How to Turn On Advanced Parkour for Freer Movement in AC Black Flag Resynced
Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced brings back Advanced Parkour—a system first seen in Shadows—and it’s designed to let you move through rooftops with far fewer guardrails. By default, the game uses invisible safety measures to stop missteps from turning into instant falls. If you want the freer, more punishing free-running style across places like Havana, Nassau, and other well-known settlements from the AC4 remake, you’ll need to switch on the Advanced Parkour option.
Key takeaways
- Advanced Parkour is a returning feature in Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced, originally introduced in Shadows.
- The default setup includes invisible safety nets that prevent accidental rooftop falls.
- Enabling the setting requires turning on “Advanced Parkour” from the game’s settings menu.
- Advanced Parkour disables the automated ledge-grabbing behavior from the original AC4.
- It adds a manual landing roll by holding the dodge button while falling to preserve momentum.
How to Turn on Advanced Parkour Setting in AC Black Flag Resynced
If you want parkour that responds to your inputs instead of being softened by safety nets, you’ll have to enable the “Advanced Parkour” setting manually in Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced. Here’s the process to get it working.
- Open the settings panel using the “ESC” key on keyboard input, or the “Start” button on your controller.
- From the menu screen, go to “Options.” You can select it with a mouse, use the PS5 controller touchpad, or press “View” on an Xbox controller.
- Switch over to the “Gameplay” section and scroll until you find “Advanced Parkour.”
- Toggle “Advanced Parkour” on.
Once you flip it to active, you should immediately notice a change in how Edward moves across rooftops and natural terrain in AC4 Black Flag Resynced.
It can feel punishing if you aren’t used to full control over free-running. With Advanced Parkour enabled, all safety net behavior and auto-ledge tracking are removed, so one mistake can send Edward dropping straight to the ground.
What Does Enabling the “Advanced Parkour” Setting Do Exactly?
Activating Advanced Parkour in Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced completely loosens the game’s movement automation for Edward, including the removal of the heavily automated ledge-grabbing present in the original 2013 AC4.
The biggest shift is how movement directions are split and interpreted. When you hold the “Parkour Up” control, the system prioritizes gaining height, vertical mantling, and upward momentum. Holding “Parkour Down” instead enables more careful downward movement along with controlled horizontal maneuvers. This directional separation makes unrestricted side-ejects and back-ejects possible from nearly any starting height.
With the system opened up, experienced players can even intentionally attempt a jump into open space, manually choosing when Edward commits to a drop. That extra freedom is meant to help you cut across broader gaps and build unusual traversal routes that the older, more guided system wouldn’t encourage.
To keep momentum after a risky manual drop, Advanced Parkour in AC Black Flag Resynced also adds a landing roll by holding the dodge button while you’re falling. The roll is designed to absorb impact so you can keep sprint speed during chases. Overall, the option changes parkour from an automated, restrictive experience into something closer to a skill-driven movement mechanic.
