This month in AC Origins - January

xxxNAILBUNNYxxx · January 9, 2018, 6:56pm

In case people are still playing, a new event is taking place and a new story DLC coming soon

This Month in Assassin’s Creed® Origins – January

We hope you enjoyed the festive season and best wishes for 2018 from the entire Assassin’s Creed team! Without further ado, here’s what’s in store for Assassin’s Creed® Origins in January.

Title Update

A new title update will be released in January to add more content to the game. Here’s what you can look forward to:

A new quest to celebrate the arrival of the first expansion, The Hidden Ones
Update to the Heka chests item pool, which adds the items from the Nightmare and First Civilization packs, as well as the Gladiator and Wacky packs to the pool
A new option to sell outfits at weaver shops
The Hidden Ones

January marks the arrival of the first major expansion, The Hidden Ones. In this expansion, Bayek and the Assassins will clash with the Romans, who occupy an all-new region in the game.

Here’s what you can look forward to:

Delve into an all-new vast story

A level cap increase from 40 to 45

The Hidden Ones will be available for no additional cost to Season Pass owners

Trials of the Gods

We hope one of your New Year’s resolutions for 2018 is fighting the gods, if you haven’t already! You’ll be able to face two of the deities again this month.

Anubis - January 9–16
Sobek - January 23–30

In-game Store & Ubisoft Club Updates

Almighty Pack – January 16

For Honor Pack - January 30

Ubisoft Club
Warden’s Oath Outfit - January 30

Harlequin and Chop-Chop items – January 2018

Good news! All players will be able to get the previously exclusive weapons in the Community Creation Contest as a Ubisoft Club Reward!

xxxNAILBUNNYxxx · January 9, 2018, 6:57pm

The 40 to 45 level cap interests Me, as well as the God fights. I missed the last one due to not owning the game.

beers_and_leafs · January 10, 2018, 2:23pm

That’s messed up…I posted this on the weekend, but don’t see it anywhere. Must not have saved before I closed my laptop.

Glad for most of it, but the Gods are a pain in the ass

xxxNAILBUNNYxxx · January 10, 2018, 4:03pm

I fought Anubis twice last night. His combat mechanics are simple. Not sure how elephants are harder than a god, but I’ll take the nice sword he gave me

beers_and_leafs · January 10, 2018, 8:16pm

The first time with the elephants was a shit show, but then I just fire arrowed and supered the fuck out of them.

xxxNAILBUNNYxxx · January 15, 2018, 6:16pm

Patch 1.2.0

This is to let you know that the 1.2.0 patch will be deployed on all platforms tomorrow, January 16.

Patch Size:

• Xbox One: ~3GB

• PS4: ~3GB

• Uplay PC: ~2.6GB

• Steam: ~1.2GB

Please find the latest changes below.

Patch Highlights

• Added support for the upcoming “The Hidden Ones” expansion

• Added “Incoming Threat” quest to the game

• Updated items loot pool of the Heka Chest (more details in the “New Features” section)

New Features

• Added a new quest to the world: “Incoming Threat”

• Added the Atlas view on the World Map displaying the Sinai and the Valley of Kings regions

• Added support for the “The Hidden Ones” expansion

• Added the possibility to sell-back outfits to the Weaver shops

• Added all the latest Store items from the Nightmare, First Civilization, Gladiator, Wacky, and Almighty packs to the Heka Chest

• Added the option to toggle the visibility of inventory items on the Gear menu

Quest

• Improved various cinematic transitions

• Increased the resistance of Khaliset to the Overpower Ultra ability

• Corrected the visual size of Isfet’s weapon in the quest “Lady of Slaughter” to match its collision box

• Prevented Tahirah from following the playable character after a certain distance in the quest “Reunion”

• Fixed various issues that might occur when skipping cinematics

• Fixed an issue causing the stash in the quest “The Mousetrap” to float

• Fixed an issue preventing the player from completing the quest “The Healer”

• Fixed various situations causing Jumbe, the War Elephant, to reset in the middle of combat

• Fixed an issue preventing the playable character from climbing and fighting while in the quest “The Final Weighing”

• Fixed an issue allowing Thutmose to lose his felucca in the quest “Blood in the Water”

• Fixed the delay before the Quest Completed trigger when completing the quest “A Tithe By Any Other Name”

Activities

• Reduce the difficulty of Hippodrome races

• Fixed an issue preventing enemies from being able to be pushed into the pit of the Duelist II Arena encounter

• Fixed an issue where players were ranked incorrectly after completing a Hippodrome race

Gameplay

• Improved the behavior of tamed animals

• Fixed various issues on how fire was applying damage to the playable character and NPCs

• Fixed an issue with the spawning of the playable character in the Haueris Nome

• Fixed an issue that could cause a desynchronization when controlling Senu from a hiding location

• Fixed the damage bonus applied by Master abilities, which was lower than designed

• Fixed an issue that could prevent the Chain Attack ability to work

• Fixed an issue that could prevent the Adrenaline ability to be triggered

• Fixed the Overpower Chain Throw ability that was awarding Assassinate bonus XP

• Fixed an issue allowing the inactive weapon to cause damage

• Fixed an issue with the distance counter not updating correctly when NPC is outside of the field of view

• Fixed various situation where the playable character could remain stuck

• Fixed various issues with the animations of the playable character

• Fixed various issues with the spawning, the reactions, and the animations of NPCs

User Interface

• Added the leaderboard to the Horde Mode menu panel

• Fixed an issue with the Target Menu not properly showing The Scarab after reloading the save game

• Fixed various issues with the World Map filters

• Fixed an issue making arrow disappear from its quiver in the gear page when using the customization options

• Fixed an overlapping issue with Custom Markers when playing in Traditional Chinese

• Fixed an issue where the “Bathhouse Towel” outfit would appear as new every time the playable character exits the bathhouse

• Fixed a mistranslation on a Papyrus puzzle when playing in Russian

• Fixed an issue with the distance counter not updating correctly when NPCs are outside of the field of view

• Fixed some discrepancies in the Quest Log

• Fixed various typos

• [Xbox One X] Fixed the user associated with the “Best Score” in the Arena leaderboard after having switched profile in the main menu

• [PC] Added a message telling players to restart their game after acquiring new downloadable contents

• [PC] Added the ‘Hide Icons’ action to the Eagle section of the Customize Controls option menu

• [PC] Fixed the Fast Travel action in the World Map

World

• Fixed the models of the Level 10 gears

• Fixed an issue with Weaver shops selling the same outfit more than once

• Fixed an issue with cages that could open by themselves when they had a prisoner

• Fixed several areas where the playable character could go through collisions

Graphics & Audio

• Balanced the audio volume level in different areas

• Fixed an issue when the playable character could continue to talk after dying

• Fixed various visual issues that could occur when transitioning from indoor to outdoor

• Fixed an issue with the intensity of the red when in HDR

System

• Improve overall stability of the game application

• Fixed various infinite loadings and black screen hangs

• [PC] Fixed game freeze after minimizing all tabs in Windows 7

• [PC] Improved Performance Metrics graphs functionality

If you have any issues, please contact customer support for further assistance.

ReaperMan10 · January 16, 2018, 5:14pm

Just bought this game recently, haven’t had a chance to play it yet

xxxNAILBUNNYxxx · January 16, 2018, 6:07pm

In my opinion, this is the best AC Game since the 1st. Lacking on exterior story, but inside the Animus is incredible.

beers_and_leafs · January 16, 2018, 6:26pm