Ghost of Starman posted:

Just picked this up in the sale, and already glad I did. Still super-early (at the very end of the burning fishing village, I think), so I'll try not to ask too many questions that can be answered by "just keep playing" but uh... I'm kind of overwhelmed by the variety of weapon choices, and how deep you can seemingly go into one weapon-type while not locking yourself out of anything else. What's a good stat-level to say "okay, this is what I want to commit to" and start going heavy into the DPS stat for that weapon? And are ninjutsu/onmyo powerful enough on their own to be the primary focus of a build?

And a mechanics-related question that the game hasn't done a good job of clarifying: I - and sometimes enemies - sometimes go down to empty/red ki bars, but don't actually get stuck in the "winded" condition. Is that something bugging out, or is it that you only get winded if you try to do a ki-spending action while at 0? (I ask primarily because I've gone in multiple times to get a finisher on enemies with empty ki bars, only to find out oops, no they're not finisher-vulnerable, they were just temporarily out of stamina, and I'm still not sure I understand the distinction.)

Magus42 posted:

Have you not done any of the earlier missions in Kyushu or Chugoku either?

Fargin Icehole posted:

wizard on a water slide posted:

Oh, what the gently caress is with revenants? Like, how does the game determine their AI?

Because some of them literally just spam the same attack until they run out of stamina over and over and others are on some fourth-dimensional endgame PVP poo poo with no rhyme or reason as to why.

Also what's with this big bitch on the bridge jfc

Ghost of Starman posted:

Ah, thank you. Follow-up question: when you say 'spend all your points on two weapons' do you mean samurai skillpoints, or the governing stat, or both? Like, if you want to do spears+swords, you'll have really good Health + Ki scores to go with, but if you want Tonfa+Axes you'll be more fragile (because your stats will be mainly in Strength+Skill)?

ArkInBlack posted:

I think doing DLC on the previous difficult counts for unlocking Regions on the next difficulty up.

RatHat posted:

You unlock them from completing main missions.

Ghost of Starman posted:

Ah, thank you. Follow-up question: when you say 'spend all your points on two weapons' do you mean samurai skillpoints, or the governing stat, or both? Like, if you want to do spears+swords, you'll have really good Health + Ki scores to go with, but if you want Tonfa+Axes you'll be more fragile (because your stats will be mainly in Strength+Skill)?

Sexual Aluminum posted:

But you can't do some of them unless you have 10, 15 or 20 dex for ninja, magic for omyio, or weapon proficiency for melee.

DatonKallandor posted:

He is Immortal which is something that kind of sets him a step above everyone else. Except maybe Nobunaga, who could be but says gently caress this I'd rather hang out in hell with my bros.

wizard on a water slide posted:

Actually, come to think of it, iai dude and the lady samurai ally were the same way. Anybody whose take on this game is "ugh, they made another white savior narrative" presumably never played it, because I'm pretty sure William is the weakest man in Japan.

SkeletonHero posted:

Everyone in the game is a historical figure, in fact. Even Derrick the Executioner.

Shima Honnou posted:

William was a real person, believe it or not, and actually had a somewhat important role (although obviously not save the world levels) so it's not like they made him out of whole cloth, either.

Max Wilco posted:

I like that they did give an explanation for that at the end of the game, because I (and maybe some others) probably just went, "Oh, it's supposed to be like the Dark Souls system, so you just respawn at the last checkpoint when you die" and didn't really give it any thought about how it made sense in-universe.

RatHat posted:

William Wallace was a sailor, not a warrior.

Neurosis posted:

The explanation for respawning comes pretty early on, or at least is implies. Saorse says as long as she is with William he can't die (I gather Kelley having her doesn't affect that). When you die without a guardian spirit Saorse appears on the screen as you respawn

Ghost of Starman posted:

I mean, it's a little goofy that he apparently learned... what? Five or six martial arts, and two different types of magic, from apparently reading some other foreigner's accounts of how they worked? (Still not very far in, so I'm hoping there's a little more to it than that, but on the face of it that seems to be what happened.) I was hoping at the least that Our Hero would have to actually, y'know, meet a real-life ninja and wacky prayer-strip sorcerer before he could start delving into the more esoteric arts of Glorious Zipangu.

(thank you to folks that pointed out helpful passives in the weapon trees, I have a much better idea what I want to build towards now)

Azran posted:

One thing I really like about Nioh over Dark Souls is having my own stable of badass Pokemon spirits. While I was going through the base game again I used spirits as I unlocked them and there's so much variety, I love it. For serious stuff it's back to Kate/Bisha's Centipede, but meanwhile I love trying out the other spirits. I also learned, after two and a half playthroughs, that you can press the Living Weapon key combination while in LW to unleash magical attacks.

RatHat posted:

They changed it since release so you don't need to complete a mission before you can co-op it. There are still some singleplayer-only missions though(notably the tutorial mission).