Why do you care? Seriously why does anyone care about being forced to play a gender. I chose male Eivor because I could, but I'd rather not have a choice and play it how the devs want it.

I don't suddenly experience gender dysmorphia and feel unrepresented if I play as a female.

Being bothered about a characters gender is a bit pathetic, left or right wing.

Could have got the voice acting right though.

Think I'll go play Zero Dawn and cry about being forced to be a female...

I've yet to come across a single player made Jomsviking over level 1.

I feel it would be a much better experience if you could create a crew of your own Jomsvikings and outfit them all to your choice/standards with raid supplies, and level them up yourself using the river raid supplies.
It would make the dlc much more replayable as I have no reason to play it now I've completed all three locations and bought everything.

It would also be cool to have use of more characters with their side missions like Bjorn. I get it's free dlc, but it just seems lacking. I would love to love it more.

First things first.
1.Bugs happen in games, especially such large games, all you can ask for from developers faced with making such large games and keeping to pressure from producers is that they try to fix them. Which the team is doing.

2.Microtransactions are clearly here to stay, if someone wants to pay to get silver/money/supplies that's on them. I personally bought the beserker pack, draugr ship and valkyrie settlement. Because I wanted it sooner rather than later.

Now to the nitty gritty.
This game is either far too hard at specific points (that's the point, nothing wrong there) or far too easy, there's no in between. (Drengr difficulty) I was really hoping that after fighting the first old warrior in Norway it would be a constant uphill slug.

Secondly, I don't mind the pricing of the gear for those who want it sooner rather than later. But so far the whole lot costs over £160! That's crazy when you consider the fact that you can only feasibly earn 1 piece a week from Reda. By the time you get it all as it stands, the game will become irrelevant as I assume the next AC cimes out next year and it will literally take a few years to get them...

My only two issues with this game, though they are fairly large ones

I mean I did, but i think I'd rather go off experts.
Also the find you talk about. It's a mass grave, they think could be part of the great heathen army, but they have no idea. Some historians have speculated it was a beggining of a settlement, looted by anglo saxons.
There are so many theories we don't know and may never know the answers, so I'd rather go with the majority of expert opinion than the populist few. Until it can be definitively proven wrong, or the majority change their view.

Regardless, it doesn't change my opinion that people shouldn't whinge about video game genders. Who cares if you can't relate because they're a man or a woman, you can't relate to a badass hero of a video game anyway whilst you're sat at your computer/console playing anyway. And playing the historical accuracy card for a video game, or any type of non documentary media, is just dumb.

The explosive vase worked a treat for me.

My favourite part of all these bugs is that no one can even be bothered to acknowledge this.

What play test size do they have that stuff like this gets missed?

The mystery where I got the explosive vase from, the guy isn't even there? So I can't complete that one either.

I'm not sure if this is a bug or intended release as I haven't know big publishers to use this method. But several of my active combat runes as well as other stuff like hoard maps have WIP markers?

Not fussed but was a bit suprised?

Also one of the weapon runes from the shop had this typo. I didn't buy it as furry's aren't my thing.

Hey, couldn't see anything here but to throw a spanner in the works, if I go to the crossroads east of thieves warren i have an option to "focus" and it focuses on a point in the air. Weird as hell and seems to be on the lines that some people have drawn.

I've yet to come across a single player made Jomsviking over level 1.

I feel it would be a much better experience if you could create a crew of your own Jomsvikings and outfit them all to your choice/standards with raid supplies, and level them up yourself using the river raid supplies.
It would make the dlc much more replayable as I have no reason to play it now I've completed all three locations and bought everything.

It would also be cool to have use of more characters with their side missions like Bjorn. I get it's free dlc, but it just seems lacking. I would love to love it more.

I mean I did, but i think I'd rather go off experts.
Also the find you talk about. It's a mass grave, they think could be part of the great heathen army, but they have no idea. Some historians have speculated it was a beggining of a settlement, looted by anglo saxons.
There are so many theories we don't know and may never know the answers, so I'd rather go with the majority of expert opinion than the populist few. Until it can be definitively proven wrong, or the majority change their view.

Regardless, it doesn't change my opinion that people shouldn't whinge about video game genders. Who cares if you can't relate because they're a man or a woman, you can't relate to a badass hero of a video game anyway whilst you're sat at your computer/console playing anyway. And playing the historical accuracy card for a video game, or any type of non documentary media, is just dumb.

For the record though, almost unanimously the experts on "viking" history agree that their society would allow women all the freedoms of males but they would be extremely unlikely to be warriors, think Randvi but she owns her own land. Making female remains warriors exception to the rule or buried like they were for different reasons.
This has no bearing on a video game though.

Why do you care? Seriously why does anyone care about being forced to play a gender. I chose male Eivor because I could, but I'd rather not have a choice and play it how the devs want it.

I don't suddenly experience gender dysmorphia and feel unrepresented if I play as a female.

Being bothered about a characters gender is a bit pathetic, left or right wing.

Could have got the voice acting right though.

Think I'll go play Zero Dawn and cry about being forced to be a female...

@max18400 Yeah, I was thinking about it after I made the post, my argument was that very few, and only the richest of society had armour etc and pretty much all decorated swords were just that, decorations, not usable. But like you said, they DID exist. Chainmail was extremely uncommon because of the expense of making it, but again it did exist. Same with shields. So from that idea, throw it in, but it still won't accurately portray the viking era because you won't have it in the context or situation it wa used in.

So for someone to say they want realistic weapons and armour, but then want to step away from realism to be able to use rare or fancy items where they wouldn't be used. It kind of doesn't make sense to me is all.

@duskdragon56496

TLDR: History in reality is much more "boring" than the myths and stories that retell it.

Because people would say it's boring?
Can you imagine period accurate weapons an armour? Axes would be significantly smaller bladed, with few if any adornments, the same with clothing and armours.

As with Ragnar Lothbrook and other people, like any popular media they've placed myth as fact. Not to say they didn't exist, but if you look at the sagas, poems and everything else. Only some of it is confirmed from seperate sources. Ragnar existed, but he probably never came across King Aella, there's so little hard evidence forhthis area of history, especially as stories were mixed, and many written a good few hundred years after the time.

So honestly, they did about as well as anyone, and added to make it an entertaining game, because who wants 10 variations of seax's, wood chopping axes and swords. People (including me who loves history with a significant passion) want nice looking shields, weapons, armour and an entertaining story that doesn't completely butcher history and mythology.
I see nothing wrong with using popular myths and extrapolations in entertainment. Just not documentaries.

I'm not sure if this is a bug or intended release as I haven't know big publishers to use this method. But several of my active combat runes as well as other stuff like hoard maps have WIP markers?

Not fussed but was a bit suprised?

Also one of the weapon runes from the shop had this typo. I didn't buy it as furry's aren't my thing.

It's a game, with precursor races and the idea that there's technology causing covid 19 and proctecting us from sunspots.
It's not the history channel.
I'd be grateful they at least made a decent attempt at getting Norse Mythology right rather than "marvel"ing it like everyone else wants to do.

More creatures, mythology? Powers?
You're playing the wrong series bud. Try again.