"Assassin’s Creed Shadows: All Difficulty Settings Explained"

*Assassin’s Creed Shadows* can be a challenging game, but the good news is that you can adjust the settings to suit your comfort level. Here's everything you need to know about the difficulty levels in *Assassin’s Creed Shadows*.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows Difficulty Levels Explained

In *Assassin’s Creed Shadows*, you have four difficulty settings to choose from, each offering a unique gameplay experience:

• Story: This mode is perfect if you want to enjoy the narrative without the stress of combat. Enemies in Story mode react slowly and don’t gang up on you, making it easy to progress through the game.
• Forgiving: A slight step up from Story, Forgiving mode maintains the same enemy behavior but enhances Naoe’s combat capabilities, making open combat more manageable.
• Normal: As the default setting, Normal requires careful strategy. Naoe must rely on stealth, while Yasuke needs to engage enemies wisely based on their strength.
• Expert: This is the toughest setting where enemies are more aggressive and deal more damage. Success in Expert mode demands stealth, strategy, and consistent gear upgrades.

Difficulty Tuning

While the four difficulty settings provide a solid foundation, you can further customize your experience through Difficulty Tuning. Navigate to the Gameplay tab in the settings menu, select Difficulty Tuning, and adjust the levels of difficulty for both combat and stealth independently. This means you can enjoy challenging combat while easing the stealth elements if needed.

Additionally, you can enable Guaranteed Assassination, which allows Naoe to perform one-hit assassinations on all enemies, 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 time during your gameplay, access the menu, go to settings, and navigate to the Gameplay tab. Here, you can tweak the difficulty to your liking and then return to the game to continue your adventure.

And that’s everything you need to know about managing difficulty settings in *Assassin’s Creed Shadows*. For more tips and detailed information on the game, including insights into its portrayal of relationships and how to claim preorder bonuses, be sure to visit The Escapist.