findlestick | Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag - Captain's Cabin Break-out glitches (+Prompt displacement glitches) @findlestick | Uploaded May 2015 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
The Captain's cabin can be used to break Edward out of certain actions and events. And prompts can become displaced.
So far there are two methods for the Captain's Cabin break-outs:
Method 1: While sailing, approach a mission but let go of the Rudder JUST before the game places the mission-prompt over your head. Normally you are stuck on the Rudder while this mission-prompt appears above your head, but by letting go at a certain moment, you are free to move around with this prompt above your head.
Being free to move around with this prompt above your head, allows you to enter the Captain's Cabin JUST after activating the mission-prompt.
Method 2: This method involves using the "Ground sailing" glitch. Sail your ship to a "land-prompt" so that the Captain's Cabin is in front of it. From there, run towards the Cabin and activate the land-prompt JUST before activating the Cabin prompt.
Note: Sometimes you can activate the prompt located inside the cabin during a cutscene (shown in vid). My PS3 isn't online, so I wonder what would happen if you accessed it while the scene is playing? Reaching the other prompts inside the Cabin before the mission starts seems unlikely from testing to date.
Prompt displacement:
You can move some "land-prompts" around with the ship, you can move these prompts near to other prompts on land.
Which means that - as with the Captain's Cabin Break-out glitch - you can create a scenario where you activate one prompt at nearly the same time as some other prompt.
For example you can move a "Main Mission-Prompt" next to an "Assassin Contract Mission-Prompt". Or next to a shop prompt, or a Boat fast travel-prompt (and with your portable "Captain's Cabin prompt" always nearby to cause chaos). You can even cluster multiple prompts to be near each other.
Considering all the possible configurations, the mind boggles...
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The glitches in the vid:
1. Using Captain's Cabin Break-out method 1 at a couple of sea missions caused the entire ocean and sky to vanish. This is similar to the "Minus World" glitch in DmC - in that - outside the cabin the world is semi-loaded.
Some sightseeing followed:
(a) Exploring an island that is surrounded by nothing at all (this is the same for all islands during the glitch).
(b) Watching dolphins that appear as though they are flying in the sky.
(c ) Sailing on thin air, and related activities.
(d) Jumping off an island to check if the ocean wasn't merely invisible. The ocean truly has completely vanished.
(e) Footage of the Captain's Cabin, which is actually a glowing box floating in the sky. (Normally invisible).
(f) Diving face-first into the ocean floor.
(g) Some "Air fish" swimming around in "air".
On a side note, I've yet to test method 1 at the mission where you go swimming under the ocean. I'm not sure what to expect there.
2. I moved a mission-prompt to a completely different island, but activating it only caused things to resume as normal, back at its intended island.
3. I used Captain's Cabin Break-out method 2 at one of the "Tailing" missions (Sequence 5: Traveling Salesman). This caused a chaotic-looking cutscene, and on completion the camera pans up quickly to the Cabin. You fail the mission at that point since being up in the Cabin means you are too far from your targets.
Another result of this same set-up is that you are softlocked on land, and you can see the glowing Captain's Cabin floating in mid air.
Note: The height of the Cabin seems to vary depending on the ship's location.
4. I used Captain's Cabin Break-out method 2 at an Assassin mission "The Maroon Assassin". Edward is missing during the scene (he's in his Cabin the entire time). On scene completion, Edward falls from the Cabin floating very high in the sky.
The Captain's cabin can be used to break Edward out of certain actions and events. And prompts can become displaced.
So far there are two methods for the Captain's Cabin break-outs:
Method 1: While sailing, approach a mission but let go of the Rudder JUST before the game places the mission-prompt over your head. Normally you are stuck on the Rudder while this mission-prompt appears above your head, but by letting go at a certain moment, you are free to move around with this prompt above your head.
Being free to move around with this prompt above your head, allows you to enter the Captain's Cabin JUST after activating the mission-prompt.
Method 2: This method involves using the "Ground sailing" glitch. Sail your ship to a "land-prompt" so that the Captain's Cabin is in front of it. From there, run towards the Cabin and activate the land-prompt JUST before activating the Cabin prompt.
Note: Sometimes you can activate the prompt located inside the cabin during a cutscene (shown in vid). My PS3 isn't online, so I wonder what would happen if you accessed it while the scene is playing? Reaching the other prompts inside the Cabin before the mission starts seems unlikely from testing to date.
Prompt displacement:
You can move some "land-prompts" around with the ship, you can move these prompts near to other prompts on land.
Which means that - as with the Captain's Cabin Break-out glitch - you can create a scenario where you activate one prompt at nearly the same time as some other prompt.
For example you can move a "Main Mission-Prompt" next to an "Assassin Contract Mission-Prompt". Or next to a shop prompt, or a Boat fast travel-prompt (and with your portable "Captain's Cabin prompt" always nearby to cause chaos). You can even cluster multiple prompts to be near each other.
Considering all the possible configurations, the mind boggles...
_________________________________________________________
The glitches in the vid:
1. Using Captain's Cabin Break-out method 1 at a couple of sea missions caused the entire ocean and sky to vanish. This is similar to the "Minus World" glitch in DmC - in that - outside the cabin the world is semi-loaded.
Some sightseeing followed:
(a) Exploring an island that is surrounded by nothing at all (this is the same for all islands during the glitch).
(b) Watching dolphins that appear as though they are flying in the sky.
(c ) Sailing on thin air, and related activities.
(d) Jumping off an island to check if the ocean wasn't merely invisible. The ocean truly has completely vanished.
(e) Footage of the Captain's Cabin, which is actually a glowing box floating in the sky. (Normally invisible).
(f) Diving face-first into the ocean floor.
(g) Some "Air fish" swimming around in "air".
On a side note, I've yet to test method 1 at the mission where you go swimming under the ocean. I'm not sure what to expect there.
2. I moved a mission-prompt to a completely different island, but activating it only caused things to resume as normal, back at its intended island.
3. I used Captain's Cabin Break-out method 2 at one of the "Tailing" missions (Sequence 5: Traveling Salesman). This caused a chaotic-looking cutscene, and on completion the camera pans up quickly to the Cabin. You fail the mission at that point since being up in the Cabin means you are too far from your targets.
Another result of this same set-up is that you are softlocked on land, and you can see the glowing Captain's Cabin floating in mid air.
Note: The height of the Cabin seems to vary depending on the ship's location.
4. I used Captain's Cabin Break-out method 2 at an Assassin mission "The Maroon Assassin". Edward is missing during the scene (he's in his Cabin the entire time). On scene completion, Edward falls from the Cabin floating very high in the sky.
