Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Rap Battles and 6 Other Weird Things You Can Do
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- Assassin's Creed Valhalla gameplay: Here are the weirdest side-activities we've found in the latest Assassin's Creed game, including kicking legendary dogs and stacking rocks.
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Here are the weirdest side-activities we found to do in Assassin's Creed Valhalla -OX
Nice channel, keep up the great work.
If you're from a Nordic country it's impossible to play as a male named Eivor, a female name since, well, forever.
According to Darby McDevitt "[...] it's for a very specific narrative reason [...]"
It better not be the writers tripping on shrooms while listening to Johnny Cash and cramming in an A Boy Named Sue reference.
Loki basically said Freya sleeps around fyi. An insult to her chastity.
Hahaha yeah, before the flight of Loki in norse mythology, after he kills Baldur
He shit talks every one of the gods, he tells Odin his brothers vili and ve bang his wife all the time
But trying to say it's a rap battle is lame haha
Vikings belong to us metalheads, bands like amon Amarth :p
Loki’s burn translated: “Shut up, I know you’ve slept with everyone in here....” not as sick a burn as you might expect from the god of mischief, who btw had a child with a horse mind you.
And i'm pretty sure he was the mom.
@@user-bf8zc9eo1o he was
I find it interesting that all those lines today would be cut down to just the letters h and o.
Well, times were different back then, but more importantly, Freyja IS the goddess of beauty, literature and other fair qualities. Calling her the village bycicle is like telling Thor his hammer-swings are shit.
Loki's child horse, who has with 8 legs, that now serves the mount for Odin. Said horse is called Sleipnir.
He fathered, with the Jötunn Angrboða:
Hel - Ruler of Hel
The Wolf Fenrir
The World Serpent Jörmungandr
Narfi/Nari and Váli - Not sure on the mother. Altough Odin is also said to be Váli's father....
I may have got some of this wrong, its been some time.
Good LITTLE cat? That thing spanned the entire breadth of Eivor's chest!
It's so they can contain more love
looked like a wildcat
Or maybe the cat is perfectly average, and everyone is just tiny.
@@axeldornelles5292 you aren't wrong, technically.
@@baron-von-masky "Technically right is the best kind of right." - Kyle Hill
I can pet the cats and dogs was all I needed to know, but this other stuff seems cool too
Ellen?
*also instead of *too*, made for a nice ryme
You could do that in ac 3
Same
Loki's quip is from the Lokasenna where he's insulting everyone, including telling Freya off for sleeping around. Rich, coming from Loki, but what can you do. |D
But that’s how he knows she’s slept with everyone because he’s heard it from everyone he’s slept with
Yeah. Considering the lengths Loki has gone to to get laid.
Remember where Odin's horse came from?
Gregory Stephens I... I mean to be fair that was an accident ( not saying he didn’t enjoy it tho )
Loki once got fucked by a horse sooooo
The storyteller's name (Bragi) is named after the Norse god of storytelling to which we get the word 'bragging' from.
Every year on Yuletides day, the Norse chieftain swore upon the god Bragi to do one major thing that year (make peace with another tribe, etc.) and sometimes they would swear far too much and people would catch them on their crap and they would say that the chief was bragging hence where we get the word from.
Cool, did not know that, so thanks 😄👍
Awesome piece of word history to win a trivial pursuits game
Yeah swearing to do things while also drunk is not a good idea. The warrior cult of the Jomsvikings got drunk enough to swear they would conquer Norway once. They had like five ships.
@@eirikmarthinsen3850 How did it go?
@@jorvach9874 They went through with it, lost a sea battle and the survivors got executed if memory serves. They fought well though. Even the Norwegian kings sagas say so.
Eivor vs Guybrush Threepwood insult battle must be legendary.
'You fight like a cairn stacker'
'How appropriate, you fight like a rock.'
@@Banquet42 lololol😂
Archery, dual weilding axes, Viking tattoos, rap battles and the true selling point for me is that I can hug dogs... Yup 10/10
I hope there is grappling though
The Punisher Sequence grappling?
oh I can already see myself spending way too long stacking cairns. lovely.
I mean like even a hint of Norse mythology sells me on anything, but you can finally pat doggos and snuggle kitties? take all of my money
Yeah unless there are some serious rewards or there's a achievement attached to the cairn stacking i'm gonna be avoiding that
@@princeblackelf4265 It's probably good for a decent bump in XP the first time you do so. They'll probably add in a competition on social media for stacking the best or oddest arrangement of stones that stayed stable, likely by next year to bring more interest.
Why lol, you can do that in real life still
Calling for your longship in 9th century Britain: By your side in an instant.
Calling for your personal vehicle in 21st century Los Santos: Takes 3-5 minutes... if it even gets there.
the trick is knowing where your driver likes to park things.. IE not near you.
*Me:* Super-intense involved cairn building? Ughhh....
*Me, 5 seconds later:* OMG FULL BODY PET CUDDLES SIGN ME UP
Saw on twitter that you can recruit cats and instantly thought how Ellen can accomplish her dream of having a cat cult! 😀
Purrrrfect
Ellen now is the crazy cat lady 🤣
Just so long as there aren't any Lynx in England. I met more than enough of those in Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
Teddy Hart will also be pleased.
Not sure if you can recruit multiple or not, but i saw on another YT video how to get that white cat to join your raiding ship.
I love how when I saw this video come up on my feed, my first thought was ‘All I want to know is if I can pet cats and/or be gay’. And like true friends, outside xtra gave me the answers to both those questions. Y’all know what fans *really* want
You can also not only choose your characters gender, but switch it mid game and I love it!
Honestly be gay and pet cats is all I need
11:51 isn’t that an actual Nordic myth? That fenrir or fenris or some wolf will be set free and eats Odin I think, as well as the moon and sun? As part of Ragnarök I think, the end of the world Norse myth...
Fenrir eats Odin while his two sons skol and hati eat the sun and moon
Yes, but I don’t think that that wolf is Fenrir because if Fenrir can kill Odin he can kill you
LoneWolf Gaming yeah, I’ve done some research and it seems to be split between Fenrir and Hati for the title of moon-eater
Yeah, I think that drunk guy is the ancient Norse equivalent of someone doing too many edibles at a party and not shutting up about the end of the world
@@ashfreywar9862 Hati is the moon-eater, Skol is the sun-eater Fenrir is the eater of well everything else
I was actually kinda getting into it until I saw the "Desynchronized" death message pop up and I remembered this is an Assassin's Creed game.
get over it
I get it if you don't like the newer ac games but don't you like ac black flag or ac 2?
I agree... they fucked it up for me with the Hitpoints, and levels. I miss AC3
I actually love myself a good bit of cairn stacking. Whenever I'm fishing alone, and I'm having bad luck I always spend time making a few little towers before I leave. I find it very meditative and soothing. No time pressure or falling blocks, just me and my little pile of rocks.
Loki's "burn" was part of a larger piece called, "The Flyting of Loki". All the Gods and Goddesses were throwing a party and Loki wasn't invited. He showed up and proceeded to insult everyone there until Thor showed up and threatened to shove his hammer up Loki's, umm, trickster.
Ah, Nordic deities. Always so happy and fun-loving, except for the whole "wolves swallowing the sun and moon and we are all going to die in Ragnarok."
Yeah, that pretty much sums up Thor and Loki's relationship.
Well, it's better than the Greek Pantheon where a titan ate his children to prevent them from killing him, a thunder god is such a spiteful ass he has to take out all his problems on the people he watches over and the god of the underworld seems to be the more sane one out of the bunch.
Edit: Not to mention Zeus was far more promiscuous than Freyja, Loki and Aphrodite combined.
how loud did ellen scream when she saw we can get a pet cat for our longboat? i'm surprised that's not on this list, tbh.
So during the section of the crew singing, I thought to myself "I recognise that incredible voice!", and sure enough I was right - Einar Selvik, main man of Norse folk group Wardruna, collaborated with the music team on this game!
Ok that was WEIRD. I actually said " Oh good, it's Black Shuck" then Luke straight up confirms that it's is actually meant to be Black Shuck
That all said, i'm glad that the series is TRULY embracing the paranormal side of the lore, yeah it's always been there but they've always tried to dole it out in bits and pieces with the occasional big reveal, since Odyssey they've gone whole hog on the ancient aliens stuff as way of explaining supernatural stuff and monsters, although I always chalked up the giant animal fights as left over ice age creatures rather than outright Isu tampering
Hang on. They've got insult swordfighting? How appropriate, you fight like a cow.
Just remember, if you fight on the seas, all your insults and threats must RHYME.
Are you calling me an animal?
Let's hope this is the second best AC game.
I look that much like your fiance?
I'm rubber you're glue
14:40 "A health bar the length of the Thames" Oof. Hit me right in my nostalgia. Damn, I miss Syndicate - style Assassin's Creed.
Wow, that summoned Viking longship arrived quicker than my dog when I rootle through the fridge.
Huh. "Ale Beast of East Anglia" was my nickname during my 20's
"Fall in line like the dog that I trip, not even your rhymes are worthy of his spit.
8:03 You can tell this is a good game when I was just looking at the cat under Eivor rather than paying attention to Ellen
11:52 Lol the "Are you allright?" Gets me every time
I don’t know about anyone else’s opinion, but I still find it quite strange to see a big bearded viking named Eivor, a name mostly associated with little old ladies...
Omg seriously? That's incredible
Not really, since it's a very old name. So is mine, though mostly given to men.. And I'm not
dream-of-roses Yeah! The middle age for people named Eivor (all of them women) is 77
Nightsong001 Yes while the name Eivor is old, and most likely from the viking age, it is a female name, which is what makes it kind of weird to hear that a man is called Eivor..
I mean, they could just called him Eivar?
The stone stacking is actually still practised today in Norway. They are often found on mountain tops around the country.
I live in scotland, I occasionally stack up stones on my walks in the woods, nobody knocks them down there are lots
This does look fun, but I have one important question: will this actually feature stealth and assassinations? That was kinda what I liked about the series in the first place...
about as much as Odyssey I imagine so yes but it sucks.
The gameplay showed social stealth back with crowds and blending at benches. Hopefully the raiding allows for stealth opportunities too!
@@NiclasLoof Stealth doesn't have to mean crouch walking. Plus its literally supposed to be one of the tenants of the creed to be discreet
I remember stealthing places in ACod, assassinating/stealth killing enemies, and trying to go full stealth...that is stealth and assassinating.
@@NiclasLoof AC always had stealth mechanics, blending in crowds, hiding in hay stacks or in booths, on benches, it was all about hiding in plain sight, crouch walking is just how other games do stealth and in reality isn't all that stealthy, it's sad that this is how the series has evovled
Sweet Odin's raven! I am so here for ALL of this: dark age rap battles, Stone Stack Simulator 873, PET ALL THE CATS, Ghost Hunters: East Anglia.
Getting this game for the cat/dog hugs and rock stacking
13:16 What's wrong? Don't most drinking contests end this way?
I think I've been doing it wrong...
No, this seems right to me. Drunkely making out with a mate of the same sex is a time-honored tradition where I come from :)
The real black shuck was the friends you made along the way.
Petting animals in-game... there are no words that can convey such joy. Or in other words, there go the rest of my life, CATS HERE I COME!
Thank god all the Vikings came in to dismantle all the cursed locations, ghosts and devil dogs around the English countryside to make it all peaceful and quaint.
"If for my walking you must flog, know that you have not one tip!"
Sounds like you have Eivor-acious appetite.
1:42 Loki called Freyja a promiscuous woman who has been with every god in the Viking pantheon. Though possibly true it is more accurate to say that every dwarf has had relations as the dark elves(not really elves) are all her children.
I know that Ellen's play through will be naught but giving cuddles to the various cats and dogs in game....for days on end.
I am so here for it🐱
Considering that she originated "Merilwen's Meat-Grinder", that might not be completely accurate…
And the occasional murderous rampage.
Humans have feared the viking for a long time. I can only imagine the tales told in animal folklore.
The animal killing: Memories of the slaughter of flamingos in Origins on this very channel, heh.
My GOD that's a giant cat
I think it's a Norwegian Forest Cat. Probably brought by the Vikings to assist by eating the British wildlife. They have such wonderful personalities. :D very cuddly... also happy to "encourage" the bunnies to stay out of your garden.... by attempting to eat them.
anybody know how old the Maine Coon Cat is? damn things are dog sized. ;)
@@midnight5592 thanks but i was thinking how old the breed is. i've owned 2 'half coons' in my lifetime and they were MORE than above average housecat sized. pair of siblings, daddy was a wandering tom and mom was a Coon in heat.
supposedly the anecdotal history says Coons are North American New England imports from around 1789-1799. one tale goes a ship captain got six kits from Marie Antoinette herself and brought them to Edgecomb, Maine. this of course after MA failed to escape 'the chop' and leave France with him for the US.
i don't know much about the Norwegian Forest cat though. i've met only one. he was a happy fellow and acted rather dog-like. that guy loved everybody and would even bug people for attention. he especially liked playing fetch. you'd throw his stuffed rat for him, yep rat sized toy, and he'd scamper after it and bring it back to you after 'killing it' quite thoroughly first. i dunno, maybe his Viking ancestral owners loved throwing dead rats around the longship for their cats to play with?
Don't forget about cat-raider. So we have a cat-detective in "Stray" and now this. Game year look purr-ty paw-some.
What makes the post-contest coitus all the better is that the dancers mentioned slightly earlier are just on the other side of that wall (well, behind the "opponent" and slightly above...the area is just down some stairs from the majority of the festivities)...this means that, as you and your paramour are absolutely munted (and Viking warriors), *everyone* knows who and where.
Ellen: What's next for these two lads out on the town
Male protag: *kisses drinking contest rival*
Me: Woo! More historically accurate gay!
I'm so planning to play the male character now XD
It's optional, so they aren't claiming that it actually happened.
You're the one choossing to make it happen.
Yaaaaaas
@@davecullins1606 Okay, but it was a thing that happened, and it wasn't seen as strange or deviant or wrong.
@@davecullins1606 Oof good thing we can choose not , got scared for a second
Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla? You mean Axe-sassin’s Creed
Axe-axing Cred
Booo
Axe-Saxon’s creed
@@sethprestenback8617 Now I wonder if Seaxs will be usable weapons....
Ass-ass-ins
I hope the poetry stuff isn’t too important, I cannot express how little I want to do that
With a Charisma stat displayed, I think it'll play into how you much you can inspire your warriors, or how effective they'll be in battle. You'll probably have to have a halfway decent stat to not lead a crew of Red Shirts.
I definitely want to cuddle the kitties and the doggos. Glad you folks covered that.
Ugh, they have the animal fights again. The absolute hardest fight I had in Odyssey was the godsdamned farting boar...Not Hades, God of the Underworld, not Deimos, the final villain, not any of the mythical monsters...a farting boar.
Ahah true. It took me two or three days to kill that boar, I swear the Hundred-Hander in Atlantis was easier
Ubisoft is spoiling the Oxtra crowd with all these games set in various versions of London
Awesome video, thank you! And I'm most excited to see all the different weapons and fighting styles that Eivor can utilize in their conquests.
The writing and voice acting is of worryingly low quality is my only complaint so far.
they're one drowner away from assassins creed: witcher
The assassins should rebrand as Part time assassins, mostly warriors
5:32 Doggo: "Okay, okay, we just met here, let's take it down a notch!"
Most looking forward to the settlement and how that will work.also petting the animals is great and the legendary battles look fun
so rap was culturally appropriated from the norse..noice.
13:19 yeaahhhh thanks for letting me know to never get drunk when I buy this game😂
I just randomly found your channel, and boy am I glad I did, your videos are not only helpful, and very well produced, but your banter is beyond hilarious, I was 😂 the whole time! You definitely earned a sub! 🤣
Fun fact, if you kill Cordelia and her sisters, you unlock another side mission that takes you to their mansion and then you have 4/5 parts of Thor's Amour, 5th is obtained after you dismantle the Order and then u can get Thor's hammer in Norway
Man, this is just full on Fantasy RPG now, the Assassin part of the franchise is pretty much gone by now it seems.
I'm glad I'm done with it after Origins.
A bit disappointed that they stuck with the AC origin fighting system :/
Tbh I prefer the updated one than the attack, counter, kill button mashing of the games pre Origins.
@@davidparkes7741 The counter kills could be fixed tho. By making the timing tighter. But that kill spree needed to go, I agree.
@@zephyrerazortail5478 Ehh. I think what we have now is awesome. Yeah maybe it's not strictly "assassin" fighting but still.
@@davidparkes7741 Well, to each their own. I prefer the short and exhilarating ones of pre-RPG inclusion. Hell, even Origins was good. Now that it looks God of War-like, I'm gonna switch over to Ghost of Tsushima.
This is oddessy combat
Don't let me be known for canines that I trip
Instead, do know me by my quip after quip
13:19 was shocking and gleefully delightful. Thanks for adding that in Ellen! You didn’t have to but you did! True ally!
'NATURE'S BEAUTY IS ABOUT TO GET HURLED INTO THE SEA!!' Oh Ellen, you're a beauty!
A lot of Witcher 3 vibes from this, obviously from the world and boss fights but even down to the rap battles, I don’t blame it though who wouldn’t want Witcher 3 vibes in their game
Except, you can do side stuff BEFORE the main story.
Unlike W3, where you HAVE to do the main story, risk no warning of a point of no return, do a NG+, and THEN the side stuff, then not finish it, because you already finished the main story.
I remember an old ballad called 'Black Shuck' sung by minstrels calling themselves 'The Darkness'.
''In a town in the east, parishioners visited upon by a curious beast. His eyes numbered one & shone like the sun. A glance beckoned the loss of a cherished one...It was the coming of the Black Shuck, Black Suck...That dog don't give a F**k!''
The fact that eivor just tanks eating a destroying angel with no long term side effects is the most weird thing lol
These activities look wierd, but at least you have steeds/ This looks like the previous Assassins' Creeds/ But it also does look like a poor lame wild hunt/ With less of a shine and the protagonist's grunt/ Might toss it a coin once it indeed comes out/ While the witcher for me still maintains all his clout/ I'll now stop the poetry and wait for my turn/ After I completed my own lame savage burn.
Okay, normally this is the part where I'd disagree with you and explain why I'm actually looking forward to this game...
... but the rhymes threw me off, and I don't think I can articulate my dissenting opinion without putting it in verse. And since I suck at that... I won't.
@@et3inuyasha I respect that.
You can do flyting? Great.
damn, you beat me lol
Thank fuck someone called it the right name
Fun fact; some Norwegian tourist destinations have signs asking visitors not to stack their rocks. It disturbs the local biome and hides actual official waypoint stacks. So pretty much, people never change
November's going to be a busy month.
this looks like it came out in 2013
Assassin’s Creed but just without the assassin
Knowing that I can cuddle those pets just gave me such a serotonin boost
Ellen's frustration at the cairn stacking challenge between 4:46 and 4:58....Priceless! X-D XXX
Looks cool. Why not just call the game Valhalla and just remove all the assassin's creed BS? A viking game sounds kick-ass but it being tied to assasin's creed just seems arbitrary. Much like how the last game should have just been called Odyssey.
8:03 awwww that cat 🐱
14:42 oh, this almost reminds me of the Valkyrie fights in GoW! They’ve got enough time to clean up the movements and the camera problems during combat, but I’ll probably be getting this game. Thanks for the video all’z’youZ!!!
Rap battles, stories on a sea journey and rock stacking looks to be something i’m going to spend some time in.
The cat curled up on the boat was too cute. I had to rewind the video to listen to what was being said.
Damn that ship is fast. Unrealistically so
I can’t wait to defeat the Sword Master of Meleé Island!
I'm pretty much excited for everything about this game lol. My sister moved to Norway last year so I've been getting into all the Viking stuff! I'm really glad you can pet/cuddle cats and dogs again. I missed that in Odyssey. Also getting more of the lore sounds really neat
I'm always excited for a new Assassin's Creed game. They can keep making these till the end of time as for as I'm concerned.
I was getting a real God of War feeling from that Black Shuck fight.
7:16 - that’s a berserker execution from for honour! Nice to see some FH Viking stuff make it in
When Eivor says "im known for my might" in the rap battle, the accent reminds me of james kidd from AC4.
1:43 Pretty much, Loki just called Freya the Pantheon Mattress.🤣🤣
Ubisoft actually had this video in my Smart Intel feed for AC Valhalla. Watched it (yet again) and was not disappointed! Huzzah!
I'll be honest, I love the Black Shuck business. Mostly because I was fascinated by black dog myths almost immediately upon hearing of them. I'm also pretty excited for the drinking contests and the Flyting
I'm most looking forward to Ellen's play through of Valhalla
Peting dogs , drinking , fighting epic warroirs of old , mythic beast slaying and mushroom vision quests plus raids and attending weddings only thing missing is a good old fashion ed treasure hunt . The crew of your longship singing and telling stories is a nice touch :)
I'm sorry for doing this again but I just LOVE Norse mythology 😍.
The part where they are having a drinking contest is likely a reference to an old Norse story where Thor and Loki (a third guy joins them later in the story) go on a quest to kill the Jotün Skrymrir (I think I spelled the name right 😂) but on the way they come across a Jotün who promises to take them to him but first they have to stop off at his castle. At the Jotün's castle they are welcomed to a contest where if they win the Jotün will take them to Skrymrir, if not then they must leave Jotünheim adn never come looking for Skrymrir again.
Loki is challenged to an eating contest but loses. The guy who accompanies them is challenged to a foot race and loses. Finally, Thor is challenged to a drinking contest where he must drink all the beer from the horn however, he notices that no matter how much he drinks, the horn never empties.
The Jotün laughs and reveals himself to be Skrymrir all along. He tells them that the Loki's opponent was fire and nothing could consume more than it. The second guy's opponent was death who no one could outrun. And Thor was only drinking the water from the sea to which he drank so much that the sea level fell excessively low (explaining why there is a low tide at times). The three go back to Valhalla heads low and never return to Skrymrir's castle as was per the agreement.
I saw this story from OSP :D
I was planning on getting cyberpunk 2077 but... the boat has a special little nook for the kitty
9:42 the tune reminds me Black Thunder from The Hu, Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order
I'm glad I saw this. Between the sad side missions and that Cordelia battle looking like another broken controller in my future, I think this may be the first AC game I actively pass on. Not my cup of mead, this one.
Yes, but do you have a bird helper called Graculus and do you finally get to beat up Nogbad the Bad?
I’ve only watched play throughs, but I thought the most hilarious activity was getting to go trick or treating! Adding that was really clever!
Over a dog, you did trip.
Easy as a log, off of which you do slip.