I’m still on starter island, but I have to commend the voice actor for Kassandra. It might be my favorite voice acting of any character in any game. It usually isn’t something that I notice, but it is helping draw me right into the world.
Dionisus1122 there was a great video a few days up we’ve been watching on the voice actors (a live interview). Scroll up a bit I am terrible at linking. She is pretty damn good.
Two really dumb questions: How on earth do I “synchronize” to get fast travel locations?
And when do you get to upgrade your ship?
btw anyone actually working oriculum? That just seems like an attempt to get a purchase money wise by Ubisoft. I could be wrong though.
You climb to the really high points marked on the map with eagles and ‘Press Y to Synchronise.’
Alistair you are a saint! Off to kill some more Athenians! (thx!)
I’m enjoying the hell out of this. It’s pretty much everything I was hoping for, and more. Playing as Kassandra.
Once I hit level 8, the difficulty did seem to dip a bit, but maybe that’s because I’d been hanging out in higher-level areas for a while prior to arriving in Megaros.
I just noticed, after having to reload a save for the first time in quite a while (that’s another thing I love: the save system is generous but I almost never need to think about reloading), that recruited ship lieutenants can offer different bonuses to your ship if you reload and recruit them again. When I reloaded this time (some sort of super wolf had one-shotted me) and had to re-recruit Pedasos, he now offers a completely different bonus to the ship.
I am finding that just hitting a few side quests but focusing on main is the most fun. But gear and skills do matter.
There is a repeat and rinse in this game that slightly annoys me.
I realize you very well may not be the guy that made this, so it’s not directed at you, but how do you go through all this work and type “sizet” in one of the fields, without spell checking? And what’s up with C? Did GTA V for the PC get delayed a few times? I suppose it must, but how about a more obscure choice to make your point with, right? And why is A in green, B in yellow, and C and D in blue? That’s driving me crazy.
This is me right now, so I took a few days off to play Pathfinder. I’ll dive back in next week though for sure, as I’m nearly done with that mighty RPG.
I did not create it, but for the last part, I’m pretty comfortable that the joke is he answered “War” (which is of course the actual correct answer), but that was wrong in favor of Assassin’s Creed gameplay (which was the “right” answer).
“Sizet” equally triggered me, so yeah, I have no idea how on that one.
Hey if I mentioned this before please forgive. Rome 2 campaign “Wrath of Sparta” is the same time period. What makes that doc unique is that it has historical explanations for almost every settlement. It isn’t super exciting gameplay wise but… I love what they tried to do there.
One of the things I love the most is how natural and easy it is to play, even when you don’t have a firm understanding of how things work. The game doesn’t punish you (or me, at any rate) for ignorance. It also doesn’t insult you by constantly holding your hand and instructing you about stuff like how to burn war supplies. I guess that might have been an option I declined early on. And learning by trial and error is rewarding and fun.
Just now I was riding through a town when coming the other way was another rider on a horse. She said something to me as she passed that I didn’t quite catch, and I noticed a white helmet icon above her head. The game then announced that a new mercenary had been discovered, and it took me a second to realize that it as talking about her. I immediately turned around and took off after her. I chased her on horseback quite a ways, into areas I’d never visited before. Finally she stopped somewhere and got off, but I held back from engaging her when I discovered her level. I’m still level 10.
You win this time, Hermea the Frenzied. We’ll be seeing each other again eventually, though.
Oh, something odd happened earlier. I took a quest to defend a fisherwoman from Spartans (or Athenians, I can’t remember), and when I dispatched the last dude and went back to her, suddenly the quest-giver went red and began attacking me, saying something about a bounty. Then another dude showed up out of nowhere, also talking about a bounty, and they kicked my ass. When I reloaded and took the quest again, this did not happen after and she behaved normally while I handed the quest in. Do bounty hunters sometimes show up randomly, and then spread their bounty huntingness through some sort of morphogenic field? I swear I did nothing directly to aggro the quest-giving fisherwoman.
I think I found a bugged quest (A Pirate’s Life quest). After killing a bunch of dudes and freeing someone from a cage, the prompts told me I would have to escort him to safety. He was passed out, so I picked him up and then realized that there was nowhere to escort him to, as we were on a tiny island and no matter where I dropped him, he remained passed out. And I did not have my ship with me, having swam to the little island in the first place.
Then I spotted a small boat just offshore. I grabbed it rowed it over to the dude, and with a lot of experimentation finally managed to get the poor guy onto the boat, with me navigating. It didn’t really feel like the “correct” thing to be doing here, but it seemed to be the best and only option under the circumstances. The quest marker was pointing to where we already were, and I figured that maybe I was supposed to revive him on a different shore, or something.
Well, we got halfway to a different island (where I’d originally picked up the quest) when it became apparent that our little boat wouldn’t survive the journey. Fearing it would break up and drown the passed out guy, I steered in a different direction to a closer shore, and we actually made it. But the guy still wouldn’t wake up when I dropped him on the beach. So I picked him up and as I proceeded to try to load him back onto the tiny boat, the boat made an explody noise and apparently expired. I figured that now, my only option was to carry the dude to the nearest town, or something, when I accidentally hit a hotkey and reloaded a save. This dropped me back to the location where I’d picked the guy up, only this time he was standing like a statue rather than lolling around. Completely unresponsive, no talking, no pick up option, nothing. All I could do was attack him, so I disarmed myself and punched him. Now he’ll only run away from me.
Guess I’ll come back to this tomorrow with a fresh pair of eyes. Probably going to restart the quest from scratch.
Look up from where you pick him up. The drop off is on the hilltop in this tiny island.
Oh man, sorry you had to explain the joke to me there but re-looking at it again, armed with your words, and then looking at PIP boy’s face I did laugh out loud. That’s pretty good. That fucking misspelling though.
I only just last night realized that one of the options on the map screen is “historical icons” which lets me read about all the little legends and history behind some of the locations. It’s not a full Animus Encyclopedia but its better than Origin’s nothing but the Discovery Tour.
The emergent behaviors is the one thing I ask from openworld to be fun. And this one have a lot of that, and clever mechanics.
Like, I killed a important NPC, and that raised the level to 5 stars. Of course, I got hunted by a small army of mercenaries, every one with different style. It was like a mini-boss battle against these guys.
The game ( I am sure) did not intended this, it just happened.
A lot of the time the rest on these systems alone, and make the game very funny. Too bad the way factions are managed the player is kind of crazy, working for a faction but also killing people from that faction. So the game has a whole must be understand like a arcade game. And thats a huge change from previous AC games.
Yep, but in fairness to barstein, that’s one of the few times (maybe the only one that comes to mind) where the text in the quest and the quest marker itself diverge completely. I splashed into the water with the guy at first, and if you watch Tom’s stream from Friday, he did the same thing.
Last week Odyssey and various versions held 4 of the 10 spots on the Steam bestseller charts, including #1.
This week, they’re down to 3 spots on the top ten, still at Uno. UBI have to be delighted.
No, that was a fun thing in that campaign. Also i liked the campaign intro, really captured the cinematic view of ancient Greece. (Though the Imperial Augustus trailer still is the best Total War intro ever, imo). One problem i found is that i couldn’t see a way to read the text blurb again after reading it once.
That said there is far more variety in the feel and layout of cities in ACOd (is that acronym going to work?) and a much greater feel of the geography here, even if it is still compressed over space.
I have had a ton of crashes, seizes and such on PS4 Pro, probably the most i’ve ever had in a game per length of time.
Some things i’ve found:
-There is a “city of women” near Megapolis, in the hills behind everything. Lalalaia or something. It doesn’t “say” this outright but there are no men and flowers everywhere.
-About the same time i decided to pad around Malus, and it seems to be inhabited by Amazons.
-If you equip a female skin for your ship (i think the edition i had came with had a “Female Assassin skin” crew option) they sing with female voices. The Assassin skin thing is stupid. According to the (all but useless) hardcover guide there are some female skin crew options much later in the game. You also have to poke around for some.
-There is a quest vaguely similar to a Witcher expansion called “Heart of Stone” on an island you can find. May be a nod.
-The Deluxe edition is horrible. It comes with a “gold and xp boost”. The gold is 500 greekbucks; the XP boost is for two hours. Oh, go to hades, Deluxe Edition.
In consecutive sentences, you describe ably what is AWESOME about the female assassin skin crew.
Also, I had a CTD about 30 minutes into the game. Not one since, knock wood.