{"id":1169851,"date":"2026-02-12T14:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=554829"},"modified":"2026-02-12T14:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:54:07","slug":"thank-goodness-they-added-auto-follow-for-your-horse-in-assassins-creed-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/thank-goodness-they-added-auto-follow-for-your-horse-in-assassins-creed-shadows\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank goodness, they added auto-follow for your horse in Assassin\u2019s Creed Shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Assassin\u2019s Creed Shadows<\/a><\/em> players will spend dozens of hours traversing the sprawling provinces of central Japan. Now they\u2019ll be able to turn off their brain during those long treks through the rolling hills of the countryside, thanks to a feature introduced \u2014 or should we say, reintroduced to the franchise \u2014 in the first proper patch for the game.<\/p>\n

Released Tuesday morning on all platforms, the version 1.0.2 update for Assassin\u2019s Creed Shadows<\/em><\/a> tweaks the \u201cpathfinder\u201d feature for the player character\u2019s mount. Now, the horse will automatically follow roads as it uses the game\u2019s turn-by-turn directions to ferry Naoe or Yasuke to their next waypoint. This feature existed in previous Assassin\u2019s Creed games, including Origins<\/em><\/a>, Odyssey<\/a><\/em>, and Valhalla<\/a><\/em>, so its omission at Shadows<\/em>\u2019 launch was strange. (While auto-follow now appears to be the default behavior, you can still cancel it if you\u2019d prefer to continue steering your steed manually.)<\/p>\n

The other piece of the pathfinder feature \u2014 the GPS line that it draws on roads \u2014 will no longer appear when you\u2019re taking screenshots in the game\u2019s stunning photo mode, thanks to the patch. And in addition to adding the auto-follow feature, the update increases horse speeds in cities.<\/p>\n

Another quality-of-life improvement in Tuesday\u2019s patch that Assassin\u2019s Creed Shadows<\/em> players are sure to appreciate is the ability to sell or dismantle loot in batches. Now you can select multiple items in the shop\/Forge screen before getting rid of it all in one go. Stepping out of the Forge, you\u2019ll notice that Ubisoft Qu\u00e9bec has removed the frame rate cap in the Hideout, allowing the game to run above 30 frames per second there. And continuing along the graphics front, the patch adds support for PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, Sony\u2019s image upscaling technique, for people playing on a PlayStation 5 Pro<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other key elements of the patch include the ability to reset individual Mastery nodes in Naoe\u2019s and Yasuke\u2019s skill trees<\/a>. (The game already allowed you to respec an entire tree, such as Tools or Shinobi, but now you can do it on a node-by-node basis.) Speaking of the menus, there\u2019s a new shortcut, too: You can now hold the Options\/Menu button to go straight to the game\u2019s elegantly designed objective board<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Notably, the v1.0.2 update does not<\/em> patch out the arguably overpowered legendary tanto known as the Igan Sunset<\/a> or adjust its god-tier perk, which \u2014 in conjunction with a few unlocked skills \u2014 allows Naoe to \u201cfreely ping-pong between enemies until they\u2019re dead,\u201d according to our own Tyler Colp.<\/p>\n

You can see the full list of patch notes, which also include numerous bug fixes, on Ubisoft\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Assassin\u2019s Creed Shadows players will spend dozens of hours traversing the sprawling provinces of central Japan. Now they\u2019ll be able to turn off their brain during those long treks through the rolling hills of the countryside, thanks to a feature introduced \u2014 or should we say, reintroduced to the franchise \u2014 in the first proper patch for the game. Released Tuesday morning on all platforms, the version 1.0.2 update for Assassin\u2019s Creed Shadows tweaks the \u201cpathfinder\u201d feature for the player character\u2019s mount. Now, the horse will automatically follow roads as it uses the game\u2019s turn-by-turn directions to ferry Naoe or Yasuke to their next waypoint. This feature existed in previous Assassin\u2019s Creed games, including Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla, so its omission at Shadows\u2019 launch was…<\/p>\n

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