The 4 trophies that come down to luck in Black Flag Resynced
None is hard to execute and all four stall the same way, because they depend on the game spawning the event. One can be forced with a save; the other three cannot.
And it counts towards Articles Of Agreement, Unsinkable, Return The Favor, required for the platinum.
The problem is not doing them, it is finding them
Black Flag Resynced is a platinum without traps: nothing missable, nothing online, nothing tied to difficulty. But it has four trophies that do not depend on your skill but on the world spawning a specific event, and those are what leave people finishing the game on forty-six out of fifty.
The percentages give it away. Last To Leave sits at just 14.4%, and all it asks is that you sit on a chair. There is no skill in that: it is that the burning ship with a chair barely ever shows up.
The general advice for all four: do them the moment you see them. If you are sailing and one of these events appears, drop whatever you are doing. Seeing it again can cost you hours.
The burning ship: the only one you can force
Last To Leave asks you to sit down on a burning ship. Burning ships are a random open-sea event: you board, loot what chests you can while a timer runs, and the ship explodes.
The problem is twofold. The event is scarce on its own, and on top of that most of those ships have no chair. The odds of both lining up are estimated at around 5%. And if you have just finished a burning-ship event, another one does not show up right away.
But this one can be forced, like so:
1. Push the story until you finish the Príncipe section. 2. Travel to Príncipe, board the ship and save in front of the wheel. 3. Return to the Caribbean through the wheel. 4. Sail west. If there is no storm, the burning ship event will appear. 5. Look through the spyglass: if the ship is two stars, it probably has a chair. 6. If it does not, load the save from step 2 and repeat.
With some persistence it comes in a few attempts. Without the method, you can finish the game without ever seeing it.
When you find the ship with a chair, sit down first, before looting anything. The ship blows up on a timer, and losing the trophy because you were opening chests means restarting the roulette.
The other three, and how to provoke them
These cannot be forced with a save, but you can provoke the situation rather than wait for it.
| Trophy | Held by | How to provoke it |
|---|---|---|
| Articles Of Agreement | 67.4% | It asks that all the pirates survive a street fight. The fights are random island events and show up with a chain icon on the map. The trick: do it on a small island, where there are fewer pirates to protect and fewer soldiers to kill. Kill the soldiers fast, before any of yours goes down. |
| Unsinkable | 19.7% | It asks you to survive a rogue wave taken from the side. Rogue waves only appear in storms and are impossible to miss. Here is the counter-intuitive part: when one comes, do not face it head-on, which is what instinct says. Turn sideways and take it. With a reinforced hull you survive comfortably. |
| Return The Favor | 41.6% | It asks you to ram a Brig that is ramming you. First you need the ram ability, unlocked by the officer The Father on finishing his mission line; it is used with L1 + R1. To provoke it: sit still in front of a Brig until it starts its ram, then ram it head-on. |
Return The Favor comes on its own more often than you would think if your wanted level is high: pirate hunters are aggressive and ram of their own accord. And they double up for Hunter Hunted, which asks you to beat one at max wanted level.
The trophies involved
Each one links to its section inside the full Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced trophy guide.