It was a problem in both Origins and Odyssey. It's happening in Valhalla too. The gameplay runs at stable 60 FPS for me, but once some cinematic cut scene starts, i get heavy FPS drop. Why? The cut scene is happening in the same environment i was controlling my character at butter smooth 60 FPS before the cut scene triggered. Well, unlike in Odyssey, in Valhalla it's happening only in those truly cinematic cut scenes. Not in those simply conversation ones. Well, i just started the game and didn't see much yet. I saw heavy FPS drop only in the first cinematic cut scene so far.

I'll be honest. After playing Valhalla, i found out that i don't like Ashraf Ismail's style. It's kinda same as Origins with Norse skin. Same running animation style, same gear style, the character feels heavy, etc... After i completed Valhalla, i started Odyssey again and once the game loaded the world with my character staring into the sea, it felt better already. The character in Odyssey is more swift, faster. The world is better, you feel more freedom. Valhalla feels like part of the England, in Odyssey, you have whole Greece with sea, islands, etc... And i don't even miss the lack of decapitations in combat.

People says that Odyssey is too repetitive. I understand that. If you want to do everything in that game, you go from one question mark to another. You clear one fort, then go clear another. But it doesn't feel repetitive to me. It's always fun to clear forts to me. People says that you are getting too many gear in Odyssey. True, but you can actually create unique built with it and you have more variations in skins. The only let down to this is that you kinda have to stop at blacksmith some time to time and dismantle/sell so many gear you collected. Maybe if Ubisoft made some system that would do it faster, it would solve the problem.

I play Odyssey at highest (nightmare) difficulty. Never played at lower difficulty. And i like the challenge. When you alert whole fort plus multiple mercenaries and they are all on you, then you have to think about what skills to use and in which order to either beat them all or run away and hide. Otherwise, you get two hit and you're dead.
I play at highest difficulty Valhalla too, but it's extremely easy. Like so easy that i sometime have to check if i really play at highest difficulty, if the game somehow didn't reset difficulty for me. Nope, always at highest difficulty, always easy as hell. I don't need to play stealthy in Valhalla, i don't need the social stealth, i can just enter the red area and alert everyone and i'll just own them all like nothing. Maybe it's intentional, as Vikings was raiders and so they probably had always combat advantage, so Ubi kinda wanted create this feeling in Valhalla.

As for stealth, everybody was complaining that Odyssey don't have hidden blade. And when they announced that Valhalla will have it, i was afraid it will be those boring stealth kill animations again with just stab in the back and that's all. And they are. It's all the same animation always. Look at Odyssey's kill animations. Way more fun. Except maybe for 2 or three animations that feels kinda too long and your char moves in too wide radius during that, which could get you spotted in some situations. But other than that, i have more fun stealth killing enemies in Odyssey. And if you play on nightmare difficulty, you kinda have to go stealth, or there is high risk of dying. You don't have to go stealth in Valhalla even on highest difficulty, as it's still pretty easy. Sometimes there are those main story cut scenes about preparation for a siege and the characters are acting as if it was such a big deal that it needs such careful preparations, etc. I always think "omg, just let me into that stupid castle, i'll do it alone".

But Valhalla is still good game. It just needs more work. I believe Ubi will add NG+ later as they did with Odyssey.

Yes, i can't see weapons in cut scenes too. And it's a really shame, because i just got heavy dual wield skill and started using dual heavy swords. It looks really cool on Eivor's back. Like Witcher. And now it's so noticeable every time when cut scene starts, those cool swords on the back disappear. Please, fix.

What are Jomsvikings good for anyway? You can just kill everything alone.

@vlada757 Just wanted to post this. It's happening with the camera distance. During the gameplay camera distance, the details of hair are reduced, but when you try to get closer to the head with camera (like using some wall are something), the hair details are full again and you see the whole hair as you should. The hair drawing distance is simply too short. It should be fixed.

@garbo3 Well, the game doesn't crash much for me. It crashes kinda rarely. Just like Odyssey and basically all other AC games running on the same engine. Always the same kind of crash on all of them. The game freezes, then you get one sound stutter and then the game turn itself off. But even if it crashes just rarely, the devs simply can't afford making content in which if you die, you lose everything. Because the game can also crash and you lose everything also. So just fix the game first and then make content like that.

When i'm moving in the world, like traveling on horse or simply from place to place, the game sometimes freezes for like half second on the way and then it's normal. I think it's loading the map too slow or something.

My spec:
Ryzen 7 3700x
32 GB RAM
GTX 1080

95% of the time, the game runs at stable 60 FPS for me. And i run it on SSD drive. The normal one. Not M2 one.

Please remake these forums. If post doesn't get attention withing few seconds, it becomes dead.

I sent a ticket to Ubisoft about this and nothing. So i'm asking again. Are you aware of this issue, Ubisoft?

@redindianrobin No, it's still the same. And i really believe that they are locked at 30 FPS and run at inconsistent frame pacing. Because as i already said, it doesn't matter where the camera is looking during cut scenes or what is happening on the scene. The camera can look strait up at the sky and the FPS would be the same. Even at lowest graphics settings, these cut scenes has still the same low FPS.

It doesn't need more explanation. I unlocked Emergency aim skill and it's like i didn't unlock it. Or how does it work? Time should slow down for few sec when enemy spots me, right? Just like it worked in Odyssey. It never happens in Valhalla. And do i need any specific bow type or something? I'm using light bow.

@garbo3 I am just done with this game until it's fully fixed and updated, then i will start over for full experience. And i will never buy game on day one again. It's just not worth it. Good that i'm old enough to resist hype from some shiny trailers prior release.

@garbo3 Well, the game doesn't crash much for me. It crashes kinda rarely. Just like Odyssey and basically all other AC games running on the same engine. Always the same kind of crash on all of them. The game freezes, then you get one sound stutter and then the game turn itself off. But even if it crashes just rarely, the devs simply can't afford making content in which if you die, you lose everything. Because the game can also crash and you lose everything also. So just fix the game first and then make content like that.

Why i can't save during River Raids? I spent almost two hours right now in it and the game crashed. Seriously, nothing can trigger me more than finding out that my time was wasted. I swear, this was the last time i bought a game on day one and beta testing it. Next time, i'll wait like year till the game is fully patched and updated, like i did with Odyssey.

@ubi-wan So here is what i actually did. I installed my another HDD WD Purple (i don't like having multiple HDDs in my PC, but this one wakes itself up pretty quick), moved the Documents folder on it and the problem is gone. I forgot to mention that the game has files in the Documents folder too, but i think it's not necessary to mention that. Before i had Documents folder on HDD WD Blue and the lag was happening. So i think the blame is on both the game and my HDD. As i said, it wasn't happening with Origins and Odyssey and with any other older AC games, only with Valhalla. So Valhalla must kind of operate differently to cause this problem on some specific HDDs.

When i'm moving through the map, like on horses or on foot, i experience random 1 second lag or freeze or however you wanna call it. The game simply stops for 1 second and after the 1 second, the game runs normal again, until it happens again after a while when i keep traveling. It doesn't happen during combat or anything. It happens only when i travel on the map. I think it happens when the game needs to load another part of the map when i travel.
However, i kinda found a reason why this is happening. I have the game on SSD, but my documents forlder and basically everything else is on HDD, except for Windows which i have on another different small SSD. I made sure i have set my HDD not to go to sleep mode ever. So it never goes into sleep mode when playing the game. I get the lag anyway. However, when i start shadowplay recording on the HDD during the gameplay, the lag is gone. It seems like when the HDD is constantly busy, the game won't lag. But i would like to play without the recording and without the lag though. AC Origins and Odyssey didn't have this problem, so i don't see why all of a sudden it should be my HDD's fault.

Has it been fixed yet? I think not, because i tried to get spotted and it seems still the same.

@max18400

also Ubisoft never does seem to do alpha or beta testing.

Well, their are beta testing this game right now. Look, we have forum where people posts their feedback and bugs, so devs may know what to fix and improve. The only difference is that you have to pay for it

What are Jomsvikings good for anyway? You can just kill everything alone.

@longjohn119 Yes, i know running assassination. It's extremely cool, unlike the running assassination in Valhalla where it feels slow, heavy and less dynamic. Trust me, i know Odyssey a lot. I played a lot of it and still do. I forgot to mention many other cool stuff about this game in my post. I like to build assassination style and doing running assassination a lot. Even on mercenaries. Also the corner assassinations. These are in Valhalla too, but unlike in Valhalla where you have only like two boring animations of it that are just stab with the hidden blade, the corner assassinations in Odyssey are way more fun.

By the way, i asked you a question about the hair mod under your first Odyssey video on youtube. Didn't want to ask here, as i didn't wanna go of topic.

I'll be honest. After playing Valhalla, i found out that i don't like Ashraf Ismail's style. It's kinda same as Origins with Norse skin. Same running animation style, same gear style, the character feels heavy, etc... After i completed Valhalla, i started Odyssey again and once the game loaded the world with my character staring into the sea, it felt better already. The character in Odyssey is more swift, faster. The world is better, you feel more freedom. Valhalla feels like part of the England, in Odyssey, you have whole Greece with sea, islands, etc... And i don't even miss the lack of decapitations in combat.

People says that Odyssey is too repetitive. I understand that. If you want to do everything in that game, you go from one question mark to another. You clear one fort, then go clear another. But it doesn't feel repetitive to me. It's always fun to clear forts to me. People says that you are getting too many gear in Odyssey. True, but you can actually create unique built with it and you have more variations in skins. The only let down to this is that you kinda have to stop at blacksmith some time to time and dismantle/sell so many gear you collected. Maybe if Ubisoft made some system that would do it faster, it would solve the problem.

I play Odyssey at highest (nightmare) difficulty. Never played at lower difficulty. And i like the challenge. When you alert whole fort plus multiple mercenaries and they are all on you, then you have to think about what skills to use and in which order to either beat them all or run away and hide. Otherwise, you get two hit and you're dead.
I play at highest difficulty Valhalla too, but it's extremely easy. Like so easy that i sometime have to check if i really play at highest difficulty, if the game somehow didn't reset difficulty for me. Nope, always at highest difficulty, always easy as hell. I don't need to play stealthy in Valhalla, i don't need the social stealth, i can just enter the red area and alert everyone and i'll just own them all like nothing. Maybe it's intentional, as Vikings was raiders and so they probably had always combat advantage, so Ubi kinda wanted create this feeling in Valhalla.

As for stealth, everybody was complaining that Odyssey don't have hidden blade. And when they announced that Valhalla will have it, i was afraid it will be those boring stealth kill animations again with just stab in the back and that's all. And they are. It's all the same animation always. Look at Odyssey's kill animations. Way more fun. Except maybe for 2 or three animations that feels kinda too long and your char moves in too wide radius during that, which could get you spotted in some situations. But other than that, i have more fun stealth killing enemies in Odyssey. And if you play on nightmare difficulty, you kinda have to go stealth, or there is high risk of dying. You don't have to go stealth in Valhalla even on highest difficulty, as it's still pretty easy. Sometimes there are those main story cut scenes about preparation for a siege and the characters are acting as if it was such a big deal that it needs such careful preparations, etc. I always think "omg, just let me into that stupid castle, i'll do it alone".

But Valhalla is still good game. It just needs more work. I believe Ubi will add NG+ later as they did with Odyssey.