Can someone explain how this works? I have tried to call for back up several times during a fight and nobody shows up? Like nothing happens. I can bring one in to assassinate but he got killed by the first group of enemies and now I can seem to call anything. They said something about turning the angry crowd to our advantage so I thought cool- we’re gonna start a riot but that didn’t happen either. I killed all the soldiers so I’m not stuck at the quest or anything I just want to understand how I get back up because so far i can’t do anything without an actual army coming after me so I think back up is a good idea.

I missed this one originally so I’ve played all the others - not sure how I’m loving this. Stealth feels almost impossible and the eagle vision is very feint and doesn’t even tag enemies through walls or anything so you can’t really make a plan of attack. Also sometimes you think oh - 2 guards I’ll just take those out and be done with it but nah - from somewhere out of nowhere come all his pals and family and all of a sudden I’m in the middle of about 40 guards - it’s just not the game I’m used to, I always go sneaky sneaky. But I’ll stick with it, I’m kinda invested in the story now but I can see this game is going to frustrate the life out of me.

So I'm a bit confused after finishing Mirage.

I clearly want to remember that in the first AC, it was established that you had to cut of one finger, because that's where the blade would extend, in between the fingers. Cutting the finger in the way, was simply because it wouldn't be cut off in the field and/or so that the blade would function as intended. When Altaïr used the knife, he made a fist. I've always thought this was to activate the extension by some mechanism alike how spider man shoots is webs in the animated series, by buttons he needs to press down.

Then in AC 2 Leonardo tinkers with the design and makes it so that Ezio doesn't need to cut off his finger, and instead, he, and every assassin there after, uses the blade with an open hand. Doesn't really make sense how this would work, but I'm no engineer, so I bought it.

Now after some hiatus we're back to old school assassin's a few hundred years before Altaïr. Basin needs to cut his finger. All cool. But then, every single time he uses the blade, he does it with an open hand, the blade no where near his fingers.

So why the hell did he need to cut his finger?!

As I neared the end of the story line, i.e., before killing Flavius and Septimius, I started skipping the main quests and was completing side quests and just wandered around exploring and stacking up XP. However, as I was exploring cyrene, I accidentally crossed paths with Flavius. Had to kill him there. And then it had a domino effect. I could have avoided speaking to Aya probably after killing Flavius.

But here I am, completed the game at level 38. I wanted to explore it all before the story ended.

(The picture is taken from a YouTube video.)

With Red likely to release by the end of this year and Hexe reportedly releasing on 2026, Jade could have filled in the gap next year as a true AC game. Ancient China has always been one of my dream settings for the series and it’s sad that they relegated it to mobile platforms. Exploring Japan this year and China in the next could have been a nice duology of games, just like Unity and Syndicate were.