Assassins Creed Odyssey

I did and I feel it has made the game far more bearable in terms of enjoyment and progression. Its the first time I have ever done it but I feel as a not great exponent of the gameplay that it has made the game far more balanced and I haven't had to do lots of mundane quests. I feel kind of bad about it but it is what it is. 

Yeah, I'm definitely considering buying it. For the first playthrough I didn't mind not getting it, everything was new back then. But for my second, I can feel the repetition here and there. Maybe I might just take a break instead. 

Okay, this will feature a lot of random Odyssey thoughts. I didn’t post yesterday, so I have a bunch of small things in my mind.

First, the new patch has created some issues for me. One of its goals was to fix those strongholds that wouldn’t “complete” after all the items were completed. I only ever had this happen once before the patch. It’s happening frequently in this PT. Ultimately, it’s not a huge deal, as I’ve already done two completionist PTs. There’s no further reward for another. Still, it will annoy me, and I’ll no doubt backtrack later to clean up loose ends.

That Odysseus Pack could’ve been really good. I love the leather cuirass. The bow has a good perk for direct damage-dealing. That blue, though... ugh. I really like the color blue, but why so vibrant? It ruins a cool outfit. Would I have bought it if it looked better? Probably not; but I’m guaranteed not to do so now. The figurehead looks pretty cool. The crew and sail look stupid and meh, respectively.

The Adrestia Sail had been made red-on-white. It was beautiful. Someone restored it to its bleh, gold-on-red look from launch. It’s back to looking pretty meh in my opinion. We first saw the red-on-white when it was incorrectly awarded for an event. Maybe this prettier version will return via an event in the future? I hope so. The current one is so boring that I never use it once I have a viable alternative.

I’m 26 hours (I think?) into my PT. Alexios is Level 45, Spear 3. It’s great using him again. He’s definitely my favorite of the two, though I enjoy using each. I’ve taken a slightly different path through the game to this point. I always complete Phokis, Malis and Lokris after Megaris. I did that this time as well. I went and upgraded the spear to 2, then doubled back to complete Euboea & Skyros, as usual. I then sailed west, through waters that scared the piss out of Barnabas, to nan Poseidon’s Trident. I hit a few ship wrecks around the Aegean, completed Samos and Kos, and finally headed for Keos. It’s finished, for now, so I’ll likely head for Attika now. I did upgrade to Spear 3 along the way. I observed that this is the qualifier for the second melee wheel opens. I never paid attention prior to this. (On Keos, I finally noticed Xenia long before her role in the story arrives. I crept up behind the temple of Athena, spotting and avoiding pirates. I noticed one hulking Pirate and sighted in to mark the brute. It was Xenia, chilling behind her headquarters. I had assumed she was “inside” and unseen until her time arrived. Pretty cool. She also has some legit fortifications around that place, on the cliffs, etc... I was impressed.)

I’m concerned that I’ll pass level 50 with the game in a broken state. Without perks functioning properly, the weapons really start to lag behind within a few levels. They often patch late in the week. If this isn’t fixed very soon, I’ll have to pause in this PT. I’m really enjoying it, so I hope this won’t be the case.

The new “intelligent gear drops”, or whatever they call it, suuuucks! In an area with an Athenian presence? Expect that shitty +dmg to Athenians boost. Spartans? Same. Wildlife? Have a shitty +damage to animals perk on 90% of the drops. It’s terrible! I’m having a hard time getting any worthwhile gear. My chestpiece is Level 34 (that’s -11 Levels) because all I find is garbage. RNG is far superior to their idea of intelligent drops. They need to eliminate those three “factions” from their calculations. Everyone kills lots of troops and animals, since they’re omnipresent. That doesn’t mean that we want those trash, niche perks. Sigh.

The visual customization continues to be awesome. I’ve swapped specific pieces here and there, but I’ve generally worn Iron/Wrought Iron pieces throughout the game. My weapons are the smallest, most realistic looking pieces in the assortment. My bow is the Improved Hunter’s Bow. It’s great to be able to look like a somewhat believable warrior instead of a Final Fantasy extra. I love this small, yet huge addition to the experience.

Alright, I think that’s all I have.

Apparently only the elemental damage is truly broken after level 50. The rest of the perks work as intended past their level 50 upgrade and the glitch is that the statistics page doesn't register them properly. Which means upgrade away and don't go nuts in elemental gear.

As a side note - some keys must be rebinded not to do the same function or accidents happen 😇 So I am near a chest in the city area of Pephka, so hold E to steal (don't judge), right? As I start to hold E my tamed Alpha lion decides to come real close for a hug. Can you guess? Yeah, I untamed Ser Pounce-a-lot on accident and he really went on a spree. Minothaur? A minothaur got nothing on an Alpha lion going berserk in the urban area. Pephka will have a new horror legend for sure 😂 If anyone is concerned, don't worry, I tamed him back after he had his fun. Then we both went into a Conquest battle for even more fun.

I am assuming poison is included in elemental damage? Sorry if that's a dumb question.

You need to train your kitty better.  

Unfortunately I can't find a method to restore an overwritten save file 😩 Does the PS4 even have any sort of cache folder or something for junk/old files?

My personal "insurance" for such disasters is to backup my saves manually. I configure all my games to save in the same folder, which I backup every few days in triplicate on several drives and sometimes on a USB. I used to backup every game separately from it's default save location, but it's tedious and having them all in the same place is easier. One of the perks for being on the "PC master race".

I am buying too many games because of Ubi's Black Friday sales 😇 Decided to give their Far Cry franchise a shot. I hear that's where the eagle in ACO and ACOD came from. Already tried and finished the first Watch Dogs. Kinda dissapointed with it. Lots of potential but lacking in realizing it. Pondering if I want to get the second game.

dazk, I think Steropes was easy. The arena, so to speak, is pretty large. He has a water-based area attack that is pretty easily dodged. I killed him easily on Hard, both times with a Hunter loadout.

Wow @elementzweo that save system is stupid. Being still on my first PT I wasn't aware of how it worked but whoever deemed it a good idea should be fired and hung drawn and quartered. It amazes me that games have been around so long and no one seems to have come across a save system that everyone goes that's great and adopts it. Hell its one of the most important functionalities of a game.

Anyway makes me doubly weary of playing a 2nd character and just waiting for NG+

On a separate note, Oikus continues to screw me over. He has given me one one epic item and one legendary one that I have kept out of more than 20 trys at the luck dip. So have decided to just give up on that and yesterday caved in and bought The Rebel Spartan gear to use its aesthetics on my current set-up and bought the Odysseus Naval pack. I like the ship and sail but the crew are a bit out there:



New gear look but without the hood:



New ship look with Odysseus sail, mermaid figurehead

saandrig for some reason my Nvidia card settings for Frame Rate have have changed. You recommended locking it at 60FPS on the actual card which I did but it has changed and I can't remember how to lock it again. Would you mind telling me again as it had a big impact on quality of gameplay and stopped some tearing I was getting.

Thank you, the bloody thing fixed itself. And yes it was after an update just restarted the PC

Yeah, Odyssey will GPU bottleneck and heat up even the best GPU on the market if you play above 1080p resolution 😈

It will task the best CPUs too, no matter the resolution (almost). I was a bit worried after the last patch because ingame it looked that my CPU got more load than before and regularly reaching 90% load. But then I saw I forgot to turn off a bunch of active programs that I used while waiting for the patch to download. And now I am so proud of my little 8086k chip for handling the game so well under pressure.

Sheesh. I'm not amused. I did Robin and the Kingfisher. When Dagger goons attacked, I got slapped with bounties. WTH is this? Was I supposed to stand there and get killed (no civvies were killed)? While on the island kicking the goons of the Dagger (last stage of the story), some civvies waded in and I struck some of them in the melee. Bounty. I was not amused; galloping to the top to the temple and some A-hole mercenary showed up immediately at my back.

Another showed up again and I kicked her to Hades. After the story was done, I went back to the main island and killed the sponsor.

The game couldn't make up its mind. Before I did the last stage, I did the conquest battle and turned the main island over to the Spartans. Upon landing at the problem island, I saw Dagger goons, Athenian soldiers and one Spartan soldier. All were fighting. After the Dagger goons were killed at the dock, the Athenian all jumped on the lone Spartan.