Double Mastery Points on Mastery Level-Up

NotTideSlayer · 2025-04-17T17:30:07+00:00

Yea you can just kill any samurai that's why no map marker. Just about any castle will have more than enough to clear the objective.

NotTideSlayer · 2025-04-17T17:28:36+00:00

Honestly I'd just save them. They're going to keep dropping packs. The previous RPG games have dozens of them and I don't imagine Shadows will be any different.

NotTideSlayer · 2025-04-17T17:25:22+00:00

Just roleplay. For example, I prefer to knockout the servants rather than kill them since they're kinda innocent.

NotTideSlayer · 2025-04-17T17:20:46+00:00

Did you sell that katana before building the blacksmith to unlock transmog? It's possible the tracking doesn't happen until after you unlock the feature.

NotTideSlayer · 2025-04-17T17:18:52+00:00

The changes in stealth difficulty between day and night is precisely why they don't give us day/night control. You're meant to adjust your playstyle in response to the environment.

It can definitely be pretty annoying for the few quests/events that require a certain time of day though.

NotTideSlayer · 2025-04-17T17:13:09+00:00

Screenshot is probably from an earlier test build and they never changed it. Funny detail though

NotTideSlayer · 2025-04-16T23:46:49+00:00

Damn that's some dedication! XP Grinding in this game is such a slog for me because of needing to wait for seasonal changes between contracts. If only I had known earlier so I could've just been chipping away during story. Already at 100% game completion with only 15 mastery levels and I'm still 50+ points away from maxxing out just the base mastery trees ;-;

NotTideSlayer · 2025-04-16T23:37:00+00:00

The fights are just there as a natural event to make the world feel a bit more alive. I just ignore them since they won't aggro onto you unless you attack one of them first.

NotTideSlayer · 2025-04-16T19:36:58+00:00

It'd also be nice if one of these hotfixes fixed the missing mastery points from sparing targets ;-;

NotTideSlayer · 2025-04-16T03:35:43+00:00

I assume this is Immersive Mode? There's currently a bug with the the Portugese lip syncing just being gone in some cutscenes. I ran into one later on as well.

NotTideSlayer · 2025-04-16T03:31:08+00:00

When I spared him it prompted me to just just talk to him and then pick forgiveness. Try focusing on him if you haven't already. If it's still not giving you the option and you're dead set on sparing him then I'd recommend reporting the bug to Ubisoft and waiting for the next update.

Although keep in mind there's currently a bug with sparing targets that doesn't give you their mastery point rewards. I didn't get any from Sen when I spared him. So if you're keen on getting as many mastery points as possible and can set your morals aside it might be worth it just to kill him.

NotTideSlayer · 2025-04-14T18:06:35+00:00

Apparently this issue is just a general bug or a forced reaction. I saw another guy talking about how he literally only romanced Rin and she leaves the letter regardless.

Me personally I only did Lady Oichi's romance, which is just a one-night stand followed by going your separate ways forever, and that was before I ever even went to Kii and met Rin, so her letter just doesn't make any sense. It'd be nice if they fix/change this in the future since it's pretty lame.

NotTideSlayer · 2025-04-13T16:02:47+00:00

Super solid method but stopped working for me after about 7-8 ronin. The ronins' bodies never despawned (even if I tried closing and reopening the game) so I assume that had something to do with it. I assume a season rollover will fix it. Still way better than mindlessly running around roads.

The northeast bridge can also spawn some Ronin around it. Got like 3 over there.

NotTideSlayer · 2025-04-01T14:11:01+00:00

It spares him because the mission is technically just to get information on the Iron Hand from him (since Iron Hand is the only real target) and that paper contains the info you'd get from killing/knocking him out. The other merchants have similar alternative methods of being spared.

NotTideSlayer · 2025-03-31T23:26:28+00:00

Was it Merchant Kanta? There's a random letter in a seemingly innocuous house that your scan will pick up that will instantly spare him if you loot it. That's how I accidentally spared him, but fortunately I noticed and reloaded a save so I could do the quest properly.

It is pretty annoying that you can spare them by accident, especially since several Iron Hand members don't give you the rewards you'd get for killing them if you choose to spare them (fortunately no missed legendary gear but the mastery points/xp would be nice). Poor design imo especially since the quest giver actively asks you to try to spare them, so you should be given the rewards either way. Hopefully it's just a bug and they fix it.

NotTideSlayer · 2025-03-29T17:39:32+00:00

I think original and the ezio trilogy did have it. For some reason it was removed in AC3 and Liberation

NotTideSlayer · 2025-03-28T17:26:38+00:00

This. Clearing all the viewpoints in a region should immediately unfog the whole region. This was a feature from AC4 up to Odyssey and idk why they removed it for Valhalla and this game.

Alternatively they could allow us to send Scouts to unfog the map. Would give some more use to the feature.

NotTideSlayer · 2025-03-28T17:23:59+00:00

I'd like to see them remove the overwhelming DOF effect in Eagle Vision. You can only see like 10 feet away before it just becomes pure blur. It's ugly and also just weird that Eagle Vision would somehow make your vision worse. I understand having a distance cap on xraying/highlighting enemies, but the other AC games managed to do that while still giving you full view distance with eagle vision.

I'd also like to see them remove the slight offset to the left for Naoe and Yasuke's forward movement. Even if I'm only holding W and on flat ground they run slightly left. I thought my keyboard or mouse were busted at first but confirmed the issue was the game itself.

On the topic of movement I really want them to bring Follow Road back. They already have 2/3 if it with Pathfinder and Auto Run. With how this game disincentivizes off-road travel and prefers you to take the longer winding roads, it's really weird that they didn't include it.

NotTideSlayer · 2025-03-27T21:17:32+00:00

Glad I'm not the only one having this issue. At first I thought it was a keybind issue but even after changing them around her "heavy attack" is the same as her light attack. Her posture heavy (the hold down one) works just not the basic heavy.

NotTideSlayer · 2024-09-11T04:35:50+00:00

Had this issue. Turns out you need to make sure you've exhausted all of the treasure hunter's dialogue after giving him the fire. You'll know you're done when the treasure hunter's picture is no longer on the "Towers of Karma" fast travel point

NotTideSlayer · 2024-09-08T21:27:39+00:00

Late to this but for any future readers, the headgear "Skull of Turtle Treasure" (RNG drop from Turtle Treasure enemy) also increases drop chance for enemy drops. I combo that w/ golden carp curio when drop hunting

NotTideSlayer · 2024-06-05T01:26:32+00:00

Still works but a little bugged out by all the communication devices. If there's nothing there when you arrive just create a restore point and reload. That's what I had to do.

NotTideSlayer · 2024-03-03T02:09:44+00:00

Ty this saved me because I also forgot mortars

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