Assassins Creed Odyssey

So I think I have pretty much confirmed an earlier suspicion of mine. I am pretty sure they patched or just changed the way mercenaries behave in this game hiding for you. which is something I am torn on because while this was one of my major complaints about the game and hence the game is *better* on the one hand on the other its clearly not how the game was *supposed* to work and...well they might have overcompensated. . Long story short I killed I think it was Brison and two of his guards in the middle of broad daylight which netted me a two skull bounty. Despite this though during the entire time it took the bounty to go away, naturally, no a single merc started hunting me. Also this was including crossing over like two of them when I was out and about and they did not react to me as I mercilessly killed them.

It also helped that this also happened when I was hunting down through a fort doing the quest for Hipokrates and going after his notes. Which pretty much went off without a hitch this time, only trouble I ran into was at te end of clearing it out just after I finished out of the objectives to clear the fort and I think a guard woke up someone I had dealt with which led to a (very brief) struggle. Also a lot of devastating shots with the bow was kind of the order of the day, actually it was funny too I heard the 'guards prowling music' and turned around and two guards were alerted because tey found one of their knocked out compatriots so I rushed off and well they weirdly enough did not pick up their people so I got em too. The ending of the quest was interesting because I actually think I have done all three options to end it now. Alexios killed the patient. Kass 1 waited and now Kass 2 paid him off...wich has to be perhaps bizarrely the best result for the quest because Hipokrates patient survives. And I think from a pure cold blooded mathematical standpoint (which I play this Kass as someone who is imminently practical) the logic was simple: You had two guys whose life was in mortal peril and yet for the Hipokrates side you also had the guy promising to give Kass information on Myriene's whereabouts. Now Kass, the character, had no way of knowing that Hipokrates would honor this choice regardless and nor did she know that he would just say to go to the priests anyways. So, I am fairly confident that this will be my 'canon' choice.

And going to the Priests of Alespios another rather interesting thing happened. Don't know if this is something they have changed or if I was always doing te order wrong or what but I did the quest where you hunted down the white bull...and ten the guy jus t pointed me at the old guy so now I do not have to do the other two legs apparently I can just go directly to talk with him. Also gave the heart for the farmer, again more practical but I did find it interesting the response I got from the priest when I said I would help. about me being blood soaked. I think this Kass has been a bit more violent then her last one.

That's the set I use as well and with the right weapons and bow with CRIT stats supporting it I can pretty much one hit assassinate anyone and same with Rush Assassination.

Finished off Eppie's quest - decided to lie to him this time. Then handled three of the Lost Tales.

The Poet's Legacy - probably my least favourite of the the whole nine. Told the kid to forget his mother, she didn't want him and Kass didn't know the specifics of her life. Maybe the marriage was arranged and she never loved the guy. Whatever, it's over.

The Test of Faith with "Athena" was nearly interesting.

And then the brothers. I mean, I get it guys - Kass is gorgeous, but she is not your prize for just showing up. Blue balls all around.

Saving Really Bad Day and the Barnabas and Herotodos ones for next time (first time with Herotodos - I didn't do it in my first PT).

I quite enjoyed The Herodotos one but it is one I always leave till the very end of a PT as it seems fitting. The Very Bad Day one tried too hard to be funny IMO.

The Athena one is probably my favourite one, I like her sassy ways. 

Re Horodotos yeah because

That quest "Family Values" is just great. 

The storyline with Agapios still is one of my favorite storylines and side quests in the game...but yet on this playthrough I noticed there is a lot of very weird shenanigans going on with it. There is a very weird nudge nudge wink wink thing going on with it. It just seems really weird that the Dagger's men could both be considered a apart of the official police force/ authorities of the island...their tax collector where the initial documents were were at an area with an Athenian polemarch and I believe they count and their supplies count against the nation power...and the fort where they take the farmer is again an Athenian Fort with a whole bunch of war power looting ops...and yet the people are called Rogues in the dialog. I had no real issue killing them to every last man this time.

And then it became a bit of a comedy of errors. first off despite what I noted I believe previously, well Mercs started to become more of a pest then usual. I had to deal with like 3 of them at one time and well one showed up at the aforementioned fort and one chased my around Chalkis city. ACTUALLY yeah that was part of it to because I was hunting a merc, rush assassined it...and then accidentally hit a civilian instead of its pet which really pissed off everyone and the leader guard and then that raised my bounty back up so another merc got involved in on te fun. But I killed him and escaped and then...well for the whole play arc I got the guy killed because I walked up to him thinking he was a safe zone and...nope...so I screwed that up which was not too good. Then for some bizarre reason do not know what I was thinking but given the guy who is Agapios's contact is called 'the magistrate' I thought he could be the leader so I walked up to said leader thinking it was the quest objective...and even when it was in a neutral area, this still triggered them...and long story short I now have kidnapped another leader and pressed them into service on the Adrestia. I also think I am using my bow a lot more.

But yeah in spite of all this the ending is still really interesting given it is almost a direct mirror for the ending of the family story. And even more so since this is one of the few really juicy story moments which do NOT involve the cult in any way shape or form. But I do wonder if this is a scenario which is set up so it could be in the back of your mind as you are trying to redeam Alexios... and Agapios dies.

Anyways though did some exploring and then looked up the answer so now I am off to do the battle of Hundred Hands. I did find it fun though wen I was out sailing I was surfing around on my phone and ships appeared on my horizon so I just had enough time to pick up the controller and thread the needle having to go between them, they hit me a bit but no damage and no fight. It was cool.

The Agapios quest is one I usually avoid TBH I just find it too long and tedious.

Let's see - on dazk's advice, I postponed the Herotodos LtoG until the post-game play, but zipped through the Daughters of Lalaia, Really Bad Day and helped Barnabas find his Leda. Also started in on First, Do No Harm (and managed to get the doctor from the fort without killing anyone!). Now it's off to the Temple to talk with the Elder Priest about Kass' mother.

So its been a while since I have checked in but I have been doing a lot of stuff in that time.

The first thing on this list was to do the Delos arc...AKA the most confusing arc in the game where somehow I keep on failing to unlock the whole big party thing at the end but I did get through everything else. While it did happen later it is worth mentioning that I did the quest with the creepy captured Delian rebel crazy person. This time I did actually keep him alive. I figured that we have already wrestled control of the islands from the Athenians and Kyra is engaged to Thelatas so she will deal with him in his own way. Of course if I knew it going in not sure I would've done it, but then Sokrates had nice words to say about me not killing a lot of people.

Then did both the Korinth arc and the Keos arc so now I just have to go back to deal with the sadness of Athens under siege so...I did not go to do that.

So I ran around sweeping through my side quests and going to ill off more cultists. Including the one off the Delos island. And the one thatgets exposed by fighting in the Arena. I also did both Hearts of Stone and the one with the clay friends. As per the suggestion from TV tropes I actually decided to run through it and let the guards deal with it. Of course do not know what happened to the initial suitor but the witch did stand her ground and fought us, which she did die.

Weapped up in Boetia with the hunting down the cultist clue with the leader and well...that was not one leader who was going to join our crew. Murdering them got me all three heads instantaneously and had to deal with 3 mercs.

The leader house near the Supideo quest (in Lokris I think) has between 2 and 4 marksman, depending on luck (and if it's Athenian land - I always try to keep it so). The nearby fort has usually 2 marksman and if a Conquest camp appears - that's 1 more.