That really is an insane Streak, thanks for posting. I used the Animus Hack Streak back in ACR until I completed the related challenges and then never used it again because regular Streaks would, on average, still give you more points, but this... wow, this is something else. I know what I'll be trying out tomorrow!
Loomer you're awesome!!! I've learned a lot from everything I've seen in the templar training and everything else. Keep doing these kind of staf... We'll keep watching and learning from the master!!
That would be great even a hour or so ahead of time would hopefully show up. I have enjoyed the frequent live streams so keep up the great work in that aspect and its understandable that its annoying to try and save them just didn't know how that all worked. But thank you either way loomer. Hope ill be their for the next livestream!
Thanks for posting this video! It inspired me to use the animus hack streak after having NEVER touched it before and on the first session I used to try it out I beat my high score!
It works like this. The stun/kill range is 10 yards. When slowed (stunned) by a throwing knife, that range is reduced to 6 yards. So if you hit someone with a knife and are still within 7 yards, or move into their 6 yard range, they will assassinate you. The best way to do it is to throw the knife while at a distance and slowly move, not sprint, towards your pursuer spamming X to stun. You'll stun them before they can kill you because they will be too far away due to the throwing knife.
usually the pursuer just walk straight at you and it gets pretty obvious, also use the whispers as a radar, and keep an eye on their left hand as it raises when they push the kill button. u can watch loomer's templar training ep.4 "hunting your hunter"
Great video and input. I'm no guru, but I notice Prestige Gods find the exponential scoring of Animus Hack the "Holy Grail" of AC3. In pursuit of the "8" stuns/kills teaches newer players very bad habits, especially in Deathmatch mode. Everyone seems to work on QUANTITY kills, versus QUALITY kills. This changes Deathmatch adding more chaos to the strategy of scoring quality kills in the closer/smaller boards. Hopefully, UBISOFT will work on equally matched player levels throughout matches/bouts.
Actually, I was referring to what Loomer was saying about the animus hack in deathmatch. How you only needed to look for the 2 NPCs, and conclude that the rest were players. There are technically 3. (The indian, the elegant lady, and the Hunz looking character). I know he has very fast locking/reaction. It's from playing a lot. Most players from ACB have the same reactions.
You have many different ways to do so. 1: Act like a computer-player in a crowd, with other copies of you, if he doesnt notice you, you can stun him. 2: Use glimmer or disguise, he might not notice you. 3: Try to get him running after you, wait on the corner, then run into him and stun. 4: Use smokebomb. 5: Get him to jump from a high platform/roof, so he can't do anything for 0,5 seconds while landing, then quickly stun him. 6: Use a knife to stun him. (Sometimes that's hard to do)
It DOES have a defensive use, but it's more supportive then mute, Think your team is blending, all your pursers trickle out the same corner, you could throw wipe at them when they get closer, and your entire team could just charge in knife stunning mode, without having to worry about OSB, or anything else.
Yeah I've thought about this but I live stream a lot more frequently than I upload and I don't want my channel flooded with archived live streams. (Also, YT generally only saves 2 hours of a live stream and I usually stream for longer than that). I'll try to schedule them further in advance on UA-cam and stuff though, hopefully that might help.
It's a DLC pack you can buy from UbiShop for about $5, it comes with those two playable characters as well as some single-player missions and other content.
Thanks haha. I think the issue with me doing an AC3 version of my "spotting pursuers" templar training episode (which is I think what you're referring to) is that the content would be 95% the same. At that point I don't feel very motivated to retread old ground like that.
I've always noticed 3 NPCs... But there are occassions, that if there's only 7 players, and an 8th comes in and chooses a character that's an NPC, the game will rebuffer eventually, but not right away. I've seen it happen (Even recorded it...). I've even had a situation where two players were the same persona...
Welp... a funny thing about the hack streak is, once the streak wears off, you can't interact with your target and pursuer. It is better than Revelations in terms of reward but it's a little bit more risky.
OH! thanks so much! :) No wonder when I was playing after your first comment but before this one I found that slower was better in terms of my approach. thanks again
I have some questions for you Loomer: 1 what perks are u using? 2 why when i try to stun an enemy most of the times it ends up in a contested kill even if i am disguised or i use knives? shall i always be back to the enemy? you did a GG here. hope to see other videos maybe explaining what is the best perk or ability for you!
That's interesting, I didn't notice that the strong man stayed as an NPC with the others even after the lobby filled up to 8. I wonder if that's because the match started with 7 players (hence 3 NPCs) or if there's something else going on.
You get honorable death from contesting a kill (hitting X [xbox] in time as someone tries to kill you). In order to stun someone with the throwing knife they cannot already have pressed the assassinate button. Obviously it's best to do it from a distance, but it can miss if you don't have the person targeted, and will bounce off walls and such (not AI though, it'll go through them) if your target is out of LoS. Then you have to stun them before the knife stun wears off and assassinate you.
No problem bro ^^ If you jump from a roof into a hay bell and so does your pursuer, it's even easier to stun him than jumping regularly from a roof. Good luck trying these things. On what console do you play?
Any chance we could get a full upload of the live stream? I have been their for the last few but with YT subboxes being so screwy I didn't even know you were streaming until it popped up on my YT main page got excited went into the stream just to hear "okay thats about it I am done guys". No idea how long you were streaming but I would love to watch it.
I have to say GG(last time i checked you were second best score ;) ) for this game BUT I think this is will not work against good player ! And btw are you using the (i dont know how do you spell it) "bonus" that reduces only 1 point your combo when you die ?
animus hack is a kill streak but it is a special kill streak that allow you to kill any body in the game even your persuers,targets and crowd from far away you dont have to be beside them and when you kill a pc you will be able to kill your target and enemy also , animus hack has limited time so rush for the kills :D
Hey Loomer and fellow AC MP fans, what are your thoughts on Decoy? I just finished a match where I got a ton of milage out of Decoy, but I suspect that it's a lot harder to use in higher level play. It's nice when it works, you can get a lure and a stun for 300 points. And you don't have to guess who your pursuer is.
In Deathmatch you don't have copies because there is no compass to help pursuers find their right target. You can create copies of yourself though with morph or blender.
Agree with most here,leaving hack the way it is will almost be a gamebreaker,like you say ppl will have to start using it just so there not at a major disadvantage
You see the other players who you know are player via the menu or when you picked your own character, and when whispers get louder as another player who was not in the area steps into your line of sight, you come to a final conclusion about your pursuers. :D
You don't want to stun people that aren't your target under any circumstances. I noticed he did it once in this game, it was on accident as he was trying to stun someone else he thought was his pursuer.
loomer979 , so great to see you getting more and more subs!! i've been subscribed for a while and you deserve more subscriptions. Shame you're on xbox because it would be an honour to play alongside you or even against you.
Kind of found the answer to my question today. No one really fell for my decoy during my matches. I used it once or twice to fish or a lure, but players weren't taking the bait. I felt like after that I was better off switching to another ability.
im sort of like half and half about it. cos its sort of like a feel good reward for getting that many kills but also it feels like it gives a massive advantage like you say
Nah, I noticed that, but it's because the locking system is still weird, he locked onto the other character (But due to the 1 second wait before the x prompt appears), he hit x too quickly, and it boxed over the NPC. He was shifting too fast, but that's an easy mistake.
By the way, I think Animus Hack is not over powered, because when the hack will be activated the other player will hear "Animus got hacked". So in other words they will be informed about it and can prepare themself!
He did know who he was. he locked on to him even.. But there was a little lag in the lock working.. which made him kill an NPC.. I guess thats what happened. Loomer has very quick reactions and that worked against him due to lag in lock actually :P
I completely agree with you loomer. In revelations deathmatch, I did the same thing with animus hack lol. but I stopped using it eventually because you dont get much points for using it...
Not sure if someone made this comment, nor do I mean it o sound bad, there are technically 3 NPCs. Not 2. But great gameplay (Saw the livestream :D). It's all about appearance. Use high areas for hacks. (Like a place you can hang from). That's the only time I'd suggest using a roof.
Regular - pros/cons Pro: any kill or stun works, con: takes 8 kills Silent - pro: 6 kills, cons:all kills must be silent or better. take the regular, may take longer but atleast all kills will count.
Hey Loomer, I have a question that's been bothering me for a while. How do you use knives to kill/stun your target/pursuer? I've managed to pull it off before but that was with pure luck. Please reply!
Hi quick question from a pc-player. ive just discovered your templar training vids for ACR, and im learning some stuff that i didnt knew. Is there a lot of difference between ACR and AC3 in the mp that would discredit these tips? thanks
Just try to walk at them after you threw your knives: their kill range is reduced while your stun range is not. If you just run at them you may risk to enter their kill range anyway.
Good god man. Ridiculous score. I'm going to have to change my kill streak to the hack deal, I just assumed it was like Revelations and ignored it. Wow.
Hey Loomer, are you going to get the special Highwayman Outfit for your Huntsman. It comes with the cheap price of 20000 Abstergo Credits! In all seriousness, you should totally get it! It's really awesome!
nice video Loomer! im really new to AC3 multiplayer, and you do some stuff i just cant do, i always get honor death or contest kill... can i write and ask u some questions? u seem to know what u are doing. :)
Loomer, thank you for the videos. Could you explain in detail the "Assassinate" game mode please. Seems to be the most popular and I keep getting my butt kicked:-) Thanks!
there are maps where that happens, and other maps where that's impossible. like New York Brewery (deathmatch), in the second floor its impossible because of the ceiling, in the first floor there arent any spots where the pursuer could do that (at least i havent seen them.) in maps like virginian plantation, the trick doesnt work because of that
I think what happened when you said you got screwed by the montebank is...you say later in the video that you can keep animus hacking if you hack a civilian, which i THINK is true, but I don't think it works on your actual target. If you notice, you hack an NPC pioneer, then your contract portrait (the montebank) goes gray, and it's like the game won't let you take action on him, even though you can keep hacking. I THINK that's what happened.
I know that (that assassinating > stun in terms of priority) but when I knife people they I always get honorable death. So I guess what I'm asking is there, at any point in which the knife negates the pursuer to hit X/square - or was it that his pursuer in the video just didn't know what to do?
Excuse me! If you haven't noticed hack and gun are not used very much at all! Maybe the reason you think this is because you have never played the game?
i wish people still played
I miss multiplayer😢. Animus hack was fun but the losing streak 2x multiplier is how I get an obscene amount of ppoints from one kill.
That really is an insane Streak, thanks for posting. I used the Animus Hack Streak back in ACR until I completed the related challenges and then never used it again because regular Streaks would, on average, still give you more points, but this... wow, this is something else. I know what I'll be trying out tomorrow!
You're so good at this! I've been searching around for AC3 multiplayer tips, and you've helped me the most by far.
Loomer you're awesome!!! I've learned a lot from everything I've seen in the templar training and everything else. Keep doing these kind of staf... We'll keep watching and learning from the master!!
I love using animus hack in the defensive round of manhunt
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That would be great even a hour or so ahead of time would hopefully show up. I have enjoyed the frequent live streams so keep up the great work in that aspect and its understandable that its annoying to try and save them just didn't know how that all worked. But thank you either way loomer. Hope ill be their for the next livestream!
Thanks for posting this video! It inspired me to use the animus hack streak after having NEVER touched it before and on the first session I used to try it out I beat my high score!
It works like this. The stun/kill range is 10 yards. When slowed (stunned) by a throwing knife, that range is reduced to 6 yards. So if you hit someone with a knife and are still within 7 yards, or move into their 6 yard range, they will assassinate you. The best way to do it is to throw the knife while at a distance and slowly move, not sprint, towards your pursuer spamming X to stun. You'll stun them before they can kill you because they will be too far away due to the throwing knife.
dude i would still reccomend you make it, a lot of us would really LOVE the tips so much
AC Multiplayer was so cool.
usually the pursuer just walk straight at you and it gets pretty obvious, also use the whispers as a radar, and keep an eye on their left hand as it raises when they push the kill button. u can watch loomer's templar training ep.4 "hunting your hunter"
Great video and input. I'm no guru, but I notice Prestige Gods find the exponential scoring of Animus Hack the "Holy Grail" of AC3. In pursuit of the "8" stuns/kills teaches newer players very bad habits, especially in Deathmatch mode. Everyone seems to work on QUANTITY kills, versus QUALITY kills. This changes Deathmatch adding more chaos to the strategy of scoring quality kills in the closer/smaller boards. Hopefully, UBISOFT will work on equally matched player levels throughout matches/bouts.
Actually, I was referring to what Loomer was saying about the animus hack in deathmatch. How you only needed to look for the 2 NPCs, and conclude that the rest were players. There are technically 3. (The indian, the elegant lady, and the Hunz looking character). I know he has very fast locking/reaction. It's from playing a lot. Most players from ACB have the same reactions.
You have many different ways to do so. 1: Act like a computer-player in a crowd, with other copies of you, if he doesnt notice you, you can stun him. 2: Use glimmer or disguise, he might not notice you. 3: Try to get him running after you, wait on the corner, then run into him and stun. 4: Use smokebomb. 5: Get him to jump from a high platform/roof, so he can't do anything for 0,5 seconds while landing, then quickly stun him. 6: Use a knife to stun him. (Sometimes that's hard to do)
It DOES have a defensive use, but it's more supportive then mute, Think your team is blending, all your pursers trickle out the same corner, you could throw wipe at them when they get closer, and your entire team could just charge in knife stunning mode, without having to worry about OSB, or anything else.
listening to you and watching this at the same time is not easy
Yeah I've thought about this but I live stream a lot more frequently than I upload and I don't want my channel flooded with archived live streams. (Also, YT generally only saves 2 hours of a live stream and I usually stream for longer than that). I'll try to schedule them further in advance on UA-cam and stuff though, hopefully that might help.
It's a DLC pack you can buy from UbiShop for about $5, it comes with those two playable characters as well as some single-player missions and other content.
Thanks haha. I think the issue with me doing an AC3 version of my "spotting pursuers" templar training episode (which is I think what you're referring to) is that the content would be 95% the same. At that point I don't feel very motivated to retread old ground like that.
I've always noticed 3 NPCs... But there are occassions, that if there's only 7 players, and an 8th comes in and chooses a character that's an NPC, the game will rebuffer eventually, but not right away. I've seen it happen (Even recorded it...). I've even had a situation where two players were the same persona...
Welp... a funny thing about the hack streak is, once the streak wears off, you can't interact with your target and pursuer. It is better than Revelations in terms of reward but it's a little bit more risky.
OH! thanks so much! :) No wonder when I was playing after your first comment but before this one I found that slower was better in terms of my approach. thanks again
i think the white outfits look sick for team based matches but in single player it makes you stand out more and die or get stunned more
I have some questions for you Loomer: 1 what perks are u using? 2 why when i try to stun an enemy most of the times it ends up in a contested kill even if i am disguised or i use knives? shall i always be back to the enemy? you did a GG here. hope to see other videos maybe explaining what is the best perk or ability for you!
That's interesting, I didn't notice that the strong man stayed as an NPC with the others even after the lobby filled up to 8. I wonder if that's because the match started with 7 players (hence 3 NPCs) or if there's something else going on.
Nice score , loomer wow!
You get honorable death from contesting a kill (hitting X [xbox] in time as someone tries to kill you). In order to stun someone with the throwing knife they cannot already have pressed the assassinate button. Obviously it's best to do it from a distance, but it can miss if you don't have the person targeted, and will bounce off walls and such (not AI though, it'll go through them) if your target is out of LoS. Then you have to stun them before the knife stun wears off and assassinate you.
if you are near a corner go around it and wait for your pursuer behind the wall, when he goes around the corner the stun will surprise him enough
I like that Hack streak. It actually seems like a viable bonus now.
No problem bro ^^ If you jump from a roof into a hay bell and so does your pursuer, it's even easier to stun him than jumping regularly from a roof. Good luck trying these things. On what console do you play?
Any chance we could get a full upload of the live stream? I have been their for the last few but with YT subboxes being so screwy I didn't even know you were streaming until it popped up on my YT main page got excited went into the stream just to hear "okay thats about it I am done guys". No idea how long you were streaming but I would love to watch it.
I have to say GG(last time i checked you were second best score ;) ) for this game BUT I think this is will not work against good player !
And btw are you using the (i dont know how do you spell it) "bonus" that reduces only 1 point your combo when you die ?
animus hack is a kill streak but it is a special kill streak that allow you to kill any body in the game even your persuers,targets and crowd from far away you dont have to be beside them and when you kill a pc you will be able to kill your target and enemy also , animus hack has limited time so rush for the kills :D
Hey Loomer and fellow AC MP fans, what are your thoughts on Decoy? I just finished a match where I got a ton of milage out of Decoy, but I suspect that it's a lot harder to use in higher level play. It's nice when it works, you can get a lure and a stun for 300 points. And you don't have to guess who your pursuer is.
In Deathmatch you don't have copies because there is no compass to help pursuers find their right target. You can create copies of yourself though with morph or blender.
Agree with most here,leaving hack the way it is will almost be a gamebreaker,like you say ppl will have to start using it just so there not at a major disadvantage
the montebank REALLY likes that spot...he was at the center of the map for the entire match even though it made him a sitting duck, lol.
You see the other players who you know are player via the menu or when you picked your own character, and when whispers get louder as another player who was not in the area steps into your line of sight, you come to a final conclusion about your pursuers. :D
Wtf the hack was 150 points per kill omggggg
You don't want to stun people that aren't your target under any circumstances. I noticed he did it once in this game, it was on accident as he was trying to stun someone else he thought was his pursuer.
loomer979 , so great to see you getting more and more subs!! i've been subscribed for a while and you deserve more subscriptions. Shame you're on xbox because it would be an honour to play alongside you or even against you.
You're a pro when it comes to detecting pursuers. Should do an AC3 version video of it.
Kind of found the answer to my question today. No one really fell for my decoy during my matches. I used it once or twice to fish or a lure, but players weren't taking the bait. I felt like after that I was better off switching to another ability.
You sir have just earned a subscriber ;) and you also made a good point about 8 kill streak/6 silent kill streak - gotta try it
im sort of like half and half about it. cos its sort of like a feel good reward for getting that many kills but also it feels like it gives a massive advantage like you say
Nah, I noticed that, but it's because the locking system is still weird, he locked onto the other character (But due to the 1 second wait before the x prompt appears), he hit x too quickly, and it boxed over the NPC. He was shifting too fast, but that's an easy mistake.
I feel so proud that I got my first animus hack kills. Nice video
Love watching the ending cutscenes of "Most kills" or "longest kill streak" or whatever. Nice touch by ubisoft there
By the way, I think Animus Hack is not over powered, because when the hack will be activated the other player will hear "Animus got hacked". So in other words they will be informed about it and can prepare themself!
You have to buy it as a kill streak and when you reach that number of kills it activates automatically. I love this streak.
He did know who he was. he locked on to him even.. But there was a little lag in the lock working.. which made him kill an NPC.. I guess thats what happened. Loomer has very quick reactions and that worked against him due to lag in lock actually :P
Thanks for showing me how the animus hack works. Thought it was a single kill thing.
I completely agree with you loomer. In revelations deathmatch, I did the same thing with animus hack lol. but I stopped using it eventually because you dont get much points for using it...
Thanks man! I just bought the silent one animus hack, and I was able to use it, but I only got a maximum of one streak every match.
there is a new streak called mass morph, when u get it everyone around u in a certain range transforms into ur duplicates
Not sure if someone made this comment, nor do I mean it o sound bad, there are technically 3 NPCs. Not 2. But great gameplay (Saw the livestream :D). It's all about appearance. Use high areas for hacks. (Like a place you can hang from). That's the only time I'd suggest using a roof.
Regular - pros/cons Pro: any kill or stun works, con: takes 8 kills
Silent - pro: 6 kills, cons:all kills must be silent or better.
take the regular, may take longer but atleast all kills will count.
Hey Loomer, I have a question that's been bothering me for a while. How do you use knives to kill/stun your target/pursuer? I've managed to pull it off before but that was with pure luck. Please reply!
Hi quick question from a pc-player. ive just discovered your templar training vids for ACR, and im learning some stuff that i didnt knew. Is there a lot of difference between ACR and AC3 in the mp that would discredit these tips?
thanks
Just try to walk at them after you threw your knives: their kill range is reduced while your stun range is not. If you just run at them you may risk to enter their kill range anyway.
Nice vid. Animus hack definitly seems overpowered...
Keep up the great work. Love watching you videos!
can you do livestreams on twitch? then we can also watch them later if we want to :P
great video again :)
Good god man. Ridiculous score. I'm going to have to change my kill streak to the hack deal, I just assumed it was like Revelations and ignored it. Wow.
Hey Loomer, are you going to get the special Highwayman Outfit for your Huntsman. It comes with the cheap price of 20000 Abstergo Credits! In all seriousness, you should totally get it! It's really awesome!
nice video Loomer! im really new to AC3 multiplayer, and you do some stuff i just cant do, i always get honor death or contest kill... can i write and ask u some questions? u seem to know what u are doing. :)
can you pick the team you want to play in when playing team modes?
Thanks. Awesome video. You go into detail which not many video makers do. :)
Loomer, thank you for the videos. Could you explain in detail the "Assassinate" game mode please. Seems to be the most popular and I keep getting my butt kicked:-) Thanks!
you turn anotations off and that will go
Fort Wolcott is my favorite map (especially on deathmatch). Anyway, how do you use knives to successfully stun/kill your pursuer/target?
I like your HD its perfect on my phone and great video .! Helped me a lot thanks dude .
Nice vid. When I saw you and zorby with 15 K on my friends list I was wondering how you guys got such high scores - now I know XD
Good reason. I was just giving him a heads up. Don't use it too much.
I honestly didn't know of any shield... Going to check that out!
Does anyone agree with me when I say that the Animus avatars having hidden blades is a bit unrealistic and pretty illogical?
there are maps where that happens, and other maps where that's impossible. like New York Brewery (deathmatch), in the second floor its impossible because of the ceiling, in the first floor there arent any spots where the pursuer could do that (at least i havent seen them.) in maps like virginian plantation, the trick doesnt work because of that
I think what happened when you said you got screwed by the montebank is...you say later in the video that you can keep animus hacking if you hack a civilian, which i THINK is true, but I don't think it works on your actual target. If you notice, you hack an NPC pioneer, then your contract portrait (the montebank) goes gray, and it's like the game won't let you take action on him, even though you can keep hacking.
I THINK that's what happened.
Damn, Loomer.. do you play anything else other than AC?
You have to stun them in good hiding place meaning suprise them.
hello im worrying how to get the red coat and the sharpshooter. do you have to buy something or what level to get to to get it because im on level 44
Thank you very much. Completely answer my questioned. Very well appreciated.
I know that (that assassinating > stun in terms of priority) but when I knife people they I always get honorable death. So I guess what I'm asking is there, at any point in which the knife negates the pursuer to hit X/square - or was it that his pursuer in the video just didn't know what to do?
@NickHalTV u have to wait a sec, dont run in and stay as far away as possible.
It is. In every way possible. The only reason I have a Ps3 instead is because all my friends have it, and I don't have the money to get a PC.
did any one else notice that in the beginning it said that he was level 50 and at the end it said that he was level 22?
hey loomer, where did you get your NOS energy drink at, I can't find them anywhere
What is the difference between silent animus hack and animus hack?
loomer, what do you use to record your commentary??? if anybody else uses something that works too tell me please
I was in a domination match with loomer I was Totaly fangirling over him
u have to finish a full wolfpack session with the huntsman
That was impressive! his persuars were getting killed left and right, and his targets walking straight to him! luck and skill... luv it!!
uhhhh you do realize that the animus hack is just the name of a kill streak and that I'm not actually hacking the game... right? *awkward*
Is it possible to do the hack on Wolfpack?
@Polius Voskis they're a preorder bonus
I enjoyed the clip, but why did you put your logo in front of the target icon?
How did you have smoke bomb before level 22? Did you buy the pack with Microsoft Points or something?
Excuse me! If you haven't noticed hack and gun are not used very much at all! Maybe the reason you think this is because you have never played the game?
Yeah correct. That makes it harder to find your target