Board Thread:Series general discussion/@comment-5088097-20170624223327

So, the topic of my forum discussion is a loaded question, at least I feel it can come across as one but I was on the Assassin's Creed Reddit community just now reading about the Animus Pulse and Bayek's Eagle Vision. Anyway, the Reddit poster basically wanted to know if Eagle Vision as we are accustomed to it, is still canon within the series, as a Precursor related ability, or if the devs went back to the previous explanation of the Animus representing the Assassin's observational skills. Various AC protagonists have described Eagle Vision differently, such as Edward Kenway saying it was like feeling the impressions of sounds and shapes in his environment. I think Altair also described it as being able to see the auras of various individuals. Bayek's Eagle Vision is far more literal in this sense as he has a symbolic relationship with his pet eagle, Senu. However, when activating the "traditional" Eagle Vision, it merely highlighted objects of importance, much akin to Lara Croft's Survival Instincts from the rebooted Crystal Dynamic games. I think this reinforces the idea that Eagle Vision, at least in its most basic form, was a representation of the Assassin's observational skills. So, has Ubisoft done away with the canon explanation that Eagle Vision is a Precursor ability, or have they gone back to the AC1 explanation? Wherein the Animus represented the Assassin's observational skills through the traditional Eagle Vision we know.  