The patch also gets the game ready for its upcoming expansion, which is set to release on May 13.įor everything that changes with Assassin’s Creed Valhalla patch 1.2.1, here are the full patch notes.Īssassin’s Creed Valhalla patch 1.2.1 notes Patch size and deployment timing The patch adds three new skills, Cold Rage, Eye of the North, and Intense Rage, which all help prevent enemies from interrupting you while in combat. Not everything in this latest patch is about fixing old content, though. The new setting is part of a larger patch focusing on quality of life updates and squashing bugs. So it’s nice to be able to save some time and avoid them. But the finishing-move camera could get a bit tiresome after seeing the same animation for the 40th time. Of course, the game already gave players the option to turn off gore so it didn’t have to be so bloody. That means, if you’re winning a fight and about to chop off your opponents hands, head, or leg, the game gives you a nice, close-up view of the grisly details. Valhalla’s cinematic camera zooms in extra-close for certain special finishing moves in the game. In a patch released on Monday, Ubisoft gave players the option to turn off the cinematic camera for finishing moves. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is full of close-ups on gory, Viking violence, but after the game’s latest patch, it doesn’t have to be.

No spinning death animation