Ubisoft has shared a new roadmap of content coming to Assassin’s Creed Shadows, including a release date for its Claws of Awaji expansion.
Claws of Awaji is set to be released on 16th September, as paid DLC (though those who pre-ordered Assassin’s Creed Shadows will get it for free). On its release, Claws of Awaji will introduce a new region, a new weapon and abilities, new outfits and legendary gear, a new enemy faction and bosses, and a new chapter of Shadow’s story. The expansion is said to be adding over 10 hours of content to the game.
Along with the Claws of Awaji date, Ubisoft has also promised a new game plus mode for Assassin’s Creed Shadows, which will go live next week on 29th July. This will also add new achievements and trophies.
Then, the team is adding various quality of life updates further down the line, which will include the likes of uncapped framerates for cutscenes on PC.
Ubisoft also added a line about unfogging the world map under this future update section. This seemed a bit confusing, because we were doing that already, but the studio has elaborated this unfogging line means: “Once you synchronise all viewpoints in a region, the fog now completely lifts! You can focus your exploration on where you want to go.”
Ubisoft recently celebrated welcoming five million players to Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Along with those five million assassins, there have been 2bn stealth kills and 38 million animals petted. Meanwhile, players have travelled 1bn kilometers since the game was released in March. And it sounds like Assassin’s Creed Shadows may soon be welcoming more players to Japan, with a Switch 2 port seemingly being on the cards.
Elsewhere in Assassin’s Creed news, earlier this month it was revealed that Netflix’s live action adaptation is finally a-go, five years after it was first announced.