Assassin’s Creed Shadows is finally here, and players are just beginning to explore the game’s wide and wonderful open world. Though that world includes many delightful little details that add a touch of realism to the game, it also includes a feature not commonly seen in open-world RPGs: snow that actually melts.
Most games featuring significant amounts of snow don’t do much with it beyond allowing player-characters to leave footprints in the fresh, powdery precipitation. But Assassin’s Creed Shadows take things a step further, with snow that actually responds to the in-game world’s weather patterns.
In Shadows, after a snowstorm, the snow melts in real-time when the sun comes out. pic.twitter.com/5fOKrckSso
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Players can encounter snowstorms and other types of weather patterns in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. But one eagle-eyed player noticed that not only does the snow melt, it melts slowly–after the sun has come out–rather than doing so instantly.