re: Official Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag Game Thread

really enjoying this game right now but wondering if anyone can give me a brief summary of wtf is going on outside of the animus (only AC game I have played is AC2)

all i have gathered thus far is that the guy from AC2 is now somehow dead. and now a shite ton of people can use the animus for entertainment/commercial purposes (I could be of base here. havent been paying much attention to the story)

Abstergo has morphed from blatantly evil corporation to once which now has a viable "front". The entertainment section functions as the labs did in 1, so it looks much better having employees and not test subjects.

I've been grinding it out over the past three nights. Its not so bad if you have all the locations unlocked to fast travel. Just travel to a location sail to the chest or fragments swim to the little island and instead of getting back on your ship just fast travel to the next place. The worst part is collecting wood and metal to unlock the extra stuff for the jackdaw. I've 100 percented everything except the story missions which ill try and go back and do.

I am missing one treasure map though and I have collected them from the map locations. I'm thinking the last one you get from one of the ship convoy things. I'm waiting on the last one now. Anyone know anything about
this?

Also it doesn't seem to count toward completion or help you make money to buy the artwork so I don't understand the point.

That's awesome if you don't have to get both together. A lot of them in AC3 you had to do all of them at once to count.

I've collected all materials but saved the legendary ships for last unfortunately.

I think I got that achievement for spotting a white whale while sailing around. It automatically marks it on the map and shares it with friends. I've only spotted it once and have sailed all over the map a lot.

I'm not sure what other types of events there are. Maybe you have to spot one three times for the achievement

I haven't seen any blue things do you have to have friends that play this game?

I believe that may be the case. I've helped along a few of Corndogs trade missions and vice versa but I haven't seen the ability to help a random player.

I dont think so. Two of them are not to bad. I had a lot of trouble with the fast one and the heavy armored one. What worked best for me was to try and stay right behind them chain shot and ram it over and over

Haha that was my tactic for all of them but when you have to fight two get each low before you destroy one because the other will chase you down and ram you relentlessly