Assassin's Creed Odyssey

I left it for a bit as I just wasn't enjoying it, but I have got in to it more today after reaching Athens. I like the way straying from the main quest feels perfectly natural which is something even the very best RPGs almost always struggle with.

I've stuck it on easy just to get through the combat. I can't believe how lightweight it feels compared to origins. I'm trying to be stealthy anyway so it shouldn't make that much difference tbh.

One thing I don't get... You can recruit mercenaries as lieutenants for your ship, which means you need to knock them out, so why have they made it so awkward to do that?!... You have to stab them a hundred times then spartan kick them or use paralysing arrows to get the last bit down. Most times spartan kick, which is hit and miss will kill them for me anyway. (I know you can also unequip weapons and punch them, but that is just ridiculous!). They could have put a bit of effort in and come up with some more interesting way to recruit them.
 
I must be doing something wrong. How are people recruiting mercenaries? 4 times I've got one down to hardly any health and then spartan kicked them, but they've died! Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't
 
I was initially doing Spartan Kick wrong by kicking them off roofs which means they died from falling damage. If you kick them on the ground when their health is almost nothing you should be OK. The ability itself never kills them, it’s peripheral damage that could be doing it. I’m not 100% sure but kicking them into walls might kill them, too.
 
Pighardia said:
I must be doing something wrong. How are people recruiting mercenaries? 4 times I've got one down to hardly any health and then spartan kicked them, but they've died! Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't
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Spartan kick them when they are at the lowest health possible. It gets easier as you level up spartan kick.
 
ic1male said:
I was initially doing Spartan Kick wrong by kicking them off roofs which means they died from falling damage. If you kick them on the ground when their health is almost nothing you should be OK. The ability itself never kills them, it’s peripheral damage that could be doing it. I’m not 100% sure but kicking them into walls might kill them, too.
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Kicking them in to walls does kill them. It keeps happening to me. What a bizarre thing to have in the game. You can knock them out but we are gonna make it as awkward as possible!
 
Pighardia said:
Kicking them in to walls does kill them. It keeps happening to me. What a bizarre thing to have in the game. You can knock them out but we are gonna make it as awkward as possible!
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Especially when the animation for the skill shows someone being kicked off a cliff and the description text says "this ability won't kill and you can recruit them afterwards". I had to look on the internet to see why people were dying when I was doing it. Fall damage.
 
Another weird thing -
I have been in Athens for a while. When I returned to the ship earlier the captain guy said something about a plague on Kephalonia and we can go back there. I didn't, I just carried on with the story. A bit later after a story quest my character was talking to the girl who said the same thing and Kassandra said something like"ok ill check it out". Well I get the hint, I'll go back there as the game clearly wants me to ... There is literally nothing new there at all. No npcs to talk to, no new quest or anything.

What was the point in that?!
 
Pighardia said:
Another weird thing -
I have been in Athens for a while. When I returned to the ship earlier the captain guy said something about a plague on Kephalonia and we can go back there. I didn't, I just carried on with the story. A bit later after a story quest my character was talking to the girl who said the same thing and Kassandra said something like"ok ill check it out". Well I get the hint, I'll go back there as the game clearly wants me to ... There is literally nothing new there at all. No npcs to talk to, no new quest or anything.

What was the point in that?!
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Assuming you saved the family at the starter island from the priests.. its simply a consequence of letting the plague run riot by saving the family.
 
I just got the season pass. Not bad value. Especially when you consider you get AC3 remastered with it!... I'm in no rush to replay that game tbh, but it is still a good deal.

I'm finding the animals way too aggressive in this game...I've got some villages under constant boar attack basically, with bodies piling up every time I enter. Some islands seem to have 2 villages on them, 50 lions and 100 boars! I think its Keos I'm on atm and I can't move without seeing a villager killed by a boar.
 
ree said:
how much was the season pass?
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£24.99

For that you get the story dlc which seems quite substantial, AC3 remaster and Liberation Remaster, plus a few other missions I think, but they might be free I'm not sure.

Makes sense for me, as I got the game as a present for Christmas.
 
15 hours in, I finally encountered a quest that approaches the better ones in Witcher 3 - Family Values. A short sidequest, but hilarious.

On the negative front, I really hate how stupidly the level scaling is done in this game. People complained about the level system in TW3 but in Odyssey it is even worse and just basically worthless.
 
Paul_cz said:
15 hours in, I finally encountered a quest that approaches the better ones in Witcher 3 - Family Values. A short sidequest, but hilarious.
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Yeah that's a funny quest. I'm 27 hours in and have done a few really good side quests. I'm finding it is structured well in terms of each island has its own thing going on and little storyline to follow. The story-telling in general has been very good... Not quite to the standard of imo the two best ever in those terms - TW3 and RDR2, but still high quality.
The only thing about the story I'm not getting is any point in joining a side in the war. I was shown how to do the conquest battles but have had no interest in doing any since...i need a reason to care about it tbh.


Also, can someone tell me, do you get a bounty for piracy? I can't find the info anywhere. I've just taken out a couple of ships and I don't have a bounty anywhere seems to me there should be some consequence.
 
I don’t understand the conquest battles either. You’d think there would be some kind of reward or consequence if you turn all the areas blue or red. Maybe there is? I’ve not really been pursuing those outcomes.

As for bounties, there are some on the village message boards which give rewards for destroying different ships.
 
As for the battles, you're just a mercenary so no need to join a side. I do the battles purely for higher level loot, always do the hard one with 2 epic pieces reward.
 
ic1male said:
I don’t understand the conquest battles either. You’d think there would be some kind of reward or consequence if you turn all the areas blue or red. Maybe there is? I’ve not really been pursuing those outcomes.

As for bounties, there are some on the village message boards which give rewards for destroying different ships.
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Regarding Conquest - there is no consequence at all. No idea why Ubisoft didn't make it more integrated into the story because its only existence is for XP and Loot (very useful post Lv50) - that's it. The Blue/Red regions are in a constant state of change regardless of your actions.

The more you play Odyssey, the more you'll see the game's flaws and this is one of many.

Regarding another question (I'm too lazy to quote here) sinking innocent trade ships will up your bounty level whilst on the seas. Sinking normal enemy ships as I recall doesn't... I've been in situations where I had 5 merc ships on me and it is a horrible position to be in vs 5 mercs on land!

It's been a while since I played though (lost to rdr2 now) so I may have forgotten how ship combat once was.
 
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