BethraMahaut

Expensive free game as everything is geared towards making you spend money. Buyer beware. Get past that and then you find the cheating. Difficult to get past that and the developers and moderators don't even try to fix it - being apparently far more interested in making people spend money than in dealing with the endemic multi accounting, bot usage and auto clicker culture that exists in some guilds. Ruins the game for everyone else but 'hey! chances are the cheaters spend money so we'll just ignore it'.

Expensive free game as everything is geared towards making you spend money. Buyer beware. Get past that and then you find the cheating. Difficult to get past that and the developers and moderators don't even try to fix it - being apparently far more interested in making people spend money than in dealing with the endemic multi accounting, bot usage and auto clicker culture that exists in some guilds. Ruins the game for everyone else but 'hey! chances are the cheaters spend money so we'll just ignore it'.

Ok so its a good game. But I honestly preferred both Origin and Odyssey over this offering. Visually its nice but they have done some weird things in it. The Raven is now pretty pointless just showing a general area, replaced with some blurry Odins sight thing which is much less clean and crisp. I liked the old system of the bird tagging the enemies, to me it was a good assassin sitting with a notebook and noting down routes and guard changes, I have no idea what the blurry red things are actually doing and with not the best eyesight in the world it makes the game much less enjoyable. I hope they will rethink it and bring it back, maybe as an optional. Then there's the sound - I make so much noise when sneaking through bushes (sounds like someone wearing army boots and brand new jeans and apparently carrying a load of bubble wrap) I simply can't understand the entire enemy camp not hearing me and I can't seem to find any way to switch it off, discouraging when I have a sneak build. Final remark, side quests that don't appear in the quest log, seem to be in notes when they are anywhere at all but sometimes not even there, and don't allow completion for any number of ridiculous reasons that have nothing to do with the actual side quest itself, both Origin and Odyssey had no problem with this so I have no idea why Valhalla is getting it wrong. Other than that its a solid RPG but I'm afraid the issues are wearing me down, I doubt I'll finish it. Edit for further play time Still playing this as I like to be thorough. Re my above comments the sound issue seems much better once getting to England. Still having problems completing quests and have to do an awful lot of saves and reloads to get certain things to move forward (so they are working, just somehow not getting completed). I am supposed to have a wolf fighting alongside me, if he does he's invisible. Eivor sometimes talks to him but nada, he's back at the longhouse apparently sleeping on top of a candle at the foot of my bed and the Raven is still completely pointless. Its fun but still lots of **** and if I'm honest I wish I'd waited for several gameplay patches before purchase, Ubisoft really need to fix some bugs. I won't be changing my score until some improvement is seen.