Assassin's Creed Shadows' First Major Patch Brings Player 1w1c1n Requested Features, Bug Fixes, PS5 Pro Improvements

The title update will go live across PC, PS5 and Xbox Series S/X platforms on Tuesday at 2 pm UTC / 10 am EDT / 7 am PT, or 7:30 pm IST. 2d4h5w

Written by Manas Mitul | Updated: 8 April 2025 16:05 IST

Assassin's Creed Shadows' First Major Patch Brings Player-Requested Features, Bug Fixes, PS5 Pro Improvements

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows launched on March 20 across PC, PS5 and Xbox Series S/X

Highlights

Assassin's Creed Shadows' title update adds quality-of-life improvements
The PS5 Pro version of the game gets for PSSR
The update also brings tweaks to the Mastery skill tree

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PS5 Pro version of Assassin's Creed Shadows, adding PSSR .

Ubisoft detailed the patch in its PS5 version is noticeably smaller at 11.59GB. The PC version of the patch is 16.05GB in size, while on Steam it comes in at 11 GB. The Mac version of the patch is smallest one at 9GB.

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Assassin's Creed Shadows patch 1.0.2 brings a host of quality-of-life improvements, including the much-requested ability to auto-follow the guided path to marked destination on horseback. Horse speeds in towns and cities have received a boost, as well.

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The update also brings tweaks to the Mastery skill tree, adding the option to reset Mastery Nodes so players can test different playstyles and abilities for both Naoe and Yasuke.

Once the update is live, players can also sell and dismantle multiple items at traders and dismantle multiple gear items at the forge in the hideout. Another quality-of-life update brings a shortcut to open the investigation board. Pressing the option button for a few seconds will directly open the investigation board, bringing quicker access to the quest menu. A single press, on the other hand, will open the inventory menu.

Other key improvements and fixes include uncapped framerate above 30fps in the hideout in Performance mode, rebalanced boss fights, improved double assassinations and more.

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There's a host of bug fixes across several quests and improvements to stealth, combat, weapons and gear items, progression and skills, hideout, world activities, graphical issues, UI, photo mode, and more. Some platform specific issues on PC, Steam Deck and macOS have also been fixed.

Finally, Assassin's Creed Shadows will get a boost to the visual quality on the PS5 Pro. The patch adds for PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR), which needs to be manually enabled in the menu. Balanced mode on PS5 Pro will add Raytraced Specular, bringing visual fidelity closer to PS5 Pro quality mode.

Assassin's Creed Shadows launched on March 20 across PC, PS5 and Xbox Series S/X.

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REVIEW
KEY SPECS
NEWS

Good
Renewed focus on Stealth
Stunning visuals and open world
Polished combat
Lack of bugs and glitches
Focus on assassins? story

Bad
Repetitive gameplay loop
Weak story and characters
Shallow combat system

Read detailed Ubisoft Assassin's Creed Shadows review

Genre Action-Adventure

Platform Amazon Luna, PlayStation 5 (PS5), Xbox Series S/X, PC: Windows, PC: macOS

Modes Single-player

Series Assassin's Creed

PEGI Rating 16+

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