Leaked Assassin’s Creed Shadows images have surfaced that appear to show a selection of free battle pass rewards for Ubisoft’s upcoming blockbuster.
Assassin’s Creed has never offered a battle pass before, and Ubisoft is yet to announce any details officially on how this will work.
Still, datamined content appears to suggest players will be able to complete daily missions from within the game’s new Animus Hub to progress a battle pass with 20 free tiers and receive cosmetic items. Ubisoft now appears to be scrubbing images from social media, including reddit.
Cosmetic items include the kind of optional visual items Assassin’s Creed has regularly offered for free and for sale in the past, including character costumes, weapon skins and new looks for your mount.
Assassin’s Creed has long hosted daily and weekly missions, too. As with most Ubisoft games, these timed challenges and rewards are found within the publisher’s Ubisoft Connect app.
Shadows looks set to streamline all of this within its Animus Hub, the new and still rather nebulous home of the series’ modern day story that will also act as connective tissue between future Assassin’s Creed games.
Leaked artwork looks to show Shadows’ co-protagonist Yasuke standing within the Animus Hub, suggesting players will be able to use character avatars to navigate it.
Eurogamer discussed the Animus Hub project, also known in development as Assassin’s Creed Infinity, back in 2022 with franchise boss Marc-Alexis Coté. “It’s going to be the single entry point for our fans into the Assassin’s Creed franchise into the future,” he said at the time.