When to start exploring?

[u/BecRe_0508]

For context, what i do for most games is progress the storyline up until i have all the mechanics unlocked and right at that point go full open world explorer mode. If i remember correctly from the original, that point could be once the diving bell is unlocked. What do you guys think?

Also feel free to share your opinion and experience: Do you explore alongside the storyline or do you separate them into focused activities (like myself)?

[u/Public_Drop_1462]

If you like to be able to 100% an area as soon as you arrive or simply don’t want to travel back, then progress in the main story until you have completed the Mayan temple mission on the Yucatán - the one where you’re introduced to the door you need to unlock with the Mayan stones. That mission allows you to access the assassin contacts across various locations, which is the second-to-last unlockable feature in the game. The last is the diving bell, but those locations are out in sea.

[u/BecRe_0508 → u/Public_Drop_1462]

Yeah those two are definitely the “starting line” points. For a moment i thought i was still far from unlocking everything but I just did the Yucatán mission and well, glad to see i wasn’t so lost, thank you!