Assassins Creed Odyssey

I’ve spent the bulk of another day playing this game. I have to think way back to recall all I’ve done today.

I hunted the cult in earnest today, and they’re nearing extinction. There are a few “out of order” cultists who must be part of the main story because I’ve yet to get clues for them. Over half of the branches are completely extinguished; the rest are withering. I cleared Attica, leaving only Elis and Lakonia on the Peloponnesus. I then headed back to sea, hitting Chios (which is stunning) and Lesbos (the seat of authority in the Petrified Isles). I played so late, greedily squeezing in “just a few more minutes” so many times that I’ve awoken my wife. I’ll have to hear about that in the morning, no doubt. (It really was stupid. I never should’ve played in the same room where she’s sleeping. Very poor choice.)

I’ve been sailing with my Octopus sail and figurehead. It looks badass, both in color and design. I’m so glad I saw the Twitch offer to grab that pack.

I got spoiled by the very game itself. If you collect the Cult of Cosmos crew, DO NOT read the description. Dumbasses put a major spoiler in the description. It needs a patch ASAP, in my opinion.

I’ll have the Isu storyline very far advanced early tomorrow. I’m collecting the final piece to that puzzle (as far as I know) as soon as I boot up the console. I was actually moments from getting it when my furious button pressing awakened my wife. Oops. I think I’ll finish the northern islands, head back to Thera, and then on to Elis. I’m saving Lakonia (and the next stage in the main quest) for as long as possible. I’ve not yet visited Makedonia. I assume I’ll be given a reason to do so, though I really don’t need one.

From a mechanical angle, I’ve decided to mix up my skills after switching my primary gear. I’m using the Armor of Achilles set that I’d been craving since level one. It looks really good, though I’d change a few small details. It looks totally badass in cutscenes, too. It’s powerful for a warrior player, and I optimized a bit around fire damage and assassination damage. I now one-shot most enemies when using an assassination skill or a “kill from above”. Warrior damage is high, too, and both my primary melee and bow are fire weapons.

As a secondary melee, I use one of two items. The Soear if Poseidon allows you to breathe underwater. It also has great range versus sharks, so it’s a no-brained when going underwater. My main secondary, though, is the Xiphos of Peleus. It bumps my Assassin damage and my adrenaline generation. It also dramatically boosts the damage of Rush Assassination, the excellent, chaining teleportation skill. Add the -1 Adrenaline to Overpower and you have the ultimate perks for a backup weapon. (I’m case you’d not noticed, the perks of each of your weapons is “always on”. You don’t have to be actively wielding something to gain the boons. Excellent.)

I use the bow quite a bit and get good performance with virtually no optimization. I’ve evolved the passive skills, Overpower and two actives (Ghost Arrows and Devastating Shot). I can imagine how badass an archer would be if I optimized for it.

Let’s talk about the Ring of Chaos melee skill. Holy crap! I noticed I was never using Spartan kick. It just felt very niche and mostly useless. Same for the assassin skill Shadow of Nyx. (I can’t even remain invisible while stealing. WTH?) When I respecced most recently I ditched some dead weight and added some new abilities. Ring of Chaos is freaking incredible. It’s a powerful AOE with awesome visuals and audio. It ignores shields, hurls enemies and typically takes half a health bar off of a level 50 foe. If that weren’t good enough, it stuns them! They peel themselves slowly off the ground, rubbing their heads. I guess getting blasted with a PoE is rough. (Reminds me of Desmond walking out of Abstergo, with his dad, like a boss.

I also added Vanish, and it seems useful. In addition, I added Slow Time and Call to Arms. Honestly, if I get pulled into battle, I quickly flip from my “assassin” wheel to my “warrior” wheel. This means that most of the abilities on the second page, excepting Rush Assassination, rarely get used. My combat wheel, clockwise from the top, is Heal, Hero Strike, Ring of Chaos and Shield Breaker. My “assassination/utility” wheel is Call to Arms, Rush Assassination, Vanish and Slow Time. This setup is great for a sneaky killer who can chop up crowds, bosses and crowds of bosses when need be. I can see building completely differently, too, since there are so many good skills and varying approaches to combat.

All of the mythological and superhero stuff that had me worried prerelease is admittedly a lot of fun. It is worked into the setting in a very cool way that bolsters, rather than undermining, the lore of the setting. The real question is whether we can go back to life as a mere mortal with mundane gear after this entry in the series. Does every hero now need to be a demigod armed with a PoE? One last thought on the mythological angle: Oikos merchant hooked me up! I got the Pegasos skin for 20 orichalcum. It’s not just cosmetic, either. You can ride that winged beast off a mountain and he’ll flap his wings and gracefully land. No more dead, broken horses at the bottom of a questionable jump. I’m at the point where I’m not sure if I’ll ever use another mount. It’s a fantasy creature, but I just tell myself that the wings are actually the spear at work and that Aleksios is the only one not seeing a mundane horse. 😆

I have had one aberrant dialogue option, and a couple of hilarious quest-giver events.

When on Chios, I murdered everyone in the Children of Artemis camp. I was testing out my newly reoptimized gear. 😒 When I spoke with Bryce on Lesbos, she asked if I'd hurt anyone to get the item. The options were: "Lie- Killed them in their sleep." "Truth- I didn't hurt anyone." Ugh, okay. Definitely didn't hurt anyone.


Just after receiving a quest on Chios, the camera pulled back to gameplay position. Before I could even move, a wolf jumped into the scene like Superman, killing the quest-giver instantly. I quickly cut it down, and it fell next to the dead woman, both beginning to burn. It was so sudden that it was shocking and funny. Another wolf on Chios Supermanned off of an escarpment, dead level with Phobos, killing him instantly. Chios wolves are great jumpers and deadly killers!

I'd had a quest in Argos (I think) ages ago. I tried three times to do the quest. Each time the questgiver died before I could get to her, killed by wildlife the first and third time, killed by a fire started by my flaming sword on the second attempt.  I realized that it was definitely her time to die and just moved in with my life.

Just keep moving when you see the circles and get behind cover when you see the line. I don't know what difficulty your on though.

It also helps to level up the character.

Just did the Isu story as well and came to say the same as you. I feel it was meant to be finished last and definitely will be in my next runs. Of course I still need to finish the main story and see how it goes. Just need one more cultist for the last spear upgrade and he is a main story guy. And a couple of islands to visit.

The blind king item is a sellable loot item for about 3500 bucks. I didnt loot the tomb before hand. Because when I was finishing the Blind King stuff I hadnt gone on my globe trotting treasure fest. That happened after finding all the bird sync locations. IE: Its a gold item for your sellable item category. So not a weapon or piece of armor. 


Things I’ve done as level 50 now:



Continue Main Story. Because the Rest of the Triangles are tangled up in those last bits.

• Last bit of Arena story, Hunting all the Big Animals Story, patterns of Disaster that is Socrates. I am sensing a Pattern of Sadness.
  
  Que its “A Hard Knock Life” for Alexios and Kassandra. Dear god, these NPCs around those two really love that Greek trad-edgy.
  
  My Horse is Amazing.
  
  My Ship is Amazing.
  
  On the Hunt for more epic weapons. WEEEEE!
  
  Bird is flying Disaster. Fly free Ikaros.
  
  The Northern Islands are Insane in different ways from the Southern Islands.
  
  Barnabas, you scoundrel. Awww, ok, Ill recruit that one. Because you want it.
  
  411 on family drama llama.
  
  I think I destroyed all the special ships now. Hey weeklies, add more so I can have even more custom options.
  
  Got new crew themes from Big Hunt Animal Quest and from Arena Quest. So if thats your jam….live long and prosper.
  
  Sidenote: I’m a pirate and thats ok, I hunt all night and sleep all day.

Yeah, whoever designed the northern islands is not the same person responsible for the southern ones.

Quests stretched back and forth instead of being concentrated well, first time I see island hopping as a requirement too. It's all the bad things a designer does to artificially lenghten the game time. I would understand if it was in a short game, but why here? Especially after it's mostly well avoided up to this point in the game.

Edit: I am stupid. Just found out by accident that when buying materials from the blacksmith you don't have to hold the button until it reaches the max of, say, the 400 wood you want. It's slow. Instead you can get to 100 or even lower and then just do a few quick clicks to buy all since the counter doesn't reset after you buy and remains at the same number. It's way faster that way. After I discovered that I went on a "quick travel" shopping spree. Kassandra raided every blacksmith in ancient Greece throwing craploads of gold and shouting "GIMME!". If historians discover there was a money inflation and shortage of materials in that era, I can tell you why.

5:00 min in is when stuff actually starts. I like ramming things.

From the 9:00 min timestamp onward it becomes a big cluster of a ship battle.

Didnt really edit, just threw this up just because. I usually go back and forth on crew setups. My favorite themes are the warriors you get from the arena and the ares people you get from one of the deep dives.

Where does it show the progress the player has made? Where to check what percentage of each island has been completed?

Your stats can be viewed in the UClub. I’m not sure that it gives a percentage per location, though earlier games with in-game tracking did so.


I’ve stayed up crazy late for several nights to make it happen, and my Odyssey has ended. I just finished the game 100%. I even got the Platinum on my first PT with no clean up. (I got really lucky on one trophy that was impossible to foresee.) It was a very good ride. It took 140 hours 46 min, according to a save I just made. The Club is down, so I can’t provide any more stats at present. I achieved all of my goals, which is something I wasn’t sure the story would allow, so that was cool.

I’m finally in a position to discuss serious spoilers. Even though this is the spoiler thread, I fear ruining the game for someone else. 😆 We’ve been tiptoeing around spoilers even here, so I’ll tread lightly for now. I need to get some sleep. I’ll be back tomorrow to check up on this thread. I look forward to reading everyone’s thoughts as they progress and finish.