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Assassin's Creed Shadows (AC Shadows)
Beginner's Guide to Assassin's Creed Shadows: Tips and Tricks
This is a beginner's guide to Assasin's Creed Shadows (AC Shadows). Discover all the tips and tricks to help you get started on Naoe and Yasuke's journey.
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Beginner's Guide to Assasin's Creed Shadows
Tweak Your Settings Based on Your Preferred Experience
| Setting | Effects |
|---|---|
| Difficulty | Choose between Story, Forgiving, Normal, or Expert. In Expert Difficulty, enemies are stronger and deal more damage. |
| Immersive Mode | Can be toggled On or Off. Immersive mode sets the game voice language to use both Japanese and Portuguese. |
| Guided Exploration | Can be toggled On or Off. When turned On, this feature shows you the exact location of objectives, eliminating the need to investigate and explore locations to find your targets. |
| Canon Mode | Can be set to On or Off. When turned On after starting a new game, you won't need to make critical dialogue choices since Naoe and Yasuke will use the canon lines in conversations. |
Assassin's Creed Shadows comes with a variety of quality-of-life settings that can make the game easier or more challenging depending on your preference. Choose from the settings above based on your preferred difficulty.
Turn On Guaranteed Assassinations
If you don't want to deal with health segments and having to upgrade gear and skills to get insta-kill assassinations, you can turn on guaranteed assassinations via the Difficulty Tuning menu. If you aren't a fan of the new RPG approach to assassinations, turn this setting on for an experience similar to early AC games.
How to Turn On Guaranteed Assassinations
Get Familiar with Leveling and Mastery Points
In Assassin's Creed Shadows, your Level will determine your base stats. Earn XP to level up and increase your stats. When you level up, you get +1 Mastery point. You can then spend them to get Skills from the different Mastery Trees of Naoe and Yasuke.
Unlock costs for skills will increase as you go up each Mastery Tree. Farm Mastery points by farming XP for level ups or killing Samurai Daishos inside Castles (since they reward you with 1 point per kill).
Increase Your Knowledge Rank to Unlock More Skills
Skills in each Mastery Tree will be locked behind Knowledge Ranks. In order to purchase better skills as you progress, you'll need to increase your Knowledge Rank by earning Knowledge Points. If you find any of the activities listed below, complete them to get Knowledge Points:
- Shrines: Pray at each of the indicated shrines within the POI to get a Knowledge Point.
- Temple: Find all Lost Pages in the temple to get a Knowledge Point. Some temples will have enemies, so clear them out first.
- Kofun: Navigate the Kofun's maze-like layout and find both the Legendary Chest and a Knowledge Point reward.
- Kuji-kiri: As Naoe, meditate and complete a rhythm minigame to get a Knowledge Point.
- Hidden Trails: Complete a Parkour course as Naoe and loot the chest at the end to get a Knowledge Point.
- Kata: As Yasuke, follow the button prompts in sequence to get a Knowledge Point.
- Horse Archery: As Yasuke, complete the course to get a Knowledge Point.
How to Increase Knowledge Rank
Explore Izumi Settsu Extensively
Before you unlock Yasuke in Act 2, you'll first want to explore Izumi Settsu (the starting region), thoroughly. You'll want to discover locations and farm resources so that you an easier time exploring and playing once you have Yasuke unlocked.
- Find and synchronize with all Viewpoints in Izumi Settsu. Unlocks Fast Travel spots to make traveling around easier.
- Farm Mon to make unlocking Kakurega (fast travel hideouts) easier later on.
- Farm XP, Mastery Points, and Knowledge Points so Yasuke gets access to his best skills as soon as you unlock him.
- Farm Hideout Resources since Yasuke's gear upgrade requirements use Hideout Resources instead of Crafting Materials.
Complete Contracts to Farm Resources
If you want to power level while also building up a surplus of Hideout Resources, look no further than the Contract Board. These can be accessed from inside a Kakurega, and they allow you to take up 3 contracts per season that reward you with a lot of XP and Hideout Resources.
The contract objectives are pretty simple as well, basically boiling down to steal supplies, kill all enemies, assassinate a target, or destroy enemy cargo.
Familiarize Yourself with the Scouting System
A core part of the gameplay loop will be Scouts and how you use them. In AC Shadows, you'll be using Scouts to complete a variety of tasks that help you on quests and hideout management:
- Scouts can be used to determine the location of quest objectives.
- Scouts can smuggle supplies from hostile locations back to your Hideout.
- Scouts can be used to get rid of your Wanted status in a region.
Scouts refresh whenever the season changes. You can also spend 200 Mon at any Kakurega to replenish 1 Scout if needed.
Unlock Yasuke by Completing Act 1
Once you have enough Hideout Resources saved up, you can proceed with the main quests, Temple of the Horseman, Lightning and Thunder, and Mibuno Showdown. After finishing the quest chain in Yamashiro, you should be able to freely switch characters.
Naturally, unlocking Yasuke lines up with the new region you can explore - Yamashiro - since most Castle rewards hear are for the samurai. Previously inaccessible content like the Makino Kurumazuka Kofun, Katas, and Horse Archery will also become available to complete.
Upgrade Your Hideout Buildings
While playing, don't neglect your hideout. Upgrading key buildings like the Forge and Kakurega will make exploring the rest of the map easier. For priority upgrades, make sure to fully upgrade the following buildings as soon as possible:
- Upgrading the Kakurega to Level 3 is a priority since it unlocks additional Kakurega locations across Japan for you to purchase. More Kakurega means more safehouses that you can fast travel to and resupply at.
- Upgrade the Forge to at least Level 2 in order to unlock Engravings. This new feature allows you to slot in an extra "perk" for your rare, epic, or legendary weapon or armor.
- Upgrade the Study to Level 3 so you get even more Scouts to do your dirty work. More scouts means more bodies to send on resource and scouting missions.
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