129
In AC Valhalla there is at least the option to turn on "guaranteed assassinations", which I gotta say I find a lot more immersive.
Assassin's Creed 1 was the best one and everything was a slow decline from there, yes, even the pirate one that should have been Pirate's Creed 1, don't @ me.
That's what happens when you keep making remakes of the same game rebranded as a new game
This is what makes Far Cry 3 assassinations so satisfying
What does the red skull mean? Warning for tough enemies?
Yep, in Assassin's Creed games, the red skull represents an enemy who would wipe the floor with you. I think the comic maybe referring to Assassin's Creed Shadows.
In order to kill higher level units, you need to spend enough points in a skill tree to purchase the skill to hit hard enough to assassinate.
It would be so much more immersive if such enemies just had a counter against being assassinated, and there was no skull icon over them. Nothing but context clues like armour, location, or behaviour to warn you that a backstab will just get you suplexed or thrown out of a window. That way every regular schmo that gets merked still has enough ambiguity that it's more exciting.
I don't even play AC, though. Maybe I'm just talking out of my ass.
Funnily enough, there are certain units that would deny your assassination attempt if you attack them from the front. Not every joe, but basically every schmomurai can.
And of course you can upgrade that limitation away as well.
Nah I think you're right. You do have environmental clues though, the big ones are, well, bigger. But the way it's done is fucking stupid because they get the normal animation, then they just get back up.
Death: No admittance
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2026
129 points (97.8% liked)
Centurii chan
589 readers
91 users here now
Posts and discussion about comics (and, sometimes, associated media) by the artist centurii-chan.
They have a history of edge-posting - nothing that the current mod considers outright racist, sexist, or otherwise hateful, but problematic enough that you may want to look elsewhere for horny comics.
While you're here, abide by the following rules or face a ban :
- Don't be dicks to each other.
- No hate speech, racism, sexism.
- Posts should be related to centuriichan comics.
- Mark NSFW posts as NSFW.
founded 10 months ago
MODERATORS