Ubisoft has officially unveiled Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s upcoming Dawn of Ragnarok expansion, which will reportedly clock in with a whopping 35 hours’ worth of new content when it drops in March. Kassandra of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey fame is also joining Eivor and their drengr in the all-new Crossover Stories DLC, which is available to download now.
While we already had a decent idea about what Dawn of Ragnarok might entail based on a leak from earlier this week, Kassandra’s odyssey (eh?) to England is a bit more of a curveball. As stated on the official PlayStation blog, the key to connecting Kassandra and Eivor’s stories lies in the former’s immortality, which begins over four centuries before the events of Valhalla.
On that note, it’s worth pointing out that there’s new material coming to both Valhalla and Odyssey, as opposed to Crossover Stories being an initiative that’s exclusive to Assassin’s Creed’s Viking era. While you can play as Alexios in the new Odyssey story, the Valhalla one is solely tied to Kassandra.
The bigger news of this reveal is obviously the announcement of Dawn of Ragnarok. Ubisoft had technically already confirmed that Valhalla would be the first Assassin’s Creed game to receive a second year of support, but the sheer scale of existing expansions Wrath of the Druids and Siege of Paris made it difficult to imagine how much further the world could be developed. With this all-new add-on set to transpire over the course of 35 hours, it’s safe to say it’s lived up to its rumored status as the series’ “most ambitious” expansion yet.
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Most of our musings on Dawn of Ragnarok from earlier this week have been proven correct, particularly in the case of Eivor being forced to accept their true identity as the reincarnation of Odin. The leaked details were also accurate in surmising that the expansion would center on rescuing Baldr from Surtr, the fire giant often credited for instigating the events of Ragnarok – hey, that’s in the name!
While Crossover Stories is a free expansion, Dawn of Ragnarok will set aspiring Asgardians back $40. This might seem like a fairly hefty price tag for DLC, although it’s important to remember that this expansion is larger than the vast majority of entire games.
Dawn of Ragnarok is set to launch across all platforms that currently support Valhalla on Mar. 10, 2022. Crossover Stories, meanwhile, is available as a free download right now.
Written by Cian Maher on behalf of GLHF.
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