The next big title update has been announced for Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and this will see numerous quality-of-life upgrades added to the game, improvements to the PS5 Pro version, and several bugs are addressed. Title update 1.0.2 will be available to download on all supported platforms on April 8, starting at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET.
Ubisoft says that it has focused on various game improvements, like an auto-follow option for players when they’re on horseback. While this function was present in several of the previous Assassin’s Creed games, it was absent when Shadows launched in March. To use it, players can activate the pathfinder feature to enable auto-follow to a marked destination. Horse speeds in cities have also been increased, but you’ll still want to watch out for pedestrians so that you don’t anger the local authorities.
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Other highlights of the patch include the option to tag and sell/dismantle multiple items in shops or at the hideout forge, the ability to reset Mastery nodes in the skill trees, and a new shortcut for direct access to the investigation board. If you’re playing the game in Performance mode, the Hideout will no longer be capped to 30fps when you visit it.
PS5 Pro owners can also expect the visual quality of the game to be enhanced, as support for the console’s PSSR upscaling tech will be added in the update. Ubisoft says that this will need to be manually enabled if you’ve been playing before the installation of the patch, and once active, ray tracing in performance mode will be closer to the graphics seen in the PS5 Pro’s quality mode.
As for the bug fixes, these address a very wide range of issues that have cropped up in dozens of missions. Improvements to stealth, combat, AI, and balancing have also been made. Assassin’s Creed Shadows is off to a good start, as it was the best-selling title overall in the US during its launch week and it has reached more than three million players so far.