Sunday, 28 October 2018

DLC #115 - Assassin's Creed IV : Black Flag - Blackbeard's Wrath

The Multiplayer half of Black Flag's DLC comes in the form of a very small DLC package.

The content of the package contains just 3 new character skins, so is a very scarce offering, but does also load up a small collection of trophies to go after too.

Each of the new trophies requires the player to pull off some sort of in-game feat, whilst skinned up as 1 of the additional character skins. There is a surplus trophy which can be achieved with any character skin, but the other trophies will require you to use each of the 3 new characters.

Despite being a Multiplayer package, you can take the easy way out for at least 3 of these trophies, by loading up a game of solo Wolfpack, which is still contained within the Multiplayer portion of the game, but can be played alone as a training exercise. The fact you can still also earn these trophies within that game mode is an added bonus which makes this easy enough, for the most part anyway;

Sacred Land - Playing as The Jaguar, be the highest scoring player of a Domination game session.
Unlike the other trophies in this set, this one has to be completed in a game of Domination, which cannot be done solo. There are two obstacles with this trophy.

Firstly, during any team-based game mode on Assassin's Creed, the responsibility to choose which character the team uses will fall to one person on the team chosen at random. The issue is, the others on your team won't be choosing the Jaguar skin, meaning you'll more than likely have to wait until it's your turn to make the choice, so there's a either large element of reliance on others or a lot of patience to achieve stage one of this trophy.

Once you've managed to create the above scenario, you then you need to make sure you're the best performer in the lobby, which, when full, will consist of another 7 players. There is a really important detail that the trophy description actually neglects to mention, which is the fact you not only have to be the highest scoring player in the lobby, but you also need to be on the winning team. This is something I discovered the hard way, when I thought I had fulfilled the requirements of the trophy, but ended up on the losing team, so the trophy did not trigger.

This meant I was back at square one, and had to go through the whole stage one process of getting into a game where the Jaguar skin was selected either by myself or somebody else, and this will be the case every time you fail at stage two, so this has the potential to be a somewhat drawn out process. It does help to obtain this pack early and tandem it with the main trophy list, which requires you to reach level 55, just so it seems like you're not wasting time if you need a handful of attempts at this trophy. At least you're still leveling up if you're experiencing set-backs.

The fact you can earn most of the trophies in a non-competitive environment makes this package a lot easier than it initially seems. In a competitive Multiplayer environment, some of these trophies are tough, and could take a while depending on situational luck. This is somewhat upheld by the only trophy in the set which can only be earned within a competitive playlist, but the rest is much easier thanks to solo Wolfpack mode.