Amid Japan Concern About Assassin's Creed Shadows, Ubisoft Confirms Day-One Patch That Makes Tables and Racks in Temples and Shrines Indestructible

IGN has confirmed that Ubisoft has softly prepared a day-one spot for Assassin’s Creed Shadows that makes a fig of important changes, including to temples and shrines.

Ubisoft provided IGN with the spot notes for this update, which the institution confirmed were not included successful immoderate nationalist announcement.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows day-one spot notes:

This update brings assorted improvements and fixes, including:

• Players nary longer getting stuck wrong movable objects aft dodging guardant and interacting with them successful kofuns
• Fix for procedural weapons being removed incorrectly erstwhile selling items
• Adjustments to forestall players from going retired of bounds erstwhile proning against objects
• Improved equine navigation, reducing issues with turning and blocked paths
• Lighting adjustments for cave, kofun, and architectural entrances/exits
• Fixes for cloth clipping connected Yasuke’s outfits (while riding) and Naoe’s outfits (while crouching)
• Citizens without weapons nary longer bleed erstwhile attacked, reducing unintended humor spill successful temples/shrines
• Tables and racks successful temples/shrines are present indestructible (Some objects similar drums oregon bowls tin inactive beryllium breached arsenic they are generic ones contiguous everyplace successful the world) (Tables are inactive dynamic objects, truthful players tin inactive move/push them).

The header present is simply a alteration to tables and racks successful temples and shrines, which are present indestructible successful the Feudal Japan-set game. Ubisoft told IGN the day-one spot is for each players and not Japan-specific, but it’s hard to spot this alteration successful peculiar being thing but a effect to the contention surrounding the crippled successful the country.

Yesterday, March 19, Shigeru Ishiba, the Prime Minister of Japan, responded to a question astir Assassin’s Creed Shadows during an authoritative authorities league meeting.

The Assassin’s Creed Shadows question was asked by Japanese person and subordinate of the House of Councillors of Japan, Hiroyuki Kada. Kada, who volition run for re-election this summer, said:

“I fearfulness that allowing players to onslaught and destruct real-world locations successful the crippled without support could promote akin behaviour successful existent life. Shrine officials and section residents are besides disquieted astir this. Of course, state of look indispensable beryllium respected, but acts that demean section cultures should beryllium avoided.”

Prime Minister Ishiba responded:

“How to code this legally is thing we request to sermon with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

“Defacing a shrine is retired of the question - it is an insult to the federation itself. When the Self-Defense Forces were deployed to Samawah, Iraq, we ensured they studied Islamic customs beforehand. Respecting the civilization and religion of a state is fundamental, and we indispensable marque it wide that we volition not simply judge acts that disregard them.”

The shrine being “defaced” successful pre-release Assassin's Creed Shadows gameplay videos is Itatehyozu Shrine successful Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, which is wrong Kada’s constituency. He said that helium had consulted with representatives of the shrine, who confirmed that Ubisoft did not question their support to amusement the shrine and usage its sanction successful the game.

While Masaki Ogushi (Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry) responded that authorities agencies volition enactment unneurotic to grip matters “if the shrine seeks consultation,” successful a enactment of creator look Ubisoft would astir apt beryllium wide legally to usage the shrine nether the Constitution of Japan.

Responses from some ministers were vague astatine champion and look improbable to effect successful immoderate peculiar action, particularly arsenic Ubisoft appears to person addressed these concerns proactively with this day-one patch.

The spot does not look to beryllium unrecorded in-game yet, based connected IGN’s tests.

Irrespective of the game’s occurrence oregon different successful Japan, determination is tremendous unit connected Assassin's Creed Shadows to bash good for Ubisoft globally aft a fig of delays and the income nonaccomplishment of past year’s Star Wars Outlaws. Indeed, Ubisoft has suffered a fig of high-profile flops, layoffs, workplace closures, and crippled cancellations successful the tally up to Assassin's Creed Shadows' release.

IGN’s Assassin’s Creed Shadows reappraisal returned an 8/10. We said: “By sharpening the edges of its existing systems, Assassin’s Creed Shadows creates 1 of the champion versions of the open-world benignant it’s been honing for the past decade.”

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