It has been virtually a yr since Murderer’s Creed Shadows launched, and Ubisoft isn’t finished updating its feudal Japan-set stabathon. This month brings the addition of a handbook leap choice, alongside two different fan-requested modifications.
As a part of the 1.1.8 replace going reside immediately, February 17, Ubisoft will add a handbook leap choice to the sport (in case you’ve toggled in your Superior Parkour setting), which returns from earlier titles within the collection.
Two different small additions are additionally set to grow to be out there: an in depth stat web page so you possibly can analyze your construct in granular element, and a few visible enhancements to while you make a vital hit. All of those modifications had been requested by followers, so are prone to be positively acquired.
That stated, this can be a fairly small set of additives that appear to be the sport’s solely main replace throughout the primary three months of this yr. Replace 1.1.7 launched again in December, capping off a primary 9 months of post-release additions that had arrived just about each month.
Right this moment’s replace to Murderer’s Creed Shadows is the primary notable addition to the sport of 2026, and in line with a Winter Roadmap launched by Ubisoft appears to be the one one coming forward of the sport’s March 20 anniversary, which the corporate will rejoice with a livestream and giveaways. This is hoping we hear extra of what is coming to the sport in its second yr then.
The one different merchandise of notice earlier than then is the Swap 2 launch of the sport’s Claws of Awaji enlargement on March 10. The add-on caps off the sport’s fundamental narrative and now appears to be the one main enlargement the sport will get. It is onerous to not examine the extent of help for Shadows with that for the collection’ earlier sport Valhalla, which acquired three main expansions, an Odyssey crossover DLC, an epilogue DLC and a number of other main new modes, and really feel like Shadows has been underserved as compared.
Earlier this month, a report said that Ubisoft had scrapped a multiplayer Murderer’s Creed sport that initially started as Shadows DLC. The DLC would allegedly have concerned 4 Assassins becoming a member of forces to tackle a collection of scripted missions with as much as 4 gamers that may have finally concluded the story instructed within the sport’s now-canceled Season Cross.
In the meantime, 2026 is widely-expected to be the yr Ubisoft releases its long-awaited Murderer’s Creed: Black Flag remaster, which has leaked extra occasions now than a really outdated pirate boat. As of but, nonetheless, the venture nonetheless formally stays underneath wraps.
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