Assassins Creed Odyssey

Kass is the older and Alexios is the younger (canon). They have to go for a particular look for Alexios and a defined tone to him so he cannot appear to be too young. I have the book and have not read it yet. I did glance through it. The sequence is similar to the game but the tone / events are darker and more realistic.

Yay I am back online, damn internet provider did something that shut down our whole street, idiots.

Do we know the release schedule for the DLC, I am tempted to wait as well if it is such a short instalment.

So onto Elpenor I went to go turn in my bounty for the Wolf's head, which had Alexios lying to him and dropping his helmet down. Oh well. But almost immedietly bombastic and intimidating music was playing which I found quite frankly to be very manipulative. I mean at this point we had no real indication that Elpenor was a bad guy or had any nefarious purposes, I mean other than getting a son to kill their father. But the music was all like "this is a a bad guy...hey did you know he is a bad guy?...THIS IS A BAD GUY I TELL YOU!" Did anyone else get a similar reaction? It was annoying because it might've effected my roleplay maybe where Alexios didn't tell him jack shit.

But then holy heck the stakes raised in a hury. Apparently Elpenor is a part of this cult and he wants the war to go on and on because he is selling weapons to both sides. But first I had to deal with a sudden appearance of 'cultist guards', which were immune from shield grabbing. So that was tough, and in the middle of a fight a civvy got in the middle so he and a bunch of his friends got mad and then I had a bounty on me.

After dealing with the guards I decided to head for the Oracle to get my answers there (and the spear upgrades I hope eventually?) a mercenary popped up to claim the bounty with a shield, a spear, and a bow. I was able to deal with him, but I killed them apparently. Oh well. Would've been cool to have a lietuenant.

A little why later I bumped into another merc but I guess this guy wasn't after me...or didn't see me. So I ambushed him.

Onto the oracle and more blunt writing to follow Herodetes "If anyone controlled the Oracle then we are in trouble" *Pythia gets dragged away by angry looking guards while spouting at me* Herodetes "By Zeus the Pythia has been corrupted we are all in danger". But with that I got pointed to her dear old home.

Last thing I did before logging off is I found my second tomb on the way. Since my fiancee wanted to get on to play Red Dead and I was running out of time it was frustrating so I started randomly flailing around with the torch...and the wall with the stele collapsed. That was lucky.

Elpenor got on my nerves big time but when Alexios killed him it was almost without my permission. I'm not sure I was even asked if I wanted to do it, it just happened. So maybe the music made my fingers get twitchy or something. 

If my husband ever took up gaming (won't happen in a million years) he's going to have to get his own gaming computer...or better yet, I'll give him mine and get a newer, better gaming computer. 

Oh, that's a good reason to share. Athens is giving my computer a hard time since my graphics card is just below recommended. I don't know if it's because there are so many people or because I've played so many hours already. I'm going to have to upgrade soon. 

I can't believe how fast Alexios killed Elpenor...he walked into the cave and slaughtered him so then Elpenor had to do a death talk to get his lines in. 

Ok, so I'm just going to keep on with this game, bumbling along, causing plagues and making the wrong decisions because I don't want to hurt a little girl's feelings (khloe).

After the first PT, I just straight up killed Elpenor; walked into the cave and started shooting. I have to confess I don't even remember what's in the initial dialogue but it didn't matter any more once I found out what he was. Exchanging words is a waste of air.

Christ! I am starting to feel guilty over how much time I've put in and I;m still only puttering on level 13 or so. I was a bad boy last night and played when I should've been doing something else. :/

So speaking of I did a lot last night so lets try and get through it in no particular order.

Up first was the second trip to the Pythia. Even though it was a level 11 quest there was a level 12 mercenary just sitting on the thing. So what I did is killed a guard, then jumped assassinated a guard in the courtyard then in the midst of being discovered I had activated the door and talky talky to the Pythia and she pointed me in the direction of Elpenor...upon leavng her room two more cultist guards were waiting for me so I did my usual scramble up to the high ground and the merc followed me. A brief fight ensued and I decided with the guards likely going to join in on the fight somehow I was a little overmatched so I 'vanished' and bolted for the town walls and then out to talk to Herodetes.

Along the way I met the Daughters of Artemis which from my research is important to get some legendary gear and I also recruited my first merc which led me to 'speccing into' 'Call to Arms'.

Then to Elpenor's fort and man there was a lot of guards there. I got into a bit of a rolling fight with them, engaged Elpenor himself...killed him...he turned out to be afake...so after a brief struggle I decided the odds were stacked too far against me so *poof* deuces loosers.

A little while later I ran into a 'elder' which was just escorting a bunch of civvies around and being consious of the fact that not everyone in this game is neccessarily a bad guy, even if it has a level, I walked by. Well as I did the detection icon flashed and I was like 'huh'and then upon seeing the mask 'oh right you're a cultist...well then an arrow for you, an arrow for you, and another arrow for you.' Basically killed them even before the time dialation stopped.

Tracked down the real Elpenor to the cave, and my Alexios was like "I will kill him when I see him!" so naturally I was not surprised when a brawl broke out.

So all the pieces were in place to go spy on the cult meeting and more 'blunt writing' followed with the Deimos. I mean once more just intoroduced us to the topic only to pay it off mere moments later. But man the introduction of Deimos was eeerriiie and given my usual experience with this characacter, made my skin crawl and just made me sick. In a good way. Also I did like it that they showed that the cult had maybe a bit more layers, not all of the cult believes in the objectives of the overall thing and there is some give and go with the overall thing. Just a lot of really good and excellent writing and while blunt writing is not bad writing...well maybe I can get into the story after all.

So just as some general observations: The archery in this game at least it seems from some of the other powers that I have run into, is pretty OP compared to the other in universe trees. The ability to use your abilities without a cooldown is something else, granted you can go through AP really fast but man. Only thing is that I find it hard to hit moving targets or targets that are charging me. This could be bacause A. that's realistic. B. Bad controls in that aspect or C. because I suck. I mean I have pulled off a few impressive shots so... and 'Call to Arms' seems to be a waste. Not sure what I am doing wrong but it won't let me use it in combat so that might not be a good one after all.

Not unless you are using the multi shot ability. I have aim assist sort of on but it only helps, I still have to aim.

I have to admit I struggle with the archery in this game, especially as targets often make unexpected seemingly random movements that affect where you hit. I also am failing at effectively using it in things like the conquest battles as I get interrupted all the time.  I also have an issue with nerve damage to my thumb that doesn't help and makes me shank shots sometimes.   

What I thought. Well then it might be useless for what I was intending it for. I wanted to use it as a 'help me! I'm a stealth Assassin and I am surrounded by Polemarchs help!' not 'oh there is so many people down there, distract them.' Which I think I will actually respec now when I get to the final tier of abilities because I am learning more and I actually looked through the powers...but more on that in abit.

So what I did last night:

Lets see rapid fire: I did 'A Pirate's Life' and 'Crewless' as well as engaged maybe four or five pirate ships and took them out that was actually fun. I do like the naval combat in this game just maybe not as much as the ground combat and I worry about it having an emphasis but so far it is kind of nice.

But most importantly, I found the forge, I can now upgrade the spear!

Gushing spoilers to follow:


But yeah Deimos is rather awesome and I am gushing.

So yeah I'm not sure how good of an assassin I can be. Granted my utility is far less then a shooter where you can successfully do one shot kills on a lot of targets and sneak, you aren't guranteed that. SoI have just been running into an issue of headshotting a guard he being like 'what was that' and then alerting the entire camp. Couple with that when I was looking through the power list there was a Warrior abilities and there is one that operates like vanish, apparently does a shockwave, which does damage, and also stuns people. Which sounds, as much as I like the effect, clearly superior to Vanish...unless I am missing something. And Call to Arms is also useless for what I wanted it for and my play style in general so I will be respeccing once, maybe more times if I get certain legendary weapons.

Also I noted that the nation's power does actually go back up if you leave it alone, really quickly actually. In my two hours of from last night I got Mallis down to nothing and the conquest battle was available...and now its completly full. Don't mind that it went back up but man that was a bit fast.

Ah. But how does the chaos compare to Vanish? I think I've decided that I will respec at level 16 (when the next tier of abilities opens) and then once more when I get them all so I just need an informed decision about the compare contrast between those two abilities. Also...there is a perk for headshot damage? Is this something in the hunter tree or one of those 'master levels' I'll get when I get to level 50? Either way good to know.

Ah. That makes some sense. I don't know how many of the conquest battles i will really do this playthrough. That might just be one of the things I'll do on the weekend if there is more time. Unless of course those conquest battles can effect the ending somehow.