Assassins Creed Odyssey

dazk , I think each of the monsters is pretty easy. Medusa is the toughest, and I still kicked her ass on PT2. First time through, I’d say Medusa was the only one that was challenging. That was likely because of minimal optimization and lack of familiarity. (Medusa Hints: Don’t lock on and dodge. Run around and use “right hand advantage”.) Easy doesn’t mean lame, though. I think each encounter is really cool. I was worried that these elements would be completely out of place and ridiculous. Instead, they were well placed in the lore, fun to experience and gave great rewards. They were so far superior to Origins’ mythological elements as to be incomparable. They’re apples and oranges, so to speak.

Animals are silly and unrealistic in this game. They should be common only away from population centers and should be significantly less aggressive. Bounties work great for me. I only get them when I steal, fight or kill under watchful eyes. Civvies should be less daring and brave, I think, but whatever. You have weird bounty experiences, and I can’t use Ikaros in Elis. Platform specific bugginess, perhaps?

I’m thinking about starting a new PT with Alexios, going Hunter from the start. Crappy bows and capped skills should make it interesting for 12 to 15 levels. Then again, melee is weak AF for that long. Ranged might be better.

I usually won’t claim free stuff that isn’t very good because I don’t want it cluttering my inventory. This time, though, I might claim the Aegean Pirate armor set. It’s Rare/Blue, so not great. It looks freaking amazing, though. If and when transmogrification arrives, I’ll use its look a lot. It will serve for a few levels until I can store it aboard Adrestia. I think I’ll claim Bayek and the Pegasos lieutenant (from Oikos) this game, just for looks. They’ll become useless pretty rapidly, but they’ll look distinctive on deck until they’re demoted.

The Aegean Pirate sail/ship is probably my favorite of an awesome assortment (Again, free from Twitch). Red octopus on a black sail, dark wood, add octopus figurehead = awesome. I can’t wait to see what other looks we get. We really need a Kerberos figurehead to go with the sail. Maybe we’ll get to fight Kerberos in the upcoming monster battles? A nice figurehead would be a cool reward. Hell, on topic, the Aegean Pirate Pack horse is likewise a favorite and the crew isn’t bad.

Free Aegean Pirate Pack:



Source info: assassinscreed.ubisoft.com/game/en-us/news-updates/335680/twitch-prime-aegean-pirate-pack-

As for the bag of votes mission in Athens, I believe you need to pull it off without even slightly alerting any guard and without attacking or knocking out anyone. If you do it wrong, then in the following cutscene there will be a comment that there is evidence the vote was tampered with and you will get a bounty of a bar and a half. At least that is my experience. My Kass did it flawlessly, but Alexios was spotted.

Dazk, when the story takes you to Arkadia, don't be surprised when you get 3 star bounty by entering the region. I thought it's a bug at first.

Some civilian NPCs hold grudges. I was spotted once stealing and got attacked. Ran away without fighting the civilians. Couple of hours later I came back in the same area and got attacked again by civilians without doing anything else wrong. I guess the game tags them as aggressive and keeps it until restart.

There are no proper funeral pyres in this game. I killed a romanced NPC in a duel (not telling which one of the possible two such encounters that I know of) and couldn't find a decent spot to honor the fallen. Definitely didn't feel right throwing the body in a campfire or in dry flammable bushes. Best I could come up with was going to the nearest town harbor, putting the body in a boat, sailing into the sea, then swim back to shore and use some fire Predator shots at the boat. Not exactly the Greek way, but it'll have to do.

Edit: the Pirate set bonus doesn't boost directly Assassin damage. It boosts the damage of Assassin Abilities. Meaning your Assassin stat in the gear window won't change, but your Hero Strike, knockdowns and assassinations will do 15% more damage. Your best bet is to use that engraving on Epic chest piece and rest Epic minmaxed Assassin gear. Good stats to look for is Crit chance and crit damage when Health is Full/Low, depending if you use the 100% damage/75% HP debuff. Gear with double Assassin bonus on it is preferable (like 15% Assassin damage, 50% crit damage, 10% Assassin damage). That gear is random and rare and I keep all "double same stat" pieces. Secondary stat can be Hunter damage. Mostly because you can headshot unalerted enemy from behind and point blank range and then still have a window to use a regular or Critical Assassination on the same enemy.

Dare she say something for the stolen horse? 😀 First come, first served!

Btw, if you lose a race, she will mock you at the end and will not give you some "special time" because you seem tired. Frankly no big loss for my Alexios. The stone and wood he veered off to grab during the horse race are more valuable than the win. 😀.

I did the first Lost tale of Greece unintentionally yesterday, thinking it's a quest I missed. It's obviously meant to be done after a certain part of the main quest. I haven't reached that far yet with Alexios, yet the dialogue treated it as if I did that main quest and know a certain NPC. And a new player is very likely to stumble on this Lost story much earlier during the main quest.

Been a while since I've posted in here. I started getting back into the game, got around 75 hours of playtime now (and lvl 49 and a half) all that's pretty much left is going to Sparta when it comes to map exploration.

I did try the medusa on lesbos but fuck it, I can't get the npc lady on the cliff (with the mob people) to trigger. If it's bugged then screw this game, it's just another getting added to the ever growing list of BS that has gotten in my way. I've left lesbos and maybe things will reset after a few hours of doing clearing the lower left map. If not then I guess I'm watching YT for the Isu questline.

Obsidian Gryphon , I just truly finished the Arena quest. It seems I’d bounced as soon as I completed the Arena Fighter set last time, so I never fought Skoura. Haha, I had my head in the clouds on that one.

Playing the Arena on Hard with the 25% hp perk is interesting. I had to abandon poison arrows in favor fire after the second time I exploded. Standing anywhere near a flame while handling poison is explosive, and the Arena is full of fire. I love dropping bosses with my OP Hunter. Time Slow - Head Shot (which regens Adrenaline if need be) - Devastating Shot to the face. If that doesn’t end it, use more DS to the face. It’s over in a split second.

Edit: I’ve been cruising the Aegean, working bounties and cleaning up loose ends like Xenia’s treasure hunts. I stopped in Achaia to complete “The Dunce Conundrum”. I engraved a few different Epic pieces to mix up my look a bit. Calling Ikaros to check the port for any wandering sheep for the slaughter, aka Leaders, the game crashed. So frustrating! This was an Elis problem. Now it’s in Achaia too? Fuuuuuu.... They need to fix this shit ASAP. I can’t even complete the new quests because of it. My trophy count has been reduced to a scrubby 95%, and I can’t address it! Seriously, it does need to be fixed. It’s very annoying to have to restart and reload, particularly with the long ass load times on PS4 Pro.

Anyone else find the rough seas a bit tedious? I’m a person who loves sailing enough to do it for its own sake. Still, the almost universally rough seas can be tiresome. It really slows travel and kills momentum. If they could tame the seas in fair weather just a bit, I’d be very pleased.

Element Zero , Did you kill Skoura?

I've killed a lot more mercenaries in this PT. Primarily because I know the powers pretty well compared to the first PT where I was hesitant and more cautious. So during the main story line where bounties were placed on Kass, I met them head on. Come and get the fast boat to Hades!

More mercenaries have been showing up too on conquest battles, they didn't do any better.

So now I've finished the second PT. Not sure what to do next, I've not done the new free DLC yet. Maybe I'll do some of the SQs I ignored or just take a break.

Btw, did any of you play Syndicate? I'm pretty split on whether I should get it. I heard some of the gameplay is repetitive and boring. Trying to decide what to get when AC series go on sale again, I'm pretty sure it would. 

PS. I put the family onboard as lieuts and went sailing.   They have brief interesting conversations. 

dazk , you can’t combine Devastating Shot with Ghost Arrows since each enhances a single arrow via the spear. GA offers such a huge damage increase that you would never need to combine them. I use Predator Shot on distant targets, and DA on closer stuff that absolutely needs to die. GA is obvious, kill leaders, polemarches and scrubs alike through any obstruction. Everywhere I go, every port or village, I look briefly to see if there’s a leader about. I want that engraving that comes with a hefty leader body count. The guy in Kos (IIRC) has it the worst. I can practically shoot him from the deck of Adrestia, since his tower is just above the docks. I do prefer to loot afterward, but I don’t always. Places to go, others to shoot...

Obsidian Gryphon , I did kill Skoura. I was kind to him, but declared him foolish after he died. This encounter shouldn’t have been listed behind a second round of repetitive fights. I’d have experienced it the first time if it had been more clearly relevant to me. I don’t even bother with the “level 50 fights” until after the game is concluded, since I’m playing for the story. The repetitive foes of the Arena are too grindy for my taste. Now I know to jump straight to the “special bout” in future PTs. It probably should’ve been obvious, but I can imagine I was bored after all those fights and annoyed to see the same names listed again. It immediately called to my mind Origins’ arena, which was cool but obviously present for collectors who like to grind. I save that stuff for post-story.

I, too, experienced more mercs in Conquest Battles. There are a few possibilities. One, I just did more battles. This is certain. Two, they increase the frequency via a patch. Three, we were fighting in battles in which the foe wasn’t fully weakened and still had the drachmae to hire mercs. Whatever it is, I like fighting them. If one side hired our protagonist, why wouldn’t the other side hire mercs, too?

As to Syndicate, it’s the only AC I cannot replay. They absolutely perfected parkour in Unity and then trashed it in Syndicate. The rope-launcher-of-infinite-rope defies logic in any world without magic. Combat is atrocious. The soundtrack is hit and miss. The city is well rendered; but London was a dirty crap hole in that era, so that’s what you get. Carriages were over implemented. Shoe-horning them in got us the aforementioned, ruined parkour and magic rope-launcher. The game does have solid protagonists. I like the twins. I liked the Holmes investigations (which are DLC, I believe, free or otherwise). I liked the leading Templars. (On the street level, they were literally moustache-twirling, cackling buffoons in uniform. It was horrible.) Starrick had a pretty good over-arching plan. Barring one insane, out of character cutscene, he seemed like a reasonable, if egomaniacal, dude. For me, the trash gameplay ruined this game. It could’ve been one of the best if they’d stuck to the heart of the series with parkour and roof-running being centerstage. Shitty combat, magic traversal tools and ubiquitous carriages were too far a departure for me. If it’s cheap, you might get your money’s worth. The characters and story are okay. There are some good set pieces. That gameplay... 🤮

Obsidian Gryphon Element Zero somes up Syndicate exactly how I would, it is probably my least favourite AC game. The best thing are the twins and London but as EZ says the London at that time was pretty crap.

Thanks for the replies, folks. I'll wait for a sale since the price is at 40+ at present; not worth my paying it. Can't imagine no / reduced pakour and no rooftops in a AC game.

Obsidian Gryphon , don’t get me wrong; you definitely spend time on rooftops. There’s no running from roof to roof, though, as you get to the edge and freeze. Where Unity allowed spectacular, motion-captured parkour, its successor put heavy training wheels and limits on its parkour. I still can’t fathom why. (I suspect many people played Unity for about two hours and complained that it was too easy to jump off of roofs. I guess we’ll never know.) Another big reason that rooftop parkour becomes irrelevant is that they moved buildings incredibly far apart. London never actually looked this way, but they were obsessed with including carriage traffic; and they couldn’t make the system work without broad roads. Instead of running rooftops, you end up pulling yourself along this nonsensical cable system. It’s mounted on your arm and never runs out of cable, even after firing miles of anchored zip lines. It’s so stupid it makes my head hurt.

dazk , it’s not hard. Just shoot them in the face when they try to hit you! There’s a late-game legendary perk (for the feet, oddly) that allows all arrows to penetrate shields. This makes conquest battles even easier, as there are fewer dudes reducing damage by turtling behind shields. The 25% health makes it risky, but Hunter in general is very powerful. All of its skills do crazy damage at range, and none of them have cool downs. You can use them at will until you run out of adrenaline. Perks allow hits and headshots to regen adrenaline to feed the combat cycle.

You can clear a huge number of enemies from a battle with a few Multishots. I usually expend as many multishots as I can, killing at least one captain in the process. Then I regen adrenaline via headshots on any angry survivors. Ocassionally, I’ll need to scurry away from pursuit, but it's fine. They get dropped eventually, feeding my adrenaline-fueled arrow storm.