AC Valhalla 1.4.0 Changes Overview and Patch Notes

Today Ubisoft releases Assassin's Creed Valhalla Update 1.4.0, delivering the Oskoreia Festival event, Tombs of the Fallen and new skills!

AC Valhalla 1.4.0 Highlights

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla update 1.4.0 seems quite small if you base your judgement on the patch notes alone. However, this is one of the biggest free updates to the game to date.

Ubisoft starts the one year celebrations one day earlier as Assassin’s Creed Valhalla enters its second year on November 10 2021.

Oskoreia Festival

Starting on November 11 a new time-limited seasonal event – Oskoreia Festival – will be available to all players, who have reached England and have completed one of the first two narrative acts – Grantebridgescire or LEdecesterscire. An additional requirement is to have reached Level 2 with your Settlement Ravensthorpe. This is so that you have unlocked the proper NPCs and buildings part of this event.

The harvest season marks the start of Odin’s Wild Hunt. In this otherworldly tradition, spirits of the dead rise and savagely hunt the weak among the living. Defend your settlement from this harrowing threat by proving the Raven Clan is no easy prey. In this free, limited-time event, you’ll find new activities and quests, and a peculiar new stranger, all to reap a wealth of rewards. The Oskoreia Festival will be available from November 11 to December 2.

The Oskoreia Festival will last from November 11 until December 2. It will offer three repeatable activities (mini-games):

• The already familiar Archery, but with a twist – friendly targets will pop up to distract and punish you if you hit them.
• Horseback riding on a predefined track with additional specific targets to shoot with your bow while riding and get bonus time for doing so.
• A tournament against spirits, in which you will have to survive against waves of spectral warriors as quickly and efficiently as possible.

New mini quest story will also be available to Eivor alongside the event. It will, of course, be tied to the Oskoreia festival:

New quests during Oskoreia’s festivities will see you protecting Ravensthorpe from harmful spirits. With such a troublesome threat, you’ll take aid from a strange newcomer, the Mad Monk, in the quest “Homeward.” After dealing with the Monk’s antics, you’ll have a chance at flexing your deduction skills in “An Honorable Death.” In this quest, you must solve the mystery of a fallen warrior whose name is written among those remembered yet recognized by none

New items will be made available as rewards and vendor purchases for the Festival. You will again be earning Festival Tokens to spend at Norvid’s shop in Ravensthorpe, where a new selection of items will be waiting for you.

I’ve got a full guide to the Oskoreia festival and all of the mini games and quests from it. Take a look.

Tombs of the Fallen

The Tombs of the Fallen is a brand new explorable content. You will be taken to new dungeons and tombs and tasked to solve puzzles to reveal ancient secrets and treasures (items).

Adventure calls and those curious enough to answer will find the all-new Tombs of the Fallen. In these puzzle-focused tombs, you’ll delve into vast, hidden subterranean caverns to be rewarded with tales of mystery, history, and irresistible loot. Use your parkour abilities to make your way through these tombs filled with danger — watch out for traps and poison! Observe and explore your surroundings, and solve environmental puzzles to acquire time-forgotten treasures.

The newly available with AC Valhalla 1.4.0 Tombs of the Fallen will be unlocked as soon as you land in England and unlock your settlement. For these you do not need to complete any of the England’s storyline and narratives.

The Tombs of the Fallen will be available for you to explore starting today – November 9. It’s the perfect thing to keep you busy while waiting for the Festival to start.

New Skills for Eivor

Eivor will be able to learn three new skills to add to their arsenal:

• Perfect Parry: Parry LB/L1/Q in the nick of time to deal additional damage to the attacker.
• Master Counter Roll: Adds a Hidden Blade strike while executing a Counter Roll.
• Improved Bow Stun Finisher: Initiating the Bow Stun Finisher will now shoot arrows at all stunned enemies in view.

I have a handy guide showing you how to find all Tombs of the Fallen available with exact markers on the map for their locations and I’ve also included a number of useful tips on how to solve the puzzles inside without ruining your fun of exploring them on your own. I have individual step-by-step guides for each one of the Tombs:

• How to find all Tombs of the Fallen in AC Valhalla
• AC Valhalla Manius’s Sanctum Location and Puzzles Guide
• AC Valhalla Boudicca Tomb Location and Puzzles Guide
• AC Valhalla Cassivellanus Tomb Location and Puzzles Guide
• AC Valhalla Venutius Tomb Location and Puzzles Guide
• How to get Fallen Hero Armor set in AC Valhalla Tombs of the Fallen

Official AC Valhalla 1.4.0 Patch Notes

The patch notes were made available a day earlier by Ubisoft and include a few critical bug fixes, some tweaks and, as usual, performance increase. You can read them all below.

Main Quests, World Events, and Side Activities

• Unable to interact with AxeHead.
• Unable to escort convey in quest “Old Friends,” marker did not move.
• Cavalier/Heavy Cavalry stopped fighting when the player was mounted on a Horse and was further away.
• Basim and Sigurd didn’t follow the player in Brewing Rebellion.
• Quest NPC could be beneath the world in The Thegn of Lincoln.
• Cordial Invitation couldn’t be started due to a dead NPC.
• Orwig Neverdeath didn’t spawn in Hordafylke.
• Couldn’t interact with NPC during Edmund’s Arrow world event.
• Couldn’t defeat boss in Binding Fate due to them spawning underground.
• “New Avenge Quest” celebration repeatedly appeared on the screen when looting or interacting with objects near the avenge corpse without picking up the quest.
• Unable to pick up Arc of Elan in the longhouse.
• “Exploration Area” did not disappear when tracking another quest.
• Discovery Tour: Viking Age – Quest objective didn’t update in A Barter for Peace.
• River Raids – Removed fish to balance ration availability.
• Wrath of the Druids – Unable to interact with letter in Flann Sinna’s tent during Courting the Kings quest.

Gameplay

• BattleCry didn’t affect alpha animals during fights.
• Missing vibration or haptic feedback on PS5 after version 1.3.2.
• Level 2 Axe Fury did not receive intended ability modifiers.
• Numerous NPC behavior issues.
• Weapon perks not activating correctly or activating outside of their intended conditions.
• Numerous clipping issues.
• Some 1H swords could cost more to upgrade than others.
• Animals didn’t go into the stunned stance emptying their defence bar with melee attacks.
• Fish could be seen teleporting when fishing under certain conditions.
• Helmets could still be displayed during some cutscenes, even when not intended.
• Eivor was unable to perform a forward roll when jumping from a height using M&K.
• Players can now toggle walk/run state during auto movement.

UI/HUD

• Numerous Menu Narration issues.
• Numerous UI/HUD issues.
• Constant New Quest alert since Title Update 1.3.1.
• Discovery Tour: Viking Age – The Playtime in Discovery Tour is displayed as 0hrs in game menu.
• Discovery Tour: Viking Age – Discovery Sites and Behind the Scenes pop-up is present during the intro cinematic in Seaworthy.
• Level scaling options did not show the correct values for the River Raid section in the quest log.

Graphics, Animation, and Audio

• Numerous graphics, texture, animation, or lighting issues.
• Numerous Colorblind mode issues.
• Improvements to some raven textures.

World

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

Performance and Stability

• Improved performance and stability

Sources for this article: official patch notes | update preview