User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 05-08-'14 – Assassin's Creed: Rogue announced/@comment-5174994-20140822194202/@comment-1888015-20140823010631

Here's hoping they've taken the open-world approach like they did in Black Flag, but left the missions out of it.

I'd rather not be allowed to do certain side missions if it means i'll be introduced to the concept of the later. It seems a bit stupid that Edward could have completed the contract missions and the Mayan stelae before he was even introduced to the fact that they existed.