Hell yeah, can't wait! One of the few modern franchises I care about. Would be amazing if we had Linux support but unfortunately I know that isn't going to happen.
Well now I'm even more excited... What about mods (assuming it supports them). For example AC had content manager. Hopefully a "Content Manager" is no longer required for mods.
Not enough information on that at the moment, all we know is that this game will use an in-house engine again, not unreal, and in the past the director of the game has acknowledged that it needs to be able to compete with/outperform ultra-modded AC1 to get players' interest. So at the very least he is aware of the value add that mods bring