ACS is just a glitchless version of Unity.

Black Flag with a glitchless version of AC3 and that game was terrific. I played Unity a few months after launch and it seemed like their patches fixed most of the issues. I just hope they improve the story because it was weak in Unity.

Here is a suggestion for all of you hating AC, or any other game for being glitchy, do not buy the game on launch. I remember a huge backlash back when AC3 came out, I bought it the summer after it came out for 20 bucks, the game was fucking great, loved it, encountered zero glitches. I just bought Unity, for 20 bucks off amazon.

Just don't play it.

If you earned money like they do, you'd milk it too, simple.

No it needs to go from West to East if you know what I mean.

Don't downplay what a refreshing change of pace Black Flag was compared to the tried and true Assassins Creed formula just so you can disagree with something. There were plenty of interesting things to do and side contracts that kept you busy along with the improved naval/close quarters combat from AC3. You say it fell into monotony and there wasn't much variety but started off your 'Disagree just to disagree' statement with "It may have brought variety to the series, but that still didn't MADE IT GREAT IT" (Special Education?). Of course you lost interest in the game a couple of months after launch, the majority of people would have completed it by then or even 100% it like I did since it really was a great game on it's own Assassins Creed or not. Losing interest? Buy a new game or go fight Somalian pirates in real life.

Tell me in your own words what "Better design" the team could have come up with given all that they had accomplished in their development time, maybe you'd like a ship upgrade that provided you with jet fueled turbines in the back to boost your ship speed. The sales of the game and wide critical acclaim it received upon release crush your opinion like the uninformed noise that it is.

@Metallox

THIS, this so much...

@MiamiACR25

I said "variety" because the supposed variety, like the ships, wasn't interesting for the long term, or, like I like to say, "great". And a way the developers could have followed to made it "great" was putting better rewards. Black Flag is ok as it is, but it didn't do much to offer a sentiment of accomplishment.

I can clearly understand why some players like the game a lot, I know where they are coming, but it's still not my cup of tea.

The game gives money, weapons and skins for the ship and Edward himself that at the end of the day are pointless. The game doesn't become more epic or challenging just by acquiring new suits for Edward or new weapons, they don't make noticeable differences.

And even then, you don't need rewards if your gameplay is well put it in the world. And Black Flag drops the ball in this regard.

The combat isn't cool, as you just evade and the counter attack, the enemies follow the same scheme attack, you don't win much by killing them.

Parkour isn't cool either, the controls are a bit blocky in that regard, and with that functionality you just get pointless collectibles: treasures, songs and faster journeys, of course. But still, POINTLESS.

What about missions? You keep rescuing pirates from soldiers, assaulting sugar deposits, the same combats over and over, etc. Oh, and you gotta love this mission:

https://youtu.be/CXV1hXS9gw...

I'm sorry, but this mission shows you that Black Flag's controls aren't particularly amazing, that the campaign is boring and also that for a character that had its weight in the story, like Hornigold, well, Ubisoft didn't make him justice.

The presentation of the game isn't great either. You have all these historic cities like La Habana, Kingston, Nasáu and such... and Ubisoft made their environments quite samey. This is another issue that was also present in Assassi's Creed III and, of course, Unity. Since the terrain looks the same in all places, the mission design is also less varied.

The very cool parts of Black Flag is in the naval combat. Here, you actually FEEL PROGRESSION, but not for much time. Once you can battle galleons, say goodbye to the epicness, because you won't find more powerful ships, and the ones available won't change more either.

You also keep getting sugar, rum, wood, clothes and stuff like that after assaulting ships. Again, the same.

I also felt that some of the naval missions in the main campaign were very frustrating, at the point where I simply didn't want to do them and just keep doing another thing.

There's an interesting part in the game where you must fight colossal ships. THAT IS what I wanted to see in Black Flag. They offer challenge, all of them have their special attacks and bring you lots, lots of money.

Ubisoft definitely could have implented stuff like this in the campaign and during free roam, but they couldn't because they only had less than two years of development.

I don't disagree because I disagree, I have my reasons.

Also, pardon me if I'm not very clear in some points, but English is not my first language.

"That Assassins creed game was great, but it really wasn't a great Assassins creed game man, throw in some RPG elements and a card game and I'm ready to f*ck."

Another vote for AC Unity!

That's not saying much. Most of the AC games after 2 are sub par in my opinion.

Thanks to those who replied, I’ll give it a go sometime

The PS5 Pro patch was only 171 MBs, so its even smaller than Ubisoft's claim of 0.75 GB.

Some people hypothesized that the PlayStation exclusive content (Darwin and Dickens missions) would be coming to Xbox for the first time with the new patch, but it wasn't added. A patch this large is clearly redownloading the entire game all over again, the dev team made that choice for a reason, we just don't know what that reason is.