Despite having an offline mode, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced was unplayable when Ubisoft Connect went down

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced became unplayable on PC over the weekend when Ubisoft Connect servers went offline, despite the game having an offline mode. The outage lasted about an hour, but the offline mode failed to work, sparking complaints on Steam Forums and Reddit where a thread gained over 15,000 upvotes. Players recalled similar issues with other Ubisoft games, and the company has not addressed the problem. This is not the first controversy for Resynced, which launched with cosmetic microtransactions costing more than the full game, leading to negative Steam reviews that later recovered. Despite remaining bugs, the remake is considered a stable release. Eurogamer's Dom Peppiatt praised the improvements over the original while noting it creates its own problems.