User blog comment:Serpentaxy400/10 Reasons You Should Be Excited For Assassins Creed IV:Black Flag/@comment-180.200.169.163-20130312114941/@comment-4829046-20130313114514

Yeah but in Hitman you get penalized(which sorta spoils my mood). AC gives more freedom. The annoying fact in both games is that the moment you are detected, you are targeted by everyone, despite the fact that everyone else is nowhere near you and the person who detected you died instantly.

They should fix the whole "Oh, one person saw you, you got detected!" One person seeing you does not affect you in real life if that person didn't manage to yell or make a commotion. This is a better scenario

"You are infiltrating a warehouse. There is a guard walking around. A couple more guards are in the next room, which is obscured by a wall. You slip up and the first guard sees you. You kill the guard before he calls his friends.= UNDETECTED"

or

"You kill the guard. but he manages to shout out. The on-screen pointers show that the other two are heading to the room. You hide behind a crate. The other two guards arrive and investigate the corpse. One guard tells the other to call for help. You quickly jump out and silent kill one of the guards and kill the other with a silent range weapon and viola! You were spotted but managed to be undetected by the rest of the warehouse guards. And as long as no-one comes to the room and spots the bodies, you're mission should go without a hitch."

This would be a more interesting and less annoying scenario unlike when you get spotted by just one guard and you fail the mission for getting detected. Yes it IS a game mechanic but some of us like to play games that make sense.