Seriously. How [removed] are the devs over at Ubisoft that they actually patched dive of the Valkyries level 2 breaking barred doors before real actual game-breaking bugs ruining the game for millions such as the daughters of lerion corpse trigger which is effectively locking Thor's gear behind a game-breaking bug. Using dive of the valkyries to break barred doors actually made the game better, not worse. But somebody prioritized patching that while the game is drowning in real bugs like crashing to desktop every 5 minutes , and other extremely bad bugs. I really just can't imagine what kind of developer sits there and actually says, I'm going to fix the code on dive of the valkyries while my players cant even play my game. Who are these people?

@ubi-woofer I really don't understand some of these questions. Who on the dev team is asking these questions? This issue is so simple. The Corpse Trigger (all 3 daughters of lerion) is not functioning properly due to janky scripting. It breaks after repeated triggers on the same playthrough/save game due to it doesn't refresh properly and gets stuck in the "already triggered" state and it does not return to the un-triggered state.

If Multi-national $9 billion market cap Ubisoft doesn't have the resources to fix junior-high coding class script issues, could you please post the scripts online so the community can fix them? I bet the community could fix the script in less than a day and send them back to you for hotfix.

Millions of customers can't get the Thor armor or Mjolnir because of this problem.

Each person may prefer one artistic style over the other; but if we examine what each game offers objectively; we will come to conclusion that Odyssey just offers a lot more value to the customer; it has orders of magnitude more to do; more to explore; more items to collect, more lore friendly armor; replayable design; much larger map with interesting stuff to see instead of just empty country. It's a vastly superior effort. It's not superior in every way; but overall it's not close.

@ubi-woofer

Woofer my good friend; pass this message for me: " on PC version ubi-connect, Spin yourself up a power level 150 character, with low level equipment and weapons (superior quality should be fine), and attempt to defeat all 3 sisters, starting with easiest one first. The game difficulty should be Drengr (very hard). Create a save game before you engage the first sister. If you defeat the first sister, move to sister 2 and then to sister 3. Due to you are vastly under-powered, you are going to die over and over and over again to sister 3 (let's die 20 times in a row to be safe), after you die, you are going to re-load your save you made and this will cause the bug to happen for you (eventually). Play the game like a player does ....you are a noob trying to score thor armor". That bug will pop for them like snapping fingers.

PC Ubi connect version:
Step 1. Create save game (before fighting sister 3 like right outside her camp)
Step 2. Trigger the corpse for sister 3
Step 3. Fight sister and lose
Step 4. Repeat 5, 10 or 20 times
Step 5. Make sure you close down the game, then reboot the game (after you lose a few times), it wouldn't hurt to do this 2-3 times
Step 6. Also try fast traveling back to ravensthorpe, and then fast travel back to fight Sister 3 some more.

Roleplaying: You the bug finder are an under-leveled player, you suck, but you want that Thor armor right now so you are going to try and get it, but Sister 3 is going to punish you for it and kill you a million times bc you are way too low level to be fighting her right now.

While Odyssey had replayable battles, respawning fortress/strongholds to attack, respawning loot, randomized loot, and respawning bounty hunter mechanics; Valhalla literally has nothing to do once you complete the game. It's a shocking reversal in design that is a huge step backwards. I know the river-raids update plans to address this; but I'm left wishing I had something (anything) to do now that I finished the game.

@patricia81994

Witcher 3 is easily one of the best video games ever made; and certainly in the 2010-2020 era. Witcher 3 is such a masterclass in game development that even at 6 years old, it is still technologically superior to AC Valhalla in some areas (though not all); particularly environment/weather/foliage/plants; I mean, Geralt had animated hair in 2015; it's 2021 and Eivor has static plastic hair that doesn't move.

I promise you, every single member of the ubisoft dev team wishes they could make a product as good as Witcher 3; and believe me they've tried (AKA Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla); but it's difficult to achieve that type of epic quality working for a corporate studio like EA or Ubisoft etc.

There are side quests in Witcher 3 (more than one) that are better than the entire main story in Valhalla.

@asgardian02

Couldn't agree more. Remarkably lifeless Country. The only thing to do is hunt or fish.

I let my 5 year old daughter play briefly (under close supervision) and she was able to easily defeat enemies on Drengr (very hard) while barely being able to operate the camera and controls.

I am not saying this to be rude or as a dig, I'm just reporting it as a fact that happened at my house for whatever it's worth.

I feel that the difficulty is significantly too easy, even on the hardest setting. I was able to defeat a Zealot more than twice my level, I was also able to defeat regular enemies more than 5-6 times my current power level.

@ubi-borealis

This is by far the worst most frustrating bug in the entire game IMO and something that can't be solved on the players end. Should be priority #1.

Level appropriate enemies are absurdly easy/effortless on Drengr.

• enemy health is too low. Needs to be increased 100-300%.
• enemy damage too low
• enemy AI is sitting-duck.

If you say on a scale of 1-10, that Odyssey was an 8 on max difficulty, then Valhalla is literally a 0/10 on drengr.

They don't want anyone to know about the update because it's probably going to be unplayable, bugged mess like Yule Festival and they don't want the community backlash. So they will release it and hope nobody plays it shhhhh! don't tell anyone!

It seems to me the best course of action for Ubisoft would be to make a new franchise. Some folks prefer the old AC formula; and that group seems to like Valhalla; then another group are fans of Origins/Odyssey and like the evolution. You can't make everyone happy. They should just keep old AC formula for those fans and make a different franchise for action/RPG fans.

@patricia81994
@Gloomseeker

Everyone of course is free to like or dislike any game. I only point out that in the community there is simply overwhelming consensus on the Witcher 3 quality being very high. Can anyone show another AAA big-budget game in 2010-2020 with a Critic score of 93 and a Player score of 9.4? Probably not. Still, it doesn't mean you have to like it. Hot dogs are popular but doesn't mean you have to like them or eat them.

I already went back and started a new game + on Odyssey. It's so much better; Valhalla was a huge face plant into the mud. Epic fail.

@asgardian02

Couldn't agree more. Remarkably lifeless Country. The only thing to do is hunt or fish.

I would be open to playing a female character; but I'm not open to it; because I will not support evil Corporate "woke" social engineering, brave-new-world, authoritarian [censored]-style brainwashing. But, for those who fall victim to it, I will wish them best of luck.

@asgardian02

I can tell you what happened. Ubisoft Quebec made Odyssey; and Ubisoft Montreal made Valhalla. That's what "happened". Completely different teams.

@patricia81994

Witcher 3 is easily one of the best video games ever made; and certainly in the 2010-2020 era. Witcher 3 is such a masterclass in game development that even at 6 years old, it is still technologically superior to AC Valhalla in some areas (though not all); particularly environment/weather/foliage/plants; I mean, Geralt had animated hair in 2015; it's 2021 and Eivor has static plastic hair that doesn't move.

I promise you, every single member of the ubisoft dev team wishes they could make a product as good as Witcher 3; and believe me they've tried (AKA Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla); but it's difficult to achieve that type of epic quality working for a corporate studio like EA or Ubisoft etc.

There are side quests in Witcher 3 (more than one) that are better than the entire main story in Valhalla.

Each person may prefer one artistic style over the other; but if we examine what each game offers objectively; we will come to conclusion that Odyssey just offers a lot more value to the customer; it has orders of magnitude more to do; more to explore; more items to collect, more lore friendly armor; replayable design; much larger map with interesting stuff to see instead of just empty country. It's a vastly superior effort. It's not superior in every way; but overall it's not close.

Is there a way to stop all helix gear from automatically being added to new playthrough inventory?