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Assassin's Creed Shadows: How to best prepare for New Game Plus!
This guide gives you essential tips on how to optimally prepare for New Game Plus in Assassin's Creed Shadows. Learn what requirements you need to meet, what items and progress you take with you, and what activities are worth doing before you start to maximize your gaming experience.
1. 🎮 Introduction to New Game Plus in Assassin's Creed Shadows
- ✅ New Game Plus is a feature that makes AC Shadows more durable.
- ✅ Starting is easy via the main menu.
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1. 🎮 Introduction to New Game Plus in Assassin's Creed Shadows
- ✅ New Game Plus is a feature that makes AC Shadows more durable.
- ✅ Starting is easy via the main menu.
00:14 - 00:47
2. ✅ Requirements and what you keep in New Game Plus
- ✅ Requirement: Play through the main story (complete all quests from Naoe, Yasuke and Jungjiro, as well as talk to Tomico).
- ✅ You keep resources, skills, weapons, equipment, upgrades and shop items.
- ✅ You can choose whether to skip the prologue.
00:48 - 01:54
3. 🚩 How to unlock New Game Plus and recognize Save Games
- ✅ Unlocking is done by completing the main story.
- ✅ New Game Plus Save Games are marked with a special symbol.
- ✅ New Game Plus can be started infinitely often, but the difficulty does not increase further after the 8th time.
01:55 - 02:31
4. 🗺️ Recommendations before starting: Complete projects and anomalies
- ✅ Complete projects and anomalies in the current Safe Game, as the map is already unlocked.
- ✅ Projects apply account-wide, meaning your New Game Plus account benefits from them.
- ✅ Manually save your old Safe Game.
02:32 - 03:06
5. 📈 Knowledge and Skill Points: Important bonuses for New Game Plus
- ✅ You take both knowledge and skill points with you.
- ✅ Skill points are important for skilling skills and the Mastery Tree.
- ✅ There are pieces of jewelry that buff damage per unspent skill point.
03:07 - 03:32
6. 💰 Maximize your damage: Ishibikoun in Yamato
- ✅ Visit the Ishibikoun in Yamato to get jewelry that increases your damage.
- ✅ You get 1% more damage per unspent skill point.
- ✅ By stacking New Game Plus, you can get up to 200% more damage.
03:33 - 04:25
7. 🏹 Hunting Quests: Unique Rewards and Skill Upgrades
- ✅ Do all the hunting quests to get unique rewards, legendary items and special skill upgrades.
- ✅ Complete the Pirate Alliance to get a companion for the hideout.
- ✅ Unlocked bonuses and skills are available in New Game Plus.
04:26 - 05:35
8. 🏰 Make castles and farm gold for item upgrades
- ✅ Make all the castles to get legendary items.
- ✅ In New Game Plus you get gold instead of legendary items.
- ✅ Gold is needed to upgrade your items (up to level 100 + 8).
| Item | Cost for upgrade |
|---|---|
| Weapon (last level) | 48 Gold |
05:36 - 06:10
9. ⚔️ Maximize spear and rations, graze orange icons
- ✅ Collect all spears and maximize your rations.
- ✅ In New Game Plus you can send even more spears.
- ✅ Graze all orange icons for knowledge points.
06:11 - 06:46
10. 🔄 New Game Plus: Motivation through difficulty and new items
- ✅ In New Game Plus you can get everything again (knowledge points, gold).
- ✅ The difficulty is increased, which creates an incentive.
- ✅ There are new items as a reward for completing New Game Plus.
06:47 - 07:21
11. 🎁 New Items: Golden Katana and Effects
- ✅ There are golden katanas for Naoe and Yasuke.
- ✅ For Naoe there is an effect that gives 150 Mon for Auto-Refund for Tools.
- ✅ You can pave an entire city with smoke bombs.
07:22 - 08:01
12. 📦 Resources and Hideout: What you take with you
- ✅ You take all resources (hideout resources, crafting materials) and items with you.
- ✅ The hideout remains as it is.
- ✅ It is worth upgrading the hideout beforehand.
08:02 - 08:46
13. ⭐ Conclusion: New Game Plus in AC Shadows is well done
- ✅ You start with a badass hideout, legendary gear and your builds.
- ✅ You do meta-progression in the form of better items and more skill points.
- ✅ It makes sense to have the map revealed if you don't want to perfect everything anymore.
08:47 - 09:20
14. 💾 Manual Saving: The Alpha and Omega
- ✅ Save manually, as the automatic Safe Games are overwritten.
- ✅ Make yourself a concise save.
09:21 - 10:22
15. 🗡️ Klaus of Awaji DLC and further tips
- ✅ Play Klaus of Awaji to take the two Bostäbe with you.
- ✅ Activate the bell for more videos.