I loved Assassin's Creed Odyssey. I thought it was such a great game and I was equally looking forward to Valhalla coming out. Now that I have it I have to say I am quite disappointed. Graphically it is the same quality as Odyssey which is great, yet it runs really poorly. Stuttering cut scenes, bad frame rate drops during most of the larger fights.

Then we get on to the gameplay itself. Honestly it feels like the developers took Odyssey and just replaced the Ancient Greek setting with a Viking setting but didn't add much while at the same time they actually lowered the quality of a few aspects pretty badly. The sound for a start is terrible. What is with the loud thunder clap every time you assassinate someone? Why is the sound of you walking around so deafening, even when you are in stealth mode?

In Odyssey, when you were on the ship, your crew would sing sea shanties and it actually sounded like your crew were singing. And if you changed the gender of your crew then the voices changed accordingly. In this game, the songs being played while you are on the boat do not sound at all like they are coming from someone on the boat with an instrument. Honestly it sounds like one of the vikings brought an MP3 player and a speaker with them and are playing a song recorded in a recording studio.

Don't get me wrong, I like the setting. The artwork in the game is fantastic. I hate to complain but I am sorry to say it really feels like Ubisoft got lazy making this game and cut a lot of corners.

Oh, and just a sideline complaint, WHY oh why did you feel the need to put some characters in the game with American accents. I know they are only very background characters with only a few lines of dialogue but seriously, come on!! America hadn't even been discovered at the time of this game's settings. It just brings the integrity of the game down.

That is me done. Rant over!!

I've a lot of fun using this build this past week:


4 pieces Negociator's Dilemma
2 pieces Providence Defense

Weapon : Capacitor

57% Critical Hit Chance
198,8% Critical Hit Damage

Talents : Spark + Vigilance

I have a problem with the mystery with the man who boxed himself into the room and now he can't get out.
When I first arrived at the location the man had not spawned for some reason and I moved all jars out of the way and also moved the sliding objects sp I could reach the middle of the room. However, since I had no clue on how to continue with this mystery I left and did other stuff and returned much later. When I returned I noticed that all of the jars had been moved back to their original positions, but the sliding objects had not, which means that some of them were rendered under the sliding objects and some of them inside the sliding objects. This time the man spawned and I got the task to clear a path out for him. However, even if I move the jars out of the way he still wont move, so I tried putting all of the sliding objects back in their original positions, but for some reason one of them can't be moved as it's on top of the jars and even if I destroy all of the jars I still can't move it. I have moved on and played many hours since this problem occurred, so I'm not really interested in using an old game save in order to finish this mystery. It would however be nice if not only the jars were moved back to their original locations, but also the sliding objects.

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