04 - Ever a Splinter | Sequence 12 AC IV: Black Flag Guide
Last update: 11 May 2016
To start the last, as a matter of fact, mission in the game, you will have to cut through two heavy galleons on the 36th level, and a nearby fort (this is, if you haven't seized it yet) so, upgrade your ship properly, if you still have not.
Go towards the Observatory. Along your way, you will be bumping into Spaniards murdering the locals but, there is nothing you can do about it. Simply, push forward. You will come to no harm here.
OPTIONAL OBJECTIVE- free seven guardian hostages
Before you enter the caves, turn left. You will find hostage guards here. Use a berserk dart on the guard that is watching them, to have him killed by the other guards. Just in case, keep a sleeping dart prepared to prevent the guard from killing the hostages, if he survives. Alternatively, you can simply charge at him and run assassinate him to deal with the others afterwards. Once it is clear, free the hostages and walk into the caves.
Right at the beginning of the cave you will find two other hostage guards. Jump down to kill the soldier that watches them and, if necessary, deal with the remaining soldiers. Then free the hostages.
A bit ahead, you will find the third group of hostages, watched by two gunners. The easiest way to handle them is to run assassinate them. From now on, the only thing that you need to do is run to the Observatory, because nothing else will happen here.
The Observatory seem a little bit more livid than previously. Run over the movable columns up to the three soldiers and kill them.
The large bloc that you killed the Spaniards on, will move from left to right and back again. Once you reach the next movable wall, climb onto it. You will have to use the fact that the columns go up and down to get to the very top. From there, jump towards the entrance to the center of the complex. The final part will break and, fortunately, you will land exactly into the entrance.
OPTIONAL OBJECTIVE- use the Observatory defenses to kill four guards
In the next corridor, walls of light will be appearing on regular basis. You cannot cross them, but they will not kill you on contact. The easiest way to complete the optional objective, is to lure all the guards into this corridor and run around, back and forth, until the walls kill enough of them. Then, walk into the center and kill the remaining guards.
Assassinate Loreano Torres
Over the moving columns, reach Torres. For now, you will not be capable of harming him. Try to come close to him. Soon, it will turn out that you will slide down. Turn right to make it over, while holding on to the pipes.
Over the pipes, you will make it onto the wall with the walls of light appearing on, on a regular basis. If you touch to them, they will throw you off and you will die. Keep an eye on the holes in the wall. Each time they glow, this means that the light will strike again so, stop and go ahead as soon as it goes off. Keep going right at all times and climb onto the last column.
Keep jumping over the moving columns to end up right in front of Torres.
Make it over onto the bar between the two columns that is moving back and forth, right in front of Torres. Once you reach Torres, make sure that he is not protected by a wall of light and it is clear around. Jump then to kill him and complete the mission.
Killing Torres will, practically, mean the end of the game. You will be back, for a moment, to the Abstergo office and watch the epilogue but, after all, these are only cutscenes. After you watch the epilogue, you will officially complete the Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag! Of course, you can still return to the Caribbean to complete side missions and locate all collectibles, or simply to hoist the crossbones flag onto the mast and hack, slash burn down and loot for your own entertainment...