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Cutscene FPS issues have also been rectified
We've all been there. You're a pirate captain whose pockets are overflowing with freshly nicked doubloons and you fancy blowing it all on some shiny new cannons or a figurehead carved to resemble a bag of money. So, you sail on down to a port with a harbourmaster and start perusing ship upgrades. Then, when you get back to the docks, your ship's disappeared into thin air. Ah. Yarr've got to be kidding me. Completing the rest of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced might be rather difficult now. Thankfully, these impromptu mutinies are a bug Ubisoft have fixed in the title update set to arrive in the game today.
"Fixed an issue where upgrading the Jackdaw while docked can cause it to disappear, leaving players without their ship," declare the notes for Black Flag Resynced title update 1.0.4, which is set to roll out on July 16th at 3PM BST / 10AM EST / 7AM PST. Needless to say I'm glad I didn't run into this problem while playing for my Black Flag Resynced review, as much as it might offer a nice opportunity to spend a bit more time exploring whichever city or island you get marooned in/on. One can only hope anyone who did run into it found a way to recover their vessel from the cheeky joyride their crew had set out on.
Beyond that, the update takes care of "various localisation issues for Simplified Chinese, Italian and Arabic", "multiple lighting issues when players are indoors or in caverns", and " issues where players can clip into the ship’s hull while swimming". On PC specifically, cutscenes should no longer be locked at 30 FPS if your graphics are set to custom.
Back on the funnier side of things, you should no longer get stuck harpooning if you initiate boarding a ship immediately after telling the game you want to get the rowboat out and hunt some sharks. Clearly complaints that the Caribbean isn't sunny enough have been rolling in too, as the patch has tweaked the weather system to increase the chances of clear skies, while also nixing a bug which could lead to it never being foggy.
Finally, firmly in the Drowning Pool-adjacent pool of bug fixes is one which stops single enemies you kill sounding like multiple bodies dropping when they flop over into the dirt, rather than just one. You can check out the full list of tweaks, which includes some spoilery ones, in the notes I've embedded earlier in this piece.
While Black Flag Resynced's remaining devs work on these patches, some at Ubisoft's Barcelona studio are set to be laid off and have been protesting alongside Spanish unions for the past few days.
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