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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #120 on: March 1, 2021, 02:58:45 pm »
I loved Valhalla (97 hours to finish it, have done a reasonable amount of side stuff but still loads to do).

I love the viking stuff though.  More than the Greek and Egyptian stuff, even.
It’s the first game in a long while where I’m going for 100% completion, or as close as I can get. Have put the main story on hold for a moment and doing side quests. Have completed everything in Grantesbridgeshire and East Anglia.

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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #121 on: March 1, 2021, 05:46:32 pm »
Trying to do the same with Valhalla, and while I've found most of the mysteries OK, some of the Black Flag-style paper sheets have been a pain in the backside... but they're a walk in the park compared to some of the cairns. My goodness there's a couple of those have nearly had me launch my dualshock at the TV  :butt

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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #122 on: March 1, 2021, 08:12:49 pm »
Started the Jorvik arc and put it down shortly afterwards, haven't picked it up again for a few weeks now. Same thing happened with Odyssey - I will finish it at some point but it's not fun anymore, I do still prefer the world to Odyssey though.

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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #123 on: March 6, 2021, 09:22:54 pm »
Just got the new Xbox and loaded this up. Underwhelmed by the graphics (I know it's only "enhanced"). Couple of hours in, I feel like I've played this game many times already. Just not anything but a change of scenery is it?
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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #124 on: March 7, 2021, 12:53:34 pm »
Can't get into Valhalla. Just not a patch on Greece. Can be beautiful n shit, though.

Might be able to get back into it. I like the additional, I guess you'd call it weight, particularly of combat

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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #125 on: March 7, 2021, 08:17:20 pm »
Can't get into Valhalla. Just not a patch on Greece. Can be beautiful n shit, though.

Might be able to get back into it. I like the additional, I guess you'd call it weight, particularly of combat

I started playing and was quite enjoying it then stopped for 7-10 days as we moved house and now struggling to get back into it again

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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #126 on: March 7, 2021, 09:34:28 pm »
The map feels way too 'flat' for me. Climbing is such a big part of the series and this is all just open fields basically.
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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #127 on: March 7, 2021, 09:42:17 pm »
The map feels way too 'flat' for me. Climbing is such a big part of the series and this is all just open fields basically.

Small mercies really because the parkour in this game is absolutely awful. I don’t know what the hell they’ve done to it but Eivor will go in every direction except the one I actually want her to go in.

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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #128 on: March 8, 2021, 03:49:02 am »
Yeah, the parkour was deffo better with Unity and went downhill from there. That being said, the directional issue that you mention has been ever present in the series.

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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #129 on: March 8, 2021, 11:45:43 pm »
Is The Ezio Collection worth getting or are the enhancements not that good ?

I've not played any of the series but it seems like a good deal for 3 games.
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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #130 on: March 9, 2021, 04:32:03 am »
Is The Ezio Collection worth getting or are the enhancements not that good ?

I've not played any of the series but it seems like a good deal for 3 games.
Don't know about the enhanced edition but the first two of that collection (II and Brotherhood) are pretty much the peak of the series for me (and genuinely good games even if you have no interest in Assassin's Creed), along with Black Flag. Revelations isn't all that great. If it's a good price I'd definitely recommend it, at least for the first two titles anyway.

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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #131 on: March 9, 2021, 09:52:18 am »
£11.99 in the sale
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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #132 on: March 9, 2021, 12:17:50 pm »
£11.99 in the sale
Worth a punt at that price.

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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #133 on: March 12, 2021, 01:05:11 am »
Finally finished (100%) Valhalla, really enjoyed it, I liked the setting on this one, whilst Odyssey was visually great I felt the map was just too big and most of it not really used, in this at least the story had you going to most of the areas of the map and it didn't feel so big which is a plus IMO

Don't know about the enhanced edition but the first two of that collection (II and Brotherhood) are pretty much the peak of the series for me (and genuinely good games even if you have no interest in Assassin's Creed), along with Black Flag. Revelations isn't all that great. If it's a good price I'd definitely recommend it, at least for the first two titles anyway.

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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #134 on: March 12, 2021, 08:58:19 am »
Finally finished (100%) Valhalla, really enjoyed it, I liked the setting on this one, whilst Odyssey was visually great I felt the map was just too big and most of it not really used, in this at least the story had you going to most of the areas of the map and it didn't feel so big which is a plus IMO

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Well done! I'm enjoying it also.

I've just arrived on Jorvik and I think it's one of the most beautiful settings in the AC series.

Do you know where you can see you progress percentage in Valhalla? Xbox tells me I'm like 50% but I'm unsure if that's the story or whole game!?
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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #135 on: March 12, 2021, 03:14:12 pm »
Finally finished (100%) Valhalla, really enjoyed it, I liked the setting on this one, whilst Odyssey was visually great I felt the map was just too big and most of it not really used, in this at least the story had you going to most of the areas of the map and it didn't feel so big which is a plus IMO

Agree with most of this
Well done! Going for 100% myself, but taking my time. Enjoying the scenery and hunting legendary animals at the moment. Hopefully I can do it before Far Cry 6.

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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #136 on: March 12, 2021, 03:45:27 pm »
My best mate hasn't played it for a month, hasnt even switched his Series X on because work has been dreadful, he turned it on today and the game hasnt synced and he has lost 12 hours of Gameplay.

I mean I'd be furious.
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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #137 on: March 12, 2021, 09:13:42 pm »
My best mate hasn't played it for a month, hasnt even switched his Series X on because work has been dreadful, he turned it on today and the game hasnt synced and he has lost 12 hours of Gameplay.

I mean I'd be furious.

What do you mean it haven't synced? It haven't automatically saved progress?

I find meself saving manually now and then when I've done stuff outside the main story objectives.
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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #138 on: March 13, 2021, 01:34:33 am »
Well done! I'm enjoying it also.

I've just arrived on Jorvik and I think it's one of the most beautiful settings in the AC series.

Do you know where you can see you progress percentage in Valhalla? Xbox tells me I'm like 50% but I'm unsure if that's the story or whole game!?

I'm not sure there's anything in game to tell you its 100% I just meant platinumed on PS, the easiest way to tell if you've done everything game wise is if you have anything left in the quest tab or with the people in the settlement.

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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #139 on: March 20, 2021, 11:19:10 am »
I'm not sure there's anything in game to tell you its 100% I just meant platinumed on PS, the easiest way to tell if you've done everything game wise is if you have anything left in the quest tab or with the people in the settlement.

On the Ubisoft Connect site you can at least get an overview of your total progress (as well as some other stats), but it's not clear if this is overall progress or story progress. So I don't think those stats are available!!

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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #140 on: March 24, 2021, 03:02:34 pm »
Absolutely loving Valhalla. Couldn't get into Odyssey. The settlement stuff is a nice addition and I love just taking the longboat down the rivers.

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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #141 on: March 28, 2021, 07:42:35 pm »
A few hours into Valhalla and quite enjoying it thus far.  I'd also like to recommend the reshade in the below video for any of you ladies and gents on PC.  It just makes the game look so much better in my opinion.  If anybody decides to try it, I'd suggest removing the fxaa and border options though.

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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #142 on: April 3, 2021, 10:05:12 am »
So I’ve just bumped into a bug in the Brewing Storm mission - far from the first major glitch encountered thus far - and apparently there is no fix.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2021/03/16/ac-valhalla-bug/

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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #143 on: April 3, 2021, 10:38:43 am »
So I’ve just bumped into a bug in the Brewing Storm mission - far from the first major glitch encountered thus far - and apparently there is no fix.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2021/03/16/ac-valhalla-bug/

Oh man that's rough. Just read the article as I couldn't recall the quest. I feel for you. Did you have a save before the quest?

I think I'm near the end of the story and luckily didn't encounter that glitch. In fact I've been glitch free. I'm aware I've just jinxed myself..
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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #144 on: April 3, 2021, 11:42:38 am »
Oh man that's rough. Just read the article as I couldn't recall the quest. I feel for you. Did you have a save before the quest?

I think I'm near the end of the story and luckily didn't encounter that glitch. In fact I've been glitch free. I'm aware I've just jinxed myself..

Nah don’t think so, I just have the one save so would be a case of going back to the start which I’ve zero interest in. Reckon I’ll just put it aside until there’s a patch, although worrying that Ubisoft apparently have no idea what causes it. Felt like it’s taken me ages to get to where I am (level 125) and there’s no way I’m going through it again!

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« Reply #145 on: April 3, 2021, 01:07:08 pm »
Nah don’t think so, I just have the one save so would be a case of going back to the start which I’ve zero interest in. Reckon I’ll just put it aside until there’s a patch, although worrying that Ubisoft apparently have no idea what causes it. Felt like it’s taken me ages to get to where I am (level 125) and there’s no way I’m going through it again!
I don't blame you. Similar happened to my mate and he lost over 4 hours of game play. He is going back through it but he is immensely annoyed.

Theres not many games I'd want to replay if that happened to me.
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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #146 on: April 3, 2021, 04:54:17 pm »
That's why I use every available save slot in games like this... lesson learned!   :D
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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #147 on: April 3, 2021, 07:08:37 pm »
I’ve really enjoyed Valhalla but I’m finding the XP jump at the end quite annoying. There were a couple of regions that I was a little bit underpowered for but I found it easy enough to add 10 points or so doing other tasks etc (eg the Asgard missions).

The jump though from Winchester/Nottinghamshire to Hampshire is huge. It goes from 250 to 340, which given that I was just nudging over 220 when I started the former means that I’m about 100 shy of the recommended power for the latter. I’ve cleared up every order member and zealot, done the Excalibur missions and all but the last Asgard/Jotunheim bit (which is also a sizeable jump).

I just can’t be bothered doing a bunch of raids and side missions at this stage to get my power up for the last couple of missions. So instead I’ll be repeatedly killed in my efforts to complete straightforward missions against very difficult opponents.

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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #148 on: April 5, 2021, 08:12:27 am »
Around 30 hours in now. I don't know how you guys feel, but personally I feel that this is a much, much better game than Odyssey right across the board, from the voice acting to the story to the combat. Haven't enjoyed an Assassin's Creed game this much or been so immersed in quite some time. Same writer as Black Flag apparently, so perhaps not surprising.

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« Reply #149 on: April 5, 2021, 08:31:48 am »
Around 30 hours in now. I don't know how you guys feel, but personally I feel that this is a much, much better game than Odyssey right across the board, from the voice acting to the story to the combat. Haven't enjoyed an Assassin's Creed game this much or been so immersed in quite some time. Same writer as Black Flag apparently, so perhaps not surprising.

Finished it last night. I’ve really enjoyed it l. Think it was “meatier” than Odyssey but I did love the scenery in Greece more.

Also after the first 10 hours or so I rarely used the boat again. Once you’ve hit a few synch markers it’s almost always much quicker to navigate around using them and the horse, which felt like a bit of a shame. Sailing from island to island and having naval battles was fun in Odyssey.

Much prefer the characters and the story in Valhalla.

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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #150 on: April 5, 2021, 10:29:56 am »
Oh wow was reading that article and luckily I went past that mission a short time ago with no issues, phew!
Reading the article it looks like even if you had a previous save it still wouldn't be any different when you reached that part in the game.
Hopefully you get a fix soon.

Can't believe I'm only about half way though the game ;D It's such a huge game

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« Reply #151 on: April 5, 2021, 01:33:03 pm »
Finished it last night. I’ve really enjoyed it l. Think it was “meatier” than Odyssey but I did love the scenery in Greece more.

Also after the first 10 hours or so I rarely used the boat again. Once you’ve hit a few synch markers it’s almost always much quicker to navigate around using them and the horse, which felt like a bit of a shame. Sailing from island to island and having naval battles was fun in Odyssey.

Much prefer the characters and the story in Valhalla.

Yeah, Greese was admittedly very beautiful. In terms of pure beauty, I agree that it's more beautiful than Valhalla.  The game world in Odyssey just didn't feel as cohesive - for want of a better term - to me though as does that of Valhalla.  Even right down to the simplest things, like the really high frequency of wild animal attacks in Odyssey or watching two Spartans in mortal combat with a pig, it all just felt so slung together and unauthentic, with something like Red Dead's world as an example being of the other end of that particular spectrum.

I agree on the characters too.  Odyssey's were both badly written and in the case of the male protagonist, Alexios (who I stupidly stuck with for too long to restart) really badly voiced.  It was a bad combo that really detracted from immersion of the game for me.  Odyssey's story was also extremely cringy in parts. The whole "this was grandfather's spear" being a one line catalyst for wiping out eighteen years of brain-washing was head-in-hands ridiculous, even taking into account that we're talking about Assassin's Creed games here. 

  As for using the longboat, what I was surprised at in this game is how bad the water looks compared to that in Odysssey. It's ugly to the point where it's horrible aliased look puts me off using the boat.   

Valhalla isn't Witcher 3 or Red Dead, but it feels that with Valhalla it's getting there.  Unfortunately Darby has now left Ubisoft, which doesn't bode well.
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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #152 on: April 5, 2021, 01:42:01 pm »
"Valhalla" would have benefitted from a "grittier" shading, much like posted earlier, to emphasize the time period and feel of the English countryside. While it looks allright now as well, I feel like the current palette fits better within Odyssey. Actually think the original AC did a decent job with this.
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« Reply #153 on: April 5, 2021, 01:53:06 pm »
"Valhalla" would have benefitted from a "grittier" shading, much like posted earlier, to emphasize the time period and feel of the English countryside. While it looks allright now as well, I feel like the current palette fits better within Odyssey. Actually think the original AC did a decent job with this.

Yeah, the colour palette just isn't right for England AT ALL. I've actually built a reshade for this myself now (for PC obviously) as I wasn't quite happy with the one I posted above.  The game for me looks like an English autumn now, with a dark Vikings tv show tone, darker nights and shadowed areas, grittier colours etc.  Looks pretty good on my system (like an English autumn) if I do say so myself.  Might post some screenshots later.

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« Reply #154 on: May 24, 2021, 02:54:38 pm »
I'd love to see this series end up having an entry set in either the Aztec/Mexica or Inca Empire. Definitely would provide a unique environment.

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« Reply #155 on: May 24, 2021, 05:39:03 pm »
I'd love to see this series end up having an entry set in either the Aztec/Mexica or Inca Empire. Definitely would provide a unique environment.

Think something like that is what's been discussed. Still waiting for them to do something from Japan, with samurai and all...
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« Reply #156 on: June 11, 2021, 04:12:52 am »
Think something like that is what's been discussed. Still waiting for them to do something from Japan, with samurai and all...

They missed that boat, ghosts beat them to it

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Re: Assassin's Creed Series
« Reply #157 on: June 11, 2021, 12:01:29 pm »
They missed that boat, ghosts beat them to it

And Ghost did it much better than Ubisoft ever could. Highly recommend if you've not already played it, Crimson.

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« Reply #158 on: June 11, 2021, 12:25:13 pm »
I bought AC:Origins in a PS sale about 2 years ago and absolutely hated it, I loved the "original" type AC games up until Syndicate (I think), can I assume Odyssey and Valhalla are the same?, basically now hack n slash adventure games?

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« Reply #159 on: June 12, 2021, 03:09:44 am »
Yeah, if you hated Origins you won't like the other two either. The format has been refined somewhat with better writing and combat in Valhalla, but it's the exact same template. Essentially they are reskins with improvements.