Ubisoft strikes down datamined Black Flag Resynced epilogue that hinted at new 18th-century AC content

A datamined epilogue cutscene from Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced has been pulled from YouTube after Ubisoft issued a copyright removal request against the video. The scene was discovered by modder Sliderv2, and the Reddit thread discussing it has also been removed by Reddit's filters — making independent verification impossible at this point.

According to Kotaku and Insider Gaming, the short unfinished scene takes place in a tavern and shows Black Flag protagonist Edward Kenway talking with Miko, a leader of the British Assassin Brotherhood. Miko is a character AC fans will recognise as the person killed by Haytham Kenway — Edward's Templar son — near the start of Assassin's Creed 3. In the scene, Miko apparently alludes to the death of a king, which observers are reading as a reference to George I of Great Britain dying in 1727, a year that falls between the settings of Black Flag and its expansion Freedom Cry. The conversation reportedly also touches on rallying assassins worldwide, with Freedom Cry protagonist Adéwalé — Kenway's quartermaster through most of Black Flag — seemingly set to play a role.

The speculation around the scene centres on a fairly specific gap in the AC timeline. Edward Kenway is murdered in 1735, AC3 kicks off in 1754, and Assassin's Creed Rogue begins in 1752, which leaves his years in England from roughly 1725 to his death as largely unexplored territory in the games. The 2012 tie-in novel Assassin's Creed: Forsaken covers some of that ground from Haytham's perspective, but Edward's own story in that window remains mostly untouched in playable form. Black Flag Resynced is a remaster of the beloved 2013 open-world pirate entry in the series, so Ubisoft clearly still sees value in the Edward Kenway era — which is part of why fans are reading this scrapped scene as a possible tease for a new expansion or standalone game set in that period.

Ubisoft's swift copyright strike has only amplified curiosity in the community, with many taking the takedown as a sign the studio is protective of whatever plans may exist around this content. Whether the scene was a genuine story prototype or simply a discarded idea that never went anywhere remains unclear — but the timing, combined with the Miko connection and the specific historical reference, has fans hoping there's more Edward Kenway on the way.