Assassin's Creed Shadows doesn't totally tie up every loose end it introduces, but don't worry too much about lacking closure. One of the open-world game's lead developers has explained that the RPG's new Animus Hub will serve as a connective tissue between Shadows and whatever the future of the series holds. To quickly catch you up, the Animus Hub basically functioned as a menu in Assassin's Creed Shadows that gave players a short synopsis of some previous AC games and let players launch them directly from the Hub. It also contained sections dedicated to Projects (basically battle passes), the Exchange (an in-game shop), and most interestingly, the Vault (a catch-up of the ongoing modern day storyline.) We know that the Animus Hub isn't a feature exclusively tied to AC Shadows - it'll carry over into presumably all upcoming Assassin's Creed games - so what does it mean for the series' overarching storyline? New Assassin's Creed Shadows update includes a big Odyssey Easter egg and the devs have an entire Kassandra-focused story under wraps: "We might reveal it at some point" Assassin's Creed Shadows' DLC wraps up 2 storylines left open in the base RPG, but devs aren't closing the door completely: "You can always reopen things" "We are hard to beat": 9 months since Assassin's Creed Shadows, its associate director looks back on what makes this RPG the best in series history Is the Animus Hub a replacement for modern day action? Will we ever see another protagonist like Layla or Desmond move the story along outside the animus? Or, and forgive my cynicism, is it publisher Ubisoft's attempt at making a single-player live-service? We'll see how it progresses in Assassin's Creed Hexe and beyond. New Assassin's Creed Shadows update includes a big Odyssey Easter egg and the devs have an entire Kassandra-focused story under wraps: "We might reveal it at some point"