Assassins Creed Odyssey

I am the same got myself so worked up about fighting the Minotaur which turned out to be easy but I was so nervous it made it difficult.   

I have to confess I have asked my 16yo son to do parts of some games for me, stupid QTE's etc. 

So, once more I don't feel like I got very much done in the game last night. Even though I probably did. But hey I got to Athens and I was really curious to see if it was going to be a fully fledged city like Novigrad, or just a minor settlement...and holy cow I think I'm in love.

Anyways I also met with Perikles when he was dealing with Kleon, interesting overall...and the interesting thing to note is since he is the 'leader' for the Athens area I guess we can assassinate him to do a conquest battle. That was a bold stroke, if true, on the part of Ubisoft. Not that I am going to avail myself of the opprotunity unless it comes up for specific story reasons then I *might*. *cough*. Anyways he gave me three tasks and off I went.

I decided to do the Phidias branch first because he was the one I rememember most from the cult meeting. Seems a lot of bull crap was happening because the 'mob' wanted his head (ain't Democracy grand?). There was a guard on the door, option was to either bribe him or kill him...Alexios went with the latter considering I think he is the more blood thirsty and blunt of the two (really starting to delve into his character recently, and then maybe how my Kass will differ...when I get to her). After talking to him some guards popped up and they were all like 'you think you can attack us and get away with it', and so I engaged him to distract, more guards showed up, then civilians, so I picked up sticks and went to meet the guy at the docks.

So off to Seriphos island I went...and the naval combat is now a net negative for me and I think this makes the game worse then a lot of other recent games I've been playing, still great, still worthy of getting the DLC and doing a second PT...but man this was annoying. I got 'in combat' with a squadron of enemy ships and well I didn't want to, I wanted to focus on the story, but I couldn't dock since I was 'in combat' (even though no shots had been exchanged). A. while the combat itself isn't bad its almost impossible to avoid. B. I swore that every time you got health back it recharged your boat entirely, but it only seems to do it partially, which makes it bad when C. Seems like every combat is a pitched battle. It'd be fine if it were odds of one or two to one, but i was facing odds of at least five to one. All the while i wanted to do some GD story.

Anyways i also now n have all ability tiers unlocked, and GAoA, so going to make sure my Assassin passives are good to go and then fill out my second ability wheel.

There are two AC games that have one event in them each that I really hate. One is in AC3 the QTE in the fight between the two lumberjacks, I managed to do it first time I played but every time since I get my son to do it. The second is from AC Liberation, going for 100% there is a part on a boat and you have to make jumps without landing in the water but the last jump no matter what I did I always ended up in the water, never mind I had just done several jumps successfully. After about 6 attempts I got so cranky I rage quit and threw a bean bag which just happened to catch the light fitting on the ceiling and smashed it and the light bulb all over a carpeted floor.   

Vowed I'd never let a game do that to me again and so far have been successful but I also just stopped chasing achievements. 

it is hard not to buy those.

Posted this in the other games thread thought I'd post it here too.

So reached L68 in AC Odyssey yesterday, on 8,108 kills, and 99% completion and have travelled 1,500+km's.

Still roaming the Greek world clearing Orichalcum sites and question marks I haven't revealed plus doing some story missions I missed. I found Myrinne ages ago but found two quests (black & gold markers) in Argolis relating to finding her. These are obviously not necessary as otherwise I would have not found her. Anyway impatiently finished these redundant quests only for one of them to be a trick by some guy to get me to clear his bathhouse of snakes. Tried to rage kill him afterwards but he had plot armour. I have only deliberately rage killed one other NPC in the game and that was cause she dissed my mum.

Discovered that I also haven't finished Xenia's pirate missions but don't have any quests for her and don't remember seeing any quest markers for her so back to Keos (?) today. Also accidentally stumbled across Markos in jail in a fort on Kos which I had not ventured to before, those missions strained my patience a bit.

Found an Orichalcum site that you cannot loot at Fort Arkys, its under water but the water isn't deep enough to be able to dive to loot it.

saandrig I tried the exploding arrow trick on the signal fire yesterday and it sort of worked but didn't. Did you trap it first cause I didn't, the signal fire lit and all the guards became alert but that's all that happened. It was like the game didn't know what to do.
Found the best "Alpha Animal" site yesterday as well, don't mess with the Alpha Rooster.



All hail the Taurus's of the world:



Game continues to impress me visually and not rushing so much at them moment lets me enjoy the scenery a whole lot more:

Well this is now my third attempt to write this post about what I did a lot so I am going to be brief (it crashed twice wiping out the post).

So the most pertinent things was after going to a blacksmith with my new gear to get it upgraded and playing around with the visual customization stuff I discovered somewhere I came across a shroud that is good visually,but without the stats and something I wanted. Black but with a half mask covering Alexios's face. I really upgraded a lot of my gear last night too including actually spending the resources to get my Ashen bow up to the current level.

Secondly I have discovered that the politics of Athensare shit. Kind of want to assassinate Perikles and conquer Attika in the name of Sparta just so history can resume its proper course and wipe out all those vile people. Ick.

*is about to click... Sees warning... Hisses and flies to the farthest corner of the intranet... Comes crawling back in and swipes at Hrungrs post.*

"Chomping on"...?  

When I finish the DLC, then I'll really start picking this place apart. 

So lets see.

I rather enjoyed the rest of Perikles's party. That I now have three different leads in three different regions to pursue to find Alexios's mother. I was also plesently surprised to see that entire 'quest chain' did not involve a single bit of combat. I was honestly expecting the Cult to crash the party right then and there. So well played.

So with Attika's story basically done now off to do question marks and find the two cult members before I go off to do more side quests and then go onto the next bits of the story. (Rinse, Wash, Repeat?) First question mark with the military port of...something...in Athens though and boy was it the best assassining I have done in a while. Predatored one guard, then climbed up to Assassinate another and...well I had to keep on climbing up on this one area repeatedly to hide...finally I got it down to the single Captain of the area and he was looking around, so I dueled him and got through pretty much without raising a fuss...or my bounty level. But then a mercenary hunting me showed up regardless and I had to take care of him. *grumble*

The second one did not go too well. Salamis Quarry. I did manage to one shot Brison the Cultist with Predator shot which caused the guards to look around but it ended up with basically a huge two mercs versus me plus all the other guards battle. Maybe I was kind of rushing to hand it over to my fiancee though, and I did get through it. But I am getting so sick and tired of random civillians joining the frey against me. I mean I don't blame them on some level but for them to strike me I think when I kill a civvie causes the bounty to REALLY go up. But I mean its all "I don't want to hurt you!" *grumble*.

Anyways I am off to try and hunt down the second cultist in Attika. It says talk to a Polemarch or continue my Oddyssey so I am hoping its something I don't have to come back to, but in the meantime if I trigger a conquest battle in Attika...so much the better.

I made the mistake of leaving Athens too early and had to go back and do quests that would have better fitted doing at the time. In particular do all the Sokrates and Alkibiades quests there as they unlock at least one cultist.

colfoley, to save you one particular trouble. One of Sokarates's quest has something to do with a horse thief. He'll say; go talk to the thief. The thief is smacked right in an area controlled by the military.

You have two choices; bump the military. Or simply sneak close enough for the thief to see you. He'll take off like a bat to the street. He'll circle round the military held area so you don't really have to be at his heels.

I won't even pretend to comprehend how you managed that.   

In the first PT, I carefully removed the soldiers. Then when the little snot took off, I chased him. In the aftermath, I realised I was wasting my time killing soldiers / chasing him. In the next PT, I just crept into the warehouse, made sure the soldiers were nowhere near. There's one who's rather near but he's on the right with his back to me. I just inched forward until the little snot saw me. Away he went and away I leaped out of the window of the warehouse on my right, dropped down to the street and waited for the thief to come running into Kass's arms. 

In the present PT, I opted to run towards him. He couldn't brake fast enough.