20 hours of brand-new tower play is available for Assassin’s Creed Shadows on March 20.

Upgrade: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that PS5 Pro would have Extended Ray Tracing in Balanced Mode. The word has since been updated to right this. In anticipation of its March 20 start on PS5, Assassin’s Creed Shadows is just two weeks away. In anticipation of the release of 20 minutes of fresh play, which shows Naoe and Yasuke attempting to invade Nijo Palace, the tower advanced ( also known as a tenshu), in Kyoto, a significant town in the larger Yamashiro area. In Assassin’s Creed Shadows, unfriendly guards, useful resources, and a priceless treasure chest make up the castles. Conquering a tenshu means eliminating any Samurai Daisho on the grounds, which unlocks the treasure stomach, giving you powerful items. When you hover over the tower logo on the map, you can see the contents of these chest. In Assassin’s Creed Shadows, you can complete a number of tasks to raise your Awareness Ranking, which grants you access to higher levels abilities and upgrades. Completing them may also make you encounter and mastery factors, which you can use to immediately improve Naoe and Yasuke’s abilities. Moreover, castles have a lot of resources you can use to make up your sanctuary. Larger supplies can be tagged by Naoe and Yasuke to get picked up and delivered to your shelter by scouts at the changing of the seasons, while smaller tool boxes can be picked up personally. Our tour begins with Naoe’s subtle strategy at night. She immediately takes to the rooftops with the aid of her fighting rope and begins to spy out local patrols after dispatching a boundary safeguard with her Hidden Blade. In Assassin’s Creed Shadows, you won’t be able to use an insect alliance to hunter from the clouds for you, unlike in earlier games in the line. Otherwise, you’ll keep L2 to use the Observe engineer and target Naoe or Yasuke’s perspective on an enemy/objective/loot to label it. Naoe spots a Samurai Daisho, an aristocracy guard who must be defeated to defeat the tenshu and claim its greatest praise, while scouting. Naoe does double deport targets with her una blade, but the Samurai Daisho’s excellent health prevents her from doing so with just one hit. Shadows ‘ products not only offers unique rating bonuses but distinct engravings that may change your strategy at any moment. In this instance, Naoe switches out her attire for a piece that provides additional damage on air assassinations, enough to kill the Samurai Daisho in one blow. Naoe requests assistance from Gennojo, one of her recruited friends, further into the tower. He’s capable to surprise a pair of local rivals allowing Naoe to close the gap and get them both out. Genenojo is only one of a number of recruitable allies that can be summoned for assistance in the open world ( fun fact, each ally is called with a different bird call ). When those security personnel are removed, Naoe uses Eagle Vision to inspect the inside of a local structure. Angry enemies appear in crimson in hawk vision, while civilians may cast an orange silhouette. However, be warned that just because civilians didn’t harm you didn’t mean they didn’t call in when they see you. Fortunately, Naoe is able to make use of a number of new secrecy features to decipher information. She starts by extinguishing a local candle, cloaking herself in shadow. She therefore uses her grappling hook to raise herself to the ceiling to prevent a guard before dropping lower and killing a subsequent Samurai Daisho with her katana through a shoji doorway. Let’s turn to Yasuke as he approaches the house today. Yasuke may be a one-man troops in Shadows, but he’s still capable of sneaking about. Without a grappling rope, he leaps to a local low-hanging trees to attack a guard from distance before using his bow to unflinch. Therefore, while crouching, he sneaks up on another shield and assails him with a terrible assassination using his much katana. It’s not as discreet as a Hidden Blade, but hey, it gets the job done and doesn’t update anyone else in the area. Yasuke’s invasion occurs during the day, but he doesn’t have the advantage of hiding in the shadows like Naoe did. Instead, he may be hidden while crawling sensitive by sticking to the rooftops and using the shape of the raised roofs. Yasuke makes another ally available, Oni-Yuri, a poison expert who can knock down multiple enemies in this scene. As he moves into the next courtyard, Yasuke spots a bell tower that can alert the entire tenshu to his presence should he be noticed, but with his bow ( or Naoe’s shuriken or kunai ), he can disarm the bell tower. It’s time to make an entrance and start playing loud to defeat the final Samurai Daisho. Yamasuke begins by firing a gunpowder barrel at his bow, striking a guard in the distance, and then turning his bow inward for a massive kanabo club. The hulking weapon’s blows overwhelm the Samurai Daisho, earning Yasuke another mastery point. We see just how skilled a fighter she can be by returning to Naoe for a combat approach. To do this, she first needs to switch out her stealthy gear for a more combat-focused headgear and armor, which allows her to scurry at and knock down enemies by sliding into them. Finally, her tanto is replaced with a legendary kusarigama that increases damage to enemies over three meters away. Naoe’s long-range melee weapon, the kusarigama, is great for crowd control and simultaneously battling multiple enemies. By wrapping one end of the kusarigama around them and using it to fling herself forward for the killing blow, Naoe can rush assassinate her targets ( rush assassinate is a passive ability that is possible whenever the kusarigama is one of Naoe’s two equipped weapons and does not cost adrenaline to use ). Once Naoe gets to an elevated position, she realizes that a servant that spotted her earlier has returned with reinforcements. She calls her ally Yaya, a hulking brawler, to take care of them for her rather than deal with them herself. With the reinforcements in place, Naoe can use the Observe mechanic to scout out Takahashi Shiro, a member of the Twisted Tree family, for whom she has been assigned to murder. This time around, Naoe’s air assassination attempt only does partial damage, meaning she has a fight on her hands. She dances around Shiro, disassembling his armor, and making quick work of his weaker guards while doing so with her kusarigama and smoke bombs before making the fatal blow. Naoe is free to scale Nijo Tenshu and open the chest, earning a new legendary armor set for Yasuke after her target is killed and the Samurai Daisho is slain. Her run ends with her scaling the tenshu for a synchronization point, using the Observe mechanic to scout our nearby points of interest. We wrap up the walkthrough with combat, Yasuke’s bread and butter. It begins with a gear swap, as with Naoe, where a naginata and teppo ( a single-shot rifle ) are replaced by the katana and kanabo. Yasuke’s last armor was ideal for stealth as it provided a 200 % damage bonus to ranged weapons while out of combat. However, this approach will be loud, so he will require a new armor set, which, thanks to a special engraving, makes it possible for him to dodge unblockable attacks ( red glowing attacks that are typically unavoidable ). The armor complements the accompanying helmet, which, on parry, only gives the attacker 50 % damage. Not only can Yasuke parry any attack now, but he’ll reflect 50 % of that damage back on the attacker. In an Assassin’s Creed game, it’s not often you can go “guns blazing,” but Yasuke does it by smashing down the door before killing the closest guard with his teppo. Yasuke has a certain boldness due to his size ( he can take and do more damage than Naoe in a straight fight ), and he sprints straight through the courtyard to confront Takahashi Shiro. Wielding his naginata and parrying nearly every attack thrown at him, Yasuke quickly dispatches all the guards, and even takes out Shiro without too much difficulty. Yasuke continues to ascend the tenshu in search of the prized chest and conquer Nijo Palace despite the fact that he is not as skilled as Naoe. Two distinct heroes in Assassin’s Creed Shadows have radically different abilities, weapons, and playstyles, but Naoe and Yasuke are adaptable enough to change their tactics, allowing you to sneak or fight on the go. Smash through the front door or lurk in the shadows for yourself on March 20 when Assassin’s Creed Shadows launches on PlayStation 5. Assassin’s Creed Shadows can be played at up to 2160p and 60 FPS in Performance mode on both the PS5 and PS5 Pro because it was the first Assassin’s Creed game created exclusively for the current generation hardware. The only console that supports extended ray tracing, which provides reflective surfaces with ray traced all over the world, is the PS5 Pro. Check out the full breakdown of specs below. In the Hideout portion of the game, PS5 – Performance Mode 2160p upscaled, 60 FPS, Selective* Ray TracingPS5 – Fidelity Mode 2160p upscaled, 30 FPS, Standard** Ray TracingPS5 – Balanced Mode ( requires 120/240hz display and HDMI 2.1 ), 2160p upscaled, 40 FPS, Standard Ray TracingPS5 Pro – Fidelity Mode 2160p
** Global illumination is computed using standard ray tracing for the game world’s diffuse lighting.
***Extended Ray Tracing includes full support of ray tracing to compute global illumination for diffuse lighting and reflective surfaces throughout the game world. 

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