Didn't want to disturb this guy, he was just admiring the view

My musical ears suffer a lot from this Ubi production. Music is muffled, sounds are just plain badly compressed, nature sounds are terrible as if I was listening through the pillow. Dialogues: Eivor's voice is clear and sounds good (by the way, male Eivor voice actor is my second fav now after the guy that voiced Bayek, so believable, natural and perfectly fitting character) but whoever he speaks too sounds as if they were far away, muffled, like heard through the wall in next room. I remember playing Origins (after I sorted out echoed/bugged sounds, that is...) and whenever I was in a tomb, the atmosphere of mystery was right there with discrete sounds, while in battle the music was at the right spot with its volume, intensity and rhythm, while travelling through cities or desert or oasis I could immediately immerse myself in the environment due to perfectly fitting and well mixed music. In Valhalla it doesn't matter where I am, I couldn't care less, sounds just happen every once in a while, distracting a bit. The music is barely heard, doesn't really distinct from surroundings, honestly I cannot repeat any melody from game unless I turn on soundtrack on its own. Maybe it's composer (though Sarah Schachner did amazing job on Origins) but mostly it's the terrible quality.
Why such big studio doesn't care about quality of whole product is beyond me. I personally would be ashamed to release thing that is so unfinished and full of bugs that could be easily avoided if there was quality testing made by, well, qualified people.

So, uhm... Any info on this? What's the point of bringing back good old mechanics of blending when I cannot blend because guards instadetect me cause I move like injured snail? Also, not sure if this has anything to do with walking speed when in disguise, but whenever I even look at guard, they just attack me. I don't do anything, just stand with random people, don't do any sudden move and they still attack me. This whole blending mechanics is really badly implemented.
Btw, I play on K&M, don't have controller and I agree with what others said here - it's not our hardware issue, it's game issue.
Kindly provide update and better, fix for this.
_{God I so wish I waited with my purchase -_- I'm not even interested in playing anymore because the immersion and experience are broken already.}

So Zealots... I met first one in England, power lvl 90, I was lvl 35 or something. Thought - what the heck, why not, let's try. Managed to get him to half HP easily and not even using healing, lost about 20% of my HP and suddenly - I was doing no damage, I was not hitting him despite animation and sound of hitting him present, my axes just went straight through him as if he was made of thin air. What the...? Is it intended? But what if I actually am able to beat that guy of higher power level? Game says "lol nope, wait till you level up"? I can't record video but that's really, really weird. It's not like Dark Souls punishing me for being idiot taking 3 black knights at the time, I get that, it's not the way you fight there but Valhalla punishing me for being idiot to even play it. I easily took down Phylakes in Origins being way higher level than me (I was hunting them because wanted to get that black armor fast lmao) and here it's just... nope *disappointed face* Thoughts?

@ubiexcellent Thnx for reply. Yeah it is frustrating, appreciate if the team fixes it soon so that doesn't reappear, I mean I got over it already (though I'm still mad at such big studio releasing game with such bugs...) but this may happen to others if you don't fix it.
I got helix credits - no idea why though, they just appeared with in game notification that I received 300 credits - so I went to store to check stuff and when exited store, my gear was gone (like, Eivor was naked LOL). Anyways, I never bought helix credits so no idea why they suddenly appeared also I haven't checked if I still have them (scared to lose gear again...).
Workaround: loading earlier save BUT this made me lose a lot of progress

So, are you serious Ubi? Are you really releasing unplayable *** for money? Wow, nice move. Anyways, suddenly, out of nothing, my Berserker's gear disappeared while in England (in my settlement). [censored]?? I had it maxed out! I reloaded game and the gear came back... RESET TO BASIC STATS so I lost all my mats I used to upgrade it. ARE YOU SERIOUS???????????? Chat not working, support - no way to send anything "because covid hysteria" well, you just lost a customer. And give my money back.

This just happened to me too. I was browsing around the store and clicked on a couple things including the season pass screen. Escaped from store to return to game. Eivor was naked and all the berserker gear was gone! I freaked out and exited. The game had to finish a download, but when it came back up, the berserker gear was in my inventory with base stats. Lost all the upgrades and progression on all of them. I have a manual save that still has them, so it's not a total loss, but I rather not lose the progression. Is there a fix on this yet?

Yeah, now I freak out and don't browse the store I lost only some progress as I already said - loaded previous manual save and got back my gear maxed out - and also so far it hasn't happened again BUT seeing how Ubi don't give a ***, I keep an eye on my saves (meaning saving often af) in case this thing repeats. Like, literally no one was able to acknowledge existence of this bug. Quoting @UbiExcellent "I'd be happy to share any other details with the appropriate teams, so we can continue to investigate a cause and look into a fix." suuuuuuuuuuure thing *rolls eyes*

There have been reports of VRAM leakages severely impacting the game's performance after a while of playing a single session. The memory problem can happen randomly, several things I noticed which have a chance to impact it are: opening the uplay overlay, fast traveling, moving to a lot of different areas in a single session (obviously tied with fast traveling, the game loads many different assets and simply forgets to clean up the Vram). This problem has been occurring to both me (1060 3GB VRAM) and my brother (1060 6GB VRAM). Difference is that he can play longer without the stutters and fps drops becoming increasingly worse.

This issue has NOT been fixed since day one, tons of people on pc reporting this memory problem and still nothing. I posted extensive stuff about this on customer support and they told me the usual stuff to update drivers etc.

Another bug also newly introduced with the update: You now load into a session in a drunk state, for a couple of minutes, each and every load of my game is a dizzying mess now.

Dammit I thought it was only me loading in drunk state due to all these drinking contests lol Jokes aside, Ubi should get their asses together and fix this thing, my game is randomly closing itself after few hours of normal gameplay, with synchronizing saves etc so it is not crash, game just fkn shuts down.
You know Ubi, if you gave this game for free fine, bugs are normal because who cares, but you take money and not small money so get your job done and do this soon because people are [censored] off. You screwed, you gotta fix this. This silence on forum and this bs "we are taking look into it" it's just that, bs.

@ubiexcellent

I got helix actually, checked twice or three times even, sry for misinfo but it was caused by game displaying helix as present and then with next loading game - 0 and then again 300 until I finally spent it just to get rid of this. Aaaaaaaanyways berserker gear doesn't bother me since I no longer use it (and it never disappeared again, magic I guess) but there are still other bugs and I suppose players would like to see the team to start fixing them instead of chanting "we are looking into this".
Like - every rune I buy or get from quest is doubled or tripled but cannot be slotted in gear (tho can be sold but I don't do it, I don't trust this game and studio anymore and wouldn't like to have the game selling the proper runes instead of copies, who knows what student made the code -_-).
Like - FPS drops.
Like - terribly compressed audio and music playing in infinite loops at times... or not playing at all.
Like - FISHING STILL BUGGED so I cannot complete all mysteries for several areas since they involve fishing.
Like - controlling character being down right unfun when I command to climb up straight but for some magical reason Eivor goes right and drops off the wall.
Like - NPCs bugged out so mystery cannot be completed, NPCs disappearing randomly, NPCs not following Eivor when they should etc, etc, etc, etc,
etc, etc, etc.....................................................................
Are you serious? Come on, start paying us to play your game because for now Ubi takes money for not even half finished product.

@ubiexcellent

I got helix actually, checked twice or three times even, sry for misinfo but it was caused by game displaying helix as present and then with next loading game - 0 and then again 300 until I finally spent it just to get rid of this. Aaaaaaaanyways berserker gear doesn't bother me since I no longer use it (and it never disappeared again, magic I guess) but there are still other bugs and I suppose players would like to see the team to start fixing them instead of chanting "we are looking into this".
Like - every rune I buy or get from quest is doubled or tripled but cannot be slotted in gear (tho can be sold but I don't do it, I don't trust this game and studio anymore and wouldn't like to have the game selling the proper runes instead of copies, who knows what student made the code -_-).
Like - FPS drops.
Like - terribly compressed audio and music playing in infinite loops at times... or not playing at all.
Like - FISHING STILL BUGGED so I cannot complete all mysteries for several areas since they involve fishing.
Like - controlling character being down right unfun when I command to climb up straight but for some magical reason Eivor goes right and drops off the wall.
Like - NPCs bugged out so mystery cannot be completed, NPCs disappearing randomly, NPCs not following Eivor when they should etc, etc, etc, etc,
etc, etc, etc.....................................................................
Are you serious? Come on, start paying us to play your game because for now Ubi takes money for not even half finished product.

There have been reports of VRAM leakages severely impacting the game's performance after a while of playing a single session. The memory problem can happen randomly, several things I noticed which have a chance to impact it are: opening the uplay overlay, fast traveling, moving to a lot of different areas in a single session (obviously tied with fast traveling, the game loads many different assets and simply forgets to clean up the Vram). This problem has been occurring to both me (1060 3GB VRAM) and my brother (1060 6GB VRAM). Difference is that he can play longer without the stutters and fps drops becoming increasingly worse.

This issue has NOT been fixed since day one, tons of people on pc reporting this memory problem and still nothing. I posted extensive stuff about this on customer support and they told me the usual stuff to update drivers etc.

Another bug also newly introduced with the update: You now load into a session in a drunk state, for a couple of minutes, each and every load of my game is a dizzying mess now.

Dammit I thought it was only me loading in drunk state due to all these drinking contests lol Jokes aside, Ubi should get their asses together and fix this thing, my game is randomly closing itself after few hours of normal gameplay, with synchronizing saves etc so it is not crash, game just fkn shuts down.
You know Ubi, if you gave this game for free fine, bugs are normal because who cares, but you take money and not small money so get your job done and do this soon because people are [censored] off. You screwed, you gotta fix this. This silence on forum and this bs "we are taking look into it" it's just that, bs.

Update (which is even more interesting):
whenever I try to fish and give up (of course), special abilities stop working and I need to restart the game to make them working again (keybinds default because see above about extra mouse buttons). So there MAY be coincidence but this sadly needs someone to do their job and check. Screenshot shows greyed out abilities in combat despite 2 full adrenaline bars.

SERIOUSLY?? Glad I found this thread instead of creating my own but it's just bs that there is no update nor anything was in patch notes re. this fishing crap and last post is Dec 2. ARE YOU BEING SERIOUS UBI?
On to the BUG. So I have my fishing line selected and OF COURSE I cannot fish. Instead of aiming the line Eivor attacks and of course I cannot cast a line. I play on PC, have custom keys setup - my RMB is for left hand actions and I have bow for that case set up under one of left thumb buttons (game says "mouse button 4"). Is there anyone at Ubi able to take care of this? Not to mention that your game doesn't recognize additional buttons on mouse (I have overall 6 side buttons and I can use only 3, that's pathetic in today technology) - I have set up 4 lower side buttons as Num 0-3 (mouse software, needed for another game that recognizes them just fine as simply Numpad buttons) and OF COURSE AC doesn't recognize Num 1-3 which I would gladly bind for special abilities but no, we have XXI century, mice with extra buttons and devs not able to acknowledge this. Gratz *sarcastic clap*

For the love of all gods of all religions, fix the damn game finally, it's absolutely outrageous to [censored] on players like that.

Yo Ubi, any info on this? [censored] is wrong with combat anyways? After last patch parry broken totally, Zealots are blocking WITH THEIR BACKS - I roll dodge behind the guy, hit his back and he magically blocks it, not receiving damage and Eivor gets stunned LMAO Hit boxes are totally screwed. Good job combat designers, good job. What the hell is wrong with devs these days?? Is it so hard to TEST stuff before release? Is it so hard to fix things? This forum had gazillion things mentioned you SHOULD fix asap because, well, ya know, money involved...
Really, when game cheats to win with players there is something fundamentally wrong with its creators.
Kindly ACKNOWLEDGE this bug report. Game revolving around combat with this combat being broken is straight a refund request.

This just happened to me too. I was browsing around the store and clicked on a couple things including the season pass screen. Escaped from store to return to game. Eivor was naked and all the berserker gear was gone! I freaked out and exited. The game had to finish a download, but when it came back up, the berserker gear was in my inventory with base stats. Lost all the upgrades and progression on all of them. I have a manual save that still has them, so it's not a total loss, but I rather not lose the progression. Is there a fix on this yet?

Yeah, now I freak out and don't browse the store I lost only some progress as I already said - loaded previous manual save and got back my gear maxed out - and also so far it hasn't happened again BUT seeing how Ubi don't give a ***, I keep an eye on my saves (meaning saving often af) in case this thing repeats. Like, literally no one was able to acknowledge existence of this bug. Quoting @UbiExcellent "I'd be happy to share any other details with the appropriate teams, so we can continue to investigate a cause and look into a fix." suuuuuuuuuuure thing *rolls eyes*

Well, weird. I have actually better performance after this update O_O and my computer is not fancy (i3 8100, GTX 1050 Ti, 8 GB RAM). I haven't updated Nvidia driver since... August as the one from September messed up Odyssey that I was playing at that time so I rolled back and forgot to update ever since ^_^

After latest patch whenever I parry, Eivor enters nearly 1 second long zero-movement-no-reaction state which defeats the purpose of parry. I cannot counterattack when target is still off balance, no reaction to attack button nor movement buttons, only after around second when my target has nearly fully recovered Eivor makes parry move again (I dual wield 1H axes) for unknown reason and then attack normally. Sorry, can't record this
Oh boy, I guess there is so much to fix in this game we will likely wait till DLC for the base to work properly. Like blend mechanics, hello, snail slow movement in cloak... @_@

Didn't want to disturb this guy, he was just admiring the view

Using headphones helps a bit BUT COME ON UBI! O_O