Assassin's Creed Odyssey (Greece)

Rombo said:

Started this recently, was afraid about this abstergo bullshit they keep trying to hammer in in all their ac games. So far 5 hours in and ive yet to see the 2 bitches hooking in matrix style at the beginning. Am glad and hoping it stays that way.

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There's SOME "real world" bits but they're relatively short, and not as many as past games. They also serve the story really well unlike most previous games tbh

Rombo said:

Started this recently, was afraid about this abstergo bullshit they keep trying to hammer in in all their ac games. So far 5 hours in and ive yet to see the 2 bitches hooking in matrix style at the beginning. Am glad and hoping it stays that way.

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im at chapter 4 (i think there are around 7 or 8?) and nearly 60 hours /played so far and there has been a single short 20 min abstergo sequence that mostly involved me reading emails. so yeah, they have definitely shrunk down that part of the game massively, it honestly wouldn't even make any sense to someone who comes into Odyssey as their first game anyways.

Still loving the game, mostly just wandering the absolutely massive world. The side quests tend to be repetitive and bland, the main quests though are really good and for a few hours a week its an absolutely fantastic game to play.

One tip, buy the Bighorn Bow from the shop (its like 150 helix credits, you should have that much just free with the game) its bugged and increases your offhand weapon damage massively for some reason. Put a nice sword in that slot (left) and use it most of the time for a nice little damage boost. Its "only" a blue but I upgrade it every 10 levels or so.

This game is more fun than I expected. I bought it on sale on Epic Store, just wanted some relaxing Corona-time on the couch (playing on PC with Steam Link to my TV). It might feel repetitive later, but after 15ish hours I'm having a blast.

pwe said:

This game is more fun than I expected. I bought it on sale on Epic Store, just wanted some relaxing Corona-time on the couch (playing on PC with Steam Link to my TV). It might feel repetitive later, but after 15ish hours I'm having a blast.

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It does get a bit repetitive especially taking down forts, but most of the quest lines are actually pretty engaging.

Gonna have to drop this, i got zero interest in their side quests which keeps me way under lvl to do the main odysseys quests. At lvl 12 yet my main quests are 17+. Kinda shit setup compared to witcher 3 where i could just focus on main storyline.

Ah thanks will try that. At least in witcher the sidequests had some interesting bits. The few i saw in odyssey are all fuckin fetch quests. In a mmo setting i can undersrand the grind but in single player, thats such lazy design.

Rombo said:

Ah thanks will try that. At least in witcher the sidequests had some interesting bits. The few i saw in odyssey are all fuckin fetch quests. In a mmo setting i can undersrand the grind but in single player, thats such lazy design.

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The beginning ones are weak. But there’s some really good ones later on. There’s definitely a group of fetch type of quests as well as some real full on side stories. I’d do what you are doing and do the main story, and then just look up what the best side stories are and do them

I quit this again. I dont like the bounty hunter system at all. Feels really annoying getting hunted after I kill something.

It's the first Assassin Creed game I can't get into for some reason. I think that I'm behind in levels is also putting me off. Saw in a post earlier you could lower difficulty to get around that though.

Aazrael said:

I quit this again. I dont like the bounty hunter system at all. Feels really annoying getting hunted after I kill something.

It's the first Assassin Creed game I can't get into for some reason. I think that I'm behind in levels is also putting me off. Saw in a post earlier you could lower difficulty to get around that though.

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Just pay the bounty in the menu. But I agree it’s kinda stupid in some cases, why do I get a bounty out on me if I assassinate someone and then immediately kill the only other person that saw?

Managed to push some lvls to keep doing the main quest. Now my new problem is : i got zero interest in the main quest lmao. Searching clues across greece to find my mom. What a snooze fest. Thinking of installing shadow of mordor that was mentioned earlier. Kept delaying my first playtrough in favor of this ac.

Rombo said:

Ah thanks will try that. At least in witcher the sidequests had some interesting bits. The few i saw in odyssey are all fuckin fetch quests. In a mmo setting i can undersrand the grind but in single player, thats such lazy design.


Rombo said:

Managed to push some lvls to keep doing the main quest. Now my new problem is : i got zero interest in the main quest lmao. Searching clues across greece to find my mom. What a snooze fest. Thinking of installing shadow of mordor that was mentioned earlier. Kept delaying my first playtrough in favor of this ac.

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To drastically reduce the grind, I used cheat engine to get through it, during the free 5 day promo on steam. You can set up an XP bonus to whatever you want, to keep you caught up with the main quests. The only side quests I did after the first island were hunting the cult and the Huntress quest lines (where you kill 5 (?) beast bosses). I also turned off the material grind, so I could upgrade my shit without spending hours on tedious ship combat collecting wood...

That said, the story was ok, in the end, but I never cared for the lore in the AC games (only played AC 1 & 2, before this one). The stealth gameplay is fun, for a time, and the historical world they built was top notch, so the buffs from cheat engine allowed me to experience that, without getting burnt out from grinding the same thing over and over (yet another fort to take, the same way as the last, etc.).


Direct links to the AC cheat engine table and the main program threads, on their forum: