Assassin’s Creed IV – General Cheats and Easter Eggs Guide

The much anticipated entry in the Assassin’s Creed series has finally arrived, and like many of the other games, there are some fun and interesting Easter eggs to find. Assassin’s Creed IV also has some new cheats for players to use to manipulate the environment around them. Want to experience them for yourself? Read on to learn how to find these Easter eggs and unlock the cheats.

Cheats

Cheats are unlocked as you complete Abstergo Challenges. After completing a certain number of challenges, hit the pause button and go to the ‘challenges’ menu. Select ‘cheats’ and turn on whichever cheat you want to use. While you have a cheat turned on, your game will not save. Keep this in mind before you quit!

Celestial Navigation

This unlocks after completing 10 challenges. It lets you control the day and night cycle.

Arrr Matey

Unlock this cheat after finishing 20 challenges. This makes Edward speak in pirate clichés. 

No Quarter

This cheat will unlock after completing 30 challenges. It will turn of health regeneration for Edward and the Jackdaw.

Scourge of the Seven Seas

This unlocks after you complete 40 challenges. Use it to automatically put your wanted level at max. It won’t reduce.

Loaded to the Gunwale

After 50 challenges have completed, you can use this cheat. This will make Edward constantly drunk.

Poseidon’s Will

This unlocks after 60 challenges have been completed. This gives you the option to eliminate waves completely or turn on big waves constantly.

Dead Men Tell No Tales

After completing 70 challenges, you can use this cheat. It makes Edward and the Jackdaw invincible.

Shiver Me Timbers

This silly cheat unlocks after you finish 80 challenges. It will turn all your enemies into Rabbids!

Armed to the Teeth

After 90 challenges have been completed, you can use this cheat. It gives Edward and the Jackdaw unlimited ammo.

Deceased Crew

After finishing a whopping 100 challenges, you can use this cheat to turn all the crew of the Jackdaw into skeletons.

Easter Eggs

Assassin’s Creed’s Next Location

When outside of the Animus, you can find a hidden email conversation at a hacked terminal between two Abstergo employees that details the options for the location of the next Assassin’s Creed game.

Desmond Miles

Hacking one of the computer terminals in the Abstergo will unlock some information about the fate of Desmond Miles after Assassin’s Creed III.

Far Cry 3

In the database entry for ocelots, you can find notes that read “We may have to consider putting tigers and cassowaries in these jungles too.”, to which someone responds “Please, no. I beg of you.” This is a reference to a creature in Far Cry 3, one that drove many players crazy.

The Secret of Monkey Island

In Nassau, you’ll need to complete an assassination mission for a pirate whose name is Mancomb Seepgood. This is the name of the first pirate encounted in the game The Secret of Monkey Island.

Squid and Whale Battle

When you go to the Antocha Wreck at the coordinates 630,600, you can uncover a short cutscene of a giant squid and a whale battling in the sea.

Watch Dogs

When you are in the Abstergo offices, you can overhear some of the employees talking about Watch Dogs. You might hear them talking about the Chicago security company Blume, which is the company featured in the other Ubisoft game. There is also a Blume presentation found after hacking a terminal in your work station.