Assassin's Creed Shadows Roadmap Includes Free Updates Driven by Community Feedback and DLC Details

Ubisoft has outlined its plans for the archetypal twelvemonth of post-launch contented for Assassin’s Creed Shadows, including promises to adhd features similar caller game+, much trouble settings, further communicative content, and more.

The Assassin’s Creed institution elaborate each of its plans for 2025 successful a four-and-a-half-minute roadmap update video published today. It’s a little but enlightening video with a circumstantial docket for May and June arsenic the squad down the latest stealth-action introduction plots retired however it volition support fans coming backmost with escaped updates passim the year.

Assassin's Creed Shadows post-launch roadmap. Image courtesy of Ubisoft.

The drops statesman soon with The Works of Luis Frois, the archetypal of a fewer escaped communicative add-ons, which is acceptable to driblet successful aboriginal May. It’ll beryllium accompanied by a Codex update and a fewer quality-of-life improvements, with comparatively important parkour additions and a photograph mode update besides acceptable to get adjacent month. These adjustments and much are portion of what Ubisoft says is simply a continued effort to perceive to its assemblage and instrumentality their feedback into information for aboriginal Assassin’s Creed Shadows updates.

“Your feedback has been a halfway absorption of the squad passim development, and that’s not stopping present that Shadows is released,” assemblage developer Daniel St. Germain explained successful today’s video. “Regular rubric updates are coming, each with impactful additions – and changes – based connected your feedback and requests, with immoderate bug fixes to proceed refining the acquisition crossed each platforms.”

The adjacent escaped Assassin’s Creed Shadows communicative driblet volition travel successful June, arsenic volition much challenging trouble settings, gameplay immersion options, an open-world alarm system, and an enactment to support headgear connected oregon disconnected during cutscenes. These are worthwhile changes that players are already looking to spot included, but much features, specified arsenic caller game+ support, further communicative drops, peculiar collaborations, and more, are expected to get earlier the twelvemonth is out.

The biggest point connected the post-launch roadmap is the archetypal due Assassin’s Creed Shadows DLC expansion, Claws of Awaji, which drops astatine an unspecified constituent aboriginal successful the year. It’s said to see caller content, specified arsenic the Bo unit limb and a caller portion for Naoe and Yasuke to explore, crossed its 10-hour journey. Pricing details person yet to beryllium revealed, though it volition astatine slightest beryllium escaped for those who pre-ordered Assassin’s Creed Shadows earlier its motorboat past month.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows arrived for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S connected March 20 and yet takes Ubisoft’s long-running stealth bid to Feudal Japan. Its leap of religion managed to onshore it among our database of the champion games of 2025 truthful acold portion besides emerging arsenic the best-selling crippled of past month.

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