I just want to say that with how awesome Odyssey was, I didn't expect you'd ever beat it. But there are many things changed, that were improved upon during Odyssey's time and I cannot fathom why they weren't in from the beginning in Valhalla.

General changes that make the game feel really bad:

• bird doesn't mark anything, and thus doesn't need "perception increase" from viewpoints which makes me not even care about doing them most of the time. This also makes fights absolutely horrific, as it's already unclear half the time when an enemy is going to strike especially when you're engaged with another enemy or 3 already stunlocking you. It makes me have to keep pressing Odin's site (because it can't be held in like Odyssey's could) to see where enemies even are
• it is such a chore to try and get something new to use; I've turned the game off multiple times because I'll get somewhere and after playing puzzles for 10 minutes, trying to move around with the awful parkour system that is the slowest thing I've ever tried doing, I'll get to the chest and it'll have "locked" on it. Like... I get that the rate Odyssey dropepd stuff may have been excessive, but my goodness. It takes forever to get some of these and you just never know if it's going only be unlocked via a quest, or there's a key, or if you can even get the key. There's a bandit camp near Grantbridge with one of these and despite seeing the key on the heavy, it doesn't loot it and I can't open the chest. It's just not fun never getting anything new to try
• the runes system seems like it was developed as a checklist at the last minute, did anyone try using one rune that's on a piece of gear on a different piece of gear? LoL. It's the worst thing about the gear system by far. You have no clue what is installed where until you mouse over, read, and hope to have memorized what the piece of armor you wanted it on was called. Why? Why isn't there an Odyssey-like system where you just "unlock that engraving". Because that sure seems to be what the UI was made for. You can't even uninstall a rune without finding which exact one it is and uninstalling it. Then, of course, if you have more than one of the same (-1.0 weight) installed on the same piece you'll end up having to add another layer of clicks to find out whther you're going to have them swap places or un-socket it. Just horrible. Not to mention they're also very vague and usually not even worth it. 5.0 damage to Elite... okay... is that 5 total? 5 percent? 5 percent additive before "critpre" ( <- what) or...
• Having stamina, and adrenaline, and health, and maybe block, and dodge but sometimes not enough, and "finishers" (which ironically don't finish much of anything), and stun... it's all just too busy. Odyssey felt so good. You felt strong. You felt like the Demi-God you were and you felt yourself getting even better. This whole combat scene is either the easiest thing you'll do in 10 minutes, or so frustrating that it's impossible to enjoy because archers that can walk backwards faster than you can run forwards and connect a blow, or pike men that are actual demi-gods and avoid all of your attacks, or this guy/that guy that do this or that by reading your inputs, or anything not 2 handed feels like it doesn't have enough reach.

I could go on but this is already really long. So here's some stuff I already miss from Odyssey, so much that I'd rather go back to it than keep playing Valhalla:

• the bird not marking things
• gear dropping
• ability menu, and abilities, feeling like they're worth using
• viewpoints having more meaning than "fast travel"
• gear transmog
• scroll speed of menus making sense
• no stamina; so always running without having to worry about other buttons
• real chain assassinate
• "confirm kill" characters *always* dropping something good
• gear sets with actually good and descriptive bonuses
• engravings; abiltity to move gear traits from one item to another
• bodies vanishing after assassinating so you don't have to hide in bushes/carry bodies if you want to play stealth
• more than 2 songs on the boat
• craft able arrows (cannot fathom why this isn't possible... it's not fun... 15 arrows isn't enough for 15 enemies when one single enemy takes 3-10, if they don't read inputs and move)
• animal companions
• a nice world that is usually nice weather, doom and gloom just isn't great. Location accurate or not.
• Appropriately priced packs in the store... we're up to $20 now for a good pack? Not cool. I thought Avengers was bad at $14.00 for a skin. Way, way, way too high. Regardless of them coming maxed out already - most of the traits are in line with other outfits in game (crap and doesn't feel good to get)

Sorry this was so long, and sorry if any readers disagree. I just wanted to take a minute to express how change isn't always good. I went from Origins (pretty good), to Odyssey (10/10), to Valhalla (wait... what? It's Syndicate + Origins). I don't know. I really hope you guys can make some quick changes as I didn't even cover the incredible and almost unreal amount of bugs nad game breaking issues and crashes in this. It's bad, really bad. Which is a shame because so far the story-telling is great too.

For now though, I think I'm going back to Greece.

Hey, just wondering if we're ever going to see a patch? It's been a week.

• I still don't a have a wingsuit...
• textures on *only Nvidia cards* look like crap when using HD textures (which, despite the game running over 100fps with everything maxed people still think is because 8Gb of vram and it's not... that would cause massive frame drops and stutters as it tried to swap the information it needs and wouldn't be limited to only weapons, supremos, vehicle gauges, amigo skins, and outfits... everything would do it not specific things that are always going to be in view of the player)
• Amigos still cause more trouble than give help because you don't make them invulnerable on the roads, I don't understand why they'd be allowed to be hurt by moving vehicles to begin with
• Amigos don't follow you/teleport when driving or flying... they should disappear and reappear once you exit or when summoned. You clearly have no issue doing this as it's how the enemies spawn in.
• Enemies spawn in 10 feet from you and never stop coming, making it 100% pointless to carefully plan (aka play far cry) methods of defeating enemy areas, trying to stealthily do checkpoints and every vehicle coming down the road is an enemy, causing 5-truck pileups even after you take a checkpoint instead of there actually being civilians once in a while
• the edges of the screen, on ultrawide, are blurry garbage. i'd almost rather black bars if this is how they're going to look, no point in having 21:9 if it's 16:9 + blur.
• eating food is a total mess, it shows checkmarks under every meal and "says" if i eat something it'll over write but its not even an option to do so. so my icon shows gadget bonus instead of the move speed i wanted
• the driver, pulls up and sits there in your vehicle when you really need it, then has the audacity to get out and complain to you about moving his seat in the vehicle you spent the time to go get from a high rank place when you were just off the boat, and blew up a hundred vehicles to get the scraps to upgrade the weapons and rams (which are pointless because if you disable an enemy and get out to kill them another will inevitably roll up behind him 3 seconds after)
• gathering loot is very time consuming because of how close you have to get, making it impossible to get some pieces
• "climb" not showing for a lot of boats without being perfectly aligned, much like loot this needs to be a bigger area

I could keep going, but those are some things that should have been very easy to fix in a week. The most dire being the textures and lots of people just not getting a wingsuit. I can't believe it's taken this long, or why you've been doing this. Same thing happened in AC Valhalla. Why? Is it so you can have a bigger list? People with game breaking bugs shouldn't have to wait a week for something to get fixed it should be hotfixed. So PLEASE just release a fix today. The ole 'week one" patch. And please... I know you're in bed with AMD but do not do this to Nvidia players. Fix the textures that you know we can run just fine. No other game, with much nicer graphics, needs more than 8Gb of Vram including Microsoft Flight Simulator which is hard to distinguish from real life it's so good. Most people use Nvidia so sandbagging them isn't going to cause them to run and buy an AMD card even if that was possible (which it isn't, so fix the textures).

so awesome that it's been 11 days, and there's still no fix to this. dear Ubisoft, in the off chance you actually care, can we get a fix for this? I also still don't have a wingsuit... so that's fun... wonder if we will ever get a chance? Maybe I should jsut wait until there's a New Game + that apparently will never be in a Far Cry game at launch? I would have started over if I hadn't already put 20 hours in before getting to the wingsuit. Or if I had thought for one minute that you wouldn't be patching the game for weeks after launch.

@california_dude Agree on all those points of additional complaints! I loved actually being and referring to myself as a God lol, that was great and felt right. The cutscenes thing, it is a bit excessive at points that's for sure, but I think the thing that makes it even worse for me is all the steps required to change a tattoo or buy a few arrows (because I can't craft them... thanks Ubi). They should allow pressing ESC to get out of these "conversations". So it would be more like: buy stuff > esc > esc... whereas right now it's: buy stuff > esc > space > 2 > space (with esc sometimes thrown in there out of habit from every game I've ever played which leads to pause screen).

@kmansp31 so glad I'm not alone on the loot-puzzle thing lol. I felt like I was whining, but it really is infuriating. I mean, the least they could do is denote whether something is locked loot (needs a key), locked loot (needs a quest, then a key), and whether it's a weapon or a armor piece. So many times now I've rage-quit because I'll go and do all these things kill all these enemies that were +150 levels over me or something, collect a key, and the key doesn't even unlock the chest. Like... come on lol. It's a shame I have to think this way, but history, so I partially wondered whether some decisions were made by the suits to entice people into buying new stuff instead.

I've noticed the bird thing being the most odd choice for me to write, suppose I'm the outlier there lol.

And the gear, exactly, a nice middle ground would have been fantastic. Like, a nice share of world drops instead of all locked/unlocked/puzzled chests everywhere would have made it feel good.

@mitsunari3 omg this, yes, I forgot about that and how stupidly annoying it is to deal with in 2020. Either make them invincible (probably don't trust themselves not to mess that part up, understandable) or stop the idiotic "de-sync" stuff.

Also, I still get PTSD when near a bunch of chickens lol.

Are you guys kidding me? I'm very happy that we got some (2 month later) fixes. The game does seem more responsive and fluid which is great!

• But how awesome would it be, now hear me out, All runes when *viewing them in the place that matters... where they're equipped and managed...* are grouped together regardless of whether they're slotted, and also descending from biggest to smallest. If I want a specific rune and specific strength I still have to scroll for an eternity stopping at every rune of the same color. So again, all health together regardless of their strength and slot status- descending from greatest value to smallest. Seems almost too easy to not be done yet.
• Where are the loadouts? What a fantastic addition to Odyssey that was. I mean, imagine being able to click and have bow, click and have stealth, click and have heavy attack, click and have health rebuild, click and have adrenaline rebuild, click and have resistances... This is very rudimentary stuff that should be standard- not a feature.
• Where is the transmog? Another thing added by this time to Odyssey. How I would love to use what looks good instead of what is good. Especially when I've spent real world currency on those things, and something more OP comes out weeks later making the last one I bought pointless. Or, because Thegn set was Thegn set, being able to change your looks without diminishing your performance.

Those are just a few things, that I've wanted since the beginning. Two of them being things are standard, common sense, or already exist in a game running on the same tech. It's been months guys, and it gets SUPER old painstakingly switching piece by piece, rune by rune, especially when runes have no order whatsoever.

@akira1364 same happening to me, I thought it was the 3440x1440 causing it. Even if it is its unacceptable especially when there are other massive texture issues (that are in now way tied to the HD texture pack).

Was really hoping to sign in today and find a day 1 patch for this and enemy spawns but I guess a studio that hugecan't tweak those things in 24 hours or something.

All of the helpful folks saying it's HD texture pack and VRAM running out because they read it on a media site that didn't properly test the game just simply looked at allocated/requested statistics, really need to pay attention. THIS HAPPENS WITH, OR WITHOUT, HD TEXTURES EVEN INSTALLED. It is not an OOM issue, or entire swathes of screen would look like that, not specific little things that are always going to be close to the player's line of sight like dashboard items and speedometers... it'd be trees and shrubs and stuff further away.

I have an RTX-2080/i9-10900k/32Gb 3600 ram/NvME drive and have everything maxed except shadows and volumetric lighting, at 3440x1440, and have a buttery smooth 90+ fps. If it was running out of memory I'd feel hitching and stuttering as it tried to swap the textures but I don't. I even put the resolution scaler to 1.2 just as a I did in Far Cry 5 and am still above 60 and buttery smooth. If I was out of memory it would have happened on other games where it's close - and there's a lot of them where I see that 7700 used out of 8000.

AC Valhalla Bugs 

 

• Randomly no music/ music stops  (reload)
• No enemy feedback from Odin’s site at “light the Brazier/kill rueds clansmen” mission  (restart didn't fix)
• Randomized “undetected” wash over & sound, despite no enemies being near 
• Break Fall rarely works, and seems to only work on the lowest level, IE- the road in Lunden whereas if you hit *anything* else (even flat) you will lose half your health – yay fall damage 
• Not all pieces of outfits show for Lieutenant, even after reload because changes to gear aren’t shown in that menu right away. But, Hidden One’s stuff is missing (who would choose garbage level outfits to represent themselves REMOVE bronze & silver and no rarity if you have gold version please) 
• Runes show as “new” in inventory each time they’re removed from a piece of armor (which is frequent because no loadout slots... something Odyssey added and Valhalla should have come with) (SEE NEXT)
• Inventory sometimes shows “new items” indicator, but when entering and even when click “mark as seen” the new item marker remains 
• Quest markers will not show on the map for roughly 10-30 seconds after completing a chain 
• “Confirm Kill” (aka kneel and hold an axe in front of a dead body for 10 seconds) doesn’t show until 10 seconds have passed since killing the enemy (this is a really fun 20 seconds 3x a day for Reda)  
• Double Gold Valkyrie armor set shows for Lieutenant  
• Double Hunstman Armor shows for Player 
• Movement stops for no reason, constantly, everywhere, even swimming. (I remember a story how you’d let these simulations run overnight to make sure they didn’t get stuck lol) 
• Moveable objects sometimes stick on nothing if they needed something broken in order to move originally  
• Scroll speeds makes no sense in a lot of places, some places excruciatingly slow, some nice and fast 
• Galloglach final form helmet doesn’t fit on female lieutenant, only goes about halfway down her face  
• “online communication error” 
• “Autodrive/sail” is pointless when you let small fishing boats driven by NPC’s go near the route of longships, they run into them and just stop 
• Random blood stain appears on player when near two guys endlessly fist fighting in Lunden 

These are just a few things, from one day. Really sad there hasn't been a recent patch, especially for the movement. Something really needs to be done. Everything you try to do ends up sucking really bad because of the movement system being so awkward. Odyssey's was perfect, I don't see how it can be so different now. But I guess because stamina, which means sprint needs a button. I also don't know if it happens on controllers but for M/KB it's the worst experience I've ever had trying to navigate areas. Just randomly stop climbing until you let go of what you're doing and then mash SHIFT + W + SPACE (+ sometimes A or D).

yep- same problem. looks like we're getting that typical Ubisoft Cold Fix technique. Can't call it hot because for some reason they will never releases fixes in a timely manner. Had no wingsuit for like 4 weeks when the game launched until we finally got a patch. Now this. If they don't start updating their games faster I'm going to quit buying them in a timely manner and wait until they're dirt cheap instead of preordering the best version. I hate to sound so negative but I have better things to do than to write on Ubisoft forums for every single one of their games.

If you can create new things to sell for real money weekly, you can fix problems that should never have been released into a public build, weekly.

Hard to list them all, but I'd say first and foremost making weather cosmetic only. I can't even count how many times I'll be in a good groove, having fun doing something, then boom, here comes snow, then rain, then wet roads and winds. Nothing worse than that. If I have the patience I'll go change looks of a car or try to find a race that has forced weather.

Another thing that drives me insane is that, despite Summits being 'PvP', I have to end up watching videos to see where all the glitches are in order to be competitive. That makes so little sense to me... I can especailly bet this week's will be awful with all the vehicle forced (completely negating the hundreds of hours spent making builds). When things are fair, like on speed tours, I regularly get in the 1500's. But if there's a glitch I'm missing I'll be at 5000 in a heartbeat. Just sucks. As a continuation of Summits and fair, you shouldn't be allowed to slipstream another player. That is just ridiculous. I can't wait for Forza 5 to release because at this point I'm longing for being able to ghost through player cars. Traffic should also be removed from everything summit related.

I'd also kill for a search bar, or UI overhaul that makes it not the most horrific thing on earth when looking for a specific SR car. The filters take so long to adjust sometimes, that it's not much faster than slow-scrolling.

I'd kill for the 60fps ancient cap to be removed as well, considering I game at 144hz.

That's just a few, but going to go see if the "3 hour" maintenance has completed yet as it wasn't done at 3 hours 22 minutes.

@obu42 This, tbh.

The multitude of things left as 'acceptable' is kind of crazy.

so awesome that it's been 11 days, and there's still no fix to this. dear Ubisoft, in the off chance you actually care, can we get a fix for this? I also still don't have a wingsuit... so that's fun... wonder if we will ever get a chance? Maybe I should jsut wait until there's a New Game + that apparently will never be in a Far Cry game at launch? I would have started over if I hadn't already put 20 hours in before getting to the wingsuit. Or if I had thought for one minute that you wouldn't be patching the game for weeks after launch.

Hey, just wondering if we're ever going to see a patch? It's been a week.

• I still don't a have a wingsuit...
• textures on *only Nvidia cards* look like crap when using HD textures (which, despite the game running over 100fps with everything maxed people still think is because 8Gb of vram and it's not... that would cause massive frame drops and stutters as it tried to swap the information it needs and wouldn't be limited to only weapons, supremos, vehicle gauges, amigo skins, and outfits... everything would do it not specific things that are always going to be in view of the player)
• Amigos still cause more trouble than give help because you don't make them invulnerable on the roads, I don't understand why they'd be allowed to be hurt by moving vehicles to begin with
• Amigos don't follow you/teleport when driving or flying... they should disappear and reappear once you exit or when summoned. You clearly have no issue doing this as it's how the enemies spawn in.
• Enemies spawn in 10 feet from you and never stop coming, making it 100% pointless to carefully plan (aka play far cry) methods of defeating enemy areas, trying to stealthily do checkpoints and every vehicle coming down the road is an enemy, causing 5-truck pileups even after you take a checkpoint instead of there actually being civilians once in a while
• the edges of the screen, on ultrawide, are blurry garbage. i'd almost rather black bars if this is how they're going to look, no point in having 21:9 if it's 16:9 + blur.
• eating food is a total mess, it shows checkmarks under every meal and "says" if i eat something it'll over write but its not even an option to do so. so my icon shows gadget bonus instead of the move speed i wanted
• the driver, pulls up and sits there in your vehicle when you really need it, then has the audacity to get out and complain to you about moving his seat in the vehicle you spent the time to go get from a high rank place when you were just off the boat, and blew up a hundred vehicles to get the scraps to upgrade the weapons and rams (which are pointless because if you disable an enemy and get out to kill them another will inevitably roll up behind him 3 seconds after)
• gathering loot is very time consuming because of how close you have to get, making it impossible to get some pieces
• "climb" not showing for a lot of boats without being perfectly aligned, much like loot this needs to be a bigger area

I could keep going, but those are some things that should have been very easy to fix in a week. The most dire being the textures and lots of people just not getting a wingsuit. I can't believe it's taken this long, or why you've been doing this. Same thing happened in AC Valhalla. Why? Is it so you can have a bigger list? People with game breaking bugs shouldn't have to wait a week for something to get fixed it should be hotfixed. So PLEASE just release a fix today. The ole 'week one" patch. And please... I know you're in bed with AMD but do not do this to Nvidia players. Fix the textures that you know we can run just fine. No other game, with much nicer graphics, needs more than 8Gb of Vram including Microsoft Flight Simulator which is hard to distinguish from real life it's so good. Most people use Nvidia so sandbagging them isn't going to cause them to run and buy an AMD card even if that was possible (which it isn't, so fix the textures).

All of the helpful folks saying it's HD texture pack and VRAM running out because they read it on a media site that didn't properly test the game just simply looked at allocated/requested statistics, really need to pay attention. THIS HAPPENS WITH, OR WITHOUT, HD TEXTURES EVEN INSTALLED. It is not an OOM issue, or entire swathes of screen would look like that, not specific little things that are always going to be close to the player's line of sight like dashboard items and speedometers... it'd be trees and shrubs and stuff further away.

I have an RTX-2080/i9-10900k/32Gb 3600 ram/NvME drive and have everything maxed except shadows and volumetric lighting, at 3440x1440, and have a buttery smooth 90+ fps. If it was running out of memory I'd feel hitching and stuttering as it tried to swap the textures but I don't. I even put the resolution scaler to 1.2 just as a I did in Far Cry 5 and am still above 60 and buttery smooth. If I was out of memory it would have happened on other games where it's close - and there's a lot of them where I see that 7700 used out of 8000.

@wildhunt Nope, media places don't test everything the way they should because if they did, they'd see this happens with or without HD Textures enabled or even installed. I have fast internet, i tried, it did nothing. It's something in the engine/code doing it.

@akira1364 same happening to me, I thought it was the 3440x1440 causing it. Even if it is its unacceptable especially when there are other massive texture issues (that are in now way tied to the HD texture pack).

Was really hoping to sign in today and find a day 1 patch for this and enemy spawns but I guess a studio that hugecan't tweak those things in 24 hours or something.

Are you guys kidding me? I'm very happy that we got some (2 month later) fixes. The game does seem more responsive and fluid which is great!

• But how awesome would it be, now hear me out, All runes when *viewing them in the place that matters... where they're equipped and managed...* are grouped together regardless of whether they're slotted, and also descending from biggest to smallest. If I want a specific rune and specific strength I still have to scroll for an eternity stopping at every rune of the same color. So again, all health together regardless of their strength and slot status- descending from greatest value to smallest. Seems almost too easy to not be done yet.
• Where are the loadouts? What a fantastic addition to Odyssey that was. I mean, imagine being able to click and have bow, click and have stealth, click and have heavy attack, click and have health rebuild, click and have adrenaline rebuild, click and have resistances... This is very rudimentary stuff that should be standard- not a feature.
• Where is the transmog? Another thing added by this time to Odyssey. How I would love to use what looks good instead of what is good. Especially when I've spent real world currency on those things, and something more OP comes out weeks later making the last one I bought pointless. Or, because Thegn set was Thegn set, being able to change your looks without diminishing your performance.

Those are just a few things, that I've wanted since the beginning. Two of them being things are standard, common sense, or already exist in a game running on the same tech. It's been months guys, and it gets SUPER old painstakingly switching piece by piece, rune by rune, especially when runes have no order whatsoever.

So here we are, my second restart because of game ruining bugs. The first 60 HOURS, I figured out keys that were being collected from the environment, were not actually in my inventory and couldn't be used. They'd disappear from the world, and not show up again, but not be able to be unlocked.

Now (65 hours in, for a total now of 120ish hours), my settlement is at 5/6. Every single raid has been completed, and I have no 'banners' hanging out that can be interacted with to upgrade multi-tier places like the farms, all allies that offer settlement XP have been completed already, the last guests you get are there, and I'm quite sure my feast even registers as maxed but not my entire settlement. I will list the buffs I get.

• + 3.0 Ranged Dmg
• + 25 Health
• + 25 Health
• + 3.0 Armor
• + 3.8 Assassination Dmg
• + 3.8 Assassination Dmg
• + 3.8 Assassination Dmg
• + 3.8 Assassination Dmg
• + 3.0 Melee Dmg

This is just unacceptable anymore. You make grind for the sake of grind and lock content behind it, in a game amazingly scarce equipment and unique stuff to begin with... and don't even make sure it works. I'm about ready to be done. There's just no excuse. Ubisoft you'd do well to let the Odyssey team be the only AC studio. I still have no problems playing that game and start it over regularly. Everything about Valhalla seems to be made with the goal of taking more time; from incredibly slow walking in distrust, slow quest character following, wait to open this door, wait to open this chest, wait as you sail for 20 minutes to get somewhere, surprise "Dark Brotherhood" attacks when you're on horseback just trying to see when/if the story will end, having to 'find' something every turn whether it's a key or breakable entrance, inability to craft arrows... the list really goes on but whatever. I don't hate the game believe it or not. I just ... like now what am I going to do? Wait a year for NewGame+ because Ubi thinks people don't want to do it when the game launches?