Red Bull just set a world record jumping 18 meters into a hay bale for Assassin's Creed
If you've played any Assassin's Creed game, you know the Leap of Faith — a swan dive from a dizzying height into a conveniently placed hay bale. On May 27, Red Bull athlete Dominic Tommasso actually did it, plummeting 18.1 meters without a safety net in the Bahamas to set a world record for a hay jump. It's the third year running that Ubisoft has teamed with Red Bull to bring AC stunts into the real world, and each time the bar — literally — goes higher.
The stunt
Four Red Bull athletes were involved: cliff diver Molly Carlson, freerunner Pavel Petkus, freerunner Lilou Ruel, and Tommasso himself. They worked up to the record jump in stages, first leaping from a ship's mast into water — a nod to Edward Kenway's seafaring exploits in Black Flag — then progressing through a cliff edge and a sand dune before the final drop into hay. The sequence mirrors the escalating parkour challenges in the games, per GameRant.
The previous benchmark was 14.5 meters, set during the Assassin's Creed: Shadows campaign in Japan in March 2025. The new jump clears that by nearly four meters. For context, the 2016 Assassin's Creed movie used stuntman Damien Walters for a 38-meter fall — but that one had rigs and film magic involved, per GameSpot.
The game
All of this is marketing for Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced, which launches July 9 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. This is a full ground-up rebuild of the 2013 pirate adventure — no recycled code from the original — running on the same Anvil engine used in AC Shadows. Matt Ryan returns as the voice of Edward Kenway, and French musician Woodkid is back to rework the shanties and score.
Pricing sits at $59.99 for the standard edition, $69.99 for Deluxe, and $199.99 for the Collector's edition, according to Kotaku. Worth noting: the Freedom Cry DLC from the original is not included, and the multiplayer mode is gone. The game is available through Steam, Epic Games Store, and the Ubisoft Store.
The $59.99 price point puts it in full-game territory, which may raise eyebrows given that some will remember paying for Black Flag once already. Whether the rebuilt visuals and new score justify the cost is a question reviewers will answer closer to launch — but Ubisoft is clearly betting that a world-record hay dive and a $500,000 treasure hunt promotion will keep the franchise front of mind this summer.
