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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag New Game - No Upgrades / No Harbourmaster / No General Store (Challenge)

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How I ended up after completing this mental challenge In this playthrough of the gorgeous Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag , I am doing a raw, insanely mental "classic mode" challenge gameplay without any upgrades for Edward or the Jackdaw. I am not buying any ammo either, and don't open any chests, except for when this is required for optional objectives (namely, in "Nothing Is True" and "Diving For Medicines"). For ammo, I loot bodies and also hunt animals so as to have bones available to craft darts. And I use only Edward's default inventory until the end. I do not buy anything either from the Harbourmasters or the General Stores, and strictly use the market the times that are obligatory by the plot itself, specifically: -to buy the first pair of swords in "Lively Havana", which the game requires as part of the story -to get the intermediate hull in "Prizes and Plunder" as the first obligatory upgrade -to buy the inte...
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Assassin's Creed: Syndicate - Basic Playthrough Challenge (New Game, 100% Memories)

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I saw this playthrough as some sort of challenge because I wanted to check how leveling up works in this beautiful game when you complete only the main story and the activities given by the three principal associates (Abberline, Clara and Henry). This is very different from my previous (Selective) playthrough because in that one I did some extra stuff (like a few secondary missions and the activities given by Topping and Wynert) but I did not include all of them in the finalized videos. In this Basic Playthrough Challenge, I only play the main story set in Victorian London (I did not include the modern day segments simply in order to focus on my task), and complete just the activities offered by Frederick Abberline (Bounty Hunts), Henry Green (Templar Hunts and Gang Strongholds) and Clara O'Dea (Child Liberations), as well as the Gang Wars.  It turned out it was a bit of a challenge indeed, because following that route, you level up only by completing the memories in a sequence whi...
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