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But will they be timed?

I’m using a photo of the Fortnite battle pass only because Ubisoft is copyright striking the Animus leaks. Ubisoft is doing damage control, one of their many primary functions as a company these days, over claims that the Animus hub will contain paid battle passes. It won’t, but it will contain battle passes.

If you don’t spend a lot of time reading gaming news, the Animus Hub was announced as something of Ubisoft’s answer to Call of Duty HQ. It will eventually be the hub where players launch their Assassin’s Creed games from and become a one stop shop where Ubisoft can presumably also integrate the games and have cross-progression crap. Kinda like how some Call of Duty stuff transfers between games now. Does it need a hub? Arguably no.

But it’s getting one anyway, in 2025. And recent leaks uncovered some outfits as well as a battle pass leading many to speculate that Ubisoft is planning on premium battle passes for the Animus hub. And it makes sense. Ubisoft has paid battle passes for Rainbow Six Siege as well as For Honor. Their other games are no stranger to yearly content packs. There’s no reason to assume that if a battle pass exists that it wouldn’t have a paid upgrade.

And thankfully it doesn’t. Ubisoft announced on Reddit that yes, the battle passes do exist. And no, they won’t be paid.

• All the rewards available in the Animus Hub will be entirely free.
• There are no paid subscriptions or paid battle pass featured in the Animus Hub.
• Players will have access to regular content & missions at no extra cost.

I can appreciate Ubisoft’s level of detail in their response, because they are going further than the normal answer. Time and time again we’ve seen developers claim “our battle pass is free” only to turn around and expand with “but it will include a premium paid track.” It’s nice to see Ubisoft not trying to pull the wool over player’s eyes for once. My big question now, and one I’ve seen floating around the net, is whether Ubisoft will push FOMO with this pass.

Will they go the traditional route and have the pass and cosmetics be unobtainable after a period of time, or will the passes stay up for the life of the service like they do in games like Halo: Infinite? Or will they cycle the items into the games like Deep Rock Galactic? We’ll have to see.

Will this settle everyone’s bellies? No. There’s no real reason to trust that just because Ubisoft isn’t considering a paid battle pass now that they never will. Or they’ll make the paid tier available in-game exclusively so they can claim they didn’t lie because it’s technically not built into the Animus Hub. Maybe I’m just paranoid.