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This contract is slightly harder than the others when going for stealth. If you get anywhere near the guard, he will run. Also, if you kill any guards behind him without him seeing them, he will still run.
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10 Brutes in 60 seconds. The usual advice for this contract mission is to use smoke bombs and/or poison. Smoke bombs disable your opponents for easy killing, and the poison delays the start of the timer. (The countdown starts when the first Brute dies.) This video uses other strategies that let you kill everyone using only hidden blades.
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Hyperblending is closely related to superblending. If you are not already familiar with superblending, please read this article first:
https://www.thehiddenblade.com/superblend-exploit
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"Superblending" refers to the unintended ability for Ezio to remain hidden (blended) while performing actions that would ordinarily attract attention. Superblending is an incredibly useful exploit that can be used widely throughout the game. Before discussing superblend, let's establish the concepts of "blending grace period" and "standing/non-standing surfaces."
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Part 1 of 2 in a collection of stunt and other stylish assassinations in Bonfire of the Vanities.
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Easy and Robust
Port Authority may be the most difficult mission in all of AC2. This is a nice easy way to complete the mission for those having difficulty.
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The goal in this video is to kill the targets of Sequence 13 as quickly as possible, while remaining Anonymous, if possible, up through the start of the kill animation. The missions in this video are loosely ordered from easiest to hardest to design.
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Anonymous Blitz Assassinations
Here are 3 ways to kill Checco quickly without being detected.
Dive underneath the canal grate to cross the city walls quickly. Transition to fast walk as you pass through the group of people standing by the fast travel station. You remain blended for several seconds after you emerge from this group, which gives you time to approach Checco unnoticed.
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The goal is to empty the Sistine Chapel without being detected. You can use a similar process to wield the Papal Staff as a weapon to kill others; this is shown at the end.
If you haven't seen it already, I recommend first watching and reading this article on the "Non-story Rodrigo Borgia Assassination," which has highly relevant information:
https://www.thehiddenblade.com/rodrigo-borgia-non-story-assassination