Is Valhalla worth it considering its on sell

[MoistyPotato101]

I like this time period and I'm just wondering if it's worth looking in to.

[unknown-pmc]

Yes let me know as well. I've been seeing a lot of people saying it crashes a lot. Has anyone figured out a work around? A lot of Ubisoft games on PC crash due to Ubisoft Connect. Usually you can type -offline and it fixes the problem. Anyone know?

[birolay]

The consensus I've reached is anything but the Complete Edition (or was it the Ragnarok edition?) is unacceptable as there'll be actual content paywalled, and not just cosmetic stuff.
So, considering that specific version is still expensive a.f., I particularly don't think it's worthy.

I'll just wait for Valhalla (complete edition) to reach the same prices as Origin and Odyssey (also complete editions). Now those are worth every penny.

[In a forest with a Man or Bear]

Define "worth it". What are you looking for? Gameplay? Graphics? Story?

[In a forest with a Man or Bear]

Originally posted by unknown-pmc:

Yes let me know as well. I've been seeing a lot of people saying it crashes a lot. Has anyone figured out a work around? A lot of Ubisoft games on PC crash due to Ubisoft Connect. Usually you can type -offline and it fixes the problem. Anyone know?

You're right. It was crashing - but randomly. It can run smoothly for like 5 hours, however on the next restart/start of the game it crashes randomly within like hours or minutes. I remember a "fix" on my end but I don't recall it, though I remember scouring Reddit for potential fixes.

I last played on late December of 2022, and as of now I don't see any updates or fixes to the crash on their latest title update 1.7.0 on Feb 2023 from their website. I might be wrong though.

[𝐎ᥣᑯ𝐑𝖾ᑯ𝐅ⱺ𝗑]

I just bought it. Get it while on sale. Looks great.

[Sieg]

no, it doesnt have achievements :D

[unknown-pmc]

Originally posted by Running Red Fox:

I just bought it. Get it while on sale. Looks great.

Yes, but does it crash and is there a work around to fix it?

[Yews]

If you actually like this time period and want a historical experience set in this time period, forget this game exists and check out A Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia instead. Because Valhalla is literally a fantasy game with a quasi-historical skin pulled over it. Yes it features characters named after real people from the era and yes many locations in the game are named after real places, but other than that everything else on the screen has nothing to do with anything historical and frankly resembles a vision of Skyrim from a fever dream of a person who saw Skyrim once in their life more than anything historical. The mythological elements in the game are so atrociously done that instead of immersing you into Germanic mythology they just induce ungodly shares of cringe. I mean, there is Hellblade, and there is whatever the hell the mythological sequences in this thing are. Heaven and earth,

[MoistyPotato101]

Originally posted by Professional Puzzle Solver:

Define "worth it". What are you looking for? Gameplay? Graphics? Story?

Story and gameplay

[Yews]

The story is a mess and the gameplay is tedious. You can get it on sale but even then expect little. Like I said, barely anything to do with anything remotely realistic and historically accurate.

[alka]

Originally posted by Yews:

Like I said, barely anything to do with anything remotely realistic and historically accurate.

It's a game where you end up playing as a Viking god. Of course it's not realistic or historically accurate.

[Yews]

There age degrees of authenticity and this one is at the rock bottom together with Marvel bollocks. If an actual Viking saw gameplay footage from this game he would not be able to recognise what on earth he is looking at. Hellblade is leagues ahead in terms of faithfulness to the atmosphere of the era, and A Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia is leagues ahead in terms of archaeological authenticity.

[subjenna]

You can have 200+h for 40€ with beautiful graphics in a stunning open world, great voice acting and music and mostly interesting quests. However there is quite a lot of filler and the fighting is rather worse than in Odyssey. Also your bird is rather useless this time.

Don't expect too much Assassin's Creed in this Action RPG though.

[TneX]

My suggestion is to get the base game, see how you like it.

Even the base game is packed with content, so much so that there is a big chance you would get burned out of the game before you reach the point that you would want to do DLC, unless you REALLY like the gameplay. You can always get the DLC later maybe on a different sale if you are absolutely sure you will want to play those too. The base game will keep you busy for a long time if you end up liking it, and if you end up not liking it, it's not a terribly big financial hit compared to getting the full version.

[longjohn119]

I have 63 hours and 30 minutes in my current run with 2 crashes so far, one at 12 hours and 50 minutes and the second at 30 hours and 42 minutes so I have almost 33 hours since my last crash. Here is what I've done to stabilize the game

1. Let Windows manage my Page File size on all drives (default settings)
2. I have the overlay and Cloud Saves turned off in the Connect App as well as all other overlays off
3. No RGB software running in the background
4 . If you are using a Nvidia GPU you need driver v532.03 or earlier. I'm on v531.68
5. Game locked to 60 FPS and V-sync on

This last thing is experimental but so far the results have been good (33+ hours without a crash). Both times I crashed it threw up a nvlddmkm Event ID 0 (unknown) error. nvlddmkm.sys is the kernel driver for Nvidia GPUs and just like with the Windows kernel driver errors usually indicate a memory problem ... illegal access, trying to access protected memory or a memory leak. So what I did (and this is also a trick on game where you are running out of VRAM) is I went into the Nvidia Control Panel and in the 3D settings for the game I set "Texture Filtering Quality' to Performance. What that setting actually does is set the level of memory compression for textures and changing it from Quality to Performance gains you up to 10% more memory space. I have long suspected this game has a VRAM allocation bug or memory leak and figured it might be worth a shot having the GPU compress the texture more and perhaps change how VRAM allocation works. and so far I haven't had a crash since I changed this one setting. As far as texture quality I cannot tell the difference because Nvidia's VRAM compression is really good. I have also used that technique on Skyrim where I'm running 900+ mods with lot of 4K texture mods and was using about 7.5 GB of memory and was getting stutters in some areas of the game and by setting it to Performance VRAM usage went down to 7 GB and the stuttering went away. That suggests it was running out of VRAM and was trying to use slower system RAM which causes stuttering.