I've been a huge fan of Ubisoft games for years, specifically the Rainbow Six, Far Cry and above all Ghost Recon franchises. But the latest/upcoming games from each of those has taking them in a different, out of touch and aimless direction. I'll use one example to save time; Wildlands was in my opinion the peak of Co-op gaming. You could turn off the HUD, they added the revolutionary Ghost Mode and the hostile Santa Blanca cartel was brilliantly designed and integrated perfectly with the environment (which was also fantastic). Then breakpoint came out and it was clear the focus was on everything but the fundamentals of a Ghost Recon game. The graphics were nice and the were some great changes to movement and a basic camouflage system, nice looking 5.11 products (with no actual gear functionality) but the looting, resource collecting, ridiculous aerial blitzkrieg and tank-bot drones, an extreme amount of dramatic cutscenes and cliché 'tough guy' voice acting just to name a few, all too vital to ignore and unfortunately way out of touch with the Ghost Recon series. As for the enemies, they are so clueless and incompetent it makes the game unplayable. Even with the HUD off. They have no sense of self preservation, do not react when shot while advancing, can not figure out the source of an unsuppressed shot from close range and are broken records. There is no interesting dialogue between them like Santa Blanca. The drones are an incredibly lazy solution for advanced adversaries, and quite frankly disappointing when you could simply have different tiers of enemy infantry AI who gradually get more intelligent, aggressive and coordinated via their respective tiers. I'm saying this because Ubisoft is now coming out with their new free-to-play xDefiant, which they say focuses on realistic gunplay (just look for yourself) and I have to wonder if they truly don't see the errors in their ways these last few years. Anyone else think something similar? I have ta ton of good ideas for Ghost Recon, and I would like to hear more, and hopefully it gets attention because that series will die if it isn't revitalized!

When you finally finish getting the required number of medals for the quest, The Cryptic Tutelage of Hildiran, Eivor says: “I am finally finished. These answers had better be worth the effort.” I cracked up at that one, because it’s basically Ubisoft saying: ‘We know you spent all that time getting to this point and suffering through our absurd Mastery Challenge, so get ready for the biggest let down yet.’

Well, the ‘reward’ part of the quest was a big let down, especially since you still have to manually upgrade all the gear Hildiran offers. However, the scene at the end of the quest does reveal some interesting questions about Hildiran and the possible direction of the story line in future expansions...

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Can someone tell me what we are supposed to feel in AC Valhalla? 

Every AC has had an emotional rollercoaster, for example, you get revenge on people who kill your family and loved ones. 

What are we supposed to feel in Valhalla?

Who are we supposed to “hate”?

Everytime Alfred speaks I agree with him. The game tries to get me to hate Alfred and various other people, but they speak with wisdom and kindness.

I’m so confused what the script is doing that I started to hate Eivor and the game falls apart. Like when one of Eivor’s friends dies in Hamptunscire I was actually happy and cheering. And the Eivor animation is like “nooooooo”, and I think so what? Good riddance. The game falls apart emotionally for me.

The mission says: help Ljufvina, Guthrum, Broder, etc. and I’m sitting here hoping the next cutscene kills them.

The game has completely lost me, the “beats” aren’t working. The emotions it is shepherding me into feeling are too simple, too 21st century childlike.

Your friend is dying as you carry him and says cheerfully that they are afraid, and the script is trying to drag me into feeling sad for them. But it’s so see through. It’s like “feel this now”. And it's too late for Darby McDevitt, I already hate Eivor and all of these people. It’s like hell no I’m not feeling for this particular person, eventhough my money to Ubisoft is like “you really should”. I hate this game so much. I’ve never had that with an AC game. There were ones I liked less but never outright hated.

I’m hitting B on emotional cutscenes, when the script tries to make it even sadder it’s even more nauseating, especially when Eivor starts crying. 

Why are we fighting Alfred again? The guy speaks with wisdom and kindness.

Are we just ridiculing religious people and laughing at them? That can’t be the entire point as that gets old fast.

Someone tell me what the emotional point is? And yes, all other AC upto Odyssey had an emotional point before the 12 year olds are like just slash slash slash and kill kill kill man, there is no point.

I take it that is there are no real replies then there really is no answer to the question of who we are meant to be fighting and what we are meant to be feeling.

Not Eivor!
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Turns out AC Valhalla is faithful to the creed after all: Nothing is true; everything is permitted. ❤️

i am absolutely loving the transmog system! Having gold armor with any appearence I wanted was something i’ve been looking forward to since launch!

My suggestion would be for the ability to hide your cape with transmog. Whether it could be toggled from the inventory or from Gunnar, doesn’t matter to me! I had in mind the system that AC: Origins had for toggling Bayek’s hair and beard. I like the way the jomsviking looks without the cape; it just really makes the outfit pop!

i know I’m not alone on this, so show your support and cross your fingers guys!

It's not even a problem, it's more of a piece of information that I really want. When we are in the Yorkshire arch, we have a mission with Halfdan which is called "Road to Hamartia". In it, there is a problem with some pipes that caused a flood, but the pipes already existed at that time of the game?

Hey guys, just wanted to start a normal civilized discussion. Emphasis on civilized.

As I'm sure you know if you've played the game, when Layla interacts with the Staff of Hermes it says that it was obtained from the Eagle Bearer, Kassandra. Now, I am fully aware that Ubisoft decided to make Kassandra the actual "canon" (I'm using quotation marks because the whole premise of Odyssey is to create your own odyssey). However, a large portion of the fanbase also played the game as Alexios (me included). Not gonna lie, it actually is a bit frustrating to spend over 100 hours playing as Alexios, only for the next game to blatantly tell you that you played it wrong. Again, the whole point in introducing the choice was to create your own story and protagonist. I just wanted to know if anyone feels the same way I do or if you just swept it under the rug. Honestly, I think Ubisoft could have handled the situation a lot better. Maybe simply state Eagle Bearer, without the name, so that all players could be satisfied, or maybe synchronize the cloud of the games in a way in which the character that you played as in Odyssey is the one that is mentioned. I'm 100% sure they won't do any of this since this is a very low priority thing, but it would still be nice.

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   I would like to suggest that Ubisoft implement a costume characteristic of the Norse , with the hood of wolf skin , leather garment , like those that appear in the Vikings series.
  It could give this costume away in a free event or even in DLC.
  Let's stand up and show what we want in the game! Who agrees with the costume idea, help me to reach Ubisoft.

On the second part of the world events of Ryce and company we reach the camp but he starts to chase something on the bushes. And keeps on that without firing the new mission. I have pushed him rolling to where the other people are, but he keeps going back to the bushes.

Hello Ubisoft staff, 

I am a poor fellow soldier of the Assassin’s Creed. I am writing you today, after countless hours of playing through most of the Assassin’s Creed games. Some for the second time, some for the (god knows) how many times. After completing the games, I hopped on online forums to get an idea of how people view this “evolution” of Assassin’s Creed games since 2007 up until 2021. 

As a fan who’s been invested in the story you are telling with the Assassin’s Creed franchise as a whole, I can’t help but say how I long for a classical Assassin’s Creed experience. A game were the focus is actually on an Assassin and how he contributes to the Creed instead of some personal motives that have no ties to the Creed in any way, nor does it build any bond between the protagonist and the Creed (I am looking at Odyssey and Valhalla). Don’t get me wrong, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is so far one of the most compelling open world action rpg games I have ever played. However, when I get a game titled Assassin’s Creed my initial thoughts are always the same as when you guys announced AC II or AC III or Black Flag. 

That excitement of getting to explore the Assassin’s lore through a Master Assassin’s eyes or to-be master was sensational. Unfortunately, with the latest installments I feel like the development is straying away from what made fans like myself invest +10 years of their lives following this action packed story of Assassin’s vs. Templars (Hidden Ones vs. Order of Ancients), and sometimes even personify it in real life in conventions and stuff like that. The last 3 games of the franchise are unique in their own way, but they give a feeling so far away from what Assassin’s Creed originally made me feel. 

As a teenager growing up I looked up to characters like Altair and Ezio Auditore. They are revolutionary figures in my eyes, they taught me so much that I am much older today feeling the pride of an Assassin as if I was born into this Creed and I don’t want to witness its demise. They taught me how to turn the tables on bullies, how to stand up for my own, and what qualities a real man should possess in order to get by in life as a remarkable person. I reached places I never thought I could reach thanks to those characters that you have created, and I am sure you did not expect them to turn out to be legendary characters in their own rights.

I hope to see you guys work on an Assassin’s Creed game that has the same focus as the older installments. A lot of people criticized Unity when it first came out, and I was one of them, but even with criticism I enjoyed it so much because at the time, Unity had perfected the formula of the older Assassin’s Creed game mechanics.

Despite the flaws, I was waiting for the next installment that would capitalize on the beautiful formula that was almost perfected in Unity, but I was surprised to see it all dropped for the sake of a new direction. Not going to lie, it was appealing to me. The idea of exploring ancient Egypt when it was first announced, and the Viking experience, both got me excited (you definitely get an A for the way you sell your games).

However, the more I played them, the more I felt unattached to the experience and the story. I don’t want to be just another ruthless viking, or some sort of Greek mythical character, or an Egyptian Mejay. It’s not fair that I play the game as an outsider to the Creed, and it’s not fair that I played Valhalla wishing I was seeing things through Bassim’s eyes.

I hope to see you work on a real Assassin’s Creed title in the future. A title that turns fans like myself into kids once again, and get us immersed in a refined experience.

Thank you so much for the wonderful ride and I hope to see more fascinating Assassin’s Creed games influenced by the OG ones in the future. 

Sincerely,
Poor fellow soldier of the Creed