Game Theory: Assassin's Creed Eagle Vision Is REAL! 

I actually trusted matpat not to put a jump scare only to open my eyes to be confused 🤣

MattPatt is starting to get a bit unhinged with his intros 💀

Matpat is the kind of guy to take 1 sentence and find a way to turn it into a entire essay with a complete thesis, body paragraphs, and conclusion And I love it

There is actually a case where a guy with synesthesia working in accounting was able to spot someone stealing money because he was able to see some of the numbers as colors, so he was able to spot errors way easier than others.

As someone with Synesthesia, it definitely sounds a lot cooler than it is. I can only speak for myself, but this has never been an "active" ability for me. I do not choose what senses are mixed together nor when they mix; these are just brain pathways that have always been linked and always proc on the same things consistently. At this point I barely notice because if the smell of pine always produces the sensation of pine pitch between your fingers, then those two things are basically the same sensation. It just becomes part of how you experience things, and like how you don't feel the clothes you're currently wearing, if you focus on it you can feel your shirt and pants but the fact you can feel them really isn't important to actively be aware of. That said, I think it's interesting you made the Synesthesia connection, because the most common form of Synesthesia is called Grapheme-Color Synesthesia, which is when certain symbols or concepts invoke certain colors within the brain. If you hear statements like "9 is magenta," "the letter "e" is pastel yellow" or "Wednesday is Periwinkle," that's Grapheme-Color Synesthesia (these are all examples of how mine presents). Additionally, there are two categories of Synesthesia; mine is the Associative type, which means when stimulus A happens, I think of something in sense B. This means that while I always ASSOCIATE the number 9 with the color magenta, I do not actively SEE any depiction of a 9 in the color of magenta. That would be the 2nd category: Projector types, in which stimulus A CAUSES sense B to activate in a specific way. Which is to say, if I had Projector-Type Grapheme-Color Synesthesia, it's possible that I may see haybales in a brighter white color than someone without, or see a dark red hue accompanying anyone with a visible weapon; if I was looking for or following someone in particular, I may even see everyone else as being darker or more dull, causing that person to stand out more vibrantly against the city. Is it a little convenient and game-ified? Yeah, but it's also not implausible. Again, not an ability that you can "turn on or turn off;" plus, the most universal skill that Synesthesia gives you is the ability to confuse anyone that asks you for a description, because lord knows NOBODY knows what "This tastes purple" means.

MatPat. Tricking us into jump scares since the dawn of RU-vid 👍

I'm actually excited for Mirage. It looks pretty fun. I love the whole theme of it being in Baghdad. Hopefully ubisoft won't disappoint us again

I can sense matpat getting crazier and crazier every video

My sister actually has synesthesia and I'm glad this video acknowledges it as something that exists. She can see letter/words and numbers as different colors. I asked her once what a specific word was out of a selection and she told me it was kinda purple and there was only one purple in the choice and she was right. Very useful skill to have. 10/10 would recommend

This is probably one of the most fascinating game theories I've watched yet.

The first Eagle Sense is actually the most interesting because we learned in a comic staring the Protagonist of AC3, Connor Kenway that they LITERALLY see through the eyes of their trained eagles. Connor's daughter was able to see through the eyes of an eagle to see that a wolf was about to attack her dad and was able to prevent it.

I’ve always pictured Eagle Vision to simply be a general sharpening of preexisting senses using certain techniques to notice things in the environment with much more precision. Lifeguards are able to immediately see if someone’s drowning in a crowded pool or beach because they scan the area using the Golden Ratio, quickly skimming the area from the outside spiraling inward and then repeating the process once they reach the center. It’s likely what we see our assassins doing, by looking at their surroundings from the edges of the area and then quickly spiraling their sight inward towards the center of the area they’re in.

This is kind of explained in AC Unity. When Arno is about to go into an assassination mission, he sits on a rooftop, closes his eyes, takes a deep breath and then focuses to take in all of the information from the environment around him. And that doesn't highlight the enemies. I think the highlight is more of a game mechanic, while taking in everything around you and focusing on your surroundings 100% is the acual 'eagle vision'

Interesting observation : When using eagle vision, we always hear a sound. The "electronic burst" launching the wave, often with a little slow motion to give more gravitas to the ability. First, this could be active echolocation using frequencies outside the hearing capacity of normal humans. Secondly, eagle vision is shown as a wave with you at the center, usually being visually blocked by objects and walls exactly like sound travels in the air.

It is so nice to hear about synesthesia! I was always able to hear light, and see lights related to sounds but it was in my mid-20s that I found out that it is not something that everyone can do... It is a lot of fun, until you see flashing ligths haha

8:55 I'll Never Forgive You For This.

I have a friend who SEES colors appear in her vision when she HEARS people's voices. According to her, my voice sounds like the color teal. Synesthesia is wild, man.

Matt spending decades to become an Assassin just for the superb intro is insane dedication, respect

This is why I love game theory, I’ve never played assassins creed, and really don’t care about the mechanics of the game, but the real life elements it brings are so cool and matpat always finds the best ways to bring us humans together

We have a LOT more than 7 senses. We also have sense of pressure, sense of temperature, sense of hunger, sense of thirst, and many more. And yes, these ARE all considered to be "real" senses just as much as vision, hearing, etc.

The training for echolocation actually starts with actively clicking your tongue, recognizing how this baseline sound changes as things move in the environment, and then using it passively based on sounds going on around you.

Imagine watching RU-vid falling asleep and waking and this is on your screen 8:50

Nah who else got a fright 8:47 😭😭, matpat you lied and now I’m going to have nightmares thank you.

You know it is refreshing to see something that is not an indie horror game lore video for a change, an interesting theory that tries to figure out how a game mechanic could actually work, takes me back Great job Mat, this was a pretty interesting one

I'm happy we got back a bit into these classic theories where we learn a bit more about ourselves rather than the games we play. MatPat can find any subject out there, and turn it into an educational video that honestly should be taught in schools. I was never in a class where they actively talked about perception as one of our senses as human beings, and Matt puts it up there as something we all have but never really stopped a second to think about. Great video!

Ever since the theory channels joined the company, there has been a noticeable increase in quality and length of the skits in the beginning and I really like it

I’ve never even played Assassins Creed but this looks like it’s gonna be awesome

Synethesia is a really cool concept. for as long as i remember, I've been conflating smells with memories and/or emotions and pain with colors and just wrote it off as an autism thing. If anyone was wondering, pain feels like the color white, sadness smells like salted butterscotch and petrichor is the one scent that brings the most vivid memories.

Ezio also said in revelations something along the lines of smell, sounds around him and the things he can see are part of his sixth sense

Assassins creed black flag also even confirms that eagle vision is a sense of awareness rather than an extra visual sight

It's nice to see MatPat doing another Assassin's Creed theory. Although he might want to double check his timeline.

Eagle vision in the first game was supposed to show the player what the character themselves think and associate with their surroundings. It didnt go through walls or objects and is like how the thought process of the character was supposed to be due to his training.

I love how the new AC is a "back to form" for the series, and how this video is also a "back to form" for GT :) Miss these science centric episodes

This. This is the kind of GT content that I love. I love the scientific breakdowns, the what ifs, the open ended questions. This kind of content is why I come back.

Fun fact: Proprioception is one of the keys to win a game that envolves how hard you strike something even in video games, for example golf, bowling, billiards etc.

Matpat, the eagle sense can also be related to a more spiritual sense. The ability to sense the aura around someone. This would heavily apply to your synesthesia theory because one's arua changes color based on their emotions or intent. Anime has portrayed this immensely and "One Piece" is an excellent example of this factor. Also, in the series, "Record of Ragnoraok, a show where man and gods fight with one another, a human competitor, Jack the Ripper, has synesthesia as a means of identifying his victu,s emotions.

Its great to see another assassin's creed video, keep it up!

Even as a sponsored video, this felt like a normal Game Theory video.

Just for correction. The Isu didn't mate with Neanderthals to create humans. They created both in labs, Neanderthals to be a military force and Humans to be a labour force. Eve was the first hybrid as her father, Phanes, fell in love with one of his human creations. Eve being 50/50 was immune to the effects of the Pieces of Eden and used an Apple of Eden to "awaken" Adam. Sources AC Unity, Database: 05. Phoenix Project Report AC Odyssey Fate of Atlantis, Encrypted messages from Phanes AC Revelations The Lost Archive, Bleeding Effect (memory) AC 2 Glyphs and the Truth also

I love the more scientific theories, it feels like going back to his old videos before the fnaf theories sparked everyone to make lore based games and videos

I wasn't expecting the intro to go from serious to hilarious 😂😂

I love the intros, they have progressively gotten longer and better! Edit: 20k views in 15 minutes! Matpat deserves it tho

When Matpat started talking about synesthesia I got really excited, because both me and my dad have synesthesia and would have long talks about the color and texture of voices

In AC lore, Adam and Eve are not the first humans. In fact, Adam is the first ISU-Human hybrid, which shows us they had their shave race for quite a while.

Synesthesia would be an excellent trait for first responders, specifically firefighters who can sometimes get disoriented inside a burning building when saving a random person or even their colleges.

as a synesthete (a person with synesthesia) its great to see such an ability be thought out in this way (before you ask i cant see like eagle vision haha)

6:11 the echo location, and then the bat waiters, really cheered me up just now at work😭🤣🤣🤣

8:32 I don't think Boston is considered an ancient city.

Weirdly enough I’ve been thinking about this for years as a theory before this video came out

I think there is another part to eagle sense like what the jedi call the force, they can sense the intentions of someone else as well as having better reflexes. I believe there is something else that connects us with other living beings to in a way be able to feel what they feel and think what they think or maybe thats still just the midiclorians

Ur Assassin's Creed theorys are always my favorite

A great example of simple synthethesia is being able to "feel" the screens on old TVs but just looking at the staticy screen

I'm so hyped for Mirage! Glad you just did a Theory about it!

do you think your gonna do another video on generation loss? if so i cant wait to see it

Matpat seems like he could solve a huge mystery with only one word, Oh wait. *He did*

I can’t wait for Mirage to come out. The Rebel Collection is my favorite game in the series and I really hope the Blowdart comes back for Mirage. Edit: It did wooooooooo

0:38 bro 😅 that mouse

0% ego 0% attitude 100% hardwork 100% honest. Love you The game theorists ❤️❤️❤️.

Eagle Vision is a combination of Synesthesia, Clairvoyance, and ESP. it took ideas from all three of them and made it into something new, yet relatable.

i love how he always makes his video with the game intro his intro kinda

Matpat could totally convince me to sell my entire bloodline

9:00 you son of a poop

There might be another additional effect. In the eagle vision your world goes grey, thus the "bandwith" of vision reduces. You get a lot more info from contrasts. This can happen in high adrenalin inducing situations. This makes processing and your reactions faster and iirc its also a skill that can be tought. So i propose that eagle vision is a combined effect.

One of my friends had synesthesia and I remember her asking for a specific pen I had because she needed that exact color to draw a song she heard

Having rewatched A Certain Scientific Railgun probably a dozen times now I knew exactly what was coming when he mentioned synesthesia.

What an amazing achievement to go from making theory videos about Assassin's Creed for views to actually getting sponsored by the game. I've been with this channel for ages and I'm so stoked for how much they've all grown

Just when I was hoping for more theories to watch, this popped up :) thank ya theory team!

This feels like a back to basics theory and I love it so much

One other theory: we are constantly being told there are multiple dimension. We live in a multiverse, literally. What if Eagle Vision is just seeing another dimension?

Mat: "close your eyes" Me, listening to the video while driving: "I don't think I will"

A interesting thing about synesthesia is all the different variants that exist. Colour-Grapheme - This Connects Colours and Characters such as Letters. A may be red for example Mirror Touch - When You see Someone Move Their Body you feel the same sensations as if you are doing this also Auditory-Visual - Sounds are Represented as Colours or Words Visual-Auditory - Colours and Words are Represented as Sounds Light-Olfactory - Certain Light Levels create Specific scents Tactition-Olfactory - Smells create physical sensations like a shiver or being touched by another Lexical-Gustatory - Where Specific Words become Tastes There are numerous different combinations that when you really think about it mean that we could be experiencing the World in a rather amazing way if learnt.

finally a assassin game that makes u feel like a assassin and science making a chance to be like them. dreams gonna come true

Ahhhh, thank you so much for putting this into words and using the visuals! I've struggled with trying to make this explainable for so long. Also, that second example (on the right) of synesthesia is so close to mine. For whatever reason, it's hard to find an accurate representation for how I experience it. The only thing is; I also have (some level of) tetrachromacy, so I see it even more differently- this is why i can't stand different colors on pages/in words & numbers. In a similar way; I see more colours mentally, compared to visually- so, I probably can't visually demonstrate it, even to myself.

Oddly enough I've been unintentionally training those extra senses because of my natural paranoia. I have deteriorating vision and learned how to fight without glasses through the vestibular sense and learned how to visualize targets though the use of the other one.

Have you seen the generation loss streams yet?! It would be a cool video if you could theorize about the history of Showfall media, a certain line from a character named Hutch, and maybe about the ending

no, what made the 1st assasins creed unique was the ability to use the environment. You could use things as traps to kill your target. It was awesome.

If all else fails, there's always creating a real life detective mode from the Arkham games

Honestly the thing I'm most excited about with a new AC game is hearing OSP Blue's take 👍

8:38 was funny

In the first Assassin’s Creed Eagle Vision was an ability that the Animus has whenever you are fully synchronized as it won’t work whenever the synchronisation bar wasn’t full as explained in the tutorial before Memory Block 1. However this didn’t make totally sense when Desmond Miles was able to use Eagle Vision at the end of the game as he couldn’t use it because he’s out of the Animus. It was explained in Assassin’s Creed II that Desmond got the Eagle Vision from the bleeding effect and is an ability that his ancestors can do not just an Animus ability that is only available when fully synched or healed (In AC2). The sequels followed the Assassin’s Creed II method except origins and odyssey.

I recently had my eyes tested and I have 20/10 vision. Almost half way to eagle vision!

Having been put off from the franchise ever since Origins came out due to them straying away from what made AC so special to me, I’m approaching Mirage with caustic optimism. I’ve been rewatching some classic AC cinematic trailers lately too, and I’m definitely interested in revisiting some of the classics, including Unity, which is grossly underrated in my honest opinion (it also helps that it probably has some of the best cinematics of the series).

Matpat never runs out of Strange Ideas 💀.

Now i dont feel special for being able to start humming in the dark and instantly know where objects are near me

This just proves my ability to forget what i had for dinner today is just an advanced defense mechanism

0:07 fin.

Plus, when I heard they were making assassin Creed, how they used to I kept my eyes ears in every friend to see about the information. I’ve been waiting for this even waiting for the five nights at Freddy’s movie. I want this game I want to see how far they can go with it and maybe with some new DLC’s I can’t wait.

I think everyone has a tiny bit of synesthesia based on the Bouba Kiki test. However, I do have very strong grapheme synesthesia myself.

it would be crazy looking at a piece of music and just hearing it

the face during the eye closed thing was freaking terryfying i had a freaking panic attack

Let’s begin with appreciating of how he puts a lot of effort in his content. Let’s say HORRAY! HORRAY!

Thank you so much MatPat for putting out amazing content for us to watch!

MatPat is the only person who can be sponsored by UBISOFT

there is one part in a side, quest in assassin's creed origins, where a recording of an isu explains how the humans lost their "knowledge". When the isu mentions the sixth sense, he says something in reverse, but if you are too correct the audio clip, he calls this sense "overload your minds capacity"

Matpat I’m kinda sad that you never did a follow up to the courage game. You said there was an update / part two! I’ve been checking everyday if you posted it yet. And ima keep waiting!

Aaaaa! I have auditory-tactile and audiovestibular synesthesia! What you've said is totally true. Given the situational awareness that comes with most forms of combat training it's totally possible to gain what looks very much like eagle sense.

Thanks for another great theory MatPat!

I got jumpscared so freaking hard when he told us to close our eyes, i jumped out of my chair and fell on the floor while eating lunch

I remember when the leap of faith vid just came out. You turn me into a kid again Matt.

That interview in the intro is basically the same questions that were made to Matpat when he sold the Game Theory empire.