Assassins Creed Odyssey

So my plan to save cash and upgrade the ship has failed, upgraded one thing and now nothing else can be upgraded??????

Funny you mentioning that since it was a feature in Origins. Well, not the eyes thing, but actually ordering the bird to attack and distract.

Alright, I feel like I've played enough to give more thoughts on said game and I'll give a little detailed walk through.

Combat still seems iffy at times, parry inputs don't always work being the big one. I've given up hopes of using the bow, it sucks and if I need to upgrade things to make it more viable then I'm just not going to use it besides for distractions. I'm a big fan of using the sword and spear tip but I've a question for someone who may know. It looks like I could duel wield 2 one handed weapons, I used a sword in one hand and a dagger in the other, but once I leave the menu it still shows one weapon and the spear tip instead of the two swords I picked. W/E I'll just use my Spartan sword 🤷

I also think I've learned what the scale meaning for dialogue choices, it seems it's just a random chance that it works, something the game should've elaborated on. I had no problem figuring out the heart and crossed swords however. I'm also under the assumption you can't bolster the chance of a scale choice working, it seems purely random. That or it's just a lie option and the npc either believes you or they don't.

The VA is still putrid but I'm expecting that the rest of the way till the end. That said the main story itself shows improvement in this.

As for my playthrough: I've put about 21 (lvl 16 Kassandra) hours into the game by now and I'm pretty much done with Phokis now, I just killed elpanor last night and finished wrapping up the last few ? Marked areas. So far I haven't noticed any choices really mattering, but I did have the oracle mention me letting a family be murdered on starter island (plague victims in the burned down village) and cursing me to receive Apollo's wrath. I don't know if I'll get much time to play this weekend since I'm at work and I'm on call and since it's starting to get cold, then my callout chances goes up. I'll probably be sleeping more than playing. I do like the game, but I sorry burnout may happen at some point to where I won't finish it. It's such a BIG game and I've already had to back track, eventually that'll wear on me, especially with such poor quality voice acting.

Regarding my choices I've made so far:

I let a plague victim family be murdered, I let step father live, I told phoebe I'd be back to visit her (after killing elpanor I have a hunch I'll probably see her again since it turns out she led elpanor to your protagonist) I took the aggressive approach to storming the oracle of pyrias home and that's all I can remember off the top of my head. I'm also banging everyone I possibly can cause why not right? It doesn't seem like it restricts you to one person only. Speaking of which, I helped this old women get an elixer to spice things up with her man, only for him to say he can't keep going on that way lol. He appreciated my Kassandra spending the day (literally) meeting her needs and paid me for it. That scene was awesome, it jumps through different times of the day as the old man plays his banjo/interacts with other friends and bystanders while his wife and Kassandra do the deed, that old lady has a lot of energy 😂.

Out of curiosity, is Phokis like a small sample of the storyline? The game doesn't show how much progression you have done, but if phokis is like 10% of the game then I have a long way to go.

It's in odyssey as well. When you unlock 30 or so viewpoints the eagle starts attacking enemies in combat and can be ordered to harass an enemy. 30 more viewpoints and it starts damaging them too.

You should really avoid playing Elder scrolls 2: Daggerfall.  Unless you want a game that will keep you busy for the next several years Lots of traveling without fast travel.

For someone who has never touched any AC game but knows what it's about more or less, could I just pick it up (AC history/lorewise) ? I find that this setting appeals to me.

I took a message board quest yesterday, my first naval mission to sink some pirate ships for a mercenary who actually had taken the contract but didn't have a ship. Get on the boat sail out and ………………….. NOTHING. No area is marked, no boats have a marker above them to indicate they are said pirate ships and I am like WTF. So I figure what the hell I'll just start sinking everything and after sinking about 8 ships and boarding some I notice I have sunk 3 of the requisite ships but I sail around for another 20 minutes and there are nothing but fishing boats and Athenian warships so abandoned the quest.   

I mad the same choice with Kassandras dialogue. 

The message board quests are usually repeatable, especially the timed ones. You don't have to rush to finish them since you probably do them anyway by just playing the game. I ignore the timed ones and just collect the others. I got loads but I don't even look at what they require. It's the usual "kill 10 of that or that or that". Sometimes I just get a message that I finished them  Btw, your eagle shows what the ships are, but the sails also give you a hint.

I was looking at the sails and they were either fishermen or Athenian there were no others that I could see, Ikaros I am so stupid, however it was late in the day and the last thing I was going to do but still deserves a    in my defence I played AC BF way too much and the targets always had markers on them, no eagle back then.   

Both sides are fighting over a parcel of land. I don't know how you play the game but perhaps it's a decision based reaction from the rep from the tutorial island, or perhaps what you did on the main land. If none of those, then it's the wandering goats who meeehhh ehhh what you did to the Spartans. Or the vengeful chickens.

On the ship bounties, you have to use the eagle to spot the ships.