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Assassin's Creed Unity - Bottom of the Barrel, Rise of the Assassin, key, cage, la Touche

How to survive the penultimate sequence of Assassin's Creed Unity, assassinate la Touche, then make your escape to freedom.

Begin by going through the door, then getting into cover at the wall behind the Extremist. Throw a Cherry Bomb north, but not too far as you won't distract the guard otherwise. Now go east and turn on your Eagle Vision to track the next guard. Throw another Cherry Bomb to tick off another part of one of your Challenges. Now go up and over the eastern building to get back down onto the road.

Now just run along the road until you reach your objective marker, then climb up onto the balcony and pinch the wine. Keep running along to the next waypoint marker until a new cut-scene begins. When it finishes, just last for as long as you can against the onslaught of Seekers, Extremists and Brutes.

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Tackle the thug and find the gang leader

The next job is to chase down the thug. Just keep a close eye on your objective marker to stay on the trail of your target.

Enter the next room quickly and get into a cover position over by the door to the north-west. Wait for the Brute to move on, then take out the pair of Extremists before getting into cover by the sheet-covered furniture. Take the Brute out with your Berserker Blade skill, then chuck a Poison Bomb into the fray. If you don't have enough kills now to complete the Challenge, make sure you get any extra you need before the end of the memory.

Grab all the loot off the corpses and then make your way west. Turn on your Eagle Vision to get a bead on a Brute pacing around the bedroom, then slither up behind him and take him out with a Hidden Blade kill. Go into the next room and do exactly the same to the two Extremists there.

Go to the balcony to your south, while making a mental note of a patrolling and a stationary Extremist. When the patrol moves off, jump down and kill his friend, then kill the patroller when he returns. Go through the door that's west of your position.

Get into cover alongside the wall, then jump out and use Berserker Blade on of the three Extremists near you. From here you can either watch them kill one another, or get stuck in yourself with a handful of Phantom Blades to speed things up. When they're all dead, go through the door to the east, then north.

Take out the Extremist when he goes past the door with his back turned to you, then go a little further forwards and do the same to his buddy. Leave via the door opposite the one you entered through, go along the hallway, then go south. Get into cover by the pillar to prepare for the final section of this memory.

Kill the gang leader

From where you're hiding, hit either the gang leader or one of his friends with your Berserker Blade. When the boss and his friends are dead, the first memory of this sequence will automatically end.


Bottom of the Barrel Challenges

  • Four Cherry Bomb lures
  • Two Poison Gas kills

Rise of the Assassin

It can be tricky to find your way around the next part of the sequence, so we're going to use a lot of travel directions and landmarks to help you navigate things. To simplify thing a little, keep in mind that almost all of your objectives will take place around and on the roofs of the buildings that are south and west of La Touche. Very little will occur on the northern or eastern sections of the area.

Jump over to the next roof from your starting position, then go south. Jump to the next roof, then pop your Eagle Vision to locate the Sniper on the second floor balcony. When he's looking the other way, climb to the opposite window, then get into cover behind him. Finish him to bag one of your Challenge cover kills.

Go back to the western rooftops, then head south and kill the Sniper using your Hidden Blade. This shouldn't alert anyone else to your presence, and also leave you free to kill the Sniper in the tower using your Phantom Blade.

At this point you should be on the roof that's south of the square. Keep heading south and jump down onto ground level, then get into cover by the door. Kill the Extremist when he patrols towards you to get another cover kill. Go inside when you're done and finish the Brute using Hidden Blade.

Go through the door that leads to the beheadings, then work through the crowd to your left and enter the next building. Get into cover, then look out of the door you just walked through. When the Extremist comes wandering by, bag your next cover kill.

Turn on your Eagle Vision to get the location of your next objective. You should be able to sneak up to it without being detected by the patrolling Extremist. As soon as you're finished, go back to the building on the south side where you killed the Brute a short while ago.

Assassination Opportunity - steal the key and open the cell

Get back out onto the street and then take a left. Keep walking until you can see a Brute to the left with your Eagle Vision. The building you're looking for has a few stairs inside, not to mention a window on the first floor and a balcony on the second. Get into cover outside the window in order to get your last Challenge cover kill when the Seeker walks by. When he's dead, go inside and use your Phantom Blade to take out the Brute with a headshot.

Climb out through the building wondow, then take a left and go north. Get into cover alongside the first building you reach, then kill the Seeker when he walks past. Next, climb the wall and approach the third-floor window. Use a cover kill on the Sniper, then go to the window on the other side of the room he was in. Kill the next Sniper along with a Phantom Blade headshot.

Go back inside the room, then leave via the window you first used to get inside. Jump down to ground level, then go south and take a right when you reach the alley. Sneak your way through this alley, using cover when you get near to your objective marker. Switch on Eagle Vision to spot a patrolling guard, then just sneak up to the cage when he walks away.

When you're finished talking, go back to that building with the second floor window and kill the Extremist. Take the key from his corpse, then go back to the cage and approach it when the guard wanders off. This will start a new cut-scene.

Assassinate La Touche and escape the area

When the cinematic ends, follow the guards to La Touche. When you start going up the stairs and your target comes into range, finish him with your Hidden Blade. Quicky drop a few Smoke Bombs at your feet, then leg it away from the scene of the crime to finish up this penultimate sequence.


Rise of the Assassin Challenges

  • Three headshots
  • Four cover kills

Stuck on something else? The rest of our Assassin's Creed Unity strategy guide can be found from the first page of this article.