Just a very small heads-up. Yesterday or thereabouts, Valhalla saw the rollout of Update 1.6.2.
With it, Ubisoft's two years of post-launch content updates came to an end.
1.6.2 contains two things of note:
- One small quest called Shared History. It's a tie-in to the upcoming Assassin's Creed: Mirage, which sees the Assassin Roshan (voiced by Shoreh Agdashloo, of The Expanse fame and more) crossing paths with Eivor in England while she hunts down a target intent on amassing power and crushing the Raven Clan in the process. There's a mention of Jerusalem in it - possibly to help tie Mirage to the first AC game.
- One last quest named The Final Chapter, which brings Eivor's story to a close. Keep in mind that to access it, you need to have all regional allegiances secured, killed all Ancients and unmasked their leader, fully upgraded the Ravensthorpe settlement and completed both the main storyline and the Asgard campaign.
Spoiler for hold your horses, cowboys:
The quest is not as exciting as it sounds. There is no combat, only Eivor coming to the conclusion that he/she must leave for uncharted lands for some soul-searching and come to grips with Odin's memories and their implications.
It's a collection of scenes of Eivor saying goodbye to the Raven clan (some of which are now practically Assassins-in-training thanks to Hytham), King Harald (who intends to pacify Iceland, and Sigurd is keen on going there), Alfred of Wessex, Guthrum (who, as History has it, did convert to Christianism so that peace could be had in England) and Valka. All of that while Basim looks on, curious to see how it all ends.
Unlike the Assassin's Creed Embers short movie, we do not get to see the final moments of Eivor and the specifics (the when, the how and the why) behind them, only his/her reasons for leaving everything (including Randvi) for Vinland. There is a cutscene where Basim awakens from his Animus jaunt and sees both Eivor and Odin chatting on the cliff near the chalet, talking about Ragnarök and solar flares.
And that's it.
The only thing of true interest is a short dialogue between Basim and Miles Sr...wherein the latter says he needs something from the former. Who knows whether it has to do with Desmond or maybe even Isu archaeological sites? Either way, that'll probably be further explored in Assassin's Creed Mirage...unless Ubisoft, once again, decides to shovel that plot thread into the ever-growing trash heap of AC comics and novels, where it'll all get resolved and never be heard from again in the next AC games themselves (looking at you, Juno resurrection plot from AC: Syndicate!).
Spoiler for I'm not kidding about that last part:
Do you know that the sword you take a heck of a long time unlocking in Valhalla, Excalibur, is actually stolen from Eivor in the Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Sword of the White Horse novel? Right before the Wrath of the Druids DLC? And that Eivor never gets Excalibur back? Yeahhhhhhh...
Also, with the end of post-launch content cycle, the seasonal festivals (Oskoreia, Sigrblot, etc) will no longer be applied to Ravensthorpe. The rewards the player could win in them will nevertheless be made available through conventional means thanks to in-game merchants and other vendors.
2022-12-01, 15:31
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