- Old fan-made videos inspired Assassin’s Creed Black Flag resync‘s battle system
- Creative director Paul Fu says the team “wanted a deterministic action combat system”
- Tools have been reworked to make them flow better mid-fight
Ubisoft was inspired by old fan-made Assassin’s Creed Black Flag gameplay videos when it came to developing the modernized battle system for Black Flag Resynced.
It is according to Resynchronized creative director Paul Fu, who told TechRadar Gaming that old fan-made videos were “one of the core inspirations” for the upgraded battle system, “besides the fact that we’ve always wanted a deterministic action battle system.”
“We were inspired by early fan-head combo videos from the original,” Fu said. “So in the original you could use rope arrows and guns in between your attacks and all that. But they were pretty cosmetic in nature. Some of them gave a real advantage, but some of them actually lack a challenge to, say, do a certain combo.”
Fu, who also revealed in the same interview that the remake of the 2013 game is built from the ground up and contains very little of the original code, explained that the team worked to make these tools feel “essential” to the core combat system by taking the “visual philosophy” of having them and modernizing them to make sure they “essentially move like a flowchart.”
“We have the perfect area that goes into the chain take downs that everyone loves, if you don’t happen to make a perfect parry, which will happen, your brain would have to go a different way, which means you have to do a combo like attack, attack, kick, for example,” Fu explained.
“And if you happen to kick a guy near a wall, you can do a wall takedown. If you’re going to kick a guy off the ledge, he’ll fall off the ledge, but if there’s nothing for you to kick the guy to, you’ll just end up with a powerful punch.
“There’s a certain flow chart that comes with combat, which is deterministic in nature, based on your environment, which is quite different from previous games.”
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag resync launches on July 9 for PS5, Xbox Series X and Series S and PC.
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