Each of Assassin's Creed Shadows' four seasons features different kinds of weather, but that won't affect gameplay because Ubisoft doesn't want it to have a "negative impact"

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The different seasons in Assassin's Creed Shadows offe𝓰r different weather effects - but you shouldn😼't worry about them affecting your gameplay.

In an interview with magazine, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Assassin's Creed Shadows art director Thierry Dansereau explains that Ubisoft did💛n't want the changing of the seasons "to be something that could be perceived as very negative or have a neg🧸ative impact on how you play." Instead, any changes caused by the seasons will likely be limited to the animation level.

That might mean that Yasuke and Naoe might have to clamber through snowdrifts with a somewhat awkward gate during Winter or huddle from the rain during Fall. However, you won't encounteꦛr additional gameplay chaꦿllenges - like guards tracking your footprints through the snow or slipping while climbing a rain-soaked wall - that you wouldn't come across in Spring or Summer.

All of those weather systems are just a hint of what's to come, it seems, as the weather tech that Ubisoft developed for Assassin's Creed🃏 Shadows will feature "in much more depth" in fut꧃ure games. All that new tech is part of why we've been waiting so long for an Assassin's Creed game set in Japan - Dansereau also explained that while the setting has been long-requested, 2024 is the rꦓight time for As🍸sassin's Creed Shadows because all that time "allowed us to really develop the new-gen features" that Ubisoft needed to "fully exploit" its version of Japan - 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:and settle on its Origins-sized map.

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