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Ok I'm on my first playthrough, I'm at the Snow Fortress with the butterflies and as my first PS4 experience I think this is one of the coolest games I've ever played. All the bosses are cool, I like Kodama Hunting (to a point), and I'm really enjoying the very 3.5 D&D feeling of the Equipment. I'm a shinobi, wearing this awesome monkey mask that the Nue dropped, and I basically just use everything, even the Axe, although it's the hardest one to use. I like Guardian Spirits but I wish they happened more often. How far am I into the game? Is there a big difficulty spike coming up? I'm a Platinum games vet and I've always stalled out on Dark Souls because I feel like combat was too samey for it being the entire game basically. Nioh has me all over the place and I'm already planning to swap over to full Omnyo mage for NG+.
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May 22, 2017 03:53
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Bust Rodd posted:Ok I'm on my first playthrough, I'm at the Snow Fortress with the butterflies and as my first PS4 experience I think this is one of the coolest games I've ever played. You have a fair bit more to get through buddy (half the main game at least). I've gone back to Bloodborne and I think I am enjoying it more because of Nioh. I'm a hyper aggressive idiot thanks to Team Ninja reminding me that balls to the wall speed is a joy, while wrapping it in a package that roughly translates across to a From game. There isn't a big difficulty spike in NG, in fact you are probably through the most difficult parts given you have some skills and levels now. The DLC along with Way of the Strong and Demon on the other hand will test you and your gear rating. There are also challenge missions once you beat the game (boss/samurai rushes essentially) that will make you tear your loving hair out, but also make you feel like an absolute beast when you get through them.
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May 22, 2017 04:23
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The snow mission boss is probably one of the hardest ones. I feel like the difficulty was downhill after that.
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May 22, 2017 04:27
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OK dumb question. I have the Nioh Alpha saved in my library. Does it do anything without also having the Beta? or can I not access that DLC with having completed both?
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May 22, 2017 17:00
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What are you talking about?
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May 22, 2017 17:05
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An Alpha save gives you the Gold Nioh Armor, Beta gives you Sanada set. They don't affect anything else
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May 22, 2017 17:17
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Bust Rodd posted:OK dumb question. I have the Nioh Alpha saved in my library. Does it do anything without also having the Beta? or can I not access that DLC with having completed both? You are waaaaaaay past the time any sort of alpha or beta are relevant. You need to be playing the normal, purchased game now. KingShiro posted:An Alpha save gives you the Gold Nioh Armor Everyone gets the gold nioh armor.
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May 22, 2017 17:17
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I just looked it up, it was a helmet that you can still get in the full game that they gave you if you had beaten the alpha/beta/final trial. nvm
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May 22, 2017 17:25
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So there's a roughly translated interview with Nioh's director on Reddit. Fairly standard development stuff, but there's a few gems in there:quote:- At first they thought of a world with dark theme so female character was not needed but after consideration that 90% player of this game are male. Sexy Fuku was summoned. quote:- They worried about how much the people outside japan will perceive Youkai. There are something cute, something grotesque, horrifying. Director: "Is there anyone had a first look at Nurikabe and said, WTF is this" lol 
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May 22, 2017 18:51
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I was going through the enemy models in the memory viewer thing and only then noticed that the umbrella enemies are actually legs standing on giant wooden platform sandals. That was pretty WTF  That and seeing that the summoning guitars are actually alive and just using a corpse to play themselves were really neat touches.
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May 23, 2017 00:33
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So I'm still in my original game, no NG+ or anything, and I just joined a game in co-op where the host was one-shotting everything and had the Ginchiyo skin... was that just someone already to the end-game farming an old level for something? Can you even get to the point where you're practically one-shotting everything in NG vs NG+/etc? (or does the NG+ stuff work differently in Nioh?)
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May 23, 2017 06:06
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You can get to that point very easily. Way of the Demon equipment scales very quickly making the old content very redundant, and certain builds can even make WOTD content redundant (I can now complete Restless Spirits in less than thirty seconds...). That player was probably just doing Random Encounters through the Torii gate. At the moment there's no difficulty filtering so they'll get plopped into any game where a cup's being offered. Takes No Damage posted:I was going through the enemy models in the memory viewer thing and only then noticed that the umbrella enemies are actually legs standing on giant wooden platform sandals. That was pretty WTF I've mentioned it before but the  some Yokai pull when you smash their horns is hilarious. There's a ton of great little touches in the animations and monster design; as much as I hate loving WHEELMONKS, the way they bounce and struggle against their hair bindings is fantastically well done.
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May 23, 2017 07:44
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poptart_fairy posted:That player was probably just doing Random Encounters through the Torii gate. At the moment there's no difficulty filtering so they'll get plopped into any game where a cup's being offered. I wasn't the one offering the cup, I was the one being a visitor.
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May 23, 2017 07:50
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Oh, hmm. Maybe they were just trying to farm certain monster items, or going for revenants, or something. Got me there. 
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May 23, 2017 07:52
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poptart_fairy posted:That player was probably just doing Random Encounters through the Torii gate. At the moment there's no difficulty filtering so they'll get plopped into any game where a cup's being offered. Oh I meant to ask about this; does that work the other way as well? If I were to try that to find a co-op game, would it potentially drop me into a NG+ or higher game?
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May 23, 2017 08:14
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At the rate my PvP matches are going, it would take me less time to wait for the clan fights to finish to get the skin I want then to actually keep playing PvP. 
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May 23, 2017 08:22
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Magus42 posted:Oh I meant to ask about this; does that work the other way as well? If I were to try that to find a co-op game, would it potentially drop me into a NG+ or higher game? Only if you've completed the mission before on that difficulty.
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May 23, 2017 08:49
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Played coop with my friend last night and a Kappa dropped +11 Odachi with Enemy Attacking and Enemy Electrified dmg ups, Lightning element and innate Weaken Melee. Put that thing to good use right away. Also found my first Yasakani Magatama. A fine Nioh to you WaltherFeng fucked around with this message at 18:18 on May 23, 2017 |
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May 23, 2017 09:42
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I'm currently doing a lot of Gourd farming to grab another Amrita gain Yasakani. At level 360 though I suspect I'll hit level 400 before I earn that bonus experience.
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May 23, 2017 14:42
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poptart_fairy posted:Only if you've completed the mission before on that difficulty. Ah, good. Thanks.
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May 23, 2017 16:54
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Purple number status effect is ki damage right?
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May 24, 2017 02:35
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So it is the summer and I finally have some time. Is this a thing I should buy? I've played all of the souls games though a number of times, and have enjoyed them immensely. In general, I liked the giant weapons full of giantness, like the great club, pizza cutter, and ledo's. So a lot of two handing tree trunks, really. I can be flexible there though. Would this be a thing I would enjoy? My Bloodborne machine is pretty dusty, not having been turned on for ages.
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May 24, 2017 02:41
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Filthy Monkey posted:So it is the summer and I finally have some time. Is this a thing I should buy? I've played all of the souls games though a number of times, and have enjoyed them immensely. In general, I liked the giant weapons full of giantness from souls games. Lots of two handing tree trunks. I can be flexible there though. Would this be a thing I would enjoy? My Bloodborne machine is pretty dusty, not having been turned on for ages. If you do invest, get the expansion. It gives you the other gigantic doomweapon, the odachi, to go with the axe.
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May 24, 2017 02:47
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poptart_fairy posted:I'm currently doing a lot of Gourd farming to grab another Amrita gain Yasakani. At level 360 though I suspect I'll hit level 400 before I earn that bonus experience. How do you farm that poo poo? Do some way of the demon then go farm it, or do you have a build I don't use? I haven't started Demon because I went back to Bloodborne, which is a loving easy game once you've spent a shitload of time on Nioh and have tuned up your reaction times to superhuman levels.
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May 24, 2017 03:17
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Alteisen posted:Purple number status effect is ki damage right? I'm pretty sure you are talking about Earth damage. Ki damage is not presented by numbers.
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May 24, 2017 05:12
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WaltherFeng posted:I'm pretty sure you are talking about Earth damage. Right earth damage, it affects Ki?
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May 24, 2017 05:49
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Alteisen posted:Right earth damage, it affects Ki? If you stick earth they will burn double ki. Works nicely with the ki regen reducing talisman.
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May 24, 2017 06:00
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Finding about the Torii gate random encounter has been amazing.
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May 24, 2017 07:29
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Co-operative is fun, isn't it? JBP posted:How do you farm that poo poo? Do some way of the demon then go farm it, or do you have a build I don't use? Well, this this is my Marobashi farm and the Return of the Gourd goes similar - just instead of using amrita buffs I have Shadowround Talisman instead.  It's a shuriken/kunai build so it's quite cheesy really. I have 22% Thrown Damage x 2 on four bits of equipment, 22% Thrown Damage on an accessory and my fifth piece of armour, and another lump of 18% kunai/shuriken damage on the gloves. 25% Killing Strike bonus. Basically it's a case of twatting the basic skeletons with throwing weapons or my kusa/swords, and using groundfire trap to eliminate the revenants. When Oda springs in I hit him with weakness and burn him down, then kite the Obsidian Samurai around. 3x Kingo with the Atagi. 2x Master Swordsman, with the swords. I'll chuck together proper details later.
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May 24, 2017 10:00
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Is there any info inside of the game about which elements interact with which? I'm trying to not look up anything and only read from inside the game but I can't find anything about "wind is good vs fire but weak to earth" or anything like that.
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May 24, 2017 13:48
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Bust Rodd posted:Is there any info inside of the game about which elements interact with which? The best way to check is to look at character and yokai profiles in the Amrita Memories. Those list elemental strengths and weaknesses for those enemies. I think you need to switch pages with R2 or something.
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May 24, 2017 13:54
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Bust Rodd posted:Is there any info inside of the game about which elements interact with which? I think The only way to know for sure is to check Amrita memories > Yokai illustrations There's no definitive elemental cycle. Just some repeating pattens but an enemy with obvious element might not be weak to anything at all (Or vice versa an enemy with no obvious element is weak to multiple)
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May 24, 2017 13:56
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poptart_fairy posted:Co-operative is fun, isn't it? Very much so, but previously I had to go from mission to mission hitting square and hope I found someone, which meant a lot of downtime occasionally x.x
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May 24, 2017 16:13
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Stumbled into the Giant Centipede boss and beat him first try. I feel like a god. I'm like 18 levels past the suggested level 
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May 24, 2017 16:55
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SMP posted:Stumbled into the Giant Centipede boss and beat him first try. I feel like a god. the centipede also wasn't all that difficult of a fight to be honest.
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May 24, 2017 17:32
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I had trouble with the Centipede until I figured out the trick and got the timing down (he has a little head-fake before he does his real crush attack, as I recall)
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May 24, 2017 17:36
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I kited him around one pillar over and over. Just block one attack then hide behind the pillar while he shoots something. He has a massive window where you can attack him afterwards.
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May 24, 2017 17:45
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SMP posted:Stumbled into the Giant Centipede boss and beat him first try. I feel like a god. It's an easy boss fight
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May 24, 2017 18:07
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Magus42 posted:Very much so, but previously I had to go from mission to mission hitting square and hope I found someone, which meant a lot of downtime occasionally x.x Ahaha, oh man that sucks. I do like to act as a Visitor for the twilight missions (you can get about 6k glory for beating them) but otherwise yeah, Random is the way to go.
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I'l tell you what is pissing my off though, the bridge fight with the giant axe dude. gently caress him (i'm probably just really bad though)
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May 24, 2017 18:23
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