Assassins Creed Unity (Advanced Guide)

Mod that is quick and easy to install, improves the entire of ACU's experience.

I recommend v0.8.0 ACUFixes[github.com]

My personal settings.

The best gear selection in the game is:

Head

Best eagle vision range, cooldown, duration + Assassin Cache Co-op Buff. Chest

Best Restricted Area detection, Blend time + Disguise Co-op Buff. Bracers

Best ammunition size for Phantom & Berserk Blades. Belt

Best ammunition size for Smoke Bombs, Guns + Utility. Legs

Best running & falling noise reduction. Main Weapon

Best moveset, damage + blinding buff. Sidearm

Best magazine size, damage & range.

Smoke Bomb (S - Tier)

Invisible when inside, Stuns enemies (mobile), long duration.

Good for stealth assassinating crowds, Bypassing rooms, Stunning enemies + Prevent being shot by firearms in Combat.

Cherry Bomb (A - Tier)

Distraction tool, use it to lure enemies in a clump to a desired location, or turn enemy FoV. Poison Bomb (B - Tier)

Sniper multikill tool, 1 grenade can take out a sniper on any difficulty after a few seconds, mostly useful when there's a clump of them, can also be used in addition to a berserked enemy or cherry bomb to stealth spam assassinate a group of enemies. Stun Grenade (C - Tier)

Weaker version of Smoke Bombs, Stuns enemies (stationary) shorter duration, useful for 1 (possibly 2) enemies in stealth who are looking in your direction to guarantee an assassination without using the resource of a smoke.

(used to make no sound to enemy AI, so you could use it behind guards without alerting them, however this has been recently patched).

Money Pouch (D - Tier)

Brings pedestrians around to a certain area to create a blend effect (never needed).

Disguise (S - Tier)

Best skill for Stealth in the game, can easily walk in and out of restricted areas, and interact with items or stealing, can be used in addition with throwing any bomb.

Disguise is broken when either too close to a guard, high profile actions (crouching, running, assassinating, basically anything that isn't walking) however getting behind a guard and interacting to do a non lethal knock out does not break disguise, this can be chained, very strong especially paired with the sans cullotte chest.

Can also be used on the move.

Assassin Cache (A+ - Tier)

My favourite skill in the game, replenishes essentially every consumable apart from Medicine and Berserk blades, higher tier items require higher tier Cache durations, the most notable ones being 40% for another additional smoke bombs, 60% for a Phantom Blade, and 80% (cap) for a Poison Bomb.

The main usage of this skill is to replenish smoke bombs & ammunition, everything else is a bonus.

And you have to remain in the Assassin Cache radius to get the full range of replenishments.

It is currently hidden knowledge that you can gain an additional Berserk blade at the same tier along side your Phantom Blades but only when playing in a Co-op session.

Communal Sense (B - Tier)

Not a bad skill by any means, buffs eagle vision range and duration by a significant margin, information is key, however the other skills above just provide more value. Group Healing (C - Tier)

Useful as an extra heal, or helping your team in combat, but generally speaking everybody has enough medicine, and you generally want to avoid combat. So it's hardly used and better to equip skills that help in other aspects of the game.

Chaining side hops into wall climbs are the most important and quickest way to scale any building.

To scale upwards, hold High Profile + Parkour Up, to go Sideways only hold High Profile

Move towards the intended direction to side hop, either being directly left or right

Use the initial wall climb speed to gain height You can run without mantling anything by holding High Profile + Crouch
This stops you from accidentally climbing every little obstacle in interiors. Everything else you need to know about Unity's Parkour: Rebinding interact & Parkour Down to ALT and having Right Click as High Profile can help improve movement.

Shift will be used for Quickshot.

Berserk Blades

Berserk blades stun any guard no matter what, removing the risk of instant detection.

Caught off guard

Quickshot Berserk blade

Assassinate before Enrage

Phantom Blades

Phantom Blade Damage scales off your Main Hand + Secondary weapon Attack Damage.

Keep these at a high level.

Headshots

A headshot from any projectile, always 1 shots.

Find a target

ADS for the head

Send to God

Easy way to Assassinate any Guard who's detected you.
Detected by a Guard

Throw down a Smoke Bomb

Hold High Profile and Run while holding Crouch, wait for your sword to be put away

Run towards the guard and interact to tackle

Assassinate when he hits the floor

Gun Assassinations: can be used in stealth or to deal with snipers in combination with smoke bombs, without being detected. Guards will be drawn towards the noise, but cannot visually confirm you.

Throw down a Smoke

Find your target

Shoot within the smoke The God Combo: Fastest Way to Kill Anything in the Game, At any Difficulty.
(Does not work on Brutes)
Go into combat with a Guard

Parry his attack

Staggering Strike to knock them fall over

Quickshot when they hit the floor

Absolutely belt your wife and kids

Blame the parkour