Ubisoft’s next big patch for Assassin’s Creed Shadows is available today, July 29, 2025, and the publisher has now given a detailed rundown of everything included.
As previously announced, Title Update 1.0.7 adds New Game Plus mode, which will unlock as soon as you hit the credits after completing the game’s story. From here, you have a couple of options: either to restart the game from scratch, or pick up the action from when Naoe first arrives at the game’s hideout. Either way, your hard-earned gear, skills, allies and hideout progression will carry over.
Whether you’re playing New Game Plus or not, there’s a level cap increase from 60 to 80, and a boost in the Knowledge Rank cap from 8 to 10, allowing you to counter the game’s higher-level enemies with the ability to unlock more skills. You can also now upgrade gear at your Forge to level 4, too.
Sweat your way through Shadows’ story a second time via New Game Plus and you’ll unlock a gold katana and long katana for Naoe and Yasuke, respectively, and also snag the last of the following three new achievements/trophies, which this update also adds:
- Enjoy the Ride: Reach Level 80
- Stars Unseen: Reach Knowledge Rank 10
- Worth its Wait: Complete the story on New Game Plus
Finally, Ubisoft has rebalanced some of the game’s money and resources. Players will likely be happy to see a boosted amount of Mon now given from selling items, while purchased items cost less. You’ll also get more resources from dismantling items and from end of season chests.
Ubisoft is set to continue updating Shadows for the forseeable future, with a further patch due in early September that will add the ability to fast-forward the time of day and better unfog the world map when synchronising viewpoints. Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ first major expansion, Claws of Awaji, then arrives on September 16 as the game’s first paid add-on — though it will be free for anyone who originally pre-ordered the game.
Find today’s full patch notes below:
NEW GAME+
- Upon completing the main story on any difficulty, start a new game while keeping all collected skills, gear, Allies and hideout progression from your first playthrough.
KNOWLEDGE RANK & LEVEL CAP INCREASE
- We’ve raised the level cap from 60 to 80, meaning tougher foes with enhanced tactics and awareness – demanding sharper reflexes and smarter strategies.
- To meet this rising threat, we’ve also expanded the Knowledge Rank system to 9 & 10 allowing players to unlock and develop a broader array of skills, passives, and combat techniques to become even more masterful.
- The Forge can now be upgraded to level 4, allowing players to upgrade all weapons and gear to level 80 to have the edge on the rising threats that await.
ADDITIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
- Removed a performance warning on MacBook Air when using M4 following improved support.
- Fixed an error in Photo Mode where the “Show UI” prompt was visible in preview mode, affecting players taking screenshots with their native systems.
- Individual items will now have their dedicated page within the store.
- Katsuhime no longer vanishes from the hideout after the previous 1.0.5 fix for the breakup bug.
BALANCING
- Adjusted the number of Mon received from trading. Purchasing items costs less, whereas selling items gives more.
- Increased the number of resources gained from dismantling items.
- Slightly increased the amount of crafting materials needed to upgrade items.
- Rebalanced the end of season chest rewards and increased the quantity of crafting materials and Hideout resources given.
- The Radial Effect upgrade in Yasuke’s Teppo tree had its base damage increased from 25% to 50%, and its damage is now also further increased by other Armor Buster upgrades.
- Allies now gain more health and damage as the player levels up.
- Ronin enemies now have 4 Health Segments, up from 3.
LIST OF BUG FIXES
General
- Cultural discoveries near Katano Castle now appear correctly in the codex after being observed.
- Corrected Naoe’s Kata dialogue in Wakasa.
- Added a ‘Mark all as Read’ option for the Codex menu.
- Added a Level Selector for Knowledge Path.
- Fixed the ‘Limitless’ trophy occasionally not unlocking after obtaining a legendary piece of gear of each type.
Gameplay
- Addressed an issue where players potentially got stuck outside the Animus wall during the Revenge mission in Tsuruga Castle. Get back here!
- Fixed a bug where players could get stuck inside a room in Saika Castle.
- Corrected a bug where players could get stuck whilst exiting the Miyataki Warehouse.
- Fixed a bug where players could get stuck inside rocks in the Obama Hillside area.
- Addressed an issue with Naoe’s Robes of the Enraged.
- Genzaburo’s Teppo Master is back from lunch and is now present at Kaya Shrine.
- Fixed an error with some cross-progression achievements caused if a playthrough was partly on MacOS.
Skills & Upgrades
- Fixed an issue where the “Hidden Hand” cooldown reduction upgrades were not applied.
- Fixed an issue where the “Extended Perception” Shinobi Upgrade didn’t grant the extra tools damage.
- Corrected an issue where the “Nightcrawler” Assassin passive didn’t grant damage at night.
- Corrected an issue where the “Endless Barrage” Tanto Upgrade was instead granting the effect of the “Contemplation” Tanto Upgrade, and vice versa.
- Fixed an issue where the “Invigorating Kill” Tanto Upgrade only worked with the stabbing part of the move and not the throw.
- Addressed an issue where the “Teppo’s Might” Teppo Upgrade only worked with the automatic follow-up shot and not the Teppo melee swing.
- Corrected an issue where perks that increased adrenaline gained on deflect, parry and dodge had little to no effect.
- Fixed an issue where damage assassinations gave less adrenaline than successful assassinations.
- Fixed an issue where the “Ability damage” knowledge tree node had no effect beyond 1st level.
- Corrected an issue where the “Posture damage” knowledge tree node had no effect beyond 1st level.
- Solved an issue where the “Vulnerable damage” knowledge tree node had no effect beyond 1st level.
- Fixed an issue where afflictions had lower durations on civilians than on enemies.
- Fixed an issue where damage reduction perks weren’t applied against some enemy projectiles.
- Addressed an issue where the “Wave of Wasps” Teppo was awarded with a random perk, instead of its legendary perk.
- Addressed an issue where equipping the “Gown of the Spirit” Naoe Light Armor prevented all tools from applying any buildup.
Visuals & Graphics
- Addressed various environmental issues with floating trees and rocks. Tree huggers rejoice!
- Fixed an issue where the glowing eyes on the Mountain Demon Kanabo appeared out of place when the weapon was holstered.
- Corrected an issue where the Ikko Ikki banner within the Hideout did not match its preview.
- Fixed an issue causing the game to crash when previewing hideout cosmetic stations on a building with the Dragon Skin applied to it.
UI
- The database entry for Sen No Rikyu now displays the correct image.
- Corrected an issue where setting HUD visibility to “Disable”, then switching to “ON” would cause some of the HUD modules to not work.
- Fixed a text-only issue where “Armor Avoidance” Long Katana Upgrade stated it granted 100% armor piercing, when it only granted 50%.
- Corrected a text-only issue where “Marksman’s Touch” Teppo Upgrade stated it granted 100% armor piercing, when it only granted 50%.
- Fixed a text-only issue where “Widespread” Tools Upgrade stated it increased the Smoke Bomb radius to 10 meters, when it only increased it to 5 meters.
- Addressed a text-only issue where “Absolute Shockwave” Kanabo Upgrade showed 167% instead of 67%.
- Corrected an issue where the “Improved Ground Assassinate” icon was larger than intended.
- Reworded the “Improved Sense” Assassin Upgrade to showcase the lingering effect duration in seconds.
- Reworded the “Temporal Mastery” Bow Upgrade to showcase the slow time duration in seconds.
Localization
- Corrected the German localization in Rescue the Special Guest.
- Fixed an error where unnecessary characters appeared in the German translation of the “+50% damage on next hit after a kill” engraving.
- Addressed a typo in the “Kirishitan” codex entry for Cristão.
SPOILERS WARNING!
Quests
- Fighting for the Cause: Fixed an issue where Kimura Kei could not be killed because the third attack sequence would not begin. Why won’t you die already?!
- Butterfly Collector: Adjusted the positioning of the Paper Merchant.
- Against The Koga-ryu: Fixed an issue where players could not complete the quest because Katsuhime was missing. Can’t a girl take a break?
- A Promise: Addressed an issue where the servant did not respond to interactions. Rude.
- Temple Stories: Fixed an issue where players could not continue due to being unable to interact with Joken Hokkyo.
- Addressed an issue where killing all Genzaburo soldiers before meeting Koshiro prevented his quest progression.
- Lost Honor: Fixed an issue where players couldn’t progress in the quest because Ise Sadatame was stuck in place.
- Homecoming: Fixed an issue where players could not complete the quest after killing the target in version 1.0.6.
PLATFORM-SPECIFIC FIXES
PC
- “Critical Hit!” achievement now unlocks correctly.
- Corrected the mistranslation of “manual” for the Chinese localization for HUD settings.
- Fixed a typo in the “Collector” achievement for the German localization on Steam and Ubisoft Connect.
Mac OS
- Engravings are now correctly awarded when looting a legendary weapon.
Ubisoft recently announced that Assassin’s Creed Shadows has now hit 5 million players — and it sounds like a version of the game for Nintendo Switch 2 is on the way, too.
Tom Phillips is IGN’s News Editor. You can reach Tom at [email protected] or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social
