*Assassin’s Creed Shadows* can indeed be challenging, but fear not—adjusting the difficulty settings can help you tailor the game to your preferred level of challenge. Here’s a comprehensive guide to understanding and adjusting the difficulty levels in *Assassin’s Creed Shadows*.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows Difficulty Levels Explained
The game offers four distinct difficulty settings, each designed to cater to different player experiences:
- Story: Ideal for those who want to focus on the narrative without the stress of combat. Enemies in this mode are slow and less coordinated, making it easy to breeze through encounters.
- Forgiving: A slight step up from Story mode, where enemies remain non-aggressive, and Naoe is more adept in open combat situations.
- Normal: This is the default setting where combat requires more attention. Naoe must rely on stealth, while Yasuke should engage enemies of similar strength. It strikes a balance between challenge and enjoyment.
- Expert: For the seasoned players, this mode ramps up the difficulty with more aggressive and damaging enemies. Stealth and strategy become crucial, and maintaining gear upgrades is essential.
Difficulty Tuning
While the four preset difficulty levels provide a solid foundation, you can further customize your experience. Navigate to the Gameplay tab in the settings menu and select Difficulty Tuning. Here, you can adjust the difficulty for both combat and stealth independently. For instance, if you enjoy the thrill of combat but find stealth challenging, you can lower the stealth difficulty.
Additionally, you can enable the Guaranteed Assassination feature, which allows Naoe to take down any enemy with a single hit, bypassing the need to upgrade her Assassin Mastery tree.
How to Change Difficulty
Adjusting the difficulty in *Assassin’s Creed Shadows* is straightforward. At any point during gameplay, access the menu, head to settings, and select the Gameplay tab. Here, you can tweak the difficulty to your liking and then return to your adventure.
That covers everything you need to know about managing difficulty settings in *Assassin’s Creed Shadows*. For more in-depth guides and tips, including insights on the game's portrayal of relationships and how to access preorder bonuses, be sure to visit The Escapist.
