The developers also provided for the deadly hidden blade mode, when Eivor can kill even the most powerful enemy with one blow from the shadows, but the authors do not recommend enabling it so as not to spoil the basic game mechanics. The much-touted X-Ray effect of weapons penetrating different parts of the victim’s body is being demonstrated on local bosses. While cleaning ordinary people, I have never met him.
Separately, as you explore castles and villages, you can find manuscripts that open up special melee and ranged combat techniques. The same scrolls are used to improve these skills. For example, getting two overhead scrolls will receive a second tier overhead hit. However, collecting resources is necessary not only to improve weapons and armor, but also to develop your settlement. By capturing and looting coastal monasteries, you get the resources you need to build an assassin’s hut, bakery, trading row, or fishing and hunting shack in your village. The larger and stronger your village, the more people and side quests you get.
The system of tasks has also undergone changes. In addition to the main plot, the developers offer side missions with well-developed stories and random events that are not even tracked in the quest menu. For example, you can save the fields of peasants from hordes of rats with the help of cats, play with the children on a raid, or rekindle the extinct passion of two Vikings by setting fire to their home. For this, as a rule, the hero is awarded money, weapons, experience points, or useful components. The sets of mini-games were replenished with fluting – poetic battles, where the most subtle and rhyming rival wins. The booze QTE allows you to find out who can stand on his feet by drinking three horns of strong Scandinavian mead.
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla follows the path of its predecessors, but its main plot looks much more elaborate, even in comparison with “Odyssey”. The characters are better written, and the level of production is impressive with cinematic camera turns, action and battles. At the same time, the game does not have the former vanilla: blood splashes on the battlefield and heads flying from the shoulders are visible. At the same time, your companions during raids often help you out, distracting a strong enemy.
The battles themselves curtsey to the side Dark souls… The hero now has a fatigue bar, you can do perfect parries, and boss fights are as reminiscent of FromSoftware’s creations as possible, especially with changing enemy patterns after critically hitting them.
In turn, the health restoration system turned into gathering. Now you have to replenish your life supply with cloudberries and raspberries or a saucepan of forgotten soup, and raise your adrenaline level with fly agarics. Naturally, in order to increase the stock of wearable first aid kits, you will have to pump over your shoulder bag. Therefore, consider that nothing has changed in the basic mechanics of collecting medicines. The feathered friend returned to the game, who marks important points and important events on the map, such as Animus anomalies, and side missions.
