IGN has confirmed that Ubisoft has quietly ready a day-one patch for Assassin’s Creed Shadows that makes plenty of vital adjustments, together with to temples and shrines.
Ubisoft offered IGN with the patch notes for this replace, which the corporate confirmed weren’t included in any public announcement.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows day-one patch notes:
This replace brings numerous enhancements and fixes, together with:
- Players now not getting caught inside movable objects after dodging ahead and interacting with them in kofuns
- Fix for procedural weapons being eliminated incorrectly when promoting objects
- Adjustments to forestall gamers from going out of bounds when proning towards objects
- Improved horse navigation, lowering points with turning and blocked paths
- Lighting changes for cave, kofun, and architectural entrances/exits
- Fixes for material clipping on Yasuke’s outfits (whereas driving) and Naoe’s outfits (whereas crouching)
- Citizens with out weapons now not bleed when attacked, lowering unintended blood spill in temples/shrines
- Tables and racks in temples/shrines at the moment are indestructible (Some objects like drums or bowls can nonetheless be damaged as they’re generic ones current in every single place on the earth) (Tables are nonetheless dynamic objects, so gamers can nonetheless transfer/push them).
The headline here’s a change to tables and racks in temples and shrines, which at the moment are indestructible within the Feudal Japan-set sport. Ubisoft informed IGN the day-one patch is for all gamers and never Japan-specific, but it surely’s exhausting to see this alteration specifically being something however a response to the controversy surrounding the sport within the nation.
Yesterday, March 19, Shigeru Ishiba, the Prime Minister of Japan, responded to a query about Assassin’s Creed Shadows throughout an official authorities convention assembly.
The Assassin’s Creed Shadows query was requested by Japanese politician and member of the House of Councillors of Japan, Hiroyuki Kada. Kada, who will marketing campaign for re-election this summer time, mentioned:
“I concern that permitting gamers to assault and destroy real-world places within the sport with out permission might encourage comparable conduct in actual life. Shrine officers and native residents are additionally apprehensive about this. Of course, freedom of expression should be revered, however acts that demean native cultures needs to be prevented.”
Prime Minister Ishiba responded:
“How to handle this legally is one thing we have to focus on 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 out of the query – it’s an insult to the nation itself. When the Self-Defense Forces had been deployed to Samawah, Iraq, we ensured they studied Islamic customs beforehand. Respecting the tradition and faith of a rustic is key, and we should make it clear that we are going to not merely settle for acts that disregard them.”
The shrine being “defaced” in Shadows gameplay movies is Itatehyozu Shrine in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, which is inside Kada’s constituency. He mentioned that he had consulted with representatives of the shrine, who confirmed that Ubisoft didn’t search their permission to indicate the shrine and use its title within the sport.
While Masaki Ogushi (Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry) responded that authorities companies will work collectively to deal with issues “if the shrine seeks session,” in a piece of inventive expression Ubisoft would most likely be clear legally to make use of the shrine underneath the Constitution of Japan.
Responses from each ministers had been obscure at greatest and appear unlikely to lead to any explicit motion, particularly as Ubisoft seems to have addressed these issues proactively with this day-one patch.
The patch doesn’t seem like stay in-game but, based mostly on IGN’s assessments.
Irrespective of the sport’s success or in any other case in Japan, there may be huge strain on Assassin’s Creed Shadows to do nicely for Ubisoft globally after plenty of delays and the gross sales failure of final yr’s Star Wars Outlaws. Indeed, Ubisoft has suffered plenty of high-profile flops, layoffs, studio closures, and sport cancellations within the run as much as Assassin’s Creed shadows’ launch.
IGN’s Assassin’s Creed Shadows assessment returned an 8/10. We mentioned: “By sharpening the perimeters of its present techniques, Assassin’s Creed Shadows creates among the finest variations of the open-world fashion it’s been honing for the final decade.”
Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.
