[2021] [TU 1.3.0] Drinking Games Bugs—14 Can’t Be Played for Silver, 3 Others Broken

Hello again @thenorfolkian! Thank you for reporting these issues with the drinking games to us. I am sorry to hear that in 14 of the drinking games, you are unable to earn silver from them after the first time participating, and for three others, that the mead barrels appear to be missing when taking part.

Could you please provide a video demonstrating you completing one of the 14 drinking games where you find silver to not be awarded? This will be helpful for me to demonstrate the behaviour you are describing to the development team when reporting this forward and querying the behaviour.

I'd also like to ask that you provide screenshots showing the missing mead barrels / interaction prompts at Alrekstad, Croindene and Odin's Rest, so that I can report this issue separately. I hope that this isn't too much trouble for you!

Regarding your suggestions for improvements to the drinking games' mechanics, thank you for sharing these with us and other players in the Gameplay subforum! The Community Team handle those threads, so please look out for a possible response from one of the members of that team over there.

Thank you!

I would discourage the suggestions from being reposted, @bielik01, as as I said, the Community Team are responsible for the Gameplay subforum. As the suggestions are already posted there, they will handle forwarding that feedback, not us.

Hey there,

With regards to suggestions we would advise to post these in the Gameplay subforum where the community team can give feedback and suggestions the attention they need.

I hope this helps to clear this up.

Many thanks

@bielik01 - Just to follow up on @Ubi-WheelyDuck's comments: Depending on the nature of the feedback, and whether it is posted alongside a support-based query, it may be possible for us on the Player Support team to forward this to the developers. Such as in the case of accessibility requests, or feedback relating to the technical aspects of the game, these are topics that we work closely with anyway so there is the potential for these sorts of discussions to fall within our scope. As a general rule though, feedback should be posted in the community-based sections (i.e. General Discussion, Story, Gameplay) as it is the Community Team who analyse sentiment, make suggestions for improvements / changes to the game, and are more involved with the nitty-gritty of the gameplay itself. I hope that this clarifies matters for you!

@TheNorfolkian - I hope that your feedback thread will be addressed soon by a colleague of mine on the Community Team! Regarding the issues you've reported here with the drinking games, I'm very grateful to you for taking the time to provide the requested video and screenshots.

I have confirmed with the Assassin's Creed Valhalla team that it is working as intended that Silver can only be earned upon the first playthrough of each drinking game. As such, I did visit one of the locations you've listed in your feedback thread to see whether I could repeatedly make wagers after fast travelling, as you had mentioned there that there are 15 locations where this is possible. I was unable to place additional bets after fast travelling away and back again, but could do so if I made a manual save and reloaded it, so I've passed all of this information to the development team for them to review and consider. It may unfortunately be that this is unintended behaviour, though beneficial, and should that be the case, I'll keep you updated here in this thread about that.

Regarding the images of the missing barrels, I can see that one of these locations has already had its vanishing barrel reported, while the other two have not. I'll add your images to that investigation now and let the team know that it is happening in more than one location! Thank you very much again for your help!

Hey @bielik01,

Thank you for your feedback.

I can assure you that feedback is investigated in all forum categories although I can completely appreciate and understand your feedback on how it may look when a post isn't responded to.

Thank you for sharing this feedback with us here it is appreciated

Thank you for the follow-up @thenorfolkian.

So just to clarify, you have discovered that fast travelling around England, the game will not allow you to place bets on the drinking games in the locations you mentioned previously, but, if you fast travel out of the country using the Atlas, and then return to these drinking locations, you can once again bet on your drinking games in these locations?

If that is correct, I will happily pass this onto our AC team, to check if this is intended.

Brilliant, thank you for the reply, thenorfolkian, I have passed this information onto the team about this betting issue, but wanted to make sure I understood your exact workaround, thank you.

It has been confirmed that all drinking games should only pay out once via betting, afterwards no money should be won on the second playthrough of that particular drinking game. The fast travel to another country and back, or reloading a save after winning a bet, is an exploit players can use to win more silver, so hopefully, we will be able to address this soon in a future update.

This is a good suggestion and I will happily pass it on to our AC team now. At the moment, I do not have any information on how this will look in-game once the issue has been fixed, but I add your suggestion of a checkmark, much as the Orlog dice game has, upon completion of the drinking mini-game.