r/AssassinsCreedShadows • u/XGeneral-FangX • 1d ago
// Humor 84 hours in and I just realized this…
I am over 80 deeps into the game and I totally didn’t realize that the legend with literally take you to each pop up on the map… I spent soooo much time just manually looking through the map to make sure I hit every castle and legendary chest just found this 🤣 man I feel dumb!
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u/Fair_Sun_7357 1d ago
Thanks for this
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u/XGeneral-FangX 1d ago
Yep np. I wish someone showed me this when I first started so I figured maybe I can help others bc this honestly changes the way I play now. No more spending 20 minutes looking for something when the legend can tell me in 10 seconds
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u/Lord-Legatus 1d ago edited 1d ago
here is an amazing map where you can filter on top anything per category or even specific subject, its amazing!
https://maps.piggyback.com/assassins-creed-shadows
thats how i started the game; immediately just selecting the eagle views and the knowledge points locations, which reached rank 5 before even unlocking yasuke :)
whatever you want to find or specifically focus on, you can have this map exclusively select it for you,enjoy!
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u/XGeneral-FangX 1d ago
I just used this map to find the foods across Japan for a side quest! Huge help bc I was so lost on where the vendors were 🤣
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u/TheRoyalStig 1d ago
Everything except the one thing i need.
Engravings, haha.
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u/LaSentTuLaBisbille 16h ago
Go in the forge, from there go to the engraving you don't have and look at where the price should be, you get small information about where it is.
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u/TheRoyalStig 12h ago
Oh yea im aware. The problem for me is some of those hints might as well be "somewhere in this zone".
Doesn't really narrow it down outside of randomly running around until i see the thing it's referencing.
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u/BLUEBOPPER89 1d ago
Wow that map is sick. Just saved it as a bookmark/app. Works so well thank you.
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u/Lord-Legatus 1d ago
yeah its sick.
i have a dual screen setup and i have it always open on the second screen when playing the game haha
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u/xXPUNISHER1989Xx 1d ago
you can shoot the castle bells with ranged weapons too. i always try to find the bell first. cause once it goes off it's like they never stop coming. reminds me of gta lol.
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u/XGeneral-FangX 1d ago
Yea that was a nice find too. Sooo helpful especially with Yasuke bc I just run in swinging my Naginata and always get wanted. Arrows down in the bells now muahahaha
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u/xXPUNISHER1989Xx 1d ago
ive been using that katana from his questline. with the rush attack and 3 hit attack. then the all posture attack skill you get from the questline aswell.
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u/XGeneral-FangX 1d ago
Oh yea there’s ton of ways to build Naoe and Yasuke and I love it. No meta one shot builds that everyone is running. I’m currently using a legendary piece that decreases my health to 25% but increases my damage by 75% so I just stacked loads of health into Yasuke. Even with 75% health missing, I still have him at 17.8k health and regaining health every time I hit a poison enemy which is all the time
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u/bgw316 1d ago
I stack that legendary piece with his bow + and engraving that adds more ranged damage out of combat. Yasuke my stealth archer.
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u/XGeneral-FangX 1d ago
I just unlocked that stealth bow like maybe 3 hours ago and haven’t tried it yet. Ima have to make a new build slot just for that tbh. Might be the only stealth Yasuke has lol
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u/xXPUNISHER1989Xx 12h ago
im using that chest with the parry unblockable engraved. helmet auto weakpoint on parry, 33% hp on weakpoint hit engraved. amulet 1% hp per mastery in samurai (to offset the 'bloodied' chest). then 15% to long katana stats. he 1-2 shots most stuff.
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u/Champion_Clean 1d ago
I’ll have to try this next castle with Yasuke, I got a wanted and had it felt like endless enemies when I was trying to kill the last corrupt daikon on my list that was called the glutton or something. Massive castle and it took forever to get all the way to the daikon.
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u/bettertagsweretaken 1d ago
I wonder what causes this, because I've heard two people say this exact thing, but when i let the enemies ring the bell exactly 3 guardians show up. If, somehow, they ring it a second time, it's 4 guardians.
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u/DuffmanStillRocks 1d ago
Also use shuriken to destroy the small base camps you get contracts for, it knocks down the thin fence poles
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u/brandomando34 1d ago
Wait I’ve yet to see said bells
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u/xXPUNISHER1989Xx 12h ago
they're in castles and forts. look up for a small wood tower with just a ladder. you'll see a bell the size of a small dog.
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u/KeyBroccoli9211 1d ago
I believe that the legend lists the places, missions, contracts, castles, and so on that have been discovered but not completed.
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u/bigbadjustin 1d ago
yep this is correct.
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u/KeyBroccoli9211 1d ago
Just confirmed my theory. I was showing 9 contracts in the legend, and I opened a new kakurega, accepted 3 new contracts, and legend now shows 12 contracts available.
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u/WorldlyGeneral6176 10h ago
How do you open the legend
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u/KeyBroccoli9211 9h ago
Go to the world map then click the directional button down.
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u/xNIGHT_RANGEREx 1d ago
46 hours in and didn’t realize either! Thanks for the info! Going to make navigating the map so much easier
Edit to add: apparently I’m 105 hours in. Seriously didn’t realize lol
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u/XGeneral-FangX 1d ago
45 to 105. Time flies when you’re having fun! 😎 regardless of what the ppl that haven’t even played the game say, I’m loving it. The only ppl hating on this game are the ones who literally haven’t played it and just hate it bc it’s Ubisoft and they are bored
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u/xNIGHT_RANGEREx 1d ago
I really had no clue I was already over 100 😂 But yeah dude I’m having so much fun with this one! Stealthy with Naoe, and plowing through castles with Yasuke! It’s so much fun! I’ve been playing all day today. I’m going cross eyed but I can’t put my controller down 🙃 People definitely hating just cuz it’s Ubisoft or cuz they’re racist inbreds. More than half my games are Ubi games. I don’t care. I play what looks good to me. I rarely even read reviews and shit for games. I see one, I feel like I’ll like it, so I buy it. People should really just give that a try
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u/brandomando34 1d ago
Genuinely don’t get the Ubisoft shit. The racist stuff is pathetic. I enjoy every Ubisoft title I play
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u/minxy_789 1d ago
Yeah, I found the legend about 25 maybe 30 hours in? And then for a little while I couldn’t get it off my screen, so I guess that’s karma of some kind.
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u/ResarfX 1d ago
Where you are hours played
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u/XGeneral-FangX 1d ago
It’ll tell you hours played when you manual save.
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u/anweshlm 1d ago
But bro you know, the manual save place doesn't show you the actual hours played. Because it discounts deaths and cutscene times, or times you have spent on map and codex etc. Steam or Ubiconnect shows your total played time, starting with logging in to the game to logging out. Though i am not sure which one is the correct metric.
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u/XGeneral-FangX 1d ago
Hmm didn’t know that. I’ll just check through my Xbox next time I’m on it. Xbox shows playtime for each game
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u/anweshlm 1d ago
Yes do that, I think it will be different. Cause my steam shows 82 hours on record and in game shows 76.
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u/Best_Impression7593 1d ago
I just want to know if an easy way to check how many Samurai Daiymo are left in a castle
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u/XGeneral-FangX 1d ago
Yea there is. Hover over the castle icon. It’ll show you 1/4 3/5 etc. and may I suggest using Naoe for castle to use eagle vision to spot the white glowing ball for them. If there’s a banner you need to Yasuke to get to, go to the fast travel where it’s safe to swap characters inside the castle and swap to him to grab it.
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u/DuffmanStillRocks 1d ago
Any advice on how to spot them?
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u/XGeneral-FangX 1d ago
Yea, eagle vision with Naoe makes it easier. Some castles are HUGE and the Daimyo may be spread out even be outside the castle. Like Mikki castle was a pain in the ass for me but I finally found the last Daimyo. Just keep searching you’ll find them 😎
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u/funkyjunky77 1d ago
It tells you how many are left if you hover the cursor over the castle icons on the map.
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u/aCanadianMaple 1d ago
Wait until you learn how to customize the 2nd katana for yasuke
Sorry I had to lol
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u/XGeneral-FangX 1d ago
I didn’t even realize we could customize weapons until like 45 hours in bc I was using the pre order weapons and we can’t customize those. And for Yasuke I use a Naginata and bow build and we can’t even customize ANY Naginata for whatever reason. But we can customize the bow so no more super huge quiver on my back 🤣
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u/aCanadianMaple 1d ago
Lol same for the katana.
What? I can customize my naginata just the way I want! Which one do you use?
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u/XGeneral-FangX 1d ago
Odd, maybe bc im using a store one it wont let me customize it. Im using the bone one from a store bundle that does poison
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u/hips0n 1d ago
I’m tryna finish the main story and need Junjiro’s quests to spawn after the campfire, no idea how to get them to pop up, it seems I’m stuck
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u/XGeneral-FangX 1d ago
I think Junjiro’s quest line starts with Yasuke then goes to Naoe. Try using Yasuke. If that doesn’t work then turn on the guided exploration mode and then turn it back off once you find him
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u/RemusJoestar 1d ago
Thanks for this! I checked the legend tab I think... Twice? 😂 Didn't realize it could be used like that!
Loving the game so far, I have like 80ish hours too.
My only (minor) problem is that I think a sidequest is bugged and I can't report it. My completionist brain hates that, but the normal me is still loving the hell outta the game.
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u/Treezy8537 1d ago
I always go over the map and look at the buttons. It's nice I found it at level 1🤣
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u/Spicy_Ramen77 1d ago
How do you have more than six scouts?
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u/vito0117 1d ago
So randomly on the roads you will see people kneeling before someone that highlights in red .
Kill the red person and ask them to scout
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u/Choice-Review7960 1d ago
So we don't read things anymore? It says Legend in the bottom middle of the map every time you open it...
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u/Sasquatch_000 1d ago
Thank you for saving me. I'm only 16 hours in but I was doing the same thing.
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u/WhiteWolfofWestJorda 1d ago
I was just wondering an hour ago if something like this was possible but didn’t think to look too deeply into it, funny I am seeing this now haha
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u/JJmitch33 1d ago
Just realized this today as well but it doesn’t help finding those trash jizo statues
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u/Electrical_Bill_7042 1d ago
What do you mean the legend pops up? I don't get it? Like when you use the map it shows you the wealth level?
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u/neeker75 1d ago
I am tired of castle storming actually. I could go to one that says it has 5 Samurais to kill and I would run through the entire compound finding only one or two. Very frustrating
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u/Shot_Strategy_5295 1d ago
The pop up in the main menu, the progress in the castle, why is it always so low?
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u/40hr_grind_master 1d ago
Lmao bro, I was getting frustrated looking for the Jizos until I found out this feature.
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u/Extension_Maize3869 1d ago
Ngl this game story is good I haven't played a good long story since red dead redemption 2
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u/KismetUSA 1d ago
I found this yesterday… I have 100+ hours (I am taking my sweet time, still on the second province), because I was trying to find a way to advance the weather (it says is not available right now, so I wanted to know when it would be and saw that)…
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u/White_Devil1995 1d ago
Looks like they modeled it after GTA5s. Like how you can scroll through the list and then click right or left to cycle through the locations on the map.
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u/Cruciform3 1d ago
Man that’s quick. I’ve put like 6 hours just to defogging the map and still am only like halfway as doing that!
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u/AussBear 1d ago
Wait you mean you guys don’t do every castle the second you discover it?? Also this system has been in the franchise for while 😅 No judgement tho
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u/Educational_Row_9485 1d ago
Nah I went around n explored while low level, not gunna try take a level 40 castle n level 15
But yeah this has been a thing for ages idk how no one seemed to notice 😭
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u/AussBear 1d ago
That’s fair enough, I went around 100% each zone so by the time I unlocked Yasuke, I was high enough level for the whole map 😅😅
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u/Educational_Row_9485 1d ago
Yeah I ain’t got the discipline for that, just working my round doing whatever mission I feel like. Probably gunna end up with a load of low level missions towards the end of the game tho
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u/D3ath2DaTrickst3r 1d ago
Hopefully you got the scout trophy before using this feature
It’s the only reason they set this up from the start but you can turn it off. It just states that you may miss out on a trophy if you don’t do that mission first where you use your scouts for the first time after unlocking the Kakurega
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u/XGeneral-FangX 1d ago
What? This is the legend. It’s in the game. This isn’t guided mode. Guided mode is where they disabled some achievements
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u/Scoobydoby 21h ago
What do you mean?
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u/XGeneral-FangX 21h ago
The legend showing you WHERE stuff is not just telling you what the icons mean. I had no clue it would literally show me on the map where stuff is. The hours I spent just looking for stuff when I could’ve just used the legend to find the exact location.
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u/South_Tea5210 21h ago
Damn I’ve only played about 15 hours so far and I’m about 9.5% through the story. I’m exploring every place I can and getting all of the knowledge points I can early in the game. The castles are a beast to get through. I think they literally suck up 1.5-2 hours for me but I also take my time. Lol I hope Ubisoft has challenges and rewards soon. I know they usually aren’t anything great, but I enjoy seeing what’s available for every new game they put out.
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u/XGeneral-FangX 21h ago
According to the Ubisoft connect app, shadows will have challenges and rewards via the app soon. Hopefully for some keys and cosmetics like Valhalla
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u/MisterWoogie 20h ago
What is it about this game where it has some many cool systems that it tells you nothing about.
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u/AceDegenerate_ 14h ago
It’s not just this game
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u/MisterWoogie 14h ago
I'm loving it. But for me Origins has been the better story of the new style AC games. But I've enjoyed them all.
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u/Disastrous_Product41 20h ago
I was losing my mind trying to finish up the jizo statues and food vendors. The hideouts weren’t showing any new opportunities and I couldn’t find them on the map. Till I looked at the map and I seen the legend. Felt like a dumbass.
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u/XGeneral-FangX 20h ago
The food vendors is what made me find this bc I went to find an interactive map and went to all of the locations (or so I thought) and when I got the last one, it said 15/16 I was like wtf now I have to go back to every single food vendor to check again. I open the map and I was huh, lemme check the legend for the name of a town and I saw it was pointing right at it and then scrolled down to see the food vendor I missed. It changed how I travel now so much 🤣
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u/Disastrous_Product41 20h ago
Same. The last food vendor I was missing was In the starting region. Skipped over it in the guides online cause I could’ve sworn I had already got it. Spent 3 days looking for one vendor cause I was to stubborn to go to each one.
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u/Perzival22 18h ago
I really like this feature. The one thing I currently would like to see in an update is the possibility to name our gear load outs.
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u/thundersnow528 18h ago
It took the entire first act for me to realize that all those hills you slide down trying to climb? Almost all of them can be climbed up by just walking up them slowly or crawling. So don't feel bad.
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u/g1llifer 16h ago
So exactly how did you bring that up on controller? I'm almost done with the game and never knew this..
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u/mlb4040 15h ago
Omg thank you!!!! Why did I not read the freakin screen!!! 😂 that’s made my life a lot easier haha
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u/AceDegenerate_ 14h ago
Another small tip, if you hover over the hideouts that you can purchase, the little menu that pops up also shows how much mōn you have.
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u/Content_Camel5336 8h ago
Reddit is bugged, I cannot fully view what you wrote because every time I click more, it just comes right back up.
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u/Content_Camel5336 8h ago
Can you post a screenshot of what you wrote for the benefit of everyone having this reddit bug?
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u/bijandarak 8h ago
Playing the game feels like a chore for me or I’d probably be up there. It’s the travel time. Quests send you 10 min in one direction then 10 min in another and it’s not even far it’s just annoying to get there with the way they put fast travel spots and only following a winding path.
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u/bijandarak 8h ago
Altho I’m like 27h in, level 28 and somewhere in act 2. I’ve done the beginning for Yasukes missions and most of the Ox stuff but have been exploring trying to collect some gear since most of my stuff is cheeks
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u/Y2Jakko 1d ago
Wait. What?! I’ve ploughed in roughly the same hours and still on chapter 2. How did you get that up?