Funny how in just 3 months, the Helix store is flooded with so many armors, weapons, settlement decors, skins, etc. while we are saddled with the base game that's pretty much barebones. Can't help but get the feeling that a lot of the stuff was stripped out of the game beforehand and made ready to drip feed to us as microtransactions.

Hahahaha, I agree with you and know how you feel. Every time I open my inventory and take a peek at my "Runes" tab, I end up shuddering at the wall of messy unorganized runes. I really hope they improve it down the line once they've sorted most of the gamebreaking bugs.

I think the game only gives you a set amount of fabric to fully max out your upgrades and then it cuts you off completely. I was well aware of this bug early on, so I decided to hold off from fully upgrading my quiver and rations and accumulate as much fabric as I could. Guess what? That didn't work. I needed precisely 33 fabrics to finish upgrading to max and when I finally got 33 fabrics, no more has dropped ever since then, even at high level zones. So now, I got to choose between maxing out my upgrades or doing the shrine for map completion. This was clearly an oversight.

Just a small update.

I went and slotted a rune into my weapon that increases "Heavy damage" and the number went up above the 74 "cap", so it seems to be just the skills in the skill tree that doesn't seem to be working correctly.

At the moment, I think everyone is just experiencing too many other serious game breaking bugs, which is probably why this issue isn't getting as much attention as the others (savegame corruptions, quests breaking, items going missing). The game right now is a complete mess, made even worse by the recent patch. I'm sure the devs are aware of this bug, but it may take them awhile to get this fixed seeing as they've got they're hands full atm. My suggestion is to put this game aside for the time being until a stable patch is released. Hopefully, this bug will be addressed among the other fixes.

Not sure if this is a bug or intended, but when I check my character stats, the Light Damage and Heavy Damage seems to be capped at 74 for me. It doesn't matter how many skill nodes I choose to upgrade it, the number never goes past that. When I reset my skill tree, the number goes back to 50 (default), but it caps out at 74 again.

Not sure if this is just a display bug or not, but my light and heavy attacks seem to be hitting about the same, which shouldn't be right. Anyone having the same problem? Or am I just reading it wrong?

This armor duplication bug happens whenever you use the tattoo artist it seems. I got an extra huntsman armor right after I used that feature. I immediately reloaded a previous save that was a minute ago and it was no longer in my inventory. So until they fix this bug, I would advice against going to the tattoo artist (or at least make a save before doing so).

Is this normal? I remember in my first Orlog game, I could make a bet (similar to the drinking game) and I won. Since then, I can no longer bet on any other Orlog game in any of the cities. Anyone having the same issues?

Yeah, I've never liked these kind of silly mini game challenges tbh, especially when I have to keep redoing them over and over again throughout the game. Didn't know this game had so many of these pointless activities considering Origins and Odyssey didn't have them. I much prefer games with more serious and meaningful tasks, such as in Witcher 3 where you actually did proper side quests and contracts. It was more immersive and made much more sense.

I saw some videos of Immortals Fenyx Rising, and that game seems to be all about doing these kind of "mini game challenges" as well, which is a major turn off for me.

Often times, when I'm trying to hit an enemy or break open a barrel in front of me, my character will start swinging wildly at something else that's behind him for no reason. It's incredibly annoying. I know there's a lock on feature for enemies, but I hate using that for mouse/keyboard. I've played through the entire AC Odyssey and never had this problem at all, and never once needed to use the lock on. Everything was so fluid in that game. In this game, however, I'm constantly having to fight with the controls (whether it's to do with the terrible parkour system or combat). Please just make my character attack what's IN FRONT of me and not all over the place.

Anyone else having the same problem?

I would love to have this too.

Merchants will restock their runes selection each time you level up, so make sure you check in on them often. I've found it to be the best and most consistent way of getting them. If you're trying to find a particular rune, here's a little trick you can do - the moment you level up, make a save in front of a merchant before browsing their wares. If you don't like the selection, reload the save and there'll be new rune selections. You can keep doing this until you find something you like.

@maxrebo1234

If all of your jomsviking dies during a raid, then no, you will not be able to open those red doors and large chests. You'll need to abandon the raid and start over. Any of your jomsviking that didn't make it will become unavailable for awhile (not sure how long). You'll then need to hire new ones for a new raid.

Personally, I'm not a fan of this system. I'm sure we all know how annoying and tedious it can be to constantly babysit npcs. If I could change the mechanics, I'd make it so that any jomsviking that goes down can be revived at any time but they are only revived with 20% health, and if you want them to be in tip-top fighting condition, that's when you use your rations on them. That would make it much more manageable and less frustrating imo.

If you're trying to go for a crit build but feel the Thegn armor set isn't to your liking, you can always get your crit stats up from other gear items as well. You can try using Suttungr's claw (Increase Critical Damage after each hit) and Viper bow (Increase Critical Chance after each hit). It'll achieve the same result. You don't necessarily need to use Thegn armor set to get your crit stats that high anyway because all stats have some sort of hidden soft cap (which most people don't realize).

At the end of the day, just use whatever armor that you like and use runes and perks to cover the areas that you are lacking. Hope that helps.

Both are good armor sets, but it really depends on your playstyle. I've been using the Thegn armor because it works really well with my weapon choice (Bearded axe in main hand and dagger in offhand). Enemies rarely get knocked down due to me often using the dagger's special attack to keep them stunlocked, so I get to capitalize on the armor's buffs most of the time.

Also, I'm already getting a speed bonus from having a diamond rune (Chained Swiftness Rune) slotted in another gear, so the Thegn armor is the best choice for me.

@jewlz2814 Do you by chance have v-sync or any frame limiter enabled? Ever since patch 1.2.0.1, I started crashing often too until I disabled those. Not sure why this happens, but it seems to work for me. Might want to give it a try as well.

Also, might want to try switching to Fullscreen mode if you haven't. Not sure if it's a coincidence or not, but I've crashed once before switching to borderless window.

I was having the same issues after the update until I tried 2 things. Ever since then, I've been playing for hours (even finishing raids) and not a single crash. Not sure which of the 2 did it, but it's simple and you're welcome to try.

1) Disable V-sync (if you have it enabled)

2) For the second option, I randomly found this on Google and decided to give it a try. Go to your Windows Date and Time and sync your time in the internet option. Apparently, some people were having crashes with this game due to it. Not sure why this would work, but I did it anyway.

Hope it works for you.

@rhadamentx
Yeah, I noticed this too. All the greatswords seem to hit for around the same damage as one-handers, only slower. And this is at max level with weapons that are fully upgraded as well. It's really weird. I still like using the greatsword/shield combo since it looks cool, but I seem to kill stuff much much slower than a hammer or a dagger. Not sure if there's some wrong damage calculations or not, 'cause a 2-hander should be hitting things much harder.

@tchester1980
For me, I'm able to load into the game and play for awhile, but it will randomly crash after some time. Also using patch 1.2.0.1. Never had this issue before 1.2.0.

@yesin069
I'm experiencing the same thing as you too. My game still randomly crashes every 10-15 mins even after the latest patch. Doesn't matter whether I'm in the settlement or roaming about. Before the Ostara event, never got a single crash in almost 200 hours. Now, it's happening constantly and making it unplayable. *sigh*