What types of discovery are there and how to share them

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I was playing Black Flag Singleplayer while being with a friend on Teamspeak, who is also my friend on UPlay and he was playing Black Flag at the very same time. After a while he mentioned that I shared a chest with him and how I did it. Fact is, I do not now how I activated it. The chest (blue on the map) held 1000 Reales for each of us. There is also an achievement for doing this.

So how do I share those things and what types of discoveries are there?

Best Answer

There are 3 discoveries:

  1. White Whale - A white whale to be hunted.
  2. Royal Convoy - a Convoy with 5000$ on the main sheep, as oposed to normal convoys that have 2000$.
  3. Community Treasure Chests, just like normal treasure chests, only with more money and can pop anywhere (or from a pool of possible spawning places).

You don't need to share them manually, they will automatically be shared with your PSN network/x-box live/UPlay friends, and will show you a pop-up informing you of those. All you need to do is be online.

You don't have to have friends, even if you don't have friends on your account, you'll get the discoveries, the rewards and the achievement associate with them.

You can also disable those events if you want, and disable getting notifications when your friends find them.