Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (PC/PS5/XSX/PS4/XB1/STD) - November 17, 2020

[Anoat]

I’m on (non pro) PS4 and it does crash a ton. Usually after a cutscene starting or ending. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever played a PS4 game that crashes so often.

[Elestial]

I raided/cleared Wenlocan Abbey & Wenlocan Outpost before the main questline sent me there, and it broke my game. I can't get the next main story quest to trigger now. (I was partway through the Sciropescire region's questline).

I somehow have duplicate pieces of some armor, like 2x Galloglach Armor.

Update 1.04 on PS4 did not fix these issues yet. Game is super buggy, starting to lean towards not buying/playing games near launch anymore...

[AoE]

It's more that it's risky to buy Ubisoft games near launch.

[Elestial]

I'm not sure that risk is limited to just Ubisoft games

[Qalbert]

another reason to wait is Ubisoft titles are reverse of Nintendo, they get huge price drops very quickly, Watch Dogs is already 20-30 bucks off in places and it's barely a month out of launch

[Anoat]

Finished main story and killed all the targets. I’m satisfied with Eivor’s story. I’m not too thrilled with how Layla’s story ended. If you did not do the Atlantis DLC from Odyssey, the modern day story is not going to make much sense to you.

It did have an interesting twist, I’ll say that much.

[Krandor]

I massively sidetracked to get Excalibur done.

I won't lie I'm kinda disappointed in it. There's clearly a cool down on its effect which the game doesn't specify. The visual/audio indicator when it's ready to be trigger is kinda cool tho.

[Anoat]

This game does a shit job of hiding it’s secrets. The moment the silhouette of The Father shows up in your target list, it’s absolutely obvious who it is. And then the voice acting gives away one of the biggest of the game’s twists.

Spoiler: show

The same VA for male Eivor and Odin
The same VA for Sigurd and Tyr
The same VA for Basim and Loki
The same VA for Ubba and Thor

[Pirian]

May have fucked up my game until a patch comes along to fix it

Spoiler: show

can't get into the mitten for the story, as I already entered it when running around the map for the bloods first

how lame

[Krandor]

This game does a shit job of hiding it’s secrets. The moment the silhouette of The Father shows up in your target list, it’s absolutely obvious who it is. And then the voice acting gives away one of the biggest of the game’s twists.

Spoiler: show

The same VA for male Eivor and Odin
The same VA for Sigurd and Tyr
The same VA for Basim and Loki
The same VA for Ubba and Thor

Yeah I was just doing the Jorvik portion and the part where you're supposed to investigate who the order members are is just silly since you've already seen the silhouettes

[Anoat]

Think I’m gonna go flip this while the trade value is still good and put it towards Cyberpunk. I got no motivation to do anything extra after finishing the story. I mean yeah Excalibur and Gungnir and Mjollnir look cool and all but like...what’s the point? To beat up regular ass goons with them? Meh.

[Tyrath]

Didn't feel like necroing the AC Odyssey thread. I'm still playing that one and will get this on sale sometime next year. But question for Odyssey

Are either of the DLCs, Legacy or Atlantis better to do before finishing the main story quest? Or should I finish the game first and then tackle the DLCs?

[Krandor]

They're both more designed as followup storylines to the main quest.

[Tyrath]

Cool thanks!

[Anoat]

You are going to need to do the Atlantis DLC for sure or you are gonna miss some big time story beats for Valhalla.

[Tyrath]

I'm already screwed on that front because I didn't play Origins and have no idea wtf is going on with Layla lol

But I plan to finish all of Odyssey

[Anoat]

I'm already screwed on that front because I didn't play Origins and have no idea wtf is going on with Layla lol

But I plan to finish all of Odyssey

Layla’s story from Origins summarized if you care.

Spoiler: show

Layla worked for Abstergo and she developed an experimental Animus that could relive someone’s memories with a minuscule DNA sample but Abstergo didn’t trust her or her new Animus so she stole her own prototype and found the tomb of Bayek and plugged into his memories to prove her machine worked, in doing so she learned about the origins of the Assassin brotherhood and that Abstergo were the real bad guys, coincidentally around this time Abstergo sent a team to kill her for defecting but she killed them first thanks to her new assassin abilities learned from the bleeding effect reliving Bayek’s memories. This drew the attention of William Miles (Desmond’s father) who invited her to join the Assassins and bring her new animus with her.

[Tyrath]

Neat thanks. I started the game and was like who the hell is this girl? Then didn't play for like half a year and forgot all about her until I did the gates of Atlantis quest and had a who the fuck is that moment all over again lol

[6souls]

[Qalbert]

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