Assassin's Creed Shadows Final Update Arrives Next Week, Just Over a Year After Launch

Ubisoft has confirmed it volition merchandise a last Assassin's Creed Shadows update adjacent week connected June 16, bringing to a adjacent its further contented for the game.

While it's imaginable that aboriginal tweaks and bug fixes whitethorn follow, Ubisoft has labelled Title Update 1.1.11 arsenic "one past update" for its samurai blockbuster, conscionable 15 months aft launch, signalling that this is the extremity for notable additions.

Fans person lamented however Shadows has received noticeably less post-launch updates than its enormously-successful predecessor, Assassin's Creed Valhalla. Just 1 expansion, Claws of Awaji, arrived during Shadows' archetypal twelvemonth — earlier Ubisoft confirmed it was winding down support.

Comparisons betwixt Valhalla and Shadows are difficult, arsenic the erstwhile launched successful the mediate of Covid lockdowns successful 2020 erstwhile galore much radical were astatine location playing video games, and keen for much to play. Shadows, meanwhile, is being instantly followed by the highly-anticipated Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, which Ubisoft is apt keen not to distract attraction from.

But with connection of a scrapped co-op enlargement that would person continued the communicative of Shadows and its fledgling brotherhood, fans person lamented not seeing much from its characters. At the aforesaid time, with nary further connection connected its merchantability figures successful astir a year, there's a feeling that Shadows has conscionable not done the concern it needs to stay an ongoing interest — peculiarly with Black Flag connected the horizon, and the witchcraft-themed Assassin's Creed Hexe aft that.

"Still can’t judge this is however the crippled ended up. After each this clip of waiting for a Japan mounting and it conscionable came and went," wrote galaxyadmirer connected reddit, successful a lengthy thread discussing Shadows' upcoming last update. "Letdown is an understatement," agreed ShawshankException. "The communicative ended the 2nd it got absorbing and past was wholly ignored successful the DLC."

In a tease to fans, Shadows adjunct crippled manager Simon Lemay-Comtois stated that a "black tide was coming to Japan" — suggesting this update volition beryllium utilized to someway tease Black Flag Resynced. Here's hoping Naoe and Yasuke besides get a accidental for 1 past adventure.

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