Board Thread:Series general discussion/@comment-1153722-20170613174702/@comment-5088097-20170620195124

Sol Pacificus wrote:

Xangr8 wrote: SixKeys over at Ubisoft Forums spoke with Ashraf about social stealth and it seems that they've had to do away with it since it wasn't working well with the already established mechanics in the game.

...Wait, you mean no more blending? That's a pretty core aspect of Assassin's Creed, even if I like them making radical changes, that's not a mechanic I would like to see utterly removed. I'm fine if it's modified such that, say, you can't blend with weapons equipped, but not entirely done away with.

We have no idea when social stealth was integrated into the Assassin Brotherhood, for all we know, that would have been implemented later on. You can still hide, but I think they took away that aspect from a gameplay point of view, it doesn't seem like there will be crowds as in previous titles, so blending would be very difficult. Populations were spread out in Ancient Egypt, and likewise, other countries at the time. This sense of crowds didn't happen until the Renaissance, at least, when people became wealthier and could thus travel more often.