Assassin’s Creed Shadows continues to evolve with its latest patch, update 1.008.068 (v1.1.10), now available across PlayStation 5, PC, and Xbox Series X/S. This significant update delivers a suite of important additions and critical fixes, expanding weapon availability for all players and introducing key platform-specific enhancements for PlayStation 5 Pro and Nintendo Switch 2. Beyond these headline features, the patch focuses extensively on resolving player-reported issues, offering comprehensive corrections to gameplay mechanics, progression blockers, user interface inconsistencies, and inactive perks. This article details the full patch notes, breaking down the new features, gameplay adjustments, and quest fixes that define this substantial step forward for the title.
AC Shadows Update 1.008.068 Patch Notes Overview
The official AC Shadows 1.008.068 patch notes, dated April 7, 2026, outline a multi-faceted update designed to improve the core player experience. The central update summary highlights four key areas: the expanded availability of Bo weapons for players without the expansion, visual and performance enhancements for PlayStation 5 Pro via PSSR 2 support, new input options for Nintendo Switch 2, and a wide array of corrections targeting gameplay, progression, and perk-related problems. This patch follows the recent update 1.003.179 and directly addresses several lingering issues that have impacted stability and reliability since the game’s last major release.
New Features and System Additions
This update introduces several notable features that enhance content accessibility and platform performance. A major change involves weapon availability, ensuring a broader range of players can access core gear.
Expanded Bo Weapon Availability
Non-legendary Bo weapons, previously locked behind expansion content, have been integrated into the base game’s loot pool. Once a player has earned a Unique Bo weapon, standard variants of the Bo can now appear as random loot drops, rewards from chests, or as items for sale by merchants. This change provides greater build diversity and gameplay options for all players, regardless of expansion ownership.
PlayStation 5 Pro Visual Enhancement
For owners of the PlayStation 5 Pro, the update adds official support for PSSR 2 (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution). This advanced upscaling technology is engineered to deliver sharper image quality and more consistent, smoother frame rates, significantly improving the visual fidelity and performance on Sony’s enhanced console hardware.
Nintendo Switch 2 Control Scheme
Update 1.008.068 introduces formal mouse and keyboard control support for the Nintendo Switch 2 version of Assassin’s Creed Shadows. This addition provides players on the platform with greater flexibility and precision in their control scheme preferences, aligning its input options more closely with the PC version of the game.
Gameplay Fixes and Core Improvements
The developers have implemented a significant number of fixes targeting fundamental gameplay systems, character stats, and overall progression reliability.
- Fast travel functionality has been restored for certain locations that were previously unusable.
- The status condition system has been adjusted; enemies can now be affected by up to five different status effects simultaneously, allowing for more complex combat strategies.
- An interface error preventing extra Rations from being displayed correctly in the stats panel has been corrected.
- Damage bonuses that were not applying correctly when characters were fighting unarmed now function as intended.
- A critical adjustment has been made to stat calculations, which were erroneously stopping their increase beyond a +100% modifier, ensuring stats now scale properly beyond that threshold.
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User Interface and Menu Corrections
Interface stability and information clarity have received focused attention in this patch, resolving crashes and display inaccuracies.
- A crash that could occur when players viewed add-on content in the menu has been fixed.
- The total completion percentage will now correctly display 100% after a player finishes all in-game activities, correcting a previous display error.
- The Detailed Stat Sheet has been updated to accurately display Combo Ender damage values.
- Visual clarity has been improved to better distinguish between stat values that are capped and those that are not.
- An error that caused expansion gear to disappear from a player’s inventory following a game update has been resolved.
Weapon, Perk, and Stat Adjustments
This section of the patch focuses on tuning specific abilities, fixing inactive perks, and ensuring statistical bonuses are working transparently.
Character and Perk Fixes
- Corrected the displayed damage value for Yasuke’s “Defensive Break Level 3” perk.
- Fixed multiple upgrades that were previously inactive, including “Critical Insight,” “Hidden Onslaught,” and “Extended Duration.”
- The description for the “Oni’s Rage” perk has been updated to clearly show its bleed spread percentage.
- Resolved an issue that prevented trinket bonuses from being visible in the Detailed Stat Sheet.
- Fixed specific helmet and weapon perks that failed to activate or deactivate under certain gameplay conditions.
- Restored proper functionality to bonuses designed to convert one type of affliction damage to another.
Localization and Text Clarity
The ability description for “Hurricane Stance” has been updated to clearly and accurately state its damage output, ensuring players have correct information for their skill builds.
Quest and Progression Bug Fixes
Several specific missions that were hindered by progression blockers or scripting errors have been corrected.
- In the quest “Brothers In Arms,” required enemies can now be properly looted to advance the objective.
- A progression halt in the “Lost and Found” quest that occurred after defeating the Sentinel boss has been resolved.
- “The Winter Raiders” mission can now be completed as intended after all mission targets have been defeated.
AC Shadows update 1.008.068 represents a comprehensive effort to refine the game’s technical foundation and player experience, addressing feedback across all supported platforms. By broadening gear accessibility, enhancing platform-specific performance, and systematically eliminating a catalog of bugs affecting quests, perks, and interface stability, this patch solidifies the game’s core systems. These collective improvements ensure a more reliable and polished experience, allowing players to engage more deeply with the world of feudal Japan without the technical interruptions that previously hampered progression and combat strategy. Download links for the update are now live for PlayStation 5, PC, and Xbox Series X/S.
