The problem with "bugged" runes :

(it's an example)
INVENTORY LIST = 3 weapon speed runes I want to equip + 230 other ones (everything listed)
when I want to equip...
EQUIP LIST = some runes are in the list but the 3 weapon speed runes are missing...(so, non-usable)

And now ... THE THING TO NOTICE :

If I sell 200 runes the 3 weapon speed runes BECOME AVAILABLE

So I think there's a problem with the way runes are handled by the game, or we are missing information on the limit number of fully usable runes...

(Bunch of tries to reload 30h, 80h then 100h sooner saves, selling some runes I thought bugged, making spreadsheets to be sure of what I notice...) at the moment I'm not ready to spend 1h more on finding the cap where this happen's (approximative english, sorry. Disponible aussi en français)

I'm on PS4 :

AC Valh 3.20 / Patch : 1.2.2 installed on Internal SSD
PS4 pro CUH 7116B / FW:8.50

SSD Samsung 860 EVO : USED SPACE = between 60% to 64% (depending of the number of the daily bugs to document....)

. Old Test done the 3th May 2021
From starting Valhalla Patch 1.2.1 to having a usable Eivor = 2min 41s

 . New test today the 20th June 2021 :
From starting Valhalla Patch 1.2.2 to having a usable Eivor = 5min 01s


Patch 1.2.2 note : " Improved game performance "..... let me laught ......

Hello all,

here is the amount of Foreign Supplies earned per chest :

• Vagn's Map Alert Level : Minimum = green >> 50 Foreign Supplies / chest
• Vagn's Map Alert Level : Medium = white >> 55 Foreign Supplies / chest
• Vagn's Map Alert Level : Maximum = red >> 60 Foreign Supplies / chest

You can see the Map Alert level at Vagn (here = Medium Map Alert) :
or when raiding and openning the Map (still Medium Map Alert) :

• The River Raid Status with the Bell is a bit different = it will be applied only for the next Raid in the same river (without raiding another river),

If you stay under Mid-Bell : no change for your next Raid (without raiding another river) in the same River
If you reach the Mid-Bell : next Raid in this River (without raiding another river) will be upgraded to the next level ( Green to White, or White to Red )
If you fill-up the Bell : next Raid in this River (without raiding another river) will be on Red

• example :

here I am at "Mid-Bell"Next time I will raid this River it will upgrade 1 level defense ( from Green to White, or from White to Red )

• To reset a River defense or to reset all camps of one River = just go to another River 3 times in a row (no need to Raid)

• Map's colors samples :

green >> 50 Foreign Supplies / chest :

white >> 55 Foreign Supplies / chest :

red >> 60 Foreign Supplies / chest :

As this a recurrent question, I just thought this topic may be usefull even if still incomplete.

• Glossary : I use "gear" for Weapon and, or Armor

re-tested with TU 1.6.1 (still not wit TU 1.6.2 but few chances that any change has been made)

When re-starting the game (same account) you will recieve in Norway, quite early ( spoiler ) :
all the gear at Level 1 up to level 2 (and it's impossible to achieve level 2 for all your gear) :

• if you had already played all previous festivals : you will recieve only Modraniht previously redeemed items at Superior quality (Since TU 1.6.2 the other ones will be at shops after progressing in the game (Glowecestre Story Arc), which is a proof that Ubisoft don't completely ignore these kind of issues)
• if you had already recieved some gear from Ubi-Connect : you will recieve all Ubi-Connect previously redeemed gear at Superior quality
• if you had already some gear at Mythic Quality from Reda or from Helix Store : you will recieve all Reda & Helix-Store gear at Mythic quality (I couldn't test the Divine Quality as I don't own the DLC... for a test and more in-depth Guide/Topic that Ubisoft should have made : Ubisoft can add the DLC in my PS Store Caddy )
• Every gear is "level dependent" = it depends on your best leveled gear in the same category (it's approximative, no time to detail here)
• old AC outfits (ex: Basim outfit) from Ubi-Connect will be recieved (if previously redeemed) at Mythical Quality only if you previously upgraded it to Mythical quality , no Level upgrade needed & available. (= this seems to be the proof that, at least, gear's quality can be shared between actual playthrough and a "New Start", but has been done by Ubisoft exclusively for this gear at the moment)

Example of the consequence of recieving low level gear : in my case (some amount of gear here, but some people may have much more to recieve) =

• Recieved (12 hoods + 10 helmets + 11 torso + 15 Bracers + 16 pants + 11 bows + 57 weapons (shields are included)
• All recieved at Level 1, I previoulsy had recieved all my Mythical gear from Reda at Level 10 :
• Remains to farm to get this gear back to Level 10 (Partial Results) =
• Titanium = 11 411 // Ore = 302 590 // Leather = 446 930 (= more or less 2 000 hours of farming...)
• The game always acted this way with a new save (or when restarting from the very early times in Norway)
• at the moment "no NG+" & no other solution seen/heard from Ubisoft.

Ymir Scream Tatoo Set Note :

• At the moment Re-Starting the game (or going back to a very,very old save = before the very first arrival in Norway) is the Only way to get the Full Ymir Scream Tatoo Set if you didn't had it in the previous game(s)

Warning :

• This post may have some "little mistakes" but it's still roughtly what will happen when restarting from scratch

Post-Added : Dark Strider just made a video where you can see some gear recieved at divine quality ( all his gear is recieved at Level 1 ... Huge farming in perspective ... ) :

A new fragrance...

Eivör Eivör de Cacharel

@jorraptor
Thanks for taking time to have a look
... and sorry for my "messy" english ...

So, by "equip list" I mean the listed runes on right when you are choosing the rune to use on your gear

in that example if you have 150 Round Weapon Runes in invetory, only 100 will be visible in this list

Hope this helps, and sorry again for my bad english

@kormac67

but no way I'm doing this 50 times for 5 opals

exactely same thing for me
I did one for the community part, and that's all

@stokstaartje71
Hello

about "Nonos" : it's a french expression used when you talk to your dog like it was a very little kid, a kind of infantile expression, something like : "do you want your tiny little bone ?"

fr : "os" / en = "bone"
infantile fr : "nonos" / infantile en = ? : sorry I don't know the english name or expression

in french, at first, I understood "nonos" as : giving a bone to gnaw, or giving a bone to play with

sorry for my approximative english

Note : @TheSmio , sorry, I won't be able to go to St-Denis : I'm hundreds kilometers from it

Sometimes Eivor can teleport :

@Savvage91

here is how I "see" (speculate on) this :
(Notice that it may not be the main reason, but big chances are that it's part of)

• Helix stuff sales are :

1. Cash flow for Ubisoft
2. Cash flow for Investors (not always but can be part of the money they are recieving)
3. it's also an argument officially used several times in Ubisoft Financial Reports (Annual and Quater) and Investors Calls

• Now the player base is smaller than before,

but Ubisoft is trying to keep them playing as more often and as more longer than possible as (Same as previous point 3) Player's Engagement is important to them : it's also an argument officially used several times in Ubisoft Financial Reports (Annual and Quater) and Investors Calls

An example here : ( From UBISOFT REPORTS FIRST-HALF 2021-22 EARNINGS FIGURES, "engagement & equivalent" is used 4 times in this paragraph )

"
Strength and Depth of Ubisoft's Assets
Assassin’s Creed strong ongoing momentum
Ubisoft is fully benefiting from its Montreal and Quebec City teams’ exceptional execution on the past three
Assassin’s Creed titles, aided by the essential contributions from our teams at associate studios. Assassin’s
Creed Valhalla has been outperforming Assassin’s Creed Odyssey across the board since its release, notably
with higher DARPU levels. This quarter, the Siege of Paris expansion, whose creation was led by the amazing
team at Ubisoft Singapore, delivered record engagement. We plan to deliver great new content for year 2
of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, notably in the second half of the current fiscal year. With an enhanced gameplay
experience, we released last week Discovery Tour: Viking Age, which the BBC praised as “an interactive and
historically accurate way to explore history”. In less than 12 months, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is already
the second largest profit generating game in Ubisoft’s history, reflecting the remarkable strength and value
of the franchise.
Depth of back-catalog and special mention to The Crew 2
Beyond Assassin’s Creed, the quarter’s outperformance reflects Ubisoft’s portfolio’s global strength.
Engagement trends were solid among many brands with the strongest contributors to back-catalog being
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, For Honor, The Crew 2, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege and Watch Dogs:
Legion. The Crew 2 warrants special mention for its continued strong velocity, with engagement and overall
revenues up respectively 70% and 53% versus two years ago thanks to its unique positioning as a
community-based driving game. The work done by Ubisoft Ivory Tower in Lyon on the company’s first
successful live service brand is impressive as they continue to build on a growing community of engaged
players and deliver strong post launch content, resulting in more than 30 million unique players attracted
by The Crew franchise since 2014.
"

Investors Calls & Reports : https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/company/about-us/investors


But, same as you, I don't understand why Ubisoft is still giving us several impossible weekly challenges

I'm wondering if it's too difficult for them to change the required amounts ... or they are maybe just stubborn (aka "I won't change the number I decided") ?
(the way Ubisoft is managing post launch support devs is, to stay polite, extremely disappointing for such a company and a game that "earned" such an amount of money)

@SpirantCrayon22
To notice :

1. "Hard quitted" during Saga Mode = shutted down the PS4 without saving or closing the game
2. Relaunched AC Valhalla = Counted : 1
3. Then, Re-started from last auto-save made in Saga Mode (already dived-in)
4. Defeated Hel = Not Counted , even after quitting the game and re-starting the PS4

I'm making a test with a new dive in, will post the result here :
done :

• Restarted PS4 & Valhalla
• Made Daily Reda's Quest = nothing new
• As you said : it Counted only after "diving in" (before making any kill in Saga Mode)

@SpirantCrayon22
Thanks to you for this info
I "tested" it this way :
made some kills and then just shutted down the PS4 (without quitting the game) ( I know : it's bad ) because I was too "bored" by the bow gameplay : it counted, notice that I had defeated the "Freezing Wild Boar"

PS4 pro, AC Valhalla up-to-date, Server : France (mood of the day : "Stalwart Fury Rune" )

@azullFR

melody912 edited its post on March 15 and added a link :
Warning = ! Do not use its link : it's a Spam (in the best case) !

@melody912
@SpirantCrayon22

• Materials Chest (Ore, Leather and sometimes Runes) never have an icon = exclusively a "gold" dot

• Supplies Chests (More exactely : Foreign Supplies Chests) and Gear Chests behave exactely the same (if I'm correct), here some examples :

Here :
the little chest is a Material Chest
The big chest is a Foreign Supplies Chest or a Gear Chest =

• Looking inside the big chest (you will see the same thing whatever you recieve Foreign Supplies or Gear) =

• Once you use the Odin's Sight while close enought of the related chest : Same "Gold Barrel" icon is shown for Foreign Supplies Chests or Gear Chests :

Aside Note :
Notice the "Eastern Fortification" =
I'm far from it, it has 2 big "gold" dots = 2 Big Chests (it's a military place, for civilian places : the Big "gold" dots are for Ration Chests)
the other places that are still in "Red" state (ready to be raided) and still don't have their "gold" dots will have their chests (the "gold" dots will appear once close enought)

Today from 3:00 PM (GMT/UTC) (maybe sooner : it's the time I first logged since 2 days) to 3:30 PM (GMT/UTC)
the weekly challenges tab is not working properly :
sometimes it whowed the weekly challenges, then just showed "No Challenge available - Retry later"
Now (at 3:00 PM GMT/UTC) the weekly tab only shows : "No Challenge available - Retry later"

PS4 pro
AC Valhalla on internal SSD
all up-to-date
UbiConnect Core Challenges Tab is showned correctly
Helix Store : ok
other online services from AC Valhalla : ok
Serveur : France

[UPDATED] : seems to work fine now at 3:50 PM GMT/UTC

Aside note : Ubi Connect Tabs are too, too slow on PS4pro (internal SSD), it as always been the case since AC Valhalla launched ...

@Simplethumb

Sadly there is no way to know if a chest will have gear or supplies : they look exactely the same and their icons are exactely the sames, this is why avoiding being overloaded is the best option at the moment
(till we get all gear on all RR maps, once done it shouldn't matter that much, but as this game is quite a bug-fest I still avoid being overloaded even in the Save that have all RR gear )

Note to anybody that could encouter this issue : in case you can't find an item (gear) in any of the chests of a River :
just go to another River (no need to raid any camp) 3 times in a row, then go back to the River you are looking the gear for = all camps and all chests will now be reseted : any missing gear from this river will now be there ... but maybe in a different camp !

It's a good advice you're giving here about the sufficient 300 or 400 boat storage and crashes

@Ubi-Keo

for me exactely same issue as for everybody as explained by @SpirantCrayon22 ,

As I use several acounts I tested it on Tuesday and Wednesday : both days had the issue (I previously tested this on Thursday and Friday = same behaviour : can only be redeemed with the "2 steps workaround
So, seems that the day doesn't matter, the issue is still there
Hope this may help the devs

Note [EDITED] : testings done using English Text language or French Text language, all are using the French Audio = same results ( logic, but for sure the issue is not there )

@XBL_Laberbacke
Nice one too !

(for the "B" : I'm wondering if in Vinland you may encounter a kind of same issue as during River Raid =
depending on some settings you may have some "things" (maybe like cargo number) still visisible on "Photo Mode" pictures (it ruined one of my "best" pictures as I thought it would disapear in the final picture)

@SpirantCrayon22
@orldan

I also could have the "Free weekly item" after doing a Daily Reda's Contract : I did this 2 weeks in a row on the same account (I recieved exclusively tatoos for these tests, but it's "too short" to say it's intended by the game)

@Ubi-Keo
a thing to notice (for the Devs) :
on PS4

• No Free Weekly Item : shown as already redeemed

1. if you quit the game and shutdown the PS4 and then retry : same result = No Free Weekly Item the first time you open the Helix Store
2. still, re-quitting the game without shutting down the console will give the Free Weekly Item (after a New kind of "window refresh" that I never saw before this week, maybe the Devs tested something there ?)

Note : I didn't tested the "Cold Boot" (using "Restart" the console instead of "Shut Down") mentionned by @Sp33dyKat here : https://discussions.ubisoft.com/topic/183354/helix-store-weekly-free-item-cannot-be-redeemed-when-using-a-controller/2?lang=en-US


@skojjalar
I would suggest 2 options :

1. Launch the game
2. Load you last save (manual saves are more reliable)
3. go see Reda's shop (to be sure to see the items and the "countdown")
4. Open the Helix Store
5. Try to redeem the Free Weekly Item (won't work now as it's the first time you redeem it)
6. Quit the Helix Store
7. Make a manual save
8. Quit the game
9. Relaunch the game
10. Re-start from Step 2

As on PS4 loading times are a pain : I sometimes just do a Daily Reda's Contract after the the Step 6, then once finished I redeem the Free Weekly Item

Depending on your platform, some posts from @SpirantCrayon22 may be usefull too
Hope this will help a little