[ALL] Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

[Chrispy]

@ 81%, Donny is higher I think

Doubt i reach 100% since I don't want to redo missions that I didn't get 100% in

 

[TeflonDonny]

93% but i doubt i'll get to 100.

 

[Swarley]

Freedom Cry is pretty interesting so far. Adewale is a good character and they've changed up how some things are done to keep it fresh.

 

[Maynard]

so is this game worth playing? sounds great with the open world exploring abilities.

 

[Swarley]

so is this game worth playing? sounds great with the open world exploring abilities.

I enjoyed it very much. Very Far Cry 3-ish with the focus on exploring, crafting via hunting and what not. I spent hours upon hours doing nothing but random exploring, hunting and sailing. Pirating on the high seas is also pretty fun. A lot of the game is more focused on the pirate aspect than it is the Assassin aspect.

 

[tigstah]

I enjoyed it very much. Very Far Cry 3-ish with the focus on exploring, crafting via hunting and what not. I spent hours upon hours doing nothing but random exploring, hunting and sailing. Pirating on the high seas is also pretty fun. A lot of the game is more focused on the pirate aspect than it is the Assassin aspect.

loving the ship battles, and sending my fleet out. i figured that i should only have brig' and man o war in my fleet.....
gonna scrap the smaller ships.....

 

[Swarley]

Just finished up the Freedom Cry DLC. Adelwale was fun to play with and he had a couple different toys to do killing with. Overall I enjoyed the DLC (especially since it was free with that $10 PSN voucher from Sony). A couple minor complaints I had is I wish the main villain would have been more prevalent throughout the DLC story. The other is I thought the DLC should focus on Adewale doing stuff for the Assassins. That isn't the case, as he finds himself down in the West Indies and takes on this outside of the Assassins. Still pretty decent, though. Interesting subject to tackle, too.

 

[Maynard]

why do they make you hold RT to run? i hate that

 

[Maynard]

pretty fun game. im just running around havana atm...when do you get ships? should i just run the main story for now? i only did 2 memories so far...this last was the wheres my sugar memory.

 

[tigstah]

pretty fun game. im just running around havana atm...when do you get ships? should i just run the main story for now? i only did 2 memories so far...this last was the wheres my sugar memory.

i think you get a ship in havana.....i believe.
once you set sail, you can fight other ships and add them to your fleet. i have 8 ships now. brig (2), man o war (2) and (4) schooner.....loving this game. just got that blow pipe as well....

 

[JayDizzle]

pretty fun game. im just running around havana atm...when do you get ships? should i just run the main story for now? i only did 2 memories so far...this last was the wheres my sugar memory.

Once you finish the Prologue and the beginning Havana missions, you'll get your boat.

Just keep playing and save your pennies unless you want some of the better, non-crafted gear early in the game.

Then again, you could go the sociopath route and just murder/loot every guard you see for cash...

 

[Maynard]

got the ship and started cruising to florida, but the dam wall cut me off. fun game in the boat. tbh, i hate having to hold RT to run in this game. holding it down is tedious and the control is clumsy. nothing like chasing someone and having edward run up a pole by mistake.

but the boats are refreshing and very much enjoyable. looking forward to really digging into this game

 

[tigstah]

got the ship and started cruising to florida, but the dam wall cut me off. fun game in the boat. tbh, i hate having to hold RT to run in this game. holding it down is tedious and the control is clumsy. nothing like chasing someone and having edward run up a pole by mistake.

but the boats are refreshing and very much enjoyable. looking forward to really digging into this game

yeah that running up poles and stuff you dont want to run up gets annoying. but once you take down a fort, it opens up the whole area to explore. i tried taking down a legendary ship.......had my ass handed to me after i took down the 1st ship. loving this game.....need to get the dlc.....

 

[Maynard]

got the missions where they make you go out and hunt for metal. for some big ships to tangle with only to have some pirate hunters come in and join the fun....i had to get the fuck out of there and find a small ship to beat up for a repair, then went back to the pirate hunter to get more metal....good times!

 

[tigstah]

got the missions where they make you go out and hunt for metal. for some big ships to tangle with only to have some pirate hunters come in and join the fun....i had to get the fuck out of there and find a small ship to beat up for a repair, then went back to the pirate hunter to get more metal....good times!

dont sweat the hunter ships, you run at first. once you upgrade the hull and add cannons, you will take them down easily. just keep moving in a circle. i am gonna try and take down a legendary ship tonite....

 

[Maynard]

so these ships you add to your fleet...is that for the online mini game i read about or is that for offline ship battles?

when i beat a ship i only have the option to repair my ship....i thought there was other options for the ship you defeat

Once the ship is captured you have 3 options as to what you do with it.

Lower Wanted Level - This not only lowers your wanted level, but also gives you more crew members than what you get from just capturing the ship.
Send ship to the Kenway's Fleet minigame. Replace your weaker ships with larger ships. You can also sell these off for massive amounts of diamonds (the in-game-minigame currency)
Repair The Jackdaw - If your ship took damage in the fight, you can use materials from the defeated vessel to repair your own ship.

 

[Maynard]

the boats are awesome! took out my first fort....then went on an assassin mission that was on water...dam frigate beat me like 5 times before i said fuck it for the night.

 

[tigstah]

the boats are awesome! took out my first fort....then went on an assassin mission that was on water...dam frigate beat me like 5 times before i said fuck it for the night.

they are tough until you add some cannons to your ship.........then they are easy as shit to take out.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

the boats are awesome! took out my first fort....then went on an assassin mission that was on water...dam frigate beat me like 5 times before i said fuck it for the night.

I'm going to try and get into this game, but I hated the ship missions in AC3, and I just couldn't get interested in the two hours I started Black Flag.

I completely respect the series for going in this direction, because it was beginning to become stale, but I'm thinking it just isn't for me.

 

[Maynard]

i have not played one since AC2 and the thing that irritated me was holding that dam RT button all the time to run and climb. I love the boats in this cause its a slower battle that feels completely organic. I would be in fights with a ship, start losing, then cruise off for a minute to find a small boat to beat for repairs, then come back and continue my battle with the larger ships.

plus you can sneak on to ships and just kill the crew rather than do gun battle. I also come up on a ship that something else beat down...while it was on fire i climbed aboard and then a clock came up giving me 60 seconds to loot the ship....i just barely got my ship away before it exploded.

upgrading the ship gives you a RPG feel to it as well. you have to find metal, wood and coin to do the upgrades for battle...which i really enjoy that element of RPG games. Having it be an open world game is fantastic too.

taking out that fort was a bitch. i wanted to use mortar strikes and found out the hard way that you have to buy mortar ammo. But i finally got on land and had to battle the enemies their while hunting the captian of the fort....the puss kept running from me. Once i took over the fort i noticed the cannons kept firing away....i look over the wall and see my cannons are blasting away at boats in the ocean.

good times!