Does Black Flag Resynced Have Ray Tracing?

Updated July 7, 2026

Yes. The remake features ray-traced lighting plus micropolygon rendering.

Yes. One of the headline upgrades in Black Flag Resynced is ray-traced lighting, which dramatically improves how sunlight, water, shadows and reflections behave across the Caribbean.

It is paired with micropolygon rendering for far denser geometric detail. On PC you need a reasonably modern GPU to enable ray tracing — see our system requirements.