Back in November, a select group of lucky players were able to buy copies of Assassin's Creed Valhalla for a shockingly cheap price thanks to a glitch. Now, something similar is happening in-game, specifically for the PC version, as it's being reported that players have been able to acquire vast amounts of in-game items for free.
PC players have been sharing free cheat software to download customization packs from Assassin's Creed Valhalla's Helix Store without having to pay for any of it, including the Berserker, Valkyrie, Draugr, and Huldufolk Packs, all of which contain cosmetics for Eivor's armor and weapons.
Eurogamer reports that it it possible to obtain practically all the premium packs. Each pack costs around 2000 Helix credits, which can be earned in-game but can also be bought using real money. A pack of 2300 Helix credits costs $19.99, so that is a lot of money and/or time spent grinding for them saved (though a newly discovered bug does let players grind opals by killing training dummies).
Players can also use this software to get the Bayek outfit, a throwback to the protagonist from Assassin's Creed Origins, which was only given out to those who watched Valhalla's launch livestream on Twitch.
But it doesn't end there either. Using this software, players have been able to get their hands on cosmetics that haven't even been released and are most likely being held back for future DLC updates. Images are already been shared online and these include a new wolf companion that appears to be made out of fire and covered in black armor and another legacy outfit, one that resembles the outfit worn by Ezio from Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.
One would think that Ubisoft will immediately clamp down on this and take measures to ensure the software stops being distributed but, at the time of writing, Ubisoft seems to not have acknowledged the situation.
What's more, this has technically happened before with the previous game, Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Similar software was created, again only for the PC version, which allowed almost exactly the same thing and let players modify their inventories.
Despite undeniably being a form of cheating, Ubisoft never attempted to put a stop to it and the software is still available to use, which suggests that maybe the company doesn't particularly care about cheaters in a single-player game.
Ubisoft also arguably has more pressing matters regarding Valhalla. Though there have been fixes since launch, players have still reported issues and bugs. For instance, a recent patch for the PlayStation 5 version has apparently made it worse.
Assassin's Creed Valhalla is available for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
Source: Eurogamer
