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Embark on a brand-new quest to the city of Thebes! The Assassin's Creed® Origins journey continues as Bayek learns of a curse raising undead pharaohs who ravage the city. Investigate the cause and defeat mythical beasts to put these pharaohs to rest.
Key Features
- Fight undead pharaohs and mystical beasts from Egyptian mythology while uncovering the cause of a horrific curse.
- Explore four brand-new regions: The Valley of the Kings, City of Thebes, Aswan, and Kharga Oasis.
- Enhance your gear set by wielding new legendary weapons with unique attributes.
- Make Bayek even deadlier with a higher-level cap and new abilities.
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The ancient Egypt of Assassin's Creed Origins will scoot a little closer to modernity when The Hidden Ones arrives on January 23. Ubisoft announced the date for the incoming DLC expansion and its follow up, as well as the arrival of the combat-free, education-friendly Discovery Tour, all at once today. Here's what we're looking at.
Assassin's Creed Origins DLC 1: The Hidden Ones
The Hidden Ones takes place five years after Origins' main campaign. Slight spoiler warning in case you didn't already figure that Bayek would be a founding member of the Brotherhood by the end of the game but, yep, he is. And in this expansion his fledgling order clashes with Roman forces occupying the Sinai Peninsula. New region? New region. While you're exploring and fighting your way through Sinai you can level up to the new cap of 45, find four new Legendary weapons and two new mounts, and even take all of your crafted gear up two more levels. Again, it's coming out on January 23 both a la carte and as part of the season pass. Make sure you play the new Incoming Threat quest that was just added to the game for a quick amuse-bouche before then.
Assassin's Creed Origins DLC 2: The Curse of the Pharaohs
You didn't think you'd get all the way through a western-developed game about ancient Egypt without fighting some mummies, did you? This second expansion takes place in and around the Greek city of Thebes as it suffers from an ancient curse; not the boring kind of ancient curse where you get a high fever and die in bed, but the exciting kind where long-dead pharaohs and mythological beasts rise again to wreck up the place. On the back-end, this second DLC expansion will bump the level cap up once more to 55 and introduce new outfits and gear inspired by Egyptian mythology. The Curse of the Pharaohs will arrive on March 6.
Assassin's Creed Origins Discovery Tour
Officially titled 'Discovery Tour by Assassin's Creed: Ancient Egypt' (which sounds like a cologne), this is the mode that lets you wander around the world at your leisure with no external pressure or danger. All combat and standard quests/activities are disabled, though you can embark on specially curated tours from historians. The coolest part is that the Discovery Tour will be available as a free update to all Origins players, and sold standalone via Steam and Uplay, starting on February 20. Assassin's fans get a new way to experience the game and history buffs/students/teachers get a convenient way to 'ooh' and 'ahh' at the pretty architecture and superbly detailed mummification process. Everybody wins!
The timed-exclusive Trials of the Gods challenges will keep coming, too, so make sure you get in while the god killing's good.
Assuming you’ve played an hour or two of Assassin’s Creed Origins every day since its original launch last October, you might now find yourself running out of things to do and see in Ubisoft’s absurdly large ultra-budget adventure through ancient Egypt. Thank god for mandatory DLC, eh?
Today, the second (and final) major component of the Origins season pass rolls out. Dropping sci-fi weirdness in favour of classical Egyptian mythology, Curse Of The Pharaohs has Bayek and friends square up against a cadre of returned undead kings across new locations in the physical world and the afterlife, the latter of which is probably not covered by the historical tour mode.
The previous major piece of DLC – The Hidden Ones – was a respectable chunk of new content. A slab of new land to explore, maybe around three hours of new story quests and a smattering of optional side-stories to work through, but it sounds like Curse Of The Pharaohs may dwarf it in terms of Stuff. The new expansion (set four years after the main game) promises another chunk of Egypt to explore centered around the new city of Thebes and the Valley of The Kings, as well as some rather less charted locations.
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In his new, less-historically-accurate quest, Bayek will find himself offing (re-offing?) several Pharaohs returned from the dead, who have brought an assortment of nasty critters with them, including some scorpions the size of small houses. Returning these sleepless kings to bed will require going into each of their private afterlives, accessible via their tombs and expanding out into a miniature open world each, so say Ubisoft. These afterlives will be left open for free exploration after clearing their attached main story quests, too, and can be fast-traveled to from the map.
To facilitate this somewhat fancier subset of assassination, they’ve raised the level cap and added seven more abilities, which will probably come in handy against the Shadows of the Pharaohs, roaming mini-bosses that will pop up around the map, menacing the locals. They’re apparently among the toughest fights in the game, and beating them up will net you warm fuzzy feelings for saving another bunch of villagers, plus the less important reward of shiny new loot.
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Be warned that this DLC comes at a hefty cost to bandwidth. Uplay estimates that there’s 13gb of expansion to download here, on top of the several gigabyte patch released to prepare the game for its deployment. Can you play gta 5 split screen windows. Curse Of The Pharaohs is out now for £16/$20 (twice the price of the previous expansion), or as part of the season pass.