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.

'Cause there's still some serious bugs currently in the game that's going to ruin the DLC experience if it isn't fixed. Here's a couple that's going to be really annoying to deal with:

1) Autosave/ Quicksave can randomly stop working.
2) Your Jomsviking's gear randomly resetting, spoiling the experience of any new raids.
3) FPS randomly dropping (usually after fast travel) from 60 to 30 and stays there until I reload a save, then everything goes back to normal.
4) Getting pestered by that annoying pop up message about new content every few minutes.

These are just a few off the top of my head. Devs, if you're reading this, please please address these bugs asap.

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.

I've seen numerous people requesting for this, and I'm all for it as well. I'm surprised it's not in the game by default. There are numerous hoods that would look amazing without the cloak pulling over and hiding the armor and weapons. Combine that with some of the masks available, and you can make yourself look like a proper assassin. I really hope the devs find a way to implement this, or maybe even allow us to transmog a helmet into a hood.

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.

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.

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).

@mojomaster2077

Yep, it's definitely more unstable and crashing often now. In just the first 20 minutes of the dlc, I encountered the FPS bug (which required me to quit to the menu and reload a save to fix it), then the annoying autosave/quicksave bug and finally a crash.

I instantly uninstalled the game. I was already upset that the dlc took a whole day to release for me (due to the season pass bug). No way was I going to play the dlc and put up with all these bugs while the game is still in this sorry state. Maybe when it's properly fixed in a year, I may come back to it.

@veico_cm

I agree with you, the stealth in this game is wonky and just not fun at all. As someone who much prefers action and direct confrontations, Origins and Odyssey's stealth gameplay was so good that I would often choose to sneak into forts on my own accord and stealth kill everyone. It was challenging without it being frustrating, and the experience itself was very rewarding. In Valhalla, the stealth is so broken that I haven't even bothered with it anymore. Enemies can instantly detect you a mile away in a split second, have eyes at the back of their head, see through walls sometimes and even spot me while their sleeping.

Like you said, Valhalla definitely has the worst stealth (and parkour) in the series.

@kormac67

Oh, don't worry about that. I'm a saveaholic, haha. I'm always mashing that F5 button like every 20 seconds and doing a manual save every 10-15 minutes. It's just unfortunate that the quicksave can sometimes bug out and not work, so it's going to be more annoying having to do manual save all the time.

@kormac67

That's a bummer. *sigh*.

I just took a look at the updated issues for the dlc and, oof, it does not look good already. lol. There seems to be numerous bugs that in order to fix, requires loading to a previous save. Now, combine that with the autosave/quicksave bug and I can already tell we're all in for a really wild ride.

I've seen numerous people requesting for this, and I'm all for it as well. I'm surprised it's not in the game by default. There are numerous hoods that would look amazing without the cloak pulling over and hiding the armor and weapons. Combine that with some of the masks available, and you can make yourself look like a proper assassin. I really hope the devs find a way to implement this, or maybe even allow us to transmog a helmet into a hood.

@katzenkrimis71

Yeah, I hear where you're coming from. Seems like buying games nowadays is like gambling - you never know if it's going to be in a playable state or not. The last couple of games I've bought were all buggy messes (example: Cyberpunk 2077), and quite honestly, it's starting to slowly put me off from gaming.

As for AC Valhalla, you're right about it becoming slightly worse with each update. I've noticed that for every problem that's fixed, another takes its place which can be really annoying. And god knows what new bugs awaits us in the DLC. However, I'm still holding out hope that the devs will at least address the more serious and glaring bugs quickly. It's become incredibly depressing every time I launch the game to do dailies and have to deal with all these problems.

'Cause there's still some serious bugs currently in the game that's going to ruin the DLC experience if it isn't fixed. Here's a couple that's going to be really annoying to deal with:

1) Autosave/ Quicksave can randomly stop working.
2) Your Jomsviking's gear randomly resetting, spoiling the experience of any new raids.
3) FPS randomly dropping (usually after fast travel) from 60 to 30 and stays there until I reload a save, then everything goes back to normal.
4) Getting pestered by that annoying pop up message about new content every few minutes.

These are just a few off the top of my head. Devs, if you're reading this, please please address these bugs asap.

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.