Shark attacks are indeed random. There doesn't seem to be a sure-fire way to get them to attack you. I've tried many ways to provoke an attack but could not find any pattern to it:
- Swimming out in the open water.
- Swimming directly at them.
- Swimming up to them from behind.
- Swimming below them.
- Swimming above them.
- Swimming with your back to them.
- Swimming near jellyfish.
No pattern, they'll attack when they feel like it. Just make yourself an easy target for them and hope that they'll actually attack you and not just take a bite.
If you're trying to complete the Abstergo challenge, it's best to find a school of sharks that are swimming near the diving bell. Try different diving locations until you find them. At least if you were unsuccessful getting them to attack you and you're low on health, you could always retreat to the bell to recover your health and oxygen.
Try lowering the graphics settings if possible. It's likely you have them set higher than your system is capable of running.
If you have a 64bit OS, the cheapest and immediate performance upgrade you can do would be a simple RAM upgrade. Ram is still relatively cheap these days, and bumping yourself up to 6 or 8GB if possible will yield a nice boost all around, not just in gaming. Modern OS's like Win7 are pretty RAM hungry, and if you are running a game on top of that, it may starve it out causing your OS to Swap/Page RAM onto your hard drive, which is considerably slower in performance. This is likely part of your problem.
Also, a video card upgrade usually is the single most important/cost effective/noticeable upgrade you can do for gaming. It provides immediate and noticeable results. I recommend checking out Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy Chart. They update it usually every month and it gives a general idea where your video card stacks up against what is out today. As they recommend, it's usually not worth upgrading until you jump 2 or more levels on the chart. Then you get the best bang-for-your-buck. I tend to upgrade my video card usually once every other year, sometimes every year (depending on my tax refund, hehe). But, I consider this more frequent than most, so every other year or so you can probably get away with and still playing most games on high/medium-high settings, given there are no other bottlenecks such as RAM or really slow hard drives (5400rpm drives).
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html
If your specific card is not listed, just round-about-it, such as 6350 round to 6300 series or there-about to guestimate where your out.
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Are there other ways to avoid them
There are a few ways to hide from sharks
- Hide in the underwater grass
- Go into the air barrels
- Go inside broken ships or other architecture. This will hide you from the sharks
- Get out of their line of sight
For eels, you need to spot where they're hiding and just stay away from them. They don't leave their hiding spots, only waiting for you to come close.
Thes are the best/only ways to hide from them