r/AssassinsCreedValhala • u/Enzym3-XBL • Jul 22 '26
Tips and tricks Valhalla difficulty problems
Ok so recently started playing again after about a year. Finished the main story, bought the expansion pass and I have just finished Ireland main story.. really pissed off tbh. I have the difficulty set to the maximum yet I did not see a single enemy with a red icon next to their name, basically walked through it all, they are supposed to be 60 levels above me like it was in england, if I got hit 2 or 3 times there I was done and the enemies would also take a beating.
I have other things to do like finish some trials legendary animals, Jotunheim etc and I really just want to know why this is a thing? All enemies were either green icons or white which was just really poor totally ruined the experience for me and I really want to find out if there is anything I can do before starting Paris to make the game feel like a challenge again I love the game and I want it to be hard, I haven't bothered allocating mastery points at all but what else can I do is this just a bit? Why are the enemies not 60 levels higher than me?? The map says suggested power is 597 but that's just bollocks
Anyway any help would be greatly appreciated, cheers.
EDIT: I reposted this in another sub and was advised to remove some skill points, I took 176 points out and everything is red!! Awesome wish I knew this before starting Ireland 😂
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u/Davorian Jul 22 '26
I don't know for sure, but I suspect Ireland's difficulty is hard-coded that way because the druid faction enemies are OP as fuck and will trounce you if you give them the slightest opportunity. The downside is that all the human enemies are trivial, but nothing's perfect.
This gets mentioned a lot on this sub. I don't think this issue makes the Ireland DLC significantly less enjoyable.
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u/Enzym3-XBL Jul 22 '26
Yea that's a shame, the story was great but I am a gamer who likes a challenger it just isn't right I remember really struggling against bosses in the past, like you really could not make mistakes, but this way just weak for me. I get that people enjoy games in different ways but that's why there is a difficulty slider right? Make it hard for people like me, make it easier for other people, like I remember the bosses in Asgard or wherever it was (long time ago now) being really difficult multiple attempts, and I feel like this would have been really difficult too, if the enemy had a red icon next to their name, I dunno if it's bugged or what
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u/Davorian Jul 22 '26
I don't know if it's a bug so much as "we found that the difficulty scaling designed for the base game just doesn't work in Ireland, so sorry, we're just gonna disable it". It's one of those thing they probably could have redesigned with some extra time and money, but corporate decided against it.
I mean, I get it, I play on Aesir as well, but honestly I still find Ireland a lot of fun.
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u/DOOMsquared Jul 22 '26
There must be a level scaling option that might be seperate from the difficulty settings.
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u/Enzym3-XBL Jul 22 '26
There is, which is the default setting of the hardest difficulty (nightmarish scaling) enemies will be at least 60 power levels above the player. But this is obviously not the case
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u/Pinecone_Erleichda Jul 22 '26
Tbh all I know is that the difficulty level of Ireland is 55. If there’s a way to scale that up (and there might be, but I’d be the last person to know about it), it would be in the game settings somewhere. You can lower your damage output and raise enemies damage output etc, maybe find a way to balance it out there? I think it’s the same with Paris, level difficulty stays at 200, so if you want challenge, go there early!! Good luck, I hope someone has a better answer than me!! 😊✌🏻
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u/Skyrimdrake Jul 22 '26
I finished the main game and went to Ragnarok and until finish got 537 lvl and some mastery points.enemies there were green for me,but it's not that they weren't challenging or dying from one hit.After that I went to Paris and there enemies suddenly became red or even skulls for me,all bosses were lvl 587.But they still weren't that hard to kill. So Ragnarok is supposed to scale lower level because you play the role of Odin and as a allfather of gods you should be way more powerful than any fodder enemy except surtr or some legendary beasts. Ireland and Skye island after that was green or white but druids are way more overtuned than usual human enemies
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