In the latest patch for Assassin’s Creed IV, Ubisoft and Nvidia for whatever reason, decided to incorporate an entirely new feature which, to say the least, shakes up game play quite a bit: Endless amounts of opaque smoke. The smoke comes as a result of the added implementation of PhysX particle effects.

The smoke, while definitely cool, realistic and relative to the game’s graphics, is plane confusing. It’s  impossible to tell what’s going on through the thick hazes of smoke that cloud up a significant portion of the screen. While this certainly makes gameplay more challenging, it gets equally annoying once the smoke-related deaths begin to pile up.

Odds are we’ll see a future patch that downplays the prevalence of the smoke in game play. It’s certainly cool, but at the end of the day, it’s a huge and frustrating distraction. It’s fun to think about how in older generations of console gaming this effect would have been an assumed element of the game, and actually would have added a, however unintended, unique dimension to its game play mechanic. The ability to patch such “glitches” though have ended that era of gaming.

e-xpress Interactive, the leading distributor of video games in India, one of the world’s largest growing market for video games, recently held ‘Connect,’ a trade initiative for video game distributors and retailers in the country, in New Delhi, the capital of the country. e-xpress declares the initiative as a rousing success.

Connect 2013 had over forty retailers from the northern region of the geographically massive country show up, and e-xpress was able to demonstrate its upcoming lineup of video games that it shall be distributing in India, which includes Grand Theft Auto V, Batman: Arkham Origins, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, and Watch Dogs, along with some others of the year’s biggest titles, to retailers, and to gauge market interest and response.

Said Amit Khemani, Director of E-xpress, “This is why the events like Connect is so important. This will certainly get more and more awareness to the trade about the upcoming games and get them enthusiastic about games on new IPs in advance.”

Edward talks about his history and how he used to obey men of privileges and wealth. However, now his loyalty lies within his crew of pirates that are going to be taking everything back that belongs to them.

The ending of the video also teases underwater sharks. Ubisoft previously confirmed that you will be able to use a harpoon to hunt down numerous creatures.

Assassins’s Creed IV: Black Flag will be coming out on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC, Wii U and Next-Generation of consoles on October 31st in North America with a European release following the next day.

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Ubisoft have released a new trailer for Assassins’s Creed IV: Black Flag that introduces the Golden Age of Piracy and numerous historical pirate characters. Ubisoft have also announced a Blackbeard figurine that can now be pre-ordered from www.uplay.com

The publisher has also said:

We’re staying away from clichés,” lead content manager Carsten Myhill said earlier this year. “Things like walking the plank, parrots on the shoulder and hooks for hands.

“We are giving pirates the HBO, reality treatment. No longer is it for kids.”

Check out the trailer below and the figurine below:

– Story and some Gameplay Details –

• In Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, players will take on a role of Edward Kenway the feather of Haytham Kenway from Assassins’s Creed III.

• Edward Kenway will be able to traverse between three different cities, an open-world jungle that’s similar to the frontier from Assassin’s Creed III and Edward will be able to swim under the sea in the Caribbean to look for treasure and more that we don’t know of yet.

• The three cities are called: Kingston, Havana and Nassau

• The whole world in Assassins’s Creed IV: Black Flag will be entirely seamless without any loading screens once you’re loaded into the game’s world.

• Naval battles will be taken to a whole new level because players will be able to close in on enemy ship and board it to attack it or fight the old-fashioned way if they wish.

• Jackadaw  is the name of your main ship and will be upgradeable throughout the entire game as you progress.

• Multiplayer is confirmed and will take place on land-only with new settings and game modes.

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