Assassins Creed Odyssey

I did yesterday actually, no change she just sits there saying the rain came and now they are gone again. 

Yesterday the Ubisoft Club app told me I had killed 93 mercenaries. I know I have killed a lot but not sure it would be that many.  

I figured you thought that. Skora was serious about retiring. He left. It’s just a random mercenary you’ll fight. I normally wouldn’t spoil this, but I didn’t want you to miss out on the rest of the Arena quest/Arena Fighter set.

The combat in this game is silly. I did see a Spartan training his troops how to fight in formation, but no one ever does so. It’s every man for himself — very un-Spartan. The animals are still driving me crazy, too. Their behaviors couldn’t be more unrealistic, and their aggression levels are often laughable.


I’m taking a meal break. I’m presently in Elis and haven’t had an Ikaros crash yet since returning. Some players said that coming here for the main quest allowed them to play without the bug; others said they still had the bug. I hoe my luck holds.

I’m using the Bow of Eros now, having recovered it in Messenia. It’s such a good bow. With the Harpe of Perseus and the Club of Heracles, my assorted Hunter and bowshot damage is pretty crazy. Cooldown is reduced by 25%, and Adrenaline is constantly refilling via hits and headshots. Adding on the +100% dmg/-75% hp pushed it over the top. That damage doubling is universal, so it fixed my Hunter melee-mediocrity, as well as my weak Assassination damage. I’d been waiting for this particular bow all game. I’m not sure I want to grind this game again like this. I hope NG+ arrives in a reasonable amount of time.

Element Zero , oh in that case, I'll do the special fight. I know right? It's like Troy and other dramatic battle movies. The only realistic army battles of the ancient world for games anyone would see is Total War. Not TW Rome II though. That one launched in the most farcical manner. After that boo boo, the TW devs did their homework.

dazk , I always save before handing in any SQs. Such an incident happened to me too but I was able to reload and prevent the NPC from dying.

P.S. Stupid board is acting up; I have to retype three times because the first two were dumped by the board for some reason. That special fight is as I thought. I killed Skoura. Repeating the five fights is just busy work. Anyway, I got the armour pieces and put them away in the ship chest. 

So weird day playing today, had started Athens and doing the Perikles quests but was bore so decided to chase down Cultists. That led me a long merry dance over several regions but killed 3 and now have the full pirate set of Legendary gear plus 4 cultists tokens towards level 5 spear. Trying to decide now whether to switch to the Pirate gear or keep my Assassins breastplate which I love!!!!!!!

Also killed 3 or more Merc's but got the hardest fight in Messara (SP?) fighting some Athenian guard captain Deokles who was beating up merchants for not paying taxes. Man I struggled and he did major damage with his mace. Didn't help that I just reset abilities and rearranged the melee bar as I tried some new abilities but eventually prevailed.

Also killed The Iron Ketonian Bull



Lots of sailing and now Adrestia is all epic or Legendary.

I am sure she will love me long time when I give her the pelt of the Bull!!!!!   

Forgetting to swap out arrows has hurt me several times. 

Obsidian Gryphon, I misinformed you! I always fought some random merc, or at least that’s what I thought. Maybe I’m so tired of fighting by that fight that I’ve twice killed Skoura without realizing it. 😆 I always leave after the first round of battles. I went back post-game to do them again and complete the armor set. There was no way I was fighting the same 5 or 6 people again with the quest’s story completed.

I’ve had a few questgivers killed by wolves, one by lions, and a few by me because they were part of a mob and I didn’t care about the XP and drachmae. Kill em all! I also killed myself in a tomb tonight. I was carefully sniping snakes, since I have only 25% hp. I had forgotten to switch from poison to standard arrows. I fired while standing near a lit sconce and got caught in an explosion. I had to think about what happened for a second.

dazk, it’s funny your trip to Athens ended up with you in Krete and fighting naval battles. I like Athens. New quests keep popping up as you complete the current batch. Krete is one of the most fun places in the game, in my opinion. It has humor, cultists and epic stuff. Lamia is basically a normal village, rather than a stronghold or fort. It’s inhabitants are just uber-aggressive. I recall my first finding it around level 20 or so and thinking, “I’ll come back later”. By the time I returned, I’d realized that these ladies just live there.

I was planning to quit earlier tonight. Instead, I finished Elis, excepting the new quest. It’s undoubtedly the source of the bug on PS4. If I use Ikaros anywhere near Elis town the game crashes. I did a few quests without the bird and found it refreshing. I really prefer the game without that stupid mechanic. It’s so out of place and trivializes much of the challenge by tagging everyone. From Elis, I sailed out and terrorized merchant ships as part of a bounty. I attacked pirates, too, for another bounty. While in Elis, I kept getting quests from a scantily clad female athlete. They all involved persons creeping on her. Granted, it’s not her fault and it’s her choice, but maybe she’d consider more clothing? Kassandra won’t always be around to kill “shitty goats” and the like.

Eventually, I arrived in Boeotia, met up with the Polemarch, and began to hunt the living champions of Boeotia. I lucked into most of these guys in my first PT. This time, I’d only killed one via chance meeting. This meant that I got to complete an interesting quest chain to discover and render vulnerable one of the champions. I helped Sparta secure Boeotia in the Conquest battle that followed, had some reunions, and rode south. I fulfilled a couple of bounties and parted ways with Artaxerxes in Megaris. Then, it was on to Arkadia to meet up with allies concerning the Archon. I saved just before that meeting.

I think Hunter is probably the most efficient way of playing, followed by Assassin. Assassin feels the most like traditional AC. Warrior is the flashiest and makes you feel like an unstoppable war god. Each is pretty cool, and of course aren't mutually exclusive. I got the Atlantan Dagger, finally, and swapped it into my loadout in place of the Harpe of Perseus. HoP’s Cooldown perk wasn’t all that helpful, anyway, since Hunter skills don’t have cooldowns. This Dagger is hilarious in that it’s too large to serve even as a sword. It might make a good dagger for a Cyclops. It’s a shame, since the design is cool enough. It’s basically a glowing orange-obsidian version of the Flickering Blades from Origins, but double the size.

I’m sure I’ll get an itch to go Warrior or Assassin again before too long. It’s fun, though, one-shotting Polemarches through walls and the like. I pretty much snipe any leader I notice, since his security detail is irrelevant. You can snipe those guys through buildings with no one the wiser, and no bounty accrued. Indiscriminate killing of leaders always seems to be on some bounty checklist I have queued.

Damn, that’s a lot of leaders. I’ll put in the work, slowly perhaps, in order to have everything unlocked for NG+ files. If the requirements are too crazy, I might stillbe working on some of these during my first NG+. Sometimes it’s fun to have a few things left to earn during NG+.

I completely ignored the engraving goals during my first PT, just focusing on RP and story. I’ve paid slightly better attention this time. I’ve started mopping up all of the Ostrava puzzles to start. I’m well on my way toward most of the engravings, and have many maxed already. There are some I’ve barely touched, though.

Started on the find mom quests. Went to the sanctuary and a fight broke out at the olive tree. A mercenary showed up just as the fight ended. I wondered if he would start something but he just stood there, as if surveying the aftermath. Then he said; You call yourself a mercenary? And moved off.

Wrong thing to say pal! I went after him and kicked him to hades.  After that. went to hit on some bandits where the leader recognised Kass and asked; how did you do that, eagle bearer? during the fight.

So I jumped off a sync point, landed and saw this... 


This reminds me of a time when Kass was trying to climb over a small pool at a tanner but slipped as her grip failed. She didn't land in the water but the game thought she did so she was swimming in midair around the pool.

Okay, I’ve finished the game 100% with each protagonist, have seen everything twice, etc... This is the post in which I stop being vague and get specific. I know this is the Spoiler thread, but most of you haven’t finished the game yet. I feel that everyone should experience something fresh and unspoiled. So, I encourage you to avert your eyes and resist the urge to open the spoiler block. Do you really want to ruin the game’s details and endings three times over? Of course not!

Alright, down to business...



I don’t have time to edit and check for typos, so I hope it’s not too messy. Posting from a phone can be tough.

Okay so a few frustrations with the game at the moment, Athens is doing its best to change my love to hate for this game.

How the hell does the Bounty system work? I did the mission for Perokles contact to steal a bag of votes for ostracising someone, no one saw me go in and no one saw me come out. Hand the stuff over to the dude then get into a conversation with Sokrates and some how he knows that it was me that tchanged the vote bag over!!!!!! Like f%#$ing how and my bounty suddenly goes up to Level two and two merc's instantly appear in Athens. So I think great I'll go kill the sponsor but he is in a completely separate region that I haven't even been to. Again WTF?????? So one merc is my level and I kill him with 4 arrows, no drama's the other is way too high for me to take on so I just avoid him. Annoyed I decide to pay off the bounty and move on and am now on almost zero drachmae having spent a shit tonne buying resources to finish upgrading the ship.

So walking along and accidentally walk into the armoury in Athens and a guard gets all excited so I just run away and hide. He and a mate are looking for ages and can't find me but a civilian who wasn't even present at the fort comes up to me in cover and starts attacking me with a sword and my bounty level jumps straight to 3?????? So I walk into a fort accidentally, leave with no one being killed or even attacked and without stealing anything and a civilian attacks me when I am stealthed and I now have a huge bounty on my head AGAIN and no money to pay it and a sponsor again miles away in another region.

So to prove a point I then made my way along the whole wall around Athens and killed every guard in stealth to get some money and shit to sell and not one change in bounty. Seriously annoyed to tell the truth, it was shit like this that ruined a lot of gameplay for me in Unity with crap line of sights and stuff.

Also I am not sure the 15% Assassin bonus for having the pirate set on is working. All the pieces have assassin stats whereas that wasn't the case with my old gear so that +15% I expected a big jump but my assassin stats only went up a miniscule amount. Am I just not understanding how it works?

Anyway enough of my rant back to kill more people.