Assassin's Creed Odyssey RPG-all

Stele wrote:

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.

I will be live streaming the Legacy of the First Blade DLC (only parts 1 and 2... I'm never playing that stupid romance BS again) soon. I did a Fate of Atlantis quick-start character on Stadia just for this stream. It took me several hours to get the character to a point I was comfortable with. I traveled around and picked up all the Steles for more ability points, and I spent some time shopping for some fashion choices. The Fate of Atlantis quick-start starts you at level 52 with several good legendary armor sets and weapons, but not all of them are engraved, and your engravings are not at the highest level they could be. You do start with some resources, but I found I didn't have enough to set up the precise build I wanted.

So why am I doing Legacy of the First Blade, when all I really wanted was to play through the modern day story at the end of Fate of Atlantis for myself? Well, it turns out there is a super nice engraving that makes Rush Assassination chain to one more enemy. Because it is MUCH easier to go through the Atlantis DLC with an assassin build, I figured that would be really useful. Unfortunately, you pick it up by defeating the final boss in part 2 of the First Blade DLC.

To be honest, I started remembering the fun as soon as I was running around grabbing ability points from tombs, so I really wanted more AC Odyssey gameplay before I get back to Valhalla.

Anyway, I'll drop a note on Discord whenever I'm streaming. I'll be using the Stadia direct-to-YouTube streaming feature, which is super easy to use, but pretty bare bones - voice support but no webcam or overlay support. The rest of that stuff is more work than I want to do anyway!

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.

So it turns out, as I learned during the stream, that the Rush Assassination weapon is a sword, not an axe, and it's the first legendary you get in the DLC, shortly after meeting Darius. Wherever I read the information about it dropping from the later boss was wrong!

So I'll be hopping right into Atlantis on my next stream!

...IF I can get all my gear upgraded again...

I'm in this weird situation where I have three legendary sets that I want to upgrade as I level. But all the activities that yield enough materials and money for me to upgrade also give me so much XP that I have been leveling before I get everything upgraded. Very frustrating. I even have the Drachmae boost turned on and the XP boost turned off.

If the intention of this imbalance is to encourage buying resource packs, that's a sick joke, because the prices on those things are OUTRAGEOUS given the materials requirements up above level 50. You get maybe 1/10 of what you need for $10 or something. Ha ha ha.

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.

Stele wrote:

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.

I made a thing.

It's for making money without XP, so you don't have to worry about leveling up while you're trying to make money to upgrade your gear.

It’s really only useful if you're a crazy person like me who continues playing a game for years after finishing it.

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.

After a week or more of prep, finally started streaming the Atlantis DLC today. I'm going with no commentary.

https://youtube.com/badkenbad if you're interested

And, as I write this, honor compels me to admit that I was going to just watch a stream of the Atlantis DLC, but shortly after I started watching, I realized it would ultimately be unsatisfying. I had to play it for myself.

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.

BadKen wrote:

@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:

Spoiler:

, your step-brother who is also a slightly smarter himbo. The boys wrestling during the good ending is eye rollingly bad.

Oh thank the gods I've never seen that... Dare I search for it on YouTube?

I made absolutely sure that Deimos didn't survive to the end, so i think I got lucky and never so that

BadKen wrote:

Oh thank the gods I've never seen that... Dare I search for it on YouTube?

Embedded. Jump to about 7:40.

Spoiler:

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!

Quintin_Stone wrote:

I was a little impulsive and stabbed Stentor. Whoops!

I bet that felt good.

It did.

What a snooty mc snoot.

I love how one path with him just leads to him turning into a garden variety mercenary who you can kill at will. He doesn't even drop anything interesting.

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):

Spoiler:

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.

Today Ubisoft released an update for Valhalla to support achievements and challenges via Ubisoft Connect, and guess what?! They also accidentally fixed the fact that Odyssey players could not get free rewards from Ubisoft Connect! Okay, maybe it wasn't accidentally. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.

So if you want your Ezio set or the Northern Traveler set that comes with a cool Dane Axe, now you can get it via Ubisoft Connect in-game.