Isu Knowledge and side quests in Fate of Atlantis

[Rys]

Do I really have to grind this to a 100% in order to finish the main story?

Also, are all the side quests compulsory as well? Meaning they are no longer side quests...

If the answer to both is yes, then honestly ♥♥♥♥ this game and ♥♥♥♥ the grind. Its too bloated and too long. The story is 2 hours of cutscenes and the rest is running around listening to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Layla and climbing ♥♥♥♥. Im sorry, but Im really at the end of my road with this game. I loved the base game storyline, but both DLCs are a pain.

[Shadowboro1985]

I assume by "in order to finish the main story" you mean the main Fate of Atlantis DLC story, and not the main story of the base game (which you can complete without the need to start or complete any of the DLC's).

As I recall there is at least one main quest in "Fate of Atlantis Episode 3" that requires level 3 Isu Knowledge to access a location in a fort, but it isn't necesarry to grind through all of the "?" locations to get to level 3 Isu knowledge as I had reached that level sometime after completing a little over half of the "?" locations and all of the episode's sidequests (all the sidequests in the Atlantis episode) - playing on normal difficulty.

If you want to get all the engravings you will have to grind a lot of locations to get all the adamantium pieces needed to forge all three of the weapons that unlock them, but otherwise you don't need to bother completing all the "?" locations.

That said, I fully agree the DLC's (and the main game for that matter as far as I'm concerned) is terribly grindy and the writing in the DLC's is just as terrible, cliched, sometimes downright nonsensical and just as full of "illussion of choice" moments as the base game was to me.

AC : Origins DLC's weren't masterpieces either, but compaired to Odyssey's they were a whole lot better, with less grinding and more cohesive writing.

[Perplex]

I know that in Shadowlands you dont need to do the sidequests if you dont want to. I started doing them when i had the meeting with Hades quest in my list already.

[Kenneth]

I think it's really hard. Every template only gives 3 pts. Data case gives 10 pts. I did more than 10 templates and 2 data case and I almost to level 1. This is going to take a lot of time.