It’s not often that I get to be a love guru. It’s a miracle that I’ve been in a long term relationship as long as I have. For that I’m absolutely blessed. The art of seduction in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is significantly easier, thanks to the Ancient Greeks’s obsession with pleasing the gods with their fornication, and the fact that both Alexios and Kassandra are just utterly charming people. Our guide to romancing the NPCs of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey will tell you what you need to say in order to seduce the many characters that are open to seduction, if you play your cards right.

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Skill points are obtained with every level up in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, but there is another way to obtain skill points that requires a bit more exploration. Scattered across the world are various tombs and crypts that house some elaborate mazes, filled with traps and snakes and all other sorts of nasty hazards. Exploring them can lead to valuable treasure, but the main prize is the Ancient Stele that each crypt houses that grants you a whole skill point. This guide will show you where to find the Ancient Stele that each of the crypts has inside, in order to gain some free skill points.

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When you think of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, chances are the first thing that comes across your mind is that you’re an assassin. Keeping to the shadows and not being spotted is your main tool against any enemies. Killing enemies is a necessity if it means removing the many obstacles in your way. Of course, nothing is ever as simple as it sounds, so this guide will go over the basics of stealth, how to assassinate enemies, and the skills you need to be an effective scourge of the shadows.

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With Assassin’s Creed Odyssey now available, it’s time to head off to Ancient Greece. Set during the conflict between Athens and Sparta, a lot has been carried over from the previous game. It also marks the return of sailing ships, as well as introduce relationships and dialogue choices for the first time to the series. In this collection of guide, we will cover the basics of combat, which gameplay mode to choose, the multiple side quests, skills and sailing explained, and dealing with the mercenaries.

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If your time with Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has been spent muttering “More like Crashassin’s Please Ohgodhelpme”, beaming with pride in your wordplay while cussing out crash bugs in Ubisoft’s new open-world murder simulator, relief may soon be at hand. Ubisoft said over the weekend that they’ve identified the cause of several crashes: CPUs which met the game’s listed system requirements but don’t include support for AVX extensions. Ubi say they’re working on fix for this as “a high priority”, though they don’t yet know when such a fix might go live. But at least there is hope.

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I, like so many people, spent most of yesterday playing Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Except that by “playing” I mean “taking thousands of pictures of,” because it is extremely pretty and has a good photo mode, and because I am very easily distracted. Thanks to Greece’s gorgeous coastline, a lot of that photography took place in and around the sea. Come on in – the water’s lovely.

There might be minor spoilers below the cut, if you want to discover all that the ancient oceans have to offer for yourself.

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I have played, now, 30 hours of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, which I think means I’m about half way through (the main story, that is, not the entire game, which is so vast it might as well be infinite when set against the free time most adults have). Odyssey is a curious mythic beast. Though there are additions to the core of Assassin s Creed Oranges, they also subtract their own import to the game by only existing as much as you want to interact with them. Odyssey ends up being almost exactly the sum of its parts.

I d like to see more of those parts, but I can only put off a review for so long before it becomes useless to you, the reader. As today is its release day, I must curse my ancestors, push my face to the grindstone, and tell you wot I think of Ubisoft’s latest epic — at least, so far. I will cycle back and update you once my own personal odyssey is finished. (more…)

When it comes to graphics performance, Assassin’s Creed has always been a tough nut to crack on PC. Assassin’s Creed Oranges was an absolute beast to get running smoothly when it came out last year, and it continues to be one of the most demanding games in my graphic cards benchmarking suite. This year’s Ancient Greece-themed installment, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, is, thankfully, a little less demanding than its Egyptian predecessor, but at times it can still feel like it’s putting a great big Spartan kick-sized strain on your GPU.

Fortunately, I’m here to help, as below you’ll find everything you need to know about how to get the best settings for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey on PC, as well as what you need to do in order to get that lovely 60fps frame rate from both today’s best graphics cards and a handful of older ones I still have kicking around in the back of my cupboard. Whether you’re here for hoofing lads off cliffs or the blush-worthy romances (see Alice’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey review for even more thoughts on the game itself), here’s how to get them looking as buff as the almighty Kassandra herself.

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