If you just can't get enough of the new Assassin’s Creed’s high sea action, brace yourself for even more exciting news. According to reports, the upcoming Freedom's Cry DLC for Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag will arrive with hints about the next Assassin’s Creed game.
Creative Director Wesley Pincombe of Ubisoft Quebec, the company responsible for developing the DLC, was recently in an interview with Eurogamer where spoke about how the DLC will feature hints about the next Assassin’s Creed game, apart from discussing the DLC itself.
Taking the fact that the DLC for the game will feature side-character Adéwalé as the central character into consideration, Pincombe stated that Freedom Cry “is primarily an Adéwalé story - Edward isn't present - but we do shoot a couple of lines back and forth with him reminiscing about his past."
Also, as far as hints about the next Assassin’s Creed game is concerned, Pincombe teased: “There are some [hints] but our fans will only discover them in the future,” and although these hints will be out there in the game, “you'd have to be a hardcore fan to understand them."
Pincombe also confirmed that the DLC will not arrive with any kind of related fantasy elements, and this includes the oft-requested addition of a kraken in the game. He stated: “I'm going to have to disappoint some people - no, we didn't put the kraken in. I'll even say it was part of our conception at one point. We were going to do some fantasy missions to do with piracy and the Caribbean at one point but we changed our direction in conception.”
"We wanted to continue the story of Black Flag in the DLC. Aside from the fantasy stuff we were looking at different types of assassins - we were looking at Mary Reade and Duncan Walpole to figure out their origin stories but Adewalé really had a strong presence on screen," he added.
Finally, Pincombe also spoke a bit about the upcoming DLC to make fans understand about what they are actually dealing with here. Freedom Cry itself focuses on first mate-turned-assassin Adéwalé and takes place 15 years after the main game, although it also makes a return to the existing AC4 narrative by featuring at least one returning character from the game.
“You're going to a new setting with new crowd life. New enemies, new AI. Port-au-Prince is a French colony - there are no French colonies in Black Flag so that is all new," Pincombe stated.
The inclusion of new in-game areas via the DLC, according to Pincombe, is a result of the responses the company received for Assassin's Creed 3 DLC The Tyranny of King Washington, which tweaked that game's existing world with an alternate reality twist.
“The alternate universe was a great idea and each episode had its own set theme and abilities, but we wanted to focus on one DLC and put all of our content in there. We also wanted to give the player new locations. In King Washington we revisited locations - we changed the themes and settings - but we wanted to push it further," he further added.
Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag's Freedom Cry DLC is currently set for a December 17 arrival.
