AC3 also tried to reinvent a lot of shit that the Ezio trilogy had already nailed down to a science. Like, they made it so viewpoint synchronization wouldn't reveal the entire map, but you'd still have to physically wander around to fill out empty spots in it, sometimes revealing stuff that you'd 100% miss otherwise cause the game doesn't even lightly hint that its there. The fuck is the point of having the viewpoints at all then?