Uploaded June 2010 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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This is the tower you have to climb in Desmond's dream/hallucination of Altair in Acre, chasing his "target".

Many people seem to have trouble getting on top of this tower, and it's mainly because of one tricky spot. I've kept the video short and sweet, but not made it a speed run so that it's easily comprehensible.

The tricky spot is at about 0:27 (click it to go there directly), on the 'balcony'.

As I've demonstrated, you'll see you can't just jump and grab the wooden ledge on top, like you normally do (probably because there's a lantern hanging where Altair would grab it).

The way out is to get up on the right ledge of the balcony, face the wall, jump, look left and jump again. It's mainly the succession of key-presses that matters, and you should get it right in a couple of tries.