I loved Assassin’s Creed ValhallaSo much so that if I had more time with it in the calendar year, it would have worked a serious run for my Game Of 2020But boy, at the same time, I’m not happy with the support the game got after launch.
The game has been released, and continues to break through some quests months later, and sometimes even completely groundbreaking bugs. One of them had detained me for over a week when a character essential to a main storyline quest refused to appear at her designated point in Ravensthorpe, another for a few days when a quest that should evoke new dialogue after I had a husband deposed my horse just never got around to it.
Those are two that plagued me; The Washington Post highlighted another last week that gave many others severe headaches.
To be clear, the problem here is not that the game launched with bugs. Like some other shaky parts of it Valhalla– low quality sound effects in some areas and cutscenes where the character’s lips don’t move – concessions have to be made about being a big AAA game was released in the midst of a global pandemic
But there’s also a point where we have to acknowledge that this game was released in November, and it’s almost April now, and many of these major bugs are still there, leaving players stuck and frustrated for months later. That sucks!
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And while the November numbers are still around, new ones keep piling up. The latest round of free season content from the game, based on the Ostara festivities, got some aspects removed after they started causing crashes.
That fix involved removing Ravensthorpe’s Ostara decorations and the new quests cannot be completed while Ubisoft is working on a fix.
Im to attempt to get excited about the game’s first real update, which will shift the adventures from Eivor to Ireland, but if the game still has so many issues, what do you say an expansion won’t just add more to the stack?