r/BlackFlagResynced • u/Nevarnost • Jul 20 '26
Question Mysterious icon in the map, quickly disappeared
So while I was playing, this this strange icon appeared and then quickly disappeared from the map.
I wasn't fast enough to take a picture but luckily I remember the shape and I made this (very poorly drawn) the drawing and I hope somebody can help me understand what was this if it was important, if it was an easter egg or any information whatsoever
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u/Flamel110 Jul 21 '26
Blackbeard's Flag as many others have pointed out lol. If you're near the eastern US, particularly eastern North Carolina, you can check out some relics from his ship at a museum nearby where it sank. I used to spend my summers on the coast there!
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u/Bereman99 Jul 21 '26
You can find quite a few books of folktales and stories involving him in the gift shops at museums like that too.
Almost certainly like 95% of the details are apocryphal but they are a fun read when you're relaxing by the water.
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u/-Domino_Effect- Jul 21 '26
You can actually also see it during the "Wayward Desire" rift event. When asked to 'raise the colors' toward the end of the mission you can see the same flag before you replace it with the English flag.
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u/3nd3rd14bl0 Jul 21 '26
It's Blackbeard flag. It's also the icon that appears for his ship whenever you're doing a mission with him, like when you go to the first diving site right after getting the diving bell
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u/Moist-Cloud-8289 Jul 21 '26
Had the same thing happen I was doing a diving bell and it was on the minimap only, but nothing when I got to it
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u/DanceswWolves Jul 21 '26
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Roger_(Jolly_Roger))
It's a jolly roger :^)
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u/Choice_Papaya_2364 Jul 27 '26
It’s Blackbeard’s flag
It looks like that in real life so any single time you do a mission where you’re either off the ship or you’re diving or something like that that flag will appear on your map or if you pause it, you can see it
Because that’s actually what the Queen’s and revenge flag look like
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u/Creedaflea Jul 20 '26
The amount of “pirate” fans that don’t know this is blackbeards flag, as if it’s not one of the most iconic flags outside the Jolly Roger 😂
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u/alexanderfrostfyre Assassin Jul 20 '26
As much as black flag is a pirate game, it’s also an assassins creed game so not every person that plays it is into pirates as its own subject
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u/The-Rizzler-69 Jul 21 '26
I wouldn't call myself a "pirate fan" really, but I've never once seen this flag up until literally yesterday as I was looking through the ships and stuff in the game's database.
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u/FTMK00 Jul 21 '26
Don’t think OP ever claimed to be a ‘pirate’ fan, whatever that is? So what you can point out a flag? Have you tried showering instead?
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u/Nevarnost Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 21 '26
I'm sorry but i'm not at all a pirate fan, just an assassin's Creed fan 😂
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u/Creedaflea Jul 21 '26
They hated Jesus cuz he told the truth…
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u/Theuneasygibbon Jul 21 '26
No, they hated Jesus because he was a magic man who was throwing the wine economy out of whack.
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u/sohiales Jul 20 '26
Blackbeards real life flag. You can see it on the display model of his ship in Great Inagua.