Assassins Creed Odyssey

I got attacked by a chicken for the first time yesterday and was like  LOL. Still not sure why though!!!! I also cannot believe civilians would attack an armed merc with bits of wood, that happened to me yesterday when I took out a leader without thinking in the open. I felt bad to have to kill several of them. Hell past AC games would have desynched you for that.

oooh haven't seen a wild cat yet, I killed a merc. L14 (I am 10) that had a Lion yesterday and one with a dog also attacked me, the dog bit me 3 times and I died 

I'll see if can grab a screenshot today of the merc riding around Megris who is level 39. The Merc system really irritates me, I hope they tone it down at least, I don't play the game to engage in combat 50% of my play time. 

Thank you!!!! 

Yeah, the recruiting mechanic is ridiculous. I hate to have to use it, but I’ll need better lieutenants at some point.

Your main crew doesn’t increase or decrease as it did in Black Flag/Rogue. You can get different skins for your crew, changing their appearance, but that’s it. (If you use an all-women crew the shanties are sung by women. One immersion-breaking issue avoided, I guess.)

I got my first skin last night.

The only women I've recruited is a female bandit and a female after I completed a quest for her. Everyone else has been male

Good lieutenants seems like it'd be hard to do, have to knockout legendary? (Gold rarity guys) or epic guys in one hit. Seems impossible to me but somehow at some point I did it as I have a purple and gold lieutenant. I'm ignoring the triremes for now, those things are big and I'm already struggling vs other biremes my lvl. Naval combat is a little fun, but it sucks when you're fighting one and you have 2 others trying to ram you. Hard to keep shooting at one and being on the look out for the other two ramming you as you're having to push your oarmen to avoid them.

I also made some progress yesterday. Think I'm pretty much lvl 18 now, I visited thermoplea or the hot gates, went inside the hidden cave thing on Ardos and upgraded my spear and finally made it to Athens. The view was glorious once I got to the top of a mountain to see it. Big ass temple right in the middle of a big ass city. I also assassinated 3 cultists in the process on my way there.

Choice wise I think the only thing i did was not fight your counterpart (brother/sister) when given the option on Ardos.

One interesting thing I saw was you can assassinate nation leaders, I wonder how much chaos comes about if I take out pirikles (probably ruined that name) as I saw the icon above his head. I think I'll hold off on that for now.

themikefest, your crew’s gender is only changed via “skins” (sort of). You’ll earn them via exploration and quests, and there are some in the UbiClub and Store. The UbiClub is free, so I always nab some things there. You spend points earned by completing in-game milestones in all Ubi games. The only all-female few I’ve seen so far is the Female Assassins crew from UbiClub. I’d be surprised if there isn’t at least one more in-game, given the several all-female tribes and societies in-game.

If you guys are looking to drop high-levels targets non-lethally for recruitment, the non-lethal arrows are your best bet. Shuttle down their health and then finish them with the arrow. You can craft them after investing in the appropriate Hunter skill.

Well doesn't this game look fun.

Not sure what he was trying to achieve with that video, was he just trying to be funny?

I visited a Kratos Cave, if I recall correctly. It’s been many a mile and hour since. That cave may not even have anything to do with GoW Kratos, I guess.

You will end up in my favourite dialogue for side quests 😀 Randomized NPC: "Please, mighty Eagle bearer, kill and loot X and Y." Kassandra: "Been there, done that, what else you got? Yeah? Done it too, that too. And that. Hey, I single handedly did your whole rebellion already for free, but since you insist to pay...And why did you even call me anyway?".
There was a pretty cute instance where Kas sounded kind of embarrassed admiting she already burned the quest crops. I mean I get it. What kind of psychopath just stops to randomly burn a farm down 😂 In my defence - there was a clue for a cultist pointing to those two islands. So I just raided the first one top to bottom. How could I have known that the quest chain that opened loads of quests for both islands had to be triggered from a single NPC on the second island?

And I just got to a point in the story where a hint was dropped about the eagle.

I have had a similar experience, only level 12 but I have had good days and bad in terms of frustrations with combat but over the past 3 days I think I have come to terms with the combat and am even enjoying it plus I have realised I just have to adapt my strategies from my old stealth heavy ways o the past. Can still do stealth but I have to use a different approach.

I am madly trying to save coin atm to upgrade the ship and also trying to keep my gear upgraded, its a fine balance but some of the message board quests often pay good money especially the bounties. I got 900 Drachmae for 1 bounty.

How are you guys struggling with coin? I had over 600K drachmae around Level 36. I saved for the evening at Level 41, and have around 700K, IIRC. The only limiting factor for me is finding those stone tablets. If it weren’t for that single limiting factor, my Adrestia would’ve been maxed ages ago.

I pick up every notice board quest, even if I don’t intend to make them a priority. They’re generally either close at hand and easy, and/or stuff you’ll end up doing anyway. They pay well. I break down common (grey) items I don’t need and sell rares (blue) and epics (purple). It’s easy to adapt this based upon whether materials or money is of more immediate concern. I’ve only done a few Conquest battles, but they pay well and give great non-cash rewards. If you’re in need of cash, provoke a transfer of power. The requisite raiding and pillaging will get you paid, as will the big battle.

On the topic of quests, anyone else feel weird at how easy it is to murder for money over trivial issues? I want cash and XP, so I’m doing whatever this PT. Still, these job requests are ridiculous. “Misthios, I need your help. My neighbor looked st me funny. He needs to die.” “So, you want me to kill your neighbor?” “Yes, misthios. He must die!” “Okay, I’ll do it. You can count on me!” 😆 I’m curious to see if this ruthless, mercenary behavior ever results in consequences.


I know this is the spoiler thread, but I still feel odd posting spoilers so early, so I’m keeping things very vague. I’m completely finished with Attica and have only some of the critical path left to do. Alexios sometimes comes across as naive or simple, though at other times we get to RP him as keen and clever. Whether or not Alexios is gullible, I am not. I don’t trust most of the NPCs as far as I can throw them. I’m smelling BS from all quarters. It should be interesting if my worst suspicions come true. How will Alexios (be empowered to) react to being deceived and used? This is an AC game, so it’s not a matter of “if”, but “when”.

I've been trying to land a fourth Legendary lieutenant. I’ve battled several such mercs and attempted to subdue them with paralyzing arrows. This is how I recruited the previous three, but it’s not working. The fools keep dying, despite using basic attacks with non-lethal ammo. I might have to try punching one unconscious tomorrow. Whittle then down to a red bar, then WHAP!