As I've been playing Unity, I've noticed that the game doesn't do a great job of showing players how the French Revolution progressed. The reason is that many of the co-op missions contain a lot of the historical details, and since the player can do them in any order he wants, a lot of the sense of how the revolution unfolded may be lost. So I've listed chronologically all the storyline and co-op missions so that if players want, they can use this list as a guide to doing the missions in the order they happened historically.
Here's the list.
Historical events are in green
Storyline missions in blue
Co-op missions in red
Murder mysteries in orange
Paris Stories in teal
Cafe Theatre and Social Club missions in brown
Server bridges in purple.
1/1 - Memories of Versailles - 27 Dec 1776 - Life in the Ancien Régime.
1/2 - The Estates General - 5 May 1789 - The People, Hard Hit by Famine & Poverty, Feel the Tax System is Unfair. Negotiations With the King Break Down.
1/3 - High Society - 5 May 1789
20 June 1789 - Tennis Court Oath - Shut Out of Government, the People Pledge to Oppose the King.
2/1 - Imprisoned - 14 Jul 1789 - The Storming of the Bastille - Within Days, Civil Authority Deteriorates.
2/2 - Rebirth
4 Aug 1789 - Feudalism Abolished. Government Declares Louis XVI the "Restorer of French Liberty".
26 Aug 1789 - Declaration of the Rights of Man. Men Without Property and Women Are Still Not Allowed To Vote.
Co-op - Women's March - 5 Oct 1789 - Worries About the King's Power Over Government, Combined With Food Shortages, Result in Royal Family Being Placed Under Virtual House Arrest in the Tuileries Palace.
3/1 - Graduation
3/2 - Confession - 5 Jan 1791
Server Bridge: Fin de Siecle
4/1 - Kingdom of Beggars - 19 Jan 1791
4/2 - Le Roi est Mort - Jan 1791
5/1 - The Silversmith - 31 Mar 1791
5/2 - La Halle aux Bles - 31 Mar 1791
5/3 - The Prophet - 31 Mar 1791
6/1 - The Jacobin Club - 31 Mar 1791
6/2 - Templar Ambush
7/1 - A Cautious Alliance - 1 Apr 1791
7/2 - Meeting with Mirabeau - 2 Apr 1791
7/3 - Confrontation
Server Bridge: The Resistance
20 Jun 1791 - Royal Family Attempt Escape to Austria.
30 Sep 1791 - Constitution of 1791. Constitutional Monarchy Declared - Moderate Girondists Unwilling to Declare Republic. Egalitarian Jacobins Protest.
20 Apr 1792 - War Declared Against Austria. Girondists Lead Pro-War Movement. Jacobins Dubious About War.
Co-op - The Food Chain - Summer 1792
8/1 - The King's Correspondence - 10 Aug 1792 - Armed Parisians Storm the Tuileries. King Placed Under Guard.
8/2 - September Massacres - Sep 1792
Co-op - The Austrian Conspiracy - 2 Sep 1792
22 Sep 1792 - First French Republic Founded. Monarchy Abolished.
9/1 - Starving Times - 31 Oct 1792
9/2 - Hoarders
9/3 - The Escape
10/1 - A Dinner Engagement - 20 Jan 1793
10/2 - Execution - 21 Jan 1793 - Louis XVI Executed.
10/3 - Council Debriefing - 21 Jan 1793
2 Jun 1793 - Girondist Leaders Arrested. Girondists Now Widely Seen as Counter-Revolutionaries.
11/1 - Bottom of the Barrel - 4 Jun 1793
10 Jun 1793 - Revolutionary Dictatorship Installed. Jacobins Control Government.
11/2 - Rise of the Assassin
Server Bridge: The Bastille
The Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat - 13 Jul 1793 - Marat Assassinated.
Co-op - The Tournament - Jul 1793
Co-op - Political Persecution - Jul 1793
5 Sep 1793 - Reign of Terror Begins.
Betrayer of the Queen - Oct 1793
16 Oct 1793 - Marie Antoinette Executed.
31 Oct 1793 - Girondin Leaders Executed.
The Death of Philibert Aspairt - 4 Nov 1793
Co-op - Heads will Roll - 13 Nov 1793
Bara's Funeral - Dec 1793
Co-op - Les Enrages - 10 Feb 1794 - Jacques Roux, Advocate for Economic Equality, Kills Himself in Prison.
Co-op - Danton's Sacrifice - 5 Apr 1794 - Convicted of Profiteering, Danton is Executed.
The Chemical Revolution - May 1794
Co-op - Moving Mirabeau - May 1794
12/1 - The Supreme Being - 8 Jun 1794
12/2 - The Fall of Robespierre - 27 Jul 1794 - Thermidorian Reaction - Government Votes to Execute Jacobin Leaders.
12/3 - The Temple - 28 Jul 1794 - Reign of Terror Ends
Co-op - Jacobin Raid - 29 Jul 1794 - Conservative Thermidorian Regime Condemns Seventy Members of the Paris Commune to Death.
Desiree Desired - 1795
Desiree Dismayed - 1795
A Romantic Stroll - 1795
2 Nov 1795 - Directory Established. Moderates Rule as Army Gains Power.
An Engaging Egyptologist - 1799
10 Nov 1799 - Consulate Established. Coup d'État Installs Napoleon Bonaparte as First Consul.
Co-op - The Infernal Machine - 24 Dec 1800
18 May 1804 - Napoleon Crowned Emperor of France.
Thanks.
You can do all the co-op missions independently. They take longer if you're doing them alone, but it is possible. I've done quite a few of them alone, including "Women's March" which is supposedly one of the hardest ones.
Regarding AC3's homestead missions, I have no idea.
Thanks anyway,Originally Posted by Pr0metheus 1962 Go to original post
I've checked the wikia & saw a nice order of the homestead missions, i'll try following them.
till then i'm in Brotherhood now, finished part 2 but can't upload them without Brotherhood's christina's missions to add in.![]()
I've added more historical details to give players a very basic narrative of events. Hopefully this gives some context, even though it is a very simplified explanation of what was a very complicated series of events. I've made some very broad simplifications in terms of wording and names used for certain groups and organizations, but I hope the list now gives a better insight than the game does into what happened during the revolution and why. I hope that players get a slightly more nuanced view into the real motivations of the people and parties involved.
Also, since the game gets some historical aspects very wrong indeed, some of the story will seem to make Arno's actions questionable (i.e. when he kills Jacques Roux and when he butchers the Jacobins during the raid of 29 July 1794). Also, some parties the game paints as villains (i.e. Jacques Roux, the Jacobins) may come across as less villainous, while some characters (i.e. Danton and Napoleon) may seem less innocent.
New Homestead missions unlock with each new sequence completed. Basically once you play as Connor and become an Assassin you have these Homestead Icons on the Map, and if you immediately complete those missions and other side missions(like the Naval Campaign, not the Privateering Contracts but the missions with cutscenes that have you fighting against Biddle) then you won't find any more until you complete the set of story missions at which point another set of Homestead and other side missions get unlocked(including new interactive conversations as well) this continues till the end. So there's need for timeline there, since the game's structure allows you to integrate with it. Some of the Homestead Side missions(manor mysteries) align beautifully with the final missions of the gameOriginally Posted by VoldR Go to original post
Hey VestigialLlama4, since you're the resident expert on the French Revolution, I'd love to hear any criticisms on my timeline narrative. I've tried to tell the story in very basic terms of how the fortunes of different political parties rose and fell, while giving a very simplified idea of what they stood for in general. I'm just trying to do a better job than Ubisoft did in helping players to see the general themes that were involved.
I think they deliberately arranged things so that it would be confusing to people and that people wouldn't ask questions. Another guy was posting that he had to watch a documentary from the History Channel (not my kind of channel as far as good information goes...but that's a separate thing) just to make sense of the background. I pointed out that that was something you didn't have to do with earlier titles. They lied and they knew they were lying but yet they had this reputation(well earned) for getting things right to a higher degree than anyone in video games had thought possible, but some of them were getting tired of the actual process of being creative or trying to actually solve their dated metaphor of assassins-v-templars, and they gave a bad product.Originally Posted by Pr0metheus 1962 Go to original post
Reading your timeline, i think it's mostly accurate, there are one or two corrections:
In the first one, when you say "Purge of Girondins Begin" begins in 1792, that's not true. The purge only happened when the Jacobins came to power (that was the insurrection of May-June 1793 where the Jacobins and sans-culottes joined forces), obviously people who were outside the government have no authority or means to purge anybody.8/1[/COLOR] - The King's Correspondence - 10 Aug 1792[B] - Jacobins Overthrow Paris Commune Leadership. Purge of Girondists Begins.[COLOR=#0000ff]
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5 Sep 1793 - Reign of Terror Begins. Jacobins Fear Counter-Revolution.
Likewise, "Jacobins Overthrow Paris Commune Leadership" is not true again, the Jacobins held control of the Commune between 1791-1792 but in August 1792 Danton and Hebert took leadership of the Commune during the constitutional crisis of the Storming of Tuilleries. And when you say "overthrow" it makes them sound like proto-fascists when they merely got elected to the Commune. The Jacobins only became prominent after the birth of the Republic when you had the elections under universal male suffrage for the first time in history in 1792(but about 10% voted and mostly in Paris since they didn't have time to cultivate democracy yet). The only time the Jacobins overthrew anybody is the insurrection against the Girondins in May 1793.
I would say just say - August 10, Storming of Tuileries and leave it that, more than that and it gets too complicated.
And the second one, the Jacobins didn't have to fear counter-revolution, that fear had become reality and had already begun to take root. Provincial cities in France like Lyon and Bordeaux went into revolt against the government in protest of the ousting of the Girondins(these places were their support base). Likewise the Vendee Region, with funding from England went into Civil War, they began by murdering 200 men, women and children at Machecoul, and persecuting Republican Vendeeans. In Toulon, a Mediterranean port royalists openly collaborated with the English as well. Getting the English out of Toulon was Napoleon's first major military engagement. In any case, just simply say "Reign of Terror begins" and leave it that.
Thanks so much! I've pretty much adjusted it to what you've advised, but I added a line or two explaining that the Tuileries was where the Royal Family was based after the Women's March on Versailles. I hope this clarifies things a little.
I think it's interesting to see in the timeline that Arno does only one story mission between the time when the Jacobins seize power and the "Supreme Being" mission. While there are some co-op missions in between, these can be done in any order, so it doesn't really help tell the story of the Revolution. That's a whole year when Arno doesn't do a damned thing in terms of the linear story - and it's almost the entire year of the Terror. I think this gap is a big lost opportunity, since it represents a period when the writers could have shown how the Jacobins had become corrupted - at least that would have made it easier to swallow the supposed psychopathy of Robespierre and the completely fictitious human-skin-wearing of Saint-Just. As it is, we're left with a series of disconnected happenings that the game gives no context for.
And how they turned Jacques Roux into a murderous nutcase goes well beyond mere lies - it's demonization, pure and simple. Sure, he advocated the death penalty for hoarders and profiteers, but so did just about everyone else who knew the plight of the poor. I mean all this guy ever did, as far as I can see, was try to help the poor.
You know what's saddest about all this? I think in just 28 lines of green text, I actually manage to tell the story of the French Revolution with a lot more truth and complexity than Unity does (and all I really know about it is what I've picked up from reading half-way through "Twelve Who Ruled" and a few pages of Wikipedia). And Alex Amancio has the gall to say that they try to do justice to history.