Why can't Altair SWIM?!?

A B.A.M.F. like Altair should at least be able to tread water or jump out of the river, but no, he drowns like a dork. A trained assassin that can't swim. :question:

James Bond, eat your heart out.

because if he did someone would drown him.

actually in that time period it was rare for people to know how to swim.ctfvyrsgurbnorn

Surely you jest..were they all aquaphobic back then? :)

He lives in the middle ages, not many people knew how to swim

For god's sake people did not even take baths in the middle ages

They needed to save the Trout from being assassinated because they were an endangered species. (FEMA/GreenPeace restrictions) :P

hehe dont you know anything? characters don't learn how to swim until at least their second game :Dcapthavic

I asked my wife the same thing the first time I drowned. Her answer was, "Well, he was born and raised in a desert..." I had to admit that she has a point there, but I still think that at the very least he should be able to doggie paddle a couple of feet to shore...nocoolnamejim

lol touché :D

He lives in the middle ages, not many people knew how to swim

For god's sake people did not even take baths in the middle ages

DouglasBuffone

He lives in the middle ages, not many people knew how to swim

For god's sake people did not even take baths in the middle ages

DouglasBuffone

FACT ALtair Cant Swim BEcause ubisoft went through tons of stuff to be historicly acurate as you can tell by that girl telling you in almost every asassins creed video she apears.

And what did the fact show people at ubisoft back then people just couldnt swim (people didnt get the ability to swim tell at least the 1800's) (FAct look it up ubisoft did)

Ubisoft whent through as many things to be historicly acurate as i did in this post to be gramaticly coreect.

FACT ALtair Cant Swim BEcause ubisoft went through tons of stuff to be historicly acurate as you can tell by that girl telling you in almost every asassins creed video she apears.

And what did the fact show people at ubisoft back then people just couldnt swim (people didnt get the ability to swim tell at least the 1800's) (FAct look it up ubisoft did)

Ubisoft whent through as many things to be historicly acurate as i did in this post to be gramaticly coreect.

mc8045

LOL! You cant be serious?

Plus I would think he'd be weighed down a bit by all his weaponry.zquare_eyes

True the armor, clothes, and weapons people carried back then would weigh them down in the water, but for someone that can catch a tiny ledge in mid-air and pull himself up should have enough strength to swim. I swam across a lake with boots, jeans, a sweat-shirt, and a jacket on. Sure it was rather difficult, but it can be done.

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He lives in the middle ages, not many people knew how to swim

For god's sake people did not even take baths in the middle ages

Asasinator

He lives in the middle ages, not many people knew how to swim

For god's sake people did not even take baths in the middle ages

DouglasBuffone

Honestly, if you paid attention to the news you would know that even BABIES could INSTICTIVELY swim underwater, or at least SURFACE. Okay, I haven't studied the middle-ages at all, but I do know that humans, and Altair should at the very least float. Right? >;]

[QUOTE="DouglasBuffone"]He lives in the middle ages, not many people knew how to swim

For god's sake people did not even take baths in the middle agesAsasinator

Try telling that to the 3,308 people that died in unintentional drownings in 2004. http://0-www.cdc.gov.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/ncipc/factsheets/drown.htm

It does make sense that he can't swim. Like said before, people just didn't know how back then. Plus, he would have been incredibly weighed down by his clothing and gear.

I've seen people that don't know how to swim get in water over their heads. You can say that any idiot can kick their legs or dog paddle, but that's not what happens. They panic and flail their arms and legs in an attempt to keep their head above water. And every single time they have needed someone to pull them to safety, or they would have drowned.

hahahaha!

Everyone knows swimming wasn't evented untill 1192 sheesh.Ket87

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hehe dont you know anything? characters don't learn how to swim until at least their second game :Dcapthavic

LoL. To quote Comic Book Guy in the Simpons Game (as he points out tired video-game cliches)...

"Learn to swim? Not until the sequel!"

hehe dont you know anything? characters don't learn how to swim until at least their second game :Dcapthavic

GTA took 3 games to get swimming lessons, lol.

The simple answer is that he's wearing armour and weapons, which probably weigh 40-50 pounds minimum.

Strap a pair of 25 pound barbell weights onto your back and see how well you can swim.

FACT ALtair Cant Swim BEcause ubisoft went through tons of stuff to be historicly acurate as you can tell by that girl telling you in almost every asassins creed video she apears.

And what did the fact show people at ubisoft back then people just couldnt swim (people didnt get the ability to swim tell at least the 1800's) (FAct look it up ubisoft did)

Ubisoft whent through as many things to be historicly acurate as i did in this post to be gramaticly coreect.

mc8045

cause if he could swim when he got out of the water he would be wet and then he wouldnt look as cool :lol: sonofabear17

Good point. You can't be stealthy with your boots sloshing or dripping water on your next kill from above.

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He lives in the middle ages, not many people knew how to swim

For god's sake people did not even take baths in the middle ages

jokering12345

He lives in the middle ages, not many people knew how to swim

For god's sake people did not even take baths in the middle ages

DouglasBuffone

Honestly, if you paid attention to the news you would know that even BABIES could INSTICTIVELY swim underwater, or at least SURFACE. Okay, I haven't studied the middle-ages at all, but I do know that humans, and Altair should at the very least float. Right? >;]

With all that armour, and not the slightest bit of knowledge on how to swim I doubt any of us could. Besides if they added swimming it'd make that harbour assasination really easy. Since there was really only one mission with any noticeable amount of water, is it really a big deal?

He lives in the middle ages, not many people knew how to swim

 

For god's sake people did not even take baths in the middle ages

DouglasBuffone

Very very wrong

swimming has always been a way to bathe 

yes they may not have done it often but it was the most common way as water was hard to move about obviously.

In crowded streets on hot days the place most people went would be to cool down in a nearby river.

Just because they didnt bathe often does not mean they didnt swim or bathe in rivers.

Water has always attracted humans and we have been swimming as far back as recorded history goes.

;) In the game manual of Assassin's Creed II, Lucy's mentioned an error in the Animus 1.28 software, which caused ancestors to drown, which explained Altaïr's inability to swim.Evankmacerda

FACT ALtair Cant Swim BEcause ubisoft went through tons of stuff to be historicly acurate as you can tell by that girl telling you in almost every asassins creed video she apears.

And what did the fact show people at ubisoft back then people just couldnt swim (people didnt get the ability to swim tell at least the 1800's) (FAct look it up ubisoft did)

Ubisoft whent through as many things to be historicly acurate as i did in this post to be gramaticly coreect.

mc8045