Assassins Creed Valhalla - set in the Viking age - now on Steam

[PorkyThePaladin]

Ubisoft does history...

 

[Alienman]

That is dreadful.

 

[AwesomeButton]

What is it with the women soldiers? Have we recently discovered that women were represented in 8th c. armies?

 

[Renevent]

^ is that a serious question?

 

[Obsequious Approbation]

You get desynchronized if you kill civilians in a raid? I mean, aren't you supposed to be a viking in this game?

 

[AwesomeButton]

^ is that a serious question?

Is Asscreed a game where the player's character travels in the past?

 

[RNGsus]

Just consume the product, bigots.

 

[ADL]

Ubisoft does history...

^ is that a serious question?

Is Asscreed a game where the player's character travels in the past?

Does it look like it?

 

[moon knight]

You get desynchronized if you kill civilians in a raid? I mean, aren't you supposed to be a viking in this game?

You are a peaceful immigrant who fights against privilage and oppression and just want to redistribute the wealth

 

[RNGsus]

Vikangz just want to read and write.

 

[Alienman]

You get desynchronized if you kill civilians in a raid? I mean, aren't you supposed to be a viking in this game?

You are an anti-racist, anti-fascist viking liberating the villagers from their oppressors.

 

[Darkwind]

Ubisoft does history...

Your screenshot is very clever. How is that working out for you, being clever? You could ride a fucking pegasus in Odyssey, and a flaming horse in Origins. So you are several years behind the curve just on the new iterations of the game with your shit tier 'hot take'. Likewise, in the earlier games you had an 'Apple of Eden' at your disposal that was an ancient tech WMD which leveled an entire city via earthquake, a grappling hook that saw you swinging around the city like Batman, etc etc. But mUh hIsToRiCaL aCcuRacY...

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

I said Ubisoft does history, so that would apply to everything you just said. <summons Crispy to say Checkmate>

 

[DalekFlay]

I vaguely recall Origins explaining away most of the fantasy elements as animus grlitches or whatever. Honestly though since they're going so Witcher 3 at this point they might as well go fantasy, fuck it.

 

[J1M]

There is a quest in this game where a racist asks you to help kill a black guy (who is a warlock in the mountains in Norway in 9th century), but the black guy tells you that Norwegians are a bunch of bigots so you help him kill the racist instead. There is no choice to do anything else.

Leave the quest incomplete.

 

[Avarize]

There is a quest in this game where a racist asks you to help kill a black guy (who is a warlock in the mountains in Norway in 9th century), but the black guy tells you that Norwegians are a bunch of bigots so you help him kill the racist instead. There is no choice to do anything else.

How did the black guy end up there?

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

I haven't played this or Odyssey, but one thing that annoyed me in Origins was the extent to which everything was so heavily level-gated (that bullshit Witcher 3 crap of being able to annihilate something 3 levels above you, but having 0 chance against an enemy 4 levels above you). It made an ostensibly "open-world" game into a pretty linear affair. Have they addressed that in either of the more recent installments?

 

[good fucking shit happen]

There is a quest in this game where a racist asks you to help kill a black guy (who is a warlock in the mountains in Norway in 9th century), but the black guy tells you that Norwegians are a bunch of bigots so you help him kill the racist instead. There is no choice to do anything else.

How did the black guy end up there?

Black people have always been in Norway, where do you think the vikings stole all their culture from?

 

[typical user]

I wanted to buy this game and play through my 2-week vacation (among other things, so easy there friends). But I think I will give it a pass. Ubisoft has somewhat fixed Ghost Recon: Breakpoint so I am rather optimistic they will do the same to AC:Valhalla and give a nice discount in next month or two. They are probably earning a lot less money from all the bugs and strange design choices right now. For starters I noticed you can unlock ALL skills in the progression-tree. In Odyssey you could too but that was after patching/DLCs + those ability points were better invested into flat stats on a separate tree. Also Odyssey had a wanted level system mixed with Nemesis from Shadow of Mordor when you killed civilians. Valhalla lacks those. Then I see there a lot less weapons which is easy to fix in patches and I can understand that Odyssey offered mostly trash loot which couldn't be upgraded - but that took direct inspiration from The Division and other similiar looter games which worked well in Odyssey anyway.

Valhalla needs bug fixes, AI improvements, it should get Mercenary system from Odyssey, loot and skill-tree overhaul. Last three will require time but if they added Immersive mode to Breakpoint, allowed to access island previously exclusive in Raids I think the same amount of work can be done for the newest Assassin's Creed. But no one should expect they will deliver on their season/free-dlc plan - they had to postpone those for Breakpont (and probably also scrapped since community didn't like "them drones everywhere" direction Ghost Recon went).

I already played Odyssey, although without DLCs, so I am not fully convinced on going back there. Some characters and side-plots were annoying for me plus the game is too huge to be pleasant for a comeback I reckon. But the minmaxing builds and the merc system was a great endgame experience. The transmog mechanic, endgame ability investment into passive flat stats and overhaul of Legendary equipment is tempting.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I vaguely recall Origins explaining away most of the fantasy elements as animus grlitches or whatever. Honestly though since they're going so Witcher 3 at this point they might as well go fantasy, fuck it.

From management's point of view, it's cheapest if every setting is a mashup of everything - history, fantasy, scifi, steampunk, whateverthekidsmakeupnext, just in case something ever has to be justified to some drone who tried to think about it on social media.

 

[Avarize]

Mercenary system from Odyssey

IMO Origins had a better system. They should have expanded on that instead creating an endless wave of randomly generated female bodybuilders.

 

[KyivAfter12am]

There is a quest in this game where a racist asks you to help kill a black guy (who is a warlock in the mountains in Norway in 9th century), but the black guy tells you that Norwegians are a bunch of bigots so you help him kill the racist instead. There is no choice to do anything else.

How did the black guy end up there?

I don't know, but there is a note or a letter in his hut where he complains about the cold weather, but eventually decides to stay, because the Norwegians need his medical expertise, you know, because they don't have any. I am not kidding.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Ubisoft does history...

Always has been like this.

 

[Irxy]

There is a quest in this game where a racist asks you to help kill a black guy (who is a warlock in the mountains in Norway in 9th century), but the black guy tells you that Norwegians are a bunch of bigots so you help him kill the racist instead. There is no choice to do anything else.

Lol, so you pretty much assumed you are supposed to kill the nord because the warlock told you so?
In fact, that choice is handled via gameplay, you can kill either of them yourself or let the nord kill the warlock, that is 3 outcomes.

 

[KyivAfter12am]

There is a quest in this game where a racist asks you to help kill a black guy (who is a warlock in the mountains in Norway in 9th century), but the black guy tells you that Norwegians are a bunch of bigots so you help him kill the racist instead. There is no choice to do anything else.

Lol, so you pretty much assumed you are supposed to kill the nord because the warlock told you so?
In fact, that choice is handled via gameplay, you can kill either of them yourself or let the nord kill the warlock, that is 3 outcomes.

No, because the game didn't give me the choice to kill the black dude. They start fighting, and the only one I can hit is the racist. Then after the fight ends I couldn't attack the warlock either.