Assassin’s Creed: Shadows does a rather interesting thing with the skill tree, a common, tried and tested RPG staple. As RPG fans will know, in most games, unlocking one node on a tree will allow you to access the next in the chain until you reach the best perk in each category.
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Well, AC Shadows decides to rip up the script and introduce Knowledge Points. This in-game metric effectively gatekeeps certain tiers of unlockable skills until players have enough knowledge to access them.
So, if the basic skills accessible at the start of the game just don’t float your boat, you’ll need to know all the ways that you can earn Knowledge Points, allowing you to access the best skills the game has to offer.
6Pray At Temples
Praying For New Skills
One of the common ways that players will be able to gain Knowledge Points in AC Shadows is by finding temples and exploring their grounds. These temples will have a set number of shrines that the player will need to find and pray at.
Finding these shrines can often be a chill and serene experience, as there are often no enemies that occupy the area. However, there are some Temples that are occupied by enemy forces, meaning you’ll needto either sneak aroundand intermittently pray, or clear the area out first.
Once you have found all of these shrines, you will earn one knowledge point for your efforts.
5Complete Meditation Quests
Become Zen
When playing as Naoe, you will come across a number of scenic and tranquil locations marked with the blood orange Knowledge Point marker. This will indicate that players can sit there and
meditate, which triggers a short rhythm game.
Once you complete this simple mini-game, Noae will zone out, and you will witness a flashback quest giving some backstory of Naoe’s rise to become part of the Igan Ikki.
These quests are pretty narrative-heavy and don’t have very many tricky parts to worry about. Plus, they tend to run pretty short.
Once you complete the quest, you will return to the meditation spot, and you will be granted one knowledge point.
4Find Lost Pages
Mini Scavenger Hunts
Finding Lost Pages is essentially the sister task to praying at shrines to acquire Knowledge Points, and effectively asks you to do the same thing, albeit with items that are a little harder to find.
Players will need to infiltrate castles and strongholds, and once inside that hostile zone, they will need to find a collection of lost pages dotted around the area.
These lost pages tend to be found in hard-to-reach places like in trenches where you’ll need to go prone to access or on high rooftops. But it’s nothing that a nimble assassin such as yourself can’t handle.
After you collect the last lost page in the area, you’ll gain one Knowledge Point.
3Raiding Kofuns
Assassin’s Creed Shadows may be a game where you raid castles, explore the luscious greenery of the land, and parkour from rooftop to rooftop in open spaces, but that doesn’t mean that this game doesn’t feature just a dash of dungeon crawling, too.
AC Shadows features hidden, very lucrative areas known as Kofuns, which are essentially underground labyrinths that task the player with navigating what lies below the earth, platforming, and solving puzzles as you go.
If you may manage that, you will not only get a Knowledge Point for your efforts, but you will also get your hands on some legendary loot as well, making these areas well worth seeking out.
2Paths of Valor
Practice Your Parkour
It wouldn’t bean Assassin’s Creed gamewithout some sort of in-game test of your parkour skills, and that’s exactly what the Paths of Valor are. These are effectively obstacle courses carved into the natural landscape, and players will need to use their agility to navigate from the start to the end of this course.
These tend to be marked with the infamous open-world yellow markers, so it’s pretty hard to lose track of where to go from one leap to the next, and once you get to the end of the course, you will find that there is a chest containing some rare loot.
But, of course, when you open this chest and claim your loot, you will also gain one Knowledge Point for walking the Path of Valor.
1Performing Katas
Great… Quicktime Events
Then, finally, we have a method for earning Knowledge Points that can only be utilized when playing as Yasuke.
Seeing as this playable character is a samurai warrior of much acclaim, you’ll be able to put these skills to use by honing your craft with trainers.
These trainers will have you perform Katas, which essentially play out in a similar rhythm game format to the Meditation sequences. However, these sequences are a little more intricate and demanding. Nothing too taxing, but you might need to concentrate on these a little more.
Once you complete these glorified quick-time events, you’ll receive one Knowledge Point for your efforts.
