One of many longest-running storylines within the Assassin’s Creed franchise has been the warfare between the Templars and the Assassins. In Assassin’s Creed Shadows, this battle was largely pushed to the aspect, with the Templars taking part in a smaller–but nonetheless essential role–in the plot, and in accordance with Ubisoft, followers can count on to see this secret warfare expanded sooner or later.
“The Assassins vs. Templars battle has at all times been a core pillar of Assassin’s Creed,” stage design director Luc stated in a Reddit AMA. “With Shadows, we wished to correctly set our protagonist within the setting earlier than increasing on the Assassins vs. Templars. Now that it is accomplished on the principle recreation, we scratched the floor with the Essential Function story drop, and you’ll count on extra deep dives on this battle within the close to future.”
The Essential Function reference that Luc talked about was a collaboration with the Dungeons & Dragons group, which was a canonical occasion set on this planet of Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Whereas it stays to be seen the place the Templars will pop up subsequent within the Assassin’s Creed timeline, Ubisoft remained obscure when requested in regards to the recreation’s lack of a modern-day storyline and if we’ll see extra of it sooner or later.
“Now we have advanced new characters that have been launched in Shadows that we did not really feel there would have been sufficient highlight for Basim as effectively,” Luc defined. “With Assassin’s Creed Shadows, we’re putting in the primary stone of latest means to ship the modern-day storyline with the Animus hub. That will not be the tip of it, and we’re listening to your suggestions.”
In different Assassin’s Creed Shadows information, the Claws of Awaji growth launches on September 16. This can be preceded by a number of quality-of-life upgrades in a September replace, together with a number of bug fixes, updates to the hideout, and a helpful change to how synchronization works within the recreation. Ubisoft says that Assassin’s Creed Shadows crossed the 5-million-players mark and the live-action Netflix sequence adaptation of the franchise simply took one other step ahead.