r/videogames • u/Syarafuddyn • Apr 23 '26

Image / Video Assassin's Creed Black Flag ORIGINAL vs RESYNCED

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u/freetotebag Apr 23 '26

Kinda neat how adding birds makes a difference in terms of making a world feel real

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u/Wbcn_1 Apr 23 '26

Yeah. Even when you consider that birds aren’t even real.  

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u/CorbynDallasPearse1 Apr 23 '26

An upvote for a chuckle, bastard 😘

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u/Freyja6 Apr 23 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/9EwnzGNjvmIG4

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u/Freyja6 Apr 23 '26

I've only recently stumbled on it and it's become a quick favorite for me.

A sensible chuckle lasts a lifetime :)

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u/Official-POTUS Apr 24 '26

Danger 5, the show it's from, is also incredible.

There are about a million more parts of it that could be iconic gifs

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u/Freyja6 Apr 24 '26

Gonna have to give that a go!! thanks for letting me know :)

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u/LordoftheChads Apr 24 '26

Where can you watch danger 5 now it used to be on Netflix in Australia and now it’s gone

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u/Official-POTUS Apr 24 '26

It's on Binge atm

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u/dynamic_caste Apr 24 '26

And remember: Kill Hitler

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u/BeardInTheNorth Apr 24 '26

The guy looks like he just got off a train from the 1950s.

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u/jhonnytheyank May 07 '26

I wish somebody would call me a bastard and send me that emoji . 

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u/MoyenBateau Apr 23 '26

I mean they have French people in the entire assassin's creed series, shows you how much a fantasy world it is.

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u/FermisParadoXV Apr 23 '26

Except, crucially, the one set in France, where for some reason they're all cockney.

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u/kaalaxi Apr 23 '26

First thing I did was switch to French with English subs lol

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u/Silent_Park_0010 Apr 23 '26

Hon hon hon guv'na

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u/Phitos2008 Apr 24 '26

Oi! Baguette…

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u/deegwaren Apr 24 '26

Yet another sensible chuckle!

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u/Ok-Imagination-3835 Apr 23 '26

Oi, hands off me croissant or I'll gut ye

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u/I_travel_ze_world Apr 23 '26

wasn't France conquered last century and was on its way to having a different name?

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u/BonbonUniverse42 Apr 23 '26

Are french people real?

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u/smooth_bore Apr 24 '26

What’s next? Assassin’s Creed: North Dakota?

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u/beegboo Apr 23 '26

Not this templar theory that birds are actually assasin sect members in disguise again. I know the noises they make sound a lot like a camera shutter and they have recharging stations spread around their patrol areas and that the full fledged members make an "eagle cry" when they download the data from the other birds......okay maybe you are onto something.

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u/LycanWolfGamer Apr 23 '26

Shut up lol take my updoot

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u/DaiiPanda Apr 24 '26

We are still doing these comments?

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u/AlexSmithsonian Apr 23 '26

Then who put their poop on the viewpoints?

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u/Algorhythm74 Apr 23 '26

They are an invention of the bourgeoisie.

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u/Oh_ToShredsYousay Apr 23 '26

3 mile island hadn't happened yet. The birds here are real.

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u/GeraldGensalkes Apr 24 '26

Well, the birds here are code, but they represent birds that were real

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u/certifiedblackman Apr 23 '26

Well they’re just CGI, like the ones in the game

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u/psycodull Apr 23 '26

They were, back then

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u/Temporary_Solid_5869 Apr 23 '26

All birds are cats 

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u/Socrateeez Apr 24 '26

How can mirrors be real when our eyes aren’t real

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u/Sin_of_the_Dark Apr 24 '26

If it flies, it spies.

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u/BeardedBandit Apr 24 '26

ohh oh oh.... they're real alright.

They just aren't nature

They're man-made, maaannn

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u/Razzberry85 Apr 24 '26

Thats why they were added in patch 1 of Earth when people were complaining about immersion.

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u/LesserValkyrie Apr 24 '26

wdym, of course we are real tcheek tcheek

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u/Buchlinger Apr 24 '26

Digital birds are as real as realism can get realistic.

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u/EfficientGolf3574 Apr 24 '26

That’s why we added them

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u/Boss_Koms Apr 24 '26

But nothing is true, everything is permitted.

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u/BiggusDickus_69_420 Apr 24 '26

If it flies, it spies.

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u/Raptori33 Apr 24 '26

Archimedes?

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u/FrictionBurns321 Apr 24 '26

Are my eyes even real?

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u/Dreamo84 Apr 24 '26

Omg are they AI birds? I hope this game isn’t using AI.

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u/SocialJusticeAndroid Apr 24 '26

As soon as I read the previous comment I knew this was coming.😉

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u/Fit_Development5211 Apr 25 '26

Nao entendi(sério)

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u/the_good_hodgkins Apr 25 '26

But they were back then!

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u/RedBurny Apr 23 '26

Assasins Creed Black Flag : ReBird

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u/ParticularMallh Apr 23 '26

little ambient details like that do a lot more heavy lifting than people realize

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u/JohannesJoshua Apr 23 '26

True, but I think most people here are interested in gameplay. Me perosnally, I still like how AC 4 looks like, we will see for the new one. To be fair though I always liked sunny looking games, that's why I still think FC3 looks good and why KCD1 and 2 look good.

As for the gameplay at first I was like this looks RPG like, but they said that you can do 4 chain takedown. I do wish that they added instant counter attack, instead of stunning an opponent then counter attacking, now that I think about it, in their RPG titles, they should have added instant coutner attack as a skill.
I think they added double counter back, but I don't know. I wish they added double tool takedown.

The ship combat looks good, but they couldn't go wrong there since it was always RPG-esqe, I do hope they add charging ram mechaninc from AC rouge, since they added double shot cannon based on the trailer.

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u/Ecstatic_Sand5417 Apr 23 '26

That's a wild take about KCD1... It's overwhelmingly too sunny. Everything is washed out. The next gen update fixed this somewhat but it still rains without any overcast

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u/ThorThulu Apr 23 '26

Akira Kurosawa knew what was up

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u/veritasen Apr 23 '26

No one else noticed it made the water reflect what would have to be like a 600ft bird?

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u/DeBean Apr 23 '26

lol I was going to post this. Bird makes screen space reflection fuck the image. I would've expected Ubisoft to support ray tracing and use that for water reflections in their demo.

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u/Zalvren Apr 24 '26

They support ray tracing according to the requirements they posted. Maybe this is console footage that doesn't.

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u/ClammHands420 Apr 23 '26

Nah, I caught that fuckass screenspace reflection immediately. Is this in UE5? Idk any other engines with SSR that shitty.

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u/RRR3000 Apr 23 '26

It's Anvil, their own engine.

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u/Intelligent_Air6574 Apr 24 '26

lol I just saw that, it must be AI working hard in the background

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u/japan_samsus Apr 23 '26

Birds arent real and this is further proof

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u/jakecshn Apr 23 '26

I noticed this for the first time in the original Dying Light. There's a bunch of birds and stuff in the air. It made the space feel very real. That game blew me away when it came out.

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u/Ok_Wallaby_3701 Apr 23 '26

thats why the government added birds for us:)

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u/ProfessionalRisk8259 Apr 24 '26

100%. I've been saying this for years. Birds and critters missing from survival games and mmos make the world feel flat and fake. One of the first MMOs, Ultima Online, had critters and birds back in the 90s and for some reason, here in 2026, people are still making MMOs and survival games without. It goes a long way to making a world feel real.

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u/Suojelusperkele Apr 24 '26

We all know that one tree in Skyrim next to the riverwood.

The one with the glitched bird that makes sounds.

Iirc it's the only bird of that kind, yet it really enhances the feeling of forest there.

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u/kidatsy Apr 24 '26

Put a bird on it!

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u/psynl84 Apr 24 '26

That's why we need pedestrians in FH6 but the fanboys keep defending it that it's not necessary in an open world race game lol.

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u/Acrobatic_Tap3265 Apr 25 '26

YEAH HAHA, AVIAN ACTIVITY

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u/mruggeri_182 Apr 25 '26

The swaying of the trees make a huge difference too

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u/Art_Of_Peer_Pressure Apr 25 '26

Have you downloaded the latest bird pack? True realism, ultra definition.

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u/Prothon Apr 25 '26

The only argument I have is that since they use SSR it makes the water look messed up. I understand the performance aspects but it breaks my immersion.

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u/Amber424242 May 09 '26

I do love the birds!!

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u/General_McCuddles Apr 23 '26

Kinda silly how 50 bucks isnt worth ot at all.

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u/CQC_EXE Apr 23 '26

Most games lack atmosphere.