I started playing at lowest difficulty setting across the board (combat, stealth, exploration) and played without issue for my first 4.5 hour session, was really enjoying the game at those setting, not to many other problems witht the game as far as performance on my PC.

The problem started the second time i tried loading into the game and playing. suddenly i was being 2 shot by low level enemies and all the exploration assistance was gone from the UI. insead of stomping through raids now, i cant even get through the first wave of enemies without getting killed, making the game ultra frustrating for me and basically unplayable.

I have tried to go into the game play menu and change the difficulty setting ( when i go into the menu it still reads my original all easy difficulty presets)
i change them all to hard and save, game reloads from save screen and puts me into the game, then i go back into gameplay menu and turn my difficulty back to easy, game reloads but still no desired effect.

please advise Ubisoft.
Thanks

Two combat-based mysteries in Glowcestrescire are not initiating the combat after pressing the dialogue options.

Specifically:

Bottom-right of Glowecestrescire, beside the Standing Stone mystery. Breaking into the house is fine, but when the Homeowner appears, no combat initiates from either option.

Bottom-left of Glowecestrescire, beside Nymdesfelda, I can talk to the singing woman and the house opens up and allows me inside to be poisoned. I’m able to escape, and when I do Eivor says something along the lines of “i should kill you for that, what say you in your defence” but no further dialogue or combat is initiated.

hope for a fix soon