User blog comment:Serpentaxy400/Why I think World War I is a better setting then World War II for ACIV/@comment-4996473-20121217204532/@comment-1153722-20121223004828

Because Shards of Eden are available everywhere! :D

The protagonist will just pick up a Shard of Eden from a random location at the start of the game and then be mostly resistant to all bullet fire? Seems more like weak writing than an innovatie solution.