Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced players are losing to Legendary Ships more than half the time

Ubisoft has dropped a batch of one-month player stats for Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, and the headline number is brutal: Legendary Ship encounters sit at just a 47% win rate, meaning the majority of attempts to sink those boss vessels end with the Jackdaw at the bottom of the ocean.

Beyond the Legendary Ship struggles, the numbers paint a vivid picture of how players are spending their time. Sailors have covered 40.07 million in-game kilometres over the first month — equivalent to 1,000 laps of the Earth or 52 round trips to the Moon. Players have also spent 8.07 million hours manually crouched, a feature absent from the original 2013 game, which accounts for roughly 10% of the game's total playtime. The most popular weapon is the Le Bourgeyoys Blades cutlass, the most-worn outfit is the Privateer costume, and — perhaps most importantly — 28.29 million animals have been petted, with cats taking the top spot.

Black Flag Resynced launched a month ago as a modernised version of the beloved 2013 open-world pirate adventure. The remaster adds quality-of-life features like manual crouching and animal interactions that weren't in the original, while keeping the core naval combat and Caribbean exploration intact. Legendary Ships were notoriously punishing in the original release too, designed as a true endgame test for a fully upgraded Jackdaw — so a sub-50% win rate a month in, when many players are still gearing up, isn't entirely surprising.

Ubisoft put out a new patch for the game last week, but players are still waiting on news about the previously confirmed New Game Plus mode, which has yet to receive a release date.