On July 27th, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla gets the big update 1.3.0 and prepares the action-adventure for the upcoming DLC siege of Paris. You don’t have to wait long for this one. In addition, the new patch also contains fresh content for the main game.
With the 1.3.0 update, Ubisoft heralds the new in-game festival Sigrblot, brings the recently announced level scaling into the game and grants protagonist Eivor new skills. We have an overview of the most important innovations for you. As usual, you can find the complete and quite detailed patch notes on page 2.
The most important new features of Patch 1.3.0
Patch 1.3.0 will be released on July 27th at 2:00 p.m.. For the download you have to plan a little time, depending on the platform you choose, because it weighs a lot. You can find the exact information below, here are the most exciting innovations.
- Siege of Paris: The second big DLC finally has a release date – it starts on August 12th. The patch is already preparing the game for this, but you will need an additional download later.
- Sigrblot Festival: From the July 29th to August 19th you can take part in new festival activities and get exclusive rewards, including one-handed swords. To access the festival you have to have already reached England, completed one of the first two story chapters and brought your settlement to level 2.
- Levelskalierung: You can now adjust the enemy difficulty in detail with the help of six different settings and make the fights more crisp. However, bosses and special game modes are not affected.
- Bugfixes: Countless bugs in quests and in the open world have been fixed.
In addition, there are new skills that Eivor can learn:
- Light Fingered: Close loot is now collected automatically.
- Thrill of War: As long as you are in combat, you will automatically generate adrenaline.
- Heidrun Slam: While sprinting you can ram the knee in your opponent’s face at the push of a button.
- Idunn’s Heart: Passive regeneration of recently lost life energy after a short delay.
- Survival Instinct: If you have less than a third of your life energy, you can use adrenaline for a short healing.
- Wolf Warrior: Your damage increases the less life you have.
How big is the download?
Depending on which platform you play on, you have to download more, sometimes less. However, the update is by no means too small. Here are the individual download sizes:
- PC: 20.4 GB (main game) to 31.37 GB (with Season Pass)
- Xbox Series X/S: 23,79 GB
- Xbox One: 17.72 GB
- PlayStation 5: 6.85 GB
- PlayStation 4: 15.3 to 24.5 GB depending on the region
With the many updates, Ubisoft has regularly improved the game and has already eliminated many of the bugs that existed at the time of the release. That’s why we recently upgraded Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.
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In addition to the free updates, Ubisoft is also working on paid extensions. The first DLC has already been released and the second is on the way. You can find all information about the download extensions in our overview of DLC content from Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.
