Ubisoft Ships 2.44GB Black Flag Resynced Patch 1.04 for PS5, Fixing Save Bugs

Q: As Black Flag Resynced shatters sales records, why is a key studio behind it facing layoffs?

Ubisoft Barcelona is facing layoffs not because *Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced* failed, but because Ubisoft is cutting costs across the company despite the remake’s strong launch. The key point is that Ubisoft’s restructuring predates the game’s success. The publisher has been dealing with a severe financial crisis, including a record operating loss of roughly $1.5 billion in fiscal 2025-26, falling revenue, weak investor confidence, and a broader plan to remove about €500 million in fixed costs by 2028. That has already meant canceled projects, delayed games, studio closures, and more than 1,000 job cuts. Barcelona’s layoffs are tied to that wider reset and to a strategic change in the studio’s role. Ubisoft has proposed cutting 51 jobs there while shifting the studio to focus mainly on *Rainbow Six* work. That means staff who helped build *Black Flag Resynced*—including teams linked to underwater gameplay and related content—are being made redundant even as the game performs well. The timing has fueled anger because the cuts were announced before or around launch, just as the remake posted major sales and strong reviews. Workers have responded with strike action, arguing Ubisoft is discarding a successful team while benefiting from its work. In short, the layoffs reflect Ubisoft’s company-wide restructuring, cost-reduction targets, and portfolio reshuffle—not the commercial performance of *Black Flag Resynced* itself.

Q: With the remake a massive hit, is the original game's acclaimed multiplayer mode lost forever?

No. The multiplayer is absent from *Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced*, but it is not gone altogether. Ubisoft’s remake is a single-player-only project. The studio rebuilt *Black Flag* around Edward Kenway’s campaign, modernized traversal, combat, and naval systems, and left out both the original multiplayer and DLC such as *Freedom Cry*. So players hoping for Manhunt, Artifact Assault, or the old competitive suite inside the remake will not get it. But Ubisoft has said it will not delist the original *Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag*, and the original game’s multiplayer servers remain active. That makes *Black Flag* an exception within the series: several older *Assassin’s Creed* multiplayer modes were shut down in 2022, but the 2013 *Black Flag* online mode is still playable on supported platforms. In practical terms, the remake does not preserve that mode, yet the original still does. There is also a broader franchise angle. Ubisoft is still pursuing multiplayer for *Assassin’s Creed* through future projects, including the PvP title known as *Codename Invictus*, being developed separately from *Resynced*. That suggests Ubisoft sees multiplayer as part of the brand’s future, even if this remake was designed as a premium solo experience. So the answer is straightforward: *Black Flag Resynced* does not bring the mode back, but the original *Black Flag* still keeps it alive for now, and Ubisoft has not abandoned *Assassin’s Creed* multiplayer more broadly.

1 articles · Updated · Push Square · Jul 15

July 16 brings the first major post-launch update for Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced on PS5, with Ubisoft rolling out patch 1.04 as a 2.44GB download focused on fixes rather than new content.
Ubisoft said the patch tackles multiple save/load problems, localization and dubbing issues in Simplified Chinese, Italian and Arabic, and broader performance and stability improvements.
Gameplay fixes target several player-blocking or immersion-breaking bugs, including ship-hull clipping while swimming, a disappearing Jackdaw after docked upgrades, double-jump issues, and harpooning and boarding lockups.
The update also repairs fast travel, quest progression and map problems, restores foggy weather while rebalancing for more clear skies, and fixes lighting, texture, clipping and audio glitches across the world.