Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Update Adds Support for Discovery Tour, Graphics Modes for Stadia, and More

Ubisoft has released Title Update 1.3.2 for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, and it brings quite a few notable changes. The biggest one, of course, is support being added in for the upcoming combat-free, exploration-focused Discovery Tour mode, which will go live for free on October 19. Meanwhile, the game’s Stadia version now also has the option for Performance and Image Quality modes.

Various bug fixes, balancing changes, and other touches of polish have also been applied. The patch’s size is 24.09 GB on Xbox Series X/S, and once again, the PS5 sees a significantly smaller download size at 8.54 GB. The PS4 version’s size is 10.84 GB, Xbox One stands at 19.4 GB, and finally, PC at 20.42 GB. You can check out the full patch notes below.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is available on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Stadia. Its two expansions, Wrath of the Druids and The Siege of Paris, launched over the last few months, but Ubisoft has said it will continue to support the game throughout 2022 as well.

UPDATE NOTES:

DISCOVERY TOUR: VIKING AGE

• Added support for Discovery Tour: Viking Age, preparing the game for the release on October 19.

GOOGLE STADIA – GRAPHIC MODE

Added an option to Google Stadia that allows players to choose between High Framerate or Quality.

• Allows switching between graphic modes for better Performance (prioritize 60 FPS) or Image Quality (prioritize resolution and graphical fidelity features).

Miscellaneous:

• Post-launch skill nodes now have the proper impact on Eivor’s stats
• Territory opportunities will no longer be revealed using Synin when Exploration difficulty is set to Pathfinder.
• Placed the difficulty settings first in the gameplay section.
• Updated descriptions for exploration difficulty.
• Corrected aim-assist parameters order and names for difficulty settings.
• Implemented collapsing/expanding active subcategories via button press.
• Added cycling of filters for entries based on expansions.
• Added a visual overlay, and enabled cycling of filters for entries based on expansions.

GAME IMPROVEMENTS

Main Quests, World Events, and Side Activities

Addressed:

• The Siege of Paris: Toka was unresponsive during the Warlord of Melun quest.
• The Siege of Paris: Richardis remained stuck if a horse was placed at the cave’s entrance during Sister of Sorrow.
• Wrath of the Druids: Unable to collect prison key during Courting the Kings.
• Eivor could summon mounts during the fight with Fenrir.
• Couldn’t damage enemies in the Hidden Justice world event.
• Avenge Quests could spawn in unreachable locations or on enemies that aren’t hostile.
• Unable to move shelf to pick up Ysmir tear stone near Utangard Chasm in Asgard.
• Unable to break the door to free Goodwin in Reeve of Wincestre.
• (PC) Fenrir boss fight didn’t start if World Details are set to Low on GPU with 6GB VRAM or below.

River Raids and Mastery Challenge

Addressed:

• No points were awarded if the NPCs knocked themselves out by explosion in Wenlocan Trial of the Wolf.
• The game could become unresponsive when Eivor dies during the River Raids exit screen.
• The cargo capacity could lock at 200 regardless of its upgrade level and cannot be repaired.
• New quest prompt for The Sword of Saint George after it was already completed.
• Missing exploration area for clue objective on River Severn and Exe.
• There was no fog of war on River Rhine.
• Jomsvikings didn’t assist Eivor in opening doors at some River Raids locations.
• Max Foreign Supplies are set to 1/1 after completing the main questline.
• Eivor shaking after arriving at River Raids docks. Not gonna lie, I’d be shaking, too.

Graphics, Audio, and Animation

Addressed:

• Numerous graphics or lighting issues.
• Various animation issues.
• Numerous Menu Narration issues

World

Addressed:

• Instances where Eivor, NPCs, or the longship would get stuck.
• Instances of misplaced or floating objects or textures.

Gameplay

Addressed:

• Wrath of the Druids: Percussion arrow could interrupt Ciara’s special attacks.
• The Siege of Paris: Frankian merchants sold the same tattoo patterns that were already purchased.
• Reaper healing perk triggered when switching equipment.
• Scaling options stopped scaling under certain circumstances.
• Players could buy extra resources by going to different merchants across Francia.
• Numerous issues with the Spinning Harpoon ability.
• Switching whistle to down d-pad and the quick action wheel to left d-pad will make the character pull out a torch when whistling.
• Precision Axe throw didn’t destroy enemies’ weak points.
• Exploration option changes from Custom to Pathfinder after exiting a Mastery Challenge.
• Dismounting any mount in the water made Eivor look like as if they fell from high grounds.

User Interface/HUD

Addressed:

• Numerous UI/HUD issues.
• Numerous colorblind mode issues.
• Couldn’t use keyboard to like Photos.
• Suggested power level didn’t take Power Level Scaling options into account.
• Nightmare difficulty option wasn’t present in the combat difficulty while launching a new game.
• Auto-Assign wasn’t directly usable after opening the Skills menu.
• Auto-Path didn’t work for post-Launch skill branches.

System

Addressed:

• Infinite loading on saves after completing The Siege of Paris.
• (Xbox Series) Xbox Series X|S not recognizing both gamepad and mouse/keyboard.

Performance and Stability

• Improved performance and stability.
• Addressed an issue where the game could freeze when changing the combat difficulty.

---