Assassins Creed Odyssey

Nice.

As a suggestion; since users coming into this thread may be at different stages of the game, it might be a good idea to consider putting anything other than generic screenshots behind spoiler tags with a note above the tag saying what is dealt with behind it.

Similar to;

Spoilers for "Blood Fever" <- a quest I saw mentioned in the other thread


Like so.

That way, people who are not at that point yet can choose to avoid it and may continue to contribute.

So for the past two days I have had a really great time immersing myself in AC Odyssey. I am really enjoying the game so far, there are a few things that have stood out already that are annoying like in combat not being able to one shot NPC's with shots to the head. There is also on PC something wrong with the timing of the assassination key, you hit it but the NPC reacts as if they have discovered you then they are assassinated. Overall though combat seems to be an improvement on Origins in my personal opinion playing on PC.

I have enjoyed all the quests I have done so far, all feel relevant and the environments are beautiful.

Would you say it's worth getting on day 1 or wait for it to drop down in price?

I'm early (level 13), so bear that in mind...

The combat is very, very easy. It's block/parry + counter-attack, or dodge + counter-attack with little timing required. You can literally hold the parry buttons and just wait. Non-scrub enemies, such as commanders and mercenaries, are very spongy. You pummel them for several minutes before they eventually drop. It kind of sucks.

It feels significantly less visceral than Origins' combat, in terms of feedback. Both audio and mechanical feedback makes it feel light and unsatisfying for me.

Lastly, it's linked strongly to that damn power wheel. The positive is that adrenaline generates rapidly as you hit your foes. The negative is that you only have 4 active powers, and spamming them over and over feels very repetitive. It's like a slightly less shitty version of DAI's Warrior. I'm not enjoying it at all. I can only hope it gets better as I advance.


The characters are enjoyable and the content is mostly standard AC stuff. The quests often exist independently of quest-givers, which is a nice change of pace for the series.

Thanks to both of you for answering my questions.

Personally I'd say wait for a sale. It's not innovative in any way that you'd be missing out on anything. It's open world approach REALLY drags it on far longer than it needs to be too.

I'm also not a fan of AC games though so yeah 🤷.

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As for my own experience with it so far:

I put 3-4 hours into it Tuesday and I wasn't impressed, combat can be sloppy at times and the characters VAs are so LIFELESS in various instances. I got up to 8 hours yesterday and my mind still hasn't changed, it's an ok game to pass time by, but it's kind of average when it comes to me having "fun" with it.

It's a Shame, I was wanting to actually like an AC game for the first time since the very first, it has the Greek theme and supposedly this RPG push, but they aren't good enough to keep me wanting to come back And while I've heard some hardcore AC fans say this isn't a true AC game, I fully disagree as it plays a lot like the other garbage AC games.

Me a few days ago: Meh the game looks good I guess but its an Assassins creed game so I am likely not going to get it.

Me after watching gameplay video on youtube: Well,shit.

So I have a question. Each area on the map is labeled with the dominant faction, how do you side with a faction of your choice?

Spoiler here too. I cleared magaris so I did my first conquest battle. In the descriptions it says you can be defender or attacker, but it doesn't actually elaborate on how you can pick, hence my question 👍

I'm wondering if I have to still kill Spartan leaders/destroy their supplies just to initiate the conquest battles, but if I'm wanting to side with Sparta why would I have to kill their leaders and such? Doesn't make sense but if that's the only way to weaken the dominant faction to trigger the conquest battle, then I'm guessing I pick my side in the conquest battle by killing which ever side in said battle I oppose? If so then Jesus Christ Ubisoft.

I feel like I anwsered my own question but I'm hoping I'm wrong.

FYI: this game is fucking HUGE. I've just now reached my third area (Phokis) and I have like 13 hours of play time, I don't think I'm even half way to 1/4 of the game by looking at how much of the map is uncovered.

Dazk, you can avoid most of the melee and be a phantom in the night. Not a very dangerous phantom at first though. You shouldn't have trouble assassinating the regular mooks. Yellow ones and bosses are tougher and need a lucky crit or the special 200%+ ability. And gear. Proper gear for the proper task. You won't do well in quiet stabbing if you are not decked in gear with Assassin damage. Same goes for archery. You can headshot kill mooks if you have full Hunter gear and maybe the passive that boosts Hunter damage.

I once made the mistake of going in a Conquest battle in my Assassin gear. Well, didn't go well until I switched to Warrior. It's more noticeable and relevant at level 15 or at least I noticed it at that time. Right now at level 20 the damage difference on my backstab with Assassin gear on and off is about 40%.

Leader NPCs are a pain for stalking because they always have bodyguards. BUT!!! I think I found a workaround. The Leader NPCs go to sleep at night and apparently they like to be alone in their bedrooms, go figure 😀 There are usually a couple of entrances and while one is swarmed with a wall of bodyguards, the other usually has no guards or just one regular mook that can be 1-shot. My crowning moment of awesome was infiltrating a heavily guarded house, knocking out just the one mook, 1-shot the Leader in his sleep with a huge crit and leaving without any alarm. I even threw the knocked down mook in the leader's bed. To confuse everyone.

And really try to avoid killing Leaders in the open in front of witnesses. I did it once from a rooftop in the middle of every guard. DING!!! Five Mercenaries started looking for me. I didn't care at first and just thought "extra loot". But the buggers started ambushing me everywhere in a pack of 3. During quests, roaming, in forts, everywhere! They even trolled me. I hide in a shrub, they park themselves 15 meters away and look straight at me, just waiting for me to pop out and the game to allow them to spot me...

I tried to lure the Mercs to a remote area with a friendly NPC I was doing a quest for. Two birds with one stone, right? Wrong! Turns out turning in the quest at that stage involves a scripted ambush from many bandits in the area. So I got in in one of the biggest clusterfuck battles of all time. In a remote farm. And left no one alive to tell about it.

Oh, and if you happen upon a quest involving a guy named Stupideos locked in a cage? Just go with it. It's a corny and silly quest, but the way I resolved it made me laugh.

Got my first trophy.

That's one way to have your teeth cleaned. hahahahahahahaha
I chose to play as Kassandra. Too bad there wasn't an option to add a scar to the face or even have different color of hair. I like the parry. Found a couple of spots. Ended up in a spot where I fought the unkillable dog/wolve/whatever. I guess when the enemy has a red looking stop sign above their head it means I need to be at a higher level to kill it. The game looks good. I like the part with following the bird. I'm sure as I play more I will get use to the controls.

Yeah its very disappointing, I just loved being able to do a whole palace in Origins and not once being detected. I had more success yesterday and felt far more comfortable with combat having got the zoom arrow upgrade in taking down at least lower level guys. I am getting better at doing that then finding a spot where I can use the ability to jump out assassinate with the spear and chain it to take a few more out. Then hopefully get an assassinate move with the spear on the higher level guys so they are not at full strength when I have to melee them.

I know what you mean by the grind but I have decided that Megaris is going to be my grind spot for a while. I am hating having to upgrade my gear every level to try and get an edge and also I can't seem to accumulate enough Drachmae to upgrade the ship. So going to stay here and try and get as many message board missions done before I get bored to raise money and get ahead a few levels.

I am yet to do any Naval stuff other than the storied bit to get to Megaris. I didn't even enjoy that so I want to enhance the ship as much as possible so I don't have to worry too much in naval combat going forward. I am confused with the recruitment, am I recruiting knocked out enemies just to be Lieutenants or am I recruiting crew as well? I have sent at least 20 to 30 guys to the ship,  I assume it will tell me if I have enough sailors.

You seriously sound how I sounded to myself playing Origins, I didn't end up playing NG+ in that but it is the only way I would have played it if I did again. I hope you can still enjoy the game even though its frustrating you at the moment. I eventually got there with Origins although the game will never be one of my favourites.

dazk, I remember well your frustration with Origins. It’s a shame every game can’t please us all! I really like some parts of Odyssey, while other parts are very annoying. I’m hoping I’ll like it on the whole. I think I’m really going to like the story. All three main threads— family, cultists and Isu— are to my liking. Maybe I’ll “git gudder” at the stuff I hate and learn to like it more.

Money doesn’t seem to be a problem in Odyssey. I’m always swimming in drachmae. Pretty much everything pays well. I like that. Why be a misthios if it doesn’t pay?

Recruits become lieutenants. Best I can tell, you can never have more than 6 active. They boost ship performance, kick butt during boardings, and can be called individually to aid in combat with one of the combat skills. Evie Frye is a free UbiClub reward, but I can’t handle anachronisms on that scale, so I’ve not claimed her. I think it’s hilarious how you can invite nearly every scrub in Greece to join your crew. My current boarding party is 6 women in robes, 5 of whom have no weapons. They punch the defending crews. 😆