Onscreen Display

Templar Awareness Gauge: This feature is inactive for the opening hours of the adventure, so you can find a full explanation of its function in the Walkthrough chapter.

Health Meter: This represents Ezio’s current state of health.

Puppeteer Interface: This controls HUD offers a contextual display of actions that can be performed with your controller’s face buttons (or equivalent keystrokes in the PC version, if applicable), based on Ezio’s current stance and proximity to points of interactivity.

Equipment: The item or weapon currently set for use.

Currency: The sum of money in Ezio’s possession. The icon stands for “Akçe”, the currency of the Ottoman empire.

Mini-Map: See next section.

Compass: This pointer always faces north.

Risk Indicator: The frame of the mini-map offers a simple indication of Ezio’s current combat status: red when opponents are actively seeking to engage him in battle, yellow when he is out of sight but still sought by pursuing aggressors, and blue when he is safely concealed in a suitable hiding place.

There is no specific frame when Ezio is incognito.

Distance Meter: Provides a numerical indication of the distance to the next active waypoint.