The original Assassin’s Creed Black Flag’s underwater sections were definitely some of the most tedious and daunting parts of the game but thankfully you’ll be able to tone down many annoying aspects of those sections including disabling the shark attacks altogether. The upcoming Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced allows you to fine tune and customize multiple gameplay elements of the original title to your liking and in a recent blog post, the devs have detailed the full range of accessibility features including the ability to turn off blood, turning off oxygen limit during underwater missions, skipping quick time events and more.
Check out the full list of gameplay accessibility features in Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced:
- Multiple difficulty settings, adjustable separately for naval, ground, activity and stealth gameplay.
- More flexible missions, with less chance of desync on stalking and chasing missions.
- Underwater gameplay intensity can be reduced, to a lesser degree by items that reduce oxygen drain and increase health, or to a greater degree by turning off the oxygen limit and shark attacks completely.
- Healing during combat is now possible, via remedies (three initially, with the ability to find/buy more).
- QTEs (‘quick time events’ that require mashing or precise timing) can be skipped.
- Aim Assistance has four settings – off, light, moderate, full.
- Blood/gore can be turned off.
- Assassinations are always successful, as in the original.
One of the devs stated in the post: “From actions at sea like docking and looting requiring less precision and visual perception through to more flexible stalk/chase missions and the ability to tone down the intensity of underwater sections, either partially through in-game items or more substantially through settings to turn off both oxygen limits and shark attacks.”
The option to disable shark attacks altogether instantly makes the upcoming title a definite improvement over the original experience, which is exactly what a modernized remake of a classic title needs to be.
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced is slated to be released on July 9th.
