Ubisoft has revealed an updated roadmap for Assassin’s Creed Shadows, which includes a September 16 release date for the Claws of Awaji expansion. This new expansion will be free to anyone who preordered the game, and it can also be purchased separately if you missed the preorder window.
Claws of Awaji looks like it’ll add a significant amount of content, as in addition to a new weapon class for Naoe to master, there’ll also be more abilities to learn, gear to acquire, and enemies to encounter. Overall, Ubisoft estimates that the expansion will add another 10 hours of content to Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
Other updates on the way include New Game Plus mode, which will be available starting July 29. Selecting this mode will reset your story and objective board progression, but you’ll get to keep all of the skills, gear, and knowledge ranks you’ve earned, as well as your Hideout progression. You won’t have to sit through tutorials on your playthrough, as you can fast-forward to the end of the prologue chapters.
The level cap is being increased from 60 to 80 for all players, and new Mastery ranks, Knowledge Skill ranks, and upgrades for all Hideout buildings–including new upgrades for Heiji’s Forge–are on the way. Several big quality-of-life upgrades will arrive in a September update, before the Claws of Awaji expansion goes live. Here’s a closer look at what’s on the horizon:
- Once you synchronise all viewpoints in a region, the fog will completely lift
- The ability to skip time-of-day, jumping ahead to dusk or dawn
- A new Forge upgrade level to reach Mythic–from Epic–and Artifact–from Legendary–equipment rarities
- Hideout updates and upgrades.
- Uncapped framerate for cutscenes on PC
- Additional “goodies” that might be familiar to long-time series fans
- Further bug fixes and stability improvements
In related news, Ubisoft recently announced that Assassin’s Creed Shadows has crossed the 5 million players mark, and the company teased that it could arrive on new platforms in the future. The game has so far “performed in line with expectations,” Ubisoft says, and the live-action Netflix series adaptation of the franchise is finally in development, five years after it was first announced.
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