Thanks to an enterprising redditor, we have screenshots and information on some of the new shop items revealed for Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag. The items range from weapons, upgrades and customizations to the Jackdaw, and, in a move that's sure to interest PETA, hides, pelts and skins of animals. We'll share some of the descriptions here, with extra notes from us in quotation marks, where necessary. I've added information that Ubisoft may have used in the final game and could affect gameplay. You can check out the images below:
Weapons:
Officer's rapiers – A pair of extremely light rapiers praised for their swiftness. (Rapiers are light swords that have sharp points instead of edges.)
Officer's smallswords – A pair of small swords quite popular among officers in the English military. (Smallswords are also sharp edged thrusting swords, like rapiers.)
Pirate blunderbusses – A set of bulky blunderbusses, popular among pirates for their brashness. (You can think of these as early shotguns.)
Privateer's cutlasses – A pair of cutlasses appreciated for their versatility by Privateers throughout the West Indies. (Cutlasses are slashing swords and known naval weapons.)
pirate scimitars – A pair of sharp and devastating scimitars, praised by pirates and privateers from Barbados to Boston. (Scimitars are curved blades originating from Southwest Asia.)
Spanish officer pistols – A set of pistols, praised throughout the West Indies for their stability.
Ship upgrades:
Aries figurehead (ram bust)
The Jackdaw's figurehead – A figurehead that once graced the bow od Edward Kenway's ship, the Jackdaw (evocative of Assassins)
Hull armor – This hull gives the Jackaw some resistance to small amounts of damage.
Broadside cannons – Seven broadside cannons with limited fire power.
Chase cannons – two front chase cannons that allow for small fire- and stun-power.
Black and red sails
Black-skull sails
Diamond Sails
Gilded sails
Grey sails
Queen Anne's Revenge sails – A set of sails that once belonged to Blackbeard's ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge.
Split-blood sails
Animals:
Iguana pelt – This pelt can be found by hunting and skinning iguanas. (Iguanas refer to a whole genus of lizards, known for blending into their surroundings so that they are hard to spot.)
Jaguar pelt – This pelt can be found by hunting and skinning jaguars.
Killer whale skin – This skin can be found by harpooning killer whales. (Killer whales are toothed whales, more closely related to dolphins than its larger namesakes. It is an apex predator.)
Ocelot pelt – This pelt can be found by hunting and skinning ocelots (Ocelots are wild cats similar in size and appearance to domesticated cats. They are nocturnal and territorial.)
Red howler monkey skin – This skin can be found by hunting and skinning red howler monkeys. (There are actually three species of red howler monkeys once considered the same. All three live in trees.)
Source: Reddit
