A True Assassin Kills Only His Target 

Whats your favourite mission to ghost in assassin’s creed

I think hands down the best ghoster of all time has got to be my ex

"stay your blade from the flesh of the innocent" they should make a game where the protagonist trains to become and remain an assassin, and you only complete it if you stick to the creed's tenets

I like to think that every official creed member, once they joined the creed, was a ghost. Except for Connor. The British army doubled their recruitment drives because of Connor.

Ezio and Edward: “Yeah idgaf bout nun of dat” *mass murders a bunch of 19 year old soldiers*

People say Assassin's creed is an easy game to play, until you follow the CREED's Rules!!

Oh so she wasn't done with me! She was just an assassin 😌✊️

Eivor slaughtering a whole entire village of monks just to build a mead house for his raiders

This is why I like “the silent assassin” and “suit only” on “Hitman :world of assassination”. It’s challenging beyond belief and also fun to immerse yourself as agent 47.

Thank you so much for posting about ghosting so regularly! Hopefully Ubi makes a game where you are actually rewarded for leaving non-targets alive. I am a long time ghost practitioner, always have been, and always look forward to you talking about it. Other than that, my favourite AC games to do ghosting are mostly for Narrative reasons. 1. Mirage: I think Basim as a character is a very noble and thoughtful person when it comes to killing people. Also, Mirage do not reward any xp for killing guards. I also love the fact that there is no knockout, guards remaining untouched is the perfect way to ghost for me. 2. Origins: Again for narrative reasons. Also the level design is phenomenal and really encourages for ghost stealth. 3. Syndicate: The mission design is excellent for ghosting and is really enjoyable, although I don't think either of the twins would care about killing folks. 4. AC1 of coursee, I have done ghosting with Ezio too, but not for the most part. 5. I cannot enjoy pure ghosting with Arno, it takes me out of the experience. I still try to kill as few guards as I could, but Ghosting and Arno for me don't go much hand in hand. 6. I completely and intentionally assassinate everyone in Odyssey just because it hugee amount of xp with streaks :)

My favorite playstyle is like the reverse side of the coin that is ghosting. Never be seen, but kill EVERYONE. Sends a real message when an entire castle is silent with death.

I think Syndicate was the last game we were able to actually ghost. I feel like it’s nearly impossible to do so in these recent games without smoke bombs

I think it's really depends on the character: Altair - definitly ghost Ezio - I don't think he was ghosting in II and Brotherhood, but for sure in Revelations Connor - I don't think he was ghosting Edward - I feel like he was start ghosting at the end of a game Arno - Definitly ghost Evie - ghost Jacob - he propably sometimes trying to ghost, but he suck at it (just my head canon) Bayek - he propably start ghosting after the betray of Cleopatra and Cesar Basim - ghost Cassandra and Eivor are not even asssasins nor Hidden Ones But all of that is just my opinion/headcanon.

Assassin's creed chronicles incentives players to ghost throughout if they want to achive highest rank in each section of the mission, while fighting your way grants you the lowest rank

In black flag, the sequence where you had to infiltrate in the kingston plantation to find the sage, was a active nightmare, you have to disable 3 alarms as a mission objective, but there is always one eye or two in the first alarm, the guards can see guards sleeping even when inside tall grass The other two alarms are doable, if anything by disabling a single guard

Mr. Altair Stealth be out here saving Assassin’s Creed again

Assassinating enemies in these games is really fun but I think in a narrative perspective a more ghost stealth approach should be implemented by ubisoft or even let ubisoft add consequences (like dishonored as you mentioned) to your actions like killing would make the game more immersive as an assassin and make more sense lore wise. I mean most people you assassinate are guards working minimum wage making money for their families 💀

You know, I never played any of the Assassin's Creed games, but I will say that a game you'd really appreciate and that anyone who calls themselves a fan of stealth games *needs* to try. It's the Styx: Master of Shadows and Styx: Shards of Darkness games. They're not perfect games, but they damn good stealth games that make ghosting a main way to play the game.

For me AC1 still counts, becauae once you're being discovered it's even more impressive. Like "how did that dude kill our man and nobody noticed him come?!". Then you just use parkour to escape, basically saying to everyone "I only kill bad people. Don't be like my victim or you're next". However, the only exception to this is probably the fight in Arsuf where you cannot progress until you clear the area of enemies and then also Masyaf where lots of fights are scripted. But when it comes to main targets, it's totally possible to kill only them and nobody else, even during open combat / chase.

Love the vids spaniard, most unique and engaging AC content! ❤

I have personally never tried this, I will make sure to do it the next time I replay a ac game, it seems like a fun challenge. Also, I like how your video's are always quite phillosophical, it puts me to thinking. great vid.

This right here is what I like most about ac1. The capital A Assassins are based on the soldiers of a real nation based in castles spread throughout the Levant. These soldiers were almost always spotted after hitting their mark, so they only had one shot to kill one man. They did hide in plain sight and stay their blades until the time was right when they would use a dagger or poisoned arrow to kill a powerful figure. It’s a damn shame that Assassins creed today has strayed so far from that historical accuracy.

My favorite game for ghosting is Aragami and Aragami 2, the first is a true ghosting experience as detection normally means death and there is no way to knock out enemies so if you’re going to kill only the required target you have to keep everyone alive and watching. It is easier to ghost than any AC because you can move to areas a lot easier but being extremely limited on your abilities that help you to remain unseen (3 abilities 2 charges each and usually only 1 to two places which restore those charges per mission) do add a unique challenge. The second game does add the ability to knock foes out and more tools to remove enemies non lethally making it much easier but it’s still rewarding nonetheless.

this is my preferred way to play MGSV. its very satisfying hearing that outpost captured sound effect when nobody ever even knew you where there. id honestly recommend the game if you really like that playstyle, as it was basically designed for it and several boss fights that seems unavoidable, actually are if you have had perfect stealth up until then.

2:52 I can't be the only one who saw that and thought it was a DBD pallet.

Why did youtube recommend this to me after... recent events?

The goat upload again 🗣️

I seriously misunderstood the thumbnail for a second there. Didn't read the title fast enough.

i agree, AC4 is probably a good game to try ghosting behind Unity and Mirage... at least until you get to all the naval combat where you're blasting ships with cannons and boarding them to kill almost everyone on deck

thats why i love chronicles, they are actually built around ghosting being one of the playstyles.

A few other game series that are good for ghosting: Dishonored series, as mentioned (don't require a single death, ghosting is necessary for 100%) Thief (some games even require full pacifist on higher difficulties) Hitman (actively keeps track of killed non-targets) Mimimi's Stealth Strategy Games (large range of abilities, all attacks except for guns can be switched to non-lethal)

Yes I believe Ghost Stealth is canon✨ because it upholds the tenets of the creed But I found the ghost stealth play style in the Ezio trilogy frustrating because the level design often forces non-target kills, making it feel like I'm treating guards as target dummies. That's why I love AC1, we have only a handful of tools under our belt yet we can assassinate 8 out of 9 targets as target only, AC1's level design was incredible

True ghosting experience is reloading mission every time you fck up. Damn you shadow tactics warriors of shogun for imprinting this playstyle into my gaming pattern. You too dishonored! But combining different tools or skills to create multi assassination sequence and solving it like a puzzle is kinda fun not gonna lie. I personally abandoned perfectionist playstyle. Improvisation, hide and seek and necessary combat encounter are game mechanics that must encouraged as well. Mastery, adaptation and gracefulness over perfectionism. Survival is a must.

Well, this was recommended at an interesting time.

It's called a Ghost playstyle because you're supposed to be like a ghost, completing the mission and leaving it as if you were never there. That means leaving no trace of your path (except those mandated by your objective i.e. assassinating a target or stealing an item), and by definition choking someone out wouldn't be an option. It's not purist to say that just objectively doesn't make it a ghost run anymore. That just makes it a simple non-lethal run, which is its own thing. Ghosting isn't about lethality, it's about 0 suspicion.

I've always called it Silent Assassin, probably because of my Hitman associations. But I'm familiar.

This is the best way to play these games, the trailer of shadows involved non-lethal takedowns and use of shadows which gives me hope, hopefully we can play the game like a proper assassin this time with an actual member of the order instead of some random mercenary or Viking.

Are you also Altair Stealth? Lol just saw that you are from one of your other videos. I saw lots of people accusing your shorts channel of stealing "The Spaniards" content. I feel like you should clarify things so people don't trash you for no reason. Keep it up!!

I'm playing Mirage rn and i can confirm that's one of the best ac games for ghosting. 👍

I want to echo the shout out for Dishonored- very hard game for ghosting, in my opinion. Only played through it once completely so far, though I believe there are several routes for ghosting. Styx: Master of Shadows is another good one as well. In case anyone is looking for other Stealth games. :)

“Stealth” build ghostrunners when you tell them killing enemies with throwing knives, grenades, and sandy isn’t true stealth

I think I remember ghosting through the brothel early in Mafia 3 to free the prostitutes and finding unique dialogue later upon returning to take over the racket, mentioning how I managed to free the prostitutes without ever being seen. Not sure what the exact details were.

The only games I actively went with ghosting every time are dishonored, deus ex (the two modern ones but especially mankind divided) and cyberpunk, for deus ex and cyberpunk especially bc npc’s will actually react to you ghosting and be impressed

3:38 I'd argue Dishonored doesn't incentivize you to play a Pacifist Ghost so much as it says "If you kill any more people than I am happy with, I am going to literally ruin your life." Deus Ex is the kind of game that incentivizes Ghosting by making non-lethal takedowns reward more experience, but also has a specific reward if you can complete a mission without ever being detected (bar a Boss Fight or the like)

Ubisoft seems to to hate stealth in their stealth lead games. Like the perk unlocks in some of the AC games require the mass murder of characters lol and then ubisoft made social stealth worse or completely absent in some games.

Fantastic video as always. And now you’ve challenged me. My next playthrough, I might just impose ghosting on myself as a limitation to see if I can pull it off

When I play Hitman, I go in blind and sneak around manipulating the level to get a straight up Silent Assassin Rank on my first play through of any level. Then I go all ham in a clown suit throwing rubber duckies everywhere.

I never knew that this play style had a name. I did however think that this was how the games went canonically.

I've been playing through Aragami 2, and I've been ghosting. I get a Spirit rating every mission. I typically ghost when I play stealth games. I love Hitman, for instance, and I always strive for a Silent Assassin rating.

I tried Ghosting a fort in Odyssey (kill only captains & polemarchs)... It didn't go well.

I just finished Unity creating my own canon, and I had a good time it was much more fun than I expected, now I will try Mirage in PermaDeath, as for Ghosting if you like stealth games or AC is something that if or if you must try once in life I did it in Syndicate and now after Mirage I will return to AC 4 to try it, Other games I recommend for Ghosting although they are not AC are Metal Gear 5, Ghost Recon and of course one that you mentioned in the video and is one of my favorites Dishonored.

I've never attemted this as I always try to get 100% completion, but after I heard a guard today talk about helping his sick son in sekvens 6 in Unity, I might just give it a shot, so another sick son don't lose their father.

I have an MGS background, so I love the “perfect stealth, no kills” approach, especially in MGSV, and I have tried it in AC. And yes, it’s quite fun, depending on the game and mission.

Weirdly enough the first game I successfully ghosted a mission in was Cyberpunk 2077. After that guard mortality rates started dropping in every assassin’s game I played.

Honestly I wish more stealth games didn't actively _punish_ you for being non-lethal. In some games guards will wake up after a while if you choke them out, or choking them out will take much longer than killing them, all your ranged options are lethal, it's very easy to accidentally kill someone, etc. Hitman at least punishes you for killing people you shouldn't, but with games like Dishonoured (Specifically 2, as I haven't played the first one) non-lethal is just objectively harder and the only reward is a different ending. I'm aware that higher chaos means more guards and rats, but that isn't a problem when you can efficiently kill them and move on (Hell, speaking of rats, they can be actively useful since they devour bodies. Which is another thing that makes non-lethal harder)

This is why playing as an assassin didn’t make much sense to me since ubisoft made every game so hard to ghost through. You have to clear the enemies to advance to your target.

Not Assassin's Creed but Dishonored has one of the best Ghosting experience with how it ties narratively as well as its mechanics and gameplay.

Reminds me of this one mission from brotherhood: dude starts talking about how all the extra money they're gonna get just from patrolling this one section undergeound is gonna help him and his wife. I have never killed that guy on a playthrough

My favorite game to ghost in is splinter cell chaos theory, it makes the game more fun

This is why better reputation mechanics are a good way to offset powerful playable characters. Being able to ghost in a game and strike fear into the enemy in a way that has mechanical benefits is a great to justify having OP Assassins Can you massacre hundreds of guards? Yes Should you do it? No. Because it compromises the brotherhood and would make things a hassle to the player in other meaningful ways Metal Gear Solid V and Hitman: Blood Money were effective in encouraging players to be as discreet and clean as possible. Its baffling how Assassin's creed with all its social stealth elements and traversal choices, chose not to go this route

Besides the scripted events through story missions, you can surprisingly ghost Odessy. It's tough and you will want to rip your hair out, but it is possible.

Unity was peak alongside ac 3 and black flagwere the best games AND could ghost very well. Wish we could remaster them. Hopefully assassins creed shadows could bring us back to the old days

I do this in Splintercell, but AC, for me, is too clumsy. The assassins either stand oddly or move far too fast for my ability when it comes to these rules. Not to mention NPC awareness like Mirage where I was spotted thru walls. I prefer characters who do this, so I'd love a more stealth based AC game but as of right now, I won't be doing so in any ACs but I will in other franchises.

don't know why but shay's outfit looks great in this game, also could you imagine if this game had unity fixes, imagine quick firing throwing knives in mid air like a proto-mirage

I didn't even know this was an concept people do. But it's funny on my last skyrim play through I wanted to play stealth but I didn't want to kill everyone. So I made it so if had a bounty or retrieve an item quest, I would only kill my target or not kill anyone and just retrieve the item. It definitely made the gameplay more interesting and fun. I also did it because I wanted outlaws and such to fear/dread my character, knowing that they could be killed anytime and not see it coming.

A game that I think should be played in the ghosting, especcialy the soft variant, is Watch Dogs 2. I never tried it, but I want to, because it's the only thing that makes sense plot wise.

See, Unity would be a good ghosting game, if the detection programming wasn't such inconsistent bullshit.

Most likely unrelated to the video at all but if you are familiar to the fate series, you would remember the servant class and how it was only made up of the hasan assassin clan members(with some exceptions), well on day i decided to really dig into my brain and think a bit, an assassin would never be famous because the only people who knows who they killed is themselves and the person they killed, now that isnt to say there name couldn't be just thrown onto the murder case, but a true assassin wouldn't even have a name to go by. Take jack the ripper(a little girl in the fate anime if i remember correctly) is only know by a name given to him(real life) by the public, in all meaning of the word he truly was a assassin, he struck, he killed, and he left all without anybody beside his victim knowing he was there. But even then he wasnt the best assassin. Why? He was known duh Jack was a good, murder/assassin but was still know, so what about someone who isnt know, but still an assassin, then you get nobody. And thats the problem with finding assassin that are truly assassin, there in, there out, and the person they saw is dead sometimes without even knowing the assassin was there. But you can be famous or infamous if your unknown, truly unknown. You can hide your face, voice, and everything about you but you still leave something behind Now why am i talking about this on a video i didnt even watch(yet ill watch later seem interesting). Well the same reason you even seening this message being interested by the topic even if you dont understand cuz to be fr i aint even talk about the throne of heros the main reason you need to be famous in the first place.

Lil late lol, but this playstyle is a huge part of Dishonored and a great way to play the game. 10/10 vid would recommend.

I'm actually enjoying the idea of ghosting but it is difficult. I've watched some videos on RU-vid of people ghosting in AC Mirage but it all looks to be very choreographed and it's obvious that a great amount of trial and error has gone into it. I would be very interested in watching videos of people onsighting missions with a ghosting strategy and seeing how they get on and how they would approach each mission.

this is how i played syndicate . refuses to level up , just snuck my way thru clearing london

Alot of the times this is my preferred playstyle. I've done this a couple of times throughout various games and it just feels so rewarding not only in a game sense but in my mind too, like i always feel so badass. I also don't like when stealth games forced you to kill someone. I'd say the only times i actually wanted to kill is when i wanted to see the character's sick animations and just that

Do you like Splinter Cell? Been playing Chaos Theory on my PS3 for the first time and it’s so satisfying trying to get through the levels undetected.

while I believe that ghosting is the 'canonical' way to play AC, I don't think that AC as a series was designed to be played as a ghost. for instance, I'm in my 3rd Dishonored run atm, this time playing ghost clean-hands, and it's just so obvious how this game was fine-tuned to allow this playstyle to be played. also, in AC, I also get a feeling that all the enemies are actually evil. for instance, in Unity you can constantly see guards harassing the common people and every once in a while actually killing them. it's not like in Dishonored, where you get the feeling that the guards are innocent amidst a huge political conspiration which they don't understand at all, all of this while thinking that it was you who killed the Empress

Assassins Creed isn’t dishonoured where ghosting and killing people actually have an effect on the story. Idk why you insist on making it a thing in assassins creed. In assassins creed anyone can be a target because the guards are always oppressive. Why do you think some assassins have double hidden blades and can do multi kills. It’s because they’re lethal killers that don’t just assassinate their main targets. Assassins don’t ghost. Technically ghosting is not killing anyone including the targets. It’s also not a tenant so this “A true assassin only kills his targets” is bullshit.

I always wished ac was more conducive to ghosting but god the ubi jank has never made it not frustrating

No I wanna try ghosting in AC Valhalla. Just for the challenge😅

Never played Assassin's Creed, but I have ghosted the first Dishonored and it was really fun. Dishonored's such a great game and it's so rewarding to do it without being seen.

Is it possible to ghost hitman 3? I've been playing it recently and having a lot of fun with it, but I have been looking for something to spice up the gameplay a bit.

It sounds so fun. I'm definitely going to try ghosting. Thank you for the recommendations. I might even try it in ac shadows.

I play AC in a way i personally think is unique and i havent seen people talk about. I dont do full ghosting where i do every mission not killing anyone. If the mission isnt an assassination mission i try and get the flashiest stealth kills i can to get through without ever being fully detected. If it is an assassination i try my hardest not to get detected and to not incapacitate any guards and go for the unique kill if possible

I'm sorry but the moment you said "Mirage is faithful to old assasins creed games" you lost me

"I am but a blade in the crowd" ~ Altair Ibn La'ahad

Hmmm makes me curious and want to play AC Unity again, it will be my 4th time replaying it then.

I’m pretty sure the games do a lot to show the guards and foot-soldiers are indeed not innocent. Regardless of them being arms of an oppressive state, the game literally desynchronizes you if you kill too many innocents. That right there is the devs saying guards are not innocent The order of assassins would never consider those that arm themselves against their own people to be innocent, because the order exists in part to fight against those individuals

The most fun I have with AC games and similar stealth experiences is like this, I never knew the name before. But not all stealth games have the mechanics needed to make this that fun.

Ubisoft needs to look at what IOI is doing with Hitman for inspiration instead whatever they’ve been doing

A compromise I like is the misandrist run. Especially in later games, you see an about equal mix of genders in enemy NPCs. Pick a gender and spare said gender.

Ubisoft should add a grade/rating system after a mission Like Big boss/silent assassin in mgs and hitman to encourage players.

I wouldnt even say AC is the best game to try/do ghosting. Dishonored is where i really learned about ghosting

Interesting that AC IV is one of the best games for ghosting, given that its protagonist is, shall we say, not given to subtlety, at least for much of the game.

This sorta reminds me of the low and high chaos in another stealth game called dishonored, great game btw, but you can see how to chaos level effects the next mission and even the ending of the game Edit: i made this comment right before the part where u talk about it

If you guys love assassins creed another game franchise that is very similar to it is the aragami 1 and 2 sadly the developers that made the game lynx closed down but they are still very good games

What game is the gameplay from? I only really recently got into assassins creed and completed the first game so far Going to get ac2

I think I'm late by alot, i got ac unity at the summer sale and in some mission i decide to follow this rule It was hella difficult😂, but also it made it fun

Never played AC how hard is it to kill only your target compared to Hitman ?

Yeah it's actually a bit of a ritual for me on stealth games to try and kill only my target without being seen or attacking anyone else and if I have to attack doing so non lethally even if it means using fists only

If we are talking about the hardest it has to be ac1 at that time the parkour mechanics werent really fast nor where there any smoke bombs to escape with you need to be very skilled to ghost in a game like that

Bro for YEARS I thought I could ONLY kill the target!

I wish assassins creed had a “Silent Assasin Suit Only” type mode, SASO is a mode from hitman where if your detected committing a crime or you kill anyone other than the target you lose. There’s a few other things that change as well but overall makes the game harder yet much funner and more challenging!