The Hidden Blade Assassin's Creed in Depth

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The method of assassination in this video is "There is No Spoon". I use it on the targets Bernardo Baroncelli and Stefano da Bagnone by placing them on a flight of stairs and getting far enough away that the stairs are no longer modeled in the game, causing the targets to fall through the floor and drown.

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Doubt anyone will actually find this useful, but if you are in need of entertainment go ahead and watch it. Its basically me infiltrating the banks using different methods. I was kind of short on time though so some of them had to be rushed. This is just part 1

To perform an eagle strike on Jacobo you first need to reanimate him. Basically you attack him with a weapon while your being attacked. Before you move him kill the guards outside the amphitheater and in the city entrance and lower your notoriety to prevent from being detected. To prevent him from teleporting after moving him from the interaction zone you need to poison him. The best time to do this is when you need to throw him once to move him out of the theater. After that don't throw him or the poison effect may be shortened. Drag him across Tuscany to the tower shown in the video. (this tower is next to the building where you first see Jacobo) You won't be able to drag him across some stairs in the city. Throw him in the right spot to be air tackled and climb up the tower. The poison will give you very limited time to perform an eagle strike on Jacobo, but luckily the tower has a straight line of ledges to climb up. When you jump off the tower change the camera view to target him for an air tackle.

A quick way to eliminate most of the guards in this mission while remaining unseen is to hire the mercenaries to fight for you. Guards will automatically join in the fight if they can see the battle, so all you have to do is get the battle started in a central location.

The goal in this video is to kill all of the guards and Stefano da Bagnone without being spotted at all (no yellow bars), and without hiring mercenaries. (There's a neat trick to using mercenaries on this mission, which I will show in my next video.) This is a difficult mission to design due to the large number of guard patrols in a small area. I rely heavily on timed movements to avoid detection and careful placement of dead body distractions, which disrupt the guard patrols.

Altair92's recent videos using the smoke bomb to cause targets to flee inspired me to revisit the first mission where I noticed this effect: Stefano da Bagnone. At the time, I couldn't find any interesting to do with the fact that he ran away - Ezio doesn't have a gun yet, and Stefano did nothing more than run along a path into the distance. But I recently found a particular mission design that causes Stefano to run in circles around the monastery. This gives an opportunity for a dynamic stunt, which is my favorite type of assassination, as many of you know.

The goal of this mission is to move Bernardo Baroncelli to Piazza del Duomo, then make an eagle strike on him from "Torre Grossa"

This video demonstrates a weird glitch with AC2 that allows you to finish the Francesco Salviati without killing him, and without the post-assassination cutscene.
At the end of the mission, Francesco simply vanishes in thin air, and the mission is complete.