@alexandru27p

26th of November, 2020.

It is now the 2nd of January, 2021 and this game breaking bug is still not fixed.

I literally CANNOT FINISH THE GAME and Ubisoft apparent lack of urgency is really annoying me.

I am 182 hours in. Restarting is not an option. Fix this immediately.

@martygod12 I am going to try limit my negativity about this game but I certainly have problems with how the lifespan of AC: Valhalla has panned out so far.

1. This is not a bad game by any means. I have enjoyed this game a lot. I have logged 199 hours, 46 mins and 37 seconds on my save file. I enjoyed the story (wish I could finish it) and it was a wonderful adventure through Early Medieval England.

2. However, there is very little innovation here. Hell, it feels like AC has gone backward. There are zero lessons learned from Odyssey and zero input from that game. It is like it never existed and this plays directly into my criticism of the loot system in this game. Even lessons from Origins, the last game Ubisoft Montreal developed seem to have been forgotten. But more so Odyssey. It is almost like Ubi Mont was resentful of Odyssey.

3. Despite my earlier praise, AC Valhalla is a bug filled disaster. The Mari Lwyd cloak bug was maddening and I still cannot finish the story because of the Father Bug. What happened to play testing? How were these really awful bugs not caught in beta?

4. And the loot system is completely gone. Now all the gear is at predetermined locations and there is little surprise or satisfaction, unlike Odyssey which had tons of interesting loot and Origins, which also had a nice loot system that Odyssey built on. In Valhalla, all that innovation was just ripped out.

5. And not a lot of the gear in the game is that good and the gear I want to wear is gatelocked for no apparent reason. Like the Native American outfit and weapons. They look cool as hell and I would love to use them in England but I cannot do that. It is restricted to Vinland for no good reason. Why?!

6. And the best gear in the game is not in the game. It is in the Ubisoft Store locked behind microtransactions. See, this did not bother me as I could get really good and cool gear in Odyssey and Origins. But now they keep coming out with new paywall locked sets while, nearly two months after the Yule Update (another buggy ill-conceived mess), there are no new substantial activities in the game and zero replayability. No permanent free content, no expansions (and none due until late March/early April).

7. England is just a large and empty world now. I cannot even do a NewGame+ even though they should have known we would want NG+. How could they not? Both of the previous games had high demand for it and Immortals: Fenyx Rising (a game that did take lessons from Odyssey and is all the better for it) released with NG+. How was this not apparent to the developers?

8. All done with that. Overall, AC Valhalla is a good game but stagnant installment to the franchise that has done nothing but shoot itself in the foot. Instead of another step forward, it is one and a half steps back. Now, I just want to see Ireland. Please be better.

@ubi-swaggins This just happened to me too.

I got all the gear in Vinland. All five pieces of the Native American armor set, a bow, a spear and a club. All very cool stuff that looked forward to using England.

Get back to England after all is said and done and I am back in the outfit from before I left. All the Vinland gear is gone from my inventory. I didn't even keep the freaking Legendary Moose trophy.

Very disappointing. Is this a bug or intentional? Very unsound decision if intentional.

I am playing on the XBox One version. Ultimate Edition.

I now also have the Mari Lwyd cloak stuck on me no matter where I go or what I do. I cannot wear the cool Native American outfit outside of Vinland. And I am also spawning drunk (since Yule Festival start).

This is really making me angry. These problems seem pretty universal. Did no one play test any of this before release?

No point in buying any of the cool armor sets if I cannot see it through the damn skull cloak.

Is a Hotfix inbound? It is badly needed. Updates would be appreciated.

I am really enjoying the new River Raids mode so far but I feel we really need more incentive to do them. After only one week, I have run out of reasons and rewards to go raiding.

Here are some ideas: let us buy items from Vagn with these supplies like Ingots and Titanium. I need a lot more of these things (especially Titanium) to upgrade all my gear fully.

Also, you could put shop items in Vagn's shop in a similar way Reda has. For like 1000 supplies or something like that.

Once again, I like the river raids and want to them more and in more locations. Just give us a reason to do so please.

@Ubi-Woofer That is not acceptable. I am 182 hours into this game and because of the Father Bug, I cannot finish the game and because of the Mari Lwyd bug, I cannot enjoy any of the outfits that I have collected in that time.

This simply cannot be left until the game update in FEBRUARY. Forget the new armor sets you guys want us to buy. Until these game breaking bugs are fixed, they need to be the priority. We need a hotfix ASAP. PLEASE!

@droid8apple I posted this in another topic but I feel it is very relevant here as well:

@martygod12 I am going to try limit my negativity about this game but I certainly have problems with how the lifespan of AC: Valhalla has panned out so far.

1. This is not a bad game by any means. I have enjoyed this game a lot. I have logged 199 hours, 46 mins and 37 seconds on my save file. I enjoyed the story (wish I could finish it) and it was a wonderful adventure through Early Medieval England.

2. However, there is very little innovation here. Hell, it feels like AC has gone backward. There are zero lessons learned from Odyssey and zero input from that game. It is like it never existed and this plays directly into my criticism of the loot system in this game. Even lessons from Origins, the last game Ubisoft Montreal developed seem to have been forgotten. But more so Odyssey. It is almost like Ubi Mont was resentful of Odyssey.

3. Despite my earlier praise, AC Valhalla is a bug filled disaster. The Mari Lwyd cloak bug was maddening and I still cannot finish the story because of the Father Bug. What happened to play testing? How were these really awful bugs not caught in beta?

4. And the loot system is completely gone. Now all the gear is at predetermined locations and there is little surprise or satisfaction, unlike Odyssey which had tons of interesting loot and Origins, which also had a nice loot system that Odyssey built on. In Valhalla, all that innovation was just ripped out.

5. And not a lot of the gear in the game is that good and the gear I want to wear is gatelocked for no apparent reason. Like the Native American outfit and weapons. They look cool as hell and I would love to use them in England but I cannot do that. It is restricted to Vinland for no good reason. Why?!

6. And the best gear in the game is not in the game. It is in the Ubisoft Store locked behind microtransactions. See, this did not bother me as I could get really good and cool gear in Odyssey and Origins. But now they keep coming out with new paywall locked sets while, nearly two months after the Yule Update (another buggy ill-conceived mess), there are no new substantial activities in the game and zero replayability. No permanent free content, no expansions (and none due until late March/early April).

7. England is just a large and empty world now. I cannot even do a NewGame+ even though they should have known we would want NG+. How could they not? Both of the previous games had high demand for it and Immortals: Fenyx Rising (a game that did take lessons from Odyssey and is all the better for it) released with NG+. How was this not apparent to the developers?

8. All done with that. Overall, AC Valhalla is a good game but stagnant installment to the franchise that has done nothing but shoot itself in the foot. Instead of another step forward, it is one and a half steps back. Now, I just want to see Ireland. Please be better.

@merlinthewise24 Gave this method a shot. It sadly did not work for me. Glad it worked for you though. Seems you just have to get lucky. Ugh.

It has been weeks and as mad as I am about the Mari Lwyd cloak, that is the least of my worries now as I literally CANNOT FINISH THE GAME.

My main issues, in addition to Mari Lwyd, at the moment:

I got The Father bug so I cannot finish the game nor can I get Thor's Hammer. Done everything else but this.

I do not have my Vinland gear in England. Maybe not a bug but WTH Ubisoft? I like that outfit.

I cannot get rid of the Mari Lwyd cloak no matter what I do or where I go.

And of course, I am loading in drunk since the Yule Festival started.

I also was not getting any more fabrics for a while but fortunately I had just enough to finish.

I can buy the Mark of Sol bow twice and have two of them in my inventory. Didn't try more.

I WAS really enjoying this game and it could be great but for these bugs. Origins and Odyssey did not have issues like this and the lack of response is frankly UNACCEPTABLE. Yet, we are getting another Armor Set to buy next week, I hear.

Same issue here. Come on Ubisoft! You had an extra two weeks to fix this.

Same issue here. Come on Ubisoft! You had an extra two weeks to fix this.

I am not really going to say anything that hasn't been said already but good lord! 50 silver every transmog change and you cannot do it on the fly. Have to go to Gunnar every time. How is any of that necessary? It is almost like the devs resented having to put transmog in so they made it stupid to annoy us.

Ubisoft Montreal. Please. Call Ubisoft Quebec and ask for some help. They had it in Fenyx Rising since their game's launch and they implemented properly. It is not a bad thing to ask for help now and then.

I am really enjoying the new River Raids mode so far but I feel we really need more incentive to do them. After only one week, I have run out of reasons and rewards to go raiding.

Here are some ideas: let us buy items from Vagn with these supplies like Ingots and Titanium. I need a lot more of these things (especially Titanium) to upgrade all my gear fully.

Also, you could put shop items in Vagn's shop in a similar way Reda has. For like 1000 supplies or something like that.

Once again, I like the river raids and want to them more and in more locations. Just give us a reason to do so please.

@droid8apple I posted this in another topic but I feel it is very relevant here as well:

@martygod12 I am going to try limit my negativity about this game but I certainly have problems with how the lifespan of AC: Valhalla has panned out so far.

1. This is not a bad game by any means. I have enjoyed this game a lot. I have logged 199 hours, 46 mins and 37 seconds on my save file. I enjoyed the story (wish I could finish it) and it was a wonderful adventure through Early Medieval England.

2. However, there is very little innovation here. Hell, it feels like AC has gone backward. There are zero lessons learned from Odyssey and zero input from that game. It is like it never existed and this plays directly into my criticism of the loot system in this game. Even lessons from Origins, the last game Ubisoft Montreal developed seem to have been forgotten. But more so Odyssey. It is almost like Ubi Mont was resentful of Odyssey.

3. Despite my earlier praise, AC Valhalla is a bug filled disaster. The Mari Lwyd cloak bug was maddening and I still cannot finish the story because of the Father Bug. What happened to play testing? How were these really awful bugs not caught in beta?

4. And the loot system is completely gone. Now all the gear is at predetermined locations and there is little surprise or satisfaction, unlike Odyssey which had tons of interesting loot and Origins, which also had a nice loot system that Odyssey built on. In Valhalla, all that innovation was just ripped out.

5. And not a lot of the gear in the game is that good and the gear I want to wear is gatelocked for no apparent reason. Like the Native American outfit and weapons. They look cool as hell and I would love to use them in England but I cannot do that. It is restricted to Vinland for no good reason. Why?!

6. And the best gear in the game is not in the game. It is in the Ubisoft Store locked behind microtransactions. See, this did not bother me as I could get really good and cool gear in Odyssey and Origins. But now they keep coming out with new paywall locked sets while, nearly two months after the Yule Update (another buggy ill-conceived mess), there are no new substantial activities in the game and zero replayability. No permanent free content, no expansions (and none due until late March/early April).

7. England is just a large and empty world now. I cannot even do a NewGame+ even though they should have known we would want NG+. How could they not? Both of the previous games had high demand for it and Immortals: Fenyx Rising (a game that did take lessons from Odyssey and is all the better for it) released with NG+. How was this not apparent to the developers?

8. All done with that. Overall, AC Valhalla is a good game but stagnant installment to the franchise that has done nothing but shoot itself in the foot. Instead of another step forward, it is one and a half steps back. Now, I just want to see Ireland. Please be better.

@martygod12 I am going to try limit my negativity about this game but I certainly have problems with how the lifespan of AC: Valhalla has panned out so far.

1. This is not a bad game by any means. I have enjoyed this game a lot. I have logged 199 hours, 46 mins and 37 seconds on my save file. I enjoyed the story (wish I could finish it) and it was a wonderful adventure through Early Medieval England.

2. However, there is very little innovation here. Hell, it feels like AC has gone backward. There are zero lessons learned from Odyssey and zero input from that game. It is like it never existed and this plays directly into my criticism of the loot system in this game. Even lessons from Origins, the last game Ubisoft Montreal developed seem to have been forgotten. But more so Odyssey. It is almost like Ubi Mont was resentful of Odyssey.

3. Despite my earlier praise, AC Valhalla is a bug filled disaster. The Mari Lwyd cloak bug was maddening and I still cannot finish the story because of the Father Bug. What happened to play testing? How were these really awful bugs not caught in beta?

4. And the loot system is completely gone. Now all the gear is at predetermined locations and there is little surprise or satisfaction, unlike Odyssey which had tons of interesting loot and Origins, which also had a nice loot system that Odyssey built on. In Valhalla, all that innovation was just ripped out.

5. And not a lot of the gear in the game is that good and the gear I want to wear is gatelocked for no apparent reason. Like the Native American outfit and weapons. They look cool as hell and I would love to use them in England but I cannot do that. It is restricted to Vinland for no good reason. Why?!

6. And the best gear in the game is not in the game. It is in the Ubisoft Store locked behind microtransactions. See, this did not bother me as I could get really good and cool gear in Odyssey and Origins. But now they keep coming out with new paywall locked sets while, nearly two months after the Yule Update (another buggy ill-conceived mess), there are no new substantial activities in the game and zero replayability. No permanent free content, no expansions (and none due until late March/early April).

7. England is just a large and empty world now. I cannot even do a NewGame+ even though they should have known we would want NG+. How could they not? Both of the previous games had high demand for it and Immortals: Fenyx Rising (a game that did take lessons from Odyssey and is all the better for it) released with NG+. How was this not apparent to the developers?

8. All done with that. Overall, AC Valhalla is a good game but stagnant installment to the franchise that has done nothing but shoot itself in the foot. Instead of another step forward, it is one and a half steps back. Now, I just want to see Ireland. Please be better.

I am happy to note that the Mari Lwyd bug (one of my two big issues) is fixed. Thank you so much for that, Ubisoft.

However, I am sad to see no apparent progress on this terrible bug that renders the game unfinishable. I hope that either a fix or a workaround will be available soon. I cannot get Thor's Hammer until that happens.

@Ubi-Woofer That is not acceptable. I am 182 hours into this game and because of the Father Bug, I cannot finish the game and because of the Mari Lwyd bug, I cannot enjoy any of the outfits that I have collected in that time.

This simply cannot be left until the game update in FEBRUARY. Forget the new armor sets you guys want us to buy. Until these game breaking bugs are fixed, they need to be the priority. We need a hotfix ASAP. PLEASE!

@alexandru27p

26th of November, 2020.

It is now the 2nd of January, 2021 and this game breaking bug is still not fixed.

I literally CANNOT FINISH THE GAME and Ubisoft apparent lack of urgency is really annoying me.

I am 182 hours in. Restarting is not an option. Fix this immediately.

It has been weeks and as mad as I am about the Mari Lwyd cloak, that is the least of my worries now as I literally CANNOT FINISH THE GAME.

My main issues, in addition to Mari Lwyd, at the moment:

I got The Father bug so I cannot finish the game nor can I get Thor's Hammer. Done everything else but this.

I do not have my Vinland gear in England. Maybe not a bug but WTH Ubisoft? I like that outfit.

I cannot get rid of the Mari Lwyd cloak no matter what I do or where I go.

And of course, I am loading in drunk since the Yule Festival started.

I also was not getting any more fabrics for a while but fortunately I had just enough to finish.

I can buy the Mark of Sol bow twice and have two of them in my inventory. Didn't try more.

I WAS really enjoying this game and it could be great but for these bugs. Origins and Odyssey did not have issues like this and the lack of response is frankly UNACCEPTABLE. Yet, we are getting another Armor Set to buy next week, I hear.

@merlinthewise24 Gave this method a shot. It sadly did not work for me. Glad it worked for you though. Seems you just have to get lucky. Ugh.