Hello everyone,
Today, November 5th, we're pleased to release The Most Requested Update for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, available @ 14:00 UTC / 9:00 AM ET / 6:00 AM PT on all platforms.
Want to discuss the Title Update with your fellow community members? Why not join our official Assassin’s Creed Discord server.
Thank you to everyone who has continued to play Assassin's Creed Valhalla, we hope you enjoy what our team has worked on.
Patch Sizes
Ubisoft Connect: 12.27 GB
Steam: 7.8 GB
Xbox Series X|S: 15.02 GB
PlayStation®5: 5.26 GB
PlayStation®4: 13.42 GB
Xbox One: 13.8 GB
Patch Highlights
New Game+
We know this has been a request for ages, and we appreciate your patience. You can now start your Viking quest all over again after completing the main story of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. To access NG+ you'll have to complete the Holy Day Quest, which is the last quest of the Hamtunscire region. (This is before the true ending of the game but since it is a very big game, we’ve decided to allow you to start NG+ a little bit earlier) Each iteration of NG+ will get progressively harder, offering new challenges to players who want to revisit the Viking Age again and again.
IMPORTANT NOTE: New Game+ will only appear as an option on the main menu after the player has saved a completed game after the 1.8.0 update, and after completing the "Holy Day" quest.
For players that have already completed the "Holy Day" quest, you'll need to first load your completed save file, then save your game again and go to main menu.
In NG+, receiving a piece of gear or interacting with a book of knowledge that you already own will instead reward you with a piece of Mithril, a new resource. Mithril will also be accessible in the Niflheim, Mastery and River Raid shops, offering an alternate source of material for players who simply want to continue their adventure in the endgame. Additionally, looting Carbon, Nickel and Tungsten in a Wealth Chest will instead give Platinum, an ingot previously only available in the Dawn of Ragnarok DLC, now available for free. This also means that upgrading a piece of gear to the Divine quality is now available without the DLC.
We’ve also added a new Naoe Master Assassin outfit.
Extra Upgrades
To keep up with each NG+, we are raising the maximum upgrade level of each piece of divine gear from 13 to 27, increasing your gear's potential strength. Each upgrade will require the new Mithril resource, so you will need a lot of it!
Extended Progression Mode
This gameplay option allows you to play through Valhalla with a more granular sense of progression. While Extended Progression is active, Gear upgrades and Runes will increase Power by 1 point, and Masteries increase Power every 5 skill points. This mode is intended to increase the impact of your gear. The challenge is greater, but the reward is great for the mighty.
Stash
As we all know, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is a big game, and it keeps getting bigger each year. With this update, we’re adding a way to help sort and organize your gear and runes; the Stash. In Ravensthorpe, you'll be able to discover a newly installed Stash which, when interacted with, will allow players to store any piece of gear and any rune from their inventory.
Rune Forge Update
As an added bonus, we’ve decided to give the rune forge a couple of updates. Players will notice a new tab within the menu which will allow them to upgrade their runes in exchange for silver. From lesser to normal, from normal to greater AND from greater to superior, a new tier of rune which can be only obtained from the rune upgrade page. This last upgrade requires Mithril instead of silver and will allow players to obtain even more power from their runes.
The second addition to the rune forge is in the engrave page; we’ve added more than 300 available engravable runes, allowing players to engrave all of the perks that have been added since the release of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, including DLCs and those purchased in the Helix Store. As long as players acquire a weapon or an entire armor set, they will find the set of armor and weapon in the engrave menu which will be able to be engraved into a rune for 450 silver. This allows players to create a lot of different combinations of perks; we can’t wait to see what they do with these new opportunities.
New Achievements
The Most Requested Update also brings 2 new achievements for the completionists amongst you:
Ivaldi's Heir: Fully upgrade a Divine Gear
Circle of Renewal: Complete a New Game+ run
Balancing Changes
We've added lots of small balancing changes, trying to make dual wielding feel better, improve stat runes as well as balancing skill masteries and their bonuses.
Skills that grant Assassination Damage now correctly grant 5.3 per point instead of 5.26
Skills that grant Stealth Damage now correctly grant 1.7 per point instead of 1.67
Skills that grant Melee Damage now correctly grant 2.3 per point instead of 2.33
Skills that grant Ranged Damage now correctly grant 2.3 per point instead of 2.33
Skills that grant Health now correctly grant 5.2 per point instead of 5.17
Skills that grant Evasion now correctly grant 4.2 per point instead of 4.17
"Way of the X" Skills that grant Evasion now correctly grant 0.6 per point instead of 0.62
Skills that grant Poison Damage Resistance now correctly grant 5.6 per point instead of 5.56
Skills that grant Poison Buildup Resistance now correctly grant 5.6 per point instead of 5.56
Skills that grant Fire Damage Resistance now correctly grant 5.6 per point instead of 5.56
Skills that grant Fire Buildup Resistance now correctly grant 5.6 per point instead of 5.56
Additionally, two nodes have been modified in the Skill Tree:
The Range Critical Damage node south of Combat Dive in the Dawn of Ragnarok Wolf tree has been changed to Light Attack Damage
The Range Critical Damage node east of Cunning Shot in the Dawn of Ragnarok Wolf tree has been changed to Light Attack Damage
Raven Mastery
Now grants +0.2 Assassination Damage per level
Now grants +0.2 Evasion per level
Now grants +0.1 Health per level
No longer increases Stealth Damage
No longer increases Ability Damage
Bear Mastery
Now grants +0.2 Melee Damage per level
Now grants +0.2 Melee Resistance per level
Now grants +0.1 Health per level
No longer increases Ability Damage
Wolf Mastery
Now grants +0.2 Ranged Damage per level
Now grants +0.2 Ranged Resistance per level
Now grants +0.1 Health per level
No longer increases Stealth Damage
No longer increases Ability Damage
Bearded Axe
Regular Attack 1, Regular Attack 2, Regular Attack 3, Regular Attack Finisher:
(With Shield) x1 → x1.16 base damage
(With Heavy Weapon) x1.24 → x1.16 base damage
(With None) x1 → x1.16 base damage
Alternate Attack 1, Alternate Attack 2, Alternate Attack Finisher
(With Shield) x1.6 → x1.73 base damage
(With Heavy Weapon) x1.6 → x1.73 base damage
Dagger
Regular Attack 1, Regular Attack 2, Regular Attack 3, Regular Attack 4, Regular Attack 5, Regular Attack 6, Regular Attack 7, Regular Finisher
(With Shield) x0.95 → x1.05 base damage
(With Heavy Weapon) x0.97 → x1.05 base damage
(With None) x0.95 → x1.05 base damage
Regular Attack 7
(With Dagger) Removed duplicated data
Alternate Attack 1, Alternate Finisher
(With Shield) x2.12 → x2.21 base damage
(With Heavy Weapon) x2.39 → x2.21 base damage
(With None) x1.92 → x2.21 base damage
Spear
Regular Attack 1, Regular Attack 2, Regular Attack 3, Regular Finisher
(With Shield) x1 → x1.17 base damage
(With Light Weapon) x1.08 → x1.17 base damage
(With None) x1 → x1.17 base damage
Alternate Attack 1, Alternate Attack 2, Alternate Finisher
(With Shield) x1.99 → x2.22 base damage
(With Light Weapon) x2.27 → x2.22 base damage
(With None) x1.89 → x2.22 base damage
Hammer
Regular Attack 1, Regular Attack 2, Regular Finisher
(With Shield) x1.1 → x1.21 base damage
(With None) x1.1 → x1.21 base damage
Alternate Attack 1, Alternate Attack 2, Alternate Finisher
(With Shield) x1.59 → x1.4 base damage
(With None) x1.98 → x1.4 base damage
Greatsword
Regular Attack 1, Regular Attack 2, Regular Attack 3, Regular Attack 4, Regular Finisher
(With Shield) x1 → x1.17 base damage
(With Light Weapon) x1.09 → x1.17 base damage
(With Heavy Weapon) x1.09 → x1.17 base damage
(With None) x1 → x1.17 base damage
Alternate Attack 1, Alternate Attack 2, Alternate Finisher
(With Light Weapon) x1.89 → x1.75 base damage
(With Heavy Weapon) x1.89 → x1.75 base damage
(With None) x1.78 → x1.75 base damage
Dane Axe
Regular Attack 1, Regular Attack 2, Regular Attack 3, Regular Finisher
(With Shield) x1.49 → x1.77 base damage
(With None) x1.49 → x1.77 base damage
Alternate Attack 1, Alternate Attack 2, Alternate Finisher
(With Shield) x1.85 → x2.19 base damage
(With None) x1.9 → x2.19 base damage
Flail
Regular Attack 1, Regular Attack 2, Regular Attack 3, Regular Attack 4, Regular Finisher
(With Flail) x1.28 → x1.1 base damage
Alternate Attack 1, Alternate Attack 2, Alternate Finisher
(With Flail) x1.77 → x2.05 base damage
(With Shield) x1.95 → x2.05 base damage
(With None) x1.95 → x2.05 base damage
Heavy Shield
Regular Attack 1, Regular Attack 2, Regular Finisher
(With Light Shield) x1.2 → x1.25 base damage
(With None) x1.2 → x1.25 base damage
Alternate Attack 1, Alternate Attack 2, Alternate Finisher
(With None) x1.27 → x1.21 base damage
Light Shield
Regular Attack 1, Regular Attack 2, Regular Finisher
(With Heavy Shield) x1 → x1.24 base damage
(With None) x1 → x1.24 base damage
Alternate Attack 1, Alternate Attack 2, Alternate Finisher
(With Heavy Shield) x1.39 → x1.59 base damage
(With None) x1.51 → x1.59 base damage
Fist
Regular Attack 1, Regular Attack 2, Regular Attack 3, Regular Finisher
(With Light Weapon) x1.06 → x1 base damage
(With Heavy Weapon) x1.06 → x1 base damage
Alternate Attack 1, Alternate Finisher
(With Shield) x1.84 → x2.22 base damage
(With Light Weapon) x1.62 → x2.22 base damage
(With Heavy Weapon) x1.62 → x2.22 base damage
Sickle
Regular Attack 1, Regular Attack 2, Regular Attack 3, Regular Attack 4, Regular Attack 5, Regular Attack 6, Regular Attack 7, Regular Finisher
(With Shield) x0.95 → x1.05 base damage
(With Heavy Weapon) x0.97 → x1.05 base damage
(With None) x0.95 → x1.05 base damage
Alternate Attack 1, Alternate Finisher
(With Heavy Weapon) x2.39 → x2.21 base damage
(With None) x1.92 → x2.21 base damage
Now has up to x0.6 animation speed when speed stat is 53.5 or lower
Now has x1 animation speed when speed stat is 76.4
Now has up to x1.5 animation speed when speed stat is 99.3 or higher
Shortsword
Regular Attack 1, Regular Attack 2, Regular Attack 3, Regular Attack 4, Regular Finisher
(With Shield) x1 → x1.2 base damage
(With Heavy Weapon) x1.24 → x1.2 base damage
(With None) x1 → x1.2 base damage
Alternate Attack 1, Alternate Attack 2, Alternate Finisher
(With Shield) x1.6 → x1.75 base damage
(With Heavy Weapon) x1.6 → x1.75 base damage
Now has up to x0.6 animation speed when speed stat is 44.1 or lower
Now has x1 animation speed when speed stat is 58.8
Now has up to x1.5 animation speed when speed stat is 76.4 or higher
Scythe
Regular Attack 1, Regular Attack 2, Regular Finisher
(With Shield) x1.38 → x1.34 base damage
(With Heavy Weapon) x1.1 → x1 health multiplier
(With None) x1.1 → x1.34 base damage
Alternate Attack 1, Alternate Attack 2, Alternate Finisher
(With Shield) x1.53 → x1.6 base damage & x1.1 → x1 health multiplier
(With Light Weapon) x1.53 → x1.6 base damage
(With Heavy Weapon) x1.53 → x1.6 base damage
(With None) x1.46 → x1.6 base damage
Regular Scythe Combo 1, Regular Scythe Combo 2, Regular Scythe Finisher
(With Shield) x1.38 → x1.34 base damage
(With Heavy Weapon) x1.38 → x1.34 base damage
(With None) x1.1 → x1.34 base damage
Alternate Scythe Combo 1, Alternate Scythe Combo 2, Alternate Scythe Finisher
(With Scythe) x1.6 → x1.53 base damage
(With Heavy Weapon) x1.61 → x1.53 base damage
(With None) x1.46 → x1.53 base damage
Now has up to x0.6 animation speed when speed stat is 44.1 or lower
Now has x1 animation speed when speed stat is 58.8
Now has up to x1.5 animation speed when speed stat is 76.4 or higher
Atgeir
Now has up to x0.6 animation speed when speed stat is 30.9 or lower
Now has x1 animation speed when speed stat is 47
Now has up to x1.7 animation speed when speed stat is 61.8 or higher