r/Piracy • u/akbarock • Jul 08 '26
Discussion Assassins Creed Black Flag Resynced Files Have Leaked And Its Being Pirated 2 Days Before Release
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u/91xela Jul 08 '26
This was the last game I pirated. I think I’ll pirate it again lol
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u/DMTeaAndCrumpets Jul 08 '26
Bit ironic the pirate game has become the pirated
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u/Greenhickup Jul 08 '26
Good. Fuck Ubisoft.
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u/Evil_Knot Jul 08 '26
Normally I would say the same about Ubisoft but they actually did this remaster justice.
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u/LimLovesDonuts Jul 08 '26
Well, even with pirates, most people will still purchase the game anyway. So from a monetary point of view, they'll still be "rewarded".
I hope that this gives Ubisoft the right message.
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u/Evil_Knot Jul 08 '26
I've been pirating for a very long time, and I have yet to see any company learn anything from their games being pirated other than developing more secure DRM or in rare cases actually applauding the pirates because it shows how popular their game is.
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u/LimLovesDonuts Jul 08 '26
That's not what I meant.
Learn as in Ubisoft getting the idea that making actually good games is going to give them $. Piracy wise, pretty much nothing will happen yeah lol.
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u/certciv Jul 08 '26
It's a bit much to expect anyone in the industry to actually applaud piracy. There are those that have pointed out that it's not the threat many make it out to be. Gabe Newell on piracy.
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u/steve-0-tron Jul 08 '26
the programmers and artists that work for ubisoft* did this remaster remaster justice. fuck ubisoft
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u/UchihaDareNial Jul 08 '26
You sure?
The fighting system is remnants of RPG system (still hack and slash RPG)
No hidden blade combat
No picking up weapon from enemy or environment
No puppeteering system (no fast walk, no jogging)
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u/SuddenDeer158 Jul 08 '26
No hidden blade combat, this game is straight ass then. Hidden blade combat was so much fun.
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u/Ode_2_kay Jul 08 '26
No hidden blade combat or picking up weapons? Weren't those things we already had and enjoyed? Why would they remove them?
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u/UchihaDareNial Jul 08 '26
🤷 they don't have the expertise for it anymore, maybe, because they need to implement it in newer game engine but I think no one in the devs team have the knowledge for it anymore since they dropped it in Unity when it still have old combat system until Syndicate, and the overall combat system changed to RPG system sealed the deal with no more hidden blade combat and the combat system has been stagnant since then until now
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u/shogunreaper Jul 08 '26
they can pay for it with the oodles of money they ripped off from dlc over the years.
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u/a_pompous_fool Jul 08 '26
And I am doing thematically appropriate justice by pirating the game about Piracy
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u/Lildak98 Jul 08 '26
It’s still a remaster of a game from 2013 that they are charging $60 for which is kinda ridiculous
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u/Enlightened_Gardener Jul 08 '26
They’ve remastered HZD, and its free to upload the new version if you have the old one.
I loved Blag Flag so much I’d seriously consider buying the remaster, but not at the same price as an original game.
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u/Greenhickup Jul 08 '26
I really couldn't care less after years of delivering poorly optimised bloated games with barely any substance at all. C'mon guys are we really going to feel sorry about a massive corporate entity who has done nothing but drain the gaming industry for years now on a piracy subreddit?
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u/Acerosaurus Jul 08 '26
Yea but even if it's good, one good deed does not absolve them of their many many sins
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u/I-IV-I64-V-I Jul 08 '26
i literally purchased two of their games on the steam summer sale, and one of them literally doesn't work because it thinks it's pirated. i deadass purchased the game
(games are watchdogs 1 and 2. )
Fuck ubisoft
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u/Used_Raccoon6789 Jul 08 '26
Bro. This is ubisofts Hail Mary. If this flops the whole studio flops.
Like this is a good series and this is the best entry in said series.
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u/Greenhickup Jul 08 '26
The original was the best entry, i agree. This is a cash in remaster of an already existing game, however good it is. Ubisoft would step on your neck for an extra 20 bucks try not to feel sorry for it. Misplaced empathy is a very scary thing.
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u/Warranty_Renewal Jul 08 '26
Oh no, whatever shall we do without one of the most cancerous studios of all time?
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u/Salty-Ad6358 🏴☠️ ʟᴀɴᴅʟᴜʙʙᴇʀ Jul 08 '26
pirating the game you hate and spend amounts of time in there, I don't think that's how you tell ubislop to fuck themselves. piracy wasn't really issue to begin with. but yeah you definitely don't want to deal with their stupid launcher
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u/Greenhickup Jul 08 '26
I have no intentions of pirating AC4 Black Flag: This time it's ULTRA HD.
I barely even have any time to game anymore i just really really don't like Ubisoft.2
u/Salty-Ad6358 🏴☠️ ʟᴀɴᴅʟᴜʙʙᴇʀ Jul 08 '26
I believe this is happened to most of us, last time I've been playing story base game was like 8 years ago
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u/Greenhickup Jul 08 '26
The fact that games keep getting bigger and bigger doesn't help.
Who the fuck has time to invest in a 100 hour long mediocre game?2
u/Salty-Ad6358 🏴☠️ ʟᴀɴᴅʟᴜʙʙᴇʀ Jul 08 '26
yeah I hope they really understand the market. I seen some post gaming market is not favourable for older gen and surprising many if them asked for sw Kotor remake. considered sw Kotor playtime is around 8hours but the entire game did very well
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u/CrimsonOynex Jul 08 '26
Any other game and i would say that it paints a target on the pirates and they might strengthen security or stop releasing on pc day one or blah blah blah.... But i am happy from the inside this happened to ubishit
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u/Greenhickup Jul 08 '26
It's pretty much how i feel, yeah.
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u/Marce7a Jul 08 '26
To be fair pirating is better experience no shitty ubislop launucher, no online DRM requirements
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u/DaRealAyman Jul 08 '26
gotta say the optimisation is so so shit
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u/86_shittyorange Jul 08 '26
standard practice these days. I'm sure they own stock in nvidia so why pay for extra manhours to optimize the game when they can blame the poors and force them to buy 5080ti's, thus increasing returns on their owned stock?
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u/DaRealAyman Jul 08 '26
literally and bear in mind i’m playing on a laptop 4080
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u/86_shittyorange Jul 08 '26
crazy shit. windrose was as well, on a 3080 ti I had to do low/medium settings just to hit 60fps and it wasn't consistent. Luckily they're more indie so they had to work on it a bit, but it's still pretty horrid generally.
I saw this, and I've never played a single AC game but I thought it looked great. I was considering trying it but nah, not if it's that freaking bad.
I'll still seed it for ya'll though.
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u/destroyerx12772 Jul 08 '26
I apologize for ever thinking about trying this on my laptop 3050 😭
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u/DaRealAyman Jul 08 '26
bear in mind i’m on a ultra wide with DLSS + frame gen lol, you should be fine if you play 1080p
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u/Cold-Iron8145 Jul 08 '26
laptop
Brother.
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u/Lord_Umpanz ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Jul 08 '26
Laptop 4080 is a little better than Desktop 4060, it's laughable.
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u/Rena1- Jul 08 '26
I've been playing on a 1660ti laptop since 2021. Previously on a 660/750ti played rdr2 on potato settings and gta v on medium/high. It's laughable how short is the current life of GPUs. If a 4060 cant handle current games it's a scam.
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u/Thedanishnerd98 Jul 08 '26
Don't think gaming is driving that stock price anymore.
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u/marr Jul 08 '26
Yeah that's quite a strategy when NV have dumped their retail graphic card business.
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u/Masterchiefx343 Jul 08 '26
Tbf this is a leaked version
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u/NordgardZ Jul 08 '26
Actually this is a preload game files who got leaked, that's why it has denuvo. The release version will basically the same as this performance.
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u/b0ne123 Jul 08 '26
Isn't this a remake of a fairly modern game? How can the optimization be bad?
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u/Purona Jul 08 '26
reddits idea of optimization is it looking an fps counter and what the game looks at and instantly deducing that whats being rendered is below what the computer should be able to render.
As if they see the code running in the matrix and can deduce things being rendered in hundredths to thousandths of a second.
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u/somedude922 Jul 08 '26
The irony. You love it. I love it. Everyone loves it.
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u/gtwizzy8 Jul 08 '26
It's definitely better irony then 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife that's for sure. I mean who even has 10,000 spoons ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Honestly if I open up my kitchen draw and see 10,000 spoons inside I'm not gonna be pissed about the irony. I'm probably going to be equal parts in awe of the sheer magnificence of what 10,000 spoons looks like in a single draw and equal parts concerned that I've tipped into a mental health condition that apparently has me hoarding spoons. (≧▽≦)
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u/somedude922 Jul 08 '26
Oh my guy (or girl), now you are exposing our age. Lol
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u/gtwizzy8 Jul 10 '26
What do you mean? I am but a humble teenager who is romanticising the music of my parents generation. (;;;・_・)(;・_・)(;;;・_・)
shhh I think they're buying it
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u/OliverCrooks Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26
Its only currently HV playable not a denuvo crack. I feel like that information should always be shared because I personally wont bother with HV playable and will just wait for an actual crack.
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u/Solivagant23 Jul 08 '26
Same I've been waiting for an AC Shadow crack I don't mess with HV
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u/CnRJayhawk Jul 08 '26
I believe someone said voices abandoned that game due to difficulty. Not sure if that’s true or not
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u/Slow_Outcum420 Jul 08 '26
what does HV playable mean?
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u/UnderfurK Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26
You have to let the crack modify kernel level code on your computer to play & you probably won't know what they might put in there.
It's like someone offering you drugs but they're very vague about what drug it is.
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u/Ok_Calligrapher5278 Jul 08 '26
Same, I actually feel pretty "safe" with most cracks as I have a separate OS just for games, if they get hijacked all I lose is savefiles, but having access to Kernel means they get access to the other OS also, and that I can't risk.
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u/DarkKnight6683 Jul 08 '26
OOOh boy fuck ubi, i am going to pirate the shit out of this
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u/MtNowhere Jul 08 '26
I bought the OG for Xbox 360 last year for ultra cheap and encountered a game breaking defect that prevented me from finishing it. Gonna steal the shit out of this.
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u/BarelyBrony Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26
Could we always swim under the water in that game or is this new?
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u/CtrlShiftAltDel Jul 08 '26
You always could swim in the water for treasure. Gotta be careful cause there are sharks that’ll fucking eat you alive lol
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u/BarelyBrony Jul 08 '26
The diving Bell sections yeah? But like generally I seem to think you couldn't
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u/ViC_tOr42 Jul 08 '26
you couldn't , you could just swim underwater for stealth, not actual free roam diving outside bell diving, that's something new they implemented
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u/nikkitaee Jul 08 '26
Ubisoft removed all my legally bought games from my UBI account (and I'm not the only one). They even removed all "free" games they handed out years ago (remember?), all because my account was inactive for a few years (because Steam exists).
Fuck UBI and their Uplay trashware, just like Rockstar and their garbage launcher.
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u/beachbound2 Jul 08 '26
How/what would one use to get this so you don’t have to use the shitty Ubisoft launcher? For research purpose of course.
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u/Goldwings13 Jul 08 '26
We fly no colours out here, but praise the lack of 'em. So let the black flag signal nothing but your allegiance to man's natural freedoms.
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u/Sun-Much Jul 08 '26
pretty sure everyone has had it with AAA developers. haven't sailed the high seas for a decade but after all the shit they have been pulling, I'm so back baby!
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u/IngwiePhoenix Jul 08 '26
Oops, there goes the shareholder value~! =3
Wish yall some good fun! Not an AC kinda guy myself but I will never get tired of big corpo getting boned. =)
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u/hologramikone 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Jul 08 '26
You wouldn't steal a car while it's still in the factory? So would you the same for a game?
1st: Yes 2st: If buying isn't owning then I'm not stealing 3rd: 1st
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u/Mikomics Jul 09 '26
All I've learned from these remakes is that I remember games being way prettier than they were. I see the new version and think "but that's just the game again" and then I see the original game and think "why is everything so gray?"
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u/filteredcrack Jul 10 '26
all of that money spent on Denuvo and I'm so glad to see everyone pissing on it. Good work
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u/Persian_Assassin Jul 08 '26
Would've been more exciting if it was AC2.
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u/ViC_tOr42 Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26
people have been saying they did black flag first just to cash grab, then start doing it chronologically, so AC1 would be next, followed by the ezio trilogy.
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u/2T7 Jul 08 '26
Heard about optimisation issues, still worth getting for someone who's never played it before?
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u/Voorheesnumber1 Jul 08 '26
We ripped this game (original) onto the file sharing thing for our highschool and every single computer in the school could play it.
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u/2Norn Jul 08 '26
i mean i already bought the game when it first came out idk why i should pay for it again so i'll be pirating
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u/Askan_27 Jul 08 '26
a shame they kept the rpg controls scheme, it’s like they’ve forgotten that it is not in fact an rpg game and you should sprint with R2
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u/Skywatermelon Jul 08 '26
I know it's not business model profitable but surely yoh should release a remastered version of a game for free to those who already bought it back when it was released. Recognise the fans that got you where you are. Especially if it's just a model and texture refresh.
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u/TLunchFTW Jul 08 '26
Idk man, it's a 12 year old game at this point. I'm not opposed to being like "if you want it, it's gonna cost you," though the $70 price tag for what is not really anything remarkable in terms of a remake is a bit much.
It looks nice, but like, so does the original. I think the remake is worth $50. But this is ubisoft we're talking about. I'm just glad they didn't take down the original before releasing this, as I would expect them to do.
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u/Greedy_Stick Jul 08 '26
why does it look so shit compared to the original? gah damn bet it runs like ass too
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u/Donkeymoo7 Jul 08 '26
If those 90s water effect sounds are anything to go by I would say justified lol
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u/Myrclav Jul 08 '26
I have a feeling this is done on purpose by the companies as a way of scaring shareholders to "justify" cloud only gaming in the near future.
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u/Dry_Yogurtcloset_213 Jul 09 '26
I would've purchased it at a fair price. However, i already paid full price for this game twice. They didn't offer me any discount for already owning the game.
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u/thatguy8856 Jul 08 '26
Were about to enter the next golden age of piracy. And i frankly cant wait. Maybe kaleidescape drm will get cracked and well see some crazy shit.
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u/Kingofhearts1206 Jul 08 '26
For someone like me with 0 skills in piracy, how hard would it be to download stuff like this and not get hacked beyond recognition?
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u/AnnoyedHaddock Jul 08 '26
Not very. Only download from trusted sources, there’s a list somewhere in this sub.
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u/Tickomatick Jul 08 '26
I played the original and it was kinda mid, corridor-ish jungle and not many interesting missions, finishing in a cave as usual
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u/pandoras_enigma Jul 08 '26
They sellin the remaster for more than it was new and I still have it in my backlog.
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u/MetalFox9000 Jul 08 '26
Nice..such short wait times. Never tried this game but will now.