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It's Brute. He used it early as a way of interrupting red attacks, as it should be used. If he waited any longer he'd trade hits with the boss and get damaged.

Living Weapon was a complete trash mechanic. Literally just a faceroll mode.

>katana & bow

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what does the little purple kodama guy want?

he didn't use it early at all, he barely got it out before the attack connected. That attack just happens to have a very lenient hitbox, otherwise he would have taken damage. You're supposed to do it as soon as the red flash happens, which means it's not a good choice if you are gonna be spacing enemies

>Playing this shit when Sekiro exists

Sometimes I forget how much some people here loves to eat fecal matter

Salt

What does Yea Forums think of my OC?

>mother died giving birth to him, leaving him with an uncaring father who left him to die at a young age, raised in the streets by the streets to fend for himself and himself alone
>would not hesitate to cut and run with any vendor's hard earned supplies
>fell into a like-minded band of thugs at 16
>became absolutely merciless and would plunder, pillage and murder all who opposed him
>extremely cocky, frequently picked fights with foes far larger, faster and stronger than him, eventually costing him his left eye and disfiguring his back as a result
>killed an old man with a fake eye who was just protecting his crops and took the eye for himself, didn't even care that the color didn't match and got a kick out of the strange and uncomfortable looks he would recieve
>eventually grew jaded with the bandit life over the course of 12 straight years of mindless pillaging
>found himself wanting to learn for the first time, taught himself to read and took on reading as a hobby in between raids
>slowly grew to regret his actions as his horizons broadened and his self-awareness sharpened
>gave up the bandit life entirely 5 years later
>forced to kill his own gang because they wouldn't allow him to leave and took his desire to as a betrayal
>with no friends, no family and only a guilty conscience to accompany him he started a new life in a small village in the Ishikari plain
>knew there was no way to atone for all the evil he had done but vowed to travel the lands and protect the innocent
>tattooed a calm blue bird over his massive scar to symbolize that peaceful reason had overtaken violent recklessness
>fast-forward 10 years, at 43 he is known locally as a hero, a title that stings him to his core as he knows full well that he will never deserve it
>still rightfully despised by the families of those that he had slaughtered, despite his many attempts to make ammends
>tries his hardest to walk the right path regardless
>now reads obsessively

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normal
I'd hold off on seeing how the DLC pans out, the spike in difficulty with the first game's expansions was kind of ridiculous
unless you plan to complete every twilight mission in the base game before moving on

I like how bright and colorful it is. Might give this a try as I'm getting a little burnt out from Fortnite anyway.

I’m not really feeling the sequel so far, I much prefer following William than having an OC donut steel that doesn’t properly interact with others.

Also, I’m still not used to the yokai souls mechanic and I wish burst counters better flowed into normal attacks after successfully ‘parrying’ the enemies’ red attacks, it seems to have a small 0.5 seconds pause in animations after you use it.

Seems about the same, with some extra bullshit stuff in the form of Dark Realms.

not a waifu/10

Why the hell they made it so weapon types are tied to certain stats? When you play onmyo, you almost have to use switch-glaive for example. With so many weapons, wouldn't it be better to make certain katanas that scale with dexterity or magic for example?

>you can’t enjoy more than one game, you have to choose one or the other

Redpill me on why I should play this instead of Sekiro.

So what is that weird looking glowing dagger we have on our waist band? Sudoku knife?

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Looks like a chick with fake facial hair.

I picked up the deluxe, 80$/€ for game, steelbook, hard cover artbook and season pass seems good enough for me

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You should play both

the game looks much better than the first one. Gore is easier to see, not as many flashing lights everywhere contrasting with the faded out background and obscuring everything.

You should buy Sekiro and Nioh 1 if you haven’t played either. Get Nioh 2 after finishing 1.

Why not both

I believe it's a yokai horn. Some have speculated that it belongs to one of the MC's parents (because he's half yokai).

I bet you're the time of person who donates to kickstarter so he can have an NPC backstory

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Good answer.

The day time lighting is overall much better as well. It's easily noticeable in the swamp area in the first level. That alone is far better lighting than any day time area in Nioh 1.

Is 1 really necessary to finish before 2?

> i can't get used to the feral one.
> the dash always throws me off

Phantom is the one I can't get the hang of. I either do it early and sometimes block, which is okay, or I pop it late and still eat shit. With Feral, you want to be dodging into the enemy but making it so that the attack will still hit the after image.

You should play neither because you're a retard who can't make up his own damn mind or think that games are mutually exclusive. You don't deserve to enjoy things.

give back my lightsaber Atriss

Can't wait to see which bullshit mechanics and rarities they'll reserve for NG+

>not making an "ideas guy" kickstarter and making everyone donate to you for a chance at giving an NPC a backstory, thus reducing your total workload and still having the satisfaction that your OC is the star of the show
You are smalltime

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Weapon stat scaling is tiny compared to gear bonuses and you'll be getting so many levels that it doesn't really matter regardless. Just use whatever you want. If it's anything like the first game you should be able to roll through NG with a shit character no problem.

You shouldn't.
Both games are very different.
The Sekiro fanbase unanimously dislikes Nioh.

>wouldn't it be better to make certain katanas that scale with dexterity or magic for example?
you can do that at the blacksmith

You guys said this duel guy would be easy

I hated the lighting in rice field with hdr, I had hdr settings at default that might have been why. was really unpleasant.

Who is this "fanbase" you're talking about, because I've played Sekiro and I absolutely do not dislike Nioh.
I think you're confusing it with people who didn't play either.

>The Sekiro fanbase unanimously dislikes Nioh.
Time to finally play Sekiro I guess.

Do we know anything about the dagger MC carries around?
Demonic keepsake?

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Weapon scaling really doesn't matter much, and only gets worse as you progress in terms of the % of your overall weapon damage. The secondary affects of stats are much more valuable, and have strong diminishing returns so once they reach a certain point they fall off as well. For example, pumping magic for spell damage doesn't give you much, and after 30-40 it stops giving you extra capacity as well. Even a magic user won't really give a shit about going beyond that unless they don't care about anything else. Which is a good way to look at damage scaling in general. "I have nothing else worth putting points into so I may as well dump everything else here to maybe boost my weapon damage by 10% after 100 points."

>which bullshit mechanics

I think you mean "fun" mechanics, because I love how Way of the Nioh makes it so that each level has tons of elites with beefed up properties, like super speed or faster stamina regen, and how debuffs basically become near useless on anything that isn't a regular enemy.

It's the way NG+ should have always been in Souls games.

>I think you're confusing it with people who didn't play either.
Or just falseflaggers who enjoy seeing people fight each other and instigating fights, because fabricating online drama is the only kind of meaning they have in life.

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I've never met someone who loved Sekiro that didn't dislike or outright loathe Nioh.
Ask on a Sekrio thread what do they think about Nioh and 9 out of 10 will tell you that it is shit. The tenth will just tell you that it is an extremely mediocre game worth just playthroguth.

>remodel hut
I can't wait to see how much hut customization we'll get.

I really like Yokai weapons just from a concept standpoint. Having some possessed relic weapon that awakens to talk shit and spit out lore when you do draw enough blood with it, plus it even adds a special attack. That's just neat. I hope they are rarer in the actual game though, so they feel more special.

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I've clocked nearly 200 hours in Sekiro and over 700 in Nioh and i love both
What next, faget?

I 100% completed Sekiro and the only thing I dislike about Nioh is how half-baked it feels with an overabundance of poorly balanced mechanics, pointless stat scaling on your endless avalanche of garbage loot with dozens of attributes and only a few that matter, and a bunch of things being so good they're basically mandatory like the ninja scroll to not die and stacking onmyo debuffs and of course living weapon spam

not really but the game is basically nioh1.5, getting used to some systems is beneficial. There are a lot of discounts and you can see whether you will like nioh2 or not.

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i love both sekiro and nioh
but most people on Yea Forums think you can only like one thing and you have to hate any other thing that is similar to it

Did anyone run tests on the corrupted weapons?
I know they start releasing shockwaves when awakened that make strong high stance attacks essentially do x1.5 damage, but are there any other special buffs to the awakening?

How long is left on the trial? I might download it but I'm a bit put off by the counter mechanic, it seems you just drain the bosses stamina then you can do actual good damage?

>tfw got memed into trying this game

Not him and I've never played Sekiro but I love DMC, Bayonetta, Nioh, Soulsborne and Ninja Gaiden Black and those all play differently. I highly doubt I wouldn't like Sekiro but I never got around to it and I'm a bit of a poorfag so collecting vidya takes me some time.

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Is it just me or did they add body amputations for regular humans when you kill them in Nioh 2? Whenever I'd kill regular human mooks in Nioh 1 with a sword, their bodies would remain intact. The only time I'd see a head coming off is if I kill them with a headshot from a rifle.

But now as soon as I deliver a final slash in Nioh 2, you'd see their heads or limbs coming off.

>How long is left on the trial?
until the end of the day

>it seems you just drain the bosses stamina then you can do actual good damage?
not at all

#
I've never met someone who loved Sekiro that didn't dislike or outright loathe Nioh

Platinumed both Sekiro and Nioh here. You need to stop listening to drones and falsflaggers. Theres people on Yea Forums who actually play vidya

I ain’t that big on the replacement though.
Don’t know why

The only possible explanation I can find to that is underage fags who buy games on an allowance, so the decision on which game to purchase is akin to picking a side and committing to that game since they can only have one with daddy's money.

Happened in 1 too. I'm pretty sure that's what earned it its 18 rating.
Neat little touch was interrupting their death scream by decapitating them.

make me
I really had to search who that was, never played kotor

No, beheading people with the katana was a thing on the first game.

>so the decision on which game to purchase is akin to picking a side and committing to that game since they can only have one with daddy's money.
That's 99% of consolewarring faggots in a nutshell. If it's not kids on an allowance, it's """"""""adults""""""" on a tight budget.

so will the full game let you use more than one guardian spirit like the post-game dlc for 1 did?

The yokai moves are fun but the actual yokai forms feel underwhelming to me. They all have these gimmicks to them yet you barely have time to make use of them. I end up only using it if I'm about to eat shit from an attack I didn't manage to avoid.

Thanks. Then I must have either not noticed or forgotten about it.

I've seen JP streams with 2 equiped

So, is it coming to PC or not? I haven't heard anything about it.

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>unlocked the This Is Dark Souls trophy irl

I wonder if gaki+ Pleiades + shift extension upgrades can help extend its time

short or long?

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Probably at the end of the year.

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well do you want her to look like a 14 year old emo or a 19 year old emo?

nure onna vore doujin when

I tried my hand at making my boy Charles II

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long

short

that's pretty good

"press button when enemy does attack to win" is the worst mechanic in action games and I have no idea why they're so popular. They just take all the depth out of the game.

I didn't know Tony Robbins was a weeaboo.

cringe

They'll be shit in the full game compared to regular weapons stacked with all the best abilities.

>Abherrant Soldier ability lets you shoot your fist at people's faces
Very nice
>Biwa boku-boku doesn't let you play the Biwa at all
This sucks.

Deluxe, I like steelbooks and art books too much.
Plus, the Demon Horde armor is sweet.
Only bad thing is that the weapon set is Digital Deluxe-only for some reason.

>liking vore

Yikes. Here's some vanilla instead
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exhentai.org/g/1040260/5e45424ae8/
exhentai.org/g/964549/d5b836c4dd/

>shoot your fist at people's faces
Permanent slot reserved for this

Hidoku? More like Hideous Hinotama.
I appreciate you putting that much effort into making the character's backstory.

I like scars. Should've recoloured the eyes for the covered one though, but I guess the accessories don't ever get removed with head gear

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That’s all these games are.

Don't know how I feel about burst countering. It feels too Sekiro-ey to me.

As everyone has told you:
1. Scaling is pointless as it's always dwarfed by your weapon's own AR
2. You can roll skills on your weapons to have them scale off whichever stat you want anyway.

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Why not stack all the best abilities on a yokai weapon, though?

Doesn't the corruption stat waste a skill slot that can be used for something better?

Absolutely not. It's complete shit and ruined the game.

Its literally a weaker version of Nero's buster. I like it but its not that great honestly.

God this character creator is amazing, is it possble to do fat people though? Havent touched any of the betas.

Nioh 1 didn't have a stupidly generous and extremely rewarding counter mechanic.

Can any high IQ nioh gamers answer this question?

When I attune a soul core, do the passive stats always buff my character even when not in Yokai forms?

I got a Pleiades effect actives on enemy kill stat but I never noticed it activating on enemy kill, whether I killed an enemy normally, using the Yokai skill, or while in Yokai form.

Please let me know if you have any insight into this, thank you.

>is it possble to do fat people though?
you could probably make a fat face, but not a fat body

I said I was going to wait for the pc version this time, I can't do it though. I just need to beat this last boss, he's seems much easier or maybe I'm just getting used to the switchblade, its certainly not as big damage as my axe used to be and this time scaling is on my side.

I think it's chance for Pleiades after a kill
you should notice it on your status effect area

>Be advised

Japan doesn't know what fat people look like.

wtf I didn't even notice a Nioh sequel happened
that's great news

nice shit

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Way, way harder. And not in a fair or fun way, but rather in an extremely cheap, artificial, and shitty way. They decreased your damage output and made all enemies damage sponges, but made them do more damage to you as well. On top of that, they tried to emulate Sekiro with the dogshit new "burst counter" ability where you constantly have to perfectly time this ability to parry and damage enemies on unblockable attacks. It's very poorly done and ruins combat. Furthermore, they also opted for the Dark Souls 2 route of just loading up areas with bullshit enemy placements to pad this unfun "difficulty" even further. It's really bad.

There is a fat face preset, but body customization is surprisingly limited. Can't be fat at all, only slightly wider.

I have the opposite problem. The brute throws me off.

>but made them do more damage to you as well.
I'd say people do way less damage to you here compared to the Beta.
It's really not as bad as you paint it.

Birdchads ww@?

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Kind of odd considering that it's the home of sumo wrestling.

Bug eyed freak either way.

It's probably so they don't have to worry about clipping. The lazy asses.

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I think nurikabe browses this website too
He's just sitting in the hut all depressed like he just wants to kill himself

What do we know about Astral Wisdom?
It looks like some skills were locked behind it.

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I hate this goddamn site so much, it keeps forgetting I'm logged in then I have to figure out how to access it all over again, I'm hornydamn it I don't want to google shit about clearing cookies and e-mailing pasword recovery shit

It's not as bad as the beta which was disastrously broken, sure, but still needs a fair bit of tweaking. It's objectively still way out of whack and not the same as the first game at all. Regular human enemies should not be tanking 20 hit combos and two shotting you. Let alone the absurd amount of damage you have to put into the boss who easily rapes you in one hit with half of his moveset or just stunlocks you into a corner while he relentlessly combos through your block. That boss fight lasts twice as long as it logically should because of how little damage you do to him.

You could just read the attribute description.
You increase the stat by completing missions and for the first Soul Core of each kind you purify.

She looks like Kathy Bates if she was skinny.

pick up soul cores to get more to unlock access to shiftling skills

I wish one of the walls of your hut just grew eyes when you invited him in cos yeah he looks fucking depressed as shit to be there.

I hope there are more armor pieces like this one
I'd like to see my character's midriff more often without going naked maybe even her navel

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>Those bedroom eyes

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>tfw this hut is ugly and dirty
>tfw I'm too small to be a wall for some reason
>tfw I want to be a wall but can't
>only thing I can do is stare at the floor while this guy sits around
>he doesn't even gesture so I can't even get mad
I wish I was home being a wall.

Why this game attracts the waifufags with a fit girl fetish?
Every single pic I've seen of your waifus they have a toned belly, some abs or sometimes they're just straight up buffed

So Anime. I fucking love it.

It helps that character are muscular by default and you can't make them not-muscular, only more or less so, but girl abs are a miracle of the universe and you should like them.

this will happen any time a game has a muscle slider

>They decreased your damage output and made all enemies damage sponges
This is an RPG with Diablo loot. Trying to compare damage and survivability to whatever you were doing in the first game is meaningless because everything scales wildly depending on your gear. It is very easy to kill a few revenants at the start of Nioh 1 and come away with a full set of optimised WotW and a Taro Tachi in like 10 minutes, at which point you're already overgeared.

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PC when so I can remake my wife Maria and change her outfits

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>It is very easy to kill a few revenants at the start of Nioh 1 and come away with a full set of optimised WotW and a Taro Tachi in like 10 minutes
It amuses me how you people always say this but all the revenants I fond either wear trash or Gold Nioh at the beginning or later on gear worse than mine/WotW/Red Demon

Because girls with some abs are the patrician choice
I want to lick their exposed midriffs

>tfw no sit down gesture in the demo
I feel incomplete without it.

>can't recreate the boar emperor
wack

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You took her golden age from her

Where in the demo can i farm EXP and gear. Is there even something worth farming in the demo?

why would you farm exp and gear
the demo ends after today anyway

The female body is really weirdly done and doesn't allow much modification. Coming from Team Ninja I'm surprised they are more detailed, but the faces are A+ tier.

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shit carries over

Anyone know if there will be more tatoo and accesorie options in the full game?

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expeditions on the twilight mission

>Not taking his attacks head on

Do you get anything for beating the twilight mission, I could do it but I badly need to sleep.

Your Character Creation carries over, not your progress.

Cima?

Nothing, rest easy.

I'd like the code for this smug doll.

damn

Any of you character creation wizards managed to make Emma from Sekiro?

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>doesn't allow much modification.
Even with that it seems that it managed to please most if not every waifufag who plays this game

Do we need PSN plus for the online stuff in the full game?

I've seen some people cry about wanting to give their girls fatter asses.

She seems cute, give me a turnaround of her and I'll give it a shot.

sure would be nice if there was an ass slider
but it still has more body customization than most games
there's a height slider
3 weight sliders
3 muscle sliders
boob slider that goes to pretty good sizes

dont listen to these fucks. They focus on character customization in games and only have negative things to say about it. What does that sound like to you? Not a gamer at least.

Those are just niggers, don't listen to them

Didn't touch the beta, explain to me the burst counter shit from the first webms posted, it looks fucking broken

I've already seen about a million maria knock offs

I'm a waifu fag and I'm pleased with it. You can make some DoA-tier faces in this game.

Good thing I'm not a stats faggot then. Yokai weapons are the kind of loot the game should be about, cool unique stuff that adds flair, not NUMBERS trash.

I'll probably spend like 4 hours alone making her

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>muh black

In the Mezuki level I burst counter'd the giant Gaki and then my character did a special riposte in demon mode. Has anyone else done that move?

WE DMC NAO

Same here. I want to re-create Maria so that I can finally have her face without wearing that stupid headband.

It happens in Nioh 1 too but the game is so dark and there's so much clusterfuck light effects happening that you can't see shit.

it happens when the counter drains their ki to 0

Yeah, if you burst counter them at it drains their Ki bar to nil, you can do a special yokai grapple if you hit triangle while still in demon mode
Anyone else leveled up the shift abilities that extend duration and extend duration while in the dark realm? It lets you stay transformed for a long fucking time, especially if you have yokai abilities to spam and keep collecting amrita

They best have the goddamn kusarigama, kabuki masks, and kabuki emote.

>see red flash
>press button
>counter

>that look
What did she mean by this?

>mfw I changed the appearance of all my Yokai weapons so that they look like regular swords.
I'm boring. I also play 1kat and 2kat.

What am I doing wrong here? It seems to me like all I can do when fighting a yokai like Enki is bait an attack and whiff punish them with a single hit. Whenever I try to go in for more it smacks me to interrupt my string for half my health, or does a grab that I can't avoid because I've already committed to a combo. Blocking I figure is only done to get out of a combo string once you've already been hit because everything breaks my guard in two hits. So I end up just playing really slow and safe and only hitting the thing once or twice at any given opportunity, but the game feels like I should be going in a lot harder. How do I play offensively against big yokai without getting stuffed for it?

Enemies and bosses now have weird super powerful and dangerous attacks in which they will gain a red aura right before attacking.
If you press R2+O or its equivalent on PC/Xbox controller in front of the enemy before it attacks you will parry it, which consumes a big chunk of the enemy's stamina bar and will leave it stunned for 2-3 seconds, which gives you some sweet time to land some hits on them.
You can also parry them while the attack is taking place, but you will take damage too.

I saw Shrine Maiden outfits, with a little luck maybe they'll have kimono's too.

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nothing wrong with that, but I want two accessory slots on the face

man I can't decide between Odachi and Kusarigama
both are strong as fuck, nice combos with big ki damage

transmog is always a nice feature. Nothing wrong with that.

>no one has made Rachel yet

:(

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They literally ripped of Sekiro mikiri counters but made it so you have to push R2 + circle instead of just circle.

First they ripped off Dark Souls, now Sekiro. Absolutely shameless.

Tonfa
youtube.com/watch?v=1OvMyE5tJRE

>ripped off
You mean how Sekiro is just a shitty Tenchu game?

>sekiro invented counters
Can't tell if you're a troll or mentally handicapped

Be the change you want to see.

Get better at recognizing their movesets. Also, like all enemies, ounce you break their Ki you are free to style on them until they gain it back, ever move will stun them. Red moves can be yokai burst which cancels any animation you are doing and other grabs have long windup times.

It's fine. I also changed the look of the Yokai 1kat to the purifying one. It's cool and all but varying the look of your sword is a good thing.

>everything breaks my guard in two hits
Equip armor with higher toughness. Try to get over 100. 200ish is ideal once your stamina is high enough for it.

Where is the demo? Is it not available to me because I beat the first demo?

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I'm going to need five body slots myself if I'm going to to full Yakuza monk.

nah I don't like them at all

Dodging is useless in this game you dodge the first attack but thers so much lag after that you just get hit by the second and third in the follow up and instantly die. Am i doing something wrong?

Yokai have weak points which trigger a stagger when you hit them, usually the horns. They also get staggered normally from your attacks once their Ki runs out. You can chunk their max Ki by landing burst counters or hitting the weak point. Otherwise if you don't have the damage to burst them down you should focus on landing high Ki damage attacks untill you break their bar and get to unload a larger combo.
If you have committed to an attack at the wrong time you can also save yourself with the burst counter, even against normal attacks.

Which weapon are you using?

Where are you looking? It should appear if you search Nioh on the PSN store.

It's in the PS store. That said, you're pretty much too late, it's over within the next couple hours.

>pick sword as main weapon
>struggle with everything
>die a 100 times
>switch to odachi
>steamroll everything

lol

you need to block combo attacks or you're stun locked
you can't do anything about blocking > dodging into a deadangle

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A couple hours is everything he needs to beat it.

Didn't mean to quote, but which stance are you dodging from? Different stances have different dodge moves, with High having a laggy roll.

I don't understand the point of this stance system

>Boss summons Yokai realm
>2nd part of the OST starts
Such an underrated change

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Bruh i didnt even know u could block im retarded

>Ninja Gaiden had flashing red attacks you could counter 8 years ago
>Fromfag zoomer thinks Sekiro invented anything

From faggots are this retarded. They think Dark Souls invented melee combat.

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>lag
>lag

Also, you're probably dodging in high stance when you should be dodging in low stance. There's very little RECOVERY FRAMES between dodges in low stance.

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is the level design better than in the first game?

>lag
Every time

Stuck at work, I'll try and see if I have time to do it tonight before the trial ends. I did her for reference

I think I might be retarded, I don't understand how the new mechanics work at all

ara ara~

If you press circle twice quickly, you will cancel your initial dodge into a roll, which should give you enough invulnerability to get through two-hit attacks, and enough distance to avoid any longer attack chains. Can't do this in high stance, though, since you will do a roll the first time you press circle.

Stuck in a animation is lag

Nice user

No. About the same. Enemy placement is way cheaper and more bullshit though.

High stance attacks can't be reflected by a blocking enemy making them great for attacking enemies who block to drain their ki, several weapons have high hitting attacks making them good for breaking yokai horns.
Low stance is mostly about speed and dodging, even the odachi and axe have reasonably fast attacks in this stance.
Mid stance is the mixture but is very useful for multiple enemies, either by sweeping attacks or a poke or both.

>doubling down
hearty kek

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What are you not understanding? Low stance is fast but does low damage, high stance is slower but does more damage and so on. Low stance is great for applying debuffs

Thanks, babe. I'll sing your praises to my children.

Ok, I found it in the demo tab, but it will not show up in search for some reason
>hours
Can beat full games in a couple hours.

>you will cancel your initial dodge into a roll,
That's only in Mid Stance.
High Stance has rolling, Mid has dash into roll and Low only has dashes.

post cute anime faces

Made me laugh. Thanks user

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I like my twintail tsundere armed with Nodachi

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Do the tutorials

Well, I really am retarded, I didn't know there were tutorials

>1955
What? PSN Store description says Nioh 2 plays in 1955. At least the German store.

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Why is the artstyle so ugly?

For me, it's Marie Rose

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The specifics vary per weapon, but overall:
High has mostly vertical, slow and heavy attacks. Deal the best damage but have you recover for longer. They're also good at damaging blocking enemies' guards due to their power. Skills here mostly focus on power over utility, and you have the slowest dodge.

Mid is your balanced stance. Usually consist of quick, horizontal strikes, making them better at dealing with multiple enemies. It's your de facto defensive stance, as your parrying abilities will always be found here. It's a good position for when you're not sure what to expect.

Low Stance is focused on speedy strikes, normally vertical as well but coming from below or closer to the ground than in High stance, making them useful against enemies sitting low to the floor. These attacks lack power but their speed makes them useful for sneaking them in your enemy's gaps as well as causing debuffs on your opponents. Skills here are usually based on movement and retreating after a combo. Your dodges here are also rather fast dashes, making it a good reactive stance.

I think that should be good to get started.

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Theyre under Dojo in the starting point menu

What little fanart this game has is fantastic.

Typo

It's not? It's beautiful.

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What should I add to make him look more smug and pretty? Going for a Griffith type character.

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Well besides me being a whiny fag who's bad at the game I'm not really sure when I'd want to use mid over low and vice versa, or if there's any point to attacking in those stances at all if I can switch to high mid-combo and not hit like a wet fart

Also how to deal with more than one enemy at once when they can both kill you in a single misstep

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R8 H8 Masturb8

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Soften his facial features.

WE

I quite like it. It's not for everyone though

Maybe modify the mouth's corners so they fall into more of a natural smile.
Be subtle about it or it will look goofy, though.

I went and killed an Enko for you as an example. The first swing here hits it on the horn which staggers and chunks most of its Ki, I'm then able to take the rest of its Ki off before it can attack which just lets me scrappily stunlock it to death with fudged inputs.

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i feel like they overloaded the game with mechanics

she better have a muscular tummy and a huge ass

Block in mid stance, low stance is for dodging and high is for big dick damage. Your mid stance can block way more attacks

Is this the girl from the Mesoamerican DMC-like?

When are we doing a waifu fight club with our girls punching each other to death while wearing the bare minimum?

Hue/10

It's simply building on the foundation Nioh set up.
Take into account that here you're thrown into the middle of things, the full game will introduce them slightly more gradually.

Had the same idea during the beta.

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Maybe I'm getting old but I can't beat the boss. I beat all of Nioh one but this boss is a bitch and a half. Anyone got tips for the switch axe?

What does the dodge counter do that im too stupid to notice? I used it all this demo and all i did with it was dodge through shit and use it as a dodge. Do i dodge through red shit and the hit after does more stamina? Or is it primarily just a dodge and somewhat weaker then the other 2?

Which boss

I haven't beaten the horse guy yet but I'm awful and managed the other two

The what now?

>Anyone got tips for the switch axe?
Just one. We're not playing MonHun.

What is tripping you over, old man?

PC PORT WHEN

My brother.

There's no switch axe in this game bro

The first boss I guess. The fire and ice guy.

Right, I don't think Nioh needed more though, it needed what was there to be better.

Why? Yours would be the first one helplessly gasping for air while she's getting pownded on the ground

switch scythe?

Close but no cigar. Switchglaive.

If getting gud isnt an option fight like a bitch, use sloth talismans, headshot horns, abuse ai paths while retreating, things like that

I can agree with that, but so far it's early to tell if the first game's shortcomings will be solved or not. We can only hope it doesn't devolve into Nioh: Monkeying Around Edition.

Ah, well any tips?

So, Groundfires. Do they suck? They weigh quite a lot. And speaking of weight, why does something as simple as a smoke bomb demand 3.0 all for itself?

You time the dodge right as the red attack is going to hit you and you'll interrupt it and deal damage. Make sure you leave the stick in neutral so the character dodges forwards, don't hold a direction.
This game looks fucking awful in webms.

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Does the demo require PS+ to play?

You're going to have to mention the boss you're facing and what is giving you trouble specifically.
All in all SG might be the hardest weapon to pick up since it's all about long combos via stance switching.

>don't hold a direction.
You can hold forward.

Be super patient. Punish the 2 hit punishable moves the red boy throws out like his charge attack/axe smash down. Also the spin if you are far enough and don't need to block any of it is a good 2-3 hits. I couldn't always pin down the blue side myself i always got scared it would do that one arrow quick red attack shit and hyper armor and using 3-4x arrows when i got close sometimes usually made me 1 hit it and move away repeatedly.

Just be patient and widdle it. He has alot of life but he has no real way to stop turtling.

It's got 3 kilograms of smoke in it.

Not at all, not even for co-op.
Full game is a different story, though.

Code?

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I'm assuming you at least understand the basics like stances and ki pulsing
>remember that you can sprint while locked on, you can avoid most of his blue half's annoying shit more easily this way
>when there's a big red flash around him, use your burst counter(R2+O) to stun and take off a fat chunk of his ki, I used brute counter but they should all work fine once you know the timing
>he's easier to stagger than he looks
>but don't get greedy

Anyone posting waifu codes is a cuck.

No.

How long until the demo ends?

The coding for it is weird and it seems to be based on your character facing rather than the direction. Normally doesn't matter but in situations where your character is in the middle of an animation facing off to the side, you can actually get it to counter while doding "forward" in relation to your character facing, which is sideways relative to the enemy. Releasing the stick makes sure you always go "forward" as opposed to "in the direction of the camera".

True imagine giving your waifu away for every user to play with.

1kat requires a semblance of skill to use unlike odachi.

local midnight maybe?

I really like the Switchglaive though. I guess I'll have to learn these combos better.
Alright thanks

Imagine passing your waifu around to various anons and knowing they're using her in whatever way they wish

Ive been using the chain weapon seems pretty op

So stylish, I love this shit.

Based
The waifus have already enough getting chomped, stomped or stretched to death by enemy yokais, no need for other anons playing with them too

where are the 10/10 girls at?

The kusarigama is even more disgusting when you apply elements onto skills, then you can tag big enemies with confusion.

They're right at the start of the demo where you choose weapons, how do you miss that?

gorilla weapon

I am not a clever man

>then you can tag big enemies with confusion
what does this mean user

This tBh.

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How do u do that. Apply elements.

I like 1kat a hell of a lot, but it's really not a skill intensive weapon.

Backflip only challenge when?

I finally did it. My hands are still shaking, my heart is beating a million miles per hour and my dick feels shriveled up. Fuck anyone who says this is "easy". It's not. The last time I had this much difficulty against a boss was Masamune Date. I can't even imagine how much this guy is going to destroy me in Nioh 2's equivalent of Way of the Nioh.

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Autism. You're passionate and that's good. But autism.

>implying anyone would want your code
You people are just jealous your shitty waifus aren't popular.

>making your waifu a 12-year-old
dude...

Made for ryona

Sweet.

>making your waifu a 12-year-old
dude!

Ugly whore

I don't wish to devalue your victory but right now you're coming to terms with the mechanics. Come back when you understand the boss and all the new stuff and you'll see how you can obliterate him no problem.

If you afflict something with two different elements it fucks them up

>stretched to death
That sounds hot, which enemy does it?
It's not like I want to see some ryona before the demo ends

Now make her brown.

lol look at those cuks who'd already given away their waifu

Backbend gesture for bare midriff waifus when?

I completely agree. They broke what didn't need fixing and jammed the game with a bunch of bullshit. Totally ruins it imo, definitely waiting for a sale if I ever buy it at all. Nioh 1 had great combat, and mediocre-to-bad everything else. Nioh 2 didn't fix any of what sucked before and made the one reason to play it shitty. What a shame.

For Kusarigama the basic kit already seems really powerful?
The mid stance light attack into holding triangle and high stance light attack with reaper are so good

Must be rough, posting your ugly skank and have nobody comment on it.

>not being a pedophile
NGMI

I'm going to try to make her a bit tanned later, but not brown or south american like

>Spend 3 hours to get the right eyelash length and exact cheekbone position
>Continue to load character into a videogame that runs at 540p with full screen grease filters where you can barely make out the character's gender
>Play in 3rd person where the character is permanently facing away from you and the face isn't even visible
wew

So full dex throwing knives build is the strongest build i've seen in this demo. Somebody was doing 600 dmg a pop with each shuriken or kunai.

Fuck all these waifu fags. Post CHAD male characters.

>coomers and trannies are now infesting nioh threads

Someone get the purification talisman

>holding triangle
>reaper
That's not your base kit, user. The demo starts you with some skills purchased for each weapon but normally you don't get any skills at all. Reaper has always been notorious for how strong it is, specially when you could do it infinitely with Living Weapon.

c-c-c-

It's the "discord" debuff from the last game where you apply two elements.
Go to skill customization, if a skill has an O next to it then you can apply effects like elements or additional stat scaling. If you unlocked any green abilities from the samurai or shiftling trees then you can apply them to the moves.

we have a waifu uploader by now?

This beta is easy comapred to previous one, horse boss is a joke ooor its is because im using tonfas this time instead of hatchets

They're not yokais, just mooks, no talisman needed

>I'll take one copy of Nioh please

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cuck

Had the same problem, never had this much trouble with any of the bosses in the Souls games or Nioh 1 (save for maybe a couple in Sekiro). He's legit broken. Had to summon in two people to help. That did the trick, we raped him in like a minute. By yourself is not doable though unless you grind for a ton of hours and overlevel massively. If he's indicative of the rest of the game's difficulty and bosses though, I'm not even going to bother. He takes an absurd amount of damage to kill and one shots you with most attacks. Extremely unfun and artificial difficulty to the max.

But i play with male preset 1

>if a skill has an O next to it
In my experience it's the opposite. The ones with the dot are the ones that can't be customized.

Wow, I can almost see what the fuck is happening on the screen

Do you know any other good skills for kusarigama?

>he's going to play as anything other than a superior Nipponese character

Does Nioh 2 have any story connection to the first? I dropped the game a few stages before the final stage because I got burned out.

>those Switch Glaive combos

Oh, so I have been playing the weapon wrong I see. Fuck. I just wanted to use a weapon that scaled from magic since I love Guardian Spirit talisman. This shit is too technical for me. Back to axe/spear.

Here. Where's yours?

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Cute.

i cheese'd him with the hand cannon

That's what I said.

>making your waifu a 12-year-old
dude! nice!

Granny.

>die for over an hour to ryomen using the godawful phantom parry/counter thing
>try switching to brute
>kill him first attempt
crazy how weak and precise phantom is compared to brute's baby tier mode

Does it even matter? The story in that wasn't good or memorable anyway. A complete afterthought at best and wasn't worth paying attention. I never finished 1 either for the same reason, but I couldn't begin to tell you the characters names or what it was even about. I will similarly not pay attention/skip cutscenes in this.

Just playing with a slightly aged up and shaven preset 2

A woman with a buzzard body?

Its a prequel set like between 50-100 years before the first game, i dont remember very well the timeline. The devs said it will have some connections to the first game but nothing very important.

>artificial difficulty
Nice buzzword bro

If it were the Beta it would have been a bit harder while still somewhat suffering from the same player crutch issues that make the difficulty feel random but since everyone is still dogshit at basic adaption and TN are dogshit at catering to them by dumbing everything down and making the only "hard" parts of the design actually "hard" if you're still playing like an utter moron, it now feels overall easier in the worst way. The boss movesets would be fantastic if you had to actually fight them for a bit longer, but the Yokai bosses are only barely acceptable health-wise when using the weapon you start with, and Hisahide can literally die in under a minute using that too.

Yeah, holy shit I saw that too. Wonder if it was the same dude. He just walked in and destroyed that first Enki in the twilight mission. Fucking bonkers.

>chad
No thanks

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code?

I'm fond of Blade Spin, Whirlwind Kick and Crimson Flurry myself, but I recall Foot Sweep being famous for trivializing humans even more.

That's true. It had some cool parts but nothing actually mattered besides WIlliam chasing around the bald dude who stole his waifu.

Oh well, I'll stop being a weenie who cares about continuation and just play Nioh 2.

Thanks man.

> no afro so I can't be Afro Samurai

Actually a little upset. I thought Japan loved Afros. Mostly as a joke but still.

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Why are people comparing sekiro and nioh at all? Sekiro is a very flashy action game about ninja parkour, nioh is an action rpg with Diablo loot. They are completely different and you can enjoy both easily.

He's a broken piece of shit, there was literally nothing fair about him so there's no way to beat him without heavily overleveling, extreme cheese, and summons. Anyone saying otherwise is just baiting. They had seriously better start tweaking shit like this before release because more bosses like that will kill this game. Already has me holding off from buying day one for reviews and impressions to see if the difficulty in the full game is that terrible across the board.

ive been using phantom almost exclusively, seems pretty good to me. What's so good aboutr the brute one?

Afro's didn't exist back then

Huge timing window to pull off, requires no precision, and does a bunch of damage.

Why does she look like a man? What do I have to change? Chin or cheeks?

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>so there's no way to beat him without heavily overleveling, extreme cheese, and summons.
Look at all this extreme cheese, overleveling and summoning
youtube.com/watch?v=gWHL9gdpemw
youtube.com/watch?v=B3RCEnOqTv8

Thinner lips, wider mouth.

>he'd raw

The plot its literally "Hey, what if real Japan history but with demons and shit?" You can expect some shit happening that was referenced at some point in 1, but nothing else. Fuck, "Wirriamu" wasnt even alive at this point.

That's his dagger of simplifying the grapple animations +2

What do you mean Afro Samurai was a real person from back then

i tried

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Sukura is literally impossible.

They are always active unless stated otherwise. Check in case there's a specific condition to the effect or if it has a % chance to happen, I think I've seen that one but I don't remember the details on it.

You're insane. Afros didn't exist back then, or even black people.

Honestly this doesn't look fun. Too Souls 3 for me. A pity.

move the mouth and chin/jaw up
round up the cheeks a bit
make the cheek bones less wide

holy fuck hahaha

>that 1 autistic retard who runs around the entire boss room breaking every vase and spammming attacks/emotes at the end of the expedition while 2 of us wait

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Face is bogged, makeup needs work

how did you even end up this way? lmao

But black people founded japan in the late 1300s dude, read some books.

Was going for a rough and manly but still somewhat attractive bandit musclegirl. How'd I do?

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Does anyone know how toughness works in this compared to Nioh 1? I have 201 (A) and it seems i'm still getting staggered by little bitch attacks constantly.

thats a cute boy user

Looks like an outer worlds npc

I appreciate you fellow man of taste

I'll take him over the cowardly hosts/fellow expeditioners who hang back and never fight the boss
Fuck those people, I hope they feel ashamed watching me solo icy hot

So you think it could be possible for Koreans to make a character creator for a japanese game? I've seen some beautiful creations here, but those bastards are on another level.

Sekiro sucks

Moving the mouth up makes a big difference. Still need to tweak more.

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you guys sure you're not gay

Looks like a sad attempt to hide your homosexuality

best that can happen is good mod support on pc

Ghost lady with ghost babby

>He's a broken piece of shit, there was literally nothing fair about him so there's no way to beat him without heavily overleveling, extreme cheese, and summons
Im not even that good of a player and still beated him on level 17, alone and with just 4 elixirs and on 6 tries. You just need to know his blind spots, when to back away and went to preassure him. There are combos in which he can't literally hit you if you hug his side, and you can just wail on him to your heart's content.

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Looks like that kid who invented Flossing.

What time does trial end? How many hours do I have to finally get Ryomen down?

decent try user, thanks! Her eyes need to be slightly bigger and more blue. Maybe some makeup in the eyes as well

Seconding this. Super grindy, overly long boss fights like this suck.

poorly i must say

Will odas premium boipussy retainer be in this game?

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>making a cutie in a game where you're going to be beaten, stabbed, chewed, trampled, and gored to death in countless ways
I don't get the appeal

Oh now I see it thanks. Wonder if you can Insta kill her or turn her berserk if you hit the kid.

>level 1 no armor/ninjustu/magic/yokaishift
Did you even read the title or are you braindead?

>get summoned together with some other phantom
>we fight boss while he stay back
>till dies somehow
Oh come on! You cant survive 10 seconds?

>mfw played through nioh with kunai build
I AM THE NIOH

>level 17

Yeah, my point exactly, you overleveled. The demo wants you to face him around levels 8-12. I was level 11 and couldn't do shit.

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OK this is very specific, but anyone has that webm or vid of someone dodging sideways repeatidly the slashes of the basic yokais in nioh 1? I think he ends by dabbing on them with water sword or something, but it's mostly the repeated dodges between the slashes.

>thinking that levels matter in nioh
Mechanical understanding > LW/Yokai abuse > Magic/Ninjustu > Gear > Level

I spent yesterday trying to figure out the structure of it. Here's the gist:
>High Quicks - Actual damage
>High Strong - Situational gap closer only
>Mid Quicks - Average damage wide swing, used to hit multiple shitters or pressed once to allow Mind's Edge
>Mid Strong - Trash
>Low Quicks - Pointless filler, just do one to transition into stance switch attack
>Low Strong - Trash
All of your normals deal poor Ki damage

>Thin Air - Great damage, core skill, more later
>Mind's Edge - Good Ki damage
>Skyward Blade - Good Ki damage but slow and bad compared to Mind's Edge
>Mortal Retribution - Horribly slow but decent Ki damage / Break
>Empty Retribution - OK damage and Ki damage, long commitment
>Focused Retribution - Decent alternative opening to High Quicks, better hitbox for catching horns, more damage. Only charge for 0.1 seconds.
>Divine Retribution - Funny meme for dodging specific attacks

>Infinite Retribution - Pointless
>Merciful Retribution - Pointless
>Path of Three - Pointless
>Calamitous Blade - Pointless
>Blinding Edge - Pointless
>Celestial Retribution - Pointless

>Stance switch High - Good damage, Great break, Ki pulse allowed early, links well into Thin Air
>Stance switch Mid - Generic extension to mid Quicks, nothing special
>Stance switch Low - Gap closer

To break Ki you want to be using mid Quicks into Mind's Edge. Whenever you finish a sequence with a lot of Ki to pulse back you can use the pulse to transition into Thin Air. Thin Air doesn't need to be held for a long time, if you're close range you release it immediately and it's very fast and hurts. The damage bonus from pulsing out of High means that Stance Switch High > Pulse > Thin Air is your highest damage sequence, but all of your options that allow Stance Switch High are lower damage, except for Thin Air > Low Followup. This means one of your better sequences tends to be Minds Edge to break Ki > Stance Switch High > Thin Air > Low followup > Stance Switch High repeat.

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Blasting the baby ki breaks her

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>Didn't know the trial was even available til last night
>Couldn't beat Sukura
>Still can't beat Sukura
I'm going to miss the entire trial because of this massive piece of shit.

Make better use of your stances to adjust your attacks to the level of opening the enemy is giving you, the range the enemy is at, and the number of enemies you are against. Each hit you land will also be working towards draining their Ki, which is when you are able to commit far more heavily and do bigger damage. ALWAYS Ki Pulse, if you are not Ki Pulsing, it is because you're dodging something, no exceptions. Blocking is fine if you know what you're blocking and block as much as you can or need to, different attacks are best dealt with in different ways but your Toughness determines your overall guard strength. Your Burst Counter is for far more than just to stop Burst Attacks, it's a Ki-less cancel from any other action no matter what, including most hurt states and when out of Ki.

If i remember correctly from the previosu beta, each "oni type" has a different take on the counter, which one is the one where you have to parry at the exact moment the attack touches you, blue, red or purple?

you can see in the video what happens if you hit it
she loses all her ki

please dear Slidergods make me a Marie Rose!

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The baby is her weak spot if i'm not mistaken

Hot. Code?

The fuck?
You guys know not everyone wants to fuck their characters, right?

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Brute's weakness is that it's too slow to counter some moves unless you somehow know to do it in advance

I got grabbed by that bomb asshole so many times because my dumb lizard brain kept thinking I could counter it without the right spacing or timing, but eventually brute still got me the win by using it as a ghetto combo extender and brute forcing him down

he's not making use of the stance switch combos so technically he's using it wrong too.

Nothing wrong with fuccbois

There is a preset that looks kinda similar, and a twin tails haircut

AAAHH FUCK THE DEMO JUST ENDED. I GOT BOOTED OUT.

Then why not play male?

And then she gets back up and goes berserk.

he looks better from this angle

the preset looks nothing like her!

It's free items, man.

why would you marry a woman you didnt want to fuck?

There's a reason some people looked forward to rise of the Tomb Raider death scenes man

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Hey, thanks for gathering all that information there. It's actually really neat to see someone with such a good grasp on the combat mechanics, thanks. But to be honest with you, that's way too much shit for me. I would likely get overwhelmed trying to get into that flow of combos. I just kinda stick to high stance and dodge and ki pulse with copious amounts of magic for extra crutch. Still, this is a really neat weapon, can't wait to see people who can actually use it in multi.

how do I farm sacred salt/ cups on mission one? literally asking for a friend

Both bosses in this demo were a lot easier than the ones in the beta.
Especially rapehorse was a pushover

Because I already ran a male character to level 65 and wanted to try a strength build.

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>not everyone wants to fuck their characters

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Just switch to brute yokai and counter every red move.

>preset looks like a dumb slut who fucks dogs
Sounds exactly like marie rose desu

>only dumped 15 into dex because I was using magic and mainly 2kats
I'd go full dex, but I hate the sickle and chain

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What the fuck is "burst countering"? I've been avoiding all Nioh 2 threads to avoid spoilers so I can play the game blind, but how does it work? Is it like spirit techniques/attacks in the first game but more OP or something? Sounds like some kind of parry/counter system, so I'm sure it'll be broken regardless.

Honestly that fucking haircut is atrocious. I fucking hate that clean shaved side cut shut.

Purple does that. But I think blue also works somewhat like that. I dunno, it's the only one I coudn't get the hang of.

Kill revenants for cups

its not that hard user. There's nothing keeping you from getting better at the game, you just have to keep trying to do things until they come naturally. You will end up enjoying the game more in the process

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R2 + O

I didnt even farm, i just run around trying to find all the kodama and getting my amrita back after getting killed by the first spear monkey like 4-5 times.
I didnt have items or onmyo magic, the switch glaive did shit all damage and Ryomen could still kill me on 2-3 hits, getting caught by a combo was instant death. Like says, in Nioh its more important to know the mechanics that being overleveled

ryomen was harder than weasel and snake for me

R2 + O when you see red glowing attack, costs 1 anima (dark purple segmented bar below health/ki)

>Boss just stands there
>Stunlocked or some shit
>Just spam to win

If you can do this for every boss then the game will be piss easy and people will faceroll bosses.

>Sounds like some kind of parry/counter system

Because it is.

Tonfa also scale slightly with dex but eventually you'll have enough points to do whatever the fuck you want. Image related.

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have you played sekiro?
It's like a mikiri counter.

Enemy starts a attack animation and glows red (this can be either slow or fast so every enemy and boss have their own timings) then you r2 and circle.

it's like a very heavy parry

Nah, that's okay. I don't really want to get better I just want to have fun. Unga-ing my way through the game is fun for me. Not to say that I don't think the SG is neat, though. More power to you and your combos, bro.

Better now?

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>goes berserk
Goes berserk but anything bigger than a Rakashen coin stunlocks her.

Ryona is the chad fetish
It would be better if you could make twi of them fight each other bare handed until one of them drops dead, from what I've been able to do to mobs, if you down them without weapons and press triangle you just step on them
Now imagine that with one underwear waifu on the receiving end

very rude!

Anyone else find this beta way easier than the last one?

For me it was weasel>ryomen>snake

>people say Yokai Shift isn't as good as living weapon
>as soon as the boss went into the dark realm I was able to stay in yokai form for the rest of the fight by spamming yokai abilities
Granted I may be fairly overleveled by now but given the 34% time increase in the darkrealm + 15% normal increase + all the amrita collection boosting abilities I haven't unlocked yet Devil Trigger builds are probably gonna be pretty easy to pull off

So a shitty broken counter/parry system? Great. I'll try not to use it or spam it like everyone else will, unless the game forces you to do so. Sekiro's parry system was part of the game and I get that, but I don't care for counter attacks and parry attacks in a lot of games. 9 out of 10 times they're completely broken.

I'm not him btw. I don't understand your reasoning but you do you i guess.

I thought he hit her head. Damn I should get my eyes checked.

Congratulations, you've become a generic grill like everyone else in this thread.

for me it was snake>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>weasel>ryomen>>>>>>>>>>>>>>rapehorse

i despised the snakes grab attacks

You can ignore it in this game anyway

Well Nioh 2 have it's own version of meme armor?

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>I was able to stay in yokai form for the rest of the fight by spamming yokai abilities
Nobody does that

Good work, not a fan of the makeup but the face itself isn’t man in drag tier anymore

>i haven't played or paid attention to Nioh 2 but here's what i think:

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It works great and exists not as a damage dealer but as a way to get the boss stamina down

I kind of want to play but I'd rather just get it all fresh when it comes out.

So this basically confirms:

1. We're going to meet a young Ieyasu
2. There's going to be a mission where we join him and presumably fight a boss who is trying to kill him.
3. Maybe Mitsuhide didn't actually betray Nobunaga but was framed as such? After all, the mission starts with the player trying to avenge Nobunaga's death by trying to kill Mitsuhide by ends up with pic related. I'm sure the demo mission removes a lot of cutscenes and sections to avoid further spoilering the game than it already has.

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Makeup is just a bit on red cheeks, no?

Multiple enemies are easy to deal with when considering the sheer mobility and options you have, make high use of mid stance's wide attacks and the general dash and dodge attacks. Your positioning can work wonders but always keep an eye on both of them and their Ki to take your chances. As for stances, here are some basic general rules to think about and get you started.
You are never stuck in one stance, you can change at any point you want and take advantage of what you would consider to be the best stance for any given moment or option.
High stance works for after the enemy has attacked, mid stance for before the enemy has attacked, and low stance for during the enemy's attack. Because you can freely Ki Pulse and swap at any time, there's no reason to wait for a bigger opening that may not come when you can take every opening big and small to work towards even bigger ones.
If you think there could be some overlap between those stance descriptions or that they're wrong, then good, you're starting to catch on about how to make stances actually work for you instead of just trying to rigidly attribute them to one scenario.

I'd go Snek>Kamaitachi>>>Ryomen
For some bizarre reason I just couldn't wrap my head around the snake.

Mid strong cannot be parried and moves your character forward, actually a good opener against groups of human enemies

there is a very strong set in the demo thats incredibly light, so yes.

4. We're also getting another ninja level

But tatenashi, kigetsu and dragon ninja were the real meme armors in nioh 1 user

unless you mean wotw on ng1 I guess

Most people, it would seem. You can take way more hits here, I find.

Snake grabs were easy for me to dodge, haven’t actually beaten rapehorse, I’ve been fucking around replaying other missions with my friend

I'm glad other people are starting to see the potential behind instant Thin Air after Ki Pulse.

They mentioned helping Ieyasu get to Iga territory, maybe they'll also reuse the Nioh 1 map.

How do you take pics like that? Is yhere a photo mode I didn't see?

More the eye makeup, but that seems to be a part of the design you are going for so I don’t think it’s a big deal

any tips for hatchet?

I am such a boring player but i keep using katana and mid stance only, it's so effective.

Really? I mean when Nioh 1 first came out I saw lots of people memeing the red demon armor, oh, and also the thunder katana or whatever.

Can't remember why they became a meme, but people were obsessed with that katana and armor set.

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You don't need to be a tryhard or appeal to them. Play what is fun for you. A lot of people in Nioh threads are Soulsfags who want to find the hardest or most complex weapon/techniques to take down bosses. It's fun to them. They like the challenge. Not everyone is like that. I prefer to use a classic katana and use generic or standard attacks.

>instant Thin Air
Tell me more.

Throw it at your enemy's face. HS throw is really good with decent damage. The skill where you throw the hatchet at your foe's feet also eats Ki like it's nobody's business

yeah, that's not my picture either...

Also that's Nioh 1.

It's obvious that even the boss cutscene was edited heavily.
I suspect that Hideyoshi murdered Nobunaga and the last third of the game will be about our character confronting him while siding with Ieyasu, culminating with yet another epilogue fight happening in 1598.

red li set was super light yet had medium armor stats making it a great choice, also had great set bonusses

Throw combos

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difficulty for me
weasel > toshiie > flexile sentry >>> ludwig > bomberman = smoke demon > snake

fun
flexile > weasel > toshiie > bomberman > snake > ludwig > smoke demon

There's a difference, though, it's not some supposed sense of elitism.
The game is built around giving you this many options and you're really missing out if you limit yourself to one third of your moveset. No need for crazy switch combos, just varying things up as the need arises.

Red demon was a noob "meta" that quickly became obsolete

Is that Emilia?

I mean, whenever my character got hurt or died the moans were hot, but it's not like we all want to see our waifus perish like dogs
That's just humiliating

Finally finished this fucking Beta, the bit before the rape horse was fucking obnoxious, the 2 Monks especially.

Is the demo over for anyone else?

Please tell me we get an armor set that aesthetically is just as cool or better than this? This was my favorite set in Nioh 1.

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I found the 2nd level to be balls to the wall-hard, the Yokis got buffed to hell and back, and Mr.Hammer Time killed me like 7 times in a row. Those 2 chucklefucks with the fire hammer and the water spear deserve an honorable mention for being obnoxious pieces of shit

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god youre a faggot

oh christ now I just noticed there's demon fusion
too. how many mechanics can they pile on to this game?

Im still playing. CDT

I used the katana and spear almost exclusively in the first Nioh, and still kind of want to stick with the katana in 2. But this demo I tried some other weapons (dual katana and kusarigama to start) and then all it kept giving me for loot were the tonfa and odachi which kind of forced me into using them. They were pretty fun once I got used to them, although the odachi was utterly unusable against the boss because the ki drain for blocking and attacking is way too high. Katana is still best though. One might say it is perfectly balanced.

it's over midnight your local time
if you for example change to a EU/NA account you can still play

Love the first boss cutscene when some dude just tries to block that fucking massive swing instead of getting out of the way and gets chopped in fucking half
No complains about the one who got killed by one of those arrows, that could have happened to anyone

Burst Counter trivialises Mezuki and you can do it whenever.

>that 1 faggot that joins the expedition with a disgusting male character

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>Demon fusion

Like persona? Lol

Does anyone know what the pre-order armor set looks like?

You and me both, but it suits the character I was going for.

Sword of meditation is the most alpha move in the entire game

&3Pqu8h7nBTRi
saved it from another thread

No, you just fuse spare soul cores into one you actually care about to increase it's level.

But that's the whole point of Yokai shift.

>mfw I joined a random expedition with Kasumi and Momiji

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>make reference to one of the most iconic boss fights of all time
>but it's a shit miniboss 2 NPC fight

>Going with a waifu squad only to get them slaughtered while the last one witnessing her partner's deaths is pissing herself pleading for her life before getting lifted in the air and stretched to death by that ugly yokai with a bunch of arms

Pretty sure it's called an undercut and yeah, it's the millennial/Gen X zoomer haircut of choice. You see it being incorporated into a lot of games nowadays. There are different variations of it but usually it involves shaving the sides really short and living the top long.

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I know. But nobody does that.

good taste. Twirling around in it was pretty neat

It was mainly because it was a 'medium' armour set that weighed fuck all and could still stay under 30% with ease.

>fights you in burning tower
>dual wielding reverse grip katana and rifle
>raven wings
>literally teleports behind u
>begins fight by basically saying nuthin personnel
This was such a hilariously edgy boss

What gets me is how some enemy gets no hitstun at all, so when fighting multiple enemies you can't even use some attacks and even if it's just one like those gollum guys they'll fucking hit you through your combos.

And that's a good thing. I liked him and the fight

>dsp died like 40 times to him

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>glass cannon switchglaive
Just IMAGINE. Can't wait.

We did butthere's no reason to replay it at all.

Thank you, autism-kun.

>one of the most iconic boss fights of all time

zoooooooooooooooooom

Thanks mate. By far the best looking female I've seen in Nioh threads.

He was pretty fun, it was hilarious shooting him out of the sky into the fire
What an embarrassing guy

cute girls can absolutely rock the side shaved hair cut. They just have to have the right face ad attitude for it.

2nd DLC was fucking dogshit tier. That entire level which was like an outside curve where the entire time you had to deal with the archers on the completely exposed top section was the worst level design I've ever seen.

Give at leas one (1) example of this atrocity.

And that's an achievement, considering it's hard not to make a hot waifu in this game excluding the trap makers

Mezuki is trivial with or without burst counter.

Plus the bosses were lame compared to centipede dude and date/maria

>was in a relationship with a Yokai

Both still look like absolute shit, I can't believe this game didn't improve visuals at all.

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it did improve and it looks gorgeous. Fuck off will you.

Gross.
You tried.

>make reference to one of the most iconic boss fights of all time
?

>Shaved head on a girl looks attractive

No it doesn't. That girl would look more attractive with non shaved sides. Years ago I only saw edgy teenage girls and goth/emo chicks rocking the shaved sides. Most of them were lesbian or looked like drug addicts who skipped school or had problems at home.

>here take this oh 17 piece of shit
>get one that's like lv 40 two missions later
Hate leveled loot. Hated the entirety of the loot system in the last fucking game and I doubt that will change now.

In terms of full sets that had to be pretty much my favourite, the coat is top tier.

as I get older I find I have less and less patience for trial and error combat like in this game. I don't have fun eating shit on a boss until I learn how to deal with every one of their moves, I like things I can actually react to intuitively

You seem awfully grumpy there, bud. I bet you could use a hug right about now.

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Thats based tho

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fuck visuals, higher and stable frame rate is much more important

If only this idiot was frugal and lived within his means, he could retire within the next 10 years from all the streaming and YouTube bux he has made over the years. But he had to waste it all.

How does co op work in this one? Is it that same dumb shit as the first one where you can’t actually play it with a friend because you have to have already completed a mission to get summoned to it?

>homo replies

What a shocker

I'm sorry that you feel that way, old man.

Is this a Japanese juggalo?

>easily handle every other class
>get consistently bodied by this fat fuck
I hate these guys

>says the faggot who likes bald women

she's literally not bald though

I wasn't saying that it wasn't

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New thread or do we wait to march 13rd?

Does the game kick you out once midnight arrives?

>what are expeditions

Then she needs to fire her hairdresser because he accidentally shaved half of her head.

whatever you say, tinker bell

Remembering these move names is gonna be a nightmare, but I want to add my own thoughts so here we go...
Low quick does pretty significant damage now with the buff, you can safely dish out quite a lot in any situation where you might not want to commit. Low strong feels like Kusa low strong which is an amazing string and here it can benefit from switch attacks.
Mind's Edge also works on every attack, like Earthly Flow.
Empty Retribution completely lost the niche it had when they buffed high strong, and Focused Retribution isn't worth using if you're not charging it due to it being the same or slower and doing the same damage as high strong, where quicks would give more utility.
Divine Retribution's speed buff makes it downright incredible as a general damage opener and positioning tool.
Infinite Retribution shits out damage if you can spin on them for a full bar, it's an excellent Water Sword style skill.
Merciful Retribution is really heavy hitting for the speed it comes out at, assuming this is the one that spins the scythe and moves forward.
I think the importance of a lot of skills in general comes from the stance they can be performed in letting you adjust them through the skill attacks, with that in mind many that seem weak get a lot of new life.

>go for finishing blow
>he survives with 1 hp
>mfw i see orange

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Get straight, fag.

...

Wish my waifu could get an armor set like that.

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I stopped playing before they balanced it more but for me it was
>about to kill him
>asshole teammate comes in for a kill steal and hits me in the back with a heavy
>fat boi activates super saiyan mode

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These comments get my dick hard, after bopping the bosses. Babbys need to git gud.
I barely even played Nioh 1.

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