It's been almost a month since the release of Assassin's Creed Valhalla for Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and Xbox One, so you might finally be getting to the point where you're ready to finish Ubisoft's epic adventure.
Unfortunately, it looks like there's currently a pretty serious bug affecting the endgame, which includes spoilers for the narrative and actually prevents you from seeing the final 15 minutes of the game.
The suggestion is that if you've collected Medallions for Order assassinations, reporting them to Hytham can sometimes cause the game to glitch out, spoiling the story through dialogue and failing to trigger the final scene.
Here's what a reporter with experience of the issue at Fanbyte had to say about it (no spoilers!):
"For those that don’t want spoilers and just want a quick tl;dr of how to avoid the glitch: don’t report any of your Order assassinations to Hytham until you’ve completed them all and also finished the Hamtunscire arc. This will help you circumvent an issue of the game thinking you’ve already completed the quest line and not only prevent you from finishing it, but will actively spoil it for you by triggering dialogue early."
Reports on the Ubisoft forum show that this glitch has been an issue across various platforms seemingly since launch, but it doesn't appear to have been addressed as of yet. We're assuming it'll be fixed in a patch relatively soon, but hopefully you can avoid running into it before then with the instructions provided above.
Have you had this problem with Assassin's Creed Valhalla? Feel free to let us know in the comments below.
[source fanbyte.com]
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Not sure if bug or intended but he had also a prompt to deliver 6 codex pages. I finally found them all and when I went to him, the option to deliver them was gone.
Not sure if it's now locked behind some game event. (been intentionally not looking at any guides and just exploring the entire world, something I always do with assassins creed games)
All, zones "completed" except the second dream sequence map.
I fully finished it last weekend. It was a rough ride. I've never had to reload a game as much as Valhalla. I loved Odyssey but this was depressing. Needless to say I'll think twice before buying an Ubisoft Montreal game.
Just buy Fenyx Rising. It's actually good.
@Medic_Alert 2 of 3 are not valid excuses imo, AC has been legendarily broken for years even when on 1 gen with multiple years worth of AC games on said gen. They're just bad devs and/or bad management for forcing it out. That and they don't care.
This game would be 99% the same, covid or not.
@RedShirtRod why did you have to reload so much? Bugs?
So far only time I had to reload was when I did the final glitch, the cutscene failed to trigger, the audio played but it was just the character standing there at the end of the glitch.
Single reload (and redo of the glitch) and it fixed. This so far, I mean, there is a lot of story I have not done yet.
@Tharsman yeah bugs. Most of the time the ability to select an object would just go away. An enjoyable one would be when I used feint death in combat. Eivor would lay on the ground still getting attacked but I couldn't get him back up. I also love how I've got the complete all zones achievement but apparently I've never done a standing stone. The game just seems half baked.
I have completed the game - inc the Order of Ancients. I have encountered one 'Major' bug with the collecting ALL wealth - in Vinland, there is one 'Elite' with wealth that I am sure I collected - it was gone from the Map and I am sure it was 'ticked' off - however, after completing every other region, the achievement didn't pop so I checked every region and Vinland said 1 wealth was 'missing'.
I went to Vinland, checked EVERY area as the Map was not indicating where there was any 'wealth'. I eventually came across the camp with ALL dead enemies and Elite but cannot get the last wealth - so DISAPPOINTING after doing EVERYTHING!! I completed Vinland as soon as it opened up and was a few weeks ago so I don't have a Save and NOT going to replay the whole game just to collect 1 achievement - especially not the one that requires you to Complete EVERY Region
I honestly haven't encountered any major bugs whatsoever - none that tampered my experience, anyway. The only "major" bug is saved data corruption, but that was easily fixed by creating a new save. Plus, the game is quite generous with autosaves.
@BAMozzy I had a few fears like that but talking to a wondering traveler and paying him 30 silver ended up revealing what I was missing. Might be harder with wealth since there can be randomized elites with wealth that respawn and don't technically count.
@Tharsman Its one of the 'official' wealth and the Elite with it hasn't respawned. I did Vinland 'weeks' ago and have since gone on to complete all of England, Norway and both 'spiritual' regions. I was expecting the Achievement to pop after getting Mjolnir and killing the last Draugr (the 'final' Mystery) and only when it didn't, I rechecked Norway (as that was where I was), rechecked England, didn't bother rechecking the 2 other areas as I knew I had to of completed them as one of the Mysteries makes that unlikely to be a problem and when I went to Vinland, it showed 1 wealth missing - although nothing was highlighted on the map despite completing it earlier. As such, I had to check every possible place and as I neared the last camp, it showed up on the map but when I got there, the Elite hadn't respawned and I can't pick it up...
There maybe a trick - but I haven't tried it yet....
EDIT: The trick worked!!! Gotta love the internet...
If it happens to anyone else - Set a trap and then blow up the trap - I had to carry him to an animal that caused the trap to blow and thus destroy the body. Save the game, then reload - the character respawns in the Camp with the loot - kill him, loot the body and you get the wealth!
All completed!! Well all but the Orlag and a few other trophies... 46/50 and I am ok with that...
@Xiovanni I think its one of the better Assassin Creed games - 165hrs of playing time and only a 'few' minor bugs encountered in that time. Name me one game that has released in the past 5-10yrs that hasn't had post launch patches?
Each to their own - its not 'perfect' but games are much more complicated than they were 20yrs ago and even back then, games weren't 'perfect'. Glitches and minor bugs were often accepted or even exploited. Nowadays, those same bugs/glitches would be considered unacceptable and the devs called out for them but today, they can actually fix them post launch.
If they annoy you, wait until they inevitably fix a lot of bugs but I bet Fenix has bugs too - it just depends on what game-play loop you are looking for and AC: Valhalla appealed a lot more!
@BAMozzy yeah I had that one happen to me as well. Gotta wonder how that guy thought of setting the trap. Pure genius.
I would argue though that the issues with Valhalla are not standard with Ubisoft games. I'm not a huge fan of division 2 but it seemed like a much smoother game at launch and breakpoint was pretty good too when I played it (it was a month or two after launch so they might have had bigger issues). Even Odyssey's issue with the mid game level gap wasn't as significant as Valhalla's problems.
I think it's unfair to compare games across generations but it's pretty easy to see the differences in quality from the same publisher. My complaints come solely from my expectations of Ubisoft, nothing more.
@Xiovanni same engine, and fenyx spun off from ac odyssey. I'd think of it as an ac game. Bugs and all. $20 says the save bug from valhalla and legion also affect fenyx.
That said legion got an update yesterday. Maybe it fixed the saves. They said it should be coming this week.
Legion is actually a really fun game. Shane critics panned it. I swear modern game critics are just film critics without credentials. They seem to rate games based on story, cutscenes, and narrative production and not on gameplay.
Tlou2 is a flat out bad game, but a decent movie and the critics and awards eat it up. Legion is a fantastic sandbox stealth game with zero narrative and it gets panned.
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