Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines upgrades

The upgrade menu.

In Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines, upgrades (or cheats) were implemented and can be purchased from the Animus Interface Menu. These upgrades vary in amounts and worth and points can be earned from collecting Templar Coins from each of the cities. The last three upgrades you can only received by connecting Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines with Assassin's Creed II on the Playstation 3, they do not appear in the upgrade screen.

Automatic Block

How to Unlock

Automatic Block can be bought for 50 points.

Effect

As the upgrade description says, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad automatically blocks any targets attacks.

Note

While this upgrade is helpful, it is frequently glitched and does not work properly.

Critical Hits

How to Unlock

Each tier can be purchased for 75 points.

Effect

Each tear increases the possibility for a critical hit by 5%.

Note

This upgrade has 3 tiers, increasing chance to critical hit to a maximum of 15%.

Hide Speed

How to Unlock

This upgrade can be purchased for 50 points.

Effect

This upgrade increases the speed of returning to anonymous when in a hiding spot.

Synchronization Rate

How to Unlock

This upgrade can be purchased for 200 points.

Effect

This upgrade increases the speed that the Animus re-synchronizes Altaïr.

Synchronization Strength

How to Unlock

The first tier can be purchased for 25 points, every following tier costs 25 points more than the previous one.

Effect

This upgrade provides extra Synchronization bars to Altaïr.

Note

This upgrade has 5 tiers, providing a maximum of 10 synchronization bars.

Throwing Knife Maximum

How to Unlock

Each tier can be purchased for 100 points.

Effect

This upgrade increases the number of throwing knives Altaïr can carry to a maximum of 5.

Note

This upgrade has 2 separate tiers.

Upgrade Weapon Attack Damage

How to Unlock

The first tier can be purchased for 200 points, every following tier costs 50 points more than the previous one.

Effect

This upgrade increases the damage of Altaïr's weapons when the target is bleeding, resulting in an often more swift kill.

Note

This upgrade has 3 separate tiers. This upgrade is useful when assassinating Armand Bouchart in the Templar Archive.

Hidden Blade Armor Codex _{(PS3 exclusive)}

How to Unlock

This bonus is received after collecting the 13th codex page.

Effect

This upgrade allows you to counter with the Hidden Blade, making it a much more useful item in combat.

Note

This upgrade allows you to kill any enemy (besides a boss) with one counter, instead of multiple like the other swords.

Hidden Blade Slim Blade Codex _{(PS3 exclusive)}

How to Unlock

This bonus is received after collecting the 21th codex page.

Effect

With this upgrade counter attacks do more damage and the counter kill skill is increased.

Hidden Gun Codex _{(PS3 exclusive)}

How to Unlock

This bonus is received after collecting the 28th codex page.

Effect

This upgrade allows you to shoot your throwing knives out of your hidden blade.

Note

Just like throwing knives, the hidden gun is a one hit kill, also you can use it in the middle of combat, making fights much easier to win.

Philosophical Codex _{(PS3 exclusive)}

How to Unlock

This bonus is received after collecting twenty codex page.

Effect

This upgrade provides two extra Synchronization bars to Altaïr.

References

• Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines
• Assassin's Creed II