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1 and 4 are ok, rest are garishly-nasty, look at me!, try-hard...euck.

Also, I think Freud would have a lot to say about 3, plus maybe 2.

Yep, nicely done, Matty.

So the patch seems to have sorted all the tearing on the Series X plus there seems to be no noticeable difference graphically on performance mode so all good.

This is my first Assasins Creed game and I am loving it, I've hardly done any of the main game I don't think as I keep getting drawn into the side quests. The world they have created is just chocker full of fun stuff to do but the Edge review talks about 70hrs which is a bit daunting but if it keeps this up Im hopeful that I'll make it to the end

Just had my first disapointment.

Appreciate I'm probably expecting the game to do a bit much and I'm sure the makes for a nice set piece but it would have been nice for the game to be a bit more flexible.

I think we can all agree though that magic horse is super useful.

I'm on 20 hours now and feel I've barely started. They've really done the business with the world this time. I catch myself stopping and just looking at the game. Still think character models are a bit dodgy though. The loop of explore, raid/mission etc is balanced just right for me at the moment. Haven't found any amazing weapons yet. I presume they'll come later...

I ploughed 38 hours into this and now have little desire to return to it, despite hardly scraping the main story. It's biggest problem is the level scaling, or indeed the complete lack of of it. I was a level 90 Viking striding across a level 20 zone, with no challenge in sight. How did the game let me get in the situation where I am so ridiculously overpowered? It's no fun being a Viking with nothing but axe-fodder enemies to wet my blade.

I had the choice, I recall, to advance the story by going into a level 90 zone but opted instead to mop up an earlier 20 zone which I still hadn't scouted yet, and that's where my troubles began. God knows what it would have been like if I had left the latter zone until I mopped up the 90 level area,  then starting that even more overpowered than am I now. The difficulty / level map in this game is a mess, and it was never this bad in Odyssey, despite it using a similar system.

Adjusting the difficulty setting to Hard has no discernible difference when you fighting enemies 70 levels below you.

I'm also missing Odyssey's ship combat more than I thought I would. It helped break up the land-based stuff when assassinating camps and forts all got a bit a stale. The Conquest Battles in the previous title were genuinely fraught affairs, with a rapidly diminishing progress bar showing you in which direction the battle was going. Failure was a distinct possibility. Compare this to the Monastery Raids of Valhalla where everything is a cakewalk and there's no sense of danger or threat of your attack being repulsed.

Remember that SkillUp review which we all lambasted for being too negative? Well whisper it, I think he may have been right after all....

That reminds me of when I played Skyrim and spent all my time doing the guild stuff. When I finally went back to the main story I was so overpowered it was pointless.

acemuzzy wrote:

Couldn't you... Go to the level 90 zone, enjoy that, and just not mop up the area you're finding boring??

Once you nominate a region to 'conquer' you're kinda locked into that area if you want to complete the main storyline, which I do. You're free to travel into other areas, but you can't advance the story there. It's bollocks.

Blocks100 wrote:

acemuzzy wrote:

Couldn't you... Go to the level 90 zone, enjoy that, and just not mop up the area you're finding boring??

Once you nominate a region to 'conquer' you're kinda locked into that area if you want to complete the main storyline, which I do. You're free to travel into other areas, but you can't advance the story there. It's bollocks.

Oh. Yeah that does sound shit!

That's me too, I'm still enjoying it loads, I'm about 37 hrs in level 90ish.

Just gone to:

It's a Ubi game so the world map should be jammed with 'you go here now' icons / maybe try activate a quest.

Oh...

Well to give this a positive spin, the fact you were only 23 hrs in and already level 150 which is 50 beyond me (even after putting over 50hrs in) means that you are super efficient and even if you were to start from scratch again, you will complete this before I do.

Sorry that's all I have, I'd be pretty angry.

Has she got a Facebook or Instagram you could permanently delete?!