Assassin’s Creed Shadows was just released, and players are already going down some very interesting avenues for fun. The latest one? Filling hideouts with dogs in numbers approaching the ridiculous: 20+. Honestly, if you’re NOT doing this, what are you doing?
The tweet felt almost like a jab to the community for not embracing the chaos that dogs bring. The viral post shows a screenshot of a hideout full of dogs-trying to sneak through all that wagging must be a nightmare. The caption was blatant shade: If you’re not placing 20+ dogs in your hideout… what are you even doing?
So before, in all the Assassin’s Creed games, hideouts were supposed to be stealthy and low-key places where one would think about his next move.
This time, Shadows players are saying boring. So they are turning these places into something not actually recognizably a doggy daycare. And you know what? That’s kind of brilliant.
So why dogs? One, dogs are cute. Secondly, you recruit them as companions in the game that will either fight for you or out items for you. So putting them all in one place…hey, pretty chaotic, but maybe?
Or are they just vibing on the thought of marching into battle with a whole army of little dogs who will bark at anyone who looks at them the wrong way?
Even crazier is the fact that no one really commented on the original tweet. You’d expect a storm of comments showing the dogs invading their own hideouts, but nope. Just silence. Or maybe everyone else is busy seeing how many dogs could fit in one tiny space, or just judging each other for NOT doing this?
Either way; that is some next-level Assassin’s Creed. The series has always had a knack for the ludicrous-just think of all the fish that were thrown in Valhalla-and Shadows is keeping this proud tradition alive.
So get on filling your hideout with dogs if you know what’s good for your gameplay…right now. The community wants it. To be honest, it’s probably going to ruin stealth for you, but hey, it should be a blast.
Dogs. Lots of them. That’s the meta now. Deal with it.
