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For the first time in Assassin’s Creed history, upcoming Egyptian instalment Origins will let you change the difficulty. In an interview with Assassin’s Central, game director Ashraf Ismail explained why: “Some people play for the historic context, some people for the narrative, some for the gameplay, and what we felt was by going deeper into the gameplay challenge of the game we’re feeding one part of the audience but not others, so it was a natural step for us.”

You’ll be able to toggle between Easy, Normal, and Hard difficulty dynamically – the developer doesn’t want you to hit a brick wall during a boss fight or anything like that. But don’t expect Easy to turn off combat entirely: “You’ll still will have to [deal with] whatever you run into,” Ashraf added. “It’s much easier to handle and the reverse is true for Hard.”

Of course, the interesting thing is that, starting next year, you will be able to turn off Assassin’s Creed Origins’ combat entirely thanks to the educational Discovery mode. This DLC will be released at no extra cost in 2018, and will let you freely explore the open world in order to learn more about Ancient Egypt. This setting will completely strip out combat encounters and quests, instead allowing you to soak up the atmosphere and absorb information about landmarks and day-to-day activities.

[source youtube.com, via gamesradar.com]