Black Flag Resynced: Ubisoft Censors a Cutscene That Might Hint at a New Game
Edward Kenway walks into a bar and sits across from a man who tells him the king is dead. This scene exists in no known Assassin’s Creed game. It was buried in the files of Black Flag Resynced until a dataminer unearthed it—and Ubisoft quickly silenced it.
Digging through the data of the Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag remake, Sliderv2 discovered this unfinished cinematic. The sequence features Edward Kenway alongside Miko, co-founder of the British Assassin Brotherhood—a character whose fate is tightly woven with the Kenway family. Just hours after the video went live, Ubisoft hit it with a copyright strike, and the Reddit thread about the discovery vanished at the same time.
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The censored cinematic that links three generations of Assassins
The scene Sliderv2 dug up is short but loaded with meaning. Edward Kenway steps into a bar and sits down with Miko—a character fans mostly know from Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate as the British Brotherhood’s co-founder and a key figure in the Order’s English chapter. The dialogue opens with a heavy line—“The king is dead”—before Miko mentions a call to “the entire Brotherhood.” The cinematic then cuts to Adéwalé, Edward’s former quartermaster turned full-fledged Assassin.
What stands out is the narrative density packed into just a few seconds. Three major saga figures share the screen, each from a different generation in the Assassin-Templar conflict. Most importantly, this scene never existed in the original 2013 game files: it was created specifically for Black Flag Resynced.
The timeline clues pointing to an AC III prequel
The line “The king is dead” is no throwaway. Black Flag Resynced ends in 1722, and Freedom Cry doesn’t start until 1735—the year Edward canonically dies. The only monarch whose death falls between those dates is George I of Great Britain, who died in 1727. This places the cinematic five years after the base game’s ending, right in a period the franchise has barely touched.
That decade, 1725–1735, is huge for the lore: Haytham Kenway, Edward’s son and future Assassin’s Creed III antagonist, is born in 1725. Only the novel Assassin’s Creed: Forsaken—Haytham’s fictional diary—brushes against this era, but never explores it. In terms of story potential, it’s almost uncharted territory:
- Young Haytham’s training under his Assassin father
- Edward’s final years in London, far from the Caribbean
- The rise of the British Brotherhood under Miko’s leadership
- The exact circumstances of Edward’s assassination in 1735
All these threads set the stage for a perfect Assassin’s Creed III prequel, focused on the transition from Edward’s generation to Haytham’s.
The twist: Haytham kills Miko in AC III
Miko’s presence in this cutscene hits differently if you remember the prologue of Assassin’s Creed III. It’s Haytham Kenway himself who murders Miko in one of the saga’s most memorable opening scenes. The son kills the father’s ally. If the Black Flag Resynced cinematic shows Edward and Miko’s first meeting, it closes a brutal family tragedy: the man who fought beside the father ends up stabbed by the son, now a Templar.
This symmetry is no accident. It suggests deliberate writing, designed to deepen the Kenway family mythos across multiple games. The fact that Ubisoft created this scene from scratch for the remake—with Matt Ryan returning to voice Edward—only strengthens the theory that something bigger than a simple remaster is in the works.
Why Ubisoft censored this discovery
Ubisoft’s reaction was as swift as it was telling. Sliderv2’s video got hit with a copyright strike, and the r/GamingLeaksAndRumours thread disappeared from Reddit at the same time. This double takedown goes beyond simple IP protection—Ubisoft could have ignored an unfinished, inconsequential scene.
The community has theories. The cautious take: it was just cut content, a narrative thread tested and dropped. The bolder theory: this cinematic was a teaser for a future project—maybe a Resynced version of Freedom Cry, or a brand-new game covering Edward’s London years. The scene was made exclusively for the remake, with Matt Ryan already in the studio to re-record lines—hard to see it as just a throwaway draft.
By acting so fast and so forcefully, Ubisoft has ironically thrown a spotlight on this discovery. If the cinematic meant nothing, why unleash the legal arsenal to erase it? The question isn’t whether Ubisoft is working on the next Kenway story, but when they’ll finally lift the curtain.
