Assassin’s Creed Shadows: Embrace Exploration Without Handholding! [VIDEO]

The French publisher has released a deeper look at the reveal, and according to Charles Benoit, the game’s director, players will be left a bit alone by Ubisoft.

 

We will still be able to climb to high places called viewpoints. However, they’ll only reveal nearby interests after tagging them with the new observation mechanic (no eagle companion this time). Each Viewpoint still unlocks a fast-travel point, but some are in the heart of enemy-filled areas, so fast-traveling there may not be a good idea. As you explore each region, safehouses (Kakurega) will become available for purchase. They become small extensions of the Hideout (the central, fully customizable home base) and offer some of its more practical features, such as restocking rations/tools/ammunition, accessing gear storage, managing and accepting contracts, restocking scouts, and managing which allies can be called for help. Kakuregas also have their own Fast Travel Points, and they’re always safe.

Some of Japan’s mountains are too steep to climb. Ubisoft warns us that sometimes it may be better to follow the roads, while supposed shortcuts may turn out to be unhelpful. If you do get lost, however, there’s a new toggleable Pathfinder feature that draws a white line overlay to highlight the best path to the objective, provided a quest is being tracked and its location has been revealed to the protagonists by a scout.

The quest log is called the Objective Board. It is the key to investigating and locating assassination targets. Zooming in on a specific target will reveal opportunities (individually selected and tracked quest steps). We are given clues as to the location of each opportunity, and we must deduce where to investigate or go next by connecting the clues to our map. If you prefer clear quest markers, placing scouts in the general area indicated by these clues will make things easier. The protagonists will be joined by various Scout NPCs who will help them locate quest targets, gather resources to upgrade the hideout base, and even cover their tracks by resetting province alerts.

Deploying scouts allows players to scan ahead and reveal a more accurate location for their quest objectives. The more scouts you deploy at a time, the greater the scouting radius and the more likely you are to find your target. It’s helpful if we haven’t found all the clues to reveal the objective; they can help fill in the gaps in our knowledge. Once deployed, the scouts will return at the end of the season and become available again. We can pay a Kakurega with in-game currency to speed up their return to base. Scouts are also useful for looting the various resource caches of the wealthy clans (too large to be carried by a single person). Instead, we’ll mark them with a flag and have the scouts smuggle them out over time. At the end of the season, all flagged caches will be cashed in to upgrade our hideout.

“We didn’t want to hold the player’s hand too much with icons and markers. We wanted to create an open world where information was key and became a form of reward. It made sense in the context of playing a shinobi and fighting for information. In Assassin’s Creed Shadows, information is something you must seek out and earn, whether through your spies, NPC encounters, or your own eyes. In short, we want players to discover all of our cool secrets on their own terms, through investigation, through their spy network, or by observing the world. As you explore the world, be on the lookout for undiscovered locations (i.e. “?” icons) because there are so many interesting places to explore, whether it be a destroyed camp or a hidden shrine, we want you to always feel a sense of discovery,” said Benoit.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows will be available on March 20 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PC, Mac and Amazon Luna.

Source: WCCFTech

 

Spread the love
Avatar photo
Anikó, our news editor and communication manager, is more interested in the business side of the gaming industry. She worked at banks, and she has a vast knowledge of business life. Still, she likes puzzle and story-oriented games, like Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments, which is her favourite title. She also played The Sims 3, but after accidentally killing a whole sim family, swore not to play it again. (For our office address, email and phone number check out our IMPRESSUM)

No comments

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

theGeek TV