Nice. Sooner than I thought.
Nice. Sooner than I thought.
If you have 100 points, you can get a 20% coupon for the Uplay store; when it's on sale, you can get the ultimate edition for $31 (I don't remember the price for gold, but it'll be cheaper than that since the base sale price for ultimate was $39). Also, gold and ultimate come with the AC3 remaster for free (it's included in the season pass).Gold edition is $43 dollars right now on GMG. Do you guys think this game will get significantly cheaper soon? I'm thinking about buying AC3 Remastered now and then buying Odyssey later.
How is the characters not having any personality a common complaint?
Kassandra is great, just got to the singing scene.
Also- I'm not sure why people were so angry that it took forever to level. I'm closing in on 50 (which was the original cap) and I still have like 12 cultists, all of the sages minus one and I haven't even been to Sparta yet, let alone a huge number of islands. If anything I'm leveling too fast!
Gold edition is $43 dollars right now on GMG. Do you guys think this game will get significantly cheaper soon? I'm thinking about buying AC3 Remastered now and then buying Odyssey later.
What is the current level cap? Is it 70 or 99? I'm seeing conflicting info.
Definitely not 70, I'm currently 75 or 76 at the end of the first episode of Fate of Atlantis.
My main complaint about Legacy of the First Blade is the XP is so low, over the course of all 3 episodes I leveled up like twice. Since starting Fate of Atlantis I've gone up 5-6 levels in just the first episode.
67 or 68 when I got the platinum trophy. I played the game after they increased the level cap past 50 so I blew past that well before the end of the first story ending.Interesting. What level were you when you finished the main three story pillars?
What is the current level cap? Is it 70 or 99? I'm seeing conflicting info.
I remember finishing the game when they had not even raised the cap level once, and I was stuck at level 50 for a long time, and felt scammed and pissed when they didn't retroactively make me level up when the 1st level cap raise happened. It felt a bit unfair to see my SO playing the game a month of two after me, and getting to be higher level than I was because he just waited some months to play the game while I played it day one (or even day minus 3 since I have the Gold edition and could start playing before the official launch). I think my current level is around 65/67 and that is just plain ridiculous knowing I completed absolutely everything in the same (sinked more than 170 hours into it), and should be way higher than that, had I waited to play the game instead of... playing it as soon as it was available. My love for the game didn't feel rewarded by that move for sure.
They awarded players who were already at level 50 with a boat load of ability points which could be used on the mastery levels. And I mean a lot of points.
Also the game scales to level so you're level is really kind of irrelevant to enjoying the game once you have enough ability points to get all the skills you want.
The ability points that were given to me after the cap level update amounted to the same number of ability points my SO got after he finished the game long after the cap level update. We counted and compared them, just FYI. So whether you completed the game after of before the cap raise update, we all get the same amount of ability points, it's fair for everyone. But it's not like I have an edge either compared to people who finished the game after the cap raise update like you're implying, not at all.
Also, the scaling indeed helps making this less unpleasant, but still sucks when you're into getting to the very top of the mercenary list, since that system actually doesn't scale at all, making my SO more likely to be able to kill mercenaries that I can't even touch because I'm way too low level to even try.
It's little things honestly, but still, it's frustrating. Again, this doesn't feel rewarding as someone who played the game day 1, compared to someone who started after cap level updates.
Damn it's really 99? That's kind of annoying.
What are people doing about upgrading/engraving? I keep waiting to hit the level cap so I can focus on engraving max level gear but it seems dumb to do so due to the exorbitant expense of upgrading when I receive so much new gear it makes my current stuff obsolete within a level or two.
I'm at level 49 and around 55 hours played and I haven't upgraded or engraved once.
I guess once you finish upgrading the Adrestia there's no other use for mats except to upgrade gear, but with the final tier of upgrades costing like, 200k Drachmae and like 5000 precious gems, that won't be any time soon.
You really really don't need to unlock that last upgrade set for the Adrestia. Save your mats and money for upgrading gear and if you really want to you can maybe grab one or two of the Adrestia ones (health and arrows maybe). Those upgrades for the ship aren't worth the cost by any means if you ask me.
As for upgrading gear, once I got to a high enough level the gear upgades started feeling less important. For instance I didn't upgrade my weapon or armor from level 70-80 (which was a lot of playtime) and I barely even noticed until 80 that I was starting to struggle with some enemies health pools.
Edit: I guess I should mention I have like every set of gear in the game, so drops don't really appeal to me very often anymore.
Interesting. I guess I'll just keep playing and hope that's the case.
Did the naval battles give you any trouble after upgrading to the second highest level Adrestia?
My ship is almost all gold (but no max level upgrades) and some of the naval battles are still pretty brutal. I'm playing on Nightmare for what it's worth.
If I can really mostly ignore the last tier of upgrades, I can start engraving and upgrading my stuff pretty soon then which I'm looking forward to.
I did almost every naval battle in the game before the last tier of upgrades was even added to the game. I sometimes have to watch my ass fighting some of the weekly bounty ships that are high level. But I never had any problem with any story related or side quest related ship battles.
I play on Hard, so Nightmare might be a completely different story. Honestly I just spend so little time fighting in my ship compared to fighting on foot that I always saw the ship upgrades as a less important upgrade path.
I have bought a few of the final upgrades and honestly they can be pretty OP. So on Nightmare they may have a higher worth than I'm giving them credit for.
Eh I initially began on hard and restarted on nightmare after leaving Kephalonia. Unless scaling gets more intense I don't think it's a huge increase in difficulty at all so your advice is probably still good.
I will say that certain enemies absolutely will one-shot you on nightmare. Like a certain one on Crete.
Thanks for all the advice!
Side note- I ended up in Phokis again. Is The Daughters of Lalaia Lost Tale mission worth doing?
I have about 85 hrs in at Level 30, I have really hit a wall. I love this game, but Ubi really went crazy with this map.
Any suggestions as I want to complete this to the end, like I have with every single AC, but I am struggling to finish this up.
Take a break if you can. If not, try only doing the story missions. With that many hours played I'm surprised you aren't higher level honestly. You can shorten the experience a lot by not doing all of the ? on the map and just heading straight to where you are supposed to.
I think I made the mistake for the first half of the game also tacking the side missions, AKA"?". I have also tried to take on a lot of the forts killing everyone at them and completing all of the objectives.
Does it make sense to buy XP? The funny thing is that I had take a few weeks off when Days Gone came out, but I was hoping to get back to this and finally get it wrapped up.
I never felt like I needed the XP booster to get through the game. If you think it will help you finish the game and you have the money I suppose you could. I don't even know how much it costs. The XP booster will only really make a difference if you don't think you can finish the main story without doing a ton more side content at this point.
If you're really stuck, just turn the scaling down. You should be able to complete the main story stuff at around Level 40.It's crazy as I look at the rest of the missions, those are at levels in the mid-40's so I fear its going to be a long haul.
If you're really stuck, just turn the scaling down. You should be able to complete the main story stuff at around Level 40.
Go into the options once you've loaded a save. It's in the gameplay options somewhere (it should be in the same place where the difficulty is).
Go into the options once you've loaded a save. It's in the gameplay options somewhere (it should be in the same place where the difficulty is).
IIRC, the "light" setting is a -4 modifier (so things can be up to 4 levels below your own level). Each section of the map has its own base level, so you'll still need to level up to do later stuff, but a lot of places will no longer be exactly your level and will be extremely easy to clear (a 4-level advantage makes a huge difference in difficulty).
Are you playing in exploration mode or classic mode?Can't say enough how overwhelming the sheer amount of content in this game is. So many icons, my head explodes. I want to see everything, did all the question marks in W3. Won't be able to do it here though, because I don't have 200 hours of time. Will have to streamline my playthrough, otherwise this will be my only game this year.
Love the feature of adjusting and changing the look of the loot.
Also stealth killing an entire huge base is a ton of fun.
LOL, yeah, I played through just doing things I happened to run across on my way to a main quest instead of trying to 100% everything as I went... Gotta say I think I had more fun with the game because of it.Exploration mode. But I like to collect all available quests and then go into the wild and do it. Board on the ship + board in a town + story quests = quest overflow. As I said, I really have to ignore some stuff.
LOL, yeah, I played through just doing things I happened to run across on my way to a main quest instead of trying to 100% everything as I went... Gotta say I think I had more fun with the game because of it.
Checked in with my playtime yesterday, I'm at 24 hours played and I'm only level 21. Need to step the pace up and stop investigating every ? I see
Mhm I'm very early in the game actually, just finished the Wolf of Sparta quest. The game feels a bit grindy in spots. 5000 drachme for a loadout slot for your equipment is bullshit, upgrading the level for the DLC armors and weapon I paid for is expensive, the boat upgrading as well (drachme and materials).
I guess the game will give you a lot of stuff during the story and quests later on, but I'm using cheat engine to upgrade my DLC gear every 3 levels (two armors and one spear) because it would not be possible otherwise and that stuff was really expensive. Thank God for PC gaming.
The game is gorgeous in spots, I will share some screens in the PC Screenshot thread later after work. It handles pop in rather well. Still, playing the game I can't wait for next gen. Textures and details in the distance are very simple and I notice it more and more.
Combat is still too easy even on hard, will bump it up because I love to stealth kill a base but it takes way more time than just rushing in and fighting everyone. Need extra motivation to be sneaky.
Kassandra is great by the way. Love her.
Of course the combat seems too easy if you're using a cheat program to upgrade your items more quickly than you're supposed to.
A note on upgrades - I'm 80 hours in and still haven't bothered with a extra slot upgrade. It's a convenience but hardly necessary.
Early on, forget about upgrading gear entirely. The game throws so much new stuff at you your current setup becomes obsolete every other mission. This is more of a late game activity. In the meantime, break down all your items instead of selling them. Drachmae comes easy but materials do not. Use these materials to get the Adrestia upgraded. At least focus on the hull first and foremost, followed by arrow power, and then ram and rower stamina. Those last two go hand-in-hand.
Mhm I'm very early in the game actually, just finished the Wolf of Sparta quest. The game feels a bit grindy in spots. 5000 drachme for a loadout slot for your equipment is bullshit, upgrading the level for the DLC armors and weapon I paid for is expensive, the boat upgrading as well (drachme and materials).
I guess the game will give you a lot of stuff during the story and quests later on, but I'm using cheat engine to upgrade my DLC gear every 3 levels (two armors and one spear) because it would not be possible otherwise and that stuff was really expensive. Thank God for PC gaming.
The game is gorgeous in spots, I will share some screens in the PC Screenshot thread later after work. It handles pop in rather well. Still, playing the game I can't wait for next gen. Textures and details in the distance are very simple and I notice it more and more.
Combat is still too easy even on hard, will bump it up because I love to stealth kill a base but it takes way more time than just rushing in and fighting everyone. Need extra motivation to be sneaky.
Kassandra is great by the way. Love her.
People are raging due to installation/download on Xbox One being stuck/stopped at 84.2%.
Ubi, what have you done..