Mirage has some of the best emphasis on stealth in the entire series imo, especially with the sense of freedom you get with how you choose to take down your targets.
100%, in literally any other Assassins Creed game you could beat the entire game (except for stealth only missions) without using stealth, I've done it for all of them since I don't really like stealth. But Mirage would be near impossible to beat without using stealth, Basim isn't a very good brawler like most of the other Assassins are, and I like that he isn't, it gives us something different. This game definitely made me appreciate stealth a lot more.
@@Boulderpuncher98it made me appreciate Valhalla and Odyssey even more. As I wanna brawl with the enemies. Also once you get access to most of skills. Plus get better swords and tools. You can brawl the enemies.
This is the FIRST assassin's creed game I've walked into and decided to actually be sneaky around. Every assassin's creed game I've ever played from the start of the whole series has had me walking in through the front door and absolutely destroying everything that dared look in my general direction. Basim... can't do that, and that's a good thing.
I think those who complain about focus didn't explore its potential and thought it would only be exploited as a crutch to make up for bad stealth. But it makes no sense to complain about a perk that is totally optional anyway.
I understand why people hate it, personally, I would sugest using it as some kinda of double assassination only, since this mechanic has been gone for about 7 to 8 years now.
@@stupor_mundi most of the criticism towards the game doesn’t make any sense, people are being way to petty about it, complaining about the Assassins focus ability is like complaining about eagle vision, it’s dumb and nonsensical
I use it as a wild card to escape situations where I'm about to be detected. Trigger it right when detection meter is about to fill and kill whoever spotted you. Really made the experience better.
Transitioning from the end of Valhalla to Mirage was my favorite moment in gaming. Valhalla was so unfair to stealth, so you have to be really good to succeed. Mirage just took that and gave you a sandbox.
The only two things I wish Mirage would have is better character animation during cutscenes. They are very robotic, since I don't think they use mocap for most of them like Odyssey and Valhalla. Those games had an a big amount of dialogue choices and two characters. So I wished Mirage would be more like Origins with it's cutscenes. And also if this game just had a well developed manual eject system it would basically be perfect. That would give it depth, because otherwise it just hold A and forward.
Keep in the mind that ubisoft (Bordeaux) had limited budget and still managed to create this game . If they were given more time and more budget , they would have created a new engine
@@tpraveenkumar Thats why we need to support Bordeoux and this game for going into the direction we want it to. if we dont we may never see Bordeoux make another true Assasins Creed game that is Stealth Focused but this time with ample time and money.
I even had a few cutscenes freeze up or not load at all rest the game ran smoothly and my set ups only 4 years old so i know its not me. I am using a 360 controller 1660 gpu ryzen 7 3200 and 32 gigs ram. ran the game on high except for a few cutscenes was buttery smooth. I only hope sells for this game goes well enough to make ubisoft realize us old school assassins creed fans want this direction not the rpg one.
@@tylerty7235 I didnt buy Odyssey or Valhalla but i bought Mirage given it looked like it was trying to go back to stealth and story focus. Felt if i didnt encourage this direction they would go back to rpg and of course cave to woke in video games. Glad i did given i really enjoyed Mirage. I only hope they consider adding a free infinite NG+ given i buy a game once maybe twice a year. Reason my pc set up was told by a tech buddy its a future proofed pc.
Me to I feel the stealth is actually really smooth and responsive in the past two games it just felt so off balence to the point where you don’t even bother using it and I lobe what they did with the tools for example when you throw a smoke bomb you can do sone nifty kills or just run off just like in the older games
Just a shame that still doesnt seem to please enough fans Even those that yearns for the classic style of gameplay At this point its becoming petty and pathetic
@@Cruddy129 i love mirage but it has many annoying things like how slow assassinations are compared to unity for example in unity you could be so fast and smooth while assassinating and you could take out groups of enemies with the hidden blade but in mirage you cant do double take downs it takes too long to finish assassinating and you cant chain hidden blade assassinations and that is just what is wrong with the assassination there are more problems
@@potato_duud6166then use more tools, you have a smoke bomb, throwing knives, darts, traps, and noisemakers. There is no reason you should go to a group of enemies with a hidden blade, i don’t think you can even do that in unity, yes double assassinations exist but it doesn’t mean what your trying to claim where we kill up to 4 people with just the hidden blade which is not possible, also trying to use the hidden blade in that situation is stupid anyway, so just use a smoke bomb and kill all of them, if you use all the tools in your shed you will end up more satisfied with your product.
@@potato_duud6166and of course double assassinations look cool, but you can throw a throwing knife and kill the other enemy to give the same level of effect. And In my opinion looks more cool. The problem with ac unity was not its stealth, it was its enemy placement, mirage has better enemy placement. There is no reason to criticize a game for what you can’t do when you can do literally that, also I believe the only think unity does better is parkour.
@@Cruddy129you’re absolutely right. Btw most of the haters haven’t even played AC Mirage and you can’t really judge an AC game without getting a feel of the game yourself. It’s sad to see content creators are uploading terrible gameplay footage of AC Mirage on purpose for clout. I honestly didn’t ever think any RPG game could have so many cool original AC stealth and parkour features. It’s a great achievement for the low budget that went into the game. I think the haters are gonna regret hating it for no reason if Ubisoft goes back to AC Valhalla’s style again.
Not stealth related, but honestly, one of my favorite features in Mirage is finally being able to remap running from left stick/L3 toggle to right trigger/R2 hold.
oh god, think i've might've fund the perfect control scheme for me atack and assassination>>X Run>> RT Climb>>A Dodge>>B Crouch>>L3 Counter>>LB Aim>> LT Throw>> RB (press) Gadget wheel>> RB (hold) The last was the one which was giving me trouble, realized i could use it with throw and now traversal feels so much smoother. Running with L3 was a pain.
@@meurer13danielwhy don't you just change the running button to hold RT , change the weopen wheel to left stick click, that's what I have but PlayStation version hold R2 run, click left stick for weopen wheel
I really really hope the AC codename Red team look at the tools and stealth in this and incorporate them into that game, especially since the trailer clearly shows a hidden one character
Reason to get knife recovery asap they dont give you many if i recall only 4 i went high damage route with my knife build and range with the extra skill. I also went corrosive because its nice to hide bodies.
@@barnowl2655you’re not wrong but I wouldn’t even call it attention to detail, the description of the perk literally says it won’t work unless you have throwing knives.
I'm feeling so understood when watching your vids. Sadly a lot of bigger review channels are really hating on the game, but I enjoy it sooooo much. Yes it ain't perfect but Ubisoft did smth there.
Oof the mirage fandom is getting the Starfield treatment. If mirage had more time or budget, it could have that great "returning to roots" moment but sadly people just have very high expectations, especially after BG3.
Then when them RPGs come back they'll be suprised. Straight up frustrating, I don't want them to lose the chance to have AC come back and these guys ruin it.
@@enzoamore8971 apparently Mirage sold super, super well, close to the RPG Titles and the Budget for the game was muuuch lower and a lot less Production time. If I know one thing about Ubisoft, then it's that they love making money without having to do too much for it, so I'm assuming Ubisoft Bordeaux might get the resources to actually start working on a new "Back to the roots" title at some point. I feel like they would make an absolutely perfect AC game if they weren't stuck on Valhalla engine.
I'd argue that being visible while aiming in bushes adds depth. In Mirage, it doesn't matter much that you're hidden while aiming your ranged tools in bushes because you don't have a high amount of tools to throw. In Origins, if you remained undetected while in the bushes aiming your bow, you would have been able to just snipe all of your enemies from within their fort and they wouldn't be able to do anything. Also, I do agree that assassin's focus is an ability that lets you enhance your gameplay if you use it creatively enough, but I think giving endgame Basim five bars of focus is a little too forgiving. In a lot of cases, you could essentially just use it to skip encounters, get a couple more stealth kills with a maxed predator tree, and then use it all again. Nevertheless, this game's additions have really added to the stealth experience, and I think it has set a good foundation to build off of for future titles.
Sometimes I can combine throwing knife, smoke bomb with assassin focus. For instance, when I have only 1 assassin focus bar I can throw knife to nearby guard who is currently looking and then throw smoke bomb to a group of guard. This allow me to teleport to them and quickly kill other, therefore no concern about the smoke will fade if I run to them. 😅
I love how to cover system works, if Basim is highlighted white and hidden, you wont be spotted and that works in the assassination animations too, its so cool.
I have a good feeling this game is gona age decently well just because it took the Valhalla formula and almost made it what it should’ve been with Mirage so im really enjoying this game!
bro I think you are the only person I have seen talk about Assassin's Focus in a good way I personally like Assassin's Focus and in Mirage it is balanced because you need to assassin's enemies thankfully its not using a cool down
Agreed, I also think it's meant to be used conservatively. I only ever use it when I need to move somewhere, but I can't because there's too many guards.
I LOVE that you have to be stealthy to civilians too. There was a civilian once next to a bunch of guards, I put the civi to sleep, threw a smoke bomb, killed everyone and fled with zero notoriety increase. FELT AMAZING!
Great video man! Yeah, the game does so many things to push you towards using stealth, like bringing back notoriety and giving Basim a lot less health. You can’t muscle your way through tbh (or at least it’s super difficult to do so 😅), so your best option is to be stealthy, which makes sense since you are an assassin. And then like you said, the game gives you so many opportunities and options for stealth (social stealth, tools and their crazy mods, traditional stabbing, Assassin’s Focus, etc…) cause that’s what it really intends for you to do in the first place. It just did a superb job with stealth gameplay and I feel like it might actually be the most stealth-focused AC game in the series, only because I never felt a true need to always be stealthy in the older games. It was more that I just wanted to be stealthy because it was there. Here, it felt like I almost had to if I didn’t want to die and I literally never chose the combat route unless I was unwittingly plunged into it 😂
My only real gripe with Mirage is the assassination animations. When I drop a smoke bomb I don’t want to see elaborate movements, I want to clear the area.
One thing I noticed in mirage is that chain Assassination actually requires you to have throwing knifes in your inventory because I noticed if basim is out of throwing knifes you won’t be aloud to chain Assassinate an enemy unless you do the chain Assassination while aclose to a enemy and I also even found out that if you don’t have your throwing knifes equipped you also won’t be able to chain Assassinate an enemy.i like that they changed it and also make it more realistic where in origins whenever bayek chain Assassinated an enemy every time you never ran out of those little types of knifes and it was just unlimited same with Eivor he never ran out of Axes when Chain Assassinating an enemy so yeah just a small detail.that is a really nice thing to the chain Assassination
Mirage set the standard now, the bar is higher for stealth and I wonder how this will influence future ACs including the RPG. I imagine Hexe could make good use of these mechanics if it is horror themed, in fact when I think of what Hexe will be like games like A Plague Tale come to mind and Mirage's kind of detection and cover system would be perfect for fleeing Idk, the inquisition and witch hunters. Not to mention the shinobi from Red will need these mechanics too.
For a game series that has always been based on "historical fiction" adding the assassin's focus just breaks it for me. Being able to teleport mid-air? Come on son.
I only wish we could have the stealth of unity when hiding against a wall or a small object, arno would place himself against it and you could also peep a little and not get detected or aim without getting detected, i think syndicate had something similar to but unity was great with the stealth in interiors. All those little details are what makes a game great. I got a cool idea as a new mechanic for the future, if an enemy sees something wierd the camera will shift to his position and show his perspective so you have an idea of what made him suspicious, maybe he saw you walk by a little bit or he saw his partner fall in the grass, or he sees the feet of his partner but not the rest and at the same time you could use new tools to lure them like that, leave a shiny coin or fake blood, maybe you could kill a guard, drag his body and leave it as a bait. You could even choose the position of the corpse so its more or less suspicious.
There are definitely some flaws in the parkour and social stealth. But, mirage did nail the environmental stealth. In my opinion, though, Assassins Creed should be completely focused around social stealth because that’s what sets it apart.
8:32 Although you can't assassinate an armoured guard directly after smoke bombing mid-combat, it's actually a wiser idea to reset for a bit (break line of sight) after smoke bombing them to stun them instead. Once the smoke clears and they are trying to search you, you can get a short window where you can quickly get close and then assasinate them avoiding combat altogether.
What got me into AC wasn’t the stealth but it was the idea of being able to parkour around a city or country and just run free and bring peace to the setting and 7 year old me loved the idea. I’m trying to immerse myself into the stealth now but it’s the idea of the game that got me in
Cool that you have so many tools to kill enemies... But enemies itself are very boring, they just chilling so you can kill them in fancy way. They are just bare bones mannequines for you to experiment with your new fancy animus cheat code. Very old tactic strategy game called Robin Hood: Legend of sherwood, if enemy will spot body, he will check if that guy is dead, and after that, he will go to his captain and report the body, in turn the captain will send a squad to comb the location where the body was found. If archer will spot you, before attacking you, he will call for help. Another cool feature: if captain notice that someone didn't return from the patrol - he will eventually check were did his man disappeared. Complex and deep ai system can generate intresting and unique scenarios when you have to be cautious and you have to adapt to situations that ai could provide. So does any assassin's creed had such complex system where enemies are actually doing something? Cool that one guy in entire camp is trying to ring the bell, but could enemies be... Intresting? Why the f do i need to hide bodies if no one ever go here to check on that missing boy i just killed? What's the point to be cautious if others just flying everywhere, throwing daggers abusing smoke bombs and teleport? Im not against such fast paced gameplay... But we killing the same idiots for 15 years now. By this point i don't care how fancy naruto style you can kill them if they are still the same idiots from 2007, who can't generate intresting situations for themselves.
still having a blast playing this game im on my second playthrough now i really hope they add new game plus asap because ill def do multiple playthroughs if they do
I barely/rarely engaged in combat in this game. Infact, most of my order of ancient kills were target only kills. The fact I had the freedom to do that - in and out without anyone knowing I was there - is why this game is among the best in the franchise IMO
Love how I’m in a Twitter argument about a single upgrade for the traps (whistle trigger) about it not being lore friendly, and this video has absolutely no mentions of it.
They need to bring back the Unity engine but new and improved and bring back the Co-Op of Unity in my opinion Unity is the last AC game that captures the feel of the OG AC’s
Ive only played the trial of this game, but even just watching it and playing the little bit that I did, the game feels really smooth and well made mechanics wise. And I heard a sequel to this is in the making. So expanding upon the well made basics with more content and a larger game in general would really be able to rival the ezio trilogy if they do the story right
I love the variety of things you can do. Revelation bombs, Black Flag darts, throwing knives. Choose what you need. But my main gripe with stealth are the kill animations. Why the heck are the kills slow and unintuitive. Like running up to an enemy to assassinate, sometimes enemy turns around before you go to the animation of stabbing. In previous AC, like Black Flag the kills were very quick.
We really need a UNITY based AC game. Pure stealth. Mirage is a good step towards those good old days but not yet where we want AC to be. Please Ubisoft, give us the good old stealth experience back. Not RPG bullsh. Thanks for this Mirage experience but this is just a good step towards what we want AC to be.
I enjoyed the Focus mechanic mainly cus I used it sparingly. I would save it up till i had all 6 bars and then empty an area in seconds. I hope this mechanic is retained in Codename Red
Luring soldiers by whistling often did not work properly in this game though. It happened many times that a soldier came looking for me, jumped over the fence/wall to my location, but then immediately jumped back. This happened so quickly, that the R1 assassinate prompt turned into an attack, which made me swing at the soldier instead of killing him, which ruined my stealth immediately.
sidenote: I'm not a big fan of the Assassin's Focus, Enemy Proximity, and Sight Cone "hacks" or whatever but I'm thankful that it's all optional and usually turn it all off and never touched AF after the tutorial for it.
I’ve personally had a glitch but maybe it’s because i’ve spent the last week playing all days. This game is a masterpiece and even if it had glitches i’d play it
About assassins focus.. some people hate it some love it and I think most people who hate it just hate how it was implemented and the teleportation I think this was just the best they could do with the Valhalla engine and the time given however I think it can easily be improved by either taking inspiration from the Arkham fear takedowns where the assassin smoothly moved from assassination to assassination or I think Ubisoft could take inspiration from one of their own games, splinter cell the executions were smooth and looked nice basim could’ve had like 5 throwing knife’s in his hand after you mark your targets and throw them in quick succession would’ve been cool
Ya, I think it was lack of time and resources for Beardaux. And the good thing about it is it was optional. I didn't use it, and never felt underpowered. It's just a tool rather than a forced crutch
I found Focus, whistle and some tools to be overpowered in many situations - so I found it more fun to restrict myself from using those and assume minimum casualties approach. Had a lot of fun playing that way. Its been a while since I've enjoyed an AC game (Black flag or, maybe, Unity was the last one).
The things I’d like for Mirage: A DLC, maybe two. I want more of pre Valhalla’s Basim’s story. *So much more*, the story is just SO good. I beat the game in three days, three days of near constant non stop playing. And I loved every second of it! The other thing: New. Game. Plus.
Mirage actually has my favorite stealth system of the series. Unity may had better animations and better parkour, but the tools and the assassin’s focus in mirage were so fun to use. The missions are also very good designed for stealth.
Literally the same people who over praise Unity. The animations are awesome but the functionality like parkour and stealth is lacking. Both AC1-Revelations and Mirage is functionality > style.
It’s a good game for stealth, I just wish modern games would move away from the reliance on the crouch walk as a means of stealth in games. Especially for games like assassins creed with the blade in the crowd idea.
Mirage has some of the best emphasis on stealth in the entire series imo, especially with the sense of freedom you get with how you choose to take down your targets.
100%, in literally any other Assassins Creed game you could beat the entire game (except for stealth only missions) without using stealth, I've done it for all of them since I don't really like stealth. But Mirage would be near impossible to beat without using stealth, Basim isn't a very good brawler like most of the other Assassins are, and I like that he isn't, it gives us something different. This game definitely made me appreciate stealth a lot more.
@@Boulderpuncher98it made me appreciate Valhalla and Odyssey even more. As I wanna brawl with the enemies. Also once you get access to most of skills. Plus get better swords and tools. You can brawl the enemies.
This is the FIRST assassin's creed game I've walked into and decided to actually be sneaky around.
Every assassin's creed game I've ever played from the start of the whole series has had me walking in through the front door and absolutely destroying everything that dared look in my general direction.
Basim... can't do that, and that's a good thing.
@@theoreticalexistence9630just wish the assassination animations were meoe fluid
Many people hate on assassins focus but like you said it’s an option to use it and usually it enhances your experience and gives more options to play
Exactly if people don’t like it. Then don’t use it
I think those who complain about focus didn't explore its potential and thought it would only be exploited as a crutch to make up for bad stealth. But it makes no sense to complain about a perk that is totally optional anyway.
I understand why people hate it, personally, I would sugest using it as some kinda of double assassination only, since this mechanic has been gone for about 7 to 8 years now.
@@stupor_mundi most of the criticism towards the game doesn’t make any sense, people are being way to petty about it, complaining about the Assassins focus ability is like complaining about eagle vision, it’s dumb and nonsensical
I use it as a wild card to escape situations where I'm about to be detected. Trigger it right when detection meter is about to fill and kill whoever spotted you. Really made the experience better.
Picked up this game a few days ago and for my first AC game I’m in love with how the stealth is. So fun and makes you feel like a true assassin
Ain’t really a bad one to start out with it’s really alot like the first one
@@devin2151 which one would you recommend that’s stealth based like this. I’ll probably play that after I’m done with this
@@JudoMaster69 probably unity,syndicate or 3
@@devin2151 thanks g🫡
Play the Ezio Trilogy IF you enjoy a good story
Transitioning from the end of Valhalla to Mirage was my favorite moment in gaming. Valhalla was so unfair to stealth, so you have to be really good to succeed. Mirage just took that and gave you a sandbox.
The only two things I wish Mirage would have is better character animation during cutscenes. They are very robotic, since I don't think they use mocap for most of them like Odyssey and Valhalla. Those games had an a big amount of dialogue choices and two characters. So I wished Mirage would be more like Origins with it's cutscenes. And also if this game just had a well developed manual eject system it would basically be perfect. That would give it depth, because otherwise it just hold A and forward.
Keep in the mind that ubisoft (Bordeaux) had limited budget and still managed to create this game . If they were given more time and more budget , they would have created a new engine
@@tpraveenkumar Thats why we need to support Bordeoux and this game for going into the direction we want it to. if we dont we may never see Bordeoux make another true Assasins Creed game that is Stealth Focused but this time with ample time and money.
I even had a few cutscenes freeze up or not load at all rest the game ran smoothly and my set ups only 4 years old so i know its not me. I am using a 360 controller 1660 gpu ryzen 7 3200 and 32 gigs ram. ran the game on high except for a few cutscenes was buttery smooth. I only hope sells for this game goes well enough to make ubisoft realize us old school assassins creed fans want this direction not the rpg one.
@@tylerty7235 I didnt buy Odyssey or Valhalla but i bought Mirage given it looked like it was trying to go back to stealth and story focus. Felt if i didnt encourage this direction they would go back to rpg and of course cave to woke in video games. Glad i did given i really enjoyed Mirage. I only hope they consider adding a free infinite NG+ given i buy a game once maybe twice a year. Reason my pc set up was told by a tech buddy its a future proofed pc.
Skipping through cut scenes is what makes it robotic
I’m loving the stealth in this game
Me to I feel the stealth is actually really smooth and responsive in the past two games it just felt so off balence to the point where you don’t even bother using it and I lobe what they did with the tools for example when you throw a smoke bomb you can do sone nifty kills or just run off just like in the older games
Is this game any different to playing AC: Revelations?
@@digivagrantdawg what?
@@tommywright2487 All Im seeing in Mirage are things I can do in ACR besides crouching.
@@digivagrant y’all ever hear something so ridiculous that you don’t even know what to say?
I could spend HOURS of listening to this man praising Mirage and I'd never get bored.
Good job MA we love you
It feels good having an AC game after 6 years
Just a shame that still doesnt seem to please enough fans
Even those that yearns for the classic style of gameplay
At this point its becoming petty and pathetic
@@Cruddy129 i love mirage but it has many annoying things like how slow assassinations are compared to unity for example in unity you could be so fast and smooth while assassinating and you could take out groups of enemies with the hidden blade but in mirage you cant do double take downs it takes too long to finish assassinating and you cant chain hidden blade assassinations and that is just what is wrong with the assassination there are more problems
@@potato_duud6166then use more tools, you have a smoke bomb, throwing knives, darts, traps, and noisemakers. There is no reason you should go to a group of enemies with a hidden blade, i don’t think you can even do that in unity, yes double assassinations exist but it doesn’t mean what your trying to claim where we kill up to 4 people with just the hidden blade which is not possible, also trying to use the hidden blade in that situation is stupid anyway, so just use a smoke bomb and kill all of them, if you use all the tools in your shed you will end up more satisfied with your product.
@@potato_duud6166and of course double assassinations look cool, but you can throw a throwing knife and kill the other enemy to give the same level of effect. And In my opinion looks more cool. The problem with ac unity was not its stealth, it was its enemy placement, mirage has better enemy placement. There is no reason to criticize a game for what you can’t do when you can do literally that, also I believe the only think unity does better is parkour.
@@Cruddy129you’re absolutely right. Btw most of the haters haven’t even played AC Mirage and you can’t really judge an AC game without getting a feel of the game yourself. It’s sad to see content creators are uploading terrible gameplay footage of AC Mirage on purpose for clout.
I honestly didn’t ever think any RPG game could have so many cool original AC stealth and parkour features. It’s a great achievement for the low budget that went into the game. I think the haters are gonna regret hating it for no reason if Ubisoft goes back to AC Valhalla’s style again.
The stealth in Mirage is a gift. I'd love to try this game and test out the different skills and abilities for myself someday
Not stealth related, but honestly, one of my favorite features in Mirage is finally being able to remap running from left stick/L3 toggle to right trigger/R2 hold.
It feels so good
@1God1Christ i tried to do that but my solution was giving miss matches in the controls. I'll try again
oh god, think i've might've fund the perfect control scheme for me
atack and assassination>>X
Run>> RT
Climb>>A
Dodge>>B
Crouch>>L3
Counter>>LB
Aim>> LT
Throw>> RB (press)
Gadget wheel>> RB (hold)
The last was the one which was giving me trouble, realized i could use it with throw and now traversal feels so much smoother. Running with L3 was a pain.
@@meurer13danielthat’s a nasty control scheme….like wtf😭
@@meurer13danielwhy don't you just change the running button to hold RT , change the weopen wheel to left stick click, that's what I have but PlayStation version hold R2 run, click left stick for weopen wheel
Video idea: another fan stealth video but for Mirage
I really really hope the AC codename Red team look at the tools and stealth in this and incorporate them into that game, especially since the trailer clearly shows a hidden one character
Woupdnt hold my breath since they confirmed it to be an RPG and not a mirage like game
The only way they can balance stealth and combat is to have different control inputs for either character to full maximum both gameplay styles.
@@jeepercreep12I believe AC origins captured old & new simultaneously very well... loved that game
@@mohamedbenlashher4510yeah they said it’s gonna be an rpg but they haven’t said it’s not gonna take elements from mirage
@@josephvegas3052 that focused more on combat
6:48 I learned that for double assassinations to work you need to have throwing knives ammunition, it wont pop up if you're out of them
Reason to get knife recovery asap they dont give you many if i recall only 4 i went high damage route with my knife build and range with the extra skill. I also went corrosive because its nice to hide bodies.
@@1980Shadowwolfu can upgrade throwing knifes to carry 6 instead of 4
@@plagidoktor5812 At the time went against that given more damage and greater range made more sense not to mention i had knife recover unlocked.
gotta love that attention to detail
@@barnowl2655you’re not wrong but I wouldn’t even call it attention to detail, the description of the perk literally says it won’t work unless you have throwing knives.
I'm feeling so understood when watching your vids. Sadly a lot of bigger review channels are really hating on the game, but I enjoy it sooooo much. Yes it ain't perfect but Ubisoft did smth there.
Agreed. People should appreciate what we got rather than what we've been getting.
Oof the mirage fandom is getting the Starfield treatment. If mirage had more time or budget, it could have that great "returning to roots" moment but sadly people just have very high expectations, especially after BG3.
Then when them RPGs come back they'll be suprised. Straight up frustrating, I don't want them to lose the chance to have AC come back and these guys ruin it.
@@enzoamore8971 apparently Mirage sold super, super well, close to the RPG Titles and the Budget for the game was muuuch lower and a lot less Production time.
If I know one thing about Ubisoft, then it's that they love making money without having to do too much for it, so I'm assuming Ubisoft Bordeaux might get the resources to actually start working on a new "Back to the roots" title at some point. I feel like they would make an absolutely perfect AC game if they weren't stuck on Valhalla engine.
I still think Mirage needs a more dedicated “cover” state. It’s ambiguous nature can lead to unintentional consequences when planning stealth routes
Ya, has led to detection for me without that
I'd argue that being visible while aiming in bushes adds depth. In Mirage, it doesn't matter much that you're hidden while aiming your ranged tools in bushes because you don't have a high amount of tools to throw. In Origins, if you remained undetected while in the bushes aiming your bow, you would have been able to just snipe all of your enemies from within their fort and they wouldn't be able to do anything. Also, I do agree that assassin's focus is an ability that lets you enhance your gameplay if you use it creatively enough, but I think giving endgame Basim five bars of focus is a little too forgiving. In a lot of cases, you could essentially just use it to skip encounters, get a couple more stealth kills with a maxed predator tree, and then use it all again. Nevertheless, this game's additions have really added to the stealth experience, and I think it has set a good foundation to build off of for future titles.
Played Mirage 1hr already loving more than 60 staggering hours of Valhalla.
Loved Mirage and I can’t wait to play it again! My favorite since origins and I’d probably put it top 3-5 in the series
Just finished Origins and playing hidden ones dlc then gonna play curse of pharoah dlc then go into Mirage
Sometimes I can combine throwing knife, smoke bomb with assassin focus. For instance, when I have only 1 assassin focus bar I can throw knife to nearby guard who is currently looking and then throw smoke bomb to a group of guard. This allow me to teleport to them and quickly kill other, therefore no concern about the smoke will fade if I run to them. 😅
I love how to cover system works, if Basim is highlighted white and hidden, you wont be spotted and that works in the assassination animations too, its so cool.
I have a good feeling this game is gona age decently well just because it took the Valhalla formula and almost made it what it should’ve been with Mirage so im really enjoying this game!
Absolutely nailed it i was hopeful with the promise of a return to form and for the most part mirage lived up to my hopes
I hope they do end up doing dlc I need more of this
My only wish for this games future is that I hope they at least add in infinite contracts and more unlock able outfits to hold players over for a bit.
bro I think you are the only person I have seen talk about Assassin's Focus in a good way I personally like Assassin's Focus and in Mirage it is balanced because you need to assassin's enemies thankfully its not using a cool down
Agreed, I also think it's meant to be used conservatively. I only ever use it when I need to move somewhere, but I can't because there's too many guards.
Leo K says some good things too about it
man stealth in this game is good...i just hope that ubisoft improves upon it for future ac games🤞🏻
Mirage is the first assassins creed game that I have platinumed and I enjoyed every second of it
I LOVE that you have to be stealthy to civilians too. There was a civilian once next to a bunch of guards, I put the civi to sleep, threw a smoke bomb, killed everyone and fled with zero notoriety increase. FELT AMAZING!
Really feels nice to be seen and heard again, huh? Banger!
Great video man! Yeah, the game does so many things to push you towards using stealth, like bringing back notoriety and giving Basim a lot less health. You can’t muscle your way through tbh (or at least it’s super difficult to do so 😅), so your best option is to be stealthy, which makes sense since you are an assassin. And then like you said, the game gives you so many opportunities and options for stealth (social stealth, tools and their crazy mods, traditional stabbing, Assassin’s Focus, etc…) cause that’s what it really intends for you to do in the first place.
It just did a superb job with stealth gameplay and I feel like it might actually be the most stealth-focused AC game in the series, only because I never felt a true need to always be stealthy in the older games. It was more that I just wanted to be stealthy because it was there. Here, it felt like I almost had to if I didn’t want to die and I literally never chose the combat route unless I was unwittingly plunged into it 😂
Thank you so much for this video. I’ve decided to get it.
And I like how mirage doesn't have boss fights like valhalla odyssey and origins
My only real gripe with Mirage is the assassination animations. When I drop a smoke bomb I don’t want to see elaborate movements, I want to clear the area.
One thing I noticed in mirage is that chain Assassination actually requires you to have throwing knifes in your inventory because I noticed if basim is out of throwing knifes you won’t be aloud to chain Assassinate an enemy unless you do the chain Assassination while aclose to a enemy and I also even found out that if you don’t have your throwing knifes equipped you also won’t be able to chain Assassinate an enemy.i like that they changed it and also make it more realistic where in origins whenever bayek chain Assassinated an enemy every time you never ran out of those little types of knifes and it was just unlimited same with Eivor he never ran out of Axes when Chain Assassinating an enemy so yeah just a small detail.that is a really nice thing to the chain Assassination
Mirage set the standard now, the bar is higher for stealth and I wonder how this will influence future ACs including the RPG. I imagine Hexe could make good use of these mechanics if it is horror themed, in fact when I think of what Hexe will be like games like A Plague Tale come to mind and Mirage's kind of detection and cover system would be perfect for fleeing Idk, the inquisition and witch hunters. Not to mention the shinobi from Red will need these mechanics too.
bro is making goated educational content for Mirage
For a game series that has always been based on "historical fiction" adding the assassin's focus just breaks it for me. Being able to teleport mid-air? Come on son.
LOL the irony in your statement 11:35 “… frustrated with Valhalla’s broken stealth it feels nice to finally be seen and heard again” 😂
Killing enemies i front of other enemies while the enemy saw you first from several feet away is so fun and definitely means they understand.
Love your channel bro I agree with everything you said
Gadget modification? Love it! Brings me back to the old days of Revelations ❤
Getting this game tomorrow for my birthday and I’m really excited
I only wish we could have the stealth of unity when hiding against a wall or a small object, arno would place himself against it and you could also peep a little and not get detected or aim without getting detected, i think syndicate had something similar to but unity was great with the stealth in interiors. All those little details are what makes a game great. I got a cool idea as a new mechanic for the future, if an enemy sees something wierd the camera will shift to his position and show his perspective so you have an idea of what made him suspicious, maybe he saw you walk by a little bit or he saw his partner fall in the grass, or he sees the feet of his partner but not the rest and at the same time you could use new tools to lure them like that, leave a shiny coin or fake blood, maybe you could kill a guard, drag his body and leave it as a bait. You could even choose the position of the corpse so its more or less suspicious.
Fun Fact: End credits take longer to finish than the game😶
There are definitely some flaws in the parkour and social stealth. But, mirage did nail the environmental stealth. In my opinion, though, Assassins Creed should be completely focused around social stealth because that’s what sets it apart.
8:32 Although you can't assassinate an armoured guard directly after smoke bombing mid-combat, it's actually a wiser idea to reset for a bit (break line of sight) after smoke bombing them to stun them instead. Once the smoke clears and they are trying to search you, you can get a short window where you can quickly get close and then assasinate them avoiding combat altogether.
What got me into AC wasn’t the stealth but it was the idea of being able to parkour around a city or country and just run free and bring peace to the setting and 7 year old me loved the idea. I’m trying to immerse myself into the stealth now but it’s the idea of the game that got me in
I love how you said stealth players want to feel seen and heard when they obviously don't
Mirage makes me almost want to play Valhalla again after. I have to stop myself from making that mistake
Beautiful another master assassin video 🎉❤️
2 things to add to the stealth would be a normal double assassination and a cover system
Cool that you have so many tools to kill enemies... But enemies itself are very boring, they just chilling so you can kill them in fancy way. They are just bare bones mannequines for you to experiment with your new fancy animus cheat code.
Very old tactic strategy game called Robin Hood: Legend of sherwood, if enemy will spot body, he will check if that guy is dead, and after that, he will go to his captain and report the body, in turn the captain will send a squad to comb the location where the body was found.
If archer will spot you, before attacking you, he will call for help.
Another cool feature: if captain notice that someone didn't return from the patrol - he will eventually check were did his man disappeared.
Complex and deep ai system can generate intresting and unique scenarios when you have to be cautious and you have to adapt to situations that ai could provide.
So does any assassin's creed had such complex system where enemies are actually doing something? Cool that one guy in entire camp is trying to ring the bell, but could enemies be... Intresting?
Why the f do i need to hide bodies if no one ever go here to check on that missing boy i just killed?
What's the point to be cautious if others just flying everywhere, throwing daggers abusing smoke bombs and teleport? Im not against such fast paced gameplay... But we killing the same idiots for 15 years now. By this point i don't care how fancy naruto style you can kill them if they are still the same idiots from 2007, who can't generate intresting situations for themselves.
Yes you understand 👌
I enjoyed this game a lot actually, being able to finish it while being 90% of the time in stealth felt amazing
I didn't think i was gonna like assassins phocus but man I love it. Extreamly usefull to hit my targets guards then take my target out.
Thanks vor the information Master Assassin
I agree with you 100%. I hated how busted the stealth was in Valhalla, and conversely I love how the stealth works in Mirage 👍
still having a blast playing this game im on my second playthrough now i really hope they add new game plus asap because ill def do multiple playthroughs if they do
Love your videos mate❤im happy that u love mirage
I wasn’t a big fan of the assassin focus before I started playing it but it has grown on me
I barely/rarely engaged in combat in this game. Infact, most of my order of ancient kills were target only kills. The fact I had the freedom to do that - in and out without anyone knowing I was there - is why this game is among the best in the franchise IMO
I love the throwing knife in mirage. So satisfying!
Fun fact, if you throw a torch in the sand bag, after blowing it up, it will catch enemy’s trapped in the mist on fire.
Love how I’m in a Twitter argument about a single upgrade for the traps (whistle trigger) about it not being lore friendly, and this video has absolutely no mentions of it.
Continue the good content 👌
Great video Assassin!
Imo, this is top 3 stealth we’ve had in this series, behind unity and syndicate
They need to bring back the Unity engine but new and improved and bring back the Co-Op of Unity in my opinion Unity is the last AC game that captures the feel of the OG AC’s
Ive only played the trial of this game, but even just watching it and playing the little bit that I did, the game feels really smooth and well made mechanics wise. And I heard a sequel to this is in the making. So expanding upon the well made basics with more content and a larger game in general would really be able to rival the ezio trilogy if they do the story right
I love the variety of things you can do. Revelation bombs, Black Flag darts, throwing knives. Choose what you need.
But my main gripe with stealth are the kill animations. Why the heck are the kills slow and unintuitive. Like running up to an enemy to assassinate, sometimes enemy turns around before you go to the animation of stabbing.
In previous AC, like Black Flag the kills were very quick.
Assassin's Lament is such a god-tier soundtrack from that game honestly.
We really need a UNITY based AC game. Pure stealth. Mirage is a good step towards those good old days but not yet where we want AC to be. Please Ubisoft, give us the good old stealth experience back. Not RPG bullsh. Thanks for this Mirage experience but this is just a good step towards what we want AC to be.
Really nice video! Also I think you can assassinate enemies in unity after dropping a smoke bomb but there is a trick to it.
They better give it a new game plus. The hall I was done dirty by not getting new game. Plus I love that setting.
Back to its roots stealth is great loving this game so far not perfect but a solid title 8.5 out of 10
Great to hear; can't wait to play it! 8.5 is good game score!
The stealth in mirage is honestly great and it works perfectly for my play through
I enjoyed the Focus mechanic mainly cus I used it sparingly. I would save it up till i had all 6 bars and then empty an area in seconds. I hope this mechanic is retained in Codename Red
Luring soldiers by whistling often did not work properly in this game though. It happened many times that a soldier came looking for me, jumped over the fence/wall to my location, but then immediately jumped back. This happened so quickly, that the R1 assassinate prompt turned into an attack, which made me swing at the soldier instead of killing him, which ruined my stealth immediately.
This game was like Splinter Cell or the Thief games, but in 9th century Baghdad and without a light/dark visibility mechanic
Mirage is the second best Assassin's Creed game EVER!
Love your video
Me personally AC Focus makes any difficulty look like amateur if you know how to use it (I still love it but still)
You should make a video on how far you can get in AC Mirage without being spotted.
Minus mandatory combat encounters, I think he’ll be able to complete the game without getting spotted
Best stealth game in my eyes is dishonored
If any game's sales numbers define the direction of a game franchise, I sure hope to hell that Mirage sells well and Ubisoft takes notes.
sidenote: I'm not a big fan of the Assassin's Focus, Enemy Proximity, and Sight Cone "hacks" or whatever but I'm thankful that it's all optional and usually turn it all off and never touched AF after the tutorial for it.
@@Broken_OrbitalAs another fan of the older games, it makes me happy to hear I'm not the only one who enjoys this new one.
@@barnowl2655 I've been having a great time with Mirage, it's not perfect but it definitely scratches that old school AC itch.
I’ve personally had a glitch but maybe it’s because i’ve spent the last week playing all days. This game is a masterpiece and even if it had glitches i’d play it
Just wish there were more assassination animations
Yeah, it ain't perfect, but I'll take it over Valhalla and Odyssey any day.
About assassins focus.. some people hate it some love it and I think most people who hate it just hate how it was implemented and the teleportation I think this was just the best they could do with the Valhalla engine and the time given however I think it can easily be improved by either taking inspiration from the Arkham fear takedowns where the assassin smoothly moved from assassination to assassination or I think Ubisoft could take inspiration from one of their own games, splinter cell the executions were smooth and looked nice basim could’ve had like 5 throwing knife’s in his hand after you mark your targets and throw them in quick succession would’ve been cool
Ya, I think it was lack of time and resources for Beardaux. And the good thing about it is it was optional. I didn't use it, and never felt underpowered. It's just a tool rather than a forced crutch
This just makes me want Mirage even more. I'm annoyed I don't have something to play it on.
when you planning on making "AC mirage but when i when i get detected the video ends?"
I found Focus, whistle and some tools to be overpowered in many situations - so I found it more fun to restrict myself from using those and assume minimum casualties approach. Had a lot of fun playing that way. Its been a while since I've enjoyed an AC game (Black flag or, maybe, Unity was the last one).
Minimum casualty approach is my go-to.
Literally the only AC creator with a brain. All these other guys hating on the game cause all their followers are from the RPG games 😂
Honestly the smoke bomb and throwing knives are so good I just end up not using the other tools a lot xD.
I bought Mirage And you were right Its good
The things I’d like for Mirage: A DLC, maybe two. I want more of pre Valhalla’s Basim’s story. *So much more*, the story is just SO good. I beat the game in three days, three days of near constant non stop playing. And I loved every second of it! The other thing: New. Game. Plus.
Mirage actually has my favorite stealth system of the series. Unity may had better animations and better parkour, but the tools and the assassin’s focus in mirage were so fun to use. The missions are also very good designed for stealth.
i would love if mirage had the same or similar animations with the hidden blade kills as unity because they were so good in unity
Literally the same people who over praise Unity. The animations are awesome but the functionality like parkour and stealth is lacking. Both AC1-Revelations and Mirage is functionality > style.
I havent played morage that much yet but i am looking forward to do some stealth
They need to make low profile assassinations more consistent tho
I haven't felt this satisfied with stealth since Tenchu Z and SC: Chaos Theory.
And maybe Ghost of Tsushima but to a lesser extent.
I don't know why some people hate The assasins Focus. For me it's amazing and a good "new" feature🗣️🔥🔥🔥🍉🍉
It’s a good game for stealth, I just wish modern games would move away from the reliance on the crouch walk as a means of stealth in games. Especially for games like assassins creed with the blade in the crowd idea.