Almost a Year On, Assassin's Creed Shadows Post-Launch Support Continues With the Addition of a Jump Button

It's been astir a twelvemonth since Assassin's Creed Shadows released, and Ubisoft is not done updating its feudal Japan-set stabathon. This period brings the summation of a manual leap option, alongside 2 different fan-requested changes.

As portion of the 1.1.8 update going unrecorded today, February 17, Ubisoft volition adhd a manual leap enactment to the crippled (if you've toggled connected your Advanced Parkour setting), which returns from erstwhile titles successful the series.

Two different tiny additions are besides acceptable to go available: a elaborate stat leafage truthful you tin analyse your physique successful granular detail, and immoderate ocular improvements to erstwhile you marque a captious hit. All of these changes had been requested by fans, truthful are apt to beryllium positively received.

That said, this is simply a beauteous tiny acceptable of additions that look similar the game's lone large update crossed the archetypal 3 months of this year. Update 1.1.7 launched backmost successful December, capping disconnected a archetypal 9 months of post-release additions that had arrived beauteous overmuch each month.

Today's update to Assassin's Creed Shadows is the archetypal notable summation to the crippled of 2026, and according to a Winter Roadmap released by Ubisoft looks to beryllium the lone 1 coming up of the game's March 20 anniversary, which the institution volition observe with a livestream and giveaways. Here's hoping we perceive much of what's coming to the crippled successful its 2nd twelvemonth then.

The lone different point of enactment earlier past is the Switch 2 motorboat of the game's Claws of Awaji enlargement connected March 10. The add-on caps disconnected the game's main communicative and present looks to beryllium the lone large enlargement the crippled volition get. It's hard not to comparison the level of enactment for Shadows with that for the series' erstwhile crippled Valhalla, which received 3 large expansions, an Odyssey crossover DLC, an epilogue DLC and respective large caller modes, and consciousness similar Shadows has been underserved successful comparison.

Assassin's Creed Shadows' Winter Roadmap. Image credit: Ubisoft

Earlier this month, a study stated that Ubisoft had scrapped a multiplayer Assassin's Creed crippled that primitively began arsenic Shadows DLC. The DLC would allegedly person progressive 4 Assassins joining forces to instrumentality connected a bid of scripted missions with up to 4 players that would person yet concluded the communicative told successful the game's now-canceled Season Pass.

Meanwhile, 2026 is widely-expected to beryllium the twelvemonth Ubisoft releases its long-awaited Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remaster, which has leaked much times present than a precise aged pirate boat. As of yet, however, the task inactive officially remains nether wraps.

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