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A few weeks back,
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla players spotted a handful of new abilities in the game’s elaborate skill tree. Then, those abilities disappeared.
Following
Valhalla’s mid-December update, which precipitated the Yuletide Festival event, each of the game’s three skill trees (Bear, Raven, Wolf) appeared to expand by two nodes. The first on each tree was a carbon copy of the “let the fate guide your path” node that allows you to let the game allocate your skill points for you; the second was an actual ability. The Bear tree received the Fight Ready skill, which gives you a full adrenaline slot at the start of every fight. The Wolf tree could unlock Arrow Looter, increasing your chanc
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s Hidden Ones Bureaus Hide A Great Series Callback
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Between One-Punch Man, baseball man, and multiple nods to popular fantasy franchises,
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is basically the Metropolitan Museum of Easter Eggs. But the best surprise or at least the one that’s sure to delight series fans the most doesn’t show up until late in the game.
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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.
Once you settle Ravensthorpe, roughly 10 hours into the game, you’ll be able to develop a whole host of new buildings. Creating the Hidden Ones Bureau will give Hytham, the junior Hidden One, a snazzy new office. Because this is a video game, he’ll reward you with a mission: Track down six codex pages, located in various decommissioned Hidden Ones Bureaus of England. As the name implies, these Bureaus are all off the beaten path. But finding them is worth the effort, as doing so will trigger an Easter egg starring Bayek of Siwa, th