Ubisoft’s Black Flag Resynced treasure hunt undone by lucky players
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Ubisoft ran a community treasure hunt for Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, planning to drip-feed cryptic location clues each Friday through July to lead players to three hidden pirate chests. Instead, players cracked all three spatial puzzles within days of launch, well ahead of the intended pace, which mattered because it undercut the campaign's design of sustaining weeks of community engagement and speculation.
The three chests yielded rewards including significant in-game currency and rare legendary gear such as the Uncrowned Prince rapier. With the treasure found almost immediately thanks to what players described as remarkably lucky guesswork, Ubisoft's staggered clue schedule was left largely redundant, and the hunt concluded far sooner than planned.
- Ubisoft's month-long AC Black Flag Resynced treasure hunt was solved within days
- Players found all three hidden chests, skipping the weekly clue schedule
- Rewards included in-game currency and the legendary Uncrowned Prince rapier
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Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced is a Ubisoft game set in a fictional version of the early 18th-century Caribbean, during an era associated with piracy and European colonial rivalry. Players explore islands and seas, take part in combat, and collect equipment and currency for their character.
Ubisoft organised a treasure hunt to encourage players to work together on clues leading to hidden in-game chests. The clues were designed as location puzzles, with players using details from the game world to work out where to search.
Such events are often used to keep a game’s community active between major updates, as players share theories and discoveries over time. The chests offered useful rewards, including rare weapons and gear, giving participants an incentive to join the search.
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Originally published by GamesRadar+ as “Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced players keep spoiling Ubisoft’s community treasure hunt with “genuinely insane luck””.