I started today, around 6 am. No breaks really, by 3 PM I finally got the boat. Game hasnt even started and I'm nine hours in. And I love it.

"Gravity doesn't care what level you are" is beautifully eloquent advice.

Some of the things which I feel aren't told very often tbh: 1). Use poison, it takes off health chunks, really helpful in fighting mercenaries or Legendary Animals. 2). You can get any of the legendary weaponry super early in the game and use its benefits i.e. Posieden's Trident unlocks breath underwater Engraving or the Fanged Bow which has Poison arrows instead of Normal Arrows which can be put on other gear. 3). Definitely invest in Spartan Kick, Shield Braker, Devastating Shot, Second Wind, and Sixth Sense. 4). Don't be afraid to Reset skill points, and assign them according to your liking. 5). Don't often upgrade gear, you'll get something better within a few fort fights or encounters. 6). If mercenaries come to hunt you down during a fort battle, climb on the top of the square place and wait for them to come up, and then Spartan Kick them. Falls will kill them usually, but this does not work with heavier or bigger enemies. 7). Remember to collect resources like there is no tomorrow because resources are mixed throughout the game. Some are found easily while others take time and effort. 8.) PAY YOUR BOUNTY and retreat, Some fights are better left than fought. 9.) Sell some of your gear, dismantle some gear and make both Drachma and Resources. 10.) Combination of Daggers, Hammers or Spears is very effective in taking down enemies but it really depends on your playstyle. I'll add more if I find any :)

Me: “I haven’t purchased an AC game since Unity and this wont be different” Odyssey: “You can Spartan kick enemies to their death” “There are dialogue trees and your decisions have consequences” “You can-“ Me: “ALRIGHT! You had me at spartan kick!”

TIP: You can shoot Sharks with your bow from the surface of the water..

Tip: Hitting your enemies causes more damage than not hitting them.

If an enemy glows red before they attack, the attack will be unblockable. So don't try to parry; dodge instead.

This is the only game I can play after red dead with out feeling a downgrade

I didn’t leave the island you start the game on till I was level 9… I know I wanted to 100% complete the island and have an advantage when I leave. Also the last thing you mentioned was about the Spartan kick… idk if I’m doing something wrong but at a certain level kicking them doesn’t actually knock them of a ledge, it’s almost like they have an invisible barrier on their backs when I use the ability. So while yes it was fun doing it when I was a lower level, it seems that certain enemies now have a resistance to… gravity. Also also not sure why all these channels are acting like the big battles between Spartans and Athens are difficult, I enjoy just chain reacting my attacks with an abundant amount of enemies and once in a while a mercenary jumps in the battle too. But unless you’re going into one of these at 4levels too high or more…. This really shouldn’t be a difficult win. Just focus on the leaders (guys with yellow shields around their level) and it lowers the bar faster. I will say using a hammer in the conquests is probably the best way to kill as many as you can since you can chain the attacks without a certain skill/ability. I absolutely love this game, I’ve been doing mainly side quests and I’m lvl53 so once I do start the main story stuff I’m pretty much OP (granted everything scales to your level that is a level lower than you at one point…. Which ok I guess but it would be nice to feel like a god once in a while and go back to places maybe where a previous enemy pissed you off because you died to them for the 50th time and can get sweet revenge. I am aware there is a setting to change the levels scaling but it’s options are kinda limited and can kill the experience for you and not feel as rewarding when taking their loot. Can I also say that these characters love lives kinda suck, it’s all just one night stands and you either have to let them go on their own paths…. Or kill them?… or they commit suicide (depending on how far you are in the game and the order you went you should know exactly which love path I’m talking about). Idk I just wish it was like cyberpunk, GTA San Andreas or any other game where you develop a relationship and stay with that person or bring them along. If you read till the end I applaud you and you will receive a virtual cookie. (🍪)

Parrying stuns your opponents and gives you a temporary damage boost. Dodging at the right moment is what slows down time, not parrying. Just sayin'

Surprised that so few of the guides don't mention prioritizing enemy lieutenants in conquest battles. Enemies with the Gold marker around their level icon are high-value targets and defeating them helps make it easier to win the battle. Just focusing on the soldiers can result in close conquests or even a loss.

Big tip! From the main inventory screen you can edit the look of your armour. As in you can wear a set while making it look like another set which looks cool, but has less stats. So you can wear say the Demi God armour and have it look like the mercenary set (box art set) like I do.

Best way to get materials is to do Forts or areas that have those purple targets that you need to burn for faction control. If you loot them before you burn them you can get a ton of materials.

I tried to recruit a bear as my lieutenant, i died many times.

"Gravity doesn't care what level you are" That made my day 😂

I suggest to dismantle the common(gray) and rare(blue) the purple epic should be sold at the blacksmith, it can give you 1 thousand or even 3 thousand

1.Syncing viewpoints also levels up your ikaros to make him vigilant and allow him to even help you in battle 2. Try to level up you spear of leonidas asap, as this will mean that you get to use the most of your assassins abilities towards mid-early game. 3. If you cleave an enemy ship instead of boarding it, you can still dive and get the loot chests for the gear/resources, but be quick as if it gets too far down, the excessive depth can kill you. 4. Best way to drop bodies in bushes is to use the dodge button (or l2+r2 to throw them over a fort wall and just r2 to lay them down). 5. You can always reset your ability points without any cost, so dont hesitate to try new builds 6. Dont get greedy at heavily guarded forts, sometimes its best to just slip in, do the objective and get the f out. 7. Openly killing a faction leader seems to be the one thing that gets you the most bounty. A 2-3 minute fight can land you with max bounty easy. 8. Dont just take the opportunities, create them. Lure higher level enemies to a high place with your whistle and then "red sauce on pastaaa" 9. Dont kill wolves, you will feel terrible every time you hear them squeal. (especially if you're a dog owner in real life) 10. You can take a picture where you hang off a massive statue's nutsack, and that completes my list of tips. Awesome game, cant wait for the next one.

My favourite parts are dialogues with Socrates, a very well made character.

I love this game I was playing it for a few hours last night and its amazeballs.

For those players getting frustrated with the horse. If you run and hold whistle you will jump on the horse although you may find your self running for awhile. Instead, stop moving and hold whistle then move once on the Horse. You will find this the fastest way even though it seems counter productive to stop moving.

This is a damn good month for games!

I’m level 46 and just learned how to block

For any new players, once you start getting legendary gear i'd suggest doing a sell/dismantle combo on any weaker gear you get until you get 100k Drachma which will happen fairly soon, around lvl 30. From there you should have enough Drachma to get whatever you want or need. And do 100% dismantle on weak gear from then on to help for armor/ship upgrades. I might even say you don't need 100k Drachma because there isn't really anything that is expensive. Respecing is like 2k, and upgrading gear expenses come mainly from raw mats you'd get from dismantling/ores/wood.

“Spartan Kick people off the cliff can kill anyone” Continues to Kicks a enemy commander off a huge cliff and takes almost no damage 🤨

I'm doing what I did with Origins, I WON'T upgrade any gear or weaponry until I hit max level, I don't like being in the habit of continuously wasting resources to upgrade gear every few levels, when I can just hit max level and upgrade my most valuable stuff first and upgrade excess alternative gear when I got extra resources

The second wind ability isn't only good for conquest battles it helped me beat medusa when I was at a low level

The shield break ability is the most useful of all abilities, for example against mercenaries it's a big help when he has no shield anymore you just have to spam attack, dodge, attack, dod...

Pro tip quick save before going to tombs and before doing quest

1. Upgrade or swap armor or engrave (blacksmith) 2. Don’t be afraid to dismantle your armor ( choose which to sell or dismantle depending on what your price is) 3. Parrying L1 and R1 will give you an upper hand. 4. Use exploration mode instead of guidance mode. To make for a better challenge 5. The side quests that are linked to the main story do first. Any exclamation point go to first! 6. Recruit what you can especially if orange background. 7. Definitely get the 2nd win ability and upgrade as soon as you can. 8. Camping around the forts you’re trying to take over. Keep killing around a convenient area. 9. Synchronize all areas as soon as spotted. 10. You will hop on your horses back ASAP while running to destination. 11. You will higher your ratings in mercenaries that are higher up than you. Recruit these as you go.

If you're choosing to assassinate enemies more than fighting head on, definitely get the death veil ability. Once you assassinate an enemy, they'll disappear, so no alert can be sent out for a mercenary.

I still remember nikalaos's foster sjn being 2 levels higher than me only to get kicked off a cliff

The biggest tip i can think of right now? After a conquest battle don't be afraid to walk the battlefield, you can usually pick up a couple hundred drachmae & iron ore.

Here’s a tip, while riding the horse anywhere , specially in the woods tap triangle repeatedly you’ll pick up lots of more items. Lol

More like "12 basic gameplay mechanics that you would know if you pay attention to the game you're playing."

I haven't played Assassin's Creed since Unity. Got Odyssey and didn't know about the change of the battle system, but hey still went for *Nightmare* mode on the first walkthrough. Its fun being 2-3 shotted from an enemy thats just a level above you (not salty...sometimes)

What I learned from my first couple of hours in ac odyssey: level up to 5 before doing the second couple of main objectives. Talos is savage and he will not leave you alone just because you're still level 4.

The multi-shot perk in the hunter perk tree is vital. It's highly useful for conquest battles and especially those annoying animals the Daughters of Artimis send you to hunt.

loved you're Voice , Tips are amazing too . Thank you

i never would've thought to recruit mercenaries.

"Don't be afraid to camp" (Me, watching this video after I did a quest where I killed 8 guys by camping in a bush and they just kept checking out the bodies)

A tip missed is when your opponent has a hoplon (that big shield), use distance & rough ground and strafe to their right away from the shield arm, then suddenly their body will be open to your attacks :)

I played this game in 2021, but still watch these vids cos of nostalgia

They seriously needa fix the Meditation bug, it doesnt relocate any of the enemy npc, also your spartan allies will attack u if a mercenary jumps u while ur near them which makes no sense at all

Will be nice to see AC game set in ancient Japan.

Try to max out one perk like fire damage or poison. After a while, you'll run into gear that can boost those effects and really do a lot of work for you. I also like to add adrenaline boosts so that you can use those super powers much more often in fights.

You change the appearance of your armor and weapons by hovering them and pressing the square button. Any armor or weapon you collect will automatically stored in the database so whether you still have the item on you or not, you change your current items to the appearance you prefer and it will not affect the items stats. You can even change the material of the item which will give it a different variation look, many of these variations will be locked until you have reached a particular level.

Never pay off a bounty in never kill a bounty when it's at one you want it between 2 and 3 they're usually your level if not a level or so above you and when you hunt them down and kill one of them you get really good loot and gear so keep your Bounty at 3 always once it reaches three hunt down the one you want and if you look with your bird at the Bounty Hunter it'll tell you what gear you get for killing them do that find the gear you want hunt down the Bounty Hunter kill them and so on and so on and you don't need the Spartan Kick if you guys put your skills into Hunter just make sure you use a knockout arrow and then you can recruit them it's a lot safer that way

Why didn't you include the beginner tip "press W to move forward"? It's super useful

Personally I don’t like the engraving system where the engraving on my bow can affect my armour or my armour can effect my melee damage. I prefer to things care for themselves

Always go to the top of a building and kick...simple 😁😁.. use arrow and wait..

Sparta Kick doesn't always work some people take that shyt to the chest and just keep on pushin

I don’t even bother calling my horse while I’m running. It’s way quicker to just wait for him to get close than it is for him to catch up.

Assassins creed forever

Break the shield is very important ability especially against Athenians; those guys carry shield all the time

some ability combos that are effective and i love: hermes speed + a flurry of light attacks: can do a lot of damage without having to worry about enemy glowing attacks or heavy attacks battlecry of ares + over power attacks: 50% more damage added onto the op attack can take of a quarter if not more than half of a mercenaries health bar for those that have the atlantis dlc: wrath of ares + kronos time shift: allows for heavy crowd control along with a trap that captures at least 3-5 enemies in slow motion while frozen in position and the kronos shift lets you fling into the sky, shoot off 3 arrows if youre fast enough and then slam down and AoE those 3-5 enemies trapped in the circle blessing of kronos + ares last breath + op attack: with blessing of kronos you get 50% more adrenaline and youre immune to adrenaline drains and freeze effects, and the ares last breath + op attack makes you immune to all attacks and you get 5% of damage dealt restored as health so with the op attack mixed with blessing of kronos it could refill youre entire health bar depending on how effective you are ares last breath + wrath of ares + kronos time warp: basically time slows down for5 seconds, enemies are trapped, you get health restored on damage

sparta kick tip I found useful when on high ground; stand close to the edge, as soon the enemy attacks dodge roll behind them and kick them, use arrows to charge adrenaline. useful against elite soldiers

She died in the same conquest battle over and over like I did. I know that feeling of no health and that blasted unskippable scene.

I'd use dodge over parry. And if you dodge behind someone, causing them to totally miss you, they and nearby soliders will slow down considerably for a good few seconds. Plus, when you come across the high tier enemies they will have unblockable attacks that will strike through your guard. So get used to dodging and and use blocks as a secondary option.

Trust me on this, Parrying is not important, not even a little bit. Just keep dodging and stabbing in the back. It works in Dark Souls. It can easily work in this game.

Surprisingly this game looks great, looking forward to invest

Thanks for the tips 😬 Bought it few days ago during discount. Just need better connection because my home wifi potato and my leptop graphics card low 🙃🙏🏻

This REALLY HELPS THANKS FOR THIS 1!!!

Ac odyssey > far cry 5

Tip 1: Farm mercenaries and conquest battles. [Boeotia and Megaris are both nice spots - less than 500m from Battle Field to Leader house/Fort] Tip 2: Sell rare and epic gears that have trash options [get Drachmae fast & Legit] Tip 3: Watch out for Epic Gears that has your desired options [for your build.]

Hitting enemies with any type of weapon is key to defeating enemies.

I have always been a suckered for loot and armor systems I can't get enough!

My idea was to buy this game to support the waiting for RDR2 but the more I learn about ACO more i want to play this game

You can fast travel to any ship docks you see on the map. No synchronization required.

I got a tip for you. Click right stick to lock on to who your fighting

If you can, buy the Pegasus skin for your horse at 750 helix creds. Having that equipped means you no longer take any fall damage. I thought it was just while on the horse but I’ve tested it and lept off Zeus in Kephallonia...no damage at all was taken.

Had this game about a week. Love it!

Seriously cant wait till tomorrow

Cnt wait for this.

I am lv 30, and i have never used the parray. TIP: You dont have to parray in fights, just use dodge.

I hate level scaling systems they destroy character progression, and its an accomplishment and rewarding to out level and defeat an enemy that was alot higher level at one time(least theres a setting to minimize scaling). But i do completely love Odyssey regardless, i wasnt an assassin Creed fan until i played Odyssey,its one of the best game ever made !!!!

Yeah I remember when I first realized the potential of spartan kick, but it doesn't always works. Some enemies can just tank the kick; they'll take the damage but the kick won't send them flying.

Make use of the auto save and reload if you don't like the way a character interaction was handled or otherwise

Just some clean up here. Tip 1 sorta wrong, dont pay attention to the armour rating stat, it means nothing. Tip 2 dont worry about buying materials from a blacksmith drachmea is REALLY easy to get. Tip 4 it is not pronounce Ikaross Tip 6 make sure you scout them first with Ikaros to see if they are even worth recruiting, legendary are only ones worth it Tip 12 unless they are immune, some enemies are immune to the kick

Okay, seriously. Enough with RDR2 comparisons! That game won't be able to to be compared to any other game for a long time...maybe Cyberpunk and that's a big maybe. If people keep doing this then you're not supposed to like and enjoy any other game other than RDR2. Let people enjoy what they want to enjoy. Don't be a lambo duche bag guy down talking someone's Lexus... I like this game and many others, and I can't wait for RDR2 but I'm still going to enjoy Odyssey.

spartan kick helps with boarding alot

Sad how some people dont use this ability. Might just be the best in the game.

I must say there is a ton of really usefull tips and some i didnt even know like the mercenary recruitment :)

I have over 200 hrs loged in on game and only 83 % completed. I would reccomend getting all 3 dlc its a good story line and a fun quest. I am a level 68 and just took out a level 94 bounty hunter. And as a fair warning to everybody when you kill one your meter goes up after that they start sending 2 3 or 4 bounty hunters at 1 time

I knew them all, but the way you talk about them is very entertaining, so thank you, I enjoyed the video and subscribed too. :-) I'm at level 54 now.

Axe + -1 adrenaline costs for op ability . Those conquests battles become childs play

That “under levelled” feeling. that’s please see the store for a boost... that’s why we must fight this micro transaction trend!

The note about the spartan kick is wrong, or is now because they might have modified the game. Some bad guys only take damage, but don't move, or take a fall but don't take much damage. Still, when it works, it's awesome.

Kassandra is best ac character. She is a demi god and i like it alot.

Dam this is good video, nice chill explanation. good job

This game is just like origins but with a Greek background.

another tip is running is faster than walking.

I’m level 36 now and Sparta kick doesn’t blast everyone back when u get to higher levels facing harder enemies u find that most of the time u spartan kick they just absorb it and don’t get blasted back at all.

You can use bull charge to make enemies fly off balcony and what not. Also, if anyone is interested I have a mage build.

Upgrade and use your bow as much as you can, it’s OP .

Thanks for some good tip's with no Spoilers!

Another tip to get more resources sink ships as they give much more

love this game . make me feel like kid !

When you equip a bow you can shoot arrows

Thx for this. I. AM. SO. HYPED. HOLY CRAP!

Tip i have is to keep playing the story until you unlock the cult of cosmos. It will save you plenty of time.