It seems like these current-day, first-particular person non-Animus sections in Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag can be scrapped within the lengthy-rumored remake–if a brand new report from a French outlet is to be believed.
In response to Jeuxvideo, as noticed by IGN, the trendy-day sections in Black Flag–you know, those the place you get out of your pod-like Animus to roam the Abstergo Leisure workplaces to make sense of protagonist Edward Kenway’s connection to the sport’s overarching narrative–have been gutted from the remake rumored to drop someday in 2026.
These sections have been pivotal to Black Flag’s story construction. Following the occasions of Assassin’s Creed III, Abstergo discovered new methods to faucet into a bunch’s genetic reminiscences and needed to make use of you–the unnamed character throughout these trendy-day segments–as a method of gaining intel on Kenway, the late Desmond Miles, and the facility the 2 have been after. You and a bunch of resistors thwart Abstergo’s plans for final energy by, properly, getting out of and hacking a number of Animuses (Animi?) whereas additionally taking pictures and swashbuckling because the pirate-turned-murderer Kenway.
To make up for the reportedly reduce content material, nonetheless, Jeuxvideo claimed developer Ubisoft is including extra stuff to the Black Flag remake, together with an extra story for the English pirate and fellow murderer Mary Learn. Apparently, that is content material that by no means made it into the bottom sport, but it surely’s unclear if this extra story stuff will fill out the game’s roughly 24-hour runtime.
Alongside the obvious removing of contemporary-day sections, there are different supposed adjustments and enhancements coming to the unannounced remake. This contains overhauled fight and equipment to deliver this 2013 open-world pirate journey nearer to extra trendy Assassin’s Creed video games like Valhalla and Shadows.
In different, extra substantiated information, Ubisoft simply dropped Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ Claws of Awaji enlargement. The brand new DLC–which is free for people who preordered the sport and was created by Mirage developer Ubisoft Bordeaux–adds new gear, weapons, and 10 hours of story content material. With the enlargement now accessible, Ubisoft additionally dropped a brand new replace that introduces extra improve tiers and the next degree cap.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is on the market on PC, PS5, and Xbox Sequence X|S.