Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced: full platinum guide step by step

«Get a tour of Havana (complete Sequence 2, Memory 1)» · Lively Havana

Complete Sequence 2, Memory 1: the tour of Havana.

Category

Story

Missable

No

Unlocked by

95.30% of players

It is the first of the five story trophies and the only one of the five that is not hidden, because it is the only one whose title gives nothing away.

95.3% have it, practically everyone who boots the game. Impossible to miss.

«Captain your own ship (complete Sequence 2, Memory 6)» · A Poxy Bird

Complete Sequence 2, Memory 6: taking command of the Jackdaw.

Category

Story

Missable

No

Unlocked by

87.90% of players

From here the game properly opens up. 87.9% have it.

It is one of the four hidden story trophies, because the title gives away a plot beat. Impossible to miss.

«Settle in a new home (complete Sequence 4, Memory 1)» · Walls That Hold Back The Wind

Complete Sequence 4, Memory 1: settling into a new home.

Category

Story

Missable

No

Unlocked by

74.80% of players

This is the point that opens up Great Inagua, and therefore where the platinum really begins: from here you can restore the village, fill the manor and run the Kenway Fleet.

74.8% have it. Hidden and impossible to miss.

«Witness the end of a legend (complete Sequence 8, Memory 1)» · In A World Without Gold

Complete Sequence 8, Memory 1: the end of a legend.

Category

Story

Missable

No

Unlocked by

43.70% of players

43.7% have it, and that drop from the previous trophy's 74.8% marks where people bail: between Sequence 4 and 8 you lose a third of the players.

Hidden and impossible to miss.

«Stop a Templar plot (complete Sequence 12, Memory 5)» · Ever A Splinter

Complete Sequence 12, Memory 5: stopping the Templar plot.

Category

Story

Missable

No

Unlocked by

27.20% of players

It is the game's only gold trophy and the one that marks finishing the story. It pops automatically at the end.

27.2% have it: barely more than one in four buyers reaches the end. Hidden and impossible to miss.

«Kill a guard ringing a bell» · Silence, Fool!

Kill a guard while he is ringing the alarm bell.

Category

Combat

Missable

No

Unlocked by

43.50% of players

In enemy territory, if a guard spots you, one of them runs to ring a bell to alert the rest. An icon appears over that guard.

So you have to do the opposite of the usual: let yourself be seen on purpose, wait for one to bolt for the bell, follow him and kill him just as he rings it. A headshot is cleanest.

The first convenient chance is in Nassau, where a bell sits next to a warehouse with enemies around it. 43.5% have it.

«Dodge a total of three charge attacks by a Wild Pig» · Matador

Dodge three wild pig charges in total.

Category

Combat

Missable

No

Unlocked by

15.30% of players

Find an island with boars. When one winds up to charge, the warning red flash lights up: that is the moment to dodge, not before.

One practical note: if there are two boars, kill one first. With both alive the charges chain and it is easy to eat one. With just one you have all the time in the world.

Mayaguana island, at coordinates 850, 513, is a comfortable spot. 15.3% have it.

«Get a perfect harpoon shot on a Great White Shark» · Perfect Predator

Land a perfect harpoon shot on a Great White Shark.

Category

Combat

Missable

No

Unlocked by

23.90% of players

Sea hunts get marked on the map once you have taken the forts. The great white one sits around the centre-south; there is one at coordinates 490, 303.

The nuance that decides the trophy: perfect does not mean charging to the max. You have to release the harpoon when the cursor glows, no earlier and no later. Overcharge it and the shot counts but is not perfect.

Go with the harpoon upgraded to at least level 2 and the boat and ammunition maxed. 23.9% have it.

«Parry two Ocelot attacks in rapid succession» · Double Tap

Parry two Ocelot attacks in rapid succession.

Category

Combat

Missable

No

Unlocked by

13.20% of players

Right after you get the Jackdaw you stop at an island where the story makes you kill two ocelots. That is your chance, and the most convenient in the game.

The tip: do not damage them until the trophy pops. Kill one and you are left with a single cat attacking and the rhythm falls apart. With both alive you get enough attacks to chain two parries.

There is plenty of time margin between them. 13.2% have it.

«Kill 10 enemies by hanging them with the rope dart» · The Hangman

Kill 10 enemies by hanging them with the rope dart.

Category

Combat

Missable

No

Unlocked by

21.70% of players

The story hands you the rope dart. Then the mechanic: you have to be above the enemy, up a tree or on a structure that allows a hanging. When the position works, the R1 prompt appears as an alternative to the air assassination.

The best place to rack them up is the Nassau Templar Hunt: at one point you have to protect an ally, and from the tree beside you can hang enemies one after another without moving.

It is cumulative. 21.7% have it.

«Catch at least five enemies within a single smoke bomb» · Caught 'Em All

Catch at least five enemies within a single smoke bomb.

Category

Combat

Missable

No

Unlocked by

44.90% of players

The smoke bomb is on the d-pad, down. All you need is a dense group: walk into an enemy base, let them see you and bunch up chasing you, and drop the bomb once they are on top of you.

There is a very convenient early chance: in the main mission Sugar and Its Benefits, a guard holding the warehouse key is surrounded by four or five others. One bomb and it is done.

44.9% have it.

«Use pistols to kill four enemies in a row within five seconds» · Gun-kata

Kill four enemies in a row with pistols within five seconds.

Category

Combat

Missable

No

Unlocked by

36.40% of players

Prerequisite: the holster maxed out, so you can carry four pistols equipped. Without it there is no time to reload.

The most practical spot is boarding a ship, where enemies are packed tight. With R2 + triangle you fire in quick succession without fully aiming, which is what it takes to fit inside five seconds.

Aim chest and up: hit the belly and some enemies survive the shot, and there goes your margin.

36.4% have it.

«Kill an enemy with a wall takedown» · Backs To The Wall

Kill an enemy with a wall takedown.

Category

Combat

Missable

No

Unlocked by

87.50% of players

The most common in the game at 87.5%: it comes practically on its own.

If you want to force it, it is straightforward. Bare-handed, R2 + square kicks the enemy into the wall. Once he is stunned, triangle to finish him. You can also just push any enemy up against a wall or a destructible object and finish him there.

«After a perfect parry, perform a total of four takedowns» · Let Me Explain

After a perfect parry, chain four takedowns.

Category

Combat

Missable

No

Unlocked by

18.50% of players

There is a gear requirement here that almost nobody sees coming: weapons have a cap on chained takedowns after a parry. With the starting sword you will not reach four no matter how well you play.

You need a sword whose stat allows four or more. The fastest route is buying one at the Great Inagua general store once it is upgraded to level 2, though they also drop from chests.

With the right weapon: wait for an enemy to attack, block with L1 and finish four in a row. 18.5% have it.

«Kick a berserk enemy caught in smoke off a ship» · Overdesign IV

Kick a berserk enemy caught in smoke off a ship.

Category

Combat

Missable

No

Unlocked by

7.30% of players

It is the lowest combat trophy on the list at 7.3%, and the reason is that you have to chain four things in a few seconds.

First you need the berserk darts, unlocked around the middle of Sequence 4, and the smoke bomb. Then: damage an enemy ship, board it, hit an enemy with the dart, drop the smoke bomb on him, run over and kick him against the railing. Once he is there, triangle for the finisher animation.

The enemy has to land in the water for it to count.

«Take a seat on a burning ship» · Last To Leave

Take a seat on a burning ship.

Category

Missable

No

Unlocked by

14.40% of players

Only 14.4% have it, and not through difficulty: all it asks is that you sit down. The problem is that burning ships are a random open-sea event and most of them have no chair. The odds of both lining up are estimated at 5%.

It can be forced with a manual save at Príncipe. Step by step in the four random trophies guide.

And when you find it: sit down first. The ship blows on a timer, and staying to open chests means restarting the roulette.

«Win at each of the different tavern games» · Grandmaster

Win one game of each of the three tavern games: draughts, fanorona and nine men's morris.

Category

Missable

No

Unlocked by

7.50% of players

Here is the warning, because the name is misleading: this is the hardest trophy in the game, and its 7.5% confirms it. The tavern game AI is genuinely tough, even on the lowest setting.

The known trick for fanorona: open a playable fanorona online, take the black pieces and let the machine move first. Copy its moves one by one on your console. It works because you are pitting two AIs against each other. The same method works for draughts.

You find the first fanorona in Havana already. And note: beat the opponents with one difficulty star, not the ones at your own base, who are tougher.

«Ensure the survival of all pirates in a street fight» · Articles Of Agreement

Ensure all the pirates survive a street fight.

Category

Missable

No

Unlocked by

67.40% of players

Street fights are random island events and show up on the map with a chain icon: a group of pirates brawling with soldiers.

The tip that changes this trophy: do it on a small island. Events on the smaller islands have fewer pirates to protect and fewer soldiers to kill, so it is far easier for none of yours to fall. Kill the soldiers fast, without waiting.

67.4% have it, so it comes almost by itself if you are paying attention when it appears.

«Unlock a smuggler's chest» · Among Thieves

Unlock a smuggler's chest.

Category

Missable

No

Unlocked by

52.50% of players

Smuggler dens show up on the map with a cave icon and there are five. Each holds a locked chest.

The process is always the same: clear the den, steal the key off one of the guards — use eagle vision on L2 to spot it quickly — and open the chest.

You only need one for the trophy, but it pays to do all five: they are where the 6 map fragments come from that settle Zero Waste without relying on luck.

52.5% have it.

«Complete a Templar Hunt sequence» · Help A Brother Out

Complete a Templar Hunt sequence.

Category

Missable

No

Unlocked by

60.20% of players

There are four Templar Hunts and they unlock after Sequence 4. They show up marked on the map. Each is a chain of missions ending in the assassination of a Templar and a Templar key, which opens a door in the Great Inagua manor.

You only need one for the trophy. The recommended starter is Nassau, short and simple. The Havana one is four missions alongside Rhona Dinsmore.

60.2% have it.

«Find all treasure chests in underwater shipwrecks» · Seven Deadly Seas

Find all the treasure chests in the underwater shipwrecks.

Category

Missable

No

Unlocked by

18.40% of players

There are 7 dives and they do not open until the story hands you the diving bell, in the Sequence 6 mission. Before that, those points stay marked as undiscovered.

On each dive you have to collect every treasure and every secret, not just swim through. And one detail saves a return trip: the Black Trench dive holds the map's lowest point, which is what Davy Jones' Locker asks for. Do both in one pass.

18.4% have it.

«Complete every activity in a single location» · Owned

Complete every activity in a single location.

Category

Missable

No

Unlocked by

67.40% of players

Each location has its own activity checklist and a progress bar. The most convenient is the first island in the game, Ábaco Island, where you only need to sync the viewpoint, open the chests, take the treasure map and hunt the animals.

And here is the detail people forget: the animals count, including the island's dominant animal if there is one. On Ábaco that means hunting the iguana too, on top of the ocelot the story already asks for.

67.4% have it.

«Recruit all Officers» · All Hands On Deck

Recruit all the officers.

Category

Missable

No

Unlocked by

27.40% of players

There are five: Adéwalé and Anne Bonny arrive through the story; The Father and Lucy Baldwin become available from Sequence 4 and are recruited by following their missions — pirate hat icon on the map; and Tobias Smith requires completing the first four missions of the A World Without Gold line.

Two of them unlock abilities other trophies need: The Father gives you the ram, a prerequisite for Return The Favor, and Lucy gives you the perfect brace, a prerequisite for Old Ironsides. Recruit them early.

27.4% have it.

«Wake up in a haystack» · Hungover

Wake up in a haystack.

Category

Missable

No

Unlocked by

31.10% of players

It is one of the most direct in the game once you know how: go to any tavern, walk up to the rum bottle on the bar and interact with it five times. Each swig costs 25 reales.

The screen blurs until a cutscene triggers and Edward ends up in a pile of hay. The trophy pops there.

31.1% have it, which is low for how easy it is: you simply have to know it exists.

«Learn a new shanty» · Yo Ho…

Learn a new shanty.

Category

Missable

No

Unlocked by

84.80% of players

Shanties are collectibles that unlock songs for the crew. You see them floating around the cities and you chase them by parkour: as you get close, the sheet starts moving and pauses for a moment before vanishing. You have to grab it in that pause.

You only need one. You find the first in Havana already. 84.8% have it.

«Craft an item» · Smooth Operator

Craft an item.

Category

Missable

No

Unlocked by

87.20% of players

It is part of the mandatory crafting tutorial, on the little island you stop at right after getting the Jackdaw. It pops on its own.

87.2% have it. Impossible to miss.

«Spend 50,000 Reales» · Business And Pleasure

Spend 50,000 reales.

Category

Missable

No

Unlocked by

62.00% of players

If you are going for the platinum this pops without you noticing: between Jackdaw upgrades and restoring Great Inagua you go well past that figure.

One note on order: spend at Great Inagua first, not on the ship. The more restored the village, the more money the manor's chest generates over time, and that money pays for everything else.

62.0% have it.

«Consume 20 food items» · Glutton for Nourishment

Consume 20 food items.

Category

Missable

No

Unlocked by

58.40% of players

There is a nuance here that leaves plenty of people finishing the game without it: the potions in your inventory do not count. Only food you loot from the environment — bushes, camps, cities — and eat.

So the practical rule is simple: when you are hurt, heal by eating what you find, not with potions. Do that from the start and you reach 20 without noticing. Otherwise you end the run on five.

58.4% have it.

«Interact with all seven friendly animals» · Friend To All

Interact with all seven friendly animals.

Category

Missable

No

Unlocked by

9.10% of players

And here is a fact worth having: the description undersells it. In practice there are eight animals, not seven. Most are in Kingston, around the market and the docks: cat, chicken, dog, cow and pig. The turtle is on Ábaco Island. The parrot, in Havana's market, inside a cage.

The eighth is the monkey, and it is not roaming free: you get it by completing a side quest south of Havana, and then you pet it below deck on your ship.

9.1% have it, and that low figure is precisely because of the monkey: people pet seven and write the trophy off as bugged.

«Shoot down all the hanging bodies in Long Bay» · Blow The Man Down

Shoot down all the hanging bodies in Long Bay.

Category

Missable

No

Unlocked by

6.90% of players

Long Bay does not exist until late in the story: it opens in the main mission The Observatory. Before that the island is inaccessible.

Once there, there are 3 hanging bodies. Shoot each one's rope so they drop to the ground. The third pops the trophy.

It is the least earned trophy in the game after the platinum and Dilettante, at 6.9%, and not through difficulty: you simply have to get there and know they exist.

As a bonus, reaching Long Bay usually completes Cartographer.

«Swim to the lowest point on the map» · Davy Jones' Locker

Swim to the lowest point on the map.

Category

Missable

No

Unlocked by

9.40% of players

You need the diving bell first, handed to you by the story in Sequence 6.

The game's deepest point sits inside one of the seven dives: the Black Trench, in the Castillo de Jagua region. On the way down, look for a broken diving bell and swim to it.

Do it in the same pass as Seven Deadly Seas, which also asks you to complete that dive: it saves you the trip. 9.4% have it.

«Visit every location in the game» · Cartographer

Visit every location in the game.

Category

Missable

No

Unlocked by

15.80% of players

There are 57 places: islands, forts, question marks, wrecks and a few story-exclusive ones.

Two details that save trips. You do not have to land on the islands: getting close enough to unlock fast travel is enough. But the underwater wrecks do require going down with the diving bell, or they stay marked undiscovered no matter how often you sail over them.

Discover as you play and it comes without noticing. Leave it to the end and it is tedious. 15.8% have it.

«Break 50 potted plants» · Edward Catway

Break 50 potted plants.

Category

Missable

No

Unlocked by

8.30% of players

The pots sit in the cities, on balconies, ledges and rooftops. Nassau has more than fifty in the centre alone, and Havana is well stocked too.

The fastest method is not stopping to break them one by one: parkour across the roofs and ledges and knock them over as you pass. Rolling into them or hitting them with the sabre works too.

8.3% have it, which is extremely low for how trivial it is. It is purely a trophy of knowing it exists.

«Swim a total of 1000m underwater, excluding underwater shipwrecks» · Ed the Diver

Swim 1,000 metres underwater in total, excluding underwater shipwrecks.

Category

Missable

No

Unlocked by

51.70% of players

It is cumulative and counts distance travelled underwater across the whole run. The exclusion matters: whatever you swim inside the seven dives does not count.

If you do the underwater chests and explore normally, it pops on its own around the eight-hour mark. If you want to force it, just dive and surface repeatedly anywhere at sea.

51.7% have it.

«Win every trophy» · Prizes, Plunder, and Adventure!

Earn the other 49 trophies.

Category

Other

Missable

No

Unlocked by

3.80% of players

3.8% have it, and one figure says exactly where the wall is: Dilettante sits at 3.9%. A tenth of a point apart means whoever fills the Great Inagua manor platinums. There is no obstacle behind it.

It is a platinum without traps — nothing missable, nothing online, nothing tied to difficulty — and it takes one run. What it costs is the 40-50 hours.