Assassin’s Creed Mirage: How To Eavesdrop

gameranx.com:

One of the essential skills in Assassin’s Creed Mirage isn’t explained very well. Eavesdropping is required to get information on missions or just for clues to find new methods for assassinating your targets. You’d think eavesdropping would be as simple as stealthily approaching your target and listening to their on-going conversation, but for some reason this game doesn’t work that way. There’s a very special way to eavesdrop and while we figured it out quickly, the surge of frustrated players asking how to do it forced our hand — we’ll explain exactly what you need to know about eavesdropping in the full guide below.

Assassin’s Creed Mirage is a focused return to the stealth gameplay of earlier games in the series, stripping out most of the action-oriented combat, RPG leveling and gear. Now you’ll need to use an array of tools and your own patience to ghost through Baghdad bases in search of a new gang of masked opponents plotting their own evil schemes. Much more like previous games in the series, Mirage has its own weird little quirks. Collecting unique currencies to pay off different types of NPCs is one. Eavesdropping is another.

More Assassin’s Creed Mirage guides:

10 Tips & Tricks | Mysterious Shard Gear | Components & Tool Upgrades | Infinite Money & Tokens Trick | All Enigma Solutions & Locations

Eavesdropping is a mechanic in which Basim, your playable assassin, can listen in to conversations of far-off NPCs. They only need to be relatively close for this to work, but actually listening requires a specific type of interaction. To eavesdrop, you must use a bench.

Eavesdropping may reveal important information about your target or progress the story. Certain quest objectives absolutely require eavesdropping.