It has been virtually a 12 months since Assassin’s Creed Shadows launched, and Ubisoft will not be finished updating its feudal Japan-set stabathon. This month brings the addition of a handbook soar possibility, alongside two different fan-requested adjustments.
As half of the 1.1.8 replace going stay in the present day, February 17, Ubisoft will add a handbook soar choice to the sport (when you’ve toggled in your Superior Parkour setting), which returns from earlier titles in the sequence.
Two different small additions are additionally set to grow to be obtainable: a detailed stat web page so you’ll be able to analyze your construct in granular element, and a few visible enhancements to whenever you make a essential hit. All of these adjustments had been requested by followers, so are prone to be positively obtained.
That mentioned, that is a fairly small set of additions that appear to be the sport’s solely main replace throughout the first three months of this 12 months. Replace 1.1.7 launched again in December, capping off a first 9 months of post-release additions that had arrived just about each month.
Right this moment’s replace to Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the first notable addition to the sport of 2026, and based on a Winter Roadmap launched by Ubisoft seems to be the just one coming forward of the sport’s March 20 anniversary, which the firm will rejoice with a livestream and giveaways. Here is hoping we hear extra of what’s coming to the sport in its second 12 months then.
The one different merchandise of word earlier than then is the Change 2 launch of the sport’s Claws of Awaji enlargement on March 10. The add-on caps off the sport’s foremost narrative and now seems to be the solely main enlargement the sport will get. It is arduous to not evaluate the degree of help for Shadows with that for the sequence’ earlier sport Valhalla, which obtained three main expansions, an Odyssey crossover DLC, an epilogue DLC and several other main new modes, and really feel like Shadows has been underserved as compared.
Earlier this month, a report said that Ubisoft had scrapped a multiplayer Assassin’s Creed sport that initially started as Shadows DLC. The DLC would allegedly have concerned 4 Assassins becoming a member of forces to tackle a sequence of scripted missions with as much as 4 gamers that may have finally concluded the story advised in the sport’s now-canceled Season Cross.
In the meantime, 2026 is widely-expected to be the 12 months Ubisoft releases its long-awaited Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag remaster, which has leaked extra instances now than a very outdated pirate boat. As of but, nonetheless, the challenge nonetheless formally stays beneath wraps.
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