Assassin's Creed Shadows: New Gameplay and Console Specifications Released

Assassin’s Creed Shadows: New Gameplay and Console Specifications Released 20 comments

Ubisoft shows off Naoe and Yasuke’s skills and playstyles in a new Assassin’s Creed Shadows walkthrough video and provides details on the console versions’ graphics settings and FPs. Players can choose between 3 modes that affect FPS and graphics.

Ubisoft has released a new walkthrough video in which Assassin’s Creed Shadows Associate Game Director Simon Lemay-Comrois demonstrates the skills and playstyles of Naoe and Yasuke. The video includes various executions for both characters that showcase both stealth and combat options.

Summary :

3 modes on consoles between 30 and 60 fps

Additionally, Ubisoft released the console specifications with a technology QA.

Console specifications by Assassin's Creed Shadows Console specifications by Assassin’s Creed Shadows (Image: Ubisoft)

The version for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X have a 60 fps mode, called “Performance”. Shadows supports a total of 3 modes on both consoles.

Performance mode aims for 60fps. It does this by reducing the rendering resolution and adapting the graphics settings to achieve a constant 60fps. This mode is based on the global lighting technology on both PS5 and Xbox Series

Raytracing Reflections only on PS5 Pro

Quality mode targets 30fps, which leads to a higher resolution and improves several rendering systems. Here, too, Raytraced-Global lighting technology is used in standard mode on PS5 and Xbox Series X, while an extended Raytraced mode with Raytrace reflections is used on the PS5 Pro. With 30fps as a goal, there are also improvements to visual lengths, shadows and hair quality in the game.

Balanced mode, which requires a display compatible with a high refresh rate (120 Hz), allows a goal of 40 fps that combines the two previous modes, Ubisoft explains. Balanced mode essentially uses the same configuration as Fidelity mode, but the FPS of the UpCaler goal is instead 40 fps. In practice, this leads to a slight reduction in rendering resolution compared to Quality mode, although the configuration of all other rendering systems remains unaffected.

Only on the Xbox Series, the game is still limited to 30fps and a lower resolution.

Preload and release times announced

The game’s preload times per platform have also been announced. The preload for the Series X / S X / S started on March 4th at 3 p.m. The preload starts for the PC on March 17th at 5 p.m. and the PlayStation 5 follows on March 18th at 12 a.m.

Ubisoft is now calling the exact release times for the game. In Germany, it will start on March 19th at 11 p.m. via Ubisoft Connect, the game consoles follow on March 20th at 12 a.m. and the release also starts on March 20th at 5 a.m. via Steam. Depending on the region, the game is expected to be available on Mac between March 19 and March 20 3 a.m.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows PRELOAD TIMES (Image: Ubisoft)