Mayhaps ye have heard the legend of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, the remake Ubisoft havefinally revealed today, April 23rd, after years of reported and leaked whispers. Ahead of this Black Flag remake’s arrival on July 9th, its required PC specs have slipped into port.
On the lower end, getting a maritime adventure going at 1080p and 30 FPS will take a GTX 1660, 16GB of RAM and an i7-8700k processor, which is pretty sane. Heading up to the higher and “extreme” end of the spectrum, you’ll need the sort of heavyweight graphical cannons you’d expect to be able to get into quality-focused upscaling and extra swanky raytraced territory.
As for the stuff that’ll affect everyone, the storage requirement of 65 GB on an SSD is perfectly reasonable by today’s standards, especially when bearing in mind just how unwieldy and huge fellow remake of a classic open-world adventure Oblivion Remastered was last year.
Beyond that, DLSS 4.5, FSR 4, and XeSS 3 are all supported upscaling-wise, meaning you’re good whichever company you go to for your performance-enchancing tech. There’s an in-game benchmark tool to make getting set up easier and the fact dedicated handheld presets are cited suggests it’ll run on the Steam Deck, if just barely. Our James’ll no doubt put it through its paces on Deck around release, if for nothing but the chance to do a headline that makes 15 jokes about swabbing decks on a Deck.
If your curious as to the full extent of Resynced’s changes compared to the original Black Flag, here’s my rundown of what Ubisoft have shown off and chatted about now they’re on longer trying to stem the detail tide.
