Sure it gives you something to do. But for just 5 opals its a lot of work for each one.

But mostly whats the idea, it creates gameplay to shift the focus to their in game store.
After all if you have collected a few bits of a gear set, the price goes down, which will temptate you in possible buying with real money the last bits.

Personally this sort of gameplay wont keep my binded to the game. I have taken a good look at their in-game items, and there really isnt anything i would want.
The stats arent great and the looks.. well its just looks so out of place.

I'd much rather would have seen that these weekly achievements would you gave actually in-game goodies, like:
some silver,
a diamond rune
Some greater runes
A bunch of iron ore
Leather
tungston or ingots

and so on.

Dear Ubisoft

Can we please get more realistic assassination animations ... the animation where it looks as if you are getting the npc's ankle from the back is really unsatisfying.

Any other suggestions from the valhalla community?

Thanks

When this game first came out there were loads of threads here and on reddit about how bad the camera in this game is, especially how it zooms out so far in combat (and doubly so when there are lots of enemies on screen). After playing 20 minutes at launch I put the game down, thinking they would surely patch this asap, as the game felt borderline unplayable to me. In theory they probably thought this was a good idea as it would give the player more situational awareness, but for me it has the opposite effect and is extremely disorienting, as I lose track of my character on the screen and have no idea what is going on. Also because it is so "dynamic" it keeps zooming in and out depending on what is going on and whether I am locked on, and it can honestly be nauseating at times. And lastly it is just unimmersive, in my opinion, as it really takes you out of the action. To add further insult to injury, they patched in an option months later for a closer camera in exploration (which is nice, don't get me wrong), but added no options for the combat camera? Confused by that one.

While I am at it, I also wish there was a horizontal offset slider for the game, so that I could center the character, more like Origins.

Anyway, am I just irrationally frustrated by this, or do other people feel this way as well? Has the game been out long enough that people don't really care now? Personally I have not even left Norway yet, because I am still hoping they will patch this and I can finally start playing this game, which otherwise seems to be improving with each patch...