Ubisoft has lastly lifted the lid on what to anticipate from Murderer’s Creed Shadows’ post-launch plans, which is able to embrace “common” dollops of additional story missions, fan-requested options and a New Recreation Plus possibility.
New story “drops” will probably be free, present new allies on your base, contemporary skills and actions, and “further backstory that can completely impression the sport”, Ubisoft has mentioned.
There can even be a concentrate on additional fleshing out aspect characters, as evidenced by the primary mission, due early subsequent month, which is able to centre on Portuguese character Luis Frois.
Different upcoming free content material consists of new problem settings, photograph mode updates (together with poses), further parkour choices, plus further Codex updates and battle pass-esque Initiatives. There’s additionally point out of “particular collaborations” – which sound so much like Murderer’s Creed is dipping its toe again into crossover territory. (Bear in mind when Chocobo turned up in Murderer’s Creed Origins?)
There’s much less element, for now, on Shadows’ first main growth Claws of Awaji. Ubisoft famous at present that the add-on – offered free to those that pre-ordered Shadows – will probably be set after the sport’s present epilogue, and decide up each Naoe and Yasuke’s ongoing tales. When will it arrive? Ubisoft is not telling – as an alternative saying merely it will launch “later this yr”.
Different gameplay adjustments coming embrace a slew of fan-requests that Eurogamer famous shortly after Shadows’ launch, together with the power to take away your headgear in cutscenes. Extra parkour choices similar to height-gaining again and aspect ejects plus a brand new vertical ledge leap are additionally on the best way.
Murderer’s Creed Shadows free post-launch roadmap:
Early Might: The Works of Luis Frois story mission, codex replace, high quality of life enhancements
Late Might: First “particular collaboration”, parkour replace, photograph mode replace
June: Second story mission together with new ally, new problem settings, gameplay immersion choices, open world alarm system, headgear in cutscene possibility
Future: New Recreation Plus, extra story missions, further neighborhood suggestions updates, additional particular collaborations, codex updates, rewards and Animus content material
“Majestic in scope, spectacular intimately, Murderer’s Creed Shadows honours the great thing about feudal Japan,” I wrote in Eurogamer’s Murderer’s Creed Shadows evaluate, “even when its strongest moments are saved for the non-public tales of its two protagonists.”
