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Assassins Creed 4: Black Flag |OT| Not Based on a DisneyLand Ride
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SJRB
Gold Member
You get them by boarding enemy ships in the main game.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
The fire barrels in Kenway's fleet? Those drop randomly when you win Kenway's Fleet battles.. The ones you get in the game are only for your own ship.
You can get them as loot from the battles in Kenway's fleet. You will also get one every time you help a friends ship.
Fornaximus
Member
I don't really get the Kenway's Fleet thing. I don't have any of the required resources to do anymore runs.
Teasing_Pink
Member
It's really just a way to generate lots of income on the side, like managing the Assassin's guild in the previous games. You get resources from sinking other ships that are guarding the various trade routes. After a while, trade routes turn yellow, orange, or red. Attack the ships on those routes to get trade goods and diamonds. Then, when routes are green and clear, send your own ships off to convert those trade goods to reales.
If you've totally run out of trade goods, just clear them all and wait a few hours. The routes will be guarded again, and you can sink more ships for more stuff to trade.
Fornaximus
Member
...aaaaannnnnd now I'm playing Kenway's Fleet. Thanks. This game has so much to do.
There is the AC companion app too which allows you to play it on your phone/tablet. Good thing to send out some ships while you are at work/whatever.
Ken Masters
Banned
Never used it once, wasn't ever tight on money either but resources from pirating was an issue
I saw it mentioned in a menu, but when I loaded up my Glass app nothing popped up. Will try again later.
-Deadpool-
Member
Resources are pretty easy to come by, you just have to "clean" all the routes before you start sending ships away on voyages.
It's an AMAZING money maker. I had everything bought super early in the game.
Umm it is a separate app. Look for it in the iOS/Google Play store. Not included in smartglass.
NuclearTurtle
Neo Member
I'm about to start sequence 8, and three things stick out as having grown old quickly:
- Boarding enemy ships
- Eavesdrop missions
- Anything requiring this series' god awful "stealth" mechanics
I think once I've got enough gems to unlock the last few docks in the fleet minigame, I'm just going to give up on boarding entirely. It's probably faster to just blow up twice as many ships. Certainly it would be more fun.
The missions are once again focused on AC's 'stealth mechanics', which often feel arbitrary and stupid. Sometimes being discovered won't end your mission. Sometimes it will. On the same mission. At the same location. By the same guard. Baffling.
Other than that, a lot about the game feels great.
- Ship combat feels just right
- Traversal normally works pretty well
- The shanties are awesome, and most of the collectables feel frequent and easy enough to get to just have a good time running around in the environment
- All the areas look pretty cool
- Sailing at travel speed makes me want to buy a boat
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Honestly, you'll keep boarding because you'll want to have enough materials to upgrade your ship. They make you grind for metal.
The boarding is boring though and I hated that objective where you had to go up to the flag so I always just sunk them and collected the loot. You only get half the loot but you make up for that because it is obviously quicker and less boring imo. Throw on some music and just blast ships for like an hour.
SJRB
Gold Member
Yeah metal grinding might be the worst aspect of this game [aside from the forced stealth eavesdropping, remember to 1-star that shit guys!]. One tip that might be useful is that Pirate Hunters carry lots of metal and they spawn extremely often.
So if you're looking to stack up on metal get at least two wanted "stars" and just let them come to you while you search for regular ships carrying metal.
So if you're looking to stack up on metal get at least two wanted "stars" and just let them come to you while you search for regular ships carrying metal.
Fornaximus
Member
A lot of the campaign stuff is pretty bad, I'll admit. Too much stealthy following botched by the free run deciding I'd rather make a sharp left off a barrel to lunge at the guy who isn't supposed to see me, rather than quietly climb that roof.
tokyostomp
Banned
So the Season Pass is the ONE Freedom Cry DLC and a bunch of MP crap?
firehawk12
Subete no aware
No. It gives you a trophy plus an unlock for the ship.
I tended to get them when I was able to win in the very first "round". I also never really needed to use them, so I had about a hundred of them by the time I was finished with the app.
Yeah, I was basically killing pirates over and over again. There's also very little consequence for dying, other than having to start the process over again.
Redshirt
Banned
It also comes with the retailer-exclusive "missions." Still not worth it.
Just buy Freedom Cry standalone if you want it, which is what I did.
SatansReverence
Hipster Princess
40 hours to complete the main story for me.
Ending was a little abrupt with a few lose ends but on the whole, enjoyable.
Still got plenty to do such as the special gear from Inuaga and what ever them stones things are for from the steleas.
Ending was a little abrupt with a few lose ends but on the whole, enjoyable.
Still got plenty to do such as the special gear from Inuaga and what ever them stones things are for from the steleas.
tokyostomp
Banned
Thank you. I'm just wanting to finish the main story now and move on for a while. These ships are taking the fun out of it. I'm fully upgraded but they're kicking my ass.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
The strategy for all of them is to basically just get behind them and snipe them to death.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
So my son deleted my ACIV profile/saved games...I was approaching 90%. Nooooo.gif.
PS+, Xbox Live cloud saving, Steam cloud saving brah.
Don't tell you were playing on WiiU
I used that technique and almost beat the one in the southwest corner of the map. I was so close but I had already taken quite a bit of damage getting there. Also, it's a lot faster than my ship so even after getting in a lot of damage to him, I had a hard time staying there, and then getting back.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
PS+, Xbox Live cloud saving, Steam cloud saving brah.
Don't tell you were playing on WiiU
Do tell about X1 cloud saves?...
Found this and I'll have to try a cloud restore tonight. Thanks heaps if it works.
EDIT: Oh crap, it looks like I may have a uPlay cloud issue and might be jumping the gun thinking my son deleted it!
Steelyuhas
Member
Yeah that would make more sense, deleting an X1 save file is pretty out of the way (You have to go to the game in games and apps, manage game, and go over to the right panel)
You and me both bro.... I thought Freedom Cry would be 15 dollars if I'd known it was gonna be 10 I wouldn't have even bother to get the Season Pass. IT's funny I always was like "How dumb do you have to be to buy a season pass before you know what;s on it" and now I know
SpoonyBard
Banned
They sit on your mansion at the pirate hideout place. So you can check them out the one time you bother to visit it after buying all the upgrades to the place...
Only the song sheets give you anything that matters, so collecting the other stuff is basically just a big waste of time.
Just started playing yesterday. It's a lot of fun so far. A lot of it does feel like more of the same but I still really enjoy it. Edward seems like he'll be pretty fun. I made it to a good stopping point but I may go around collecting things tomorrow. I want to play more but I think I'm going to have my attention on Dark Souls II for a bit.
Edit: Nevermind, found it it's all normal. :E
Edit: Nevermind, found it it's all normal. :E
SJRB
Gold Member
You need to play a while for Kenway's Fleet to unlock in the main game. It unlocks in chapter
4
Oh thanks! I end up doing everything besides the main missions, so I had no idea!
Is there a trick to not aggroing everything on the planet when you try to engage in naval combat? Because any time I see a trade vessel, I'll get the vessel, its two escorts and about three other ships which just leads to chains upon chains of ships attacking me
SpoonyBard
Banned
You can board the first vessel once you have disabled it, the others are kind enough to with until you are finished with it before continuing the battle. Other than that, I'd advice not to attack ships if ships from the same country are near.
Yep and you can use that ship to repair yours. I piggy-backed a lot of ships that way.
Liferebooted
Banned
Did they finish the bug that didn't let people with 100+ friends do the fleet stuff or am I still too popular to finish trophy farming?
So I bought the digital PS4 version on PSN in December but only played a little bit and haven't touched it since until this month.
For the last few days I've been trying to start the game and it crashes every time on start. When I hit the "press X" splash screen, it displays the message about Uplay and then crashes. I tried deleting the game and reinstalling, and tried deleting my save, but nothing works.
Has this happened to anyone else? Any ideas?
For the last few days I've been trying to start the game and it crashes every time on start. When I hit the "press X" splash screen, it displays the message about Uplay and then crashes. I tried deleting the game and reinstalling, and tried deleting my save, but nothing works.
Has this happened to anyone else? Any ideas?
I think there's some issues on ubisofts side. I keep losing connection to their server and uplay. Anybody else having issues? Ps4 version
SirMossyBloke
Member
Yep, all day. It's pissing me off because I've captured about 10 ships and have been unable to add them to Kenways Fleet.
funkystudent
Member
Finished!
Really enjoyed my time with it. Was good to spread a game across 3 months and I just happened to finish before Infamous which is nice.
Will have to get that Shanty soundtrack.
Also if it wasnt for the multiplayer trophies I would have totally plat'd this game. But fuck that shit.
A happy ending, non screwy ending? Cool. I was expecting some bigger hints on the future of the franchise but I guess Ubi needed some extra time to think of things after that trainwreck in AC3. It does set up that 3rd faction with John / Roberts / First Civ which will play a role going forward I guess
Really enjoyed my time with it. Was good to spread a game across 3 months and I just happened to finish before Infamous which is nice.
Will have to get that Shanty soundtrack.
Also if it wasnt for the multiplayer trophies I would have totally plat'd this game. But fuck that shit.
TheLegendOfMart
Banned
Just bought Freedom Cry standalone on PS4, downloaded and installed 7-8GB. Played the first mission where you have to escape in the storm and after cutscene it goes to loading screen and says "Install in progress, 9%" and is just stuck there.
Any ideas?
*edit*
Just checked it's now downloading another 3.2GB, why didn't it just do it all up front, my internet isn't fast enough to download as I play..................
Any ideas?
*edit*
Just checked it's now downloading another 3.2GB, why didn't it just do it all up front, my internet isn't fast enough to download as I play..................
Fornaximus
Member
Spending the day cleaning up the map post-campaign. La Dama Negra and HMS Prince down, 2
more to go.
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