Ubisoft has confirmed it’s going to launch a ultimate Assassin’s Creed Shadows replace subsequent week on June 16, bringing to a shut its further content material for the sport.
Whereas it is attainable that future tweaks and bug fixes could observe, Ubisoft has labelled Title Update 1.1.11 as “one final replace” for its samurai blockbuster, simply 15 months after launch, signalling that that is the tip for notable additions.
Followers have lamented how Shadows has obtained noticeably fewer post-launch updates than its enormously-successful predecessor, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. Just one growth, Claws of Awaji, arrived throughout Shadows’ first 12 months — earlier than Ubisoft confirmed it was winding down assist.
Comparisons between Valhalla and Shadows are troublesome, as the previous launched in the course of Covid lockdowns in 2020 when many extra individuals have been at residence enjoying video video games, and eager for extra to play. Shadows, in the meantime, is being instantly adopted by the highly-anticipated Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, which Ubisoft is probably going eager to not distract consideration from.
However with phrase of a scrapped co-op growth that may have continued the story of Shadows and its fledgling brotherhood, followers have lamented not seeing extra from its characters. On the similar time, with no additional phrase on its sale figures in virtually a 12 months, there’s a feeling that Shadows has simply not executed the enterprise it wants to stay an ongoing concern — significantly with Black Flag on the horizon, and the witchcraft-themed Assassin’s Creed Hexe after that.
“Nonetheless can’t consider that is how the sport ended up. After all this time of ready for a Japan setting and it simply got here and went,” wrote galaxyadmirer on reddit, in a prolonged thread discussing Shadows’ upcoming ultimate replace. “Letdown is an understatement,” agreed ShawshankException. “The story ended the second it acquired fascinating after which was solely ignored within the DLC.”
In a tease to fans, Shadows assistant recreation director Simon Lemay-Comtois said that a “black tide was coming to Japan” — suggesting this replace might be used to in some way tease Black Flag Resynced. Here is hoping Naoe and Yasuke additionally get a probability for one final journey.
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