AC Black Flag Resynced: unlocking and using fast travel

The map in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is massive. Between two islands, a crossing on the Jackdaw can easily eat up ten minutes, even if you keep yourself busy with boarding actions along the way. Fast travel solves this - but the system has a few rules you need to know before relying on it blindly.

Requirement: synchronize to unlock

Fast travel isn't available right away to just any location. You can only teleport to synchronization points you've already visited and activated. That's the basic rule, and it governs everything else.

Note

You'll recognize a synchronized point immediately on the map: its icon turns from white to yellow. As long as it stays white, it's inaccessible via fast travel. It's that simple.

Logical conclusion: synchronize every viewpoint you come across, systematically. Not just for fast travel - each synchronization reveals additional icons in the area (sea shanties, hidden chests, various activities). It's time invested now, paid back twofold later.

How to use fast travel

The process is quick:

• Open the map.
• Hover over a synchronization point with a yellow icon.
• Hold Triangle (PS) / Y (Xbox) to confirm the teleport.

There's no distance restriction. You can teleport from the other side of the world to any synchronized point. The map is your hub, the rest follows. And it's not limited to classic viewpoints either. Forts you capture also become fast travel destinations. The further you progress through the campaign, the more your network of teleport points naturally grows.

Getting back to the Jackdaw quickly

Are you on foot on an island and want to get back to your ship without swimming? Two methods exist:

• Via the map: open the map, select the Jackdaw icon, hold Triangle/Y. Fast, reliable, always works.
• Via a rowboat: if a small rowboat is moored on the shore, you can use it in the open world - it triggers a loading screen and drops you off aboard the Jackdaw.

Tip

On paper, both methods work. In practice, rowboats are problematic: in the current version of the game, the loading screen can get stuck for about thirty seconds before simply dropping you back next to the rowboat, without teleporting you. Bug or isolated case, hard to say for now. Until a potential patch arrives, go through the map instead. Zero risk of wasting time.

What the system doesn't allow

An important point to avoid frustration: you cannot teleport directly to just any location you've visited. A merchant you passed along the way, a beach you spotted, a side quest on an unsynchronized island - none of that is accessible via fast travel.

You always have to go through a synchronized point (or a captured fort) and then travel on foot to your final destination. That's the system's limit, and it stays consistent with the original game's logic. Synchronize ahead of time, and you'll keep these detours to a minimum.