Whereas the recently-released Murderer’s Creed Shadows had seen a number of delays, its builders apparently used the additional time so as to add extra polish to the sport. Talking to GamesRadar, inventive director Jonathan Dumont spoke about how the studio didn’t truly make any basic modifications to Murderer’s Creed Shadows within the wake of suggestions from Star Wars Outlaws.
“Not likely,” stated Dumont when requested if the delays had been due to the suggestions from Star Wars Outlaws. “We had been mainly making an attempt to take advantage of polished recreation that we [can].” He went on to say that the delays had been as a result of, “our recreation was there, so simply ensuring that we don’t have bugs and that the expertise is clear for folks.”
Whereas Ubisoft didn’t make any sweeping modifications to Murderer’s Creed Shadows after the sport obtained delayed, Dumont did say that just a few issues had been added to the sport’s narrative “right here and there.” These additions usually got here within the type of the builders realising that, in a specific scene, “this can be a place the place we may reinforce the connection.”
“We had just a few already, and folks love these issues,” he continued. “So alright, let’s attempt to get slightly bit extra in there.”
Dumont noticed the sport’s launch date being delayed a few occasions as alternatives for the studio to additional polish the sport earlier than it hit retailer cabinets. “It’s type of cool additionally that we had been near launch, after which we get this further time to do the issues that usually you’re doing on the finish,” he stated.
Because it lastly got here out on March 20, Murderer’s Creed Shadows has been doing fairly effectively for Ubisoft. The corporate revealed final week that greater than 3 million gamers had performed Murderer’s Creed Shadows. The corporate additionally revealed that the title ranked second in highest day one gross sales income within the franchise, and that it was the most important day one performer for Ubisoft on PlayStation’s digital retailer. In complete, greater than 40 million hours had been spent by folks enjoying Murderer’s Creed Shadows.
This milestone adopted comparable ones from day one of many recreation’s launch. In lower than a day, Murderer’s Creed Shadows had already crossed greater than one million gamers. It 2 million gamers simply a few days later. The sport even went on to overhaul the Steam concurrent participant depend for the extremely well-liked Murderer’s Creed Odyssey.
Whereas the studio behind Murderer’s Creed Shadows has been having fun with the profitable launch, it has nonetheless continued engaged on updates for the title. Simply final week, Murderer’s Creed Shadows obtained an replace that introduced with it some stabilisation fixes throughout all platforms, in addition to fixes for crashes brought on by the sport’s Picture mode on the PC and PS5 variations.
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