Destiny 2
Assassins' Creed Valhalla remains one of the most curious AAA gaming experiments in some time, where Ubisoft took a traditionally single player game and more or less turned it into a live service with a huge amount of small and large updates.
The last Assassin’s Creed Valhalla update, The Last Chapter, is out December 6, and features story content that serves as a bridge to the upcoming next game in the series, Mirage, starring one of the side characters from Valhalla. But it also has more than that, including a pretty wild set of collaborations with other games like Monster Hunter and Destiny 2.
The collaboration includes new armor sets and weapons from those games, which you can see in the video below. For Destiny 2, my “main” game, we have armor that dresses you up like Lord Shaxx and Saint 14, and weapons that are a Hunter arc staff, a Lightblade sword and a Gjallarhorn inspired greatsword I now wish was an actual weapon in Destiny 2. You can still pull on a hood over Shaxx’s horns and Saint’s crest, which looks pretty funny.
The Monster Hunter armor is Odogaron armor, which looks especially badass, and all of these sets have been datamined early and showed off in-game by players who were able to access them in-game ahead of their actual release on December 6. This is not the first time we’ve seen AC do collaborations with other games or IPs, like past Iron Man and Thanos-inspired armor.
Assassin’s Creed has detailed the next several years of content spanning large and small games to expand the universe, but it’s unclear if anything is going to rise to the size of Valhalla again for quite some time, given how sprawling this has been and how much has been added to it over time. Even the base game was huge to begin with, and it’s only expanded even further over time, between sizable story campaigns and fun bits and pieces like these armor sets. Ubisoft continues to be heavily reliant on Assassin’s Creed as a franchise, and despite some measure of fatigue, Valhalla was its most successful outing to date, so the series feels pretty healthy.
I don’t know if I’ll bother reinstalling a hundred GBs of Valhalla just to play around with this armor when the new expansion launches, but it’s cool to see all the same.
Update: It’s now been confirmed that there will be AC cosmetics in Destiny 2 on the other side of this. Not sure about Monster Hunter. They look great!
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