I hate how they wrench me out of the 9th century & plonk me into an annoying 20th century toon. How I look forward to someone modding them out

"As a result, Eivor, who supports the assassins, cannot hurt innocent people"

But Eivor isn't a member of the assassins & only 'supports' them to the point he shares an enemy with them. Given how the game ends, he REALLY isn't likely to have a very high opinion of the assassins.

@dbgager Tell me, in your games have you ever killed people in a fortress just to steal their treasure? Yes, of course you have. How about burning a few villages because they backed the wrong side? What do you think happens to the villagers after you have destroyed their homes and grain stores? Well quite a few will starve to death next winter. All that is a perfectly correct representation of dark ages warfare and Viking (& indeed Anglo-Saxon, Briton & Pictish) conduct. Face it, Eivor is indeed a homicidal maniac

If a few civilians get caught up in a melee, truth is no dark ages warriors is really going to care all that much. Why Ubisoft thinks it is ok to show a Viking raid to pillage a monastery whilst acting as if all the monks in residence lived happily ever after is baffling.

"The Vikings burned and demolished, killed abbot and monks and all that they found there, brought it about so that what was earlier very rich was as it were nothing." - Simeon of Durham

@asgardian02 I am shocked, shocked I tell you

• Cannon on the Jackdaw hull... this game starts in 873 AD, when earliest suspected use of gunpowder in Europe was in the 1240s
• Sub Saharan Africans in 9th Century England... Sub-Saharan people would have been uncommon even in North Africa in this century (it was mostly Berbers, Greeks, Arabs & Visigoths) let alone in England (as in very close to zero chance). The least the game could do it add a bit of backstory to explain the incongruity. Missed narrative opportunity to make it a bit less jarring.
• Two handed swords of a style perfect for... mid-13th century

@stallattack Yes I have the same issue. And if you see him on the dock, he has a 'recruit' option like a jomsvirking but it is grey'ed out if you interact with him. A bug for sure.

So why remove mounted combat from AC:Valhalla? Just a bizarre kick rather than proper attacks the way we had in the previous game seems a downgrade.

@redrocka21 same problem. PC 1.1.0 patch - My 30 capacity Hunter quiver now hold 12

@beylous Hell I just want to be able to actually fight from horseback the way we could in AC:Odyssey

There is supposedly more content coming but given the lack of stuff to do & the complete lack of community engagement by Ubisoft in the meantime, will all that many people still be playing the game & care when the new content arrives?

@ubi-borealis I still have the 'mission' to win at Orlog showing, which I have done (& I *loathe* being forced to play orlog), but I also have a tiny portion of the bar unfilled even though I have done everything else.

There is a character named Azar who feels like ubisoft is shamelessly trying to appease the social justice crowd with a "gender fluid" person.

Ubisoft can't help themselves, they seriously can't, it's some sort of compulsion to stick that kind of thing in their games 🤪

Beyond parody

"No one has scientifically refuted Marx yet."

You have clearly missed your vocation as a comedian. There have been countless scholarly debunkings of the entire premise of Marxism. At this stage, arguing over the viability of a Marxist worldview is like debating a flat earther.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Socialism-Failed-Idea-That-Never-ebook/dp/B07N7HK6LV: (https://amazon.co.uk/Socialism-Failed-Idea-That-Never-ebook/dp/B07N7HK6LV)

@gearsmonger Most games companies are timid & cringingly woke, so realistically third-party is the only way you are going to get things that are neither.

@kormac67 Hmm, curious, I get very good frame rates on PC. I do get the occasional CTD once in a while but otherwise the game runs pretty well.

I'm hardly uncritical of Ubisoft (what annoys the hell out of me is very different though). But must say I find it hard not to feel a bit sorry for them on this occasion as I rather like the transitory seasonal even thing. You just can't please everyone I guess.

@tcouch2050 There are mods on Nexus that deal with that, no need to ask Ubisoft.

@o-e-smith I suspect the reward is to bliss out at the aesthetic coolness

@o-e-smith What happens if you release fireflies near the waterfall is that you have fireflies flying around near the waterfall

@adtc5812 I don't kill people in real life but I'm ok with doing so in a game. And this game pretty much forces you to kill people in-game.