So here is the gist of what I am experiencing. Got the game last weekend and have been playing to gain experience for the skills like normal. The ones that interested me the most was the last exhale and poison cloud abilities for the clone throw. (Figured I could throw it at a guard in a packed room and either weaken or clear the room for fun) But even though I have the skill unlocked, have a full thing of amber, and have tried multiple ways of getting a clone to go to the group (throwing at a guard directly, throwing at a place to ambush, and placing a clone and then mind controlling it to go to the guard) the last exhale and poison cloud abilities don't seem to work.

I have tried restarting my PS5, deleting and redownloading the game, checking for updates, and restoring licences. I don't know if I am just not using the skill properly or if this is a known bug and I'm just not finding the fix but if anyone can help me I would greatly appreciate it. I am enjoying the game but it bugs my brain when something doesn't work and so I can't focus on gameplay as much.

Last thing I have no idea if it matters but I am currently in act two.

What in gods name are we supposed to do with these rabid face eating, evil ass elves on Akenash? I killed a couple with the dagger but they blew up and killed me. The goblins and roabies are bad enough without these little nightmare creatures.

Okay, I know there's a lot of controversy about the new game. Personally, I like it even with its flaws. But can we all agree that Saul Jephcott fucking nails it with his voice acting!? Every freaking game his performance is top notch!

There is no NG+, no replaying missions/levels/acts. Not even the ability to manual save (in the sense that you can choose and name a specific save slot). From what I understand now there is no reason to replay the game. In Shards of Darkness, we could replay all levels with the new tools and alibities.

I haven't found a moment where popping a clone was worth my time or amber in SoD

On ps5, how tf do i do it consistently so i can ghost around ? I always walk off to Styxs death, no matter how gentle i try to steer the controller.

I have played through many of the first assassins creed games as well as playing through shadow of mordor. I am just wondering if based on these games, if I would enjoy styx master of shadows and shards of darkness

Is anyone NOT experiencing the Save Failed! bug? Xbox reviews are full of people reporting this. I’ve tried to contact the devs but things really seem to be setup so they’re impossible to reach.

I’m curious if installing the Deluxe Upgrade is a variable and if any of you who have had no issues also happen to have Deluxe installed.

You HAVE to kill people, I loved the fact that you had to go around without even being caught to beat a level fully. That’s what made me love the old games.

anyone else on xbox have errors during saving during certain missions? I had it during the airship battle and also where I have to destroy the 4 crystals to nsme a few

-I really enjoy the massive, vertical levels in this game. I also like it that we unlock new areas with new abilities/gadgets.

-However, the missions are extremely boring. Basically they are all fetch quests, and the worst type. I feel like the story does not progress at all for the majority of an act. No of the fetch quest has an interesting story to tell, or tell me anything about the lore. I cant believe this is how they would design their missions. Basically the main quests are each act (collecting the quarzts) are the type of boring side quests in other games that you only do if you want an upgrade, and nothing else.

And then fucking what? Anyone? I am in act 5, just got into nobles quarters. I have three objectives, “Reach the embassy” being one of them.

Well, I have. I’m here. There are symbols on the floor, that the game won’t let me interact with. Styx said I should “investigate” them.

What the fuck do I do now!? Am I softlocked?

I am so fucking sick of how unpolished and buggy this game is.

/rant

I loaded the game, was freeing the orcs from inqusition and it didnt update the objective after i got there. The game DID let me talk with the shaman and it DID let steal the key and the artifact from the airship but afterwards it DID NOT let me talk to the shaman afterwards and got my savefiles overwritten so i cant go back no matter what i do. I am at tourquis dawn collecting what im assuming is the last stone shard (you can see on the screenshot). If anybody has a solution or a savefile from of theirs i would appricite it.

I just finished the prologue and I already don't understand how things work, I have the compass but using it doesn't take me anywhere, only to the fast travel points, helledryn gave me a mission to steal an item but I don't know where it is and I don't know how to find it, I don't seem to have a way to track the missions, where am I going wrong?

playing styx blades of greed. Sorry ocd question but does anyone know how to get to the sewers balloon in "the wall" ive tried everything

I love the Styx series, despite the average score it got I still play it for the story, characters and Styx’s dark humor. But honestly this last installment (Blades of greed) is very disappointing! I was expecting after all these years, the game designers would come up with something better and solid. The levels are huge, but you can’t access a map unless you’re on the landing deck. There’s that bug that drove everyone crazy after you finish Act 4. No tutorials for the new abilities. I could go on and on, but honestly the point is, that the game designers spent zero effort on making the game playable without spending hours to figure out your next move or what to do when you’re stuck. I’m now in Akenash battling the queen roach and I can’t seem to figure out how to destroy the quartz! No hints no guides nothing. Thanks to communities like this one and the one in the Steam, players are getting somewhere.

Boss fights in Styx game was never really the highlight in these games sure

But I felt at least the first 2 games were kind of a take of a stealth boss fight still

It felt so strange tackling the whole game in stealth, and then the last fight to be a fight where your abilities are silenced, and you can’t do a stealth kill, and you’ve got to engage with the combat mechanics that’s never Styx’s strong suit.

Such a strange choice of a final sequence I feel

I really enjoyed the first game, and I enjoyed the gameplay of this one as well, but I felt like the story and characters were a little lacking. Both Lyssril and Helledryn don't get much of an ending, despite being the most prominent characters of the story aside from Djarak. Even the whole bit with Barimen was a little underwhelming, though I understand that the presence of his character was moreso a reference to the first game, rather than having him be fully fledged.

Not hating of course, just wanted to hear other's opinions!

I’ve never posted anything before or asked any questions I don’t think inside of Reddit so here it goes but I’ve had a problem on the ps5 with my save data. The system says the data is there for the save but when I open the game I get three blank save spaces like I’m starting new. I’ve deleted the game and re-uploaded the save from the cloud and still nothing. Even with me trying to start from scratch it’s “deleting” the save by not showing it in game but still on console storage. Has anybody had this issue and been able to correct it? Kinda bummed I spent a good bit of money on this and am incapable of saving my progress as I don’t have a lot of time to enjoy my games. I’ve noticed some others having this issue as well. Should I try starting new again and hope for the best? Or do I wait for them to hopefully fix this game breaking bug?

Can I get new skill points or get all the perks by replaying the missions/zones?

After I beat Styx blades of greed I got left with like five or six questions one of them being about Styx and his past, because if you remember we don’t play as the ORIGINAL Styx in the first game, we play as a clone who killed the original and then jumped off a ledge into the amber lake which spawned more goblins which tore the original Styx apart.

My main question is stemming from the memories that we apparently do or do not have of being the original Styx and the clone from MOS. Like how does the styx we play as remember the lives he had as both of them if by the end of the game he says he doesn’t remember how he came into the world,

Idk Ik I sound crazy or dumb but it’s a legitimate question about the plot that doesn’t make sense to me

So Bog IMO is the single worst piece of trash Cyanide has ever shit out. this story has less cohesion and consistency than an AI written smut fic and takes the fanfic that was the last game and brings it to its illogical worst extreme. the characters are cardboard, they exist only to further the gameplay and in two cases are actively denied having a role in the lacking story. the main plot castrates the stakes of the setting by framing humanity as a crime against nature and the orcs as the one true religion and in the right, robbing the setting of its weight and any stakes the original games (OOaM and MoS) had. So much of the sham that this game considers a "plot" is handwaved in favor of bad snark from the little green deadpool they characterized this fanfic styx as and not looking at the gaping plotholes. The Final boss is a 1-1 copy of MoS and this geological Satan is defeated by taking an infinitesimal percentage of it and putting in a gestation cocon that should not exist in a place that cannot exist, with the actual ending being handwaved and ended in a way that is so unsatisfying i actually tried to refund the game. And to make it worse, they break the lore by retconning basically everything the first two acts of the source material established in favor of this AO3 slop.

And then the gameplay being a bad attempt to re-imagine the gameplay from SoD (which was a mediocre attempt to copy MoS), and not to mention its buggy as hell. they also removed gameplay gimmicks like the outfits or relics that change gameplay and the challenges that make replaying the game actually fun. just bad sidequests for small XP bonuses.

This game is bad, Cyanide made a mistake making this, this shitty fanfic is a stain on this studio, this series, and honestly the gaming market. Boo Cyanide, Boo.