Assassins Creed Valhalla (Vikings)

DrSpongeBobz · 08-01-2021 12:45pm

Really enjoy this game. Have not played an assassins creed game since syndicate so don't care if its more of the same as origins and odyssey. Story is meh and the characters dull but its been like that in every assassins creed game I have played. The Ireland dlc should be fun.

fixXxer · 08-01-2021 12:56pm

****ing hell the

Templars

are tough!

Markitron · 08-01-2021 1:48pm

fixXxer wrote: »

****ing hell the
Templars
are tough!

Use the summon wolf ability, they will instantly knock them down and you get a free stomp. Also distract them for a bit so you can fill their skulls with arrows.

fixXxer · 08-01-2021 1:58pm

Markitron wrote: »

Use the summon wolf ability, they will instantly knock them down and you get a free stomp. Also distract them for a bit so you can fill their skulls with arrows.

Pfffff arrows are for Saxon cowards. I want to drive my axe through their skull :pac:

Markitron · 08-01-2021 2:06pm

fixXxer wrote: »

Pfffff arrows are for Saxon cowards. I want to drive my axe through their skull :pac:

You can still do that after you turn them into a human sieve with your arrows

Potential-Monke · 08-01-2021 10:22pm

quokula wrote: »

I've been playing on PS5 for a couple of weeks and have had zero issues, I wasn't aware there were any. I'm playing the download version though not the disc one.

I would go digital but I don't have the option to buy the base game, only the Gold version or above, and seeing as I already got the gold version via Ubisoft on disc, I don't want to pay for it again.

I'll give it a go again tomorrow.

awec · 11-01-2021 11:53am

Deleted User wrote: »

Will not be buying another AC game. Absolute Borefest !!!

I have struggled with the AC games since they changed to RPGs. Didn't manage to finish either Origins or Odyssey, got bored too quickly. Origins was completely meh and the sailing around in Odyssey just got boring.

Then all the reviews for this were saying it's too long and dull.

Maybe I'll pick it up when it's dirt cheap but I've learnt my lesson paying launch prices for AC. They'll need to do something amazing to get me next time.

Damo 2k9 · 11-01-2021 12:10pm

Started this on PS5 yesterday, experienced no bugs as of yet (touch wood!) but liking it. Havent played AC in a long time so combat is taking a bit of getting used to. I am playing on quality mode graphics wise, find them fine for the most part. Hands dissapearing in peoples back when hugging is something small I noticed but no big deal.

Potential-Monke · 11-01-2021 10:21pm

Have a few hours clocked up on this on PS5 so far, starting to get into it. Didn't get as far as England the last time, but there now and the game is starting to open up. No bugs but some graphical issues (a kid was hacking at an upright log and the sword was 2ft above him). Upgrading the gear is different to Odyssey and the combat so far is slower and less forgiving. Skill tree looks HUUUGE!

Markitron · 12-01-2021 2:59pm

Damo 2k9 wrote: »

Started this on PS5 yesterday, experienced no bugs as of yet (touch wood!) but liking it. Havent played AC in a long time so combat is taking a bit of getting used to. I am playing on quality mode graphics wise, find them fine for the most part. Hands dissapearing in peoples back when hugging is something small I noticed but no big deal.

You are much much better off on performance mode, I usually play on quality mode too but the minimal gains on quality mode are nowhere near worth sacrificing 60 fps for.

Damo 2k9 · 12-01-2021 3:04pm

Markitron wrote: »

You are much much better off on performance mode, I usually play on quality mode too but the minimal gains on quality mode are nowhere near worth sacrificing 60 fps for.

Cheers, ill switch it back later so!

EoinMcLovin · 14-01-2021 2:27pm

Title update out later today

https://twitter.com/assassinscreed/status/1349470579905208328?s=19

titan18 · 14-01-2021 2:33pm

Hopefully they fix that damn arrow quiver bug.

I've been enjoying it so far, more so now that Yuletide feast is over so i'm not loading in drunk every time. Shame in a way as I wasn't able to get all the items on sale as part of it in-game, but some of the mini-games for it weren't enjoyable.

Up to last region of the game though now, and have the saga part to finish. Have all bar 3 order members killed too. Still have to do a lot of the exploration stuff like getting the nicer weapons and armour but I've pretty much played through the whole game using Varins Axe and another axe.

DrSpongeBobz · 14-01-2021 8:05pm

Are the druid enemies in the Ireland dlc going to be jumping all over the place like those enemies with a small knife that are very hard to hit? God I hope not.

fixXxer · 15-01-2021 3:00pm

Finished third region last night. Lunden was a bit of a weird one, though it was nice to have a proper stealth bit when

hunting The Leech.

Gone off to find Siguurd

hiding in a fish house. Can see the start of the wheels coming off this partnership, along with Dag wrecking my head back at base camp.

DrSpongeBobz · 15-01-2021 3:03pm

I thought we would have an opportunity to take over a city and completely rule it yourself even if it backfires in the main story. Thought this was promoted pre launch.

PsychoPete · 15-01-2021 8:07pm

There's a Gothic pack out, think it looks pretty cool sort of a LOTR feel to it. Have started using flials in both hands and swinging like a mad man, you wouldn't really need a shield because you do so much damage. I really liked The Prodigy Easter egg

PsychoPete · 17-01-2021 11:20pm

Played a lot of this today, saved the game just before the last main quest in Lincolnscire. Finished Lincolnscire and got the the main assault in Suthexe but the game wouldn't let me save the progress so I've to do all that again. Absolute pain

quokula · 18-01-2021 5:15pm

It's really turning into a bit of a slog. I have one more region of England left, which requires 340 strength and I was at about 260 after completing the previous story mission. I've played for multiple hours since, gone and assassinated every order member and zealot who isn't in that final region, done a load of side activities, and I'm still only at 300. There are no missions for me to do, other than contracts that I need to wait 24 hours to respawn, a Valka quest that needs even more strength than the main quest, and things like maxing the village level and killing all of the order, both of which require me to go into the region I'm too low level for.

Normally when people complain about ubisoft open world games having too much stuff all over the map it doesn't bother me because I just ignore it and enjoy the game, but in this case it seems you're forced to wade through it to get to a sufficient level to continue the story.

18-01-2021 5:23pm

quokula wrote: »

It's really turning into a bit of a slog. I have one more region of England left, which requires 340 strength and I was at about 260 after completing the previous story mission. I've played for multiple hours since, gone and assassinated every order member and zealot who isn't in that final region, done a load of side activities, and I'm still only at 300. There are no missions for me to do, other than contracts that I need to wait 24 hours to respawn, a Valka quest that needs even more strength than the main quest, and things like maxing the village level and killing all of the order, both of which require me to go into the region I'm too low level for.

Normally when people complain about ubisoft open world games having too much stuff all over the map it doesn't bother me because I just ignore it and enjoy the game, but in this case it seems you're forced to wade through it to get to a sufficient level to continue the story.

Majority of XP is tied to the collectibles

quokula · 18-01-2021 5:35pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Majority of XP is tied to the collectibles

Why would they do that? I got tired pretty quickly of the boring "clean up" phase after a raid or mission where you'd walk around the area hitting R3, see there's a treasure in a building or under the ground, and walk around it in circles looking for the window / breakable wall / well / movable object to get to it.

Especially once I realised no armour I picked up ever seemed to be preferable to the starter stuff, ingots are easy to come by, and you can just buy iron and leather in shops. The only thing I cared about picking up anymore was the skill books.

And I never go out of my way to collect artefacts or whatever because I just don't see the point. Though I may have a few hours of grinding my way through them if I want to continue the proper game.

19-01-2021 12:27am

If you are clearing areas as you go you will hit 400 long before the end of game, makes builds redundant (400 is max level and everything on the skill tree unlocked and used). Even just doing some of the collectibles in passing even I'd say you'd be max level.

This game felt way more like the RPG stuff was just for show and more tacked on than the last 2 even the reduced gear and the set bonus's were redundant for the most part.

quokula · 19-01-2021 1:44am

I ended up going into the last area under levelled and it turned out to be fairly straightforward.

Ending spoilers:

I found the whole thing incredibly anticlimactic, like there was no real ending at all. You complete the final area, which actually turned out to be very short, where I was expecting a build up to a massive siege of Winchester on par with some of the earlier regions, Alfred gets away, you go back to the village, a little box pops up saying you've pacified England, and that's it.

I guess the Blacksmith's wedding that follows is supposed to be some kind of ending, but the really stupid joke they persisted with of his wife being incomprehensible really takes the sheen off it as some kind of emotional crescendo. The whole time I was expecting a Saxon army to crash the wedding ahead of the "real" finale.

So after that (and after the equal disappointment of getting my village up to level 6 which resulted in... nothing whatsoever happening), I picked off the last of the Templars, went to see the grandmaster, thinking finally the big finale battle must be coming now, only for it to be a short conversation in a cut scene for yet another anticlimax. At least there it took me to a very picturesque village, and had some nice cinematic musical accompaniment as I rode away, which I think was the closest thing to an ending the game had. But then I just continued riding, realised there was feck all left to do, and was left wondering "is that it?"

Of course there is all the nonsense with Sigurd in Norway before all that which seems to be considered the big ending, but I just found the whole thing a bizarre distraction, and also fairly disappointing because earlier in the game I found the relationship with Eivor and Sigurd compelling, but then when Sigurd basically just sulked for 20 hours before suddenly popping up, insisting we go to Norway, a bunch of AC mythology **** happens, then Eivor just decides this is stupid let's go back, and Sigurd just shrugs his shoulders and follows. I just didn't get the point of any of it.

I did enjoy much of the game. There were lots of story arcs I enjoyed, from Halfdan to Ceolbert to Villi and more, many of the regions had very entertaining self contained stories, particularly those which gave you meaningful choices about who to trust or who to side with, and then the gameplay was enjoyable throughout too, with the best combat in the series and the mix of raiding, stealth and archery all being equally viable meaning you can always switch it up whenever you started getting bored playing one way.

I just wished they'd been a bit more disciplined, they could have cut the game down by about 50% and made for a much tighter experience and tied up everything a bit more nicely.

AnimalRights · 19-01-2021 10:54am

To the guy who said he is underpowered for the 340 land...
My problem is I love the horseback riding throughout the land I'm simply overpowered for the stage I'm at and the fights are to easy!!
I have over 130 hours in and I'm power level 215 only :P
I also found Odyssey easy as I didn't rush through it I liked to take my time
and for what it's worth I find Valhalla a far better game, Odyssey was to easy and arcadey.

Markitron · 19-01-2021 12:51pm

AnimalRights wrote: »

To the guy who said he is underpowered for the 340 land...
My problem is I love the horseback riding throughout the land I'm simply overpowered for the stage I'm at and the fights are to easy!!
I have over 130 hours in and I'm power level 215 only :P
I also found Odyssey easy as I didn't rush through it I liked to take my time
and for what it's worth I find Valhalla a far better game, Odyssey was to easy and arcadey.

I loved Odyssey but thought Valhalla was the better game too, I prefer how it doesn't inundate you with gear and sidequests. The quest log in Odyssey was downright intimidating at times.

20-01-2021 10:37am

Where can you buy nicol ingots?

I read online you can buy them from your trader after you found one, but now joy.

Its a hard grind to get the settlement builds up. I find raiding is fun for a few rounds but gets a grind, simialir to finding all the loot.

The raven, its the first AC game I have not really used it much, as Odin sight finds most things but is still pretty useless.

EoinMcLovin · 20-01-2021 10:50am

Skyrimaddict wrote: »

Where can you buy nicol ingots?

I read online you can buy them from your trader after you found one, but now joy.

Its a hard grind to get the settlement builds up. I find raiding is fun for a few rounds but gets a grind, simialir to finding all the loot.

The raven, its the first AC game I have not really used it much, as Odin sight finds most things but is still pretty useless.

This map will show you where you can find free ones
https://mapgenie.io/assassins-creed-valhalla/maps/england

20-01-2021 11:01am

EoinMcLovin wrote: »

This map will show you where you can find free ones
https://mapgenie.io/assassins-creed-valhalla/maps/england

That is a cool map !

Tell me, if anyone has done so, do the raids get you eventually build up everything in the settlement.

fixXxer · 20-01-2021 1:24pm

Ivaar is a gas man altogether. I wish I had him on my crew.

Markitron · 20-01-2021 4:28pm

Skyrimaddict wrote: »

That is a cool map !

Tell me, if anyone has done so, do the raids get you eventually build up everything in the settlement.

Yes, you will need to do ALL of the raids and progress through almost all of the story to unlock the highest level of the settlement but tbh it wasn't worth it. You can unlock all of the actual useful buildings early on, then pretty much everything after is just feast buffs which I barely every used.

Assassins Creed Valhalla (Vikings)

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