*Assassin’s Creed Shadows* can indeed be challenging, but the game offers a variety of difficulty settings to suit your comfort level. Here's a comprehensive guide to understanding and adjusting the difficulty levels in *Assassin’s Creed Shadows*.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows Difficulty Levels Explained

In *Assassin’s Creed Shadows*, you have four distinct difficulty settings to choose from:

• Story: Ideal for players who want to focus on the narrative without worrying about combat. Enemies in this mode are slow to react and never attack simultaneously, making it easy to progress through the game.
• Forgiving: A slight step up from Story, where enemies still won't gang up on you. Naoe becomes more adept at open combat, offering a gentle challenge.
• Normal: The default setting, requiring careful combat strategies. Naoe should rely on stealth, while Yasuke should tackle enemies of similar strength.
• Expert: For seasoned players, enemies are more aggressive and deal more damage. Stealth and strategy are crucial, along with keeping your gear upgraded.

Difficulty Tuning

Beyond the four main difficulty settings, you can fine-tune your experience through the Gameplay tab in the settings menu. Under Difficulty Tuning, you can adjust combat and stealth settings independently. This allows you to increase the challenge in combat while easing the stealth aspect, or vice versa. Additionally, enabling Guaranteed Assassination lets Naoe perform one-hit kills on all enemies, bypassing the need to upgrade her Assassin Mastery tree.

How to Change Difficulty

Adjusting the difficulty is straightforward and can be done at any time. Simply access the menu, navigate to settings, and select the Gameplay tab. Here, you can modify the difficulty to your preference and then return to the game seamlessly.

That's all you need to know about managing difficulty settings in *Assassin’s Creed Shadows*. For more tips and detailed information on the game, including insights on its portrayal of relationships and how to redeem preorder bonuses, be sure to check out The Escapist.