findlestick | Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag - Glitching in “Diving For Medicines” (S6-M1) @findlestick | Uploaded June 2015 | Updated October 2024, 14 minutes ago.
Glitches in “Diving for Medicines” in Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (Sequence 6, Memory 1).
Some of the glitches in this vid were done with the “Buffered Prompt” glitch, see my previous vid to see how I set this up here:
youtube.com/watch?v=OsejFCokS1U
I also use the Captain’s Cabin break-out glitch, I show how I set up that glitch here:
youtube.com/watch?v=IndMH_U1A8Q
Note: For brevity, I sometimes edited out visits to the shop during the “Buffered Prompt”-state.
Points of interest:
1. Equipping swords during the final scene of this chapter, causes Edward to break free from the scene and stands around idle off-screen. You just see a floating bottle moving around on its own.
2. Upgrading The Jackdaw during the first scene of this chapter, causes Edward to temporarily sail in a displaced manner.
3. Entering one of those underwater barrels and suddenly equipping the sword, breaks Edward out of the entire animation and he simply passes through the barrel as if it isn’t there.
4. I do the Captain’s Cabin break-out glitch at the start of this chapter. This can cause the ocean to completely vanish, but at this chapter you normally get a Softlock. Which was originally frustrating, because I wanted to know what would happen if you jumped into the “Sunken Vessel” area below, or to use the “Sunken Vessel” prompt with no water around.
So I was originally resigned to the fact that this was wasted glitch potential.
However, it turns out that upgrading The Jackdaw breaks you out of the Softlocked state. So I was able to do what I had wanted to do all along, two of these results are in this video.
I. I caused the glitch that makes the entire ocean vanish, and I showed some footage of what it looks like down there from The Jackdaw.
I then activated the prompt to lower the Diving Bell while there is no water around. Unfortunately, since there is no water around Edward gets stuck in his “landlubber mode” and you can’t exit the Diving Bell. Interestingly, if you activate Eagle Vision (name?), you can equip some of your weapons. But at this date I couldn’t find any way to get out of the Diving Bell.
II. I caused the glitch that is mostly the same as the entire ocean vanishing glitch. The only difference is that it looks like there is water around, but it actually is only some collision-less blue ocean-like texture (it’s not real water).
From there I dived into the Sunken Vessel area, and you can run around down there. The entire area is a solid box of collision which you can’t seem to enter, I nearly did one time but I got enough fall damage that I died (but it may be possible to run around down there). I’d like to see how the prompts down there affect Landlubber Edward.
I also tried to get back up to The Jackdaw, in an attempt to sail while the game thinks you’re underwater. Above the ocean the game looks oddly loaded, with some ghostly effect.
Not in vid: All around the Sunken Vessel area, there is teleport collision. So if you fall off this large box of collision, the game teleports you back up to where you fell from. Looks odd.
5. At the underwater section (where Edward lifts some ship-rubble), I equipped swords with the Buffered Prompt glitch. Edward goes all limp like some a ragdoll, and the falling rubble pushes him under the map. From there I show some out-of-bounds swimming sightseeing. This glitch also needs further testing.
Glitches in “Diving for Medicines” in Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (Sequence 6, Memory 1).
Some of the glitches in this vid were done with the “Buffered Prompt” glitch, see my previous vid to see how I set this up here:
youtube.com/watch?v=OsejFCokS1U
I also use the Captain’s Cabin break-out glitch, I show how I set up that glitch here:
youtube.com/watch?v=IndMH_U1A8Q
Note: For brevity, I sometimes edited out visits to the shop during the “Buffered Prompt”-state.
Points of interest:
1. Equipping swords during the final scene of this chapter, causes Edward to break free from the scene and stands around idle off-screen. You just see a floating bottle moving around on its own.
2. Upgrading The Jackdaw during the first scene of this chapter, causes Edward to temporarily sail in a displaced manner.
3. Entering one of those underwater barrels and suddenly equipping the sword, breaks Edward out of the entire animation and he simply passes through the barrel as if it isn’t there.
4. I do the Captain’s Cabin break-out glitch at the start of this chapter. This can cause the ocean to completely vanish, but at this chapter you normally get a Softlock. Which was originally frustrating, because I wanted to know what would happen if you jumped into the “Sunken Vessel” area below, or to use the “Sunken Vessel” prompt with no water around.
So I was originally resigned to the fact that this was wasted glitch potential.
However, it turns out that upgrading The Jackdaw breaks you out of the Softlocked state. So I was able to do what I had wanted to do all along, two of these results are in this video.
I. I caused the glitch that makes the entire ocean vanish, and I showed some footage of what it looks like down there from The Jackdaw.
I then activated the prompt to lower the Diving Bell while there is no water around. Unfortunately, since there is no water around Edward gets stuck in his “landlubber mode” and you can’t exit the Diving Bell. Interestingly, if you activate Eagle Vision (name?), you can equip some of your weapons. But at this date I couldn’t find any way to get out of the Diving Bell.
II. I caused the glitch that is mostly the same as the entire ocean vanishing glitch. The only difference is that it looks like there is water around, but it actually is only some collision-less blue ocean-like texture (it’s not real water).
From there I dived into the Sunken Vessel area, and you can run around down there. The entire area is a solid box of collision which you can’t seem to enter, I nearly did one time but I got enough fall damage that I died (but it may be possible to run around down there). I’d like to see how the prompts down there affect Landlubber Edward.
I also tried to get back up to The Jackdaw, in an attempt to sail while the game thinks you’re underwater. Above the ocean the game looks oddly loaded, with some ghostly effect.
Not in vid: All around the Sunken Vessel area, there is teleport collision. So if you fall off this large box of collision, the game teleports you back up to where you fell from. Looks odd.
5. At the underwater section (where Edward lifts some ship-rubble), I equipped swords with the Buffered Prompt glitch. Edward goes all limp like some a ragdoll, and the falling rubble pushes him under the map. From there I show some out-of-bounds swimming sightseeing. This glitch also needs further testing.
