Hello, I'm impliedScience.

I'd like to start running this game, but I don't know where to start. It looks like this community is small, so I was wondering what we already know about the game for speedrunning purposes (any skips, if it's faster to activate glitch cutscenes angles or to not do them, which weapons make combat the fastest, RNG with citizens/etc walking around, guides for which investigations to do in what order for any%, etc).

Here's some stuff I already know/more in depth questions I have:

1.) Whenever an enemy makes some sort of idle animation, such as kicking some dirt off his shoes, shrugging, or shouting an insult at Altaïr, he's actually vulnerable and you can get a free hit (I don't remember what happens when you attack with the hidden blade on a free hit, like if it's blocked or not).

2.) Not completely sure on this, but since the hidden blade always kills on its counters, and it always kills on any hit, it's probably the best weapon to use in general, second to maybe the throwing knives since they have range.

3.) What's the optimum control setup for the purposes of locking on? If I remember correctly you can switch lock on to require you hold it down the entire time, instead of it being separate presses for activation and ending. The reason why I ask is for which one is easier for switching from one target to the next target. I mean, you probably only have to worry about this in the fight during the last assassination before going back to Masyaf to get the Apple and in citizen saving, since I'm assuming it's faster most of the time to run away from fights and hide.

4.) It would be cool if we had a resource for which hiding spots are closest to all the assassin bureaus.

5.) Can we have a separate category for doing all the "events," such as citizen saving, all investigations, all viewpoints, etc? Basically it would be 100% but without any of the flags or Templars. (I'm pretty sure that isn't 100% segmented right?). Maybe it would be called "Map %" since it's technically taking care of everything that would show up on the map.

I apologize if this is too invasive of me. I mean, I just started following this game, and made this account, specifically so I could get into running this game (and maybe other games), so I'd get it if people didn't really care for the new guy saying a bunch of stuff

There are no guides so you need to either watch the actual run of the game or go on thehiddenblade.com and research AC1 forum for useful information.

1. You can assassinate them with hidden blade when they are vulnerable
2. Hidden blade may be the best for counters on high level enemies
3. Use what is comfortable to you - I use default controls
4. There should be AC1 maps on internet - I don't know if they include hidden spots
5. No there will be no obscure categories - there are no runners for the main ones - there is no reason to add new category for each new runner

Okay, thank you.