Talk:Eagle Vision

There are also the whisper noise, "showing" player the direction of his current target. Very nice, if you do not use GPS for realism...

-Yeah but it's not really a gift. Is it really notable, after all it's just to make the game more realistic and it's not unique in Assassin's Creed.

why is the hidden messages glowing red ?

i thought red was enemy wouldn't that mean subject 16 is your enemy ? Twomey1993 19:56, November 16, 2009 (UTC)

I think its so it can be easily seen against the dark walls. Not sure though....

because it is written in blood

• Also, the glyphs arn't really there, they are just part of a computer program Subject 16 wrote for the Animus, so it is likely he programmed the glyphs to glow.--joecool280 19:08, January 7, 2010 (UTC)

How?

How is it that you see memory starts in your eagle vision if you are veiwing it from ezio/altair's memory. I dont think thats what they saw.

What??? -- D. Cello 04:00, June 20, 2010 (UTC)

Artistic Speculation

I haven't had the chance, myself, since selling the 360, but I wanted to ask; what visual effect does activating Eagle Vision take on the current role's eyes? I've heard, and seen it drawn as the assassin having a faintly golden iris, or completely blue shine. But again, I'm only wondering and would maybe like to see a few screens as reference.

174.112.228.69 05:17, July 31, 2010 (UTC)

Thought you can't see in game how it looks, La Volpe is another major Assassin, credited with strange purple eyes. Seeing as life of a theif means its important to know your friends and foes, he may use it almost all the time. Plus the landscape from AC2 and AC:Brotherhood is a mix of blues and purples, in Eagle Vision mode.

Vegna Gunner 21:45, December 1, 2010 (UTC)

I dont think la volpe used his eagle vison at all times otherwise he would have been able to tell that niccolo was an ally

Project Legacy

To all of you project legacy players: I have a minor speculation.

Eagle Vision is inherited by those of the lineage of Adam and Eve, and in Sequence 2 about Giovanni Borgia, Giovanni is using Eagle Vision. So could it be that Giovanni, and therefore his father, are related to Desmond, or perhaps Subject 16, since they are ,probably, the only modern-day assassins with Eagle Vision ??

Well, possibly, but Adam and Eve weren't the only 1st generation hybrids, as Juno speaks a bit more generally about the hybrids, not that there were only those two. It's only confirmed that 16 and Desmond are both decended from Ezio, who has an illigetimite child before the codex is completed, Giovanni's father could've been from a completely different line of hybrids.

Vegna Gunner 18:23, December 6, 2010 (UTC)

Not every Assassin is Desmond's ancestor :P Alpheta 01:55, January 6, 2011 (UTC)

"Super Power"

Is it actually a "superpower" does Ezio, Altair, Desmond etc actually have the ability to make things glow to their eyes? When I played the games, I got the impression that that "eagle vision" as the player sees it is just an interface. I thought "eagle vision" was just that the assassins were trained to notice things with greater acutity; ike a Sherlock Holms or Robet Langdon style ability rather than an actual "super power". The "eagle vision" as the player sees it is just for the sake of the player and is not supposed to reflect how Altair/Ezio/Desmond actually see.

This goes futher because I had to edit a page about La Vope, as one of the rumours that he could "see through walls" was seemingly taken as fact and refered to as another super-power akin to eagle vision. 94.7.253.227 13:56, January 3, 2011 (UTC)

To end this discussion once and for all, I give you something already explained on forums:

• Actually, Eagle's vision is Altaïr's (or his ancestors) instinct about someone. It is a gut feeling, a hintch. It is a visual way to show us what Altaïr perceives aroudn him, the intentions of other people, and all of that CAN NOT be understood if you thin krationally. It is intuition.
  So, Maria was red cause she intented to kill him, as do all guards when they find an assassin. If they dont' mean harm and may actually help, Altaïr perceives them as friendly, hence the blue color. Gold is jsut a way of saying "s/he's going somewhere/doing something, and I must follow/kill/interrogate or whatever is necessary now". -- D. Cello 02:29, December 11, 2010 (UTC)
• Personally, I have to agree with D. Cello, because it seems to be one of the sixth sense abilities that Juno was talking about in Brotherhood. It's a genetic ability to sense others' dispositions towards yourself, and then display those intuitions to the individual as an occular distortion. I'm assuming that it can be influenced and overridden by certain emotional and mental factors, like all senses can, or that people can hide things from it, and appear to be what they're not. Dereisenherz 17:53, December 16, 2010 (UTC)

Hope this settles. -- D. Cello 22:03, January 5, 2011 (UTC)

True, but what about all the hidden symbols/messages and Subject 16's blood that Desmond could see (with Eagle Vision) in Abstergo, etc..? (The ones that were invisible to the naked eye) --THIEF 23:17, January 5, 2011 (UTC)

Same thing with Abstergo's Animi lab keypad: I have no idea. XD -- D. Cello 23:19, January 5, 2011 (UTC)

A couple things to remember

A lot of people say Desmond inherited his eagle vision but it is revealed that he only got it through the bleeding effect not being born with it. Why did he not have it originally even though he is a descendant of TWCB? Also in AC1 the animus tells you that it is creating eagle vision based off Altair's intuition but it is later stated that assassins had eagle vision, the makers probably decided to change it but at the end of AC1 Desmond has eagle vision. Did they forget to change what the animus says? Oversight?Ryukoshu 23:28, January 5, 2011 (UTC)

Perhaps Desmond had eagle vision all along, but he only just learned how to use it through the Animus and the bleeding effect. — M.C.Tales 04:00, May 1, 2011 (UTC)

Perhaps the ability evolved. Remember that not ALL assassins have it, only Altaïr's bloodline. Maybe the gene that controls it evolved from simple emotion sensing to actually perceiving hidden things, almsot like a sixth sense. -- D. Cello 04:08, May 1, 2011 (UTC)

Eagle Vision in Real Life?

Auras do exist, and they often convey emotion. Not everyone is able to do it though. I personally believe that there is such a thing as what some would refer to as Eagle Vision.

It is rather difficult to achieve, and usually requires a bit of concentration and refocusing your eyes. I have achieved it several times, and you'll be suprised at how much it resembles Eagle Vision in the game.

I do believe not everyone can do it. Most of my friends cannot achieve it and there is only one person that I know has been able to achieve this; my father.

I have noted that the coloring of the objects/people I see really do change according to my intintions and relationship with. So, could a small group of people really have "Second Eyes"?

Obviously, Ubisoft must not have created this on their own...

ShiningLegend 21:43, March 20, 2011 (UTC)

You're getting superstitious here. Your mind believes what you want it to believe. Eagle vision is Altaïr's intuition conveyed through graphical means identifiable to the subject playing the memory, nothing more. -- D. Cello 04:07, May 1, 2011 (UTC)