Assassin's Creed IV - glitches and observations pt. 4
3I: you can start running while activating a viewpoint. Normally Edward tends to stop after a few steps, producing no interesting results, but at this kind of viewpoints he runs into collision instead and gets stuck in a jarring motion while the scene takes place.
II: it seems this game is prone to A.I. glitches if you leave too far and return during a mission. It's happened to me at least twice or thrice now - here's one example from the mission at Long Bay where you have to clear the woods of the Defender folk. This guy here was supposed to do a scripted run into the distance as you approach him, but without A.I., he just stands there, invulnerable.
(not on the vid: another mission where this happened was when you explore jungle with Kidd and get your first mayastones. I went and activated a viewpoint instead of instantly following Kidd. After returning, he was completely motionless and the mission couldn't progress. To note, the game didn't complain to me at any point about going too far from Kidd... not sure if that was a glitch in itself.)
III: putting certain enemies to sleep causes glitches. In this instance I put the second to last Defender of an area to sleep instead of killing him, then killed the last defender. The incapacitated defender woke up without an A.I.
(Not on the vid: in another mission some assassin leaders are harassed by thieves. If you put a thief to sleep instead of killing him, he doesn't fall to sleep. Instead he loses his A.I. and turns into a normal civilian. Maybe this kind of oddities were to be expected since sleeping darts are a new thing in the series?)
IV: apparently you can create levitating corpses if you stealthily board an enemy ship and kill people aboard before actually boarding the ship (via the boarding mini-game).
V: a pretty peculiar glitch that happens at San Juan, where you get the limited diving mission gear for yourself outside water momentarily. If you do the rifle stuttering glitch and then switch main weapon, sometimes you enter a glitched targeting mode. Your arms are stuck to your sides, can't turn your camera and, instead of any sort of gun, the smoke bombs are your active gear. If you use a smoke bomb or do most other things, the glitch ends. Harmless but curious.
VI: going to your ship's wheel with limited gear on reverts Edward back to normal, so I tried to avoid that... however, just swimming too far from San Juan causes Edward revert to normal as well. Too bad, I would've wanted to play the game on a little bit further with limited gear.
VII: in Sequence 2 Memory 3, if you take out your weapon while walking into the trigger that makes you stop and return a few steps back, your gun disappears. But be warned, Edward is such a badass he can still shoot a man with a pretend gun made by extending one's thumb and index finger.
VIII: any allies of yours become distracted by undead soldiers (made undead using the corner assassination glitch).
XI: sometimes, but not always, normal finishers can be interrupted with coin toss.
X: a swim dive that ends headfirst to a solid obstacle. It seems that this is a pretty common glitch occurence in this game.
XI: the animation of sliding under a fence can be consistently interrupted with coin toss, getting Edward stuck inside collision.
XII: sometimes you can combine the animations of aiming and sliding under a fence.
XIII: in the second Assassin misson at Nassau, you can glitch the camera momentarily. When you're supposed to hide inside the bushes, do that, but instantly start aiming and turn the camera around. As the next cutscene starts, the camera continues revolving according to the momentum you gave it, looking stylish.
XIV: fine, for completion's sake, here it is: the pole glitch in ACIV. However, it's useless now since you need a target immediately to your side to be able to do pole attacks. R.I.P. pole glitch.
XV: ever tried to conquer a sea fortress all by yourself, without Jackdaw? Just don't do it...
By the way, you're never supposed to lose your swords during this game, right? Or can that happen normally in combat, albeit rarely? If it is not normal, well, I've another glitch coming...
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