop.
Ur an absolute legend for this
this video is a gem!!!!
Thank you, I appreciate that :)
Beautiful guide