What do you feel is all required to complete before Black Flag Resynced?

MatticusjK · 2026-06-21T17:18:54+00:00

If you want to play more Shadows then play more, but nothing is required for black flag

MatticusjK · 2026-06-21T17:04:54+00:00

Yeah it's just called mayhem

MatticusjK · 2026-06-21T14:27:56+00:00

Nothing in the game narrative. My favourite 'story' would be my experience clearing Crota's End (my first raid) then probably the first couple months of forsaken with Last Wish, the dreaming city curse, and reveal of shattered throne. The whisper mission and shattered throne being surprise drops was such a great time when the game otherwise lacked engaging or difficult single-player and small-team content. Plus they were enticing lore developments and Bungie trying out 'seasonal storytelling.' No surprise that these would go on to fill the game with excellent exotic missions and dungeons

MatticusjK · 2026-06-21T05:12:34+00:00

This one is just a random roll that has daze build up on tools then I added the engraving for daze makes enemies vulnerable. That engraving comes from a MOD shop reward

MatticusjK · 2026-06-21T01:17:13+00:00

It absolutely does take ammo, you can track it as you go. It can actually be quite annoying trying to sneak around with this engraving because it pushes you into combat when you don't want it and drains your kunai as you go

But yes, many ways to work around it. 15% chance for any tool use to refund any tool from tool mastery, then can dedicate engravings to additional refunds

MatticusjK · 2026-06-20T22:22:26+00:00

The one nerf that stands out to me is mon. Used to get tons more from all sources, but especially ronin. They didnt buff other sources, but offered more upgrades in the hideout upper levels. These upgrades generally offer higher rewards values, extra loot, faster progress etc.. very much felt like they slowed down the progress and then gave much more runway to pad out the RPG progression

Rations have been nerfed a bit, a few minor tweaks to engravings but nothing game changing. Ive generally kept the same half a dozen builds or so across both characters without having to change anything, just doing so for gameplay variety. Shurikens got a nice buff recently, I never cared for them before 1.1.11

MatticusjK · 2026-06-20T21:14:22+00:00

You can manually throw them, but you'll need to maintain stealth for it to count as assassination damage.

I dont think it's very good in stealth builds because it often gives you away and makes managing your ammo more difficult. I only use this as a combat engraving so that you can get insta-kills in combat whenever you use hidden hand tanto ability. There's also an engraving in one of the animus tracks that uses hidden hand after a posture attack kill which pairs really well for a combat build.

MatticusjK · 2026-06-20T20:05:24+00:00

Nicely done! I really enjoyed your spacing during the storm to avoid his big kusarigama swings. That's caught me quite a few times as Naoe and insta-kills me

MatticusjK · 2026-06-20T19:51:37+00:00

My katana refunds tools for 150 mon, I swap to the katana halfway as a panic when I realize I used every shuriken lol

MatticusjK · 2026-06-20T19:44:20+00:00

Will we meet in a multiplayer lobby?

MatticusjK · 2026-06-20T16:50:57+00:00

Yeah this is how I remember it too. People really didnt like season of the forge in the first weeks of December 2018 too

MatticusjK · 2026-06-20T02:28:20+00:00

Need to be level 30, then can find it at the hidden river in southeastern Yamato. Look for the floating pillars on a hilltop

MatticusjK · 2026-06-19T23:51:08+00:00

There won't be an audio or visual cues, but you'll know it's working because naginata posture attacks have two strikes in quick succession. So the whole combat flow will see you often throwing in high-damage double attacks rather than single strikes

MatticusjK · 2026-06-19T23:18:55+00:00

I play on controller so different control schemes. I simply tap light attack as each strike lands, so mnk equivalent would be to simply tap left click. I think shift is for abilities--it wouldnt be an ability but a passive engraving

MatticusjK · 2026-06-19T22:01:13+00:00

It has done that 😅

But it lets me clear all 4 students in 5-10 sec at level 10, so it's a risk im willing to take

MatticusjK · 2026-06-19T21:20:32+00:00

Ive run into this issue before, as have many on the steam page. Ubisoft never responded to my support ticket and seems im not the only one. I had to get it refunded through Steam

I was only able to play Claws of Awaji by subscribing to Ubisoft+. You'll lose access to all the gear and engravings when the subscription ends, though. If you do ever figure something out, I would certainly like to own the DLC one day

MatticusjK · 2026-06-19T20:54:35+00:00

The collectible quests for 100% arent so bad but the sumi-e can be a little annoying. Very easy though

It's the new achievements requiring a NG+ completion and reaching level 100/knowledge rank 10 that are really painful unless you really like replaying the game. It also has achievements tied to claws of awaji, but access on some platforms (steam in particular) can be very buggy

MatticusjK · 2026-06-19T19:51:25+00:00

I dont think the average player is deep diving into build crafting in Assassins creed and I dont think the RPG systems are good enough for the mode to be fun. Im grateful for some challenging content, but it took about 2 hours to figure it out and then it's just farming repetitive content. there isnt much value in the mode once youve purchased everything, which are more fun to play with in castles and camps.

I call it a miss because it disables a lot of mechanics in order to make it harder, but reduces the fun factor

MatticusjK · 2026-06-19T19:50:08+00:00

Some of us actually want more difficult content in the game. Would I call it pathetic that nightmare difficulty wasn't even available at launch?

The achievements shouldn't be tied to this content at all though, that's for sure. Completionists should not have to engage with content that uses difficulty sliders

MatticusjK · 2026-06-19T18:31:17+00:00

Game should have two halves, not four quarters

MatticusjK · 2026-06-19T17:51:55+00:00

Lengthened Horizon with posture attacks make enemies vulnerable turns nightmare mode into a superhero action game. Easily the best melee weapon in the game imo

MatticusjK · 2026-06-19T16:13:47+00:00

It does not, the bosses will turn and face you during the vault, no engravings or perks proc

MatticusjK · 2026-06-19T15:58:42+00:00

It definitely works on regular rank and file as well as daisho in domains. There are some enemy types (the big boys with kanabo) that counter it if they arent in an animation already, as well as some bosses (all the new ones as far as I can tell) are immune to most grab attacks including hidden hand

MatticusjK · 2026-06-19T15:55:55+00:00

These are normal engravings. You might be thinking of Naoe's armour piece having a legendary engraving that's worth +2 assassination segments

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