Right now sees the discharge of Title Replace 1.0.6 for Murderer’s Creed Shadows. It features a new companion, totally different digicam angles when driving and eventually seen headgear in cutscenes.
It’s been three months for the reason that launch of Murderer’s Creed Shadows and most of you’ve got most likely already explored historic Japan extensively and are actually hungry for brand spanking new content material. One month after the final replace, which primarily improved the parkour mechanics, the Title Replace 1.0.6 for AC Shadows is now within the beginning blocks.
This time, Ubisoft has put collectively a considerably bigger bundle for you, as there usually are not solely minor consolation enhancements, but in addition a brand new story bundle together with a recent companion and a model new, crisp issue degree. Patch 1.0.6 additionally brings a welcome change for followers of headgear. We’ll let you know what’s in all of it.
When will the replace be launched?
Title Replace 1.0.6 for Murderer’s Creed Shadows is on the market for obtain from at the moment, June 25, 2025, 16:00 German time.
How massive is Title Replace 1.0.6?
The obtain measurement relies on your platform; the PC and Xbox variations are the most important.
PlayStation 5: 6.27 GB
Xbox Sequence: 19 GB
MAC: 9 GB
PC: 17 GB
Steam: 8.5 GB
The nightmare begins
Crucial new function of the replace might be the issue degree Nightmare which ought to make Shadows an actual problem. In concrete phrases, because of this enemies trigger considerably extra injury. Blocking, dodging and parrying is now noticeably harder; the response time window has been shortened. Adrenaline build-up and skill cooldowns now take considerably longer.
Profitable sneaking can also be harder, as assassinations trigger considerably much less injury. As well as, crouching working and crawling is now louder, so enemies will discover you comparatively shortly even at nighttime. The enemy AI has additionally been improved; enemy guards will seek for you in teams and undertake a defensive stance extra shortly.
The brand new issue degree ought to attraction to all gamers who discovered Shadows too straightforward on launch. Our tester Dimi complained on the time that it was far too straightforward to shake off enemies by merely climbing onto a roof. It stays to be seen whether or not the modifications made are the best ones or simply unnecessarily delay battles.
A brand new companion
The replace additionally brings a breath of recent air to the sport by way of story. As a result of with the Portuguese Rufino, there is a brand new companion to your Murderer League. The bearded Portuguese is armed with a pistol and has additionally devoted himself to searching down the Templars in Japan. His model new questline could be began after you’ve got recruited the blacksmith Heiji to your lair and unlocked Yasuke.
The companion is the results of a collaboration with the D&D collective Vital Function . Rufino was initially conceived by American voice actor Robbie Daymond for an Murderer’s Creed one-shot.
The hat stays on
One function that many followers have been eager for since launch is hats, hoods and helmets. With replace 1.0.6, now you can set headgear to stay seen throughout cutscenes as an alternative of magically disappearing. Just some Romance-specific cutscenes are exempt from this, based on Ubisoft.
The corresponding choice could be discovered within the settings menu below the tab Gameplay.
What else is new with replace 1.0.6?
Alarm within the sport world: As an alternative of solely in castles and secured enemy constructing complexes, a regional alarm can now even be triggered within the open sport world. This occurs once you repeatedly assault civilians or guards. The highly effective guards will then shut in on you
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New digicam settings on horseback: Whereas driving, now you can swap between three totally different digicam settings. To do that, press the down button on the controller or the X button on the PC.
Efficiency mode for low-end PCs: A brand new high quality degree referred to as Extremely Low Specs is meant to supply Shadows gamers with older and low-performance graphics playing cards higher efficiency. Based on Ubisoft, the sport already runs on an Nvidia Geforce GTX 1650 with 4GB VRAM. Nevertheless, we dare to doubt whether or not the historic Japan can unfold its full visible splendor on it.
You will discover all different modifications intimately within the full patch notes on the second web page.
Highlights of the patch
Particular cooperations
Vital Function
For our second particular collaboration, we’ve teamed up with Vital Function to develop this new content material for Murderer’s Creed Shadows. This features a new free quest referred to as “A Vital Encounter”, a brand new ally you may recruit and a brand new trophy/achievement to your assortment.
New free story pack: “A Vital Encounter”
Rufino, an previous good friend of Tomiko and Heiji, claims a life debt after uncovering a lethal conspiracy. Whereas working as a translator, he has discovered proof {that a} mysterious group is hiring assassins to remove influential residents.
Now he turns to Naoe and Yasuke for assist in combating these assassins.
*Unlock situations: Full “The Manner of the Blacksmith” and unlock Yasuke as a playable character. This quest line begins within the Hideout.
Reward: New ally primarily based on the character Rufino from the one-shot marketing campaign “Murderer’s Creed Shadows” by Vital Function, performed by Robbie Daymond. Additionally, you will obtain a banner with the Vital Function emblem to your lair.
New trophy/achievement: ” A Vital Encounter”, which you’ll obtain after finishing the questline.
As a part of this collaboration, we’re additionally releasing a Vital Function weapon pack impressed by the Vital Function universe, accessible for buy within the sport retailer! This pack accommodates two weapons for each characters: a tanto and a katana for Naoe, and a kanabo and a teppo for Yasuke.
New issue degree “Nightmare”
We’re including a brand new issue degree (Nightmare) that can add further challenges to your journey. This mode impacts each fight and stealth, requiring extra tactical planning and larger consciousness of your environment. Prepare for harder enemies and a extra intense expertise total.
Right here’s a sneak peek at a few of the modifications you may anticipate on this new issue degree:
Gamers’ protection choices are much less efficient and enemies deal extra injury in any respect ranges.
For instance, parries now require good timing to deflect the blow – incomplete parries solely partially block the injury.
Enemy AI is smarter, quicker and extra aggressive in a wide range of conditions, together with detection.
For instance, Naoe now makes noises even when crouched! And even within the shadows, you may see her when she strikes!
For instance, enemies not change into weak by evasive maneuvers or parries – solely skills can put them in a weak state.
Battle assets (corresponding to adrenaline, rations and shinobi objects) are more durable to come back by, making their use much more essential.
That is only a glimpse of how the brand new issue degree will have an effect on the sport. Be happy to share your most intense moments with us by posting your clips on Discord or X with the hashtag #AssassinsCreedShadows.
Cover and present headgear in cutscenes
We’re excited to introduce a extremely requested function: Gamers can now select to show headgear corresponding to hoods, helmets, headbands and extra in cutscenes. Now your fashion can shine in dialog scenes too!
The choice could be discovered within the in-game settings.
Please notice that headgear won’t be displayed in cinematics and in sure circumstances the place a rule overrides this setting (romantic cutscenes).
VFX settings
Gamers can now disable/allow sure VFX to additional customise their gameplay expertise. This contains the flexibility to indicate or disguise loot on corpses, the participant’s final identified place, enemies’ particular assault indicators, and extra.
All choices can be found within the “Interface” menu.
Open World Alert
We’ve got prolonged the regional alert system accessible in castles to the complete province. Should you repeatedly assault civilians or army items outdoors of castles, the alarm could be triggered and a bunch of guards will hunt you down on this planet.
Preferences for the horse digicam
Now you can swap between three totally different digicam settings whereas driving your mount (maintain down the down button on the controller/“X” button on the keyboard whereas driving) to take pleasure in a extra cinematic expertise and expertise all the great thing about Japan.
Extremely-low system necessities for PC
We’re including a brand new graphics high quality: ultra-low mode. This permits PC players with a restricted GPU configuration to benefit from the sport with a greater body price.
Checklist of bug fixes
Normal
Fastened a problem that precipitated the Onryo masks to stay seen regardless of deciding on the choice to cover tools.
Fastened a problem the place gamers couldn’t earn Mastery Factors.
Fastened a problem the place Mastery Factors weren’t returned after resetting the Mastery Tree.
Fastened a problem that prevented gamers from switching between characters even with out in-game restrictions.
Fastened a problem the place allies could possibly be skilled to veteran rank with out the dojo being upgraded to degree 3.
Fastened a problem the place Gennojo wouldn’t instantly seem within the hideout after being recruited He was busy washing his hair!
Fastened a problem the place a participant would typically get caught in a crimson zone and be unable to quick journey by permitting them to quick journey to the hideout.
Fastened a problem the place the Oni drawing would get caught on the display screen after finishing the Imaginative and prescient of the Realms quest.
Fastened varied localization points.
Quests
Fastened a problem the place gamers had been unable to progress within the quest “A Random Encounter” when following Fuyu.
Fastened a problem the place gamers couldn’t full the hunt after defeating all Kabukimono.
Fastened a problem the place Woman Oichi’s letter was not accessible after the “Fuji-maru” cutscene.
Fastened a problem the place gamers couldn’t speak to Katsuhime on the sphere when she was sitting on the bottom.
Fastened a problem the place solely a progress bar with no textual content was displayed when pursuing the hunt “Temple Tales”
Fastened a problem the place Genzaburo’s Teppo Grasp was lacking from Kaya Shrine.
Fastened a problem that precipitated Yagyu Munetoshi to disclose a later storyline too early within the quest “Nobutsuna’s Disciple”.
Fastened a problem the place gamers had been unable to assassinate the Godai of Void as a result of the NPC was lacking He took his title too actually
Fastened a problem the place gamers couldn’t full the hunt “Diary of Woman Rokkaku” after dodging Katsuhime and dropping her.
Fastened a problem the place gamers couldn’t full the hunt “Diary of Woman Rokkaku” if there was no speedy choice to hold Katsuhime.
Fastened a problem the place gamers would set off a glitch as a result of an anomaly within the quest “Heads Will Roll”, inflicting Animus actions to change into unavailable.
Fastened a problem the place gamers had been unable to progress within the quest “Misplaced Honor” as a result of sport not switching to Naoe.
Fastened a problem the place gamers couldn’t progress within the event after loss of life.
Graphics and visuals
Some minor visible points have been fastened.
Fastened misplaced visible parts on the Kusarigama from the Darkish Forest.
Fastened a problem that precipitated all NPC horses to look an identical.
Fastened a clipping subject with Naoe’s Sekiryu outfit.
Fastened a problem the place the “Blood Shadow Katana” was seen from the scabbard after transmogrification.
Fastened a problem with the Lifeless by Daylight Oni’s armor motion physics.
Audio
Fastened a problem the place the foot sounds would often cease when the map was opened whereas shifting.
