Overview - Estimated achievement difficulty: 3/10 - Offline: 46 [1000] - Online: 0 - Approximate amount of time to 1000: 30-50 hours [depending on how you manage your time] - Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1 [memory replay available] - Number of missable achievements: None [memory replay available] - Do cheat codes disable achievements: Yes* - Does difficulty affect achievements: No difficulty - Glitchy achievements: No - Unobtainable achievements: No - Extra equipment needed: No *Cheat codes disable saving, which disables most achievements. However, some achievements require cheat codes to be active, so these should be done last. Introduction Welcome to Assassin's Creed: Rogue, the seventh installment in the Assassin's Creed franchise. The game takes place in the mid 1700's in New York and the northern Atlantic ocean, between the events of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag and Assassin's Creed III. In Rogue, you'll be playing as Shay Patrick Cormac, a man who betrays the Assassin Brotherhood to join the Templars. The gameplay of Rogue is identical to Black Flag in just about every way. There are two new additions to your weapon arsenal: the air dart rifle and the grenade launcher. The air dart rifle is used to silently shoot sleep or berserk darts at enemies from a decent distance, and is a serious game-changer in the series. The naval combat and missions return, as well as the vast amount of collectibles that is a staple of the AC series. Overall, the achievements are pretty straightforward and simple, with a couple exceptions that may take some effort. Still, it's a simple and enjoyable game, so sit back and enjoy! Playing the Game, and Managing Your Time When you start playing the game, there is a lot of stuff to do. To manage your time most efficiently, there are a few things that need to be done in parallel: main story missions, side missions, fleet missions, and collectibles. Now you could just do them in series, one after the other, but then it will take a long time to finish this game and get all the achievements. First, I'll break down all of the collectibles and similar things that exist in the game, so you know which ones you need to do for achievements, which ones you need to do for Abstergo Challenges (to unlock cheats required for four achievements), and which ones you're welcome to ignore entirely if you have no desire to do more than what's required for achievements. Here is a list of all of the collectibles and such, along with their rewards, for your reference: Templar Maps - Abstergo Challenge Digging all the Maps - Templar Armor, ACHIEVEMENT Viking Swords - Viking Armor, Abstergo Challenge Native Pillars - Native Armor, Abstergo Challenge, ACHIEVEMENT Cave Paintings - Abstergo Challenge Shanties - no reward Animus Fragments - Abstergo Challenge, ACHIEVEMENT Chests - no reward Hunting Challenges - no reward Renovations - Abstergo Challenge, ACHIEVEMENT Blueprints - ACHIEVEMENT (needed to upgrade the Morrigan) War Letters - no reward Prosperity - increases to monetary and resource rewards from all sources Naval Campaign missions - two Abstergo Challenges, Altair Swords Abstergo Tablets (present day) - set of pistols Computer Repairs (present day) - ACHIEVEMENT The most important thing to do in parallel with everything else are the Naval Campaign missions, the missions you send your fleet on. These initially only take ten or so minutes, but the later ones take an hour or more. There are five segments of missions, and each segment is unlocked upon completing a sequence of the main story. To use your time as efficiently as possible, here is the process I recommend for playing through the game to minimize time required for you to unlock all the achievements: 1. Play the game normally until Sequence 2 when you unlock your fleet. Go out and attack a Brig and add it to your fleet. You can only send one ship per mission, so multiple ships aren't required. 2. Explore new areas, gather collectibles, loot supply camps and outposts, capture settlements, etc. Each time a Naval Campaign mission is completed while doing the above, go back to your ship and start the next one. Do this until you finish a segment and need to progress in the main story to unlock more fleet missions. 3. Play each memory in your current main story sequence and finish it to unlock the corresponding achievement and more fleet missions. 4. Repeat step 2, capturing forts and gang HQs as well. Renovate buildings and upgrade your ship as you gain collectibles, making sure to start the next Naval Campaign mission as soon as the previous one is done. 5. When you run out of Naval Campaign missions, finish the main memory sequence you're on. Repeat this until you're done with the game and you should finish enough fleet missions for the achievement by the time you finish the story missions, you should have great progress on your collectibles and exploration and your ship should be fully upgraded or close to it. At this point it's just mopping up whatever achievements are left to do. Farming Money and Resources As you play, assuming you follow a path similar to the one described above, make sure you loot every supply camp, outpost and settlement you come across, as they will give you resources that will add up over time. Also be sure to collect Prosperity at every location you go to, since they increase resource and money rewards from every source. To make sure you always have plenty of money, renovate all buildings that you find as soon as you find them. With renovations at 100%, you'll be making over 30,000 pounds per deposit in the bank. I finished the game after all upgrades and all cosmetic pieces for my ship and I still had around 700,000 pounds, so money is in no short supply. To farm resources, there are many ways to obtain them: supply camps, settlements, outposts, ships at sea, etc. You'll find though, that metal is the scarcest resource and you always need more for your next upgrade. Once you start to get upgraded, there's no point in wasting your time farming any of the abovementioned places for resources/metal until you've unlocked the "What's yours is mine" achievement for looting 20 convoys. If you don't work on that achievement first, you, like most people, will end up farming convoys after you finish all the other achievements, and you'll end up maxing out your metal cargo in doing so, with all of it going to waste. So if at any point you need more metal for upgrades, see the "What's yours is mine" achievement description for a great way to farm convoys. To put convoys in perspective, the smallest convoy I found was carrying 200 metal, and the largest I found was carrying 400 metal. Doing this will ensure you have plenty of resources for all of your ship upgrades. Most convoys are a frigate and two schooners or a brig and two gunboats, so you shouldn't need much in the way of upgrades to loot them. Conclusion No matter how you tackle it, Rogue is going to require quite a bit of your time to obtain all achievements. This is mainly a result of all of the exploring you have to do and collectibles you need to find, but if you manage your time appropriately it shouldn't be too bad. Overall the game is pretty easy and straightforward. The story is pretty short and doesn't offer too much in the way of overall plot development, but you do have a nice little bridge between ACIII and ACIV. So sit back and enjoy a relatively stress-free experience, and earn achievements while you're at it!
