Assassin’s Creed Shadows has an early secret weapon that’s easy to miss, but you have to get: “I haven’t even been hit once since I found it”

Assassin’s Creed Shadows has been out for just over a week, but if you’re just settling in to play it this weekend, stop what you’re doing. There’s an incredibly overpowered weapon that you can get very early on, and it has an awesome effect that you don’t want to miss out on.

The Igan Sunset is a tanto that you can get from a legendary chest in the game’s starting area, Izumi Settsu. With it, Naoe can slow down time by performing an Escape Strike. This is a very early ability you can unlock in the tanto skill tree that allows you to do a quick attack and then dodge back. Just press the quick or strong attack button followed by the dodge button, and you’ll slash, then leap backward.