Ubisoft finally caved to the Caribbean fashion police and let players yeet Edward's blowpipe off his back in Black Flag Resynced with Title Update 1.0.6. The patch drops the option right in the inventory menu—select your outfit and hit R2 on console or whatever the equivalent is on PC to toggle "Hide Gear." Before this, the damn thing just floated there like a bad accessory choice, clipping through outfits that had zero business carrying a dart gun on their spine.

Players had been screaming about it for months, rigging workarounds like intentionally failing harpooning events or installing Nexus mods that auto-hide the pipe until you aimed. The dev team even confirmed the pain was mutual back in July. Now it's official, and the patch is a chunky 1.8-3.7 GB depending on your storefront because apparently fixing one visual grievance requires half a gig of data.

Beyond the blowpipe liberation, the update doubles autosaves from five to ten, brings back the hood toggle during leaps of faith, and slaps a bunch of combat, quest, and visual bugs. Small win for the people who actually wear the damn outfits instead of treating Edward like a weapon rack.

Ubisoft bowing to a single piece of gear feedback after years of complaints? Color me shocked they remembered the game even has outfits.