Sort-of - http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/Eagle_Vision
All humans have the potential, bloodlines that were mixed (or at least interacted) with first civilization were most prone to discovering it.
Regardless, Italy was a huge crossroads and one fo the most genetically diverse spots in the world at the time. They had singnificant influx of people from every corner of Europe and the Med region. Sicily was widely known for its major universities, featured many exiled or dissatified Muslims.
Right, but my objection wasn’t that there was an Italian descended from Altair. It was that there was what appeared to be a purebred Italian with a long, powerful, rich lineage related to Altair.
I know I’m overreacting a tad, it just seems a tad unlikely to me. But I guess I should be thankful that it’s at least plausible, and just be glad we’re not dealing with sitcom-level impossible genetics.
I think the fact that the family tradition is to stab noblemen in the neck sort of explains how they have so much money.
There’s no such thing as a purebred Italian. It’s been a genetic crossroads for all sorts ever since the Roman Republic, between trade, conquest, and the occasional invasion. Very, very few 15th century Italians could trace all their ancestors back to the Etruscans, or Umbri or one of the other pre-Roman tribes.
And buying yourself a respectable heritage is an old and honored tradition for anyone coming into a lot of money unexpectedly.
Another issue that I’m running into … Throughout the course of the game, I have bought a nice sword, one of the clubs, and an axe. However, none of them are available in my weapons menu. I had them for a little while and then they just disappeared after a cut scene or something like that. When I go to a General Store, it still says I have them purchased, but I can’t ever switch to them because it only shows that I have the fist, hidden blade, and tomahawk. Where are they? Where did they go?
You don’t get all three at once. You can only use a sword, club, axe, or tomahawk at any given time as your right-hand weapon. If you go back to the merchant carrying the sword and try to re-purchase a club, it’ll equip it for you.
You can also equip them back at the Homestead. Just to clarify Agent Foxtrot’s point, repurchasing an item at a general store doesn’t involve you spending any more money, it just lets you swap your weapon out.
Not quite true - the tomahawk counts as a small weapon (like a knife from the previous AC games), so you can have it at the same time as a large weapon.
One thing that’s different from the previous games is that if you pick up a weapon after a fight (other than a musket), it replaces your current weapon of that type, and you get to keep it - not drop it the next time you switch weapons. It’s not permanent for the game though - you still have to buy it if you want to equip it later.
BTW, I’m having great fun with Pontiac’s War Club. Makes me feel like Chingachgook.
Any idea why they all disappear on me, though? It’s not that I only have one at a time, it’s that I bought the axe, used it for a few minutes and then after a cut scene, I had the tomahawk equipped instead. I looked at my weapons to re-equip the axe and it just wasn’t there.
Also, where do I go in the homestead? I went there last night to find the armory and couldn’t find it anywhere. All the doors I could access went outside. This game must turn me into an idiot or something!
The armory in the Homestead is in the main house, but I’m not sure if you get access to it right away (it comes pretty quick if not right away)
Minor spoiler
It’s in the basement, accessed via the secret door under the stairs. Go down the stairs, and go back into the corner to the right of the pictures of your Templar targets; there are racks of weapons. All the weapons you have access to will be on one of the racks.
That just happened to me too - it was a cutscene right after a fight. For some reason the weapon I had been using was on the ground, instead of still in my hand. I only noticed it while looting the dead. I was able to pick it up and keep it though.
It’s being discussed here as well.
Well, I’ve been playing for a couple of days now and here are some random thoughts so far:
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Holy crap, this game is taking WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY too long to get to adult Conner and give me freedom to explore and learn the nuances of the gameplay. I’m forcing myself to continue playing until I at least get to a point where I can relax and really explore. Sure, you can do some exploring while he’s a teen but it feels like you are just wasting time for the most part.
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Either I’m dumb or this game doesn’t give you access to horses frequently enough. It seems like my only options on the frontier are to run across the frontier for 15 minutes or fast travel.
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There are alot of mechanics that are poorly explained, if at all. For instance the little dot above my head and the lines that lead to it sometimes are, I’m assuming, some sort of visibility thing but so far it hasn’t been explained to me.
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They have overtasked the B button (360). It does way too much and if you are in a tight area it can be hard to actually do what you want to. It’s particularly bad when you have a follower and you’re on a roof trying to drop down but the game will only let you tell your follower to stay put because its a contextual button and he’s right next to you. I don’t want him to stay put. I want to climb down and have him come with me.
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The buildings in Boston feel too far apart for my tastes. It’s much harder to find good paths from roof top to roof top in this game relative to the other 2.
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Combat is ridiculously easy. Wait for a single guy from a large group to attack, hit B, screen pauses so you can hit X and kill him and his buddies without actually doing the killing.
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The protagonist isn’t very likable so far. Just kind of Blah
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The sexscapades between Hayworth and the indian girl happened too abruptly to be believable. She went from Punky Brewster to banging him without and clear indicator that they were feeling each other
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And The mystic negro that trains Connor is a megacliche.
I’m really hoping it gets better soon. It’s gotten good reviews so I expect it will but so far I don’t care for the controls and the story is BLAH.
Lol! I just got the horse whistle right after posting.
That’s the “blending” mechanic - basically, non-stealthy stealth. Only really useful when needing to follow someone undetected, or listen in on a conversation.
I’ve found the horse to be virtually useless. The terrain is so rough, that it’s faster for me to run and jump off of rocks, and into trees than it is to try to navigate a horse.
On an unrelated note, I have found killing bears to be extremely easy. I even had a popup message say I was in the top 10% of executing perfect animal kills. Now if I could just figure out how to survive a stupid wolf attack!
Well, I had an RTFM moment with this today. After babysitting my computer for an entire day, I finally finished downloading the 15 gigabyte monster file… only to crash in the opening cutscene, right where Juno’s telling Desmond to find the key. Four times. Aha, I thought, maybe I need to… restart? And that fixed it! So I got to the opening little sequence where you run around in the hideous block-universe, and got to the part where you air-assassinate people. And then I crashed. Well, we got further this time, let’s restart… But I kept crashing in that level, over and over again.
Finally, I go look up some help, and find the (ahem) minimum requirements. Turns out that you’re supposed to have a 2.66 GHz processor, and mine’s only a 2.2.
Will updating my drivers et al do anything about this, or did I just waste my money?
The min requirements are a 2.6 Core 2 Duo. That’s 3 CPU generations ago, so unless you also have a core 2 duo, you should be fine. Anyway, a CPU bottleneck might cause slow down in large open areas, but it’s not going to crash your game. Something else is up.
Definitely update your GPU drivers (this is step number one if you have any issue sin any game). Nvidia recently rel,eased new drivers specifically for this game (beta drivers 310.61).
So I started playing this game today, and man I’m impressed. Given all the disappointing comments about the open world stuff, I’m actually really enjoying the linear story telling so far. The theater, the ship sequence, jeebus, the attention to detail is amazing, and the narrative has me interested for the first time in a long time in this series. Let’s see how much that changes once the main protagonists comes in… right now I’m wishing the game was about Haytham. I like him.
Also, By the gods! This is one of the most impressive looking games of recent memory, and I totally wasn’t expecting it.
TXAA on Nvidia cards is god. The game looks like it’s running with FSAA or something, the bokeh depth of field, the incredibly detail textures, the lighting, and the complete absence of jaggies had me staring at every nook and cranny of that ship in awe of the art department.
It’s just beautiful, it has style I felt like I was walking through the set of a period movie.
Okay, tried that. Now I’m getting slow-down in large open areas, making it basically unplayable. But at least it works, right?