Assassins Creed Odyssey

Me too.  The interactions between 'Athena' and Alexios were priceless.  As was the fun little explorations and while the moral quandries aren't as good as some of the stuff in the base game it was kind of fun musing on it.  I actually do sometimes wonder how much of the choice in this game is in the background as it were.  Outside of cutscenes because it did do that bit way back on Kepholonia where Markos was attacked because I wasn't stealthy...I just haven't run into too many concrete and obvious examples.  

Hmm, I might have to check that out but normally I wouldn't do something like that.  

Uh take note guys that after level 70 and you still play the game every progress that you've made that far will be reset to 0 when the next update comes. I'm half way through now and it got me 7 or 8 ability points this far. So my gold bar will disappear ... i'm not really happy with it to be honest. And one more thing when you're level 70 you get 30 ability points when the update comes for free so that's a yay right.

Maybe this is old news and maybe it's not ... i don't give a s*** haha.

Oh and btw you will keep your ability points.

I’ve been away for a while. It’s cool to see so many new players. I’m assuming this was a holiday gift for many.

In regard to the current topic of resources, I think your pools will largely depend upon your playstyle. It’s incredibly inefficient to regularly upgrade gear before reaching max level. If you do so, you’ll likely be running low on materials throughout the first half of the game. If you simply use the best pieces you own, and use the cosmetic editing feature to get the look you want, you’ll quickly stack up resources. I’ve 100% completed the game three times, with the last being after the level increase to 70. In each of my PTs, I have over 30K each of the “common” materials like leather and iron. I have between 10K and 15K of the more rare materials (precious stones and the like). [In my original PT, it was more like 60K and 20K, and many millions of drachmae. I think they tamed the economy via patches.]

Your drachmae really only serve one purpose: buying materials, and maybe a really good Epic piece now and then. As soon as you get the 50% discount mercenary perk (Tier 8?), start clearing out the blacksmiths’ inventories whenever you visit. You’ll always have the needed materials if you’re regularly buying them and investing them wisely.


@patricia, the “reset” won’t be a bad thing. There is a bug that makes leveling after 70 ten times more expensive than it should be. Instead of 2.3M XP to get that “level 71” ability point, it instead takes 23M. It’s nuts. Playing the game through 100%, including the expansion, I only earned one post-70 ability point. Ubi can’t release a patch that leaves everyone’s individual XP figure untouched, but they realize that many would’ve earned a ton of post-70 ability points if not for the bug. The patch will reset the XP bar of everyone at Level 70 to the baseline level 70 value. They’ll also give us those 30 ability points you mentioned as recompense for our less rewarding gameplay. I’ve moved on from Odyssey, for now, but those will be nice for optimization via those numerous mastery skills (can’t recall the actual name, as I’ve not played in quite a while).


I never gave any opinions of the DLC, more recent thoughts on the gameplay after the most recent PT, etc... Hunter gameplay is brokenly powerful. It starts off great, levels off for 5-10 levels, and the resumes its dominance throughout the game. All three styles are rewarding, but a primary Hunter is so much better than a Warrior or Assassin that the optimizer in me recoils at the thought of donning my Warrior/Assassin fear.

In regard to the new leveling, it felt like I hit 56-60 pretty quickly, with it taking not much longer than reaching 50. (I usually reach those levels around the time I arrive in Athens). Things slowed a bit from 60-65, and those last few levels really took a while. It was good to finally hit 70 and finalize my gear; though the differences between level 67 gear and level 70 gear are miniscule.

The DLC was a reasonable start. Clearly, the daughter/son of Darius is set up to be a life partner of some sort. I imagine people losing their shit about “forced romance”, but it need not be that. Maybe the player will decide whether it’s love or pragmatism (as with Pythagoras and Myrrhine) that brings them together? Either way, we shouldn’t expect BioWare levels of RP influence in an AC game, at least not at this point. I’m curious to see where the DLC goes. It was okay; neujryer great not disappointing. Once the arc is concluded, I hope the whole is a good experience. Origins had one meh DLC (The Hidden Ones) and one great DLC (The Curse of the Pharaohs). Maybe Odyssey can improve upon that, or at least deliver something nearly on par with CotP.

I’ve returned to Horizon: Zero Dawn and near the end of a full PT. It’s probably the best total package of any game I’ve ever experienced, and it’s interesting to compare it to Odyssey and other 2018 games. The main game (released in February 2017) is not quite as visually crisp as Odyssey, as devs continue to polish their PS4Pro presentation. The Frozen Wilds DLC (released in November 2017?) is every bit as crisp as Odyssey, if not better in many ways. Ubi makes the best open worlds, and HZD one of the few games that is on par with those. I wish more of you could experience HZD. It’s such a great game:

Anyway, I’m looking forward to further Odyssey expansions. I’ll log in to complete Alpha ship challenges (I gotta have those sails/cosmetics), and maybe I’ll fight all of the monsters again to get the special gear. After 400+ hours of Odyssey across three PTs, though, I’m definitely changed direction for a time. It’s a good game that got much better via the post-launch support and additions. I still think Origins is the superior game, but I’ll enjoy Odyssey for years to come.

Rightfully so. The devs promoted the idea of you being able to play the way you wanted in that regard, which I know on more than one occasion was the thing that led them to swaying over to buy the game, so the devs going back on it now and forcing people to have a certain relationship deserves every bit of backlash it gets.
How is what you said not a forced romance?

Yesterday i was standing on a stone on a very small island enjoying the view while suddenly three ships two of them were those smaller Spartan ships and they were fighting with a pirate ship. The weird/funny thing about it was they were going as fast as speedboats they turned and attacked each other so fast that it looked absolutely ridiculous.

And btw have you guys ever swam up to a Spartan or Athenian or merchant ship and tried to kill everyone on board. I did that a couple of days ago and i was hoping that it would be a little more fun but it wasn't. You cannot loot any of the soldiers on board the only thing you can loot are those chests. And after you're done looting those chests you cannot do anything with the ship. The only thing you can do if you have your own ship nearby is that you can ram those ships and collect what you normally get from ramming a ship.

And one more thing before you go and do the same as i did. The best way to do this is that you swim towards the point where they normally passes by and you just wait for them to pass you and then climb aboard. Otherwise if you swim towards the ships while they are coming towards you you have to time it really good. Otherwise you might be to late and you will never catch them because you just cannot swim that fast.

You may all guess what happened to me it was quite embarrassing while the ship passed by and i was to late and couldn't catch up.

Oh and one last thing if you are going to do this most of the time there are three of those Spartan Athenian ships right. So if you start with the first ship that passes you by the next two ships will wait in line for you to loot the chests and kill everyone on board as well.

I seem to be lost here. I haven't played the game in awhile. What is this about a family a poster mentioned above? Is the Legacy of the First Blade a dlc? If so, is it worth getting? Max level is now 70? Any new talents? Why I ask is that I'm about to trade in the game for another later this week.

Yes I have played the game.
That’s still a forced romance, or relationship or whatever you want to call it. They are forcing players who wanted their characters to be gay, Ace, etc. to have sex with the opposite sex to produce an heir. In other words, they are forcing what almost happened to Dorian. And sure, you can argue it’s not much of a RPG, except for the fact they kept using you being able to play as whatever sexual orientation you want as part of their promotion of the game. Only to then turn around and make that into a lie. That is literally false advertising.

So working on the play Leionidas and his Three Hundred Spartans. It was funny clearing out the fort where one of the actors was being kept I missed a guard so it flashed on the detection alert so I very quickly dived through a window, had a stand off to make sure he didn't follow me...and then shot him anyways.

Second actor said that a witch was going to poison Ellis but would also escape if I went after the poison. The choice was easy, kill the witch.

And I think I got the wrong guy on the way to the Hedonists (that's good, we should use the name) because he butchered all of his lines, oops.

Anyways I went back to Kephlonia too finally returning to Markos's vineyard and well I didn't run into the old man. But I found the stink eye quickly enough which was a nice surprise to me.

Finally went back to the Fort with the fake Elpenor that I had to run from earlier in Phokis, and I cleared it out.

Until we see how it is portrayed I guess we will not really know and in terms of the game and its lore it is necessary for Kassandra's bloodline to continue so at some point a baby needs to be conceived. My Kassandra's favourite romances in the game were both female/female but I could easily imagine that Kassandra and Natakas may have a baby for necessities sake but that does not necessarily mean they had a relationship, sexual or otherwise. Just that a means was found to conceive from a donor who may or may not be Natakas.

Is this going to be a problem, it seems like a bug?
The bottom left I have found and killed 4 of the 5 cultists, but it only shows 3 out of 5 clues.
Aren't you supposed to get a clue from each one you uncover?
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Also, do the armour and weapons stop leveling at 50, Im at level 54, but haven't found anything higher than 50?

ah so that's where he turns up. That was actually second to next on my agenda.

One Cultist, you have to buy the information for. I can't remember where exactly though.