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I am ashamed to say i stuck in first location. I'l go kill myself.

>Japans answer to dark souls

What did she mean by this?

>>13779369

so far I'm on the third bit of land and just beat the spider in OP

Gotta say its got a lot easier once I got a feel for it.

Is the port well optimized?

>Nioh

STATE OF YOUR INVENTORY SYSTEM, MATE

>>13779382

>>13779375

>>13779395

>>13779438

>>13779442

>Taking the bait.

>>13779437

What the hell is "normative people"

>>13779481

Reddit

DA43DD8B4B3D3511AD6D370FEAFBA47DC1588B9D

To newbies starting with spear, put your first 3 points into Spear Shove and learn to love it.

Its your cheapest/safest guard breaker and you'll be spamming it forever until you decide to become the parry god.

By the way guys. If you do the threaten gesture at the hidden wall monsters.

They apologize, bow and disappear without a fight. They also leave loot.

>the dark souls of japanese games.

Does the online features add more to the game? I pirated it and want to buy it after I get Resident evil 4

>>13779629

Co OP and PvP, and some online stuff about battling clans I haven't figured out. And I think you can only change your skin with the online on.

>>13779622

Not quite. Each wall monster reacts differently to a particular type of gesture each time, with one type being the "correct" gesture. You get about two chances before it gets pissed off and attacks.

>>13779397

>I do hope Tokugawa's kept reasonably neutral.

HA HA HA.

So how does co-op work?

say I wanna farm umi what would be the best way to do this

>>13779676

Go to the Torii gate from the starting point, select random encounter with condition set to that mission, and hope you get invoked,

>no mouse support

I fucking dreamed about headshotoing human enemies with rifles, too bad. Old rifles and muskets are my secret /k/ fetish and I just can't stand with the thumbpad aiming.

>>13779889

For >>13779656

Decided to buy it for reasons, wanted to transfer my pirate save to the purchased game. It errors that this save is for a different user. Anyone know of a way to hack the save so that it works?

>>13780045

>buying this shit

You are the cancer.

>>13780045

So what I'm planning to do is create a couple of accounts via family share, then compare the saves via hex editor. If I can find the line that changes between accounts I can copy that over from my main account onto the pirate save

>>13779929

You can change keybindings; it just doesn't change the icons, which gets really confusing.

>>13780100

SUCCESS

All I had to do was copy over the first 3 lines from the "legit" save into the pirate save

>>13780178

All AMD installed with my drivers was an optimizer program. I don't really need it but it did come in handy for witcher 3 which was notoriously rigged against AMD stuff.

>>13780195

You can legit pause by going into the menu and then pressing start.

>>13780195

press select then start

>>13780202

>>13780204

Oh, okay, thanks.

>>13780186

>>13780185

I think I might have 0ed out my Glory doing it this way. I probably copied over something I shouldn't have, but at least I have my progress

>>13780212

Yep, lost almost 2000 Glory points, but my name DID change. The pirate version I was using (fitgirl repack) was initialized to "player".

>>13779411

Yes, Koei tecmo finally got their shit together and did a decent port, performance is really good on almost any rig and i am 1 crash on more than 20 hours of gameplay

can i transfer my pirated saves if I buy the game..

>>13780245

Someone just did that here

>>13780186

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>>13780100

Looking forward to it after I'm done with Witcher 3. Though I might take a break from swords, magic and monsters for a bit. I'll have to see. The alphas and betas didn't grab me too much though, despite me loving Dark Souls and Onimusha.

>>13780313

I'm aware of that, its just that I was/am playing the Witcher series when Nioh released.

>play the third level

>get the best sword in the game so far

Why though? When do I get a cool new light/medium set? Just beat the blob.

>>13780406

For a light armor set you could farm the adept ninja training

>>13780409

There should also be the tactitions set from act 1 you can craft

>>13779397

>I do hope Tokugawa's kept reasonably neutral.

Well he is shown to be a complete asshole time and time again. It's just that Kelley is far, far worse.

>>13780383

So you can get your vitamin C, for Carnage

I suppose I would enjoy this story more if I knew shit about Japan history and what these yokai demon things are

Like outside my SMT knowledge I don't know shit

>>13780247

oh man i guess i ctrl+f "pirated" instead of "pirate".. i think i'll go buy it

if it's as easy as changing 3 lines that'd be great; I don't want to replay the first 2 regions..

>>13780469

There's a button to view country map, which lets you select any region you've been to even if you shouldn't be able to go there for story reasons. The only mission you can't seem to repeat at any time is the prologue. X by default with an xbox controller (would be square on a playstation one)

>>13780444

If you really like light armor then you are probably going to go Red Demon. Like everyone else does early in the game. Later on you can wear Harvy Birdman's edgelord armor.

>>13780459

https://infogalactic.com/info/List_of_legendary_creatures_from_Japan

READ NIGGA READ

>>13780479

>They definitely could use some kind of glossary, I haven't found one but maybe I missed it.

There is sort of one in the amrita memories tab.

This is actually a little informative about the background of the game.

I still laugh at it.

>>13780487

How early do you mean for Red Demon, because as far as I can tell I haven't come across the missions for it yet and I'm halfway through the third region

>>13780478

Oh thanks, I wouldn't have noticed that myself.

>>13780444

on the second floor of the boat there's a part of the floor that breaks if you stand on it, theres a kodama, a chest and a big skeleton warrior in there.

>Warrior of the West armor everywhere

>Nami-Oyogi Kanemitsu

>not a single Raiken, the best weapon for WotS

Fucking PC "gaymers", I just want my 200 toughness.

>>13780520

WotW and Red Demon are going to be fucking everywhere until the later levels.

>>13780520

Don't you already have the Raikiri smithing text?

>>13779448

>responding with a sage is "taking the bait"

go back to 4cuckz

>>13780444

well yes and no.. it depends on your style

if you block a lot you will want heavy armor because it reduces ki used for block

so far I am using 4 pieces raging bull, 2 pieces wotw, and the raging bull spirit for 20% more effective block..

but yeah 3 hits pretty much kills me as well, though I haven't leveled life a lot.. i have like 10-13 points in it

>>13780566

I'm using Odachi/Kusarigama, but I was still wondering why nobody's using it. It's arguably the best choice for NG progression.

>>13780528

I remember the Red Demon set, but I think nobody was using WotW beyond the second area on PS4.

Been enjoying the game and trying to go in blind, but I am looking for a bit of gear advice. My weapons are odachi main and twirly sticks offhand with a build focused on melee. Should I gear up with heavy armor or stick with medium armor like I have been doing so far? Character is low 40s and at the third world map for reference.

>>13780511

>Other than the skeletons most everything else is based on an actual youkai

Seems like it; my knowledge of the subject is pretty limited at the end of the day.

Also I was pretty disappointed by their depiction of the umibôzu, a big part of what made this monster is the simple, almost comical appearance made mysterious and threatening by its size and the fact it's right in the middle of the sea. Turning it into a blob is kind of missing the point I think.

It's the only one I've got any problem with though, the yokai are otherwise pretty neat.

Serpent Strike+Foot Sweep+Final Blow=dead revenant. It's actually TOO easy. I also switch to an Odachi for the final blow since the kusarigama damage is kind of low for that.

>>13780756

And for Youkai, I just spam low power attacks. The low power attack combo with the Kusarigama is actually its most damaging combo AND it applies elemental status reliably in a single combo. I have a lightning Kusarigama, so that means enemy attacks are drastically slowed.

>mid stance only : allows ki pulse to be used even when dodging

>actual translation : dodge now activates ki pulse for all weapons and stances

Thanks for making me opt out of a retardedly useful skill, tooltip writer.

>>13780798

It's for all weapons yes, but there should be a separate one for each stance

>>13780767

>And for Youkai

Important piece of information:

You can leg sweep little skeletons with kusa or spear.

>>13779889

You basically single-handedly win the war for Tokugawa, and he gets all the credit for it

>>13780819

I wouldn't be surprised if you could leg sweep the big ones too, but you can't drag them to you, which also happens to stun them long enough to leg sweep, hence the combo

>>13780824

As long as you get your waifu back

>>13780798

Yeah, and I feel like every characters is just babbling some nonsense about china instead of real story.

>>13780827

You defiantly can't leg sweep the big ones but if you serpent strike them right as they are about to do their big overhead axe slam then you will rocket pass them and end up behind them, usually with no damage.

>>13780161

>I can't imagine it being a holdover from the bloodborne box, so that's a strange order of priorities.

PS4 has a suspend feature so it's kinda similar.

>>13780842

The game has a bestiary, character directory, and summary for those who don't know Japanese history and the historical figures.

>>13780896

I believe you need a certain amount of points in a stat in order to activate particular set bonuses, but it's been a while since I played.

>>13780896

The stat requirements are at the bottom of the weapon's info page

>can't rebind

>terrible performance and optimization

>constant crashes

>people getting 15fps with recommended hardware

>10/10 bretty gud port

And all /v/ did was take the dark souls bait

>>13780901

>>13780921

Fuck, Body is two points too low. Thanks.

>>13780945

Werks on my machine

>>13780971

Yeah, Tecmo Koei makes the Nobunaga's Ambition and Samurai Warriors games ironically.

>>13781022

Damn, this is a good feature. Its like reverse of what Elex did, where stat requirements gone up 10 points when you upgrade equipment.

>>13781031

It's less important with weapons since they don't have stat requirements but there are still forge bonuses that can't be reforged onto an item. You can only get it when the item is first forged or dropped.

Of course being able to make purple or green tier equipment on demand is a good bonus even on it's own.

>>13780178

use greenshot to take screenshots.

I noticed there was an upgrade for bare hands in the one of the weapon trees. I think it was the kusarigama. How viable is an unarmed build?

>>13780893

I was confused by this since I just couldn't find it in the amrita memories, but it turns out it's only accessible on the world map for some reason.

>>13781130

There's a running upgrade for for bare handed damage (as well as one for ranged and for melee) at the bottom of all the weapon trees. There's also a specific barehanded upgrade in the ninjutsu tree and a barehanded attack called composure. There's also a self buff called talasman of the fist under either ninja or onmyo.

How does this game expect me to stick with dual swords when it keeps handing me stupid good single swords?

I already respeced once

>>13779540

It's also great to have all the ninja tools thanks to dexterity.

>>13781439

Soulmatching.

>>13781439

that is a bit annoying, you'd think that with a loot system like this, you'd get the option to at least pick from several quest rewards.. 90% swords so far

>>13781439

Honestly I just go with whatever best weapon the game gives me at any given point. It's been mostly swords, odachis and axes, with a kusarigama at the spider level. The base movesets are good enough that I don't feel the need to specialize in fancy comboes yet.

>>13781552

This is where I am right now. And trick for evading the spike barrage?

>>13781565

Running sideways was enough for me, but I have light gear.

>>13781572

It failed a few times so I gave up one that. Not sure why it didn't work. Have light armor + ninja set and the ninjutsu speed passive.

>>13781591

>Warrior of the West?

Nah, Head of the Iga Ninja. Although I assume Warrior of the West is pretty good heavier armor since pretty much all the Revenants seem to wear it.

>>13781612

>Head of the Iga

I love shitting out a non-stop stream of shuriken.

>>13781577

>>13781572

No Idea what I was doing. It just worked. 20 tries before and now I beat her on the first. Went so fast she didn't even use her grapple.

are there any mods for Nioh yet?

>>13781591

>summoned from the spirit realm as Kelley's trump card

>flexes a bit in William's direction, then flips Kelley the bird and fucks back off to slay gay oni in gay oni hell

p. good

>>13779369

Tower or the part afterwards?

if the part afterwards then same, spent like 3 hours in that fucking shitty place only to realise a small path around the back

Does the PC version have all the DLC?

>>13781957

>>13781951

Might have to check it out then. Pretty much the only reason I'd give Nioh a minus is the lack of content (or to be exact, too much re-used content and levels).

>>13781976

>Is there anything wrong with wearing Heavy Armour?

Not really, no. You'll be a bit slower than A rating players but you'll be tougher. Some modifiers on weapons even improve your attack depending on how heavy or light your equipment is.

>>13781957

>its missing some exclusive items they couldnt get the rights for from PS release though

Like what?

>>13781976

Nope not a bit if you can manage a high enough agility. You can usually get to A agility if you swap the helmet for something else if you don't need the complets set bonus or if you have that special item equipped.

>dual kat

Just wait until you see the 2kat heavy armor set.

>>13781976

200 Toughness is the magic mark where you can poise through most lighter attacks. It's possible to stay at green encumbrance (<70% load) and achieve 200 toughness with 20 Stamina.

Going lighter or heavier is up to you your style of play. Heavy armor facilitates blocking, light dodging.

>>13782082

That one's a very specific drop, and iirc, there's no smithing text for it either, right?

Are Tonfa good? I think this is the first game I've played that have Tonfa as an option, but all I've ever found is Redwood Tonfa and I usually end up using my Kusarigama once I start getting my shit pushed in.

>>13782082

Ah yeah I had some warrior monk stuff I picked up mixed in with my regular stuff earlier on, although I'm still on my first playthrough

>>13782057

Apparently

Nioh Armor

Golden Nioh Armor

Sanada(First Set)

Dragon's Visitor Kabuto

Fox Kabuto

Tanuki Kabuto

Although I ripped this from a reddit post couldnt find any info on it elsewhere yet but I know I saw some official word on it before

>>13780479

Every famous person they introduce has enough info about them that you'd need to know from their introductory and spirit cutscenes. All the Sengoku stuff is meant as the backdrop for William's quest rather than the quest itself. Also there's a ton of extra info for all the Yokai and characters in the game, just in the menu.

>>13782127

Locked behind "Kill enemy 5 times" shit though.

>>13782101

Not unless they added it to the abyss I don't think so.

On the plus side it's relatively easy to get it from the mini boss that one mission since it's just him on the bridge well him and a tengu on higher difficulties. Getting the drop at a high rarity might take some farming though.

>>13782122

>Sanada(First Set)

The hell? They even gave that to Sanada as a drop for everyone in the final DLC.

>>13782132

>Locked behind "Kill enemy 5 times" shit

Don't worry. You'll be killing them far more than 5 times before it's all over.

>>13782132

Just do some co op

>>13782132

Sounds like someone's left a little iodized from getting shigeshige'd.

How bad is it that it took me 20 attempts to kill the boss on the ship in the beginning? I only won in the end because I finally summoned someone to help me.

>>13782159

Become proficient. You're gonna have a hell of a time fighting the next boss.

>>13782159

Pretty bad, since they nerfed the fight almost completely from the betas. But it's one of the least fun fights in the game anyway due to the enclosed space and the hitboxes for the chainballs are a bit wonky.

>>13782159

Don't worry about it anon you'll get plenty of rematches with him.

>>13782159

The angle in which the Onryoki throws his iron balls in phase two is a bit bullshit, considering their damage, but you should get used to the timing and just use your iframes.

You will completely redefine the meaning of "bullshit" once you get to the DLC bosses

Especially 2kat pirate and Lady Maria of the Amrita Storehouse

>>13782132

That's great though. It incentivizes playing more to learn more.

>>13782159

All his attacks are easy to dodge if you aren't greedy. The only thing that might take you off guard is the jumping ground pound. Just roll through him instead of back.

>>13782193

The timing is always exactly the same with his ball throws, it needs to be accurate to actually pose a threat, and it used to be even more accurate.

>>13782198

You can be much greedier if you use Ki Pulse, and stuff like his spin is blockable. That's pretty much what the fight wants of you, to learn how to use Ki Pulse to do maximum damage and still be more than capable of dashing out or blocking.

In all seriousness if you're having trouble with Oni-sempai then use slow inflecting abilities until you get the hang of things.

>>13782204

>You are going to be the next rape victim of the second boss if you don't get used to the game.

<Game rewards you for being bad

Shit game

>>13782212

Those are more of a crutch than anything, Onryoki and Hinoenma are important for learning the basics of the flow of combat, skipping that shouldn't be encouraged or really possible.

>>13782256

There's another boss towards the end of the base game that I would consider to be more obnoxious than the centipede.

I have some questions about respec books. Is there another source than buying them from tea shop or blacksmith that is also infinite? Does the price for the blacksmith reach a cap or does the item sell out?

>>13782256

I beat centipede first try, what's so wrong with him?

>>13782317

Which one? I also thought centipede was the most annoying fight due to the area design and poison fumes.

>>13782349

I thought Gasha-dokuro was more boring than fun to fight than the centipede.

>>13782390

Meant annoying instead of boring.

>>13782390

Oh yeah, I actually forgot about it since it was such a boring fight.

>>13782419

Get some antiparalytic needles or resistance talismans, or alternatively just avoid her scream.

>>13782419

Stay pretty close and bait here to do moves like the umbrella combo, dodge and punish.

>>13782419

If you get hit you can block faster than you can dodge. The only stunlock is if she paralyses you, which you can cure or avoid easily. She's much slower than she looks and you're much faster than you think.

>>13782429

bring paralysis needles for them, farm arrows for a bow and fire at her in the air for massive ki damage and get in some free heavy strikes.

Finally just summon someone you nigger if you cant do it

>>13782472

speaking of that is there an easy way to farm glory? the ninja lady is fucking 90k.

>>13782390

At it's worst it's not as bad as centipede because you can basically start the fight when ever you want, where as you always have to work you way through the mines to fight the centipede. You can also finish Gash much faster if you can do enough damage and you have several avenues of attack. That fucking centipede constantly cycles so even if you come back at a later at a higher level he still ends up running away once or twice before you can finish him.

>>13782480

you get way more glory NG+ apparently, Best I can farm at the moment is around 100 max

You could also get an easy clan and dump shit into them

>>13782485

>where as you always have to work you way through the mines to fight the centipede

There's a shortcut right from the shine to him with no enemies.

Did the port get patched? I heard it has some issues with crashing.

>tfw my toaster cant run this

At least i got a refund.

>>13782497

26 hours in and no crash.

>>13782507

It's sad how little I make it to the boss with the invoker. And they don't realize that is they enter the boss room without me I'll just be teleported there.

>>13782480

>respec

>put absolutely minimum amount of levels into your character that you can get away with

>store the rest in silbar after you have maxed out its rate of return

>go fight the highest level revenants that you can find

>>13782492

No I mean when you start the stage from scratch.

You can drop into Gash's pit in less than a minute after starting that level if you decide to ignore the three crystals.

i play using only 1 weapon (odachi)

am i missing a lot

>>13782628

I've started switching up so I can get more skill points from proficiency to dump into my favorite weapons, since later in the game the

>>13782628

In a sense. You only start getting "good" Odachi postgame in the DLCs. The other weapons have special variants sprinkled throughout the game, except for tonfa. But play how you want.

>>13782657

Fucking candlejack strikes agai

>>13782628

You're missing the fun of using all the other weapons, and you'll eventually want to increase proficiency with them all so you get the skill points.

>>13782159

Just block bro

Can you parry KI skills?

>>13782823

The gaming is only beginning, Umibozu was my favorite challenge early in the game, hope you'll like that fight.

>>13782480

glory becomes easy to farm in the late game and in NG+ cycles

best way for getting glory is the final mission, you have mandatory npc companions and you can just face roll all the revs in the area and the mission usually have a lot of deaths so more revs for you to kill

>>13782823

The spin is easy to dodge though, you can either space it out since you can dash in and out extremely quickly, or just dodge through her if up close. She has a lot of tracking because you can move so quickly and block/dodge it all. This is the fight where you were meant to learn all that, she's very much fair.

>>13779361

>Japans answer to dark souls.

>>13782628

Same here. I've been trying different weapons but only commited to using dual blades. I have like 20 Skill so Tonfas would probably do well, but I also find a shitton of good katanas.

>>13782862

I always thought she was like an easier version of church Alma in NG, although in Nioh you die from fewer hits.

If I get hit should I immediately hold block? I'm programmed from Souls to spam dodge to avoid the next hit but I just get stunlocked.

>>13782898

Yes, you can block before you can dodge, so unless you know it would guard break you and that another attack would be coming afterwards, you should be blocking. You gotta kill a lot of your Souls habits to really get good and enjoy the combat in this game.

>>13782895

Pretty sure you can use spacewar trick for it.

>>13782898

Blocking somewhat hinders your dodge but in general its fine to block. But dodge here is so fast, cost almost nothing and range is huege.

>>13782895

If you didn't like dark souls' multiplayer you're sure as fuck not gonna like nioh's, cause it's basically the same.

>>13782965

>Pretty sure you can use spacewar trick for it.

any guide?

already added the game to steam but I don't get where I have to change the app Id

>>13783078

http://rgho.st/7WGmRJhCK

Try this however unsafe.

>>13783101

I'd rather not use files that were made by an anonymous user on a weeb board, even if there is no executable

I just want a guide or something

>>13782507

What do you get for helping randoms anyway?

>>13782895

>>13783016

Nioh doesn't have invasions like Dark Souls. Instead, you can fight AI controlled copies of players who died on your level. The main benefit is that you can get copies of their exact equipment, which is nice because it's far easier than grinding for that equipment yourself, plus it's a fast way to farm purples for your own crafting needs.

It's also worth noting that you can only change clans (available in region 3) while online. If you can't play online you are stuck with your clan choice forever, and they have some pretty significant passive buffs to choose from.

I'm not sure I'm going to touch coop or pvp myself, but between that and the fact I'd been playing it nonstop for 3 days I figured it was worth it.

>>13782507

Those spiders with their instant-kill drop-grab are pretty bullshit, but revanents are easy as fuck.

>>13783348

There is a pvp mode, but it doesn't function like DS. You join an arena and can choose to either have everyone use a stock set or their normal gear.

>>13783403

I said it doesn't have invasions, I didn't say it didnt have PVP

>>13783356

Just

like

shoot them from the ceiling, you can see them too, it's not like they're cloaked or something. Or use enemy sense, pretty sure there's a one skill point talisman for that.

>>13783180

Use these files. Thats it, whole guide. And I havent made them, but source is not that trustworthy either. I guess, dont use it with your main steam acc. Actually I havent even tried them because I dont really want it right now.

Btw dll are exactable files.

>>13782127

>All the Sengoku stuff is meant as the backdrop for William's quest rather than the quest itself.

Sure, but so far William's quest is pretty much comprised of just two things.

>Gotta find muh waifu

>Wherever I am, I must also scowl

So the Sengoku stuff is kind of all that's left. And true, there is sufficient info in the menu when accessed from the world map. Still, you kinda have to know all this stuff beforehand to enjoy all the references. Which I do, immensely. Going to Honnô-ji which has frozen over and is implied to house the spirit of Nobunaga is the shit.

I just have to consider the position of anons for whom all of this is completely meaningless.

>>13783479

>Gotta find muh waifu

I have to admit I find the waifu story much more appealing since she isn't 3dpd

Because one dark souls series wasn't bad enough.

>>13783356

>Those spiders with their instant-kill drop-grab are pretty bullshit

Someone didn't upgrade his BODY.

>>13783573

Body was the first thing I upgraded

>>13783287

Glory, amrita, gold, and whatever equipment you pick up.

Is every difficult encounter going to be complete horseshit or is there a way to have fun while fighting? That batcunt was ridiculous, the only thing I could do was 1hit then back off repeatedly, and these Oni hit like trucks and if I dare not cheese them I die in a single combo.

>>13783782

It's essential to get the upgrade that "lets you use ki pulse even when dodging". What it actually does is that your dodge activates the pulse, drastically improving your stamina and mobility. I had trouble with the game and had to hit and run until I got it, pretty much.

Remember, anons!

Weapons equipped in your secondary slots count toward set bonuses, even if you're not holding them!

>>13783782

>Not just hitting Oni in the head to shatter their horns and finishing them off with a strong combo followed by a final blow

You should try rolling in to their attacks so you can get behind them.

At the first boss (the one on the boat). Am I supposed to be getting killed in 2 hits? I'm wearing the best armor I've found so far and have put a few points into +Life.

>>13783782

>bat bitch

what I did was essentially kiting her ass while chipping away her health in low stance 2 hits at a time

>oni

roll into their attacks

hit the horns, follow up a low stance combo

>>13783826

Yeah, in terms of damage you take, Nioh is less dark souls and more Ninja Gaiden. You're always at risk of being killed in two or three attacks, with a substantial stagger limited your ability to dodge out of a chain.

Heavy armor is mostly here to mitigate stamina damage when you block. A design hard to wrap your head around coming from souls games.

>>13779361

Is that queelag?

>>13783854

There's an extremely easy way of beating her involving the guardian spirit/moment talisman that is useful when re-fighting the boss on higher difficulties or in the twilight missions. If you hit her with the talisman with some spirits like suzaku or that wind bird that you get at the beginning of the game it causes her to drop immediately and opens her up to a barrage, you can then rinse and repeat.

>>13783709

Odachi is good for guard breaks and reach. Not sure how it compares to an axe though

>>13783933

>>13783938

Odachi is for humans, axe is for youkai.

>>13783934

So… if I have a full set of pirate armor, just throw it on, and somehow magic happens that does grants effects? Is that all there is?

>>13783955

Not at all. The armor pieces have to have the name of a set bonus listed as an effect. "Regular" armor pieces like the pirate armor won't get the armor set ability until you encounter the ethereal variety.

>>13783955

Not all "related" armor pieces will be part of a set.

If a piece of armor is part of a set, it'll have that in its list of skills/effects.

Is heavy armor + rifle build viable? Spear as melee.

>>13783955

Basically. Although pirate armor is a "generic" armor type and doesn't have a set bonus unless it's ethereal. You do get a benefit from wearing pirate armor while in clan Murakami though.

Set bonuses are linked to specific sets of armor.

You can actually take advantage of multiple (lower level) set bonuses at once by wearing mixed armor and weapons. Having that special magatama makes doing that much easier.

>>13783987

Yes. Git gud

You typically get armor sets by killing human bosses. They'll drop a "forging text" that'll let you make their armor at the Blacksmith.

>>13783987

Yes. You can get better armor by killing Revenants, most times.

>>13784002

Kusarigama is easy mode but it's still a fun weapon to use.

>>13783987

Some types of armor have built in effects that always appears on those types of armor. This sort of bridges the gap between generic armors and true set bonus armor.

For example the three onmyo armors will always have casting speed up on the head pieces.

>>13784002

You aren't even using the kusarigama to its fullest potential. You can use the high stance strong to pull in enemies or jump to him, let off a light attack combo or use a weapon skill and then pull back.

>>13784020

>pull in enemies or jump to him

What, you mean up close? Where they can hit me with weapons? Fuck that, dude. I don't want sharp bits inside my body, I want a one-sided fight where only my attacks are allowed to land.

>>13783934

>Daiichi Daiman Daikichi

So I take it Mitsunari's a boss then.

>>13784047

>serpent strike

>leg sweep

>ki pulse

>stomp

<repeat

Fucks up humans every time.

>>13784049

>music replacement

Sorta jealous as a PS4 player, the music sure doesn't have an impact.

>>13784058

He's the realist nigga yo. He didn't deserve this shit. Fuck Kelley.

>>13784077

Better than dying while hiding in a bush.

>>13784049

>Ki Pulsing only to back off despite having a full bar of Ki to use

>only sticking in one stance and not even using it's strengths

>all those unused skill points and only using one attack

The road from here is long young samurai but it is one that wishes to be walked.

>>13784068

I went from the katana to the tonfas and I really enjoy them. The gunsticks are probably my favorite version of them.

>>13784077

I always did despise how Tokugawa essentially bought his army from under him at Sekigahara

>>13784109

But MUH BONDS and MUH PATIENCE.

>>13784118

Also I guess the Nioh version is more MUH BURDEN.

>>13783938

Odachi break value is more than double any other weapon save for an Axe, which is MUCH slower. It also has several dedicated break abilities.

>>13784045

Which ones and do they show in cutscenes?

>>13784517

Equipment should show in cutscenes, as for which ones I don't know specifically, but developer-made/offline revenants will have their names in red, instead of white.

Finally managed to get shadowplay to work, here's my second attempt at the spider waifu, criticize my longass boss kill

Also I totally saved my living weapon for the ending and not because I had forgotten that I had it :^(

https://puu.sh/ykMl5/fbb7d83043.webm

>>13784550

Ah, didn't know that.

I know the skins swaps dont show up even though it'd be hilarious so I thought i'd ask. If I can't make my character look cool, I'll make them look ridiculous instead.

>>13780279

>Though I might take a break from swords

Yeah, spears are way better.

>>13784118

Don't forget the public's favorite MUH PEACE even though he was the one who threw Japan back into the shit by deciding to take over the Toyotomi line.

>>13786603

Yeah it's fine, they're relatively cheap later in the game and you sometimes get them as quest rewards.

>>13786653

Respec starts at 10k and goes up to 1 million. Maybe at end game that's cheep but you can't do it too often.

That said, respecing to sword is probably a good idea anyway. Sword gives you a good damage dealer for bosses especially. Odachi is kind of meh

>>13786662

>Odachi is kind of meh

Lock on + High stance is the only way to use Odachi properly.

>>13786653

>>13786662

Good to know. I suppose the best builds utilise a full set?

>>13786740

I just went up and down the largest ladder and did drop attacks. The head seemed to be a weak point but given that he does damage by simply brushing his head against you I stayed away.

>>13786751

The best builds utilize multiple sets at once.

Haven't played this yet, how are katanas/single swords?

>>13786769

king

>>13786769

They are really good at doing damage and have some pretty good moves

>>13786838

Or you just stand on top of the platforms where the poison doesn't reach and spam attack at all his segments and heal occasionally. He doesn't even hit hard

>>13786838

Huh, I knew you could cut him in half, but he never went into a hole for me. He'd just always chase me around no matter how long he had been missing all his ass pieces. I ended up just tanking the first love tap as he chases you, then wailing on him while he was reeled up trying to spit at me and just kept repeating that until he died.

>>13786933

If you ever exhaust his ki he pisses off and then comes back with his segments intact.

If you never manage to deplete him he never leaves.

Man, a while ago the game couldn't stop dropping me swords and axes, now it's all odachis.I think I dropped five spears in like 25 hours as many crashes on enemy kills.

I know the forge exists, but I wanted to vary on the fly.

>>13787311

Part of it is what you are fighting. Enemies that use axes typically drop axes. It might be possible for them to drop something else, but it would be less likely.

>>13787349

Then again I can't think of anything that uses Odachis

>>13787350

Some DLC humans use odachi's.

>>13787350

Odachi and tonfa were salted in the first 6 regions once the dlcs were released so that players wouldn't have to wait for post game to start acquiring them.

>>13787855

>Iga's funhouse

Favourite place in the game.

>>13787855

is there a weapon better than hammer/axe with the high stance? i played alot of it and this is the only weapon i found to be viable, which made the game less fun for me.

did they outclass it or atleast give it some competition?

>>13787905

Honestly I'm not even seeking optimization as of yet, my stats are all middling and I switch between weapons on the fly, I always find a new weapon/stance combination to play with. Most weapons have stances that suit different enemies and situations. It's good to experiment so you know what you can do at a moment's notice, but low stance is generally aided by onmyo magic for elemental proc. Lightning is the shit because it slows down enemies.

Axes have a great damage output but are too slow and committed for my playstyle I think. Currently, tonfas are great for punishing in both mid and high stance. Impactful, reasonably quick and can travel good distances.

>>13787905

Ive taken a liking to spears for range instead of odachi

if youre asking if theres a better weapon than the axe, axe is the lightning zweihander of japanese dark souls

>>13788073

There's a lot of stuff worth buying one for. Get one with a good D-Pad though. You want it for retro emulation. XBox one is pure cancer.

>>13788073

get a DS3, it has analogue face buttons and D-pad so its perfect for emulation

the only drawback is that you need to manually download the drivers for it

>>13779617

is that sindoll?

>>13787990

>electric zweihander

how did you guess my weapon of choice? i 1 handed it with a giant shield. if anyone invaded i just ran to the nearest narrow pass and waited to stunlock them.

thats unfortunate though. i played all the nioh demos, and found the axe/hammer high stance power attack to be a 1hko for most enemies, and a really powerful attack in a short amount of time. it got alittle stale using that weapon, but it was just so much more effective than anything else. i kept a high stance which could 1 hit those big red goblin guys that appear, then switch to mid stance and use that wide horizontal swing if i was outnumbered.

i enjoyed the demos, but didnt want to buy it until they released a completed version of the game. but i feel that i'd just get bored playing more axe gameplay.

>>13787970

i found the axe to be best. i tried the katana and it was alot of effort to do the same amount of damage as 1 big high axe swing.

>>13788073

I ended up buying a Logitech F310 after making a thread asking for recommendations for a hardwired controller. It's pretty aight, outputs in dinput and xinput and I think with drivers you can rebind all the buttons to particular keys. Just wish it had a better Dpad.

>murdered Onryoki on my first try with living weapon

>no idea what was going on

I didn't expect him to get wrecked this hard.

>>13788478

People forget that living weapon is a thing.

Honestly I never really used it a lot myself.

>>13787905

Every weapon is extremely strong and you should ideally be switching through multiple stances during fights.

Okay I did not like the giant toad boss very much. It was the hitboxes I think.

>>13788629

Yeah, but to do that you must be proficient while doing this. Doing things at random cant help. Its quite a problem really.

>>13788629

>multiple stances.

>when i can 1hko most enemies with a high stance axe.

hell, even the red guys with horns that appear cant take 2 direct hits from it.

>>13788809

>giant dad

is that the OP DLC armor? i've heard of that but i didnt know lightning zwei was a meme. i tried to fight the skeletons early thinking i would get more souls if i could cheese them (nope), so i tried rushing the area to see what was there, and picked up any items i saw. zweihander was one.

>equip zwei

>"youre not stronk enough"

>"wtf do you know"

>huge wind up swing

>2 dmg

>oh.

from there i made it my mission to not only wield it, but to 1 handed wield it.

i used the halberd until i was able to wield the zwei and upgrade it.

after that i used the dark knight shield and some random mix of heavy armor. the childs mask for stamina, and i think i also had a shield that helped me regen stamina… cant remember though.

>>13788862

The lightning zwei is a meme because it's basically the simplest weapon for doing a lot of flat damage to most shit in the game (lightning is a favored element) with minimal investment in strength and dex. Which leaves you all your souls to build your health and stamina like the twin towers.

That, and zweihanders in dark souls 1 and 2 are generally OP because they stagger the shit out of everything.

>do 2 dmg without the required strength

Well yeah, what else did you expect.

Hope the PC beggar race is happy now.

>>13784049

needs more bitrate cant see shit

>>13786923

where the hell is that multi hit quickdraw attack?

>>13788787

That's why you gotta be practicing and learning it from the very beginning. It's essentially the game, or at least should be.

>>13788862

Granted it's less apparent or important with enemies having such nerfed health, but killing things isn't the only important trait to have, and you can land much more hits more often with lower stances. It all depends on the situation.

>>13788899

>what else did you expect.

i wanted to sloppily swing around a giant sword slowly and have it still do a nice amount of damage. like a toddler hitting you with an axe.

yea, i didnt get the meta memo so i put plenty into strength and a minimal dex setting for other stuff i had. and i put a ton into stamina and health. i put enough into stamina so i can actually roll around in heavy armor like a retard.

>>13788969

>but killing things isn't the only important trait to have

huh?

high axe stance does alot of damage in a very fast swing. running in and hitting a guy 10 times with a dual sword in a 3 second combo that does 100 damage is useless when i can just push 1 button, and do 1 attack that does 100 damage in 3 seconds. then quickly go back to dodging.

i experimented with various weapons but none were worth investing in since anytime i'd come to an enemy that gave me a challenge, i'd just equip my "real" weapon and 1-2hko them.

>>13789003

Don't know if I'd really call it fast, but high stance also has the highest Ki costs, the most commitment per attack and the weakest dodge since you only get a single roll. Plus many skills are stance specific. I don't know where you're at in the game but even if you're doing fine you should try and keep in mind all the options you have available, you don't know when you'll need them.

Is Swallow's Wing any good? It doesn't look good but the flip is cool.

>>13789087

i played all the demos and beat all the bosses. didnt want to pay for an incomplete game. but i beat the fat man with the balls in the ship, the crazy eyed lion cat, the bat slut, the kabuki demon, and i think 1 or 2 others, without much difficulty. i also went back and beat each boss and played through each mission on nightmare mode.

i also killed the guy in the wheat field. a few times.

… have you tried the axe in high stance? its a long range attack that does a ton of damage. at that point in any of the demos, i couldnt find anything to match it or even come close.

>>13789167

I've played all the prerelease versions and beat the game, using a lot of all the weapons but no DLC. Everything is very strong and not all situations call for the same thing, that's just the one strategy you specifically set on. It's not really long range especially when compared to the spear or kusarigama, and Iai can match it's damage and range if you're only using the standard attacks, plus with gear you can build for much more. On top of that, it's just plain not nearly as fun to play the game in such a boring manner when you've got so much you can do that the game was actually designed around.

>>13789223

agreed, but its not fun having an ace in the hole. the axe is like easy mode in your pocket that you have to restrain yourself from using just to make the game fun.

the spear is not as long range as the axe's heavy attack. not by a long shot. to be clear, im talking about the top down swing, followed by the front flip/top down swing. its 1 button. and you can do 2 of those and still be able to jump away with stamina to spare for atleast 3-4 more rolls.

i dont know what the lai is since it wasnt in the versions i played. but no, the kusarigama isnt as high damage as the axe. not even close. im aware other weapons exist. if the axe makes everything easy, im not going to avoid the axe because its cheap or not fun. at the very least its going to be something i keep if it gets serious. meaning im holding back the entire game by using other weapons.

thats like the argument for the box in mario that beats the hard part for you. "well you dont have to use it!"

>>13789365

I'm not saying the game isn't terribly unbalanced in favour of the player, but this is not limited to the axe. I'm not even saying don't use the axe, but to actually learn about the rest of it's stances rather than defaulting to what you initially view as the best option because it's working now. It definitely wasn't the single best option in the Alpha as the balance has been completely ruined since then. I know what attack you're talking about, and all the basic attacks the spear has in mid and high stance outreaches that except for maybe the second hit which would be extremely close anyway, and that has to move you forward as well. It's also a strictly vertical move. The Iai Quickdraw was in every version which shows you got a lot of exploring to do yet, and I said the kusarigama had more range than the axe, not damage, though it still has a lot of damage itself with it's combo strings. The whole "you don't have to use it" is a terrible way to balance, I agree on that, but while this is partly the case for using weapons in general (they made every enemy too weak in the full game unless you downgrade and ignore a lot of Jutsus), it's not for ignoring the stances of your weapon, and you will eventually have to learn to use them.

>gets to onrokyi

>dies

>dies again

>uses alive weapon or whatever the fuck

>dies again

>remembers why I stopped playing dark souls1,2,3

ever since I was young boss battles always made me feel all fucking shakey, feels like I'm fucking getting low blood sugar

>>13789605

Just get the Kusarigami, run away, and use high stance strong attacks. The only thing he'll be able to hit you with is thrown balls.

>>13789709

How many glory do you get for helping defeat a boss anyway?

>>13789709

I have to admit I've done that atleast twice on the fucking umibozo level. pretty much th whole stage and boss arena is a hazard

>>13789752

Around 500 I'd say. I only ever did it with the second boss though.

>>13789754

I think it's my favourite level so far to be honest.

>>13789746

>Kusarigami

I was using low stance, I'll try that. I'm shit at dodging at though

>>13789871

pretty sure 90% of people died to that first time they fought the boss

>>13789839

I can't emphasize enough the power of Reaper Man.

>>13789845

My controller is broken so I cant run diagonally, only directly forward. life is suffering tbh

>>13789934

>Reaper Man.

pretty new to the game whats that?

Why the hell are weapon elements so rare on the reforge table, or is it just my bad luck? I've seen so many blue and even purple modifiers but I just want lightning damage

>>13790635

You can just refashion it if you only don't like the look. It would depend on how you play, most light armour sets are based around supplemental stuff like ranged weapons or Ninjutsu.

>>13790715

I have been building my character somewhat ninjutsu.

>You can just refashion it if you only don't like the look

I know, pic related >>13790635 is Hattori's full set refashioned to make it more oc-do-not-steal with the youngblood set. I was hoping for something that wouldn't necessitate me screwing with the look.

>>13790762

Oh, I was going to suggest the Iga set then but not you're already using it. Keep in mind you can mix set bonuses so you don't have to wear every single part if you don't feel you need any of the later bonuses, and the Iga set in particular is quite top heavy with them. You don't need to worry so much about refashioning either, mixing and matching different parts with it to make the height of samurai fashion is great fun.

Id change because of my shitty isp, don't mind.

>>13790819

The middle one (I'm guessing that's the edgy one) looks cool. I'm guessing it's late game though right?

>>13790825

Oh I never thought about mixing bonuses, that's a good idea. Really my favourite part about these types of games is making my dude look as good as I can. Are there any more ninja sets?

>>13791025

The middle one there comes with bonuses affecting ranged weapons (mainly the rifle), so if you mean ninja in regards to stats then that's kind of your other main option since ranged weapons scale off of Dexterity. Looks wise there's a bunch of other ninja outfits. There's so many great looking armour pieces in general in this game it makes it hard to actually stick with one look for long so as you keep going you'll have a lot of that to look forward to. Also as a small tip, those set pictures feature the big overcoats but you get those by wearing the chest and waist parts of the set together (or two that are refashioned to those parts), so really there's even more you can combine visually if you only wear one part.

>>13791025

>Oh I never thought about mixing bonuses, that's a good idea.

Once you get a yakasani magatama you can do some magical things with mixing set bonuses.