Help your brother Help A Brother Out. Drawings will help to pump "Daw"

By assigning the number “4” to the new part of the “Assassin” series, Ubisoft did not do the game a big favor. From a full-fledged fourth part, players will expect much more than from, say, additions to the third, so the developers will have to try hard to surprise us again.

Fortunately, there are all the conditions for creating an exciting gameplay: the pirate theme is one of the most favorite topics for the authors of adventure stories. The setting, judging by, promises to be very exciting: Edward will have muskets, knives, sabers and, of course, new tricks, thanks to which he will pack the soldiers of the British Royal Flotilla on the shoulder blades.

But Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag would not have the right to be called "pirate" if there was no treasure hunt in it - the occupation of real pirates. On the islands where the action of the fourth part will unfold, many treasures are hidden. Caches are also expected under water - in one of the screenshots, Edward dives into the water in order to get the contents of the coveted chest.How much treasure will be scattered around the map and what will be hidden in them - gold or useful items - is still unknown.

It is worth mentioning that these screenshots were most likely taken from the Wii U version of the game, judging by the general "roughness" of the graphics.

Therefore, the fourth part could not lag behind its predecessors and pleased fans with the armor of the Templar. The uniqueness of things is expressed by increased characteristics, features and appearance: They are stronger, more reliable and more beautiful than all others, have partial resistance to attacks and reduce damage taken. Templar Armor in Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag kept in a five-key cage on a hilltop estate on the island of Great Inagua, where Edward Kenway would be lucky enough to set up a pirate lair and temporarily become a caring master, as he did in AC3 when Connor rushed across the Frontier, fulfilling numerous requests. But this time the matter will be limited only to the arrangement of the bay and the restoration of some buildings, other fun, like running after pigs or calming down fighter friends, will sink into oblivion.

Great Inagua is the hideout of Julien Ducasse, a Templar and chief supplier of weapons to the Order. The island will go to the pirates in Chapter 4, when Blackbeard will offer to steal the Spanish galleon "La Arca del Maestro" for the defense of Nassau, then it will be possible to find the first golden key by tearing it from the neck of the defeated enemy, sworn enemy assassins, and see the object of desire in the cage. The remaining four Templar Keys in Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag you will need to look in different parts of the Caribbean. No, they are not hidden, like, everything is much simpler. The places to start the search are indicated on the map by black round icons with a stylized letter "A" (see legend - key) and lead straight to the assassins, who issue four tasks each. You can hunt Templars with keys both during the main story and after beating the game. You can change the Templar armor, which has increased resistance to enemy attacks, to any other suit in the captain's cabin on the Jackdaw by going to the rack with clothes and pressing the [E] key.

Templar Key Locations in Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag:

• Hunt for the Templars: Opia Apito

  

  • assassin taino(Cayman Bay): We talk with Opia Apito, accept the challenge, collect as many hutia skins as possible, and at the end of the competition we kill a white jaguar to earn the trust of a master assassin.
  • Templar ships(Grand Cayman): find Alvin with the help of eagle vision in the western part of the island, eavesdrop on the conversation, avoid eye contact, steal the ledger from the victim (hold down the [E] key at close range) and return to Opia Apito.
  • Right hand(Grand Cayman): we talk with the girl, inform her about Marquez, pursue the target to the pier, stand at the helm of the Jackdaw, carefully fire cannons at the enemy ship and kill the fugitive.
  • Lucia Marquez trail(Pinos Island): on the shore we talk with Opia Apito, carefully move after the soldier, deal with two armed detachments, catch up with Lucia, kill her and take the second key of the Templars from the cage with armor.
• Hunt for the Templars: Rhone

  

  • The office is under attack(Havana): we find a girl in the southern part of the city, help her protect the office from the attack of Spanish soldiers, using barrels of gunpowder and melee weapons.
  • Thief in the market(Havana): we reach the market, track down the pickpocket with the help of eagle vision (key [V]), catch it by pressing the key [E] twice while running at a close distance from it. We pick up the letter and return back to the girl in the office.
  • Arms race(Havana): we destroy three marked warehouses with gunpowder in different parts of the city, we return back to the Rhone.
  • Flint's death(Havana): we find the girl in the city center, follow her to the pier, kill Flint in any convenient way and take the third Templar key from the cage with armor.
• Hunt for the Templars: Anto

  

  • maroon assassin(Kingston): find Anto in the southern part of the city, move towards the guards marked with a yellow marker, eavesdrop on their conversation without receiving information, move to the second group of guards, catch up with one of them and press the [E] key twice on the run to catch . Having obtained the information, we return back to the master assassin.
  • Maroon recruitment(Kingston): we release three groups of prisoners, using hired drunken pirates in battles, we send the former prisoners to the office.
  • Defense(Kingston): we return to Anto, we help him protect the office of the assassins from the attack of the soldiers.
  • Commander's ploy(Kingston): Meet the master assassin in the city center, follow the guards, get to the farm, check the three marked areas with eagle vision, find the real captain, kill him in any convenient way and take the fourth Templar key from the armor cage.
• Hunt for the Templars: Vance

  

  • Oh you brother...(Nassau): we find Vance in the city center, quietly follow two workers, eavesdrop on their conversation, attack the target in the courtyard of the house.
  • Second brother(Nassau): Meet Upton, follow him and Vance at a distance, get rid of several thieves while spying without attracting attention. We listen to the conversation, in a minute we find the last thief in the marked zone with the help of eagle vision and kill him.
  • Upton's grief(Nassau): Meet Upton in the tavern, defeat everyone in fisticuffs, we escort him to a safe place, periodically pushing him in the back, save him from the guards and part.
  • The Pirate Queen and the King of Fools(Nassau): meet with Upton in the city center, find Vance behind the swamps, kill him, and then his girlfriend. We take away from her the fifth key of the Templars from the cell with armor. We return to Big Inagua for a well-deserved reward.

The game Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag - continuation of the famous action series narrating about the ongoing struggle between the two secret organizations— The Order of the Templars and the Assassins, which lasted throughout human history. This time, players will visit the Caribbean Sea at the beginning of the eighteenth century - a time when pirates ruled almost completely in this region, organizing their own republic there.

AT Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag Knowledge Base all users can get acquainted with valuable information about the game.

Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag Game Tips

Don't lower wanted level

To pump "Daw" you need not only money, but also resources. They are obtained by capturing a ship through boarding, but for this you need to raise fame. Therefore, do not lower the wanted level. Then on your way you will come across pirate hunters with red sails, which will serve as a good source of loot. Then you will be asked to lower the wanted level. Should not be doing that. Even if you are sunk, the metals and resources obtained in this way will remain with you.

Don't forget to sink ships

Everyone wants to move faster in the story. But with a weak ship it will be more difficult or even impossible. Therefore, spend time on piracy and picking up booty when sinking a ship or plundering during boarding. Use the loot to improve the Jackdaw.

Fight multiple opponents, go boarding and repair your ship

A fight with two opponents is already a feat. But the evidence of a true master is the boarding of one of the opponents, the plundering of the captured ship and the repair of his own. And when you are a knovenky, you can finish off the ship of another of the enemies. In addition, during boarding, other ships stop attacking.

Winners are not judged - use guns and smoke grenades

The battles in Black Flag have gone on new level compared to previous games. Therefore, no one cancels honesty and valor, but dirty tricks can also be put on the road. When boarding and health drops to a critical level, throw a smoke bomb. It will help to kill 2-3 enemies at once, even strong ones. Does it look like cheating? Guys, we're pirates, we can.

Reduce the enemy team when boarding

The fewer teams left on the enemy ship, the better for boarding. Before throwing cats, use a swivel gun, it will thin out the enemy team.

Mark as many enemies as you can during stealth

Stealth in Black Flag just got better. Mark enemy patrols to see them through walls. Edward can mark a large number of people, and whenever you enter unknown territory, remember to turn on Eagle Vision. Then you can have fun with the victims from the heart.

Pay attention to additional tasks in missions

Additional tasks in missions are not just bonuses, but subtle hints for passing. If in additional task they write: "Kill some guards from around the corner", - take note that there will be many corners in the task for which you can hide.

“Stay unnoticed” means that the mission can be completed in stealth mode.

Collect as many sea songs as you can

Collecting shanti, or nautical songs, is the most interesting and fun thing that appeared in Black Flag. Find a new song and let the team sing it while working on the Jackdaw. To make the game even more interesting, find out which of the sailors will sing what, who has a good ear and voice, and who is shamelessly out of tune.

Don't spend too much on upgrading your pirate hideout

When Edward gains access to the Pryatian hideout, it will be possible to improve it. Don't waste your money - improvements are mostly cosmetic. The game has where to spend money. When you pump your income substantially, then squander the honestly looted as you please.

Sell ​​rum and sugar

Rum and sugar are the most useless commodity for your leveling. Sell ​​the rum and sugar you get and spend it wisely. Don't forget to sell the sugar and rum. There are two materials in the game that will not be useful to you for anything other than selling. In the early stages of the game, don't forget to sell the extracted sugar and rum.

Buy a black marque robe

At the beginning of the journey, a standard blue and white suit will do, but when you earn some extra money, buy a black marque robe.

They will ask for about 5,000 R for it, but it's worth it.

Upgrade your arsenal

To do this, get the skins of the animals you need or buy them in the store. Larger bags for ammo and other essentials will help you go longer without restocking.

Mortars - good weapon against a serious opponent

Mortars will become available in the early stages of the game. They are powerful and quite accurate. Use them against opponents stronger than you. You need to replenish the supply of shells at the docks. You can't get them at sea.

Find treasure and maps to them

What's a pirate without treasure? Find cards and treasures on them. An island where you will find a map and an island where you will find a treasure on the map, most often different islands.

Drawings will help to pump "Daw"

Drawings are needed to improve the maneuverability, strength and combat qualities of the Jackdaw. The good news is that they are often found in treasure chests.

Pay attention to the tasks "Hunting the Templars"

As you progress through the game, mark, write down, or memorize the location of these missions, then you won't find them on the map.

The deeper in the sea, as you know, the fatter the assassins. It’s only a month before the release of Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag, and Ubisoft has already dumped so much information on us about it – we’ve seen shark hunting, assassination contracts, naval battles, exploration of a small island, and even an assault on a fort, - now we can only guess: what else is there?! If there is. I would not like to think that the developers have opened every single map in advance, it would not be so interesting. Therefore, "Igromania" has collected in one material everything that we managed to dig up: details, little things and hypotheses - let's take a look again.

The Assassin’s Creed series often wants to scold abusively, remembering Bobby Kotick with a kindly quiet word, who in his Activision serialized everything that is possible and impossible, and complaining about its frank assembly line. It seems to us that the script invented in 2008 was not designed for such an avalanche of sequels and the authors are already composing the story on the go, as if in the later episodes of the odious TV series Lost.

However, recent news put everything in its place: the end of Assassin's Creed is visible, or rather, already written, and only the path to it can change. The catch is how many parts can be squeezed in on the way to this very epic finale and whether the quality of the product will survive along the way.

Jaws 2.0

Fourth part subtitled Black Flag generally kept to itself. She may not be inscribed in any way in the already shaky logic of the general narrative, but she does not dare to say anything bad about her. We think that the swashbuckling pirate setting is the best find of an epic since the first part, and the types of main characters and filibuster spirit are ideal for a pseudo-historical plot. Broken beauties, desperate thugs, frigates that can be stolen like a car from GTA... The authors have collected here all the most delicious that you can get out of a crazy idea about pirates and assassins.

And even sharks are hunted here right from a tiny boat! In fact, the press first wanted to show whale hunting - but all kinds of animal protection organizations would probably immediately rear up, so Ubisoft "made concessions" and showed us a white shark harpoon hunt - which, by the way, is also an endangered species. Well, maybe a little less endangered. From a killed shark, in addition to a sense of superiority over nature, other, quite natural, trophies are also obtained. Black Flag looked at Far Cry 3 and decided to allow myself to sew new bags for equipment from the skins of dead animals.

One western site tried to make a selection of disgusting horror stories about sharks. At the beginning of the presentation, the editor apologized to the readers, saying that he had little time to select candidates, and he missed many important works ... Therefore, there are only forty films in the top.

Remember the episode on the lake from resident evil 4 : the hero stands at the bow of the boat, boldly looks at the water and keeps a harpoon tied to the stern at the ready? Here is something similar. If you hit a shark, the shark will try to swim away, dragging the boat with it. At this point, Edward must throw spare harpoons at the wounded animal (and their number is limited, so aim better). Sooner or later, the fish will unhook and try to turn the boat over or bite off some part of the body that, in its opinion, is not necessary from the hunter. As you might guess, the problem is solved simply - take a harpoon and ... Classical literature lovers will surely shed a tear in this episode, seeing, perhaps unintentionally, but still a reference to Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea".

By the way, you can try to defeat the shark in a fair fight, since Black Flag has an underwater combat system- We have already talked about it in previous issues. But this is for very great adherents of sportsmanship and one-on-one fights.

serf labor

There is another innovation in Assassin's Creed 4, but the developers hardly talk about it - are they shy, or what? Imagine hardcore stealth is back! Firstly, there will be a "crouch" button, and secondly, in many tasks, especially in side contracts for assassinations, you will be very significantly rewarded for quiet or non-aggressive tactics on a mission. Fingers crossed that this time we have a reason to use the entire giant arsenal of the hero, and not just run around with a bunch of pistols and swords.

side quests can start in one place, and end in a completely different place: the target can be found on a neighboring island, or even give a tear on the ship. Thanks to the seamless world and the ability to board a ship and sail away into the blue-green distance without having to stare at the loading screen first, Black Flag chases will turn out to be GTA-style - with the only difference being that instead of the first taxi that turns up, the heroes will jump on their own ship with a horde sailors.

Soft continues to please us with surrealistic technology of the future in historical scenery.

Naval battles have been thoroughly improved. For example, enemy ships now differ from each other, and by no means according to the principle “higher mast, more guns”. Some of them will immediately try to get closer and ram your ship, others will start pouring mortars from afar.

Some tasks will be unavailable until you destroy the fort protecting the territory. Sea fortresses here are an analogue of the towers from previous parts: lined up at the key points of the map, they will close the passage and fire cannons at your ship. Destroying the fort is not an easy task, but by destroying the outer walls, the cunning Edward will be able to swim into his very heart, climb up and, having killed the commander, force the fortress to lower the flag. Captured forts will bombard all your enemies (can be used as a strategic advantage), give access to a full pack of tasks in the region, and besides, we will get something else pleasant from them - the developers do not yet admit what exactly, but they hint at weight and importance.

There lived a poor captain

What is very surprising, we know about the fate of Edward Kenway even before the release of the game. Even the circumstances under which he died are known to us. No, we will not spoil your pleasure, but we will tell you how the hero jumped to a fun marine life.

Edward, of course, was not a pirate from a young age. We would call him a typical victim of circumstance. He grew up in poverty, but he never lost heart, except that he liked to pawn behind his collar. Over time, the Kenway family moved to the southwest of England, to Bristol, where they settled. A few years later, Edward even got a wife and daughter.

However, the worthy Mrs. Kenway did not sign up to endure her husband's antics and was terribly dissatisfied with the fact that there was no stability in their family well-being. Edward has a wind in his head, he cannot find a decent job, you see, he is attracted by sea romance and is drawn to perform grandiose feats, and not sit in boring Bristol and carry boxes in the port, gaining arthritis and rheumatism.

Nassau, the base for the Bahamian pirates, is impossible to describe. Chaotic buildings, dense jungle, no one has heard of order.

The future thunderstorm of the seas escaped from the marital yoke and enrolled in privateers, after which she went to Jamaica - to serve the British crown and sink the Spanish brigs and galleons with great pleasure. But he did not succeed in sailing enough, because the Utrecht peace treaty came into force, spoiling the entire sea freemen for hired captains. Now finding a job has become devilishly difficult. But the dream came true: Kenway became a pirate, sends ships to the bottom and looks for treasures. He has a clear talent for this business and pretty good luck, because by the beginning of the events of Assassin's Creed 4, he already had two years of violent piracy behind him and he had not yet been hanged. During a pirate raid, he obviously learns about the Assassins and, due to some circumstances, becomes one of them. By the way, what we are most interested in now is how he got into the ancient order. Probably, it's all about hatred for the Templars, but why did they annoy him so much?

game about game about assassins

But for the first time in the history of the series, developers willingly tell us about the second storyline a game set in the future, perhaps because this time there really is something to talk about. You probably already know that the "real" protagonist will be an unnamed employee gaming company AbstergoEntertainment, whose holy of holies is located in a skyscraper in Montreal, Canada. The developers seem to be projecting dreams of a new office.

It will be possible to manage the "hero of the future" only in the first person - to increase immersion in the image. He is a new employee of the studio, which, on the basis of Animus, is developing ... a popular game console. Naturally, in parallel, the Templars are looking for another ancient artifact that should help Abstergo finally conquer the whole world - but the cover, you see, is original. At the beginning of the game, the hero about the cunning plans of the authorities is neither a dream nor a spirit, and only later begins to guess that the matter is unclean. Or maybe he is a misguided assassin, who knows.

This is your workplace. The figures on the left are given out for all kinds of achievements in the historical part, collecting everything is something akin to getting the title of "Employee of the Month". Not only is it useless, but also colleagues are jealous.

Instead of "Animus" you will get your own mini-study - a fenced table with a laptop and a place for collectible figurines. Figures are awarded for achievements in the historical part, and it will be possible to collect everything only by working hard for the good of the company. However, on the desktop, the light will not converge like a wedge, the hero will be able to roam relatively freely around the Abstergo Entertainment office, chat with colleagues and try to take a look at the secrets of the Templars at least with one eye.

Each new employee is given a tablet computer and a number. It is by the number that the characters will refer to your hero, but do not hope, as in Watch_Dogs, see other players in your story campaign. Conducting business correspondence, eavesdropping, peeping and doing rudimentary computer hacking, you will be in splendid isolation. But in certain moment You can go up to the upper floors for spectacular views of Montreal. This is how Ubisoft employees do it. Envy!

direct connection

Having abandoned Desmond, the writers remove the layer between the player and the character, as already happened in Assassin's Creed: Liberation. This allows you to break the "fourth wall" in a curious way. You play, we emphasize, for an assassin. Watch the story scenes, complete various tasks... But since the software is made by the Templars, the events are distorted, and not in favor of the killers! There is still a way to find out the truth: there are “mistakes” in the memories. “Anomalous” inhabitants appear on the map, when they are killed, you are shown some already familiar plot scene, but supplemented or with changed remarks.

Moreover, the very idea of ​​testing the console from Abstergo can be beaten in different ways. Suddenly, Ubisoft will take and partially transfer the idea from Watch_Dogs, only it will be offline! Imagine that other users, including the Templars, will connect to the same simulation. Civilians in cities can suddenly become deadly adversaries, and space will be distorted due to internal system failures.

However, in Abstergo off-device adventures, interactivity and impact on the world will be minuscule. But, on the other hand, both the Templars and the Assassins will definitely contact the employee, and at some point we will even be able to go against Abstergo and start leaking important information. I wonder how the choice of sides will affect Edward's adventure...?

We think that the right creators got rid of Desmond and his friends and moved on to an unnamed character. You can no longer fill your head with ancient prophecies and focus on exploring the world. It is possible that the action of the next parts of the series will be transferred to exotic places, but will main character in any way connected with Desmond or not, it doesn't really matter. Other playable assassin characters don't fit into the haunted bartender's bloodline at all.

The developers have already planned several additions, and the main character in them will not be Edward at all. The first mission chain will be available only to PS3 and PS4 owners and will show us several episodes from the life of Aveline de Grandpre. The second story DLC will tell about Adewale, the captain's first mate.

The story about Aveline is being written by Liberation screenwriter Jill Murray. Recall that Assassin’s Creed: Liberation was a remarkable game - all the male characters there were either completely negative or had various unpleasant traits, but women, on the contrary, were strong-willed, determined and courageous. It even got to the point that the main villain (spoiler!) was the stepmother of the main character. I wonder how the story of Aveline will tie into the plot of Assassin's Creed 4? The time period is quite solid, if we introduce familiar faces there, then rather Connor once again.

filibuster technologies

Don't forget about the transition to the next generation of consoles. To bring the graphics up to the next-gen level, ready-made files and assets are taken, their resolution is increased, and then the so-called parallax mapping is used, thanks to which the textures look more realistic and voluminous. Even the smallest details are important: the physics engine processes every blade of grass, every flower - and all so that we believe in the local nature.

Havana is a bit like Florence from Assassin's Creed 2: there is room to climb, and it's a pleasure to maneuver and hide.

In general, Ubisoft takes the elaboration of details seriously to amazement, for Watch_Dogs, for example, air flows are separately calculated. It is unlikely that you will notice it on the go, but it is precisely from such things that it develops virtual world. The console versions of Assassin's Creed 4 promise unprecedented work with lighting and bugs crawling on tree bark. And the bushes in which Kenway can hide, they say, turned out almost like real ones.

Unfortunately, this year there will be no new game for the PlayStation Vita: Black Flag pulled everything over. However, you can connect a handheld console to your PS4 and take ships on board without getting out of the restroom.

On personal computers, Black Flag will support DX 11. Sylvain Trottier, one of the producers, said that it is most convenient to test the game on a computer. Say, he is always one step ahead of the consoles, and it is on the PC that they put technological experiments there. So their nextgen toolkit is based on the results of working with the PC version.

The more we learn about Black Flag, the more questions come to mind, overtaking each other. If the player is an Abstergo employee, will the historical cutscenes be cut to make Edward and the Assassins look bad, as in Assassin's Creed: Liberation?.. And will it be possible to open the “correct” full versions memories?.. What happened to the Assassins and Desmond after Assassin's Creed 3?..

We are ready to bet that we will receive all the answers only in November, and a new batch of questions will go to the load.

Will wait?

Ubisoft in Assassin's Creed 4 is teasing animal lovers with whale and shark hunting, and fellow developers and players with the views from their office.

Percentage of completion: 90%

Masquerade

How the multiplayer game works

Several studios are working on the multiplayer part, including those from Bucharest, Kyiv and Shanghai. Alas, even such a cohort could not make a large-scale naval battle involving several people a reality. According to creative director Ashraf Ismail, multiplayer naval battles will not be in the game, but there is a good chance that they will appear in the next part, provided that the mechanics are appreciated. By the way, such a regime was originally planned, but for some reason it was canceled.

On the other hand, they thoroughly worked on ready-made things and even supplemented the Wolfpack mode. He appeared in the third part, but is now divided into two - Discovery and Unleashed. The idea is simple: you, along with three other players, complete tasks that are given in random order. Discovery is a piece of game with a coherent story, designed for several players, in fact, a tutorial before Unleashed, and it was made specifically so that even those who don't care about multiplayer will realize how great it is to hunt someone in a pleasant company. And besides, the Wolfpack in the third part had an indecently high entry threshold, so training is simply necessary here.

Co-op play In Black Flag, it goes like this: you are assigned a task and set a strict deadline for completion. Assignments are varied and not limited to murders. For example, you may be asked to protect chests while bots distract the team in every possible way and embark on cunning tricks. There is a task that brings to mind... Pacman: invulnerable guards run after the players, and in order to defeat them, you need to find a special item, and then deal with the ghosts ... with opponents in a short time.

The usual mode with a "masquerade" was supplemented new feature called Gamelab. You are now free to customize the rules of the game as you like - at your disposal are about two hundred variables that can be edited. If you want, allow only firearms to be used or cancel the double characters (hiding will immediately become more difficult).

The game is being transformed. Do you want a merciless deathmatch with muskets? Please! Tired of the conventions of the usual network mode, do you consider something unsportsmanlike and unbalanced? Tweak a dozen or two settings to your liking, and then share the idea with your comrades.

Here Ubisoft does about the same feint with the ears as in Splinter Cell: blacklist. All attention is drawn to the gameplay, and the player must first of all entertain himself and enjoy interesting mechanics. But the developers are taking a big risk: is the multiplayer mechanics so beautiful that it can be changed along, across and obliquely?

Holidays in the Caribbean

Things to do in Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag

Assassin's Creed becomes anything but a stealth assassin game. Less and less attention is paid to silent killings in new games - dovecotes, in which assassins received tasks, even disappeared from the third part.

This man must die. But here's some good news for you: Kenway receives side contracts for murders in dovecotes. Unlike other games in the series, Black Flag does not seek to limit the main character, does not create virtual walls, and does not require you to finish off the target exactly as the game designers intended. You can coolly track down the victim and attack at any moment.

Rescue sailors. Surprisingly, Edward not only takes lives. The team, seeing a survivor grabbing onto the floating wreckage, yells at the top of their lungs: "Man overboard!" If you save the poor fellow, he will join you. And perhaps supplies will be nearby, and a grateful sailor will gladly indicate where to sail.

Vulture. The British and Spaniards do not like each other passionately and prefer to express their dislike in sea ​​battle. You can, of course, break into the battle as a third useful, sink both ships and, cackling like a city madman, pocket all the supplies - but it's not interesting. The cunning pirate Edward will do otherwise: he will see which side is unlucky and whose trough is slowly engulfed in fire, and he will go aboard the doomed ship, grab something valuable and make his legs before the ship is covered.

Brawls in bars. Nothing is true, everything is permitted - that is why Kenway goes to take his soul to the nearest tavern, where you can tastefully fill someone's face. It is quite possible that after such a number, several sailors will join the team, and the rest of the visitors will respect the lively pirate so much that they will gladly share valuable information.

Steal the loot. During his underwater adventures, Edward can find cleverly hidden caves where other pirates keep their wealth. Since the protagonist is almost defenseless while diving (do not you think that swimming in the clothes of an assassin is still a big stupidity?), It is necessary to deal with unsuspecting opponents quietly. This is how a secret passage is being imposed on us little by little, but, to the credit of the creators, it remains within the framework of logic.

Love firearms with all your heart. One musket or even two muskets is undignified, so Kenway wears four at once. Firearms in Assassin's Creed it seems like an unsportsmanlike thing: it is guaranteed to blow it away, hit it accurately and far. And since Edward has so many trunks, then he should be resisted accordingly! Besides, in new game they promise to change the control scheme and make it so that the muskets can be freely aimed, as if in some third-person action game. We, however, do not yet understand what is so breakthrough in this system, because in Assassin's Creed 3 it was also possible to shoot without auto-aim.

Forget about home. In one of the scenes, the first mate argues that even if he had a lot of gold, the hell with two, he could settle down somewhere. Blacks are not just disliked, but simply despised, so the only “country” of which he would like to become a citizen is a ship. Here everyone knows each other as flaky and, although they do not always get along peacefully, they will certainly try to stay afloat. So far, no one knows if Kenway will have a pirate base or a shelter, but we are almost sure that no household quests (like in the third part) will fall on us.

Hidden treasures! The world of Assassin's Creed 4 is huge, and in order to swim from one end of the map to the other, you will have to raise all the sails and saw at full speed for half an hour of real time. Not only three main cities are open for study, but also fifty islands, and each has something to do: look for treasures, save captives...

Achievement "Help your brother" (Eng. Help A brother out) in Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag is unlocked after completing any part of the "Hunting the Templars" quest. Assassin quests are related to obtaining the Templar keys from the Templar armor cage in . The first Templar key will be obtained in the story after the murder of Julien Ducasse in . The remaining four will have to be mined independently during the exploration of the Caribbean islands. The Hunt for the Templar quests are marked on the map with a round icon with a stylized letter A and consist of 4 sub-quests in which Edward Kenway helps the Tulum Assassins cope with difficulties and punish the Templar minions. You can hunt Templars with keys both during the main story and after beating the game.

Keys of the Templars

The Templar armor cage in AC4 is unlocked by five keys kept by the Templars in different parts of the Caribbean, which are automatically inserted into the keyholes upon interaction. Templar armor has increased resistance to enemy attacks.

Templar Hunt: Opia Apito

• assassin taino(Cayman Bay): we get the maximum number of hutia skins, we fix the victory in the competition by killing a white jaguar.
• Templar ships(Grand Cayman): in the western part of the location we find Alvin with eagle vision, eavesdrop on the conversation and steal the ledger from the victim's pocket.
• Right hand(Grand Cayman): pursue Vargas, board an enemy ship and kill the fugitive.
• Lucia Marquez trail(Island of Pinos): we pursue the Spanish soldier, at the meeting point we deal with enemy units, we catch up and kill Lucia. From the body we select the second key of the Templars from the cage with armor.

Templar Hunt: Rhona

• The office is under attack(Havana): help the girl fight off the attacks of Spanish soldiers, use barrels of gunpowder, firearms and edged weapons.
• Thief in the market(Havana): in the market we track down a pickpocket with eagle vision, we catch the fugitive by pressing the [E] key twice and select the letter.
• Arms race(Havana): We destroy three barrels of gunpowder from pistols in protected areas in different parts of the city.
• Flint's death(Havana): on the pier we kill Flint, on the body of the victim we find the third key of the Templars from the cage with armor in the Shelter on Great Inagua.

Templar Hunt: Anto

• maroon assassin(Kingston): we eavesdrop on the conversations of the guards, we catch one guard and get the necessary information.
• Maroon recruitment(Kingston): We free three groups of Maroon slaves in different parts of the city.
• Defense(Kingston): we protect the office of the assassins from the attack by British soldiers.
• Commander's ploy(Kingston): follow the guards, find the real target on the farms, kill the captain and get the fourth key to the cage with the Templar armor on Great Inagua.