Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag - Pro Tips for Sailing & Naval Combat

When I didn't think I could possibly love Assassin's Creed more, it's back in full force with pirates. Not only do we get to experience the same thrilling combat and stealth that we've come to love from Assassin's Creed, but this time around we also get to take the naval battles from AC3 to an entirely new level. Enjoy watching as I work my way through the story aiming for 100% sync on all the missions, as well as partaking in a good amount of the general shenanigans that my channel has become known for!

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Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag - Pro Tips for Sailing & Naval Combat

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[KonohanaShuffler]

A useful tip when boarding and using the swivel gun is to use Eagle Vision when you get close. It makes it much easier to spot groups, especially with the Spanish because their yellow clothing blends in fairly well with the wood of the ships

[xXxAlmightyForcexXx]

Heres a crazy tip i did to beat high level ships. I get close enough to the ship and get off the ship and swim towards them and kill everyone on the ship. When you swim back to your ship just shoot at the ship and youre ready to board the ship with out fighting the ship.

[NETMB]

6 years later & still helping Black Flag noobs like me 💀 Thanks a million! ❤️

[KingKamal]

19:02 I know this is 8 years too late, but if you send a ship to your fleet, you can then choose to scrap it for materials in the fleet menu. You get more out of the ship that way. It's a bit of a waste if you just use it for extra health when you are full, in my view.

[rookieroo]

Don't lower your wanted level, just repair or keep the ship for the fleet. Once the Pirate Hunters show up, you will always get metal from them. Most I've seen a ship carry is 100 metal/wood, but when you get nine of those in a row it builds fast.

[JR-]

I don't know if he mentions it in this video (I've yet to watch the whole video) but when battling a fort, take out the boats that attack, but do not board them yet. Leave them until you need health and then go back and board them and select to repair the jackdaw that way you have a health supply sort of. Also those boats will do a lot of damage while you are tackling the fort so its best to get them out of the way in the first place.

[Majin-Dat]

The best tip I can think of that I didn’t even realise the first time I played this in 2013
- upgrade your broadside cannons and round ball strength and just sail next to a ship and tap R2/RT for the quick shot. It really does sink a ship really quick

[gooeyreacts]

A great tip to make fire barrels useful is when a ship tries to ram you, you can just go as fast as you can, and when they miss you and go behind you, you can literally just shoot fire barrels onto the ship

[DrDumb]

When you upgrade the haul armor all the way your ship is basically metal

[kylenepeter]

why waste successfully captured ships with repairing the Jackdaw when it is full health? I would suggest at least adding it to your fleet and then salvaging it.

[ReWclan]

you have the best ram! your ship must have a good prosseser

[justincardiel]

I enjoy picking fights with other ships more than playing the main story. I haven't won a battle against a Legendary ship yet. I was obliterated last time I tried fighting one of those big bastards. I'm going to fully upgrade my ship before fighting them again.

[Copper_Dragon]

Man, I just got BF today and have been struggling with the naval battles. This is really helpful, so thanks for making this video!

[StonerNinja]

You CAN aim heavy shot, it's just a bit tricky. What you do is aim your round shot like normal, and after you've lined up your shot, release the aim button just before firing. Works like a charm.

[Tonystarkfil]

you didn't talk about how you can effectively use ships, especially smaller ones as "health Packs" when taking down forts or big ships. Enemies all leave you alone once you start boarding, then just complete the boarding, choose repair, and get back to it. Also, repairing fixes one bar on your ship's health, but if you had say, a fraction of health left in your second bar, repairing fixes the second and third fully. Not so if you had only your first bar remaining, even if it's full.

[uberthegamer]

I would recommend that as long as you don't need repairs and aren't trying to lower your wanted level, you should send the ship to the fleet because you can salvage the ships you don't want for gems, which are used to repair ships and speed things up. This way you actually get something out of one if the three options instead of uselessly repairing the ship. Another good point is that if one if the three bars is partially damaged it will regenerate, but if one is taken down completely you need to go to a harbour master or board a ship to repair it.

[wherareI]

The game is great and I liked Kenway as a character. I liked seeing his evolution as a character.  Really the first character we actually see change significantly in the course of one game (Ezio changed plenty but it was over a much longer course) though he was never really a full fledged assassin in my mind.  He could be very stealthy when the mission demanded it or he wanted to but he still felt more like a pirate than an assassin at the end of the game.  I also thought it was funny that the templars were apparently actually losing for once until apparently you screw the assassins over by helping (sort of) a traitor assassin screw them over by giving information to the Templar (Sorry to anyone who hasn't started playing this yet but seriously it's the first thing that happens in the game so I don't consider it much of a spoiler.)

[thecat]

Here's another tip:  Go to 'options' and turn everything off except updates if you want a clear screen without the minimap and all the other clutter.  Use 'custom marker' on the main map to pinpoint your destination.

[championskyeterrier]

The main thing missing here is a demonstration of how to use the swivel guns during ship to ship combat (before the boarding sequence)

[loretime]

Very helpful, thank you. Prior to this, I was as much use on the ocean waves as a glass drum-kit.