- Assassin’s Creed Shadows introduces a dual-character progression system
- Mastery and Knowledge trees allow for personalized character growth
- Gear and abilities enhance combat as players progress through the game
As the Assassin’s Creed Shadow’s launch date approaches, Ubisoft is gradually revealing the game’s aspects through blogposts, and it recently dropped the game’s progression system. This upcoming title is set to launch on 20 March 2025, finally going to hit the shelves after facing delays and the leaks.
Dive into Mastery: Choose Your Playstyle
The game involves two main protagonists: Naoe and Yasuke, each with their own path of progression, giving players a choice to opt for the playstyle they find more fit according to their playing preferences.
The innovative progression system in Assassin’s Creed Shadows revolves around mastery and knowledge, which are the two key systems that allow players to enhance their characters’ abilities, skills, and fighting aspects in the game.
Besides this, the progression is linked with the characters’ roles; for example, Yasuke’s Mastery tree is based on his warrior training, while Naoe is more focused on agility and stealth.
There are a number of fighting abilities that can be unlocked and are linked to their weapons and fighting styles. As the players level up or knock down the “unique enemies,” they will attain mastery points that can be used to specialize in a specific weapon or fighting style.
Julien, Associate Game Director on Shadows stated in the official blog post: “With the unique Mastery trees, we want to give players the freedom to dedicate themselves into a specific weapon, playstyle, or archetype, and ensure they can deepen their mastery of it,”
The points you invest in a Mastery tree also unlock additional bonuses for that weapon or archetype, further reinforcing your progress.” The good points to be noted here are that these points can be reset if players want to invest on different playstyle.
Moreover, the progression of both characters is shared so everything a player will attain like XP, Mastery points and other stuff, Yasuke and Naoe will get these all equally.
Unlock Knowledge: Power Up Your Characters
Alongside Mastery, Assassin’s Creed Shadows introduces a unique Knowledge system. Mastery is mainly about improving physical and fighting skills, while knowledge is linked to the mental growth of a character.
Knowledge Rank can be attained through activities including: “finding Lost Pages in temples, taking time to pray in Shrines, doing some Kuji-kiri Meditation for Naoe, or learning new Kata for Yasuke.
It is a way for us to connect the development of our dual character’s minds with their physical skills.” The intriguing aspect is that knowledge is shared between both characters, so every new thing learned by Yasuke will benefit Naoe and vice versa.
The knowledge system also assists in developing potent combat skills and abilities within the mastery tree. As mentioned in the blog post: “Be sure to increase your Knowledge so you can rank up and make new skills, abilities, and upgrades available to unlock in the Mastery trees.”
Ubisoft has crafted a deep progression system, and when players reach the highest knowledge rank, an additional knowledge tree will be unlocked, offering passive skills to boost specific stats.
This will allow players to continue their progression and stay engaged in making their character better. Assassin’s Creed Shadows is more than just unlocking skills, the gear also plays a significant role in enhancing the combat abilities.
The weapons in use will have two ability slots and players can equip the specific moves and powers to overcome an enemy or take an edge during the battles. The gears and weapons can be found in chests or dropped by the enemy and some gear items are totally random which you may find while wandering around.
This progression system is going to be truly rewarding, and players will be thrilled to shape their characters accordingly. Without any further delays, the game is launching on the planned date, and the hardcore fans are already quite excited.
