Assassin’s Creed Shadows Summer updates officially detailed

Since its release back in March, Assassin’s Creed Shadows has received a pretty decent amount of post-launch support, including various parkour updates, quality of life improvements and more. Continuing on with its year 1 roadmap, Ubisoft has now officially detailed the upcoming ‘Claws of Awaji’ DLC alongside its release date.

Taking to YouTube to share their ‘Summer Roadmap Update’, the team at Ubisoft Quebec detailed all of the changes and additions set to come to Assassin’s Creed Shadows over the coming months.

First up, the team unveiled Shadows’ upcoming New Game Plus mode. As with other games, NG+ will reset progression on your story, objective board and discovered locations. As expected however, your “character level, your required gear, your knowledge rank” and “hideout progression” will all carry over. Interestingly, players will also be able to skip the prologue and go straight to the main portion of the game if so desired.

Beyond this, the overall level cap is being increased by 20 points to 80 in total – adding alongside it new knowledge ranks; mastery and knowledge skill ranks as well as “new upgrades for all hideout buildings.”

Other than the NG+ mode (which is set to arrive this month), July’s update will also add the 3rd Shadow Project – bringing with it “new resources, data files and exclusive Animus themed rewards.”

August meanwhile will be a relatively light month for AC Shadows. That said, the team will then come back in early September to release a bunch of new QoL improvements, including the ability to fast-forward the time of day; defog the world map; and unlock cutscene frame rates (on PC).

Last but certainly not least, the first major content DLC/expansion ‘The Claws of Awaji’ will officially launch on the 16th of September.

While it could be argued that a number of these upcoming changes/additions should have been available at launch, it is welcome nonetheless to see Ubisoft Quebec continuing to listen to fan feedback.

KitGuru says: What did you think of AC: Shadows at launch? Are you looking forward to the upcoming July update? What other quality of life improvements do you want to see addressed? Let us know down below.

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