Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced Receives New Game+ Mode in Final Major Update

Ahoy me hearties! Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced final major update is live now, bringing New Game+, a new nightmare difficulty, and a bunch of other stuff to the open-sea RPG.

Black Flag Resynced sailed onto Xbox Series consoles on July 9th, and received a jolly rogering from critics. The remastered pirate-assassin romp ended up with a solid 83 score of on Metacritic.

So, what’s in this new update? Well, New Game+ for starters, which carries things like your gear and tools, weapons, trinkets, ship upgrades, pets, money, and a whole load of other things into a new save file. Nightmare difficulty does what it says on the tin: increases the challenge.

Instead of me rambling on about what’s new, take a look at the official update notes for Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced:

New Game+ in Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced

New Game+ is officially available in Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, allowing you to start your adventure from the beginning while maintaining your previous runthrough’s progression, including:

• Gear and tools
• Weapons
• Trinkets
• Jackdaw and ship upgrades
• Pets
• Currency
• Inventory Resources
• Visual customization
• Hideout Progression
• Kenway Fleet progression

When you activate New Game+, your story progress, active quests, quest items, map discover, location progress, and forts will reset. While your upgrades to the Jackdaw and Hideout remain in place, you’ll need to regain access to each through story progression. You can continue your adventure up through New Game+ 5, and each iteration of New Game+ will introduce an additional difficulty modifier so your adventure scales with your abilities and loadout.

Nightmare Difficulty

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced 1.0.8 update also added a Nightmare Difficulty level, inviting you to test your mastery across ground combat, stealth, and naval combat. With Nightmare Difficulty enabled, you’ll find:

• Increased enemy damage
• Increased attack frequency
• Tighter parry and dodge windows
• Faster ranged attacks
• Heightened enemy detection
• Lisää threatening naval encounters

Anyone can toggle on Nightmare Difficulty, regardless of your progression in the story, and you can activate it for combat, stealth, naval, and activity difficulty independently, letting you customise your adventure to your playstyle even further.

Expanded Takedown Animations

The new update also introduces new takedown, microkill, and double-takedown variations across weapon types, adding more visual variety to Edward’s combat encounters. These animations will appear randomly during gameplay, and cannot be directly assigned by players.

New Rewards and Secrets

You’ll also find new rewards scattered throughout the Caribbean including:

• New outfits
• Trinkets
• Sails
• Crew customization options
• Pet appearances

You can get these new rewards through exploration, New Game+ progression, activities, and hidden challenges. There are also six new hidden community chests and rewards spread throughout the map for you to discover.

Will you be hopping aboard the Jackdaw once more? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.