User blog comment:SupremeAssassin/Assassin's Creed 3: Combat System/@comment-4868246-20120530214724

An awesome thing about AC3 is that they are emphasizing weapon distinguishment (giving each weapon it's own speciallty :D) which i'm very excited for because in previous Ezio games you would find yourself using 2 main weapons and one projectile only, this is because the sword, hidden blade and the dagger where not so different in open conflict which made us use 1 or 2 of them, however in AC3 there will be huge differences and privilege between them that will force you to utilize all of your arsenal. The same applies to projectiles since there were:(Hidden gun, Crossbow,throwing knives and poison) despite that they don't function exactly the same, the game made me use merely one of them because the only difference was slight damage and ability to provoke or alert nearby guards, for example the throwing knives, the crossbow, poison darts and the hidden gun all have the same range and three of them are fatal at the first shot exept the throwing knives because some elite guards are partially immune to it. Thank God they will fix it in AC3 thus the bow will have the furthest range then the pistols at a medium range :D