Among the builders who labored on (and are nonetheless engaged on) Murderer’s Creed Shadows hopped right into a Reddit AMA to reply fan questions on Ubisoft’s newest entry in its stabby historic fiction franchise. Not the entire questions and solutions had been revealing, however buried within the AMA had been some fascinating items of details about the lore of Murderer’s Creed, upcoming video games within the collection, extra updates coming for Shadows, and a affirmation on some options that gained’t be added in future updates.
Listed here are 10(ish) issues we realized about Murderer’s Creed Shadows from the August 12 AMA on the Murderer’s Creed subreddit.
The struggle between Assassins and Templars will proceed
When a fan requested if gamers can anticipate extra content material concerning the franchise’s basic battle between Assassins and Templars, AC Shadows stage design director Luc had this to say:
“The Assassins vs. Templars battle has at all times been a core pillar of Murderer’s Creed. With Shadows, we needed to correctly set our protagonist within the setting earlier than increasing on the Assassins vs. Templars. Now that it’s completed on the primary sport, we scratched the floor with the Vital Position story drop, and you may anticipate extra deep dive on this battle within the close to future.”
Why Ubisoft Didn’t Embrace The Fashionable-Day Storyline
One other consumer requested the place Basim was and if his modern-day storyline, which started in Murderer’s Creed Valhalla, will ever return or if Ubisoft had moved on. As soon as once more, Luc replied to this query and defined why it was lacking and teased extra to come back sooner or later:
“We have now advanced new characters that had been launched in Shadows that we didn’t really feel there would have been sufficient highlight for Basim as nicely. With AC Shadows we’re setting up the primary stone of recent means to ship the Fashionable Day story line with the Animus HUB. That isn’t the top of it, and we’re listening to your suggestions. Whereas Fashionable Day will not be the primary focus of the story we inform with Shadows, it stays essential for our group, so you possibly can anticipate it to be expanded in some unspecified time in the future, in some trend…”
The Group Isn’t Retconning Murderer’s Creed Lore
A seeming professional in Murderer’s Creed lore requested a bunch of lengthy questions concerning the franchise’s universe and the way they had been fearful that elements of it from older video games, equivalent to Isu artifacts, had been being ignored and even retconned fully. Once more, Luc swooped in to supply an prolonged reply you possibly can learn right here, however this bit is his affirmation that the crew isn’t erasing AC lore; they only aren’t at all times together with it in video games except it is sensible.
“The AC lore could be very advanced and retains increasing as we’re creating new video games. We’re not retconning what we’ve got completed prior to now, however we don’t essentially point out every little thing in each sport if it doesn’t immediately help the narrative we’re constructing. In our timeline Japan wasn’t unified but, and never mentioning Shao Jun and her apprentice doesn’t imply that they couldn’t have co-existed.
“Much like this, the truth that there is no such thing as a Isu artifact in the primary sport of Shadows doesn’t imply that it doesn’t exist on this planet of Shadows; it simply wasn’t a narrative gadget that we wanted for the story we needed to inform.”
Extra Story Updates Will Be Added To Murderer’s Creed Shadows
One final reply about Murderer’s Creed Shadows and its narrative. This time, somebody requested about whether or not any new story updates or extra expansions might be forthcoming. Simon, affiliate sport director on Shadows, replied:
“We’re arduous at work [on] extra free story drops that may come sooner or later – nothing we are able to announce but although! We’ll allow you to sink your enamel into the Claws of Awaji [expansion] first, and also you inform us if you would like extra!”
Making Yasuke Or Naoe Your In-Recreation Companion
One actually fascinating query that resulted in an equally fascinating response was about Ubisoft including a function to Shadows that will let gamers name the opposite foremost character as a companion. AC Shadows dwell producer André stated that the function could be “cool” however admitted that its unlikely to occur as a result of it might contain a number of work.
“That may be a cool function for certain!! We might love to do that additionally however for the time being it’s not in growth however I can inform you we’ve got mentioned about this internally however a number of technicalities as to be overcome so we are able to’t ship such a function.”
“For instance, the standard of our foremost character is so excessive we would want to spawn them in a a lot decrease high quality to not explode the reminiscence. One other ingredient could be to develop an AI for them that’s becoming with our balancing. No technical issues can’t be overcome, however it might require a number of effort. Greater than we’re prepared to spend on this function with out compromising each different options our gamers are ready for. In brief, it’s not deliberate for the time being. If it adjustments, we’ll let you already know.”
Altering Seasons From Shadows Will Doubtless Present Up In Future AC Video games
One of many coolest elements of Murderer’s Creed Shadows is how, over time, the seasons change throughout the map. This impacts not solely the look of the world, but additionally the way you discover it. For instance, it may make rivers freeze up and provide new paths to the participant. It’s a nifty function, and when requested if it is going to be included in future AC video games, André implied that the tech might be shared with different Ubisoft groups and that he wouldn’t be stunned to see seasons in a future installment.
“I’m tremendous blissful to see you loved that enchancment in our world-building. We are able to’t promise something for the longer term Murderer’s Creed, however what I can inform you is that our growth crew is sharing the tech and information for future installments, to allow them to resolve in the event that they need to combine the dynamic seasons. Creating these seasons required a number of effort to place collectively, so each sport will want resolve if it’s essential sufficient to take a position on a regular basis wanted to ship it in comparison with different options. I can inform you that internally everybody finds it superb, additionally, so I’d not be stunned to see it once more sooner or later!”
Social Stealth Might Return In The Franchise
Talking of options that might return, somebody requested why social stealth was lacking from Shadows after enjoying such an enormous position in 2023’s Murderer’s Creed Mirage. And Ubisoft confirmed that hiding in crowds and on benches continues to be part of the collection.
“For Shadows, our stealth crew selected to place 100% of their vitality on the moment-to-moment tactical shinobi expertise, which left no house for Social Stealth… That doesn’t imply that Social Stealth is gone from the Murderer’s Creed franchise, although!”
Mirage’s Parkour Helped Enhance Naoe’s Strikes In Shadows
When a participant requested if Mirage had an influence on Shadows, particularly the sport’s parkour, André admitted that on account of how buildings are inbuilt Japan and the crew’s need to maintain the motion grounded, they rebuilt parkour and didn’t reuse Mirage star Basim’s transfer set. That stated, the parkour in Mirage did have an effect on the post-launch updates that improved and expanded Naoe’s transfer set. Right here’s a part of André’s reply:
“The Mirage crew’s dedication to parkour is what impressed us to do extra post-launch parkour updates, and we use a number of their work as stepping stones for Naoe’s enhancements in post-launch and to contain some specialists from the group in these discussions.”
No Discovery mode coming
Some dangerous information: There gained’t be a non-combat-focused academic mode added to Shadows as we’ve got seen in previous video games like Valhalla and Origins. With André delivering the disappointing information bluntly: “However to get to the core of your query, we don’t presently have a ‘Japan Discovery Tour’ like we had for ‘Viking Age’ within the works.”
Additionally, No New Hair Choices Are Being Added In Any Updates
And a few extra dangerous information: Ubisoft doesn’t plan on including new hair customization choices for both of the primary characters in Shadows. Right here’s André’s clear reply to somebody asking about extra hair selections:
“We is not going to add extra completely different sort of hair for our character as a result of, to be blunt, this can be very pricey. The complexity is to have the physic works appropriately in all eventualities we’ve got.”
