Assassins Creed Odyssey

If bow shooting stress the old injury, better not to opt for it. Use it when you're comfortable. I'm dominant with the right hand but I use the mouse with my left hand. Don't ask me why. I can't fathom it. It's just comfortable for me and feels right. If I use the mouse with my right hand, I feel awkward and out of sorts. Even when I play games like badminton or table tennis, etc, I can snatch the shuttlecock midair with my left. It's an auto reflex but I wouldn't do as well with my right; snatching stuff midair that is.

I have loads of wood but it doesn't autocraft. The quiver menu has a line that says; toggle autocraft and showed an image of the wheel of the mouse. Unfortunately, pressing on the wheel does not do anything and this particular key cannot be rebind. It's an oversight which I hope they would correct.

Yes, you have to fight those two to get the artifacts. The Sphinx is the easiest.

I wish the modern part after all four were acquired can be skipped because I don't enjoy it and I disliked it very much because of how the result was dealt with. It makes me annoyed with whoever wrote the modern part and I don't think much of Layla at all.

I play baseball with some Greeks and it is hilarious how often they use the word Malaka. 

Will try and remember the Layla bit. 

You know, it's high time for the citizens of Athens to file a formal complaint about their wall security. Do the authorities even realize how easy it is for someone, say like a misthios (with 5-star bounty already), to just stroll in, do half a wall round, kill 30 soldiers, loot hundreds of materials and steal around 30k drachmae worth of inventory? It's scandalous I tell you! Something must be done soon. Contact your representative now! And if anyone needs the statistics, contact me, I already did the research on the subject 

Steropes was a pushover. I wondered if he’d drop me, since I play on Hard at 25%hp and fought him in the dark. The combat area was large. Against that for, and more confused space probably would’ve been more exciting. I time slowed and shot him in the eye immediately. Several Devastating Shots later he was dead. I did get hung up on some drift wood, once, and got hit. Fortunately, you cannot truly be one-shot killed in Odyssey, so I managed to escape. I also experience a bug in which I’d be aiming at Steropes and would suddenly be spun around 180 degrees. It was annoying, but didn’t save him.

I think my favorite fights are against the Minotaur and the Cyclops. The smaller zones make it more lively. The Medusa is the most dangerous, but the huge battlefield makes for a pretty easy, rinse and repeat battle.

I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s big update. I wish we were getting NG+; but this at least makes a new PT worthwhile. I can play as Alexios again and keep leveling beyond the first third of my playtime.

That depends on the quest that you picked in the beginning: starks or lions. One room is open, the other will be closed.

I changed to an epic Sword a few days ago as it was better than Nikolaos's sword and Prometheus's Sicha. It has 14% Assassin/20% Poison/15% Sword Bonus and I engraved weapon damage is poison damage and reset my abilities to include Poison Mastery etc. In the Arena with Skoura I was one hitting some combatants.   

My fire damage has tanked hard after upgrading gear to level 51. Seems to be a bug going around for certain engravings that stops them working above level 50. I need a hotfix to be a Demigod of Fire again! A Demigod that can now run around Ancient Greece with a flaming sword and only a small towel/s covering his/hers oiled body! 😇

The new Adrestia upgrades are sick. I have been cleaving ships like a madman. Also noticed that the treasure chests on the enemy ships seem to not be nailed down, so when you cleave a ship the game physics can throw the chests anywhere. I had chests landing all over Adrestia's deck, even on the nose Ram part. One chest nearly hit Barnabas.

Also there is something awesome and eerie about cleaving a ship and then jumping underwater to look how both halves slowly sink at first and then start rapidly go into the dark sea depths, sometimes even rotating to a side on the way down. I never did that in Black flag, but if it was a feature there too, the sight must be even more magestic.

Actually now you mention it I am maxed for poison damage and I did seem less effective in melee today when I changed to L51.

Haven't tested out the Adrestia upgrades yet and am keen to see them now. 

Got a legend crew from Oikos today the death guys but otherwise he just gave me crap. Got a new horse from a mission:

It’s interesting you guys mention elemental damage bugs. I played a bit more with Kassandra today. She’s a hair’s breadth from Level 54. At 53, I got a chestpiece that was really good. It’s +Poison% was really high, so I engraved and equipped it. My poison damage immediately dropped by 30%. I was drowsy, so I just closed it and saved. Now, it seems pretty obvious that the higher leveled perks aren’t working. I wonder if it’s just poison and fire perks, or if other stuff is broken? I’ll have to load that save and reequip the level 50 chestpiece.

I took some time to collect the handful of Ostraka solutions I’d not yet done. I think there were about 6 or 7 I had to get. They were spread across Greece, so I made a mini-Odyssey out of it. The only one I didn’t solve out of the entire set is the “tree atop the palace at Knossos”. There are plenty of such trees, but none hold a prize. The tree in question is actually to the south atop a hill, not really all that close to Knossos. Thanks, Google, for your help on that one. That pushed most of my engraving perks to their maximum values, and now they might be bugged. Great.

dazk , those new ship upgrades are insane. Like saandrig was saying, they’re really powerful. I imagine they’re targeted at Level 70 ships, so our current foes stand no chance. That angular, metal ram (that was previously only seen on Alpha ships) changes the appearance of Adrestia quite a bit. I think the huge, intricate figureheads now look better than previously. I’ve actually been using Skylla, since she’s no longer too big for the ship. I even looked at the accompanying sail/appearance in the Store, but meh. Its color scheme is perfect for my taste. Black wood with dark blue and white detailing is great. For some reason, though, they doubled down on Skylla and forgot Charybdis. The sail should feature him instead of Skylla. It could’ve had a kraken with a gaping maw, or a vortex with stylized tentacles. Even a crazy, hurricane-shaped vortex would be cool. The Skylla sail just doesn’t do it for me. Alas, they still get no MT money from me. If only they’d create something as awesome as Sand Dweller, the ancient world’s most stylish camel, I might cave. He was well worth the $5 I spent on him.

I am about to start anew with Alexios. It will be cool to hit Level 70 somewhere in the middle of the game. I think I typically hit 50 in Attika, so I’ll be expecting 70 sometime during the hunt for mom. I might go a few places earlier this time. I now recall specifically where most legendary chests are found. I might chase some items to get my build nailed down earlier. I can’t decide what that will be, though: Fire Warrior, Assassin or Hunter.

dazk , if it's a bounty, the kill must be confirmed.

Quests like bounty on Spartan / Athenian soldiers also need a kill confirm but this depends on the wording; if it's a specific soldier or just a camp. If it's the latter, killing everyone in the camp is good enough.

I have not encountered any issue with mercenary deaths yet. 

The other thing I can think of is they're of a higher tier than you and a confirmation is needed.