Ubisoft is promising extra Murderer’s Creed Shadows updates than you may shake a bo at, with plans to ship “free updates on the common” that may add gadgets corresponding to a brand new recreation plus mode, new quests and story expansions, and community-driven enhancements, the writer introduced Wednesday.
As beforehand introduced, Shadows’ first growth, Claws of Awaji, is coming later this yr. Claws of Awaji will introduce a brand new space to the sport’s map: Awaji Island, which is situated within the japanese a part of Japan’s Inland Sea. (Effectively, technically, it’s already on the map — you may see it mendacity roughly due west of the port metropolis of Sakai. However you’ll truly have the ability to discover it within the growth.)
Claws of Awaji “continues Naoe and Yasuke’s story proper after the tip of Shadows’ epilogue,” Ubisoft stated in a weblog publish. It’ll add about 10 hours’ price of content material to the sport, together with a brand new weapon for Naoe: the bo, a workers utilized in Japanese martial arts. Ubisoft supplied the growth as a bonus for anyone who pre-ordered the sport, however has but to announce a worth for everybody else.
Along with Claws of Awaji, Ubisoft will launch a lot of free updates that the corporate is looking Story Drops, beginning in Might with “The Works of Luis Frois.” Frois, a Jesuit missionary and scholar, is among the many group of Portuguese males who land in Japan with Yasuke at the start of Murderer’s Creed Shadows. The second Story Drop is scheduled to be launched in June, and can add to the sport one other ally which you could recruit into the League of the Hidden Blade. Every Story Drop will embody “further backstory that may completely affect the sport,” in keeping with Ubisoft.
Murderer’s Creed Shadows’ builders are additionally engaged on extra quality-of-life enhancements. Following the sport’s first post-launch patch earlier this month, which added auto-follow for the participant character’s horse, the workforce is planning so as to add new parkour strikes to present Naoe and Yasuke extra choices. (Right here’s hoping the builders carry again the flexibility to promote or dismantle a number of gadgets directly — which was included within the early April patch however was later disabled attributable to bugs.)
As an illustration, it’s presently unattainable to leap from a standstill to seize a ledge that appears prefer it’s inside attain; that’s coming in a future patch. Additionally within the works are community-requested options corresponding to the choice to put on headgear in cutscenes. Bigger options are on the way in which, too, corresponding to a brand new recreation plus mode that may increase the extent cap, and new issue settings for each stealth and fight that may make them extra unforgiving.
