Nioh

Yeah, it was random selection through psn.

think you had to have emails sent to you as well

You're a good person user

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Yeah, you did have to have your settings on psn set to allow promotions to be sent to your email.

Should have prioritised people that platinumed Nioh

was gonna preorder this for ps4 but it's £60.
Do they really think I'm gonna pay that much for their fucking DS ripoff?

I watched a bit on youtube and it basically looks like NiOh 1.5, which I am fine with

The waifu creation is gonna be a big bonus for me

Completing the alpha doesn't give you anything like the last games beta's and alpha demos
I like the Hatchets. The Blessed and corrupted weapons are weird. I found the blessed whole Recover Ki through blocking and performing a ki pulse pretty cool. I couldn't really get into the corrupted weapons.

I beat all the missions but want to keep playing. I've got a lot of good feedback for them.

>Fighting the first boss with just a sliver of health left and no elixirs
>Manage to get my spirit meter filled up
>Activate and go fucking ham on him
>Win with just a tiny bit of meter left
Fucking miles better than Sekiro

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>Were you able to get in?
Fucking no, and I was in the two alpha tests and the beta for the first game and gave feedback on all three occasions. Fucking burns me. Badly.

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What did that all mean, they're changing the Ki pulse mechanic?

That would have pros and cons. On the pros you'd have people that understand the game, know how to play, and can jump right in. For cons the people who plat'd are the very serious players, and who knows what kind of feedback they'd give. While I think it would have been a good idea, I also wouldn't want all of the feedback to be "why can't I one shot bosses anymore with iai quickdraw,living weapon spam, etc."

Got in. Never played the first. Beautiful to look at but unintuitive combat controls

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As a shitcunt who didn't get an invite, are there still active parries and ripostes? I fucking hope so. 1kat was my jam. Parrying felt fucking amazing.

With blessed weapons you can block attacks and when your ki fills back up during the block you can pres R1 and perform a ki pulse to regain most of the ki you lost blocking.
Making Blessed weapons pretty much the required for people who like to turtle.

HOW IN THE FUCK ARE NIGGERS WHO NEVER PLAYED THE FIRST GAME GETTING INTO THE ALPHA

HOW. FUCKCUNT.

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I mean I like it fine, I just don't feel like investing a lot of time in it. I was surprised too, I never get alpha codes for anything

Yes.
All of them return. as least what they showed of the 4 available weapons.
The Hatchets don't have a parry per-say. You don't activate the skill a bit before you get hit but immediately after a attack lands.
It also has a attack that allows you to break guard by pressing Triangle the moment one of your attacks is blocked.

scored one from a friend of a friend. Hatchets are cool, the idea that your demon transformations give you customizable move sets now is cool

It's random
Plus they probably want people who've never played the game, since it provides different persepctive for feedback and such

>$60 expansion
the saints row 4 of japan

Any pics webms so far?

I liked it and did everything pretty thoroughly. I should of finished the first game.

I didn't play the first one. I got into the alpha, downloaded it, died twice and uninstalled. Never playing it again

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oh for fucks sake is this board going to be Sekiro vs Nioh now? i'm so fucking done with this shit board at this point

What webm, there are hour long playthroughs on youtube

Girl, it's only one post and you're the only one to respond to it
Plus Sekiro is actually shit anyway

is it as ugly as the first one

sad cuz bad?

Wait, that's the same fucking game

People just wanted more Nioh. Not something entirely different.

???
No?

Yes.
Would you rather they make an entirely different game that plays nothing like the first one and alienate it's previous fanbase that got them a few million units sold?

And not address any of the problems of the previous game, like how fucking ugly and full of visual pollution it looks? How the loot system makes everything worthless and exploration meaningless?
They're not even recycling stuff, it's straight up the same everything, just more levels. It could literally be a DLC.

And people called Dark Souls 3 lazy, but jesus, this is a new level. Hope you guys have fun with it, I'll be skipping.

No clue if anyone needed/wanted this in shitty phone photo quality but heres all the yokai forms with no armor(Yokai forms keep your pants and shoes on) and their respective charged weapons.

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those are your personal issues with the game

>those diapers

YIKES YIKES YIKES

The loot system is universally hated.

Those and lack of enemy variety were the major criticisms of the game. Even people who liked the game (like me) agreed loot system sucks, the game looks ugly and the enemy encounter design is cheap and repetitive.

I played it and I decided to re-download the first game because I never completed the DLC due to be under leveled. Anyone know any good farming spots?
>inb4 Marobashi

i love the loot system. the problem is the inventory getting so cluttered. they just need to make it easier to sort and filter.

Ginchiyo and Shiggy's respective escort quest are easy ways to get gear if need be.

This is the worst game possible to put a loot system, you don't ever get attached to any equipment, every investment into one feels worthless because everything is leveled. You don't ever feel rewarded by any loot because you know everything is trash until ultra endgame by which point you don't care anymore.

It's a fundoshi.
A Japanese Loincloth.

Foolishness user, foolishness. I need more AMRITA

Hope so, SRIV was fucking fantastic

Ahh my bad in that case I got no clue. Amrita gain goes way up on the higher difficulties and just by trying to unlock the next difficulty in the bare minimum way I gained a lot of levels. Honestly I don't think anyone would recommend even bothering amrita farming on the lower difficulties due to how much more you get on the higher difficulties. Might as well spend that time doing higher difficulty stuff for higher level/quality gear and a higher amrita game.

Looks gross

for in your level, whatever the twilight mission is, more enemies and they drop more amrita. find a shrine close to enemies and make the rounds clearing them out a few times before going after the boss and finishing it. mission reward is usually enough for a couple levels if you are on level for the difficulty, and you can expect a few more levels from enemy kills. make good use of suppa and catwalk scrolls, in most missions you can stealth to the end of a long section then come back and backstab/iai quickdraw one shot most enemies in the backs, since you'll be coming from the wrong direction.

So it's basically Nioh but you can create your waifu this time?

Really wearing the Onimusha influence on their sleeve with this, aren't they?

Yes, but in the alpha right now the customizing options are all greyed out so you can just pick presets.

terrible taste

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I’ve been trying to grind NG+ twilight missions but some the enemies are really strong and have a lot of health. I just need to grind somewhere that isn’t too hard to grind.

I prefer lace lingerie

Even if it's impossible in feudal japan

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I’ll try that once a better twilight mission opens up. I’ve been doing the Isle of Demons one but it’s just annoying to do.

That is one of the ones that is ideal for suppa/catwalk abuse. Kill the enemies in the beach area, stealth up to the second shrine. From the second shrine you can go back and backstab all of the dudes on the way to the second shrine. Just have to be careful of the DLC yokai that wanders up there if you are on I think way of the wise/nioh. The burning village is a better amrita farm, but also more annoying to open the shortcut from the boat beach and the shrine before the village.

I just beat the three missions. I used Odachi/Hatchets. I dunno, it feels like more of the same to me, with little added in to the mix. The summon attacks are cool I guess, and the Yokai transformations are cooler than living weapons, but I dunno. Nioh can't really draw me in like other FromSoft games, and the game's focus on action makes me wish I were just playing DMC. Sekiro's vertical movement makes Nioh 2 feel kinda outdated to me and it makes the character feel oddly heavy. If you loved Nioh, you'll love 2. I put 10 hours into the demo, which I guess means I'm pretty shit at the game or something. I only beat the game once, and gave up half-way through the second DLC. I remain convinced bullshit bosses in the postgame, the ones where you fight 2 or 3 motherfuckers at the same time, are bullshit, some are unfairly hard (rematch against the one-eyed dragon in DLC 2). Skillful Nioh gameplay is fun to watch, but I don't have the patience for it. Parrying windows feel too small, dodging always felt like it lacked i-Frames, though I think 2 is more generous, the game feels too focused on stats and less on skill, buffing/debuffing some enemies feels like a must, and if you're not min/maxing it feels like you enjoy the game less.
Again, Nioh fans that loved the first game will probably love this one. If you wanted more changes to the formula of the game, I'm sorry to say the Alpha doesn't deliver. Almost no bugs, too; everything worked as intended it seemed.

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What stats do the hatchets use? Strength? Half half?

Thanks, I’ll try that.

I bet the demo would be really fun IF I COULD PLAY IT

Forgot to mention, don't be afraid to die if it means taking out non-respawning enemies. Like the lute players should be your first priority, since the revenants they summon are dev placed and will compliment each other. I forget which twilight mission (probably the one with the Ogress boss), but the 3 dev placed revenants that get awakened at the same time (if you don't open up the alternate path) suck balls. Small area, one has an odachi, another uses a cannon almost exclusively from a distance, and a third is an onmyo user that casts sloth on you.

just fucking open it
noone is playing anymore

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Skill. It increases hatchets and rifles. Hatchets also feel closer to tonfas than they to to 2kat.

What the alpha is giving is exactly what I wanted. More Nioh.

Loot isn't worthless if you aren't a brainlet. First playthrough you barely have to worry about any of that bullshit. Keep equipping gear with better defense/attack and that is all that matters. Only things worth looking out for are specific effects that happen like on amrita absorption.

Loved the loot system. Mass sell all the common/uncommon and just look for any rare/epic gear you want to keep. Mostly the weapons you use and armor. Not very hard. Reforge a bit if you want and move on.

Give the game a couple weeks and all the revenants will have relevant gear to doing well in the game. Fight a bunch of those guys and refashion to whatever the hell you want to look like.

I've somehow done enough refashioning and soul matching to get that nice exclamation point over the blacksmith's head, no option to actually use the request but it's good to know that option is back again. Also whats the point of having a (currently greyed out) hair style option in the blacksmith when you can go back to character creation in the hut? Can we buy new hairstyles?

Got it.

Maybe character recustomization won't be totally free.

How many levels is it?
I'm currently fighting the snake boss

Three. Third one is a Twilight mission in the first level.

after that, there's just a twilight version of the first mission

>can play co-op without psn+
Is this normal?

Anyways, fuck the PS4 pro, playing this on ps4 is unbareable, my fans get so fucking loud that I need to blast my tv so I don't hear it.

2 Levels and a twilight mission of the first level where most of the loot/smithing texts are and also removes all human enemies in favor of yokai.

Well that's fucking lame. I was hoping to be able to use the hatchets but also a good secondary that's completely different (not dual swords) that it shares stats with.

did quite a few things wrong

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Do we get anything for completing the demo like the first game did? I'm not for doing a twilight mission in this limited time demo unless I get some goodies from it

None thats been revealed. Though it's kinda worth it to do the twilight mission due to having the last two armor sets in the alpha and to see a couple of returning faces

Played alpha and betas of the first game and gave feedback, bought and played the first game too (and on steam as well but they wouldn't have known that) and I didn't get an invite :(

All weapons scale with multiple stats and scaling matters little for overall damage.

Wait for DLC weapons or the full game, I guess. You can only use 4 weapons in the Alpha (Katana, Spear, Odachi, and Hatchets), but whenever the weapons are displayed, you can tell there's room for two more.

I can't imagine they'd drop any of the old weapons except maybe tonfas since they're shit.

you shut your whore mouth, tonfas are fucking awesome.

That kind of feedback would be far more common from new players that don't understand any of the mechanics. The ones that focus purely on minmaxing would understand it's early game and they shouldn't have the sets yet and the ones that learned the ins and outs of the combat system would easily recognize how much or how little that comes into play since they actually know it exists.

I mean they were cool and all but god damn the amount of work you gotta put in to even be a fraction of how powerful the other weapons are is a crime.

Whose replaying Nioh 1?

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I'm just finishing it on WotD
Good thing there are no WotWise/Nioh achievements, because I can't be arsed to play through this game 2 more times

I'm also picking up my old character that never even started WotD. Never even done this abyss thing before.

Plat and beat WotNioh when I got it again during golden week, so my tonfa run is still fresh in my mind. I think I'm also content with the gear I have so I'll probably leave it for now.

Oh right you only need to clear WotD to unlock floor 20 of the abyss. Still being overgeared for the WotD stuff can help