That boar is definitely the hardest of all the hunts.
I found a way to cheese the boar. Inside the den there is a small ledge in the back that you can stand on. From there it's just a matter of having enough arrows.
Huh yeah I saw that Rush Assassination engraving in the list when I was looking earlier. But I had already pretty much decided not to do that DLC.
I'm not even sure I'll do Atlantis at this rate. I think I'll need a break. But hopefully I'll come back for that at least. It was worth buying the season pass on the sale I got ($8) for the extra skills alone. Fury is fantastic for conquests or other fights. And that assassin body hide just speeds up the game so much when clearing camps, forts, etc.
Played a bit more this afternoon and suddenly noticed there were more tiers of mercs after 1! S4 up through S1! I discovered one of them at a Spartan camp, and he was level 75. Camp was at the top of a cliff, so I saved, lured him over to the edge, and kicked... and he didn't fall. I guess they cap the kick ability at some level above you (less than +24) so you can't cheese like that. Haha. Oh well.
I did grab a message assassination quest that turned out to be a level 53 though, so I'm S4 now!
Doing story stuff in Boeotia. Hopefully will finish tonight, but looks like some side quests help you with the main quests, so I might do a couple. There's one that apparently eliminates a companion from one of your mission targets. But I already did that one and I'm glad because I was able to use Rush Assassination and go back and forth between the two and kill them both cleanly. So removing the companion would have made that into an actual fight if I didn't get lucky with a crit.
I checked out some of your VOD after, and that Pilgrim set you showed off looked pretty wild. Infinite Shadow of Nyx ability is.. absurdly overpowered. I loved it.
Yeah upgrade materials are nuts all along. Until I stopped upgrading so much and just waited until every x1 level I was out of parts the first 20 levels of the game.
I also had a good stint of pirating and killing pirates, think I built a lot of materials up that way.
From 31 to 53 I've not had any problem upgrading anything I wanted. Only exception was not having enough ancient tablets to upgrade ship sometimes.
EDIT: Feels like it's cumulative. At some point you just get so many materials. But hard to do in a compressed time I guess.
Ship upgrades past the gold status are just absurd, cost-wise. Armor I can get by 5-10 levels without upgrades, especially if I'm focused on assassin-based damage. Weapons, I tend to upgrade every 5 or so levels, that extra damage can definitely help. Again, this is post-50 (currently level 67)
My current weapon engraving of choice is a bonus 20% Rush Assassination Damage, which really helps when stealth clearing forts and camps. For armor, I've got one piece that's +60% armor, and the rest are all +20% assassin damage.
Yeah I have my ship all purple now, and a lot of those were a big jump, like 20% to 50% on whatever stat. Seems good for now. I haven't tried much ship combat since I went to hard but I rarely lost on normal even when I wasn't paying attention and went 1v 3 or 4. I know there's at least one more cultist I need to ship conquest battle for based on their description, so I'll try again soon.
I know I said I'm trying to stick to story but I really want to hunt the rest of them down. Wouldn't feel like I really beat the game without that I think.
I know I said I'm trying to stick to story but I really want to hunt the rest of them down. Wouldn't feel like I really beat the game without that I think.
I was feeling the same way, and decided to keep on hunting. I'm glad I did, fwiw.
Also, fwiw, the game considers hunting the cultists down to be of the main story, and the narrative payoff for doing so is pretty good. I've already got the itch in Valhalla to find every clue and track down each of its Order members as well. It's surprisingly addictive, perhaps because of the non-linear, self-directed nature of it.
Finished story chapter 8 last night. Looks like just 3 quests in ch 9 to finish the family story. Might actually do that today!
I side tracked and hunted a few more cultists that I had clues for the last couple days too. I've got the leaders of 4 branches now, although only a couple of those are completely done. With all the clues I'm pretty sure who the boss is.
There were also some lines in the ch 8 Odyssey quests that mentioned my prime suspect for other stuff. So I think I'm right. But we'll find out in a couple days I guess.
Edit: hard mode has been mostly as expected. A couple of stupid random deaths in conquests, where I got surrounded and didn't pop heal or Ares quick enough.
And 2 conquest ship deaths where I didn't manage agro well and my ally ships were worthless. Then on replay the allies would always keep 1-2 ships occupied while I cleared the others and it was super easy. The inconsistency is frustrating.
Multi shot arrow has been super useful for both ship boarding and conquest battles.
So yeah I did finish the story on Sunday night. Well the family story anyway.
Then there's a Sparta epilogue and an Athens epilogue. And then in the middle it says you can start NG+. But dang I feel like I've got some things to do.
One more branch head of cultists to go, so I hunted down and found the head. Still 3 or 4 random cultists out there, where the head was revealed in a story or side mission, or in one case I was just attacking pirate ships and accidentally killed one head, haha. Hope to mop them up and then I can feel like I'm actually finished.
Although Atlantis...
I might take a break before that. But I definitely want to finish up some more stuff.
Tracking down the cultists is fun, and it has a good ending, but I would strongly suggest finishing the Atlantis storyline afterwards.
So I took a week break. Mostly so I could finish Miles Morales before the end of year to list it in the community GotY.
Jumped back in last night, and killed that final branch head I had discovered a week ago. Then I got the ghost reveal, and yes, it's who I suspected! But I can't mark them like usual. And there's no ghost quest, just the 3 branch quests that I haven't all finished yet.
Do I need to kill the other 3 or 4 random cultists out in the branches that I missed first?
I've put aside other games and focused on this, and made some good progress. Eliminated four of the cultist lines, uncovered 75% of the map, and am now in Chapter 7. Am already level 57, so have been focusing on quests and less on the exploration (excepting the tombs with skill points and sync points).
The Ghost seems fairly obvious to me, to the point if I wonder if the intent was to have it be a mystery? The juxtaposition between what I know and how my Alexios seems oblivious to it is rather humorous in a fairly tragic way. My poor stupid himbo.
@Stele: yeah I think you do have to kill everyone else in the cult before you can kill the big bad.
@Aeazel: You know it's funny you mention Alexios being such a himbo... I think that's one of the reasons I can't play as him for any length of time. I've tried, but he just does not seem like the brightest torch in the stack. I guess I am tainted by my first play as Kassandra, and now I only identify Alexios as a slightly nicer version of Deimos.
Don't forget:
, your step-brother who is also a slightly smarter himbo. The boys wrestling during the good ending is eye rollingly bad.
I made absolutely sure that Deimos didn't survive to the end, so i think I got lucky and never so that
Oh thank the gods I've never seen that... Dare I search for it on YouTube?
Embedded. Jump to about 7:40.
Yeah I got the mega happy ending. At that point I wish I had killed Stentor.
I was a little impulsive and stabbed Stentor. Whoops!
I was a little impulsive and stabbed Stentor. Whoops!
I bet that felt good.
It did.
Yeah if I ever do play again... stabby stab.
I half-expected my session last night to turn into Jerry Springer (spoilers for chapter 7):
Met Pythagoras and had the father reveal. What a dick. I do enjoy the meta-story, so was glad to get even just a sip of that again.
Guess I've now opened up the Legacy of the Blade quest line. I assume it being available to me now means there shouldn't be weird 'this needs to be completed after the main story' shenanigans.
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