(It is recommended to familiarize yourself with the trailer before reading, as it contains shots from it.)
Many of us have already watched the trailer for the new Ubisoft -ssassin’s Creed Valhalla. A new setting is immediately evident, which has long been speculated. The video itself is made quite well and beautifully from a technical point of view. Many environment details create a pleasant Scandinavian atmosphere.
The setting of the battles is also delighted. Watching how the Vikings and Anglo -Saxons chop each other is a continuous pleasure.
But is everything so good for this four minute video? I will try to get to the bottom of all the small flaws, which are full of action, and tell you that my friends and I am affected when viewing.
Imagine. You are a medieval barbarian whose life is to rob, kill and trade. You attack the next village in order to get supplies and values. You kill a bunch of men, but here you see a defenseless woman with a child. Would you stop a comrade who is going to kill them? It is possible yes. But imagine that you live in the Middle Ages, in a society where such concepts as mercy and kindness are rarely found in the dictionary of an average exemplary citizen. Would you spare other people? After all, they can get to representatives of the authorities, and inform them of the raid. Then your fraternity during the next raid can be wait for not just hard workers with braids and pitchfork, but real warriors, which actually happened further on the plot of the video. Someone can say that the government will find out about the attack. And it will be right. But it will learn much later, which is an undoubted plus. Real Vikings did not leave witnesses, if possible. This scene is a puncture in terms of realism, although I can say why it is needed. We are shown that the hero is actually kind, and he can be empathized, and spit that he kills the innocent to the right and on the left, taking their property. He spared a woman with a child, which means he is good)
After another beautiful scene of the life of the life of the Viking Dobryaks, we see the king of England. He signs a decree, presumably about the country for the attackers. The wax seal is immediately striking. He puts it on an incomprehensible fragment of paper attached to the document itself. As far as I know (if this is not always the case, then correct me) the seal serves to certify the authenticity of the documents and their sealing. The seal is placed so that it is impossible to open a letter without damaging it.
Here we see a local smoker servant who stands right behind the king. Everything would be nothing, but for some reason he builds a strange grimace.
I do not understand the language of the body much, but even I can see that this is some kind of cunning smile of the conspirator. Well, you know, the guy who lunged his boss to agree to a plan, who ultimately leads to the overthrow of this boss itself, and the subsequent climbing of the cunning to the throne. But from which our dear friend smiles so? But there is no answer to this question. The only thing that can be assumed: “Oh yes, lie on a man. " “Oh yes, we will begin a set of measures aimed at protecting against intervention from an unidentified floating adversary."This I understand, a plan worthy of a cunning grin.
Well, let’s move on to the cherry of this action. Battal scene. Everything begins as always. Viking Dracars, with beautiful warriors swim to the unknown shore. Question one. Why none of them wears a helmet. In the famous beautiful film “Viking”, helmets were not worn, because in them we would not be able to distinguish heroes from each other (which is actually not very true, but this is not about that). Here we do not know anyone, but we see a bunch of smart people who are going to fight with someone without putting on one of the most important elements of equipment.
Enemies, oddly enough, wear helmets.
The second question. Where are they all floating? The Vikings raided, with the aim of profit. It can also be seen that they moor on an empty beach, where nothing except shells, and a supply of sand for panties for three years ahead, find it will not be possible. But perhaps I find fault, and the foreign intelligence service of the Viking organized crime group reported the brethren, about the presence of a village in this place, far from the shore. The entertaining viewer will say: "Hey, there is generally visible the fortress on the background". And really, she is there
But how they were going to storm her, without siege tools (they were not shown). But these are trifles. The presence of the fortress also adds questions, but more on that later. The question also raises the question of where the Army of the British came from here? They just sat on the shore and waited for the Vikings to arrive here? And if they had not sailed? What if they decided to rob another village? The question is unanswered.
And then something strange begins. We see how a huge amount of burning arrows in the sky flies to heroes. But how they did not notice them? How the Anglo -Saxons managed to do not incite bonfires and other places where you can set fire to the arrow, make so many shells burning, and even make them invisible, at least in the first half of the flight, because we already notice them high in the sky?
Vikings jump from ships, and rush into battle. My friend immediately said: "The Vikings do not use the top wall of the shields". And really. They do not use construction – a wall of shields. And generally do no construction. Neither they nor their opponents. These are basic things in military tactics. Built somehow, for more efficient warfare. But no. Neither they nor the Anglosaks stand even in the basic construction of a crowd. They all just run on each other with loose rows.
There are a lot of questions to https://xfombet.co.uk military tactics in general. For example, remember the fortress that is visible on the background at the beginning of the battle? Why did the defenders not settled there? After all, it is much more profitable to defend with bows than to go fight in the field. The weakness of this tactic was clearly shown by one of the series of the eighth season of the Game of Thrones, where the crowd of riders went nowhere. How it ended you so know. The question also raises the question of where this very cavalry of the British? Did the king really have no extra horses? Strange. If they had horsemen, then everything could end much better for the side of the defenders, because by the way, by the way, I do not really imagine how to pull it out with one hand, in his new position, to kill a huge horse at the full gallop will be difficult.
Well, to top it, for lovers of physics.
5 timing of the time passes between these frames, and not much more in reality. Could a whole, wet piece of iron light up from 5-6 arrow less than in half a minute? I doubt it very much.
What about? It looks beautiful, but with a more accurate examination it turns out that the product is full of holes. All of them are certainly not significant, and I found them rather laughter for the sake of the sake. But there is still a question, since there are so many historical nonsense in the trailer, then what will happen to the game itself. Although probably the Assassin’s Creed series has long been written out in a court of realism and credibility. We will see. And for today everything.
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The wax seal is immediately striking. He puts it on an incomprehensible fragment of paper attached to the document itself. As far as I know (if this is not always the case, then correct me) the seal serves to certify the authenticity of the documents and their sealing. The seal is placed so that it is impossible to open a letter without damaging it.The wax seal is immediately striking. He puts it on an incomprehensible fragment of paper attached to the document itself. As far as I know (if this is not always the case, then correct me) the seal serves to certify the authenticity of the documents and their sealing. The seal is placed so that it is impossible to open a letter without damaging it.
Printing are used to certify the authenticity of documents. They are placed directly on the front side of the document or attached to the document with a cord or tape (often painted in the color of the owner) or a narrow strip, cut and folded, but not separated from the document. This allows you to assure the authenticity, avoiding reuse of printing. Source
Given that in reality, fire arrows were most likely not used, then in the trailer 5-6 arrows charged with incendiary mixture will be able to set fire to a wooden “iron” T-shaped structure for a spectacular frame.
These are the British. That you got to the bottom? They are gentlemen. They will not beat a person from the back who burys a comrade. This is not a gentlemanly. You offer some kind of barbarism. But gentlemen will not go to it. Or maybe he buries in general during a five -hour tea party and the British took a break in the battle and went to drink tea. And then a convenient opportunity to bury a comrade showed up.
Yes, the Vikings were simply the first invented by away tourism, and in the trailer one of the entertainment fragments is simply shown – a group of English animators entertains a group of Scandinavian tourists. Everything is logical)
Exactly! Although I think this is more done to add a grain of historical reliability to the game. As we all know, the military raids of the Vikings are nothing more than historical falsification. Several years ago, historical documents confirming that the Viking groups provided humanitarian assistance to the population of foggy Albion, saving women from the villages and all the values after the entire male population died as a result of unknown events.
Let’s try seriously. I did not play Odyssey, passed the origins and still enjoyed the beginning to the very end.
First, he settled into the regime of an interactive tour for a good ten hours, for which they very briefly spoke about the scene and the historical era, about what they took as the basis that they transferred in detail, what they made up and for what reasons for what reasons.
Then, in the course of the game itself I liked the composition of the narrative, when you are sequentially conducted in various geographical regions, simultaneously focusing attention, on different aspects and time periods. T.e., Without porridge, everything is clear, here is Alexandria, the period of Greek influence, architecture, religion, social and racial stratification, science, etc.D. Further, the emphasis is shifted towards a purely Egyptian topic, necropolis, pantheon, temple complexes, oases and at the end the influence of Rome. Everywhere, points are easily visible for which you can catch on and sucked into more serious sources, find out other points of view and opinions on some events or phenomena, for example, about the options for painting Sphinx. And even in isolation from the plot, production and gameplay, which, whatever one may say, taste, the origins allow you to get pleasure from themselves from about a historical attraction, excursions based on famous events. And with all the shortcomings, the series is essentially the only experience that provides such an experience, and containing so many information background per conditional unit of the intra -game area.
I don’t know, maybe the Odyssey became different, but even to the source everything was plus or minus the same.
The main thing is that when it activated from heaven, the bearded robe in the angel costume does not fly. For a long time I did not follow the series-they, after the third part, made some attempts towards the creation of their own settlements and other crap?
Y kill a bunch of men, but here you see a defenseless woman with a child. Would you stop a comrade who is going to kill them? It is possible yes.
Of course yes. If you kill all women, then there will be no one to rape. The rule of forty minutes of course works, but damn it, I Persia in distant and shitty England, overcoming the difficulties of the sea transition not for the sake of forty minutes.
So he spared a woman to subsequently rape her. And the child will get a suitable slave. Normal, real wiking, caught in property.
For example, remember the fortress that is visible on the background at the beginning of the battle? Why did the defenders not settled there?
Because the fortress is not their, but the feudal lord, and the feudal lord sent them to the ass, said – you themselves get huggled with your Vikings, freaks. I am normal))))
And tactics. do not care about tactics))
Agree. That is why I wrote an article. Current trends lead to a deterioration in content quality. Even logic goes under a knife for the sake of entertainment.
And the first mission will be about the fact that the evil fishermen of the British, who want to chill all humanitarian aid, attacked good Vikings. And now the Vikings are forced to rob coastal villages in search of lost supplies, because they do not know where evil robbers come from. And so the villages 40, one scenario.
Seriously – those who liked the origins and Odyssey: there are certainly beautiful landscapes. But this is really enough for you to get pleasure?
As far as I understand, the Vikings knocked out the leader of the strongest war, which means that only one idiot was enough, who received on the head, so that everyone followed his example. It seems to me that one wanted all the Vikings to die with a good hairstyle, it is not for nothing that they find objects of cosmetic accessories, such as combing and so on.
Vanguy. Here you are laughing, but such a perk will really be in a tree in the game. At least that name.
Well, they would definitely not set fire to iron. It is clear that everything is done for a spectacular frame. But still such. I agree with the seal.
There is this, there is a guy with the nickname “Nachtigalka” on the DFF, according to eyewitnesses he defended the Odyssey so much that people were just sessed as this could be invented at all.
I myself did not particularly follow, but there was never any talk about any settlements. There were only ships with customization of the appearance. As far as I know Ubisoft generally games where I need to work with the settlement, I did not do. Except that the Anno series, but this is about another.
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