How to Boost Multiplayer in 2020

[PhyrxianLibrarin]

OK, after an entire day of matchmaking and experimenting, I am here to report on Black Flag multiplayer, and the best way to check off those pesky multiplayer trophies and get your shiny platinum. This includes the Blackbeard's Wrath DLC trophies for those of you who have it.

 

The important points:

1. A lot of the multiplayer trophies cannot be boosted in private matches. Sacred Land definitely requires a "public" match, and possibly Queen Anne's Revenge and Elevator to the Gallows as well.

2. Public matches are way faster than Wolfpack solo. The servers are still just barely functional enough to do clan matchmaking, and if you can get into a 2v2 game, you'll gain XP at least twice as fast as trying it yourself. We were able to get four players from low levels to 55 in a single ~8 hour session.

3. Private matches have an XP penalty... and clan matches count as public matches!

 

This method exploits the fact that clans haven't been relevant since Quake was released in 1996. With two clans consisting of two people, you are extremely likely to be paired against each other, and once you're in a game you're good to go.

 

Phase 1: Set up your clans

 

- Find your boosting partners and decide on the teams. Everyone join the same PSN party, just to make things easier.

- From the main multiplayer menu, one person from each team should hit R1, and select "Manage your clan status"

- Invite your partner.

- Once they've accepted your invite (in-game, this isn't a PSN clan), go back to the main multiplayer menu and select Custom Match.

- Tap the touchpad to group with friends. Pick your new clan member and make sure they're in the same group as you. You want two groups of two people!

- If this is all set up, you should be able to set Matchmaking to "Clan", which is exactly what you want. Set the Session Type to Adversarial, and the Mode Preference to Domination.

- Select Search Session and cross your fingers. If all goes well, you should get matched up into a game with one clan vs. the other clan.

 

That's actually the hard part! Ironically, much like Abstergo, Ubisoft itself is the real final boss.

 

Step 2: Grind that XP

 

- Domination is basically the "control an area of the map" mode. Each team should grab one checkpoint, and leave the third one blank. This will stop the meter so you have the full 10 minutes.

- Find a bench near (but not inside!) one of the checkpoints. Have the "pursuers" sit on the bench (for example, if you find a good bench near checkpoint A, and checkpoint A is white, the white team should sit). The game will tell you whether you're a pursuer or a target.

- The other team (the "targets") stands in front of the bench, and lets themselves be killed by the pursuers. With a full focus bar and the bench bonus, you can get 1500 points per kill.

- Tap the touchpad to check your score once in a while. Do not score score more than 25000 points in a single match! The game will not actually save your XP progress if you do!

- Once the bench sitters hit around 23-24K points, find a similar bench near the other team's checkpoint, and swap roles. The "pursuers" should always be doing the killing, and the "targets" should let themselves get killed.

- Repeat until the round is over. If you want to end a game early, have one team capture the third checkpoint. Do not let one team control all three checkpoints, as that will trigger point bonuses that might push you over the 25,000 point limit.

- Back at the voting screen, vote for the same map again and ready up.

 

This will net every player between 10,000 and 25,000 XP every round, and a round lasts 10 minutes at max. That's much, much faster than 6000 XP every 20 minutes doing Wolfpack solo, and far less annoying. At the same time, the winning team can get Sacred Land, and other players can coordinate their own abilities and the Copycat perk to check off All-Rounder and the rest of the trophies that depend on specific abilities.

 

Notes on the DLC trophies:

 

- For Queen Anne's Revenge, an acrobatic kill is one where you are crouched on a wall. That means either hanging off the side of a wall, or perched on top of a fence. If you're standing on a roof, that's an aerial kill, which is not the same thing.

- For Elevator to the Gallows, you have to be at the top of the lift. Booby trap a lift, ride it up while it's charging, then let your pursuer follow you up.

- For Preemptive Strike, make sure whoever you hit with Sabotage actually tries to use an ability after you hit them.

- For Sacred Land, you not only have to be the top scorer, but your team has to win.

 

See you in AC: Valhalla!

 

Special thanks to @wolfpack7-1, @DuckFeet-, @Lord_Pece, @AwkwardManc, @Ninanya93, @BulimicZombie, and the rest of the AC4 boosting thread!

[HedleyNEUK]

Superb write up, was gutted to miss out on this in the chat as ive been busy working on a couple of other games. il deffo use this with others to get from 28-55

 

Cheers for the decent info

[Lanky-Lemon]

Good luck getting this guys, excellent game. Worth mentioning that it's entirely manageable to reach lvl 55 solo in Wolfpack, just more tedious and you won't be able to finish 'All Rounder' without matchmaking with others.

[OddlyLucky]

I tried this method using but I only got 2,000 XP at the end, even though I got 20,000 points. What did I do wrong?

[PhyrxianLibrarin]

15 hours ago, OddlyLucky said:

I tried this method using but I only got 2,000 XP at the end, even though I got 20,000 points. What did I do wrong?

 

You probably scored 27,000 points. If you score more than 25,000 points in a round, it actually rolls you back to zero, as noted in the OP.

[spellenboy]

On 25-10-2020 at 4:43 AM, PhyrxianLibrarin said:

OK, after an entire day of matchmaking and experimenting, I am here to report on Black Flag multiplayer, and the best way to check off those pesky multiplayer trophies and get your shiny platinum. This includes the Blackbeard's Wrath DLC trophies for those of you who have it.

 

The important points:

1. A lot of the multiplayer trophies cannot be boosted in private matches. Sacred Land definitely requires a "public" match, and possibly Queen Anne's Revenge and Elevator to the Gallows as well.

2. Public matches are way faster than Wolfpack solo. The servers are still just barely functional enough to do clan matchmaking, and if you can get into a 2v2 game, you'll gain XP at least twice as fast as trying it yourself. We were able to get four players from low levels to 55 in a single ~8 hour session.

3. Private matches have an XP penalty... and clan matches count as public matches!

 

This method exploits the fact that clans haven't been relevant since Quake was released in 1996. With two clans consisting of two people, you are extremely likely to be paired against each other, and once you're in a game you're good to go.

 

Phase 1: Set up your clans

 

- Find your boosting partners and decide on the teams. Everyone join the same PSN party, just to make things easier.

- From the main multiplayer menu, one person from each team should hit R1, and select "Manage your clan status"

- Invite your partner.

- Once they've accepted your invite (in-game, this isn't a PSN clan), go back to the main multiplayer menu and select Custom Match.

- Tap the touchpad to group with friends. Pick your new clan member and make sure they're in the same group as you. You want two groups of two people!

- If this is all set up, you should be able to set Matchmaking to "Clan", which is exactly what you want. Set the Session Type to Adversarial, and the Mode Preference to Domination.

- Select Search Session and cross your fingers. If all goes well, you should get matched up into a game with one clan vs. the other clan.

 

That's actually the hard part! Ironically, much like Abstergo, Ubisoft itself is the real final boss.

 

Step 2: Grind that XP

 

- Domination is basically the "control an area of the map" mode. Each team should grab one checkpoint, and leave the third one blank. This will stop the meter so you have the full 10 minutes.

- Find a bench near (but not inside!) one of the checkpoints. Have the "pursuers" sit on the bench (for example, if you find a good bench near checkpoint A, and checkpoint A is white, the white team should sit). The game will tell you whether you're a pursuer or a target.

- The other team (the "targets") stands in front of the bench, and lets themselves be killed by the pursuers. With a full focus bar and the bench bonus, you can get 1500 points per kill.

- Tap the touchpad to check your score once in a while. Do not score score more than 25000 points in a single match! The game will not actually save your XP progress if you do!

- Once the bench sitters hit around 23-24K points, find a similar bench near the other team's checkpoint, and swap roles. The "pursuers" should always be doing the killing, and the "targets" should let themselves get killed.

- Repeat until the round is over. If you want to end a game early, have one team capture the third checkpoint. Do not let one team control all three checkpoints, as that will trigger point bonuses that might push you over the 25,000 point limit.

- Back at the voting screen, vote for the same map again and ready up.

 

This will net every player between 10,000 and 25,000 XP every round, and a round lasts 10 minutes at max. That's much, much faster than 6000 XP every 20 minutes doing Wolfpack solo, and far less annoying. At the same time, the winning team can get Sacred Land, and other players can coordinate their own abilities and the Copycat perk to check off All-Rounder and the rest of the trophies that depend on specific abilities.

 

Notes on the DLC trophies:

 

- For Queen Anne's Revenge, an acrobatic kill is one where you are crouched on a wall. That means either hanging off the side of a wall, or perched on top of a fence. If you're standing on a roof, that's an aerial kill, which is not the same thing.

- For Elevator to the Gallows, you have to be at the top of the lift. Booby trap a lift, ride it up while it's charging, then let your pursuer follow you up.

- For Preemptive Strike, make sure whoever you hit with Sabotage actually tries to use an ability after you hit them.

- For Sacred Land, you not only have to be the top scorer, but your team has to win.

 

See you in AC: Valhalla!

 

Special thanks to @wolfpack7-1, @DuckFeet-, @Lord_Pece, @AwkwardManc, @Ninanya93, @BulimicZombie, and the rest of the AC4 boosting thread!

This is by far indeed the best boosting method, I’d recommend to do this on the Saba Island map as it’s super small and the ship in the middle is a good reference point for the bench that’s near circle A. I also recommend that when it’s time to swap to take over each other’s territory so it’s always 1 bench to avoid confusion.