Not talking about moving in cities, I know that is a part of the game, and honestly in my opinion helps out alot, just wished it was optional.

However, something I'm pretty sure is a bug, and if not, horrible design choice, is that the horse only moves at in-city movement speed when being chased, even out in the wild on flat road.

Makes no sense that my character is going as fast as he can then can't all the sudden because I'm being chased?
Wouldn't somebody go faster if being chased, especially by a way higher level zealot?

Ian Malcom didn't say "must go slower" in Jurassic Park afterall lol.

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Maybe make the Zealot / other horsemen ride faster to catch the player instead of slowing the player down?

The Difference Between Mo-Cap and Animated Cutscenes

I’ve got almost 100 hours on Valhalla and I’ve still got stuff to do. I definitely think it’s one my top entries in the franchise, for me the only thing that lets the game down is the acting delivery. Don’t get me wrong, the voice acting is great, I love Cecilie Stenspil as Evior and I’m sure Magnus Bruun will be just as good when I inevitably play it again soon.
The problem I’m getting at is my frustration when I see these fantastic cutscenes like Eivor talking with Basim in Cent or the brothel scene in Essexe. I could watch these all day, the facial expressions and body language is a thousand times better than the bland and lifeless cutscenes that really started to irritate me further into the game.
I can appreciate that motion capture is expensive and demanding for the actors. As an actor myself I can sympathise, but it mainly frustrates me as the two biggest games I played this year: Red Dead 2 and Valhalla, have a noticeable difference in the quality of acting. I know Red Dead 2 had a much larger development process and didn’t have interactive dialogues, but I think sacrificing these for future titles will be for the best. Characters like Hjorr or Hunwald are an example of a character I couldn’t connect with, especially at the end of the game, Hunwald’s last scene is hard to watch as it isn’t mo-capped and things are glitching, the voice acting doesn’t match the animations. What those characters did good in vocal characterisation they lacked in visual characterisation is what I’m getting at.
I think it’s a shame because this is really the only thing that brought the quality down for me. It might just be a problem for me as an actor as I would expect high standards. I would suggest a smaller scale game to enable a fully mo-capped story, but this doesn’t mean going back to isolated cities because personally I love the exploration and Valhalla does it right. I just couldn’t get over the beauty in scenes like the final Odin scene, it was fantastic but then there’s the funeral after the Hamtunscire arc where characters are literally floating. I hope Ubisoft can see the error in this, as both Odyssey and Valhalla lack good delivery and it really affected my immersion and connection to certain characters.

So one of the main reasons people have a problem with the current gear system in Valhalla, is that there is a lack of stuff to pick up, or moreso that all the stuff you tend to pick up has only one purpose, and that's to be sold.


So that is why I suggest non-equippable weapons to be added to the game, that aren't broken, whose only purpose is the be sold or dismantled.
By having them be non-equippable, there's no sifting through unwanted gear to see if there's one you want to keep, its just deciding do you need the materials or silver more.

When a piece of loot is dismantled, it will give a varying amount of materials depending on the type of item, with certain types dropping only from certain power levels of enemies.
Sometimes dismantled items could give;

By adding in a mechanic like this, I believe it will fill the void of the majority of people not having enough to loot, while not undoing the progress made by Valhalla's gear system that the other half of the playerbase loves.