Assassin's Creed Odyssey: 14 Tips & Tricks The Game Doesn't Tell You

AC Odyssey is designed to be played for YEARS, so let's make sure you're getting the most out of it.
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[@Bruced82]

Another tip is not to piss off a group of chickens, they're vicious...

[@maxgundy8932]

Ya I just realized that too.

[@robdenicola9481]

Bruced82 lmao yea your definitely right about that

[@kaden6645]

I was against s chicken higher then me by a lot oof rip kassandra

[@back2ukraine1]

Got killed by a gang of angry chickens on Nightmare difficulty early in the game, it was an eye opener

[@alwaysdisputin9930]

Sometimes when you're fighting humans, the chickens will become aggressive. There IS ONLY 1 POSSIBLE EXPLANATION: THEY ARE INTELLIGENT "But how is this possible?", i hear you ask PRECURSOR TECHNOLOGY. When they make chicken noises, they are probably up to something. THE CHICKENS MAY EVEN BE THE MYSTERY PERSON IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CULT SCREEN "No I completed the game, you meet the middle person in middle of the game. It's a human" I hear you say. THAT'S WHAT THE CHICKENS WANT YOU TO THINK. THEY USED A DECOY. IT'S A CLASSIC BAIT & SWITCH

[@patrick101ducoing4]

I’m actually obsessed with this game

[@jayjedijunior6703]

Same

[@unamed6136]

same, so little details, hated AC games, but this one, omg. i literally addict.

[@andreascox4956]

Same! I'm an Odyssey addict

[@kelsianderson8903]

Me too! This game is so addicting and my inner geek is very pleased every time I boot it up!😁

[@panicfarm9874]

I hate salt bae

[@gabrielarchangel2658]

In skyrim when you accidentally attack a chicken the town tries to kill you. In odyssey, the chicken kills you.

[@FireFennyx]

You can light your arrows by equiping a torch. Chucking it by your feet and then crounch with your bow drawn

[@JC-li8kk]

Good idea. Thanks.

[@geniesmith1687]

Do you like cucumbers

[@zukasv1833]

press down on the dpad to drop it and you won’t light bushes or anything on fire throwing it

[@paultanski-hampton928]

Really? That's a good tip

[@krashsytegaming9222]

That is time consuming.... the fucking brutes will murder me before I can prepare that

[@SadCorgi]

The game tells you literally all of these tips in the loading screens

[@augustbrown9711]

EndoMax Gaming I was thinking that.

[@amoral_minority]

I for one have barely enough time to read one or two of them :/

[@keiranmorris8513]

Yeah I was thinking exactly the same people keep making tip vids of ac tht literally we already know from the game lol

[@MikeSpike85]

Yep

[@vlt-music]

@@amoral_minority weird flex but ok

[@hngh6404]

If you stand still for long enough, Ikaros lands on your arm, and you can press Y or Triangle to feed him.

[@dontplay9937]

Even in Valhalla it does that

[@AsapMilk]

Thanks

[@ibnufaizzy]

What button in pc?

[@jon2burd]

This game has actually taken me away from RDR2, I needed a break and fair play this is the best Creed game in a VERY long time.

[@rigbykai542]

Jon Burdekin I got them both for Christmas. Haven’t even started RDR2

[@apemangeezer6969]

Same

[@Jack_EFC]

For me Rdr 2 was the only thing that could get me out of ac odyssey

[@iljaleunissen7950]

Jon Burdekin origins was just as good Maybe even better

[@Zagatho]

I'm more happier to be in ancient greece than to be in the wild west.

[@TheNeonParadox]

Real tip: Carefully connect wine spillage with grassy areas throughout a camp, and take the whole thing down with one fire arrow. It takes a few fire and stealth perks, as well as a bit of time, but the result is lovely.

[@antonfoch1842]

Tips and tricks for assassin’s creed Odyssey 1)use boutons to play the game

[@carlhandley8737]

3)spam heavy attack

[@sabamonstergaming]

4) or light attack

[@justajcrispy3406]

5) arrows do damage

[@Mountain-Man27]

6) use left thumb stick to move

[@chillindylan022]

7) Get good.

[@TheJTGriffin]

i thought you were actually going to tell me something the game doesn't... everything you said has a tutorial message....

[@HavocHounds1988]

I didn't know about the parrying arrows, very interesting.

[@travismiller89]

For number 12, when u board an enemy ship and kill everyone it restores ur ships health to full. This is useful when u are fighting a fleet, boarding a ship and getting ur health restored is a great tactic to make fighting multiple ships manageable.

[@roymc89]

So you are playing it in easy i see

[@marcusbjerke9820]

Literally everybody knows that

[@Bonbonbon739]

Yeah that’s literally probably the best tip and they did not mention it lol

[@Dingatronus]

It’s not full, it’s like half

[@TomBuddadawg]

Actually the game does tell you how to put out fire

[@alwaysdisputin9930]

The loading screen tells you to tap dodge. Which is wrong. I think once you've been incinerated 20 times u unlock a screen that says "oh did i say tap i meant hold spacebar to roll = the best method."

[@leovenegas4785]

It also tells you about enemy ships weak points

[@My6119]

tip 15: ram ships with boosted speed instead of boarding them and you ll get double the resources

[@HavocHounds1988]

Another trick that I learned is that you can fire a poison arrow into a source of fire and it will explode setting everything around it on fire. For example in the many tombs you can find snakes, sometimes they are close to each other. Throw your torch at the one in the middle, and shoot it's burning corpse with a poison arrow and it will explode and instantly kill the snakes that are right next to it as well. I learned this accidentally, I threw a torch at a snake to kill it, but it missed I was using the Fanged Bow which turns normal arrows into poison ones, so I went to shoot the snake and the arrow passed through the fire and exploded.

[@MihaiD259]

Boarding ships was a viable strategy in Black Flag also

[@jonathangilbert7003]

I loved Black Flag

[@geor3260]

Hours of my life already spent on this... still feel like I'm just getting started.

[@yourfriendlyjacob1171]

Well this game is long as f*

[@faisbross]

Too true.

[@dnssvdr]

I love this game. My favorite from that franchise.

[@pzz6367]

Tip: If you attack after you jump from a ledge, by the time you reach the ground you can do a seismic landing that will knock enemies away and also deal some damage.

[@red7391]

Everyone knows that (sorry it took me 2 yrs to reply)

[@engima3196]

Great video, and quick top tips. Thanks for uploading. 👍🏽

[@JoeScarbrough20]

No matter how much hate this game gets, its probably my favorite game of all time

[@amoral_minority]

By far the only video on AC Odyssey with tips that are actually useful

[@coraaschnewitz4202]

All these tips are in the game.

[@gfunkkowboy]

Thanks I'm playing now and this video was very helpful

[@skalawitz]

15. You can defeat any mercenary even if it is 10 - 15 levels above your level. This is applicable if they are hunting you. Here's how. - Dock the adestria. - Lure them near the dock and jump right in the adestria (no need to undock). - Fire away.. cos they will get stuck and cant even move.. but sometimes they also fight back with arrows. But your still safe cos you have so many covers. I discovered it myself when a mercenary was hunting me.. it was 9 levels above me so I ran away and jump in the adestria, then I saw it cannot move and I just shoot him with arrows without taking any damage. I repeated the same technique and this time she can move and fire back her arrows but cant hit me. So I just shoot her down again.

[@zoltandober]

Something I've been doing to avoid bounty hunters is to switch to unarmed when fighting groups of soldiers. By knocking them out instead of killing them, you gain no bounty. After a certain level you can press right on the d-pad to switch to your secondary weapon, which i keep unarmed, and then just knock people out. Works great with a tank build. Edit: if you use the Greek Heroes set, and stack with engravings for additional resistance/health, even elite enemies do barely any damage. The Greek Heroes set gives you 30% to all resistances by base

[@paulmark2629]

you can kill enemies from a distance by repeatedly throwing the torch. you can do that by throwing it at an arch, just aim until the health bar of the enemy your targeting is visible. this of course depends on how far you are from them

[@callumachneepineskum5629]

Who else got killed by a rooster?

[@stewartfarnham4170]

Me

[@oliverjenkins7163]

I got melestared by 10 of the things

[@firefistx7477]

Nearly

[@imel3ment4l10]

I died to a rooster and I got 3 shotted by a frickin snake

[@TheCrocodile14]

This is genuinely the best Video on Odessey tips. Thankyou

[@bobnolin9155]

Some brilliant tips. Thanks! Loving this game.

[@StuWright]

yes drop and roll, best way to deal with being on fire..........duck and cover is also good. ...... cool vid !

[@imdaniellight6390]

Best tip video I have seen so far

[@carlossuzara6161]

Switching to photo mode for combat is the most galaxy brain thing I’ve learned about this game

[@mosesl8848]

This was helpful, thank you

[@MrKillroy26]

The biggest tip I can give anyone is always have a 2 handed heavy weapon equipped, enemies love to turtle up behind their shields and a heavy weapon can easily break their guard with normal swings.

[@ethanharris6613]

Killjoy26 just use shield break ability

[@Wirps]

In 0:58 the fire our trick you can actually set the arrow on fire without those fires you can use the flame attack ability that makes your sword firey and it also makes your arrows firey

[@kingslaphappy1533]

Thank you for the tips!👍

[@asahel980]

additional tip , if you have a lot of drachmae buy items at Blacksmith to dismantle for resources, of course you have to buy items that is rich of the specifc resources you need. also blacksmiths sells resources always visit one if available in the new places. in this way upgrades of weapon and ships will not be a problem.

[@asahel980]

did you play the game exploraion mode rather guide mode?, most of this have tips pop out and you'll probably look for it whe you play other ac games

[@Blackdog4818]

Is it possible to get/use the round red circle grenade explosive/poison that merc's always throw at me? What is that?

[@topshonuff]

This game has broken my RB on my Xbox One Elite Controller. I still play it.

[@charlesli2951]

I've figured out a lot of other secrets that are mentioned in this video when I play, but I like the last one so much!

[@marvelkyle4043]

That last one is a great tip especially

[@zaczane]

Parry arrows I didn’t know so that’s good Photo mode i also didn’t know, but seems a little unnecessary Didn’t know the torch was that great either So got a few out of this

[@anishstha20]

One of the few videos where there is actually less known tips such as fire arrows, wine etc.

[@peytonjmusic]

I’m about to start this game tonight ❤

[@heyimmax956]

was really helpful!

[@jefflbi]

I've been trying to figure out how to combine 2 keys so one tap triggers them both. I see it's an option that is listed while you're waiting for the game to start. I would like to combine dodge then parry.............

[@brokenbones9594]

Malaka! I can't believe I never knew about the pots dropping wine that you can set things on fire! I would have had an easier time burning down camps or bases if I knew about this!

[@marccapobianco1262]

Ur vids a phenomenal! I subd...👍 keep up the great work bro!

[@voltznake9248]

3:02 actually the game does tell u this Think it’s in the loading screen

[@imel3ment4l10]

The game told me when I first caught fire and I've seen it a few times in the menu

[@ajaykumarmishra6458]

I love this game bro

[@jacobseed9736]

This game is best AC game for ever.

[@tim3tRav3l3RR60]

1 year later still didn't think of or know a good handful of these got my like

[@mady8277]

How

[@mattydoo184]

What are the controls for pc

[@adamdobry5517]

some of the things are 'things game tells you but most people are too dumb to read'

[@gaurav830]

Can u help How to walk slowly with bending back What you call it in game

[@mrsupercabbage3093]

Anyone know the song in the back ground

[@stpirate89]

use photo mode to cheese battles? Kind of the opposite of the video before from Josh, saying don't use Hitman vision in The Last of Us (or whatever they call the equivalent)

[@chaosembodiment9395]

The 4th Hogake's jutsu is the best ability hands down.

[@shoes74]

Excellent tip

[@Bluerything]

extinguish fire was a tip for me by the game when i was on fire for the first time :D

[@codienicholson9686]

Bad timing for this video with RDR2 out lol. Still after finishing Spiderman, having RDR2 and Odyssey each with 100s of hours of content and getting to replay spyro, the first game i ever played again after so long. boy what a good last quarter.

[@KJ-zn6pq]

This is all ready know stuff by just playing the game

[@SamuraiFanoCat]

KJ 1279 Exactly. Seems like they keep on making clickbait videos with those titles. Literally everything will be explained in-bloody-game..

[@Nexis1701]

yea I don't know why this got so few dislikes.. I knew almost all of them after playing about 2 hours or playing the previous ac games

[@NATA5II]

There's a few tips in here that the game doesn't tell you, at least maybe I didn't notice them. I was hoping for better tips tho.

[@NostalgicMem0ries]

i didnt knew half of these, video was helpfull

[@jeroenmaat4420]

Knew all except the last one, did know about camera mode but havnt thought of using it in battle to basicly pause the game and vieuw where all enemys are, and am not gonna either

[@beefysandwich400]

Good tip in my oppinion is that if you attack a camp during night me,some of the guards may be asleep

[@ralphnaldoza9821]

#6 and #7 are mentioned in the loading screen of the game.

[@evanlevy1141]

Thanks!

[@pandjara2843]

If we ignore the block arrow and the photo thing I knew all of them... Heres a tip, go to some road, take some long weapon, take your horse and go hit and run strategy, it's doing much more dmg to big enemies and it doesn't matter how many enemies you have

[@TKARLO2]

Every time you guys make a list like this, they tell you about all of the stuff in game

[@akeemraymonvil8583]

The Kretan Bull was my hardest trial, even harder than the Minotaur 😢

[@quackquack8775]

I have well over 200 hours on the game and I can safely tell you that torches are useless. The fire does no damage if not with a fire build, and it's better if you either use the fire ability or engrave your weapon with "weapon damage does fire damage" as it will also upgrade your normal attack. Why am I here?

[@marcusbjerke9820]

Quack Quack, sorry mate but I gotta disagree with you there, I killed two mercenaries with one torch, and it was just marginally harder than with a sword or knives. I dunno maybe someone who has finished the game would know better, oh wait, oh wait I have finished the game.

[@marcusbjerke9820]

Though you are right about the engraving part

[@kennethmiller81]

I play on a modded save on ps4 and it makes the game so much more fun than ot already was

[@DarkNight3603]

Ummm......yeah any regular player would figure these out just playing a couple hours.

[@NeroVuk]

Lol, I played like 1 hour, and I was like, yeah I noticed that on pretty much all of these, lmao

[@triple0verkillz45]

I didnt notice the ship weak point thing..

[@paulmaudsley8817]

The arrow deflect is all I learned haha

[@cameronhillegas7354]

It actually does tell you more than half of these

[@kbboosted]

You can check out the ship on arrows or javelins for the "weak point creation percentage".

[@novajayagaming9896]

The game does tell you that you can put out fire by rolling

[@johnlimited5199]

I am trying to play assassins creed on my meta quest 2 with Bluetooth connecting the Xbox one controller yet the connection of actions sucks ass. Please help me with the situation

[@shashanksingh5479]

Best ac for me in years

[@ashparker2711]

Throwing torches at snakes in tombs is basically the only thing I use them for 😂

[@Synth2]

Thought I was the only one 😂

[@joshuaarnold3582]

Poison actually do more damage then fire plus you won't burn everything down and hurt yourself

[@CryptoFeeders]

please tell me how to use the second melee ability wheel/set of abilities! which shows under the primary. some people say you need level 15 and spear 3 upgrade. But I am done spear 5 upgrade and a@ level 46, so tell me how to activate /use of that. Make a Video on it bcoz I find and nobody is telling it! I hit like buton of my own comment LOL

[@BryanPlonk]

Go onto the new ability you want to assign, and then click A/X to assign it, then hit DOWN on the d-pad to bring up a second ability wheel. In combat, hold LB/L1 and press down on d-pad to switch between your tho wheels

[@subhayansinha4417]

Boarding ships to freeze also works in Black Flag

[@firefistx7477]

Fly your bird away to get out of investigation mode. Downside: enemies recieve full health again.

[@salskovemsalmik]

Wait can u attack with torches, because I tried it out of pvp and it just drops the torch

[@egth1300]

Good video

[@sibionic]

I love this game.

[@Wirps]

I actually new most of these because I look at tips

[@jonathangilbert7003]

I’m here in 2021 and just started

[@dalitsotembo8434]

This was just lazy content. Scott doesn't like red dead redemption 2. Hence this nonsense

[@HavocHounds1988]

You can upgrade engravings at Hephaestus' workshop.

[@nicholaspierce4213]

Can we take a moment to realize the fact that Alexios or kassandra are the gods of torches

[@pzz6367]

They're like steve in Minecraft they can summon an arsenal of weapons out of nowhere.

[@nicholaspierce4213]

Yamato Irie I was playing Minecraft when you posted that reply

[@weirdo2484]

i knew every single one of them as i have finished the game 5 times and the dlc

[@zychuu2685]

i prefer selling items and bought materials in shop, that way you can get 10x more materials than dismantling it.

[@jasonm2091]

This is the first one that I have played. If I go back to play others, will I just be dissapointed, since you said this is the best one?

[@bengofo3901]

Jason M no. The majority would say the trilogy is better. Or if you want something similar to Odyssey, try Orgins, most say it’s better

[@isaacg1]

You could tell us the controls for pc as well...

[@Salman.e46]

Can explain to me how I scan my environment with my character. I mean, for example, to find objects.

[@obeseportuguese1437]

you need a perk in ability tree, one of the bottom ones

[@Salman.e46]

@@obeseportuguese1437 thank u so much

[@mot5231]

Poison arrow when enflamed is explosive 😀

[@Mediocre_Spidey]

i thought you guys were worried about odyssey

[@ThunderstruckGames]

Ok, all but the photo mode and skill points for exploring tombs (which is not accurate on Normal) are explained to you in the game. They are stated once for most of them.

[@coraaschnewitz4202]

Do you only get the ability points on easy or hard for going in the tombs?

[@billyleecw]

Malaka! Only noobs use photo mode to “orientate” themselves. Its so simple and you can use shadows to predict incoming enemies during daytime.

[@usafirefly7967]

Funny! Good job!

[@Alpaslann]

I never lock on to enemies. I just parry and counter any attack. Its better imo

[@michaelbarrella3043]

Engraving in ACO is basically enchanting in ES