Not working for me either. Playing on PC. My latest save is synced to the cloud.

I loaded an old save to see what would happen. The festival is a repeat of last year's festival. Cutscenes and quests are the same. The festival contests are the same (archery, drinking, and brawling). The festival store has the same armor as last year. A new hunter bow replaces the dagger and shield from last year. There is one new hair style in four colors, and a matching new beard style. There are seven settlement cosmetic items available, but only two are new. That's it.

@ghostagent14 My pet fox is stuck in a cow pen at the settlement's cattle farm with a couple of cows and burrows. They keep spooking each other. What a fuster cluck that is.

Sadly, its only getting worse, so we might as well make the best of these games while we can. Axios posted a report a few days ago describing how people are leaving Ubisoft in droves. The report stated they had to look for outside help to solve an issue with a game because there was no one left at the company that knew the system. Search for Axios Ubisoft exodus if you want to read the report.

@r4dziu93 All player jomsvikings start at rank 1. You have to take them on river raids to rank them up, just like your personal jomsviking. The more experience they get, the higher they will progress.

The easier way to get higher ranked jomsvikings is to ring the bell on the side of the hall. This should refresh the available jomsvikings with game-generated ones with higher ranks, depending on the hall's upgrade level.

Edit: Disregard the first statement.

Yes, the Yule Festival is working now on PC. It will be available for 21 days. The two search and recover quests worked without any issues. As noted before, the festival shop offers the same armor set as last year, a new bow, a new beard and hairstyle, and two new settlement cosmetic items.

Unfortunately, the other major bug from patch 1.4.1 - the bugged skill tree - is still not fixed.

Hotfix 1.4.1.2 rolled out today on PC. It fixed the Yule Festival issue, but unfortunately it did not fix the bugged skill tree issue.

Can we get an official update on the status of this?

@azullfr @bielik01 Yes, I believe that is the bugged skill node. I pointed it out in my post of Dec. 20 on this thread. In that post I show a similar image with "Intense Rage" skill assigned, but the "Dagger and Sickle" skill upstream from it apparently unassigned. I noticed it shortly after the update and grabbed the screen shot before doing anything else. If you load a save from just before the update, you should be able to see the same thing. Others in this thread have pointed to that skill node as well, and one indicated that it used to be "Spear and Scythe" before the update. It seems that when Ubisoft changed the skill, they introduced the bug. I was able to determine that the stat boosts from the "Spear and Scythe" were still active and locked after the update. Now, If you select the skill, you will get the stat boosts for "Dagger and Sickle" too.

As I stated before, I believe anyone that had that skill node assigned when the update occurred will have this problem. Anyone that did not have it assigned should be okay. I loaded an old save that did not have it assigned, and when I reset all skills it went to power level 1. That tells me that the skill tree on that save will not require an extra skill point to be completed.

@spirantcrayon22 Actually its 60 new skills - 20 in each branch. Lots of places to spend the extra skill point for anyone that used a workaround to get to power level 476.

This issue does appear to be resolved. Yesterday I had power level 475 with one skill still unassigned in the skill tree and no unspent skill points. Today I had power level 474, with one unspent skill point, and the same skills assigned. When I reset all skills, it went to power level one.

After update 1.5.0, there is no indication in the upper right corner of the screen that XP is being received after each transaction with Azar, only silver. Comparing my XP meter on the Skills menu before and after several trades shows an increase in XP, so apparently we are still getting XP, just no indication.

Actually, you can change your jomsviking. I am not sure of the exact mechanism, though. I did it, quite accidentally. You have to have a save that is before you created your original jomsviking.

I loaded an old save to research something, and repeated the exercise of building the barracks and creating a jomsviking. When I returned to my latest save, nothing had changed. I did this one or two more time with no change. Then, at some point, after repeating this process, I realized that my jomsviking in my latest save had changed. I can't say exactly when or why. Maybe someone recruited my jomsviking while I was playing around in the old save. I have wondered what happened to those that had recruited my original jomsviking. Did that jomsviking change, did it disappear, or did it cause some kind of glitch. Maybe he is still out there, waiting to haunt me like a ghost from jomsvikings past.

As I said, this change was accidental. I did not intend to create a new jomsviking. When nothing changed after the first run on the old save, I assumed the jomsviking was locked in and could not be changed.

To be clear, this process still uses the game's random mechanics for creating a jomsviking. You can't pick and choose features. You can only scroll through randomly generated jomsvikings until you find one you like.

@kormac67 I stand corrected. It was my understanding that you could rank up players' jomsvikings, but i used the higher ranked raiders and never had a chance to prove myself wrong.

@drengrforlife It sounds like your Level Scaling is stuck. Check your Options/Gameplay settings. Your Combat Difficulty probably says "Custom", and your Level Scaling probably says "Harder". You can reset the Combat Difficulty to one of the five preset options, or you can adjust the Level Scaling to the desired option. I think this is a glitch in the Mastery Challenge Pack 2. Playing a Mastery Challenge changes the Level Scaling. It is supposed to change back when you exit the Mastery Challenge, but it does not always do that.

@thenorfolkian This can be a great source for Silver, once you figure out how to farm it. I have probably earned over 10,000 Silver, and maybe as much as 20,000. When I am not actively engaged in missions and just waiting for new content to drop, I keep Eivor in Ravensthorpe. I log in once a day to check Reda's shop and contracts, and also to collect tributes for my jomsviking. Most days I get 100 Silver. Sometimes it's 50, and sometimes nothing. Either way, I interact with the quartermaster and make a change to my jomsviking. My theory is that making a change to your jomsviking puts them back in a queue to be made available for recruitment by other players. Each recruitment earns 50 Silver. I think it is capped at 2 recruitments, because I have never earned more than 100 Silver at one time. There does not appear to be a limit to how many times a day you can do this. I have received 100 Silver multiple times in a day on several occasions. This is especially true when one of the weekly challenges requires recruiting other players' jomsvikings.

The trick is to build a jomsviking that appeals to other players. Too many of them are created with the lower level Raven Clan armor because that is all many players have when they build their barracks. You have to upgrade them with better gear. Once you find a setup that earns regular tributes, don't mess with it too much. I keep my jomsviking's helmet and bow hidden, so I can change these items regularly and not effect what other players see.

@kaldire No worries. Glad I could help. That's what this forum is for.

@kaldire The Abilities menu screen shows how many levels each ability is supposed to have. In the screen clip below, each ability has two dots below it, indicating that each ability has two levels. The highlighted ability, Axe Blizzard, has two dots but one is greyed out, indicating that the second Book of Knowledge for that ability has not been found yet. You can also see the two dots in the detail box for Axe Blizzard.

The six abilities found in River Raids only have one dot, indicating that there is only supposed to be one level for those abilities. As you noted, maybe the new River Raid content coming soon will add more levels to those abilities.

You mention having two books for harpoon. Maybe you are confusing Spinning Harpoon and Harpoon Impalement. Harpoon Impalement is a different ability found in the base game. It has two levels.

@kaldire I think you meant to say Percussion Arrow, not Precision Arrow. If so, then those are the six abilities available in the River Raids. There is only one Book of Knowledge for each of these abilities, so you are not missing anything.

@anan_isapta
If you are playing on PC, its a simple fix. Go to the game files and find the "videos" folder. Search this folder for the following three files, and delete them, rename them, or move them to a backup folder.
ANVIL_Logo.webm
PC_AMD_Ryzen.webm
UbisoftLogo.webm

Now find the subfolder for your preferred language. For example, if your chosen language is English, look for the folder "en". There should be three webm files there. Delete them, rename them, or move them. Done.

@xalayer @Ubi-Froggard The quest is "The Last One to Leave". There are 3 steps to opening the bookcase. A note on the table offers hints. First, turn on the radio. Second, turn on the TV. Third, interact with the picture on the wall.

Actually, you can change your jomsviking. I am not sure of the exact mechanism, though. I did it, quite accidentally. You have to have a save that is before you created your original jomsviking.

I loaded an old save to research something, and repeated the exercise of building the barracks and creating a jomsviking. When I returned to my latest save, nothing had changed. I did this one or two more time with no change. Then, at some point, after repeating this process, I realized that my jomsviking in my latest save had changed. I can't say exactly when or why. Maybe someone recruited my jomsviking while I was playing around in the old save. I have wondered what happened to those that had recruited my original jomsviking. Did that jomsviking change, did it disappear, or did it cause some kind of glitch. Maybe he is still out there, waiting to haunt me like a ghost from jomsvikings past.

As I said, this change was accidental. I did not intend to create a new jomsviking. When nothing changed after the first run on the old save, I assumed the jomsviking was locked in and could not be changed.

To be clear, this process still uses the game's random mechanics for creating a jomsviking. You can't pick and choose features. You can only scroll through randomly generated jomsvikings until you find one you like.

@ubi-spacecats I am on PC. As noted in my post, this has happened twice now. The two images were captured days apart.

I don't know if this is related, but I spotted another weird behavior with a Jomsviking and his aetgir. When I entered the Jomsviking Hall in Ravensthorpe, one of the Jomsvikings had dropped his weapon, and it was laying on the floor next to him. See the image below. I believe that is the Fiery Warsong aetgir on the floor.




Edit: Right after posting the message above, I logged into the game, and two more Jomsvikings had dropped weapons on the floor.