The director behind Assassin’s Creed Valhalla has touched base on how the the game is balanced in comparison to the notorious bloat of its predecessor, and the good news is it sounds like players won’t be burdened by excessive grinding.
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Won’t Have Huge Grinding
Speaking with Press Start, Ashram Ismail, who also worked on the critically acclaimed Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, revealed that players won’t be restricted whether they wish to follow the main narrative or venture off and build their settlement or explore.
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With Valhalla, with the balancing of the game, our goal is to just let players play the content they want. Again we built a really intriguing world that takes place in Dark Ages England and Norway. By the way, when you leave Norway to England, you can always go back to Norway, so we built these really beautiful breathtaking living worlds, and we want players to play the content as they wish to play it. That’s the way the game is being balanced.
So, people want to focus on narrative, there’s no issue there, people want to focus on their settlement, again, no issue there.
It’s really up to players to decide how they want to consume the content. That’s always been our angle and again, this, we’re showcasing Eivos’ personal journey, we’re really focused on that. So again, if people want to focus on that
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is scheduled for release on PS5, PS4, PC, Xbox Series X, and Xbox One in holiday 2020.