I play on PS4. When River Raids released I did a whole lot of them, considering the non-existent end-game content of this game and the false promise of the development team that River Raids were a replayable and rewarding end-game activity. I raided enough to accumulate 24000 foreign supplies (I just wanted to be a Viking and raid even though River Raids were a definitely not what was promised).

Now for the first time in many, many months I went back to those raids considering what this festival is supposed to represent and the "War Effort" quest only to find out the development team was moronic enough to cap the foreign supplies instead of giving us a proper Vagn's Shop which means the festival quest is impossible to complete without some update from that incompetent post-launch dev team and that they had given up on ever updating Vagn with a shop to make River Raids a proper end-game gameplay loop.

How hard is it to have Vagn exchange foreign supplies for silver, titanium, iron, leather and perhaps a weekly Opal deal, something like 20 Opals for 500-600 foreign supplies once a week. If that was done, there would be more incentive to replay River Raids and there would be no cap on Foreign Supplies which is now obviously conflicting with the festival quest. The dev team is so short-sighted it is almost like they are sabotaging the game as a player retention experiment to see how lacking the post-launch support can be while keeping players on false apologies and promises of better content to come.

I got all the other parts of the Adrestia ship Pack but for some reason I never got the shields. I didn't miss any challenges and I've seen other players having the same issue. What is up with that? Is it expected to be missing? I see the full pack costing 60 coins which is kind of a [censored] move if the missing shields is an intended thing.

Game crashing all the time for me as well.
Fighting tournament is impossible to complete since it always crashes before I can finish it. It is even more frustrating considering this game is extremely poorly optimized for the previous generation, it takes several minutes to load the game back and redo the lost progress every time the game crashes.

The title says it all.

Same thing happening to me on PS4.
You can't write that [censored] up. Takes forever for Ubisoft to fix the Jomsviking gear reset only for the same glitch to start happening to the ship itself.
It happens on both main ship and the river raiding ship. (why the hell we needed an specific ship for river raids instead of just using our main one is still a mystery to me)

@imaginaryruins They can't. Whatever leftover you have just sits there.

As I said on a previous comment, Vagn should have a permanent shop to let you exchange foreign supplies for silver, titanium, iron, leather, perhaps a weekly Opal deal (20 Opal for 500-600 foreign supplies). Maybe even a bigger selection of runes. This would solve the foreign supplies cap that is now conflicting with the festival quest and also give more incentive to replayability on those River Raids.

@Ubi-Borealis perhaps you could suggest this to the dev team for consideration.

On PS4 it takes over seven and a half minutes from the moment you open the application to the moment you are loaded into the map and able to control Eivor. A game like RDR2 takes two and a half minutes. Ubisoft was never the most competent at optimization but this is ridiculous, specially when you consider that any textures beyond 30 feet from Eivor are not even fully loaded, letting us see those low res polygons everywhere, this is even more noticeable in Ravensthorpe where buildings and decorations won't be fully loaded even if you are standing right next to them.

If you add up the loading times of what I call the end-game cycle it is over 40 minutes of no game play on a 2 hours session, 33% of the game is just loading:

Loading for going in a river raid;
Loading for finishing a river raid;
Loading for traveling to Francia;
Loading to fast travel between the 5 merchants there;
Loading of about 20-30 secs when interacting with each of them;
Loading for traveling to Ireland;
Loading of about 20-30 secs to sell goods to Azar;
Loading for interacting with the Ireland trader;
And finally loading to return to England and start again.

A third of the game time is spent doing something else around the house instead of playing the game.

I can't loot the Axe from the chest in Hamtunscire. Instead I get a second copy of the Drekar shield that doesn't show up on my inventory.

Ubisoft managed to go from bad to laughable and completely incompetent post launch support on this rushed and clearly half finished game. Yet, their Helix store keeps on getting additions almost every week.
It is like Ubisoft apologizes for some of their f#$% ups but never learn anything from them. They keep on repeating their mistakes, sometimes greedy, sometimes stupid.
I too feel bad for their support team having to deal with the total lack of organization, communication, care for their product and rightfully upset players.

@steewydub the last challenge requires regular eels as far as I'm aware.

@Bojan-77 Hey, hope you are doing fine. Remembered this exchange we had after I read the last update. Should I say "I told you so"?

Bojan-77  Jun 21, 2022
AND? Did you find the problem? When will the solution work, will it be before you roll out NG +?
JamesLogan491 Jun 22, 2022
@bojan-77 "before you roll out NG +"
That is quite optimistic of you to be so sure a NG+ is going to happen.
I'm not going to say it is likely but it wouldn't be surprising if Ubisoft had given up on this idea and just haven't made it public yet.
They've given up o "future features" already so if you want to have expectations of content yet to come I would advise caution to mitigate any frustration or disappointment.
Bojan-77 Jun 23, 2022
@jameslogan491 They announced yes, NG +, but only when they finish the support, meaning witj all various DLC, if there weren't a lot of glitches, this game would be very, very frustrating because of grinding ... so they are counting on Helix ... but half a year ago the problem started with save file, has not been resolved yet, and they do not even say that they are aware of the problem ...

Same issue over here. Those 5 challenges got "uncompleted" a while ago and never came back.

Yesterday, July 08, I was able to access the shop again after 3 days without it.

@azullfr Thank you. I searched the issue here to see if it had been reported before but the search bar here in the forums yielded no results.
@ubi-keo That is indeed my issue. Since Tuesday all I have is a "This session is empty" message.

Ever since the weekly reset yesterday, Reda's selection has been empty for me.
No issues with my internet connection, I can still get quests from him and I'm still receiving Opals for those quests, game application is updated to the latest version, no issues accessing UPlay.
I play on PS4.

@bojan-77 "before you roll out NG +"
That is quite optimistic of you to be so sure a NG+ is going to happen.
I'm not going to say it is likely but it wouldn't be surprising if Ubisoft had given up on this idea and just haven't made it public yet.
They've given up o "future features" already so if you want to have expectations of content yet to come I would advise caution to mitigate any frustration or disappointment.

@hidden1ne I'm going for the top most ledge as you pointed out. Definitely increased the success rate but it is still pretty much a gamble if the challenge will register the kill or not.

@hidden1ne That is exactly the spot I was getting the kills and reloading. On PS4 each load takes several minutes so an already obnoxious process becomes even worse.

I'm on the same boat with the whistling not attracting the guards. That is one of the reasons I mentioned the broken stealth/AI in this game.

Whoever thought about this challenge, I doubt they have ever played the game.

FIFTY assassinations. Coonsidering how broken the stealth and AI are in this game I'd have reluctantly done maybe ten of those for the sake of having collectable I wouldn't use, just like all the past tattoos, but FIFTY you must be kidding, specially considering that most of the time the challenge doesn't even register your progress (I have done 8 assassinations but only 3 counted) which means you have to do way more than 50 for the challenge to complete.

That one will be a pass for me. Honestly wish the challenge had remained broken and the tattoo were made available for free like some of the other broken stuff in the past.

Svartalfheim seems to have more trouble than England in terms of missing a Reda quest. When loading a save there I'm almost always missing a quest. Sometimes going to Reda in England will get me the missing quest but most of the times it doesn't.
At least on the PS4 for me it is a lot safer to go back to England before saving and leaving. This way when I load back into the game, I'll be in England, get the quests from Reda, then I travel/sleep to Svartalfheim and get the Arena daily there.
This gets specially frustrating when you consider how atrocious the loading times are on the PS4.
According to @Randelia, they have all the 3 quests today, but for me I only have 2(1 daily and 1 weekly) quests and the arena challenge.
If I had loaded in England I believe I'd have gotten the 3 quests (2 dailies a 1 weekly) and after completing those I could get the arena challenge in Svartalfheim.

Edit: After completing the quests in Svartalfheim and traveling to England, I was able to get the second daily quest that wasn't available in Svartalfheim. For a total of 2 daily quests + 1 weekly quest + Reda's Arena Daily Challenge
I wonder if this discrepancy between Svartalfheim is something that affects other platforms and if the dev team is aware of it.