90 euros for this slap in the face. Ubisoft never ceases to amaze. It's the first and last time I preorder a game on Ubi's store (and to be clear, it's not just about the silent removing of achievements).

@Ubi-Baron
I really do hope you'll inform your management of the frustration of the PC's userbase. This is not the way to treat your customers.

@ubi-keo

Sorry but that excuse doesn't fly.

Nobody -- and I mean nobody -- at Ubisoft ever tried to fast travel even once to Ireland, which is the latest DLC to date? I know internal and external testing is paid cheap these days, but a high budget game like Valhalla has had one of the poorest tech support in recent years.

It's not just the compression but the whole audio mix which is annoyingly monophonic. Valhalla lacks spatialization, everything sounds centered and muffled, even with dynamic range set on Midnight. Typical examples are rivers and cascades, which are barely audible. If this game was a movie projected in a theater, people would immediately ask for a refund.

I'm using Dolby Atmos for Headphones, which sounds wonderful in The Division 1 & 2. Even Origins and Odyssey have a decent surround mix. Valhalla is either bugged, or very poorly authored. The sound engineers have done a terrible job and should take this issue seriously.

One thing is certain, this game could have never been Atmos certified. Even Origins does actually sound much better.

@doopi1

Funny that they mention Windows 7 (which is not even supported by Valhalla). First class tech support there.

I finished the festival (which is quite short) by litterally quick-saving every 30 seconds.

With that latest update, Ravensthorpe has become Crashensthorpe. I also did a few errands for Reyda without any stability issue, but every time I came back to the settlement, crashes systematically occured at one time or another, sometimes 10 seconds after entering the village.

The framerate is also very poor with all those added decorations. A hotfix is required ASAP.

Frankly, the technical state of the game doesn't bode well for the first DLC.

Spatialization as a whole is very poor.

Rivers and waterfalls barely make any sound, and most SFX seem to be mono and/or front-centered.

Just finished the game 100% on PC and never met another player's corpse in 200 hours of playtime.

It's safe to assume this online feature has NOT been implemented. As a matter of fact, the challenge global stat is stuck at 0% on Ubi Connect:
https://www.exophase.com/challenge/assassins-creed-valhalla-uplay/6532-hall-of-the-slain/

I'm ashamed to admit I finished the game 100% with the crippled audio, and I doubt I'll come back to it any time soon.

That's probably what Ubisoft silently expects from all players in the long term -- to stop complaining and get done with it.

I'm using a Ryzen so I'm not affected, but this kind of severe regression should have been hotfixed ages ago.

Same bug with the carvings that can't be interacted with.

Question: at which moment of the festival am I supposed to get a River Raid requirement? Because I didn't get any.

I've completed three Reyda quests and made sure to kill all enemies (a cumulated dozen) with headshots, while being in open conflict.

Contribution: 0
(zero, zilch, nada)

@ubi-borealis

I'm still encountering the whistle/torch bug which I described in my opening post.

If I assign the whistle function to DPad Down (instead of the default Quick Wheel Menu), then Eivor keeps pulling a torch (?????) every time she whistles. No need to say that it totally kills furtiveness.

Patch 1.2.2:

@ubi-keo

Sorry but that excuse doesn't fly.

Nobody -- and I mean nobody -- at Ubisoft ever tried to fast travel even once to Ireland, which is the latest DLC to date? I know internal and external testing is paid cheap these days, but a high budget game like Valhalla has had one of the poorest tech support in recent years.

Answering my own question:

The bug is not fixed in 1.3.0. And the next DLC is just around the corner.
Ubisoft tech support can't get any lower than that.

@ubi-borealis

I don't see any mention of the broken custom controls in 1.3.0 release notes. Are they fixed? I don't want to download 30 GB for nothing.

Resetting the controller scheme was the first thing I did after noticing that bug. Unfortunately it didn't help.

Just to clarify my reply to @Black_Widow9 after the megathread merge:

The default controller scheme does work, but resetting and reconfiguring the buttons from scratch doesn't resolve the bug.

Resetting the controller scheme was the first thing I did after noticing that bug. Unfortunately it didn't help.

Someone suggested to change your game language to English to load your previous save files.

https://discussions.ubisoft.com/topic/99133/load-bug-after-update-1-2-2-how-to-fix-it-yourself?lang=en-US

Someone suggested to change your game language to English to load your previous save files.

https://discussions.ubisoft.com/topic/99133/load-bug-after-update-1-2-2-how-to-fix-it-yourself?lang=en-US