The Lost Archive

"Abstergo has experimented through their Animus program on 17 known test subjects. This is the story of Subject 16."

―Introduction

The Lost Archive is a downloadable content addition for Assassin's Creed: Revelations, with gameplay similar to the Desmond's Journey sequences. It follows the life of Clay Kaczmarek, also known as Subject 16 of the Animus Project, and was released on 28 February 2012.

The content was first hinted at when a set of achievements was leaked on 14 February 2012, which were later added to Revelations via the 1.03 patch.

Memories

1. The End Is Only the Beginning
2. The Order
3. Abstergo
4. The Mole
5. Bleeding Effect
6. The Truth
7. The End of the Line

Storyline

You play as Clay Kaczmarek travelling through representations of his memories in the form of obstacles to get pass. The narrative discusses Clay becoming a member of the Assassins, being assigned to infiltrate Abstergo's Project Animus in Italy, to discover what Warren Vidic's goal is in exploring ancestral Assassin memories. Lucy Stillman, an off-the-books Assassin, has also been placed within the facilty to rescue Clay when his mission is complete. Clay remembers his father's disregard for Clay career's intentions, that Clay should become an engineer and provide for his family. Clay believes that his father's focus on wealth pushed his mother away from the family.

Clay comes to discover that Vidic is using the memories to learn the present-day location of the Apple of Eden, with which he plans to put into a satellite, so as to have power and control over the entire world's populace. Clay then accidentally observes Lucy discussing her true loyalty to the Templars with Vidic, revealing her true motivations through the games: Desmond and Lucy's escape from Abstergo was planned by Vidic, because going through Desmond's memories was not successful quickly enough, Lucy brought Desmond into the Assassin's fold to benefit their resources, so as to follow Desmond to the location of the Apple and capture it for the Templars.

After falling through the sky at the end of the line, a loop of the memories occurs unless the player collects all the memory fragments, which reveals the true ending where Clay emails his dad and tells him not to worry about his disappearance, that it is not his fault and he has a greater purpose to serve, and that he hopes his dad finds what he is looking for.

Additional content

Aside from the story missions, The Lost Archive includes ten achievements, and various single-player and multiplayer features.

Single-player

• Turkish Assassin Armor - outfit
• Altaïr's robes - outfit
• Armor of Brutus - outfit
• Vlad the Impaler's Prison - secret location
• Capacity upgrades for the Hidden Gun, crossbow, and bombs

Multiplayer

• Crusader
• Ottoman Jester
• Ottoman Doctor

Trivia

• Starting up The Lost Archive seemed to shut down the game, launch a new application, same way as Desmond's Journey did.
  • Similarly, before the memory began, a screen with the access info would flash.
• Each memory flowed from the one preceding it.
• Throughout the memories, 'hallucinations' of other memories would occasionally occur.
• The visuals within the memories changed, being sometimes sharp, sometimes possessing noise akin to film grain. The visuals would also occasionally glitch or gain effects, color variation being the most common.

Gallery

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  The doorway and the stone with the words "Fragments are the exit"
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  Clay's funeral
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  The binary message
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  Abstergo
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  The corridor
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  The circumpunct and the Morse code
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  The wall displaying the braille for "The truth is constructed of lies."
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  Project Siren revealed