Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced has finally been confirmed by Ubisoft

The long-awaited Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced remake or remaster has been confirmed by Ubisoft, with a little teaser and some artwork in a big update on the year ahead for the AC franchise.

Ubisoft admitted that the project is in the works with an offhand teaser, writing:

Speculation around Assassin’s Creed is not new, but it’s worth repeating: “Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.” Well, except in this case, some whispers have a little more wind in their sails. Keep your spyglass on the horizon. ????

they also shared this artwork.

Black Flag Resynced has been hinted at and rumoured through much of last year. The voice actor for Edward Kenway dropped a hint last June, this was followed by rumours that the remake will drop the modern day sequences, and then it was discovered that the Black Flag Resynced domain was registered by a Ubisoft shell company.

The suggestion is that this will be a remake, rather than just a remaster, using the Anvil Pipeline engine, and it’s going to feature some fairly big changes. The most notable change will be the removal of all the modern-day sequences so we will not see Rebbeca, Shaun and the others. The modern-day plot, which worked really well in the first few games with Desmond, has gradually been side-lined and only appears as text in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Replacing it will be “a few extra hours of content” including content that was cut from the original release, such as parts of Mary Read’s story.

Gameplay is said to be closer to the RPG style of the more recent games, with loot, stats for weapons, and a new inventory. The combat is is also said to lean more towards the style of the recent games. The map is the same size but will have more things to do, and modern systems mean there will be no loading screens when docking your ship and heading to land.

This is a pretty extensive project, in other words, with Ubisoft Singapore, Belgrade and Bordeaux reportedly working on it, and some assets from Skull and Bones possibly being reused to save costs. Fitting, of course, when Skull and Bones was spawned out of Black Flag in the first place.

Source: Ubisoft

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