Its literally night and day. River Raids is complete for me so now I have nothing to do again (3 days after a content update, 210 hours logged) I decided to reinstall Odyssey....

Wow, I actually couldn't believe how much smother and more fluid Odyssey is. How much better the combat is and just how much more there is to do and in general how much better it all just feels.

I simply do not understand how you move from 1 game on to the next and make the next worse. I appreciate Odyssey has had more updates but I don't recall ever being bored in it. When I logged in I continued a previous save and instantly had tons to do, because there is actual end game content and actual repeatable things to do.

Lets not forget I also restarted the game and kept all my skills and level. Why game+ has not been added here is beyond me.

@forcefrank

PC.
Endless bugs with the quests that prevented progress, still bugs now with treasure scrolls and the fish so impossible to 100% the game. On playthrough the story was ok, aside from quest bugs I actually enjoyed it, combat is sluggish compared to Odyssey, combat mechanics are not as good an the AI is terrible. Have 200 hours with everything complete and was looking forward to some repeatable content. River raids was supposed to bring it but Its non existent, repeatable content to me has a purpose and point to it, repeatable content to me is not doing the same thing over and over for no reason. Still get random crashes from time to time, with no real rhyme or reason to them.

Its just not as good at its core as Odyssey was, and to me that should be a continuation, lessons were learned over the duration of Odyssey yet more and worse mistakes have been made here.
No 1 handed swords
Gear system is bad
Ai is terrible
World feels dead and empty once everything is complete.
Raids and chests could respawn for repeatable content.
No end game battles or bosses to fight. No bounties or danger.
Skill tree is awful, no customisation from one player to the next, everyone has the same skill tree.
Jomsviking are just pointless
No reason to travel back to Norway or Vinland
Fishing (A basic mechanic) still doesn't work, why do we even have it, make fish available in the shop ?
The boat is rubbish compared to Odyssey, River combat is dreadful.
Brace feature on boat is pointless.
River Raids are completed in 6-10 hours. No need to go back.

I could honestly go on and on and on.

This is basics for a 2021 Game IMO.

This is a terrible addition and completely lazy development. This isn't even copy and paste of the content we have, its just pure drivel that has been made by a team of interns, surely.

England and Norway have been left baron, once everything is done then you are done, there is no end game content, there is no repayable content
Sorry, yes there is if you enjoy re raiding something for nothing over and over and over again that gains you nothing and is completely separate from the land you spent 150+ hours trying to explore.
There isn't really even a story to the raiding, no boos or clan you are battling, no land to take or any sense of accomplishment. What happened to the story ??
If this is a taste of the DLC to come then I just lost any interest in it.

This is not Development, development would/should insinuate an update, progress, better performance, better gameplay, better story. This has gone so far backwards its not even funny.

@ubi-woofer

Suprprise surprise, they respond to this....
Forum is full of disappointment and complaints yet the staff will find that 1 needle in a haystack from some [removed] that thinks this game is good.

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@groener_bdf

Wholeheartedly agree.
Such a wasted opportunity, they have a semi decent back story and just completely wasted all and any replayability.
Jomsviking are useless.
Nothing significant respawns (surely the monasteries and castles would replenish the wealth), what happened to loot drops.
I've killed over 7000 NPCs and not found any Armour or weapons, its borderline hysterical that every single soldier has a 1 handed sword yet there are none for us in the game, I have Mjolnir, Excalibur and Medusas Shield though
They have introduced Store based Items that are beyond ridiculous. I get the whole Asgard and Jotenheim thing, but leave those items there. I do not need to see Sauron from LOTR in my ship crew.
River Raids...….[censored]. I'm no coder but I literally could have done a better job. Its frankly poorly copy and pasted content at best. But I'm guessing the person that did it couldn't figure out the horse and raven part so just left them out.
NPCs don't fight back, Why have we not got the NPCs from Odyssey, where hitting a Civilian would get you into a world of trouble, now all we get is "You will be kicked out of the Animus if you kill civilians". Laziest bit of coding I have ever seen in my life, and if they want to say its a computer programme and needs to be accurate, what about the major major historical inaccuracies of this entire game. Again I have Mjolnir......!!

£90 I spent on this game based off what Odyssey produced, I feel like I've been robbed this time round. I don't see how it can be fixed, the spine of it is just wrong.

Had so many high hopes for this game after Odyssey and it has done nothing but let me down from the 1st week. It all started nice and shiny, in a time where Vikings are cool Valhalla drops. Then since week 1 it has disappointment after disappointment. Broken quests, bugs, poor AI, poor Story, poor loot and gear system, poor.....Well everything really.

There is literally nothing in this game that I can honestly say has been done better than Odyssey. Even the graphics are in some places better but in others a total let down, (Fast travel birds anyone) meaning in all its just worse.
So we waited for fixes and updates that never came, inevitably they just broke more stuff and each update bought new items to the store, something that works flawlessly and when that is bugged in some way, is fixed in 24 hours.
We got River Raids as a bit of hope...............................I will just stop there, if you cant see the issues with the River Raid system (lets call it a system as it has nothing to do with the actual; game) then I cant help you.

Anyhow today brought a new update,1.2 with fixes and Transmog.....Who hooo. But wait........Its just........Its just like everything else, poorly done, nothing compared to Odyssey and a let down.

So that's it for me, I'm sure many others uninstalled a while ago, I'm sure more will in the future.

I would like to thank Ubisoft for a great bit of business in robbing its player base for Ultimate editions and collectors editions. Taking all that money for an Alpha test was a great bit of business. And I do truly thank you because I will never pre order a game again, and I will now wait till the next version of AC is 1 year down the line and 1/4 of the value.

Bug is still there, no enemies spawn and have already cleared the camp before doing this.

Please let us have the ability to hide armour like the Hell Damnation set as every time I see Jomsviking with it on it completely breaks my immersion.
I have not and will not ever buy anything on the store, and seeing a Viking standing in a town that looks like a Devil God just looks ridiculous in my opinion.
If I wanted it I would buy it. I don't want it so I also don't want to see it in the game.

I didn't pay £90 for a game that is influenced by other peoples store purchases.

@fylkirpanzer

Could not have written it better myself. I seriously thought this was the turning point. I did enjoy the story but then end game is non existent.
The River Raids were announced, to be honest I was looking forward to it, couldn't wait............and then completed it in 8 hours. Have been rewarded everything and there is no need what so ever to do them again. What a joke. They labelled this as "Exciting new content" "Raid for glory".....LOL ok then, or until you have all the loot then its back to England Grinding Tungsten ingots off 3 sets of troops in Wessex. Or should i say uninstalling this waste of money to go play Odyssey again.

What they said....What we got

3 replayable locations, Check. (However, once you have everything, no point going back)
Loot books of knowledge, gear, silver and runes. Check. (Only once though, its repeatable content that isn't repeatable)
Great Rewards with great challenge. (Erm no, none of that exists, reskinned Armour, 2 handed sword, pointless shield)
Build the Jomsviking Hall in the settlement. Check. (Upgrade once, and that's it)
Followed by Wraith of the druids DLC in Ireland. (Ow so something else to look forward to because this is utter trash)

@xliqu1dx To be fair, regarding ship battles. They weren't really a thing in Dark Ages Europe, let alone England. Rival Viking clans in Norway however, that would have been an interesting concept.

You say that like Sauron Armor and ISU Armour were a thing in the Dark Ages. This game stopped any reference to anything real the moment they added Mythical Armor sets let alone the complete disregard for anything from actual history.

We've all seen the awful animation of the birds at sync points, to be honest, compared to Odyssey its like going back 20 years in graphic quality. But Ubisoft managed to trump it with the addition of the rats.

1. They are more powerful than most NPCs in this game, you cant burn or stab them.
2. The mechanics of them is utter rubbish
3. They look terrible
4. What is the point of them

Honestly, please just remove them.

Updated new patch

Login, Complete a daily quest, go to store, come out of store, character has lost all berserker gear.
Save the game, Berserker gear returns as red gear, not gold, all runes gone....

This game is so broken its a joke.

If this is really what they go through to test stuff on the game and with bug fixing, why are there so many issues with it and why has this game been dumbed down so much from Odyssey. Its seriously like someone played the Witcher 3, and copied a load of ideas, half arsed them into Valhalla and that trend was basically the staple for the entire game. I know comparing to the Witcher 3 (Probably best single player open world game ever made) but its should be at least superior to Odyssey.

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2. Title Update Deployment
   • The fixes officially made it! The new title update is now ready to be deployed across platforms. And after all that still doesnt work

@yesin069

Errrrr and birds thankyou, we need more birds

Had so many high hopes for this game after Odyssey and it has done nothing but let me down from the 1st week. It all started nice and shiny, in a time where Vikings are cool Valhalla drops. Then since week 1 it has disappointment after disappointment. Broken quests, bugs, poor AI, poor Story, poor loot and gear system, poor.....Well everything really.

There is literally nothing in this game that I can honestly say has been done better than Odyssey. Even the graphics are in some places better but in others a total let down, (Fast travel birds anyone) meaning in all its just worse.
So we waited for fixes and updates that never came, inevitably they just broke more stuff and each update bought new items to the store, something that works flawlessly and when that is bugged in some way, is fixed in 24 hours.
We got River Raids as a bit of hope...............................I will just stop there, if you cant see the issues with the River Raid system (lets call it a system as it has nothing to do with the actual; game) then I cant help you.

Anyhow today brought a new update,1.2 with fixes and Transmog.....Who hooo. But wait........Its just........Its just like everything else, poorly done, nothing compared to Odyssey and a let down.

So that's it for me, I'm sure many others uninstalled a while ago, I'm sure more will in the future.

I would like to thank Ubisoft for a great bit of business in robbing its player base for Ultimate editions and collectors editions. Taking all that money for an Alpha test was a great bit of business. And I do truly thank you because I will never pre order a game again, and I will now wait till the next version of AC is 1 year down the line and 1/4 of the value.

I can simplify this greatly for you.

Valhalla is broken beyond repair, it has literally started off so badly that even after a further 2 years of development, I doubt it will touch how good Odyssey was at launch. And if River Raids is anything to go by for updates, then it will never get close to that even. Broken.

By the way they managed to fix the Helix store bug last week, still cant fish though.

Well the problem is they think a lot of people play the game and like it, what they don't realise (which is extraordinary as they are the developers) is at End Game there is literally nothing to do, its boring. And noone is going to grind this crap.

@fortyniners354 Well i'm very happy!
I purchaced the ultimate edition so i get everything for free! (and can go on with my life!)

Free....I think you need to understand what free actually means. The season content has been mentioned since day 1, so you paid for it.

I paid £90 for the game and season pass....
What it is, is content that should have been in the game from the start that has been poorly added later on.