Thursday, October 27, 2011

“Kill the guards at the roadblock before they discover Bartolomeo's soldiers” - I get desynchronized?

Question

I'm at a point in the story where I'm with some 50 mercenaries disguised as French soldiers. My objective is the text in the title, and 3 targets are marked on my map as "targets". By that I mean they have a red bullseye icon on them. I'm given 20 seconds.

The problem is; the second I kill one of them, I'm desynchronized! It makes no sense! I'm told to go kill them, and I lose if I do. I'm not exactly given much time to ponder on the situation either. I'm on my sixth attempt now. Every time I fail I have to walk for like 2 minutes to get to the point I failed.

Any thoughts?


Edit. I've even tried to run ahead and poison all the targets way ahead of when I'm given the objective. They don't even have the courtesy of dying before the objective timer has run out and I'm desynchronized. THIS OBJECTIVE IS IMPOSSIBLE

And also, I've lost count of the number of times I've retried this objective now. It's over 20 times.

Answer

I finally solved this in a slightly different way than suggested by DMA57361. It seemed that if anyone saw you attacking one of the targets, even the regular guards, you'd get desynchronized. They didn't give a damn about seeing the targets die though.

That made the crossbow the perfect weapon. It also made the objective rather easy. I ran ahead and around the back of the buildings and picked off the lone target with a crossbow bolt. Then I hid around a corner while the two remaining targets confronted the mercenaries. I killed each one in succession with the crossbow, making sure to hide behind the corner between each kill. As long as nobody saw me while the target died, everything went fine.

The keyword for this objective; the crossbow.

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