Six months on, and Murderer’s Creed Shadows has lengthy since pale into the final live-service background susurrus that underlies all of videogames. It has its gamers, its haters, its curious onlookers—however the fires of capital-d Discourse have been burnt out for some time.
Which is kind of good, actually, nevertheless it doesn’t suggest Ubisoft would not have a crack squad of devoted and alarmingly French (or so I prefer to think about) builders engaged on updates and DLC for the sport. Its first enlargement—Claws of Awaji—is due out on September 16, and to put the groundwork, the studio put out an enormous ol’ 1.1.1 replace for the sport in the present day.
There’s truly an entire bunch of stuff on this one. The extent cap continues its inexorable crawl upwards (it is 100 now), now you can advance the time of day at-will upon getting a sure hideout improve, and scouts have gotten higher—improve them sufficient and so they’ll be capable of spot viewpoints and safehouses once you dispatch them to foggy areas on the map. Which looks as if fairly an enormous deal, actually, as by paying a pittance on the map display screen you will presumably be capable of unlock these safehouses and instantly quick journey to them.
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Each the whizzy new scout skills and the time-of-day magic are the product of latest hideout upgrades. “Every distinctive [hideout] constructing now consists of 2 extra improve ranges, bringing a complete of 20 new enhancements, alongside 3 new Hideout ranges.” That is in all probability for the very best, as I ran out of issues to construct in my hideout lengthy, lengthy earlier than I completed with the sport.
Anyway, I’ve actually buried the lede on this story as a result of 1.1.1 additionally offers you an enormous stick and a cat dressed like Ezio. Videogames are unbelievable.
The massive stick is a bo employees, a brand new weapon for Naoe which you can unlock by pursuing a brand new free questline: Go With The Bo. Actually? I am approach into it. In a world of katanas and kusarigamas, I simply assume there’s one thing extremely cool about your weapon being primarily a pool cue. It belies a quiet confidence, I feel.
The cat, in the meantime, you unlock as a part of the sport’s new pseudo-battle-pass system within the Animus Hub. You realize the one: it is the factor you generally unintentionally click on into from the primary menu, realise you’ve got gathered a bunch of forex for from someplace, after which use it to purchase some dumb beauty nonsense. Nicely, now that dumb beauty nonsense is a cat dressed like Ezio Auditore da Firenze, and I will not fake I am not thrilled.
I can confidently predict the replace will get me to return to AC Shadows for maybe 20 minutes. Any greater than that? We’ll must see. Like all latest AC video games, I bumped into the issue whereby I used to be accomplished with the sport lengthy, lengthy earlier than it was accomplished with me. Maybe a break and the brand new content material is simply what I must get again in? Or maybe not. However no less than I’ve a stick now.
