The free DLC launched by Assassin's Creed Valhalla - Specialty Challenge. The specific gameplay is to obtain gold, silver and bronze medals based on the completion degree of various additional conditions. As of February 2022, the game provides 5 sets of 15 challenges for play. Only after completing the first 3 sets with at least all bronze medals will the next two sets appear. The full gold medal in this task is challenging, and the fault tolerance rate of some levels is even zero. Here are some of my experiences in conquering the full gold medal:
1. Overall experience
(I) Specialties challenge all enemies to fix the highest difficulty, and have strong attack, defense and anti-submarine abilities, which require some psychological preparation.
(II) To improve the efficiency of the challenge, except for the first Winrokan outpost challenge point, it is recommended that all levels be fully completed, that is, level 475, it is best to add some special skill points before challenging. Because although the equipment and active abilities in the challenge are fixed, their basic values and passive skills follow the upgrade process, especially the automatic blood recovery passive skills obtained in the later stage, which are very useful in the specialty challenges of almost zero physical strength and supply.
(III) There is no shortcut to the challenge of special skills. In addition to basic skills, you also need to try out clear ideas for breaking the mark and use active skills and equipment additional abilities to pass. There is no time limit for the level, so you don’t need to have a fast picture.
(IV) About the full gold medal reward. Unfortunately, after the full gold medal, there is no other reward except for buying all the goods in the Prophet's store and unlocking the two achievements "Golden Shining" and "Real Master". It is not ruled out that there will be new challenges in the future, and it is also possible that the final result of Prophet Research Gold Apple is to lead to the last large DLC - Dawn of Doomsday.
2. Experience in challenging gold medals
(I) Wenrokan Outpost
The first challenge point that appeared is relatively less difficult
1. War Bear Challenge: Priority is given to killing fall damage through melee ability "Tir Kick" or running and rushing at a high place. After this score is full, other enemies can kill melee.
2. Wolf Hunting Challenge: The focus of scoring is indirect killing, that is, you cannot directly kill the enemy with arrows. But the map-full oil tanks and hanging heavy objects, coupled with the long-range ability to ignite the arrow, can cause enemies to catch fire or be smashed at any time, without any difficulty.
3. Raven Challenge: Just be careful to bypass the curtains full of the map when walking, otherwise it will make a sound and cannot remain hidden, especially in the cave. The long-range ability of this level is almost useless.
(II) LorraineStone Robber Camp
1. War Bear Challenge: The difficulty is that it requires a large amount of fire damage to kill, but in fact, you can use the advantages of its own equipment to have super high fire resistance and shuttle back and forth in the fire by yourself, attracting the first and second waves of enemies into the fire. The same goes for the enemies behind you, and you can do not use the harpoon skill. If you encounter a high platform or stairs, then use the fall damage and kill, including the last field. You don’t need to brush the blocking scores specifically, just complete them by the way.
2. Wolf Hunting Challenge: First use the "Arrow of Destiny" ranged skill to hit the weak point, and then use the enemy to hit the head and kill when it is straight.
3. Raven Challenge: Apart from the need to try to find a reasonable stealth route many times, there is no special experience.
(III) Hidden mine hiding place
1. War Bear Challenge: It should be noted that the "Rampage" melee ability must be triggered by holding down the RT key. How long should you hold it down and running for as long as you hold it down, and this skill will be used for archers first, and the melee soldiers will have the priority to brush stun points.
2. Wolf Hunting Challenge: Similar to the previous Wolf Hunting Challenge, you need to first use the "Arrow of Destiny" ranged skill to hit the enemy's weaknesses, and then take advantage of the hard and straightening to kill. However, many enemies will attack closely at this level, and there are many oil tanks. If you accidentally hit and explode, it will affect the progress of the gold medal, and the difficulty is higher than the previous level.
3. Raven Challenge: The difficulty begins. After eliminating the first enemy, you must transport it to the grass to avoid discovery by others behind. Then walk to a high place, sneak and kill while the second enemy is coming and the third enemy is facing away from sight. Then return to the high place and wait until the third enemy finds something strange and runs over and kills in the same way. The enemies behind also use this method to solve the problem. You should observe the enemy's route and try it a few more times.
(IV) Kaleva Outpost
1. War Bear Challenge: Fixed field defense battle, there are three waves of enemies, one wave is thicker than the other, and the fault tolerance rate is low. Basically, except for the last wild boar, everything else needs to be solved through "rampage" melee ability or blocking and stun, which tests the positioning and techniques.
2. Wolf Hunting Challenge: A long-range challenge with zero fault tolerance. Every enemy must hit the weak point. If you miss one, start over. It is recommended to move at the highest point throughout the whole process. After hitting an enemy's weakness, do not rush to use explosion arrows or oil tanks to kill indirectly, because the enemy will walk back and forth, especially the explosion arrows will explode twice in the later stage, which will affect the hit weakness score of other enemies. It is best to hit all the enemy's weaknesses within a certain range and then use the explosion arrow to solve them.
3. Raven Challenge: There will be six groups of enemies in the first and second. Except for the fourth group with an enemy on the platform, everyone else has the opportunity to stand in pairs. You can use an arrow to make the two enemies sleep. Group 4The individual enemy can shoot after being attracted by the sleepy enemy below. There are four treasure chests along the way, don’t forget to get them. Be careful not to press the Hawkeye positioning treasure chest near the enemy, as it will become an operation to wake the enemy up and destroy the hidden state.
(V) Tambolber Fortress
1. War Bear Challenge: Just fight hard, boy.
2. Wolf Hunting Challenge: Priority is given to completing a certain proportion of poison kills and explosion kills at the highest point, then go down and run while fighting guerrilla warfare with the enemy, and priority is given to attracting the enemy to the oil tank to complete explosion kills. After the poison kill and explosion kill are completed, then return to the highest point and slowly complete the headshot kill. The tolerance rate is not high. The last enemy I killed is just enough.
3. Raven Challenge: After climbing up the city wall to solve an enemy, the two groups of enemies below will use poison to kill each. After being poisoned, they will attract one enemy to come and will also be infected with poison. In the front and back, the five enemies in front and back will focus on hiding the assassination. Pay attention to some of the enemies in this level who are on high places. The perspectives are tricky and the positions are complementary. You need to try the best route several times. After assassination, you can also kill the second enemy by pressing RB flying axe.
Finally, I wish you all the best!