Assassin's Creed Mirage Introduces New Time-Freezing Combat Ability

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Because the Animus can't cope with how fast Basim kills.

It's called Assassin's Focus, and it allows you to freeze time and paint a reticule over multiple enemies to teleport between them all and murder them in quick succession.

At the beginning of Assassin's Creed Mirage, you can only pull off this effect with two enemies at a time, but with further upgrades you're able to expand this effect to quickly end a whole group of foes at once.

It's a dazzling move, made more eye-popping by the visual effects involved - which make it look like the game is glitching out.