(2020) Assassin's Creed Valhalla

Blitz said:

Where is this? I need this so bad, looting is annoying in this title for whatever reason.

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Bottom of the stealth section of the skill map. It supposedly only picks up loot from melee kills, but seems to catch ranged kills sometimes when the body falls into strange places.

Its such a non issue, but it bothers me to no end that the wolf is considered ranged, and the Raven is stealth. I mean I get why Raven is stealth but it makes way more sense as ranged since... You know the whole job of the Raven is to see things from range...

The whole skill map is a bit janky, there's range damage in the melee tree and heavy melee damage in the ranged, assassination damage throughout (the fuck does that even do once you have Advanced Assassination?). The gameplay is a lot better once you're 150-200 points deep because before that you're just wandering around in the fog picking up nonsense nodes.

Barellron said:

The whole skill map is a bit janky, there's range damage in the melee tree and heavy melee damage in the ranged, assassination damage throughout (the fuck does that even do once you have Advanced Assassination?). The gameplay is a lot better once you're 150-200 points deep because before that you're just wandering around in the fog picking up nonsense nodes.

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yeah i don't get the assassination damage nodes AT ALL. either you outright kill weaker enemies or you do half-ish damage to stronger enemies (or outright kill with advanced assassination). on paper it looks like it functions just like how assassinations worked in odyssey, except they don't work like that at all.

to be honest, the more thought i put into it, the more ALL the nodes (minus the new skill nodes) feel like they don't actually do anything. i'm at like 160 or so, and i put the VAST majority of my points into the bear tree but it doesn't actually feel like my damage has really changed at all since the beginning. i'm guessing that has to do with the enemies increasing in armor at the same rate that i'm increasing in melee damage, so it just evens out, but it doesn't feel like i've gotten any stronger outside of getting the skills like the time slow on dodge, and dual wielding 2 handers, etc.

Prime members, there's an ACV Carolingian item pack up on Prime Gaming now. Comes with a spear, light shield, full set of armor (bear), full set of longship cosmetics, horse skin, and pigeon skin for the raven. Kind of cheatery since all the gear starts at mythical tier (4/10 on weapons, hood is 2/10 and rest of armor is 1/10). All the stuff looks really good too.

Utnayan said:

Welp, I know where I am going now since the majority of these skills matter when you out level an area. Straight to Autoloot.

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Autoloot and Grit are really the only two skills that matter. Heavy Dual Wield if you really want to go with that style, but personally I think dual 1H weapons are so good there's really no point. Beyond that I just try to pick up as many stun, raw melee damage, and bear/wolf/raven (depending on what armor set you like) nodes as I can.

There's one thing Heavy DW is worth keeping around for though, and that's "fishing". The actual fishing minigame is complete ass, but there's spots where you can go hip wading with two spears and easily kill every fish in the area. Autoloot is a must-have there too, since it didn't seem like I could loot the fish I killed with melee without it.

console comparisons

Vorph said:

Prime members, there's an ACV Carolingian item pack up on Prime Gaming now. Comes with a spear, light shield, full set of armor (bear), full set of longship cosmetics, horse skin, and pigeon skin for the raven. Kind of cheatery since all the gear starts at mythical tier (4/10 on weapons, hood is 2/10 and rest of armor is 1/10). All the stuff looks really good too.

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Thanks for this, good looking out.

Its wild how even though I ignored 90% of the "mystery" quests in this game, I still somehow ended up doing all the most popular ones like that one. Good placement maybe? hehe

The last one I did, I untied this chick with notes everywhere saying not to. She thanks me, then follows me around the country side talking about my fights etc until I just paid her to leave me tf alone. Like.. how is this... what?..

Bandwagon said:

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Video didn’t even show that if you go topside after there’s a group of people that are escaping a toxic cloud.

It’s pretty retarded that most of the mysteries are just complete nonsense like that. Occasionally would be OK, but it’s like 75%. One near the beginning where a husband can’t get his duck hard to bone his wife like when they were raiders, so they have you smash up his house and then burn it down with them inside.

Good thing about them is they usually don’t make you leave the immediate area, so once you are at them they don’t take more than a minute to complete.

Springbok said:

Rofl Xbox, worse controller, no exclusives and a game that you have marketing for performs up to 15% worse than a less powerful PS5. Dumb fucks

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Pretty sure the console optimization failure has little to do with MS and i still prefer xbox controller to my ps5 controller.

Listen... Entertainment in ye olden times was scarce. You did what you had to do.

no.

Out of all of the awesome things that could be done in this setting with Vikings etc, and you have fetch quests about a farting woman? Gtfo.