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Yeah, I'm kind of massively overpowered now at lvl 58, completed the pelts for Daphnae and got the last arrow type.
DEATH ARROWS.
Which sounds neat, but I'm already able to tear things apart with normal arrows having a fire buff.
Without the catch-up scaling, going back to do quest chains in lower level areas you missed would become pointless. Fights would always be trivial, loot would be throwaway. I think this is 100% the right approach. You're two levels in front, which still makes you feel powerful without making it mindless. Dropped loot still has the potential of improving on what you've got.
Can't argue with including the option to turn it off, though. As you said, Ubisoft's philosophy with this game is very much letting the player choose their experience.
Man I love this game. Not even close to finishing it and I've already clocked 47 hours. I love just running around finding ?s to do and seeing the country side. Side quests are fun and give me a reason to murder some shit. Collecting gear and changing my look is addictive and I really need to stop messing with it.
Oh and Critical Assassination + Hero Strike (or whatever the hell it's called) = Overpowered as shit. Nothing survives me.
This game will be close to the top of my GOTY for sure. It's truly impressive what Ubisoft has done here.
Oh and Critical Assassination + Hero Strike (or whatever the hell it's called) = Overpowered as shit. Nothing survives me.
This game will be close to the top of my GOTY for sure. It's truly impressive what Ubisoft has done here.
Just started the game and I'm in Megara.
Just curious about Knockout. Is there like no real downside to it? It's still one hit KO for me and as I understand it scales off assassin damage, doesn't it? Also it looks like you can recruit like 99% of enemies in regular camps and forts, so wouldn't it be more efficient to KO and recruit? Leaves no body behind either and you get some XP for it.
Or will it scale less in the late game or something vs straight assassination later on?
Just curious about Knockout. Is there like no real downside to it? It's still one hit KO for me and as I understand it scales off assassin damage, doesn't it? Also it looks like you can recruit like 99% of enemies in regular camps and forts, so wouldn't it be more efficient to KO and recruit? Leaves no body behind either and you get some XP for it.
Or will it scale less in the late game or something vs straight assassination later on?
You have a limit in how many people you can recruit and if you leave an enemy knocked out lying around then other enemies can wake them up.
Also you cannot apply the bonus of the skill "critical assassination" to knock out (as far as I know) so it's quite easier to just assassinate.
Impressive list of patch notes. One that sticks out for me, from patch 1.1.1:
Edit: Installed, tested aaaaand... it hasn't been fixed. Great.
At least the Daughters of Artemis seem friendly to me again.
Edit 2: Nope, still hostile.
I dearly hope this will finally fix my problem with NPCs automatically flashing me in photo mode.
Edit: Installed, tested aaaaand... it hasn't been fixed. Great.
At least the Daughters of Artemis seem friendly to me again.
Edit 2: Nope, still hostile.
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Hey everybody! If I still haven't finished Origins (prob like 80% of the way) and I'm knee deep in Red Dead, should i pick this up at Target today for $30? And should i finish Origins first?
This game is an absolute steal for 30 bucks. If you think you can get to it in the future I say buy it.
And definitely finish the main story of Origins if you can. It's worth it to see the ending.
Oh shit, the Pirate Set legendary skill went from "Improve Damage from Assassin's Skill by 15%" to "Improve Damage from Assassin's Skill by 50%" if you wear the set itself instead of engraving it on other equipment.
This and Pilgrim Set making you being Invisible as long as you want are game changers for some of the most difficult forts.
This and Pilgrim Set making you being Invisible as long as you want are game changers for some of the most difficult forts.
Oh man, really? They made it so that wearing the actual set gives you a significantly bigger bonus? That's definitely a game changer.
No buffs on the Athenian War Hero set, although I don't think anything could be better than All Arrows Pierce Shields. Noticed the Immortal set is now 100% Health recovery with a 1 minute cooldown instead of 20%, 2 minutes. Never did figure that one out though.
Good god that's amazing. I can't wait to see how all my builds have changed.
I hope the expansions have some super tough enemies because I'm already unstoppable pre-patch.
Not all of them, but the ones that had percentage buffs or damage have been increased.
What's the verdict on Xbox One vs PC now that this has been out for a while? Tempted to grab a copy of Xbox with that eBay code but my PC is also pretty good and I had to make only a few sacrifices to get Origins at 1080/60.
I know there are comparisons out there but they were done at launch.
I know there are comparisons out there but they were done at launch.
They've buffed perks for legendary sets, before it was possible to outclass them with purple armour (with a lot of luck) but this makes legendaries far more valuable, as they should be.
It appears that they made it so that the set bonus is markedly more powerful if you wear all 5 pieces of a set rather than just engrave it onto one piece of equipment, which gives you an incentive to actually use a full set.
It didn't take a lot of luck since you get so many items in the game and can always upgrade good pieces to your level. Given the versatility of the engraving slot, you can easily take an imperfect item and make it very good. Combined with the fact that legendary armours only have 3 properties on them (plus the set bonus shared among all pieces) versus 4 on epic items, it's almost always objectively better to use epic armour and just engrave the set bonus onto one piece of them... until now with the full set bonus.
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What's the fastest way to get Olive Wood? I thought I was closer to getting all the upgrades for the ship but apparently an update added more?
Breaking down gear/weapons you don't need tends to get you a lot pretty quickly.
I finished upgrading the ship yesterday, so I hope not.
Otherwise, dismantle stuff you don't need and check the metalworker guys for wood on sale.
I find doing those random side missions (the hour glass ones) which can be completed in just a few minutes can give you over 100 wood/iron/leather etc if you're around lvl 50+. Doing ten or so will usually get you enough to upgrade weapons, armour and the ship at least once.
Nice update today boosting the legendary sets. The Agamemnon set, for example, now has a 100% boost to fire which added to certain wepons and other armour bonuses you can add meks it ridiculously strong and great fun. Good to see these constant updates.
I've had different bugs with the photo mode come up (on PC using controller) but they were always random and would go when I restarted the game. Annoying and needs fixing.
Also, this is the custom armour I'm currently wearing.
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By far the fastest way to get wood is to simply destroy ships. Sail around and attack every ship you see. I usually get anywhere from 70-200 wood per ship depending on the type of ship. Combined with dismantling everything, after fully upgrading my vessel (including the new patch upgrades), I still have about 17,000 wood.
Edit: Correction, I actually have 29,000 wood right now.
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Yeah. You just have to go back to the island you started the game on and start killing goats until one drops it.
gfycat made a change on their end that broke embeds and linking pretty much everywhere that uses them. If you use Apollo app, for example, they're having the same issue.
We need to wait for a few updates to get it working again.
I just did it on accident when I went back to do a quest. I guess it would be random tho.
Huh, thought it might be something a bit more complicated. What does the eye do, if anything?
Finished Divine Intervention, was an awful lot of running back and forth across the same piece of land.
What if you strip the referrer header or even provide a referrer pointing to their own site?
Nope just a random drop anywhere on the island.
The eye doesn't do anything, it's just worth a bit of money.
OMG that's amazing. I was thinking about it the other night and that this should be a thing. I guess it is LOL
I love this one... raining in this game just "feels" so good tbh
Once you get used to Shadow of Nyx you can kind of go invisible for free anyway. I use it constantly and it rarely costs me adrenaline. As long as you don't use up an entire segment your adrenaline will refill so I use it in short bursts to move between cover or to lead into an assassination. I went from feeling it was a novelty skill to thinking it might actually be broken once I got the rhythm of it down.