Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced

Simon Lemay-Comtois: There was a big shift between Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s post-launch strategy and that of Shadows. Valhalla was known for big, chunky, polished, gigantic updates back-to-back, and the community responded pretty well to that. With Shadows, the post-launch approach has been more iterative and more responsive to player feedback than for other recent entries. We still had a major standalone expansion with Claws of Awaji, but beyond that, we released smaller, more targeted updates that let us react quickly to what players were telling us and what we were seeing in how they pla

SLC: There have been several big impacts. I would say the most obvious one has been the parkour updates that we’ve done; we basically had an almost complete overhaul of the parkour during post-launch. When we launched Shadows, I had been in charge of the parkour and felt really smug and smart and that people were going to love it. And then they didn’t. I was lucky to get another crack at it and have a lot of discussions with the parkour enthusiasts, content creators, fan base, and community who were extremely vocal but constructive. Through several workshops, discussions, and long sessions of

SLC: All of it. If you want to split it in two, we have a last big narrative update that concludes the story of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and we have a hardcore RPG replayability feature called Domains. Domains is all about testing the gear that you’ve accumulated, changing your perks, changing abilities, moving from Yasuke to Naoe to try and tackle increasingly difficult challenges that give you more rewards, more gear. These rewards cannot be bought anywhere, found in the world, or appear in the Animus Exchange. If you want those things, you have to go through the gauntlet. Domains is for a