“The Yule Festival is a time-limited event with several festivities to enjoy and rewards to obtain,” Ubi say in the patch notes. “To bring this and future festivals to life, you’ll see the arrival of the revellers just east of the current settlement.”
As for the rest of this big update, the devs have made a ton of improvements that should make life in ye olde England a bit nicer. For starters, they’ve addressed some annoying freezes on PC which could occur when players performed specific actions for the first time. They’ve also balanced NPC power levels across all difficulties, which alters a number of things: Various graphics and animation issues have been sorted out, including some delightfully silly ones. Here’s a selection of my faves: Tons more stuff has been altered as well, so do check out the full patch notes to see the rest. And if you haven’t downloaded it already, the patch size is around 5.6GB. Alice Bee made note of some of the bugs and janky bits in her Assassin’s Creed Valhalla review, but they didn’t ruin the experience too much: “Valhalla is a lively grab bag of all the best bits from Assassin’s Creed games past,” she says. “For fans of the series it’s really entertaining. It might not set the world on fire, but you can set some virtual bits on fire yourself if you want.”
