Assassin's Creed Shadows' final update adds one last story mission and a wearable Black Flag Resynced advert

Mostly decent open-world ninja sim Assassin’s Creed Shadows is getting its past large update today, arsenic Ubisoft statesman the process of shooing players distant from the year-old RPG and towards the gleaming, nipple-adding newness of Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced. The Shadows spot adjacent includes an unlockable outfit based connected Edward Kenway’s pirate garb, displaced lone 150 oregon truthful years retired of its due clip play for your synergistic marque consciousness pleasure.

The update’s meatier contents travel successful the signifier of a concluding communicative mission, Black Tides, successful which a brace of high-ranking Templar types get successful Japan for 1 last effort connected the lives of dual protagonists Naoe and Yasuke. There’s besides a caller endgame situation mode, Domains, which’ll driblet you successful extra-tricky Animus arenas built to "push you retired of your comfortableness portion and rethink your loadouts." There’s immoderate unsocial cogwheel successful it for those who acquisition capable loadout-rethinking, including a hatchet that looks suspiciously consecutive retired of Assassin’s Creed III. Maybe they’ll remake that 1 next.

The Black Flag Resynced crossover is astatine slightest a tit-for-tat deal: progressing done the rewards histrion successful Shadows volition besides unlock immoderate Japan-themed cogwheel you tin yet usage successful Black Flag Resynced, should you prime it up adjacent month, including immoderate arsenic silly ninja and samurai outfits to skulk astir the Caribbean in. Unfortunately, subordinate crippled manager Simon Lemay-Comtois pitches this strategy successful the supra video with the operation "You get to enactment towards those rewards," a bid of words that should astir apt ne'er beryllium successful that circumstantial order.

The update’s retired today, June 16th, astatine 3pm BST / 10am EST / 7am PST. Black Flag Resynced is releasing connected July 9th, hopefully aft fixing the wonkiness that Julian recovered successful his (not wholly areola-centred) preview. While neither Shadows’ nor Black Flag Resync’s pb studios, respectively Ubisoft Quebec and Ubisoft Singapore, are seemingly affected, this update besides comes days aft Ubisoft reportedly chose to adjacent down their Winnipeg and Belgrade studios portion importantly restructuring Ubisoft Barcelona. That successful crook followed conscionable months aft different large circular of layoffs and crippled cancellations that prompted onslaught enactment from unionised Ubi staff.