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Assassin's Creed Syndicate (2015)

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A programming loophole that lets you play as either character in nearly every mission.

EDIT: Assassin's Creed voice actor of Jacob Frye ( Paul Amos ) saw my full video of this glitch (which is also on my channel, which shows nearly every scene with this glitch) and discusses it in this podcast at 42:58
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CUS7KuDCr_8&t=42m58s

Also, I captured nearly every cutscene with this glitch active here:
https://youtu.be/2wli_W12ZYc

Points of Interest:
1. This game normally forces you to play as either Jacob or Evie in nearly every mission (nearly every mission is 'Jacob only' or 'Evie only)'. And therefore the cutscene pertaining to each mission has either Jacob or Evie scripted to appear in it. And afterwards, the game forces you to play as only that character.

2. However there is a loophole that lets you bypass this restriction, in other words, you can play as either Jacob or Evie in nearly any mission (except for missions that start on the train, since you can't switch characters while on the train).

This means that you can play as your favorite character for nearly the entire game.

3. A comical side-effect of this loophole is that entering a mission prompt with the wrong character model, has the cutscene take place with the wrong model in it. So you end up with a situation where the Evie-model is acting out the scenes belonging to Jacob and vice versa.

This gives nearly every scene, and storyline an entirely different context...

4. Using the wrong character during missions has some other strange side-effects, which I've only started to explore.

5. There are other effects regarding upgrading while you have the wrong model active, but I've not tested this enough to comment on it.

How to do the glitch:
(a) Approach a mission prompt, and make sure that the 'correct' character is active (so if you're on a Jacob-only mission, make sure Jacob is active).

(b) Press 'select'...BUT...a frame or two later press 'Options' (the timing is a little tricky at first).

(c) Switch character and exit, that's it.

If done correctly, the wrong character will be in the following cutscene (and every cutscene afterwards) and you can then use them to play the mission instead.

I have some other ideas related to this glitch, but more testing is required, but there is still really good glitch potential in this game.

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