Ubisoft is promising extra Murderer’s Creed Shadows updates than you’ll be able to shake a bo at, with plans to ship “free updates on the common” that can add gadgets reminiscent of a brand new recreation plus mode, new quests and story expansions, and community-driven enhancements, the writer introduced Wednesday.
As beforehand introduced, Shadows’ first enlargement, 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 positioned within the japanese a part of Japan’s Inland Sea. (Properly, technically, it’s already on the map — you’ll be able to see it mendacity roughly due west of the port metropolis of Sakai. However you’ll really be capable to discover it within the enlargement.)
Claws of Awaji “continues Naoe and Yasuke’s story proper after the tip of Shadows’ epilogue,” Ubisoft stated in a weblog publish. It’s going to 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 provided the enlargement 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 quite a few free updates that the corporate is looking Story Drops, beginning in Could 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 originally 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 you could recruit into the League of the Hidden Blade. Every Story Drop will embrace “extra backstory that can completely impression the sport,” in accordance 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 group is planning so as to add new parkour strikes to present Naoe and Yasuke extra choices. (Right here’s hoping the builders convey again the flexibility to promote or dismantle a number of gadgets without delay — which was included within the early April patch however was later disabled as a result of bugs.)
As an example, it’s at present unimaginable 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 reminiscent of the choice to put on headgear in cutscenes. Bigger options are on the way in which, too, reminiscent of a brand new recreation plus mode that can elevate the extent cap, and new problem settings for each stealth and fight that can make them extra unforgiving.