Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced required devs to "rebuild" the 2013 game because Ubisoft couldn't "use the code from the original"
19-07-2026 13:41 via gamesradar.com

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced required devs to "rebuild" the 2013 game because Ubisoft couldn't "use the code from the original"

Ubisoft developers had to rebuild most of Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag entirely from scratch to make this year's swashbuckling remake, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, because the original 2013 code was largely unusable for a 2026 game.Black Flag Resynced is a pretty faithful reconstruction of one of the best Assassin's Creed games ever made, but even though the remake sticks to the original's story and open-world structure very closely, the team at Ubisoft were still essentially making a
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