Is this like Black Flag?

[Paul Anthony Live]

One thing I really enjoyed about Black Flag was the sailing, going Island to Island, plundering Booty, Capturing Ships.
Can you do the same in this one?

[Solarstrike]

Originally posted by Zaul:

One thing I really enjoyed about Black Flag was the sailing, going Island to Island, plundering Booty, Capturing Ships.
Can you do the same in this one?

Yes it's open world. You get a ship and can upgrade, explore. Enemies can also board your ship. That's far as i know.

Edit: Check out the Screenshots next to Discussions.

[Blackwind121]

Someone described this game as Black Flag 1.5. I'd have to agree. You get your very own ship within an hour of gameplay. You can attack other enemy ships and steal their supplies etc. You aren't a pirate in this game though. I'm only about 4 hours in and so far there's no "personal army of ships" that you get to build up like Black Flag had.

You can sail island to island and get treasure though. Treasure maps are back and so is hunting.

[Chronos]

after abit you also get a fleet like in black flag, only just unlocked it myself

[Blackwind121]

oooo that's awesome. I'm about to load my copy up right now lol

[IIIX4W7EN]

Originally posted by Blackwind121:

I'm only about 4 hours in and so far there's no "personal army of ships" that you get to build up like Black Flag had.

Later it will appear, you can build the Cormac's fleet and send ships on different trading missions,

North Atlantic - ocean environment perfect for sailing, whaling, pirating, big ship battles and Arctic exploration.
River Valley - warm climate, river and forest environment, rock climbing, tree climbing, cave exploration, often you can move from island to island even without the ship, you just have to find your way through the woods.
New York - city environment, buildings, roof climbing.

[Paul Anthony Live]

So It's as good if not better than Black Flag?

[Onyxflame]

Its got much more land than black flag. which isn't a bad thing. But it has a vast area and legendary ships just like black flag

[GamerX]

but as far as I can tell you can't access the fleet from your ship, only at your home in new york (at least as far in as I am)

edit: just completed mission, now available in cabin

[Blackwind121]

Originally posted by 3QW7EN:

Originally posted by Blackwind121:

I'm only about 4 hours in and so far there's no "personal army of ships" that you get to build up like Black Flag had.

Later it will appear, you can build the Cormac's fleet and send ships on different trading missions,

Yeah I just got to that part last night :) It's pretty cool

[Rhia]

Originally posted by Zaul:

One thing I really enjoyed about Black Flag was the sailing, going Island to Island, plundering Booty, Capturing Ships.
Can you do the same in this one?

Its Black Flag+ there are a lot of small improvements over Flag, the map is a bit smaller but no less fun (also there are 3 areas to explore North Atlantic, River Valley and New York) all fairly big and expansive. I also love the North Atlantic setting, who gets tired of shooting icebergs and watching them explode.

[Blackwind121]

Originally posted by Rhia:

I also love the North Atlantic setting, who gets tired of shooting icebergs and watching them explode.

This part is incredibly satisfying to me as well. I also love how the swivel gun can be rapid-fired now and not just when the indication for it comes up.

[nobrien]

Its funny a mate of mine played this for 1-2 hours last night and at no time did he realise it wasnt ACBF, didnt notice the ship name change only asked if i had restarted a new game as i didnt have all the ship upgrades for final improves, have most just not the last set which cost a fortune in matts lol, also had 90% of the places unlocked explored in ACBF, money is really easy have over 160k nothing to spend it on.

But he did notice one thing and that was " When did they add being boarded that rocks " so yea its pretty much ACBF + and im not sure if ill bother playing it much more now the campaign is over as i get sick of all the same old exploreing that i feel like i just did a ton of if ACBF only spent alittle time doing small things between campaign missions so from start to finish id say 10-15 hours of story.

[Claudius ♞]

Even though it is a Black Flag 1.5 the story is much more interesting :)

[Skylers Meth]

There's a massive difference in gfx between this and BF, just compare the faces..this is more like ACIV 0.5 - thats not to say the game isn't good, but it's certainly not the modern title BF was at the time. This is not a proper PC version like BF was. This was done on the cheap.

[Blackwind121]

Originally posted by §kylêrs Mêth:

There's a massive difference in gfx between this and BF, just compare the faces..this is more like ACIV 0.5 - thats not to say the game isn't good, but it's certainly not the modern title BF was at the time. This is not a proper PC version like BF was. This was done on the cheap.

This still doesn't stop the game from being absolutely amazing.

The main protagonists are completely different. Kenway lived by his own creed and basically did what he wanted for the majority of the game. I didn't get the "you're an assassin" feel other than the fact that pirates were about living for freedom and all that. With Cormac, he lives by the creed of the assassins at first but also has his own personal set of morals.

All of the gameplay aspects are also a little improved over Black Flag. For example, the naval combat is really a lot better. The swivel guns can now be rapid fired and aimed without the "weak point" indicators being up, which gives you an amazing advantage when your broadside cannons and mortars are being reloaded.

Over all, I believe that this game DEFINITELY adds on to the Black Flag experience. I liked Black Flag at first because of the stuff it added to the franchise and because of the "yer a PIRATE!" thing, but I honestly feel that if I were to go back and play BF after picking up Rogue that I wouldn't care much for Black Flag.