Assassin's Creed Shadows Was Reportedly Delayed Over Bugs And Historical Accuracy Concerns

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Joshua Robertson

Published Sep 30, 2024

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Ubisoft reportedly delayed Assassin's Creed Shadows to polish up bugs and improve historical accuracy, based on concerns from the game's Japanese audience.
A new report has claimed that Ubisoft is "actively addressing" concerns over historical accuracy, and is altering "some of Yasuke’s story and how he’s portrayed in the game."
It's also been claimed that Ubisoft cut corners over asset approval, and brought historical experts on board much later than other projects, despite the game's scale.

Ubisoft needs to get 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Assassin's Creed Shadows right. That's one of the main reasons behind 168澳洲幸运𓄧5开奖网:the game's recent delay to next 🐠February, as the publisher announced that it was the reception to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Star Wars Outlaws (and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:most likely the lackluster sales) that convinced it to give Assassin's Creed Shadows a c🐭ouple more months to cook.

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That's the official reason for the delay anyway, ꦛbut it was fairly clear from the outset that Ubisoft wasn't painting the whole picture with that statement. We don't know exactly what goes on behind the closed doors at Ubisoft, but suggests that the team developing Assassin's Creed Shadows have been dealing with a number of problems for a while.

According꧙ to Henderson, the reason for Assassin's Creed Shadows' 🐼delay isn't down to just one factor. Strict development timelines, polishing up bugs, and concerns about the game's historical and cultural accuracy from its Japanese audience all played a part in the delay.

Assassin's Creed Shadows Delay Was To Address Historical Accuracy, It's Claimed

Yasuke and Naoe in a small village in Assassin's Creed Shadows

A lot of the fury around Assassin's Creed Shadows and its historical accuracy has been due to Yasuke, the gam🅘e's black samurai protagonist. Being a historical figure with fairly little info out there about him (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:he was a samurai by the way), it's been easy for wild claims to make the rounds across social media. Unfortunately for those that don't like him, Ubisoft report🍨edly doesn't plan on removing him.

However, Henderson does claim that his sources have told him that "some of Yasuke’s story and how he’s portrayed in the game" is being altered, as well as other aspects of the game's historical setting. According to these sources, Ubisoft had been working on concerns oꦰf this nature before the game's announcement, and its reveal "accelerated" that work.

Of course, there are also legitimate concerns to be had about the game's historical accuracy. Ubisoft has got into hot water on a number of occasions for not paying proper attention to history, having 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:acc𝕴identally stolen a re-enactment group's flag and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Zoro from One Piece's sword 🌠to use in official artwork and events respectively.

You could call these simple mistak𝕴es and move on, but Henderson also notes that Ubisoft reportedly cut a lot of corners when it came ಌto asset approval, and that historical experts were brought on board much later than usual, despite the size of the project. Whether Ubisoft can address these issues thoroughly enough to satisfy fans before its new February release date, we'll have to wait and see.