IMPORTANT NOTE: Pivot Points unlock individual Animus hacks that allow you to modify the game. Enabling these hacks disables the game from saving, AND LOCKS OUT ALL TROPHIES! Don't enable any of these hacks until you've earned the Platinum!

IMPORTANT BUG NOTE: Many players have expressed difficulty in collecting the Pivots or even placing them on the map when they have over 50 friends on PSN. If this happens to you - for example, if you can't place a Pivot on the Animus Syncing map, or if you can't collect a Pivot - you need to delete people from your PSN friends list until you have 49 or less.

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You need to earn the  Fin trophy before you attempt this. Animus Pivot Points are introduced to you after the game's Epilogue missions, requiring you to look for specific points in Boston, New York, and the Frontier. This trophy is marked as "Multiplayer Only" because you need an internet connection for the Pivot Points to work - they're different for each player, so trying to collect the same ones as another player won't work. Also, note that pivots spawn every real-life 15 minutes after getting the tutorial, so you'll need to wait for a total of 2 and a half hours before they all spawn.

Once you have access to this segment of the game, a short tutorial will be given to you on how they work, but it will likely do a bad job of explaining anything. This is how to locate a Pivot Point:

• Press  to open the large map and scroll to the Animus Syncing section.
• Your list of missing Pivots will tell you where you're still missing pivots from. Go to any of the locations that you're still missing a pivot from.
• In this same menu, scroll back and go to the Map to place a pivot where you're standing. You'll notice the map turns green - the green portion is your search area.
• Go somewhere very far away from where you just placed that Pivot. The other side of the map is recommended.
• Once you've arrived somewhere far away, open the large map and place a Pivot on your new position. You'll notice that the search area has been reduced.
• Rinse and repeat to continue making the search area smaller and smaller. Once you've placed all of the Pivots you have, look around this search area by foot and try to find the missing Pivot. When you're close, it will show up on your mini-map (NOT on your large map) as a dashed-square icon with a dot in the middle.

It's recommended to save this trophy until later in the game, particularly during or after  Completionist since you may pick up some of these Pivots accidentally while running around the place. It would also help to have a lot of Fast Travel points so you don't need to manually go back and forth all over the map. For a video version of the list of instructions above, see below.
 

Head in the Cloud Video Guide