Notoriety | Combat system AC: Liberation HD Guide

Notoriety - it is a system of searches for your character. It increases whenever you perform a socially unacceptable deed, in peoples' sight (e.g. running into guards, assassination). The current level can be checked out in the upper-left corner - the circle divided into four, around the character's icon. Each persona has her own, independent notoriety level and her own methods of decreasing it. Notoriety influences how fast the guards react to your presence and start attacking you. With the highest notoriety level, they attack you on sight and start chasing you.

Posters

Posters appear only if the slave persona is wanted

Removing posters decreases your notoriety levels for the slave persona. One poster removes, around, a 1/8 of the notoriety level.

Judges

Judges can be bribed and then robbed, or killed and searched

To bring down the notoriety levels for the assassin, you need to bribe the judge. To do that, find one on the map and deliver money to him. The amount depends on the notoriety level that needs to be reduced and it can reach, as much as, on thousand coins. However, to make up for the loss, you can afterwards steal from the judge.

Witnesses

A witness with two bodyguards

Witnesses are always protected by two guards. That is why, to avoid notoriety resulting from killing the bodyguards, you need to eliminate them silently (the Umbrella) or with another persona, whose notoriety is easier to bring down. The allies of the target will attack you if you come too close and the witness will start to run. If you kill him with people looking at you, your notoriety will rise again.

Outfits

In New Orleans, you can buy a dressing chamber all around the city - in Bayou, there is only one

Dressing Chambers allow you to switch between outfits-personas. To use them, however, you need to be anonymous. If your notoriety is high, you can change to an outfit with lower notoriety, of course, only if this allows completing missions. You can use one outfit to decrease the notoriety of another persona.

Hiding

Even in the red zone, you can hide from the enemy

Hiding is the best method of avoiding being spotted by the guards and prepare for a surprise attack.

Stand next to people who are busy with something, to blend in

You can hide in various places - among bushes, in hay carts, on benches and also by blending in with the crowd.

Regardless of your current persona, you can hide among people

You can hide next to groups people busy with a conversation. The slave can also hide while carrying crates.

You can find hay carts all around New Orleans

You can hide from a chase only if nobody can see you (the yellow halo around the minimap). Next, you need to wait until it turns green.

During the chase, the places where you can hide have been marked in blue on the minimap.

Hiding from a chase does not influence the notoriety level - if it is high, and you have managed to lose the pursuing party, after you leave your hiding place, you can still be identified.