The new Assassin’s Creed has been mired in controversy since it was announced (Ubisoft)
Updates to the Steam listing for Assassin’s Creed Shadows have leaked DLC info and removed an important detail for samurai Yasuke.
After a less than stellar 2024, Ubisoft is hoping to make up for it this year, starting with Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the newest big budget entry in one of the company’s most popular franchises.
The game has already been delayed once before but, ahead of its February launch, Ubisoft opted to push it back an extra month to implement recent fan feedback.
Ubisoft has promised to keep fans posted in the meantime, but one important new detail has only been revealed by Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ Steam page.
While Ubisoft did cancel its plans for an Assassin’s Creed Shadows season pass, along with an early access period for those who bought the collector’s edition, the company still intends on releasing post-launch content.
Over the weekend, fans noticed the game’s Steam page featured information about a pre-purchase offer, promising an additional quest at launch and access to a DLC expansion titled The Claws Of Awaji later this year.
Said expansion will apparently offer around 10 more hours of content, including a new bō staff weapon type, new skills and abilities, and new enemies to fight while ‘being hunted and under threat on a mysterious island.’
These details have since been removed, but not before Tech4Gamers grabbed a screenshot of the temporarily updated listing. Presumably, the expansion will also be available as a separate purchase.
Fans knew there would be DLC, but Ubisoft never specified what would be included (Tech4Gamers)
It’s not unreasonable to assume Ubisoft may be gearing up for a more formal announcement in the coming weeks, in order to drum up hype for Assassin’s Creed Shadows and encourage pre-orders.
Considering Ubisoft will want to make Assassin’s Creed Shadows a long-term success, it’s also not surprising to know it’s already confirmed a second DLC expansion at a later date and there will apparently be a co-op mode too, per an Insider Gaming report.
This hasn’t been the only change made to Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ Steam page either. As spotted and shared via ResetEra, the Japanese Steam listing has rewritten part of the game’s description to no longer refer to playable character Yasuke as a samurai.
Instead, he’s described as an ikki tousen, which is a term that roughly translates to ‘a mighty warrior who can face a thousand enemies’ – a commonly known phrase for renowned warriors in Japan.
It’s such a minor and seemingly inconsequential change (the UK Steam page still refers to Yasuke as a samurai) that it feels like it was only done to appease right-wing critics who take umbrage with Yasuke’s depiction in the game.
As a reminder, Yasuke was a real African samurai during the Sengoku period, but enough people in Japan seemingly deemed this historically inaccurate enough to petition Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ cancellation… even though these games have never been that historically accurate to begin with.
This minor change to the Japanese Steam page seems to be part of Ubisoft’s vague apology for the game’s unspecified inaccuracies, but we doubt such an effort will please the sort of people getting upset over the matter.
This game may be a make it or break it moment for Ubisoft (Ubisoft)
Assassin’s Creed Shadows still getting DLC expansion according to leak