Current Events > AC Odyssey: To level scale or not to level scale?

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Yeah, most of the cutscenes around them happen in your typical RPG fashion instead. Some of them have a few lines in combat with them as well I believe, but don't have the standard "one on one" cutscene with them.

It makes sense I guess, even if I do miss them. Kassandra is just killing them out of self preservation largely - at least possibly until a certain event later, so has no care to do more than snuff them out and then fuck the next person she sees.

Also, still going through the game myself slowly currently I loathe how far backwards they've gone with the mercenary/bounty system compared to Origins Phylakes. Just so annoying having 3 suddenly appear from nowhere in the middle of killing a main mission NPC, where the bounty was caused from attacking said NPC - or walking through a fort (when you can't) Really should've kept something similar to Origin's. Have them wonder around as elite Cultist/Order Assassins that are targeting you. Given they are... targeting you.

Then, if you want a punishment now the "desync" is gone, have them much less tethered to you or only operate in each "state" like Skyrims crime system. Not like they are an issue to kill, just a frustrating game experience imo.

Eventually you might want to seek out Hephaistos' workshop in Myson Cave - Malis, or whatever it's called - which is a place where you can upgrade your engravings past the max level of 5 to 10 for lots of money. Can lower it by getting to mercenary rank S2 which unlocks at... some point after getting to rank 1? Nothing ever tells you to go there as was added later on and I only found out about it after looking at the merc rank rewards after going past rank 1.

That's a different place. Place I was referencing is in the North West of the map I believe? No story tied to him that I've found yet and he has no talk with Kassandra either. He simply exists.

https://assassinscreed.fandom.com/wiki/Hephaistos%27_Workshop

Do remember the place you are talking about however, but don't remember what is actually tied to it offhand.

Just wanted to say I finally found hephaistos workshop and... yeah, it was pretty underwhelming, he's really just there. No dialogue no howdy doody no anything.

I wish I could choose what 4 engravings I want to put on a weapon rather than only get to choose 1 and have to deal with luck of the draw for the other 3.

Ok now this is just plain hilarious. I found a cultist, who owned slaves and was cheating a slave out of his freedom. He had some of his slaves in cages. I unlocked the cage with a slave in front of him, and the cultist instantly attacked me, fine that makes sense. But then the slave I freed picked up a sword and started attacking me too! What in the actual fuck, I was so shocked by this that I didn't even instantly kill him, I just stood there and thought is this really happening.

Also sidenote I googled this quest wondering if I can find an explanation for what just happened and it turns out this quest is related to Odessa way back in the beginning of the game, the woman I had join my crew. So I automatically complete the quest regardless and the choice to kill her is out of my hands. How was any player supposed to know she would factor in later? I may as well never recruit NPCs and add them to my crew since I lose them in the overworld forever. I can't even talk to her on the Adrestia or anything.

Definitely. Main reason I've pretty much stuck to using various gold weapons, rather than deal with the RNG of the purple ones.

Only purple one I bothered to keep was this

https://assassinscreed.fandom.com/wiki/Heitor%27s_Harpe

As considered one of the better weapons and has fixed great engravings.

Wtf. Phoibe dies?

I'm so upset right now. Not at Phoibe dying, but the fact that I spared the sick family in kephallonia which caused a plague for her sake, when the game just kills her anyway. Meh The choice option was ridiculous for that quest anyway

Pericles is dead in my game too tho, but I haven't been back to Athens in a while so idk if the plague is still going on. I let them kill the family because I read your first post about it before I started playing but I guess the plague happens anyway

shit I thought I was further along than you but I guess I haven't gone to this place yet >_>

Pericles is dead in my game too tho, but I haven't been back to Athens in a while so idk if the plague is still going on. I let them kill the family because I read your first post about it before I started playing but I guess the plague happens anyway

Ive been down in the southeast part of the map for a while now trying to find cultists. I got this pretty nice purple bow yesterday.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/8/1/AAMAW6AAEGvV.jpg

I wonder if Valhalla is going to be better or worse than this game...

I wonder if Valhalla is going to be better or worse than this game... or if it's gonna be a descending order of quality for this trilogy

They definitely leaned into the combat system a lot harder for Valhalla.

Now I'm not sure if I should pursue the mother or do the father's Atlantis quest, since I'm not sure which is the endgame quest and if I beat the game too soon I definitely won't be motivated to explore the remainder of the map and all the locations/quests I skipped.

Here's the thing with the combat system. Sometimes it feels like it finally clicked for me, other times it does not mesh well.

My problem is I'm playing it too much like Bayonetta and trying to dodge cancel when that's not a thing in this game. I had been playing Bayonetta 2 and was too used to a near perfect game with fluid movement and combat, that it took me a while to adjust to the input lag of AC.

It's much more satisfying to one hit kill enemies than to deal with the tedious combat

Damn. But they removed level scaling right? That could only make the game better right?

Looked online to see when to do the quest and apparently it has nothing to do with the main story (this true?)