Talk:Eagle Vision

There are also the whisper noise, "showing" player the direction of his current target. Very nice, if you do not use GPS for realism...

-Yeah but it's not really a gift. Is it really notable, after all it's just to make the game more realistic and it's not unique in Assassin's Creed.

why is the hidden messages glowing red ?
i thought red was enemy wouldn't that mean subject 16 is your enemy ? Twomey1993 19:56, November 16, 2009 (UTC)

I think its so it can be easily seen against the dark walls. Not sure though....

because it is written in blood


 * Also, the glyphs arn't really there, they are just part of a computer program Subject 16 wrote for the Animus, so it is likely he programmed the glyphs to glow.--joecool280 19:08, January 7, 2010 (UTC)

How?
How is it that you see memory starts in your eagle vision if you are veiwing it from ezio/altair's memory. I dont think thats what they saw.
 * What??? -- D. Cello 04:00, June 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * Its put there so YOU can see it while in Eagle Vision.
 * Its put there so YOU can see it while in Eagle Vision.

Artistic Speculation
I haven't had the chance, myself, since selling the 360, but I wanted to ask; what visual effect does activating Eagle Vision take on the current role's eyes? I've heard, and seen it drawn as the assassin having a faintly golden iris, or completely blue shine. But again, I'm only wondering and would maybe like to see a few screens as reference.

174.112.228.69 05:17, July 31, 2010 (UTC)

Thought you can't see in game how it looks, La Volpe is another major Assassin, credited with strange purple eyes. Seeing as life of a theif means its important to know your friends and foes, he may use it almost all the time. Plus the landscape from AC2 and AC:Brotherhood is a mix of blues and purples, in Eagle Vision mode.

Vegna Gunner 21:45, December 1, 2010 (UTC)

I dont think la volpe used his eagle vison at all times otherwise he would have been able to tell that niccolo was an ally


 * Plus, Eagle vision is defined as an ability only present in Assassins that are direct descendants of Adam and Eve. I doubt that Volpe is one.--Black Artist 20:22, May 8, 2011 (UTC)

Project Legacy
To all of you project legacy players: I have a minor speculation.

Eagle Vision is inherited by those of the lineage of Adam and Eve, and in Sequence 2 about Giovanni Borgia, Giovanni is using Eagle Vision. So could it be that Giovanni, and therefore his father, are related to Desmond, or perhaps Subject 16, since they are ,probably, the only modern-day assassins with Eagle Vision ??

Well, possibly, but Adam and Eve weren't the only 1st generation hybrids, as Juno speaks a bit more generally about the hybrids, not that there were only those two. It's only confirmed that 16 and Desmond are both decended from Ezio, who has an illigetimite child before the codex is completed, Giovanni's father could've been from a completely different line of hybrids.

Vegna Gunner 18:23, December 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * Not every Assassin is Desmond's ancestor :P Alpheta 01:55, January 6, 2011 (UTC)

"Super Power"
Is it actually a "superpower" does Ezio, Altair, Desmond etc actually have the ability to make things glow to their eyes? When I played the games, I got the impression that that "eagle vision" as the player sees it is just an interface. I thought "eagle vision" was just that the assassins were trained to notice things with greater acutity; ike a Sherlock Holms or Robet Langdon style ability rather than an actual "super power". The "eagle vision" as the player sees it is just for the sake of the player and is not supposed to reflect how Altair/Ezio/Desmond actually see.

This goes futher because I had to edit a page about La Vope, as one of the rumours that he could "see through walls" was seemingly taken as fact and refered to as another super-power akin to eagle vision. 94.7.253.227 13:56, January 3, 2011 (UTC)


 * To end this discussion once and for all, I give you something already explained on forums:

So, Maria was red cause she intented to kill him, as do all guards when they find an assassin. If they dont' mean harm and may actually help, Altaïr perceives them as friendly, hence the blue color. Gold is jsut a way of saying "s/he's going somewhere/doing something, and I must follow/kill/interrogate or whatever is necessary now". -- D. Cello 02:29, December 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually, Eagle's vision is Altaïr's (or his ancestors) instinct about someone. It is a gut feeling, a hintch. It is a visual way to show us what Altaïr perceives aroudn him, the intentions of other people, and all of that CAN NOT be understood if you thin krationally. It is intuition.
 * Personally, I have to agree with D. Cello, because it seems to be one of the sixth sense abilities that Juno was talking about in Brotherhood. It's a genetic ability to sense others' dispositions towards yourself, and then display those intuitions to the individual as an occular distortion. I'm assuming that it can be influenced and overridden by certain emotional and mental factors, like all senses can, or that people can hide things from it, and appear to be what they're not. Dereisenherz 17:53, December 16, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hope this settles. -- D. Cello 22:03, January 5, 2011 (UTC)
 * True, but what about all the hidden symbols/messages and Subject 16's blood that Desmond could see (with Eagle Vision) in Abstergo, etc..? (The ones that were invisible to the naked eye) -- T H I E F 23:17, January 5, 2011 (UTC)
 * Same thing with Abstergo's Animi lab keypad: I have no idea. XD -- D. Cello 23:19, January 5, 2011 (UTC)
 * Eagle vision is caused by their ancestry EG: Those Who Came Before.
 * Sign your posts, Gamboy, and stop editing for badges. It will get your account blocked and your ass kicked. -- D. Cello 18:25, June 16, 2011 (UTC)

A couple things to remember
A lot of people say Desmond inherited his eagle vision but it is revealed that he only got it through the bleeding effect not being born with it. Why did he not have it originally even though he is a descendant of TWCB? Also in AC1 the animus tells you that it is creating eagle vision based off Altair's intuition but it is later stated that assassins had eagle vision, the makers probably decided to change it but at the end of AC1 Desmond has eagle vision. Did they forget to change what the animus says? Oversight?Ryukoshu 23:28, January 5, 2011 (UTC)
 * Perhaps Desmond had eagle vision all along, but he only just learned how to use it through the Animus and the bleeding effect. — M.C.Tales 04:00, May 1, 2011 (UTC)
 * Perhaps the ability evolved. Remember that not ALL assassins have it, only Altaïr's bloodline. Maybe the gene that controls it evolved from simple emotion sensing to actually perceiving hidden things, almsot like a sixth sense. -- D. Cello 04:08, May 1, 2011 (UTC)
 * It's also important to remember that a lot of genes are only activiated by external stimuli. An example of such genes can be found in asthma and schizophrenia. Which are usually only activated by a harsh environment (in the case of asthma) and prolonged stress (schizophrenia). Now, i'm not sure what effect the animus would have on a person's active and inactive genes.... considering that what i'm talking about has empirical evidence, and genetic memory is something i learned about from play assassin's creed 1 when they were explaining how the animus functions. I suppose it is not impossible that when reliving the memories of Altair, Desmond's gene from eagle vision was activated due to the fact that Altair's eagle vision was already active. This might have left a sort of "residue" in Desmonds DNA which accounts for the activation of Eagle Vision though the bleeding effect. Hope this was helpful, anybody who thinks differently or has a contributino to my theory is more than welcome to join me in friendly debate/conversation. Mrbear420 05:32, May 17, 2011 (UTC)

Eagle Vision in Real Life?
Auras do exist, and they often convey emotion. Not everyone is able to do it though. I personally believe that there is such a thing as what some would refer to as Eagle Vision.

It is rather difficult to achieve, and usually requires a bit of concentration and refocusing your eyes. I have achieved it several times, and you'll be suprised at how much it resembles Eagle Vision in the game.

I do believe not everyone can do it. Most of my friends cannot achieve it and there is only one person that I know has been able to achieve this; my father.

I have noted that the coloring of the objects/people I see really do change according to my intintions and relationship with. So, could a small group of people really have "Second Eyes"?

Obviously, Ubisoft must not have created this on their own...

ShiningLegend 21:43, March 20, 2011 (UTC) I have none about it i hve just mastered it!


 * You're getting superstitious here. Your mind believes what you want it to believe. Eagle vision is Altaïr's intuition conveyed through graphical means identifiable to the subject playing the memory, nothing more. -- D. Cello 04:07, May 1, 2011 (UTC)
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"Assassin's Creed states that the eagle vision ability is actually just the Animus' visualization of the Assassin's observational skills. However, as later refers to Assassins seeing "the blue shimmer," the backstory for Eagle Vision was likely changed to be a real-world ability." be changed? it seems like in the first game warren V. was keeping all of the inner story (pieces of eden and those who came before, the bleeding effect, the truth of eagle vision, etc...) is it possible that the story of it being a feature of the animus was just a lie to Desmond, or that Lucy would have hidden the truth of eagle vision and called it a program in the animus to hide it from templars? just seems like that is too big of a mistake to make, especially since it was not during a convorsation with a character, where changing audio lines would be a lot of work, if they changed the idea halfway through, what is stopping them from just removing that particular line as opposed to leaving it there and causing a contradiction in the plot? 97.126.53.217 19:35, May 8, 2011 (UTC)
 * Cause the eagle vision the way WE see it IS a Animus render. Specifically, they state that "the Eagle Vision is a visual render of your ancestor's (Altaïr) ability to perceive other's intentions." Now, Ezio's one is a more full-fledged thing, so my guess is that it somehow evolved between generations. -- D. Cello 19:54, May 8, 2011 (UTC)
 * so you are saying that Altair's form of the sixth sense may have been slightly different, and that ezio's would have evolved to become what we see in the game, and then desmond's sixth sense could have just manifested itself in the real life eagle vision from the first game, and evolved from there to become more like ezios, and start to become the fuller sixth sense? I actually never thought about it that way, if it is supposed to be like that I think it just makes the plot that much better. Harleyzone 20:08, May 8, 2011 (UTC)
 * so you are saying that Altair's form of the sixth sense may have been slightly different, and that ezio's would have evolved to become what we see in the game, and then desmond's sixth sense could have just manifested itself in the real life eagle vision from the first game, and evolved from there to become more like ezios, and start to become the fuller sixth sense? I actually never thought about it that way, if it is supposed to be like that I think it just makes the plot that much better. Harleyzone 20:08, May 8, 2011 (UTC)