User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 03-12-'14 — New Assassin's Creed in Victorian London leaked/@comment-4786308-20150106171334/@comment-4829046-20150107172953

Maybe for free-run, but what about climb? Climbing ruins and such. And if the ground constantly slips like that or there are First Civ booby-traps, then that would come in handy to travel large spaces. It's heavy, but still counts as leverage. Plus Arno seems to handle it rather fluidly despite weight. The Heavy Weapons in Unity were generally more cumbersome and certainly didn't help in tight situations like that.