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Assassin's Creed Shadows gets major free update

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Published 10:49 8 Apr 2025 GMT+1

Assassin's Creed Shadows gets major free update

Patch 1.0.2 is here

Olly Smith

Olly Smith

Assassin's Creed Shadows fans can rejoice, as the first major patch has been released, addressing many player complaints.

With Assassin's Creed Shadows being a couple of weeks old now, players have had plenty of time to sink their teeth into Ubisoft's rendition of Sengoku Japan.

In that time, certain bugs and design flaws have also become apparent, prompting Ubisoft to improve the game with further updates.

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Assassin's Creed Shadows is one of the 2025's best games so far.

Title update 1.0.2 for Assassin's Creed Shadows addresses some of the player complaints made in the last few weeks since launch.

Most notably, the auto-follow roads feature returns from previous Assassin's Creed installments, which should help for long-distance journeys when you want to give your thumbs a break.

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Horse speed in general has also increased slightly, so feel that extra horsepower and zoom around Yamashiro to your heart's content.

You can now also sell and dismantle multiple items at once when trading at merchants, which should save time for any hoarder players who have filled their pockets with all types of loot.

PS5 Pro users also get a few extra improvements too. Ubisoft has added PSSR support for upscaling, as well as Raytraced Specular for the Balanced graphics mode.

What this essentially means is that Balanced will now look closer to Quality mode than Performance mode. Make sure you go into video options to enable it.

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Other improvements include a new uncapped framerate in the hideout, the option to reset Mastery Nodes, and plenty of smaller bug fixes and balance changes. Check out the full patch notes here if you want a look at the full list of changes.



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Title Update 1.0.2 will release at 2PM UTC for all platforms. The download size of the patch varies depending on which system you're using. PS5 and Steam users can expect the download size to be around 11GB.

But those players on Xbox or Ubisoft Connect will have larger downloads, coming in at around 16-19GB.

In our review for Assassin's Creed Shadows, we called it "one of the best games of the year so far", and a "new yardstick by which all future Assassin’s Creed games should be measured."

Featured Image Credit: Ubisoft

Topics: Assassin's Creed Shadows, Ubisoft, Assassins Creed

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