A MASTERPIECE RUINED: The Devastating Glitch Trapping the Best Legendary Outfit in ‘Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced’
🚨 DO NOT PLACE THIS PAINTING LAST: A game-breaking bug in Black Flag Resynced is destroying hours of grinding! 🚨
Players are spending dozens of hours hunting down all 11 secret character portraits to unlock the ultra-rare Haytham Kenway Legendary Overcoat and the Fortune Cutlass. But there is a massive coding error: if you place Stede Bonnet’s portrait on the wall last, the quest completely glitches out, permanently locking you out of the rewards unless you have a backup save.
Don’t let Ubisoft’s broken code ruin your pirate legend. Here are all 11 hidden locations, the brutal side quests you must finish first, and the exact order you NEED to place them on Great Inagua 👇🔥
For completionists sailing the deadly waters of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, the ultimate flex isn’t a fully upgraded Man-o’-War or a vault overflowing with Reales. It’s a piece of clothing. Specifically, the ultra-rare Haytham Kenway Legendary Overcoat.
To unlock this coveted outfit—a brilliant piece of lore that bridges the narrative gap between Edward Kenway and his templar son featured in Assassin’s Creed III—players must embark on a massive, game-spanning scavenger hunt to collect 11 hidden character portraits. But what begins as an epic treasure hunt has quickly devolved into a digital nightmare, thanks to a game-breaking bug that is permanently robbing players of their hard-earned rewards.
If you don’t know exactly what you are doing when you finally hang these portraits on the wall of your manor in Great Inagua, hours of grueling gameplay will be wiped out in an instant.
The Ultimate Scavenger Hunt
When Ubisoft launched Black Flag Resynced earlier this month, many players initially dismissed the character portraits as useless, background collectibles. Scattered across the Caribbean, these paintings depict the friends, foes, and legendary pirates Edward encounters throughout his journey.
However, a recent viral guide by YouTube creator Anubis_RD blew the lid off the game’s best-kept secret. Collecting all 11 portraits doesn’t just grant the “Memory of my Enemy” achievement; it unlocks a secret vault of top-tier end-game gear, including the Haytham Kenway Overcoat, a rare trinket known as the Jackdaw Totem, and a secret treasure map that leads to the devastatingly powerful Fortune Legendary Cutlass.
But acquiring the portraits is no simple task. This isn’t a quick fetch quest; it is a marathon that requires players to virtually complete the entire game and engage in some of the most difficult side content Resynced has to offer.
Some portraits are straightforward infiltration missions. To find Julien Ducasse, players simply search the manor on Great Inagua. To claim Laureano Torres and El Tiburon, players must utilize high-level stealth to break into heavily fortified, restricted castles in the northern and northeastern sectors of Havana, climbing through specific open windows while avoiding elite guards. Commodore Chamberlain is hidden in a manor in Nassau, and Ben Hornigold requires a dive into a shipwreck off the coast of Santanillas.
But the difficulty spikes aggressively for the final half of the collection. Laurens Prins’ portrait won’t even spawn in Kingston until players complete the “Unmanned” mission in Sequence 5. Woodes Rogers (also in Kingston) and Bartholomew Roberts (found inside a tent on Principe Island) are completely locked behind the end-game wall of Sequence 12.
The most brutal requirements, however, are tied to massive, multi-hour side questlines. To claim Robert Maynard’s portrait, players must initiate and complete the exhausting “A World Without Gold” questline at the Great Inagua tavern—a gauntlet that Anubis_RD notes can take upwards of two hours to finish. And getting Blackbeard’s portrait requires completing the infamous “Blackbeard’s Treasure” quest in the Anotto Bay cave system, a mission that has already sparked widespread community outrage due to its confusing, Eagle-Vision-breaking puzzle mechanics.
By the time a player finally secures the 11th portrait, they have likely invested over 50 hours into Black Flag Resynced. They are ready for their reward. They sail back to Great Inagua, walk into their beautifully upgraded manor, and begin hanging the paintings on the wall.
And that is exactly where disaster strikes.
The Stede Bonnet Bug: A Coding Catastrophe
The eighth portrait in the collection belongs to Stede Bonnet, the bumbling but lovable merchant-turned-pirate. To acquire his painting, players must read Bonnet’s letter in the Great Inagua manor and complete a lengthy side quest on Mystery Island (which only unlocks after the Sequence 8 mission, “Marooned”).
Once all 11 paintings are collected, the game instructs the player to place each portrait in its designated, correct location on the walls of the manor.
However, as Anubis_RD urgently warned his viewers, the Anvil engine’s quest-trigger coding contains a fatal flaw. If a player places Stede Bonnet’s portrait as the 11th and final painting on the wall, the game breaks.
“Do not place Stede Bonnet’s portrait last,” the creator warned. “If you place Stede Bonnet’s portrait as the final portrait, you won’t receive the quest rewards. This happened to me as well, and I had to reload an older save and place all the portraits in the manor again.”
When the bug triggers, the anticipated final cutscene simply refuses to play. The game registers the portraits as placed, the items are removed from the player’s inventory, but the rewards—the Haytham Overcoat, the Jackdaw Totem, and the map for the Fortune Cutlass—are never deposited.
Because Black Flag Resynced utilizes an aggressive autosave system, players who do not regularly create manual backups find themselves permanently locked out of the items on that save file. The only fix is to reload an old manual save, effectively erasing any progress made between that save and the portrait placement. For some unfortunate gamers on Reddit, this bug has wiped out hours of naval combat and side-questing.
“I literally just lost four hours of grinding legendary ships because I didn’t manual save before hanging a stupid painting,” raged one user on the r/assassinscreed subreddit. “I put Stede Bonnet up last, nothing happened, and the game autosaved. My Haytham outfit is just gone. Ubisoft, fix your broken game.”
The Payoff… If You Can Survive the Glitch
For those who heed the warning and place Stede Bonnet anywhere from 1st to 10th in the order, the ultimate pirate payload is finally delivered.
Once the final (non-Bonnet) portrait is hung, a celebratory cutscene triggers. Players are immediately rewarded with the Haytham Kenway Legendary Overcoat. Aesthetically, it is a stunning piece of virtual tailoring that dramatically alters Edward’s silhouette, giving him the refined, aristocratic, yet deadly look of the Templar Grand Master his son would eventually become. It is a lore-heavy reward that adds a haunting layer of foreshadowing to Edward’s remaining time in the Caribbean.
Alongside the Jackdaw Totem, players receive the final piece of the puzzle: a treasure map leading to the waters just behind Great Inagua Island.
Players must sail to the exact coordinates shown on the map, disembark onto the sandy shore behind their own hideout, and dig up a final, buried chest. Inside lies the Fortune Legendary Cutlass. Boasting maxed-out stats for speed, combo, and damage, the Fortune Cutlass easily ranks among the most lethal melee weapons in the game, allowing players to carve through elite Brutes and Captains with terrifying efficiency.
“A stroke of fortune, there be more chests like this one,” Edward Kenway remarks upon finding the blade.
But for the players currently staring at a glitched wall in their manor with no manual save to fall back on, fortune has absolutely nothing to do with it. As the community waits anxiously for Ubisoft to release a stabilization patch for the Anvil engine, completionists are navigating the Caribbean with extreme paranoia.
If you are currently hunting for the 11 portraits in Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, take this warning to heart: save your game manually, respect the grind, and whatever you do, do not leave Stede Bonnet for last.
