Assassin's Creed Odyssey RPG-all

beanman101283 wrote:

I did one fork in the road quest that was completely unmemorable. I don't recall what it had me do, but it was something unimportant like kill all the soldiers in a location or something. I ignored them after that.

They are never any good. Every one of them has you complete something close by and procedurally generated.

I've been searching for the last eye of Kosmos for two weeks now. Level 29 and I can't find the guy. He's the one that is supposed to own a marble quarry and a slave pit or something next to Athens. I dug around online and some folks said to do Socrates' side quests. Did those and still don't have this guy. I'm starting to get a bit frustrated since I want that legendary dagger set the main Eye of Kosmos leader has. Any other hints you folks might have?

Other than that I just did Barnabas' questline, which was pretty cool. I still need to

Spoiler:

Take the fisherman back to the Cyclops so he can have a friend.

There are several Sokrates quests to do, the last of which gives you access to that Cultist leader.

Quest names:

Spoiler:

Citizenship Test
Witness Him
Free Speech
On A High Horse
A Life's Worth

Location:

Spoiler:

Mt. Pentelikos Village or Silver Mountain

Thanks, bean. I'll check if I missed one tonight, but I don't even have any golden exclamation quest markers in Athens any more. Maybe I just need to wait some amount of time.

I wasn't keeping track, but they didn't become available necessarily right away one after another, so it may be locked behind story progression, but I didn't see anything about that one way or another online.

Vector wrote:
beanman101283 wrote:

I did one fork in the road quest that was completely unmemorable. I don't recall what it had me do, but it was something unimportant like kill all the soldiers in a location or something. I ignored them after that.

They are never any good. Every one of them has you complete something close by and procedurally generated.

I will say, and this may be just my memory playing tricks on me, because I definitely do avoid the fork in the road ones now, that one of those seemed to be just a choice “do you want to fork some gold over to this down on their luck person” which was marginally interesting.

Yeah the road fork quests are fluff. They're basically role playing things that help you develop the identity of your misthios. They have no effect on other parts of the game. I think they are one off, they don't repeat, and they appear to be just very short scripted things.

You don't need to do any board quests to locate cultists. Some you can find with clues before they are revealed, some you may find accidentally, but all of them will be revealed eventually through regular questing. Sometimes you have to get to a certain point in the main quest before the side quest that reveals a cultist ("help people in (area)") will show up. Sometimes you have to do a battle in a certain area and they show up during the battle.

As soon as I logged in tonight the last quest South of Athens was available. Not sure if I missed it before or it was just a timing thing. Thanks for the help, errbody!

bighoppa wrote:

As soon as I logged in tonight the last quest South of Athens was available. Not sure if I missed it before or it was just a timing thing. Thanks for the help, errbody!

If it's any consolation, I followed the exact same trajectory: confusion, looking online, unable to find the Socrates quest, and than suddenly it's there and in the end a Cultist dies.

Yeah, first time I did it I became very confused. On subsequent playthroughs, it seemed to work fine. Maybe I was doing the Athens quests in a different order. Dunno. Maybe it's because I told Kleon to f*ck off after I knew his story?

I am back at this again. I played it back when it was released but got side tracked by RDR 2. I only played less than 20 hours so I restarted again.

Such a fun game. Looks great on max settings on a 21:9 monitor.

I finished the part one of the Legacy of the First Blade expansion. It felt a little bland, especially the person they're obviously setting up to be a romantic interest, but was still enjoyable to play. Since I hadn't explored Makedonia hardly at all, the region was pretty new. It still has this problem from the base game where cutscenes have really awkward pacing and unnatural pauses, and I'm not sure if the game is loading something, or if there's supposed to be a meaningful expression on a character's face that just isn't coming through to me. Then again, the conversation between Kassandra and Darius at the end was really touching and had some really nice performances from the voice actors. So it has its ups and downs.

The game has become my go-to during lunch breaks. It actually works really well to do a couple quests or activities in a 45 minute chunk, then set it down for the day.

I try to play this for 45 minutes and then 3 hours later......

Anyway, looking out for a good deal on the season pass, , but wondered if Uplay lets you upgrade your standard game cheaper?

Sadly it seems like whenever the game is on sale, even the version including season pass, the standalone season pass is explicitly not on sale

The season pass is on sale on PSN right now, so I'd assume it'll go on sale on PC at some point as well.

Completed the Legacy of the First Blade expansion. Despite a few highlights, I didn’t love it. A little bit too much jankiness, and a forced plot that ended predictably and lacked the nuance required to surpass its tropes. It could have been more interesting if they had had a little more time, or perhaps been a little more daring. I’m not sure.

I also finally got the platinum trophy. I’m at 135 hrs played and am about to start the Fate of Atlantis expansion. I’m hoping for some goofier stuff from this one.

Holy Carp this is huge. The E3 announcement also mentions Discovery Mode for Odyssey.

I'm looking forward to checking out the story creator. The tools as shown in the video look slick.

I picked this up second hand for $20 and am having a blast.

I’ve hit about 25 hours, a few hours past the point where I bounced off Origins.

Given my tortured history with AC games, I am happily surprised. I think what’s appealing to me are the Ancient Greek setting and Kassandra’s personality. I actually like the level gating because it stops me being overwhelmed by the huge map and helps me work out where to go next. Love the mercenary and cultist system too.

I finally killed the Kalydonian boar last night, didn’t even have to use a mercenary to do it. Had to use all my abilities though — the stun ability worked well on the little piggies.

Getting ready to dive into this as well after picking it up on the Steam sale. I'm excited.

Tagging in. I'm still wrapping Sekiro up, but I'm in a game of the quarter club that has chosen this one for this quarter. I've never played an AC game before at all. So... Any good tips for getting started?

TheHarpoMarxist wrote:

Tagging in. I'm still wrapping Sekiro up, but I'm in a game of the quarter club that has chosen this one for this quarter. I've never played an AC game before at all. So... Any good tips for getting started?

Just enjoy it, honestly the last two games have been so unlike any other in the series they barely even resemble the same games of the series.

The game doles out systems and mechanics really slowly, you will be getting tutorials for things 20 hours in. There is also an unreal amount of content it's a completionist nightmare. I'd recommend maybe doing the main objects with the odd side quest sprinkled in, if you try to clear an island before moving on (this is how I played) you'll be 70 hours in with no end in sight and may burn out.

Some people may recommend you purchase the XP boost but I'd say don't bother, again there are so many things to do unless you are just mainlining the story you are generally going to be about the right level for content.

Are there any mods for this game I should look at?

Sydhart wrote:

Are there any mods for this game I should look at?

Not the Medusa one. That will turn you into stone.

bighoppa wrote:

As soon as I logged in tonight the last quest South of Athens was available. Not sure if I missed it before or it was just a timing thing. Thanks for the help, errbody!

*extremely Slayer voice*

On and on South of Athens!

Finished the third Atlantis DLC, and I'm pretty much mystified as to whether I saw the actual ending or not. Everything seems very inconclusive .... things just stopped, everything just kind of left hanging.

Maybe Ubisoft is planning to try to charge more money for an ending? If and when they ever get around to doing one?

I've had a lot of fun with it, overall, but I didn't like the the grindiness of the game up to L20 (I think they're trying to upsell you on XP boosters), and now I'm suspicious that it went bad at the ending so they can charge more again. If that's the case, and I didn't screw something up in my playthrough, I think they may go back onto my "greedy, don't buy their games" list.

IF this were EA, og Paradox, sure - But what has Ubisoft done to deserve that kind of suspeciions? As far as giant corporations go, I think they are usually being fair and obvious in all their dealing.

Yeah, the Xp boost sucks, but its not neccesary - in fact, it makes the game more difficult (You have to exchange weapons far more frequently with it, for one) but the game is more than playable without.

Despite bad endings there’s a ton of content in that game even without a DLC pack. I can’t fault the developers here.

Yeah I haven't gotten around to the Atlantis DLC but the base game had so much stuff to do in it I won't complain. And post game support for this even if you didn't buy the seasons pass was fantastic new free content with the Stories of Sparta stuff almost bi weekly not to mention all the major patches that are game changing. I was surprised to find user created content had been added since I'd last played.

I think out of all the big third party developers Ubi has really found a good balance with post game support and value to money ratio. Probably one of my favourite developers now.

Well, I upgraded my spear to lvl 5. Managed to do so before

Spoiler:

Meeting Mum again

It was a fun thing to prioritise, but it made me realise I can only love this game by being prepared to ignore as much non-critical stuff as necessary. If I felt obliged to clear every area, do every side quest, I’d go mad and it would get stale really fast.