Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is getting a free expansion next month. Discovery Tour: Viking Age will transform 9th century England and Norway into an educational tour where players can learn about the Viking people, culture, and the locations within the game.
The expansion has a similar premise to previous Assassin’s Creed Discovery Tours where combat is removed from the world so players can learn about the environment and history without too many distractions, effectively turning the game into an enormous museum. The difference this time is that there won’t be any guided tours; instead, players will undertake quests as a variety of different characters. These will have different objectives and follow a narrative that means interacting with each of the Discovery Sites rather than merely witnessing what they have to say about Vikings and Anglo-Saxons in the Viking Age.
Discovery Tour: Viking Age has been created with the help of historians and archaeologists. There will be references to items that feature in the collections of places like the UK’s Hampshire Cultural Trust, Preston Park Museum & Grounds, York Archaeological Trust, The British Library, France’s Réunion des Musées Nationaux, and the National Museum of Denmark.
The expansion releases on October 19 free for all Assassin’s Creed Valhalla players on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC, Amazon Luna, and Stadia. Those who are interested in the experience but don’t own the game will be able to purchase Discovery Tour: Viking Age as a standalone experience but they’ll have to wait until early 2022 to do so.
Ubisoft is still planning plenty of content for Valhalla despite last month’s release of the second and final expansion included in the game’s Season Pass, The Siege of Paris. Update 1.3.1 was released just last week and introduced a new combat difficulty, weapons, abilities, gear, and three more River Raid maps. An updated roadmap also revealed there will be another major title update to arrive around the same time as Discovery Tour: Viking Age, although what will be included in this is yet to be revealed.
[Source: Ubisoft]
