Bought Illustrious pirates pack, but how can I tell if it's activated?

[BobbyTrumpet]

I bought the Illustrious pirates pack, but nothing seemed to download via steam. I opened Uplay and the game itself , still nothing anywhere telling me I have the new DLC content. How do i tell, and what do I do if it's not activated?

[Wolf Echo]

If it's active, there'll be 3 locations on the world map marked with 2 letter icons. Those are the areas that the DLC provides, which are basically the same areas people who pre-ordered or bought the gold version of the game already have. They're just missions where you go in, open 3 chests and then leave.

[JosepGG93]

I have the same problem.. anyone know?

[relativistic]

Same here. The new islands haven't appeared for me. When I bought it, I was in a part of the story where you don't have access to the ship travel. Maybe that glitched the install?

[dhr09]

Have you entered the product code for the DLC into uplay?

[Wolf Echo]

Originally posted by relativistic:

Same here. The new islands haven't appeared for me. When I bought it, I was in a part of the story where you don't have access to the ship travel. Maybe that glitched the install?

Doubtful, since I bought the Gold edition, which had all those islands in it to begin with, and I had access to them the second I could travel the seas. The issue is that Steam only handles sales of this game, everything else is through Uplay, so buying a DLC for it through Steam only gets you a product code which you then have to redeam through Uplay in order to actually use what you bought.

[Illwill]

Once you buy the DLC's check your Steam Game Library and view product keys on steam for AC4, Copy thse keys, launch UPlay and activate or redeem new game/product. Enter your key/s and you should be good to go.

This is how it normally works for Ubisoft games that are purchased through Steam I have found.

[BobbyTrumpet]

cheers, got it sorted eventually

[BobbyTrumpet]

Not a very clear process.