What exactly is this? Just a free-roaming map without the story/mission portion?
It's an educational mode where you can find many guided interactive tours in the open world map, and via voice over they explain historical information about the locations and landmarks of the game.What exactly is this? Just a free-roaming map without the story/mission portion?
There is a narrator, it's litteraly a real virtual guided tourWhat exactly is this? Just a free-roaming map without the story/mission portion?
The Tweet says UPlay so I assume so. I don't think there's a standalone Discovery release on console for either Odyssey or Origins (and I quickly searched the PlayStation Store to try to double check that and couldn't find either Discovery mode there as standalone).
It's AC without the game portion. It's an educational tool within the game's world, with guided tours, highlighted points of interest, and curated additional historical context (things like pictures of historical relics, photos of the game's buildings as they appear now, or historical attempts to depict how they appeared back in the time of the game).What is this? Is this AC without assassinations? No violence?
I'd love to play a peaceful game of this quality with my kids, usually everything is full of violence.
It's AC with many of it's elements disabled. You can only explore and find tours. Bonus is that you can play as any character. So if you wanna say, parkour around with Cleopatra you can do that lol.What is this? Is this AC without assassinations? No violence?
I'd love to play a peaceful game of this quality with my kids, usually everything is full of violence.
In uplay pc client -> games -> free games
Can you walk around freely and climb stuff etc? Or are you just swapping between highlighted objects?The Tweet says UPlay so I assume so. I don't think there's a standalone Discovery release on console for either Odyssey or Origins (and I quickly searched the PlayStation Store to try to double check that and couldn't find either Discovery mode there as standalone).
It's AC without the game portion. It's an educational tool within the game's world, with guided tours, highlighted points of interest, and curated additional historical context (things like pictures of historical relics, photos of the game's buildings as they appear now, or historical attempts to depict how they appeared back in the time of the game).
There's no violence (and the Origins one even censors historical nudity - the Odyssey one has an option to do that as well), but there's also no game, other than that Discovery mode does keep track of what you've done so far and gives small rewards for completing portions of it. This is a great resource for anyone interested in the history, but won't entertain anyone who isn't (unless your kids are young enough that just wandering a virtual world is interesting to them).
That's awesome! 😀👍It's AC with many of it's elements disabled. You can only explore and find tours. Bonus is that you can play as any character. So if you wanna say, parkour around with Cleopatra you can do that lol.
You can walk around freely, climb stuff, jump off stuff (no damage), swim around and sail boats and ride horses (and camels in Origins). Once you start a tour the game will guide you through the tour (with an unmissable golden line from waypoint to waypoint) but it doesn't railroad you - you still have control, so at any point you can stop and explore.Can you walk around freely and climb stuff etc? Or are you just swapping between highlighted objects?
This is one of the best bits for me personally because it really highlights the sheer amount of effort that went into the animations of npcs. So many that most players pass by them without a second thought.There are also NPC spots throughout the game where NPCs are doing things - praying, eating, cleaning, making something, whatever. You can do the same thing that they're doing by shoving them out of that spot and standing on it yourself. That's sometimes moderately amusing, though the animations are totally canned and while you're doing those NPC animations, the only kind of control you have is to stop doing them.
This is great! Thanks for all the info, much appreciated ⭐️ All games should have a mode like this :)You can walk around freely, climb stuff, jump off stuff (no damage), swim around and sail boats and ride horses (and camels in Origins). Once you start a tour the game will guide you through the tour (with an unmissable golden line from waypoint to waypoint) but it doesn't railroad you - you still have control, so at any point you can stop and explore.
There are also NPC spots throughout the game where NPCs are doing things - praying, eating, cleaning, making something, whatever. You can do the same thing that they're doing by shoving them out of that spot and standing on it yourself. That's sometimes moderately amusing, though the animations are totally canned and while you're doing those NPC animations, the only kind of control you have is to stop doing them.
Within Europe, I don't think it's free yet. The Discovery Tour of Assassin's Creed Origins was fantastic, but I don't own Odyssey.
It is.Within Europe, I don't think it's free yet. The Discovery Tour of Assassin's Creed Origins was fantastic, but I don't own Odyssey.
It is. Scroll down in your library and you'll find them under "free games"
I had to restart the uPlay store for this, thanks.
It would be awesome to have this in consoles too...
Although it's a big saving, these still use the entire game world and most of the assets, so they're still enormous. The Odyssey tour is 56GB and the Origins one is not that much smaller.These are legit great, and it's great to have them separately from the main game so you don't have to install like 100gb of game to play these.