Fair play to Ubisoft, the short trailer announcing the Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced showcase begins with the words “Gaming’s worst kept secret”, a reference to the many leaks about the game before it was finally announced last month.
The showcase is dated for April 23rd at 4PM UTC / 6PM CEST / 9AM PDT. It is slightly odd for a remake of an old game to get an entire showcase to itself, but the rumours are that the game has changed quite a lot and now plays more like AC Valhalla.
According to Tom Henderson over on Insider Gaming the presentation will be 30 minutes long and the game will launch on July 9, 2026.
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
