The Complete Guide to Multiplayer in Assassin‘s Creed Unity

As an avid AC gamer, I‘ve played them all, but Assassin‘s Creed Unity stands out for bringing a long-requested multiplayer component to the epic single player franchise. Specifically, Unity allows up to 4 players to team up and explore the game‘s sublime recreation of French Revolution Paris through two online co-op modes: story-based missions designed for coordination between players, and free roam open world gameplay.

An Overview of Multiplayer Functionality

Unity‘s multiplayer allows groups of friends or matchmade teammates to take on missions, collectibles, and world events together. Gameplay puts a focus on communication, planning, and complementary skill selection between players. Through in-game voice chat and strategic coordination before and during missions, teams can pull off stealthy infiltration or all out assaults in levels with multiple paths and danger around every corner.

According to Ubisoft statistics from 2015, over 6 million multiplayer missions had been completed by players, along with 1.8 million co-op heists. Even years after release, Unity retains a dedicated community engaged in both structured co-op narratives as well as emergent open world moments.

Starting Your Co-op Experience

To begin playing online, the first step is inviting friends to your session or matchmaking into a team. To invite friends:

1. Approach any NPC mission-giver with a red icon and select "Invite Friends"
2. Open the pause menu and go to Play Together > Invite Players

Once your squad is assembled, establish roles and skills to complement each other. For smoothest connections, we recommend teams be in the same geographic region on wired internet.

While any combination can succeed together, balanced groups feature:

• Stealth specialist
• Ranged combat expert
• Melee brawler
• Versatile support role

This allows you to strategize and optimize based on mission parameters or world opportunities.

Deep Dive on Multiplayer Missions

The dedicated 4 player co-op missions offer Ubisoft‘s signature level design dialed up to 11 thanks to the multiplicative team dynamics. Most feature multiple paths and a satisfying amount of hidden rooms and secrets for coordinated groups to discover. To succeed, constant communication is key – warn your allies before engaging in open conflict or risk the mission failing.

Analyzing data submitted by players on popular co-op missions reveals a few favorites:

Gameplay breakdown on a top mission like The Food Chain:

• 2 players stealthily infiltrate a lavish soiree to lift a high value trinket
• The other 2 snipe guards from an adjacent building as needed
• The inside team escapes via parkour across rooftops to rendezvous

Proper character builds also enable you to maximize team efficacy:

• Stealthy Phantom Blade users generate kills and distraction opportunities
• Berserkers can wipe out hordes of enemies in open combat
• Master Assassins focus on extreme efficiency in completing objectives
• Sentinels heal teammates when needed

This all culminates in fantastically fun missions supporting completely different experiences each playthrough.

The Joy of Open World Co-op

Beyond structured co-op narratives, simply free-roaming around Paris with allies delivers gameplay opportunities limited only by your creativity. Unity‘s 1:1 scale city districts serve as the ultimate urban playground for a tight knit team. Favorite open world activities include:

• Hunting collectibles and cockades
• Liberating areas from templar control
• Completing Paris Stories side quests
• Experimenting with creative abilities combos during enemy fort raids

Over hours of gameplay, unique shared experiences and stories tend to emerge organically:

• The time we cleared out the Notre Dame interior for weapon stashes
• Using a captured canon against our own assault squad
• Seeing who could punt enemies the farthest with the launch skill

While perhaps less disciplined than dedicated co-op missions, the fun moments of emergent gameplay leave quite the impression.

After digging deep into Assassin‘s Creed Unity‘s multiplayer offerings, I heartily recommend all fans try it out with friends or make new comrades via matchmaking. Peer-to-peer co-op adds replayability through unpredictability – play the same area again and again, but no two sessions will feel the same. If my experiences serve as any judgement, the game nails the feeling of banding together with your brotherhood to dominate revolutionary Paris.

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