Black Flag (2013): achievement checklist
Black Flag has a lot more to finish than the story. The first thing I'd separate is the single-player list from the multiplayer list. They are not interchangeable, and a guide for Resynced is not a guide for this version.
Story and single-player checklist
- Finish sequences1–13: thirteen awards.
- Finish present-day missions2–5: four awards.
- Satisfy every main-mission optional condition.
- Pass out into a haystack.
- Kill an active bell-ringer.
- Clear one location completely.
- Open Tulum's hidden door.
- Harpoon a killer whale.
- Finish one Templar Hunt chain.
- Finish every naval contract.
- Capture every fort.
- Finish25 Abstergo challenges.
- Earn50,000 reales.
- Swim one nautical mile.
- Craft the Hunter outfit.
- Plunder30 ships.
- Win all four legendary encounters.
- Maximize the Jackdaw.
- Explore every underwater wreck.
- Unlock every tavern.
- Recruit500 crew members.
- Maximize the hideout.
- Visit every location.
- Hack15 office computers.
- Make five swinging-rope aerial kills.
- Complete a casualty-free boarding.
- Free hostages using dancers' distraction.
- Kill four enemies consecutively with multi-pistols.
- Uncover one buried treasure.
Online-dependent base objectives
- Share all discovery categories.
- Reach multiplayer level55.
- Finish a session using your customized ability set.
- Finish Wolfpack Discovery.
- Finish a public Game Lab session.
- Play every mode; use every ability and ranged weapon.
- PlayStation platinum: finish the50 base requirements.
Blackbeard's Wrath: four additional objectives
- As Jaguar, lead a Domination session's scoring.
- As Blackbeard, combine an acrobatic kill and firearm kill inside10 seconds.
- As Orchid, interrupt10 enemy abilities using Sabotage.
- Kill someone with a Booby-Trapped lift.
Freedom Cry: six additional objectives
- First rescue;500 total rescues;five guards killed in one blunderbuss blast;governor killed using his disarmed branding iron;story finished;full mission synchronization.
Practical cleanup notes
For the haystack award, keep buying drinks until Edward passes out. Five drinks is the documented trigger. For the bell award, wait for the ringing itself rather than killing the guard on his way over.
The Hunter outfit needs one red-howler-monkey skin and one white-jaguar pelt. Having the materials isn't the whole job: actually craft the outfit afterward. Similarly, finding an upgrade plan doesn't install the ship upgrade. Go back and buy the unlocked improvement.
Keep the multi-pistol goal separate from ordinary shooting. Build the required carrying capacity, load the pistols, then use the successive shots on four vulnerable targets. For rope kills, start the assassination while swinging; a normal jump from a mast doesn't meet the wording.
For boarding without losses, choose an easier vessel and finish the boarding requirements quickly. Don't mix this with a difficult legendary encounter. For the crew total, pay attention to recruitment opportunities throughout the game rather than leaving the whole number for the end.
The social discoveries are the social chest, white-whale and royal-convoy event types. They depend on online features. A regular chest or an ordinary ship isn't automatically a substitute. I wouldn't promise an online trophy just because an old guide says where an event used to appear.
Keep a written multiplayer checklist for modes, abilities and ranged weapons. Merely unlocking an ability isn't the same as using it. Game Lab specifically asks for the public playlist. Blackbeard's Wrath also needs the right character selected, not just the right type of kill.
Black Flag (2013): achievement checklist
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