Assassin's Creed Valhalla Gets Free Major Update: New Game+ Arrives Nearly Six Years After Launch, PS5 Pro Quality Mode Hits 60FPS
Ubisoft announced on PlayStation.Blog on November 5 that 'The Most Requested Update,' a free update for Assassin's Creed Valhalla, is live the same day on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Pro, bringing the game's most requested feature nearly six years after its November 10, 2020 launch.
The headline addition is New Game Plus, which lets players restart the Viking campaign after completing the main story while keeping their gear and progression. The update also adds two new achievements, an Enhanced Progression Mode option, a new Power calculation, a Master Assassin outfit based on Naoe from Assassin's Creed Shadows, and an Animus Hub synchronization update. According to Ubisoft's official patch notes, New Game+ is unlocked by completing the Holy Day quest, the last quest of the Hamtunscire region.
PlayStation 5 Pro players get an exclusive upgrade: integration of the upgraded PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution). Priscilla Nguyen, Ubisoft's Engineering Studio Manager, said the upgraded PSSR is more efficient than the original and easier to implement in the game's source code, producing a crisper and more visually stable image; with it, the game's Quality mode runs at 4K resolution and 60 frames per second on PS5 Pro.
Nguyen said the upgraded PSSR had already been integrated into newer releases such as Assassin's Creed Shadows and Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, prompting the team to bring it to Valhalla as well. Because the work required no overhaul of the game's content or visual assets, the team could modernize the nearly six-year-old open world, from the snowy mountains of Norway to the meadows and highlands of England, to today's technical standards without extensive changes.
Assassin's Creed Valhalla, set during the Viking invasion of England in the 9th century, was the series' 2020 flagship title. The free update was announced for PS5 and PS5 Pro on PlayStation.Blog, and Ubisoft's patch notes for update 1.8.0 show the release also covers other platforms.
(Source: PlayStation.Blog)
Source: PlayStation.Blog
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Photo: 图：《刺客信条：英灵殿》游戏画面，挪威雪原与木板教堂。Ubisoft 官方图，经 PlayStation.Blog 发布。 / Photo: Assassin's Creed Valhalla gameplay scene of snowy Norway with a stave church. Official image by Ubisoft, via PlayStation.Blog.
