Magic Monk Gaming News 2022-10-29 | AC Odyssey controls / recruitment | Xbox True Achievements score HIVE competition

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Xbox Game Pass Games

I regularly talk about games that have recently appeared on the game pass. This is because there are so many games on the game pass, people might not know which game to play. If I talk about a game repetitively chances are it isn't a bad game!

Assassin's Creed Odyssey - LB button doesn't work

When you're playing the tutorial in this game Assassin's Creed Odyssey, they taught you how to use the LB button for special melee attacks, such as bull rushing. However, after you start the game, you will notice that the LB button does nothing. This is because you haven't trained the abilities for it. Once you train an ability, the LB button will start working again. In this video you can see how I do that.

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey - Can you recruit a mercenary?

In Assassin's Creed Odyssey there is a really cool feature where you can recruit your enemies to work on your ship. However, when the recruit feature was explained when you train your skills, it doesn't specifically say that you need to have a ship in order to recruit. So I spent ages looking up on the internet how to recruit someone.. It turns out that all you have to do to recruit someone is to own a ship first.

So how do you own a ship? All you have to do is follow the main line quest, and when it comes time to leave the island you grew up on, you will get a free large ship with heaps of crew already. Once you have a ship, if a mercenary comes after you, you can simply finish him off with a kick (not a sword), and when he is lying on the ground you can choose the recruit function.

In the video I show you the whole process and I also show you in the end that he is definitely recruited as you can see the recruited mercenary on your ship!

Beat my Xbox gamerscore to win HIVE!

Thanks to @daltono who showed me there is another way for us to compare our Xbox gamer scores!

https://www.trueachievements.com/gamer/MagicMonk-7723

If you paste your True Achievements profile page in the comments below, I can easily check whether your Xbox gamerscore is higher than mine in the following games and reward you accordingly (10 HIVE for each game you beat me in!)

  1. Assassin's Creed Odyssey
  2. Matchpoint Tennis Championships
  3. Multiversus
  4. A Plague Tale: Innocence

It's interesting that the True Achievements website gives me a higher TA score (not Gamerscore) for Matchpoint Tennis Championships than Assassin's Creed Odyssey, even though I have definitely spent more time in Odyssey than tennis! Perhaps it's because I play tennis in real life that I did so well in the game?

Nearly forgot to mention this condition: I will reward up to 3 people who beat me in each game :) Whoever comments first :)



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TrueAchievements is a really cool tool. There’s one for PlayStation called https://psnprofiles.com/Thr3EyeMindGames
It even shows how long it took for you to finish the game. Although DLC trophies can sometimes make it seem like months instead of weeks, usually it’s accurate though.

I actually got 100% of the trophies on A Plague Tale: Innocence. It took me 9 days total.

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I need to play Requiem at some point, but busy with MWII and Overwatch 2 & soon God of War Ragnarok and NFS Unbound. Another game I’m curious about that’s releasing soon is Evil West, the cowboy/vampire game that reminds me of Gears of War mixed with God of War.

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oh wow damn that is an impressive list. So many for me to try as well, thank you! I noticed you played assassin's creed odyssey lately what made you stop? haha

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Odyssey appeared on PS Plus Extra this mont so I wanted to give it a try. However, I’m severely burnt out on AC games. I’ve played every single one and finished only a handful of them. Even Origins, which was set in my dream location or Egypt wasn’t enough to keep me interested until the end.

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Fair enough. Yes I guess because AC Odyssey was my first AC, it got me interested until the end.

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Since it's your first AC, I can see how you could get very into it. No denying it's a beautiful world to explore with tons of stuff to do.

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