The newly-launched Assassin’s Creed Valhalla includes a range of optional cosmetic extras and time saver packs in its in-game shop, just as in Assassin’s Creed Origins and Odyssey. But, unlike Odyssey, Valhalla does not sell any XP boost packs.
Back in 2018, when Odyssey launched, there was a kerfuffle over the fact it sold temporary XP boosts as part of its in-game store offering. The issue was amplified by the fact Odyssey was a very long game that levelled you up relatively slowly, and required you to indulge in side-content some wanted to ignore in order to see the game’s endings (of which there were three!) before the turn of the century.
Instead, Valhalla offers an expanded range of optional cosmetic items for your character, ship, and mount, including for the first time the ability to buy even more of the game’s tattoos, customise your raven familiar (a replacement for previous games’ eagles) and decorations for your Viking settlement of Ravensthorpe. You don’t have to pay to do any of these things, mind, but these cosmetics provide many more options.
