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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag DLC and season pass detailed

Assassin's Creed IV to get a nine-mission chunk of single-player DLC which revolves around Adewale.

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Ubisoft has announced its DLC lineup for Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, alongside details of the game's season pass.

Only the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC versions of the game will be able to purchase the game's DLC. Ubisoft does not mention the Wii U.

The main chunk of content revolves around the nine-mission single-player storyline Freedom Cry. This is set fifteen years after the events of the main campaign, and casts players as Edward Kenway's first mate Adewale, who's now a fully trained assassin, but finds himself shipwrecked in Saint-Domingue with no crew or weapons.

The season pass will also provide the Kraken Ship Pack, which gives owners more customisation options for Kenway's Jackdaw ship. This will not be available to purchase separately, Ubisoft adds.

Ubisoft also says additional DLC will provide players with more single-player missions, weapons, skins, and collectibles, alongside new characters for the game's multiplayer modes.

All of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag's DLC will be released before March 2014, with the season pass being available at launch. The cost of the season pass will be 20 percent less than buying the DLC individually, Ubisoft says. No exact price was given for the content.

Those who choose to preorder the Digital Deluxe version of the game through Ubisoft's own Uplay store will be eligible for a 25 percent saving on the season pass, the publisher adds.

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag will be released for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii U on October 29. PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC versions will follow in November.

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I miss Assassin's creed...*sigh* oh well at least we GTA V, best open world game i have ever played IMFO.

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GTA V is not that great either

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I can't help but be salty when I know they deliberately cut out that content ahead of time to sell at a premium. I don't feel like buying 70% of the game on launch.

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@adroge1 you sure it's 70%?

more like 55%

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DLC doesn't revolved around the main character - guess he dies then.

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@mr_azim Here's my prediction. *AC3 spoilers*...

We know Edward's son, Haytham, is a Templar, right? So I reckon, that at the end of Assassin's Creed 4, Edward will die, and he will give his baby son to a trusted friend to raise as an Assassin, but we (the players) will know the truth... the friend is really a Templar.

That's my prediction, anyway. :)

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@tom_cat_01 @mr_azim read the the novel based on hatham, edward trained haytham as an assassin, but when edward friend that was a templar betrayed him he took haytham n raised him as a kid

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@tom_cat_01 @mr_azim i doubt it will happen in AC 4 as he doesn't meet Haythams mother till he was done being a pirate also the Story of Edwards Death was revealed in the novel. The man who turned Haytham was the man who had Edward killed when Haytham was young

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@tom_cat_01 @Deadlysyns87 its not really a spoiler as i doubt it will be in the game they rarely have the deaths of the main character in the game also why would you want to play as a family man living in london

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@Deadlysyns87 Well, er, thanks for the spoiler warning. Mine was only a prediction..

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so u want my money how many times???

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@charlieboomboom

OVER 9000!!!!

"Sorry"

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@Demanufactur3 It's ok, it's unhealthy to keep that in for too long...


Feel better now?

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@Korvus85 @Demanufactur3

Much, thanks.

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@Demanufactur3 @charlieboomboom LOL

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i find solace in the fact that none of this dlc was made while the core game was being worked on.


dang i cant even troll this with a straight face. LMAO

what utter shite

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@pboontap every company does that now why ppl complaining

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@pboontap Or so you think..............

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Scam scam What a load of $@it! scam

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I'm getting the new DLC, it takes place 300 years after the main campaign, it involves me not buying this game.

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The game is not even out and already there is DLC. Those pesky, greedy greg's, they'll go the way of Gollum in the pits of Mordor the feral swines.

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@19James89 This made me laugh my Creed off.

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So they've been telling us that the game is basically about Edward needing to choose whether or not to become a full assassin and now they say that Adewale will be...not hard to see in which direction the main story is going...

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@Korvus85 ima spoil this for you...edwards becomes a full assassins and gives up his pirate life...and then he is killed

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I have an idea. How about make a complete game from start to finish and charge me the real price. How about that? This is the real reason why games still cost $60. They want to charge more like $80 or $90. So they take chunks of the game out, bundle it as dlc, and charge you the difference. It is such a scam. I rather you say $80 for a complete game instead of trying to trick us with the Season Pass B.S.

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Am done with Ass Greed.

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@gamingfrendly ubisoft havent done with it :P

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@gamingfrendly But not done with COD i presume.

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@gamingfrendly That sounds like a really hilarious porno flick

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SPOILER ALERT Adewale survives

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@quidditch3 LOL.

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I would so love to get this game. But they gave the UK the best version.

Just going to wait for GOTY version... When all the DLC is included.

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@Truth_Hurts_U what if it's not goty? ppl thought ac3 was going to be n it wasnt

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How are you people still surprised by this?

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@Demanufactur3 Nobody is.

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What kind of idiot preorders DLC?

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@Thanatos2k 12 year olds' parents.

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(*&^%^&k DLC a games should be a complete product

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"Assassin's Creed IV to get a nine-mission chunk of single-player DLC which were chopped off from finished game." /fxd

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Will you be able to turn into a shark or a crab? I mean you could be a wolf in AC 3

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@Riddick123 Really I don't remember that. I just remember turning a turkey into an assassin

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@quidditch3 LOL seriously? I never paid for the DLC because it looked very stupid. I think you could call a pack of wolves or something

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@Riddick123 @quidditch3 the dlc was pretty sweet!

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Wow. Apparently $60.00 is not enough.

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DLC pushing bastards!

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Making skins and weapons available only through season pass is cheap even to my standards

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There is a picture floating around of Adewale in his assassin clothes. looks cool.

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