AC Odyssey is getting tweakable level scaling

[Potterson]

Yay!

Ubisoft has added an option to change how enemy levels scale to yours in Assassin's Creed Odyssey (I'm not sure if patch is already active on every platform). Basically:

Players can now customize Enemy Scaling levels (Quests, NPCs):

• Default – Content will be set appropriate to selected difficulty level
• Heavy – Content remains at the player's level
• Medium – Content can drop up to two levels below the player's level
• Light – Content can drop up to four levels below the player's level

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And I'm really glad. I can finally play the game without the same problem I had with Origins where I really wanted to focus on main story but sometimes the level gap was just too high.

 

[Callibretto]

So if I choose Heavy, the main story level will always follow my character level?

 

[Static]

So if I choose Heavy, the main story level will always follow my character level?

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Yeah. Though I suspect that only means content scaling UP to your level, not content scaling down. It's how Nightmare difficulty's worked since release.

That said, this conversation was sort of already had in
https://www.resetera.com/threads/as...y-tiers-level-scaling-options-and-more.92116/

 

[Haze]

So basically people who don't want to do every side quest won't be underlevelled to the point they need to purchase EXP boosts or grind out quests they otherwise wouldn't want to do, once they reach certain points of the game.

This feature should have been in at launch.

 

[Matty H]

I wonder how much this reduces the grind for the main quest.
I'm pondering whether to get Odyssey or Origins in the current PS sale but I don't know if I want to spend that much time on AC games this year.
The time commitment puts me off, especially if the writing isn't absolutely top notch.

 

[Mendrox]

So basically people who don't want to do every side quest won't be underlevelled to the point they need to purchase EXP boosts or grind out quests they otherwise wouldn't want to do, once they reach certain points of the game.

This feature should have been in at launch.

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Sounds good to me. Now I am interested in the game. I just don't want to do the Ubigrinding like in Origins.

 

[Haze]

Sounds good to me. Now I am interested in the game. I just don't want to do the Ubigrinding like in Origins.

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Yeah knowing there is proper scaling in the game makes it sound significantly more appealing

 

[aerie]

Exciting changes! But we do already have an active thread covering this and more for the January update to Assassins Creed Odyssey, please continue the conversation there. Thank you - https://www.resetera.com/threads/as...y-tiers-level-scaling-options-and-more.92116/