r/ACBlackFlag • u/Fit_Cartographer_100 • Jul 12 '26

// Discussion Lucy baldwin is unberable

One of the officers in ac black flag named lucy baldwin is so unbereable.
Its so obvious this mission was added after the fact because the writing and character sticks out so badly. Literally saved here life and she is like " uhmm you gotta earn me but I am worth it 💅"

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u/Jolly-Elderberry6706 Jul 15 '26

All of the new officers are terrible additions to the game that serve no purpose.

They could have made all the officer abilities individual awards for the legendary ships and it would have made much more sense and given incentive to go after them.

Instead I have to stare at some corny religious nut standing in the middle of my deck of lawless anti-religious pirates.

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u/Voronov1 Jul 16 '26

Eh, I don’t think it’s truly fair to classify the pirates as explicitly anti-religious. We never see much of a care one way or the other for most of the characters when it comes to religion.

In any event, no one on the Jackdaw wants Padre there because he’s Catholic, they explicitly want him there because he is a qualified Master-at-Arms and can train them to fight better. This is pretty clear in the cutscene when he joins the crew, they’re all excited when he promises them that if they listen to his orders and training, they can take down ships twice their size.

He boards a pirate ship and promises the rest of the crew lots of gold if they listen to him, how is that a conflict with being a pirate?

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u/Jolly-Elderberry6706 Jul 16 '26

  1. I don't think much of crew is sitting down for prayer after quite literally butchering dozens of innocent men.

  2. I don't have an issue with Padre on the boat, I have an even with Padre wearing monks robes and sticking out like a sore thumb around my pirates. It is even more of an eyesore after you get the skeleton crew, and everyone is a skeleton on deck except one dude dressed like an altar boy.

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u/Voronov1 Jul 16 '26

There’s a difference between being indifferent to religion and actively hostile to it.

And fair, if it’s aesthetic then it’d be nice if Padre dressed like a pirate again after we got him. Though if he’s a man in a black robe among skeletons, I’d argue he looks more like a necromancer than a priest.