Assassins Creed Valhalla (Vikings)

Horse84 · 13-05-2021 9:19am

Logged on this morning and no sign of the Ireland dlc yet. Is it available here yet?

farreca · 13-05-2021 11:19am

It's now downloading for me, I had to go into "manage game" then "addons" and it showed in the list (on series x)

Ridley · 13-05-2021 11:20am

Horse84 wrote: »

Logged on this morning and no sign of the Ireland dlc yet. Is it available here yet?

On Xbone, it took about 10 minutes for the season pass version to tick over and show as free (for me) from the in-game store after first reports of it now working that way on the DLC's club post 20ish minutes ago.

TheAnalyst_ · 13-05-2021 11:38am

Is it worth to get Valhalla just for this DLC? Bit of a novelty having a version of Ireland in a game that looks amazing.

ShaneU · 13-05-2021 9:25pm

Anyone played the DLC yet?

titan18 · 13-05-2021 9:33pm

ShaneU wrote: »

Anyone played the DLC yet?

I'm assuming there'll be a load of bugs so waiting a few weeks.

Potential-Monke · 13-05-2021 10:06pm

It's making me want to try and play the game again. But yeah, the accents are ok for the most part, but there were a few words in there you could tell the actor was struggling with:

"Eye-er-land is skawrrred by rivalry"
"The skertching sunnn" (I take it she meant scorching)

Hard to know from the IMDB page as I don't know the names of any of the characters, but there's a handful of Irish sounding names on there.

Cordell · 14-05-2021 10:50am

So far no bugs, it looks and feels just like the main game, so probably there's no point in waiting for fixes. Also it's only 30 for the season pass on Ubisoft store. Voice acting is terrible though, really amateur stuff.
Also, coming from a fairly completed main game I'm quite overleveled for this one...

Shlippery · 14-05-2021 11:34am

Booted it up last night, activated Uplay+ or whatever for a month to get access to the game/DLC again.
It starts out on the south side Dub. Something gas about seeing 'Meath' on a map in an Assassin's Creed game. Looking forward to wandering a bit more. Be curious to see if anything is recognizable.

Spear · 14-05-2021 12:30pm

Shlippery wrote: »

Booted it up last night, activated Uplay+ or whatever for a month to get access to the game/DLC again.
It starts out on the south side Dub. Something gas about seeing 'Meath' on a map in an Assassin's Creed game. Looking forward to wandering a bit more. Be curious to see if anything is recognizable.

Honestly, no, nothing is recognizable. The compressed scale of the map, combined with the time era and reduced population, means that almost nothing is. Maybe Ben Bulben can be, but I've wandered about 65% of the map so far, so I haven't seen everything.

JimBurnley · 14-05-2021 12:31pm

How much of the main game do you need to have played to access the DLC? Think I was about a third through it but took a break and not been back since

Cordell · 14-05-2021 12:39pm

I don't think you need much from the main quest line, this is started by someone arriving at your settlement in England so if you got that far it should be enough.

Shlippery · 14-05-2021 2:29pm

Spear wrote: »

Honestly, no, nothing is recognizable. The compressed scale of the map, combined with the time era and reduced population, means that almost nothing is. Maybe Ben Bulben can be, but I've wandered about 65% of the map so far, so I haven't seen everything.

Found Lough Rea and Tuam - as someone who grew up in Tuam, damn it's cool to see it in a AAA game!

Enjoying it so far!

Davy05 · 15-05-2021 10:11am

I'm enjoying the DLC for the novelty of it being set in Ireland, plus i was a fan of the base game's content and it is essentially more of the same with few real changes.

So if you didn't like the main game then this won't really sway your opinion.

However, in all honesty i feel like the Skellige Isle's gameplay portion in The Witcher 3 actually gave a more distinctly Celtic/Viking feel than this has achieved and is still the benchmark i would use.

marcbrophy · 16-05-2021 12:50am

What level does the dlc fit in at!
I saw some screenshots that seemed to say level 55.
I'm currently going through the story mission in the level 190 areas and my character is level 340 or so.
I was going to wait until after the main story, but is there any point?

Spear · 16-05-2021 10:55am

marcbrophy wrote: »

What level does the dlc fit in at!
I saw some screenshots that seemed to say level 55.
I'm currently going through the story mission in the level 190 areas and my character is level 340 or so.
I was going to wait until after the main story, but is there any point?

At a power level of 340 you should sail through it at this point.

Zero-Cool · 16-05-2021 12:03pm

Irish fan made live action trailer of the dlc. They got permission from Ubisoft and looking to make another one for the next expansion. Pretty class plus plugging it as I'm super proud of my friends who created the Viking & druid costumes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4Wx1VLUFbI

Zero-Cool · 16-05-2021 6:42pm

Ha this is stuck in my head! Itching to buy this just for the dlc.

https://twitter.com/Rubberbandits/status/1393945050950799362?s=19

PsychoPete · 17-05-2021 10:11am

Play a good few hours of dlc, found it enjoyable for the most part. It's pretty much the same as main story, has many similar style quests. I think it could have easily been part of the main game. I think it's more of a novelty factor for me. Some accents are bad but others are actually grand

Ridley · 18-05-2021 11:25am

Cordell wrote: »

So far no bugs, it looks and feels just like the main game, so probably there's no point in waiting for fixes.

That's fortunate, I've not had one session in the DLC that hasn't frozen. And twice Eivor has remembered she can fly so just takes off up into air, one time simply falling to her death and the other going out of bounds after she'd had enough of trading.

Got some nice views out of it though.

Valhalla's been the buggiest AC experience for me. AC3 was the last but I just played Rogue through Unity getting fixed. With Valhalla, it's a constant test of patience.

I just wonder if Ubisoft's marketing team will be scratching their heads again if the next AC doesn't do the expected numbers like Syndicate following Unity.

Cordell · 18-05-2021 12:00pm

Well I guest it's a case on ymmv but I had no serious issues in the DLC or the main game.
I've seen a few crashes early on, but none after the February (or so) patch.

Shlippery · 18-05-2021 12:06pm

Yea, finished it last night! Enjoyed running around Ireland, main quest was pretty short I thought - would recommend killing all the targets on the 'Order' menu. Good pay-off / reward at the end. Levelled up Dublin fairly quickly.

Not a whole lot else to do, going time to put the game down again now for a few months til Siege of Paris comes out!

quokula · 30-05-2021 11:41am

Finished the main quest line, but still have a couple of children of danu left and Dublin renown to get up.

Can’t say I was that impressed, without the novelty of it being set in Ireland I wouldn’t have bothered. Even with it being set in Ireland, aside from the names being printed on the map there are very few locations you’d actually tell were in Ireland. With the exception of the odd round tower there was really nothing to differentiate it from the English locations of the base game, which themselves were already pretty generic IMO

That said, they did put a bit of effort in with the lore and it was fun to hear bits of Irish language here and there in the dialog. There were a few terrible accents but for the most part they were good. As for the actual gameplay though, it added nothing new and I’d say it was below average compared to some of the more interesting quest lines in the base game.

As an aside, is there any way to see what full sets of armour you have? I’m still in the starter Raven gear, I’ve got so much other assorted armour but it’s really impossible to tell if I have a full set of any given type without spending an enormous amount of time going through each individual but, so I ended up just never using any other armour.

goon_magee · 08-06-2021 12:45pm

Recently jumped back into the base game after dropping off shortly after the PS5 came out. Only around power level 65 atm, was going to hold off and play the DLC after I finished the base game but see that the recommended level is only 55 for it.

Any idea if the DLC will scale at all or am I better jumping in now if I want it to retain some sort of challenge? I had been worried about spoilers for the main game, but from what I gather it's fairly standalone so shouldn't be an issue hopefully.

Liam2590 · 19-07-2021 9:04pm

has there been any news on when the next dlc is out for this?

Markitron · 20-07-2021 4:00pm

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117635465#Comment_117635465

Hopefully it won't be too much longer, I have nothing to play at the minute and this will fill the gap nicely.

EoinMcLovin · 24-07-2021 7:14pm

https://twitter.com/assassinscreed/status/1418964292263624715?s=19

Liam2590 · 24-07-2021 8:01pm

that’s a nice feature to get back, always thought those type of assassination missions were fun to play

EoinMcLovin · 26-07-2021 3:19pm

https://twitter.com/assassinscreed/status/1419659050934050822?s=19

Markitron · 26-07-2021 5:16pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117663731#Comment_117663731

Seems from the patch notes they are fixing the two quests that were bugged for me.

EoinMcLovin · 26-07-2021 8:12pm

27-07-2021 12:45am

This game is a crock of ****.

EoinMcLovin · 27-07-2021 5:06pm

https://youtu.be/nZVreDJTXLk

Liam2590 · 27-07-2021 8:23pm

anyone else having issues since the update? every time I fast travel to Ireland it seems to get stuck in a loop and I have to quit and reload my save

Markitron · 27-07-2021 10:09pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117670355#Comment_117670355

Yup, same thing happened to me, fairly massive bug that.

Liam2590 · 27-07-2021 10:40pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117670874#Comment_117670874

yeah I was expecting bugs but that seems like a fairly big one!

EoinMcLovin · 11-08-2021 11:11am

https://youtu.be/fB6gTIu_xhU

https://youtu.be/4UkWkLzfKao

Out tomorrow

marcbrophy · 11-08-2021 12:26pm

Nice 😁

PsychoPete · 13-08-2021 12:00am

Is siege of Paris out as its not triggering for me at all or have I the wrong date as I thought it was the 12th?

Cordell · 13-08-2021 12:16am

It should, it did for me when I returned to Randvi.

PsychoPete · 13-08-2021 12:19am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117745575#Comment_117745575

Went to Randvi, nothing happened so restarted the game and still nothing. Will try it again tomorrow

EoinMcLovin · 13-08-2021 12:23am

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/assassins-creed-valhalla-the-seige-of-paris-requirements-how-start-8021

It should be live, haven't started it yet as finishing up druids but I did download it from the psn store

farreca · 13-08-2021 8:35am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117745585#Comment_117745585

I had to go to the xbox store and manually start the download/install, if that's any help

PsychoPete · 13-08-2021 1:44pm

Haven't played it since I finished wrath of the druids but I updated the game last weekend. Played some of the Sigrbolt festival, the subtitles and sound weren't working for the festival then the game crashed but even after the restart the sound issues where still there.

PsychoPete · 14-08-2021 11:23pm

I finished the siege of Paris tonight, overall its pretty good and ran with no bugs. Was probably expecting a bit more from it

Davy05 · 19-08-2021 9:51am

In two minds whether or not to download the Siege of Paris. I got the Wraith of the Druids and enjoyed it but i have a feeling this DLC will be more of the same. I'll probably wait until i'm done with the new Ghost of Tsushima DLC then check it out.

Cordell · 19-08-2021 11:32am

Of course it's more of the same :) With some new annoyances like unkillable rats...

PsychoPete · 19-08-2021 12:39pm

I've the dlc completely finish now. Those god damn rats are an absolute pain but the rat ability is fun. I've been using duel Scythes which is a bit much but pretty cool weapon

Cordell · 19-08-2021 1:21pm

I'm sticking to Thor's hammer and Odin's spear since I've found them, I don't thing there's any cooler weapons....

martyos121 · 19-08-2021 2:43pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117775827#Comment_117775827

Mjolnir has been pretty much the only weapon I’ve used since I got it, brilliant to have it in the game. Have Excalibur as my second weapon just for the fun of it too but it rarely gets used, bit too slow and cumbersome for me.

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