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Here’s what you need to know about Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Title update 1.1.1.
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Ubisoft this week released the first Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla patch of 2021 for, bringing with it a slew of quest fixes and updates. The update became available across all platforms on 14 January 2020.
Update 1.1.1 includes multiple fixes and support for Ubisoft Connect achievements in-game. It comes exactly a month after the previous update, which improved performance and rectified stability issues.
Update 1.1.0 addressed most of the bugs which had kept players from progressing. It also marked the start of the Yule festival and settlement expansion, fixed pesky photo mode issues and reduced freezes during Splash Screen.
The update sizes across various platforms are as follows:
Players will be happy to learn that achievements for quests completed will automatically unlock now and that Ubisoft introduced several accessibility options, such as text-to-speech to letters and colour-blind preview options.
In addition, various quality-of-life improvements included new features such as the Animus Pulse highlighting dead bodies for necessary actions only while the AI detection system had been tweaked.
The complete list of miscellaneous tweaks include:
Apart from improving performance and stability, Ubisoft also rolled out several graphics, audio and animation updates. This includes clipping issues, NCP animation issues and several new photo mode bugs.
Textures for PS4 had also been optimised, while several issues in quests, world events and side activities were attended to. It’s a long list – which can be viewed here – but some of the most anticipated patches include:
Various NPC behaviour issues were addressed, although Ubisoft didn’t go into detail. Some issues which caused players’ line of sight to be blocked using incendiary or Poison traps with the predator bow is now a thing of the past as well.
Ubisoft also addresses an issue where guards would sometimes not react with hostility to watching Eivor burn members of their faction with oil jars, as well as an issue where NPCs could be killed by throwing corpses at them in Vinland.