FINAL DUSKBLOODS NETWORK TEST SESSION STARTS IN 90 MINUTES. ARE YOU READY DUSKCHUDS?!
Post your favourite KinFor me it's Valentius>Makes farming EZ>Absolutely fucks up crowds with the Banquet>Take care of rival Kin quite effectively>Dominates the arena in a Bestowal Battle with his budget NIHIL attack
>>745992327BRO THAT'S WRONG IS NOT IN 90 MINUTESIS AT 12AM EST SO THAT'S 3 HOURS AND A HALF FROM NOW NOT 90 MINUTES AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>745992517check the times again
>>745992589YOU'RE WRONG ANON STOP IT
Soon
>>745992429the girl with 2 swords and high heels
>>745992429Gargoyle for me.
>>745992843How did you took that pic what the fuck
>>745992867It's an official preview still, anon.
>>745992429He's the strongest kin by far, but I feel he's pretty fairly balanced by the fact that he blocks your own attacks as effectively as the enemy's
>>745993063fromwhere?
That’s it I’m playing Zork
>>745993246From From, of course.
>>745993376is there more of that good shit?
>>745992429Beatrice!
Where can I sign up to play?
>>745993456They seem to have closed applications.
>>745993407https://campaign.theduskbloods.jp/p/event/networktest/gameplayguide?region=the_americas&locate=US&lang=en
>>745992429They put janny in The Duskbloods
Senatorchads ww@?
>>74599345616 days ago
>>745993782Good morning sir
>>745992429Valentius, EZ but Beatrice is fun too. I like the idea of Marlowe.
>>745994816Not dying is all he's good for.
Is this game coop or FFA?
>>745994938Both
I kinda want more kin the full game but at the same time it might make the RNG too harsh.
>>745994938There's FFA and a 2v2v2v2 mode
>>745994938You can co-op if you run into other players and they accept, also you can receive invites if someone in the same zone picks a fight with some boss monster. There are moments when PVP is heavily encouraged in specific zones to fight over virtue points (which determine if you make it to the next round or not) and at the end the game turns into a free for all with the last survivors in a small arena.
>>745994938you can make partnerships but the end is always a ffaI think the full release will have a duos mode
>>745992429For me, it's Baritone>skills stop at lvl3zamn I could have sworn lvl4 also gave them something newHas someone done screengrabs like these for all the Kin?
>>745995152It varies for each one. I think screens do exist. Most get their final skill at 3 but a couple get it at 5.. But level 5 ones are so fuckin' strong and durable.
>>745992429Is this a commodus or a nero parody?
>>745993782Not in the grail fight, because I wasted all my time munching people instead of collecting virtue, again
Does the game have the same meta progression as nightreign where you are getting shit you can equip and carry between matches? Or are you starting from 0 every time?
>>745996460Dunno since this is just a network test with premade characters but there is character customization which is a book that's locked out of being used in the network test hub.
>>745996460We don't know, they said you will be able to customize people before a match so that could be swappable skills entirely or relic-style progression
Submitted my survey.I told them that there really only needed to be one ritual fight per session and that having two kind of made it too prevalent and robbed the rest of the objectives of importance.
>>745992429I like Beatrice, her ranged stuff is a good cover for Zork
>>745992429Beatrice my beloved
I'll queue for some alliance matches now, never tried one, only solo.
>>745996436I understood that reference.
>got 4 ring outs with dinosaur GETFUCKED
>>745996684Where's the survey at? In game?
>Layla's gatling gun upgrades to 100 ammoGod damn that was crazy.
>First alliance match>Got someone else that also knew what he was doing>insta winI kinda feel bad for the other teams and I'm not even good.>>745997830same place you got your code
>>745998109>same place you got your codeThanks
How the fuck can you subhumans play this shit? Its literally the same fucking game every damn time.
God dammit I got booted from a game where I was smoking everyone.
I'm a third place merchant. Can't win pvp to save my life
games pretty kino. just hope it has enough content to keep people interested. are there plans for a dlc thing like with nightreign?
>>745999089Miyazaki said you won't need to win matches to get the story stuff and progress, so that's something I guess.Don't give up though, you can do it anon!
I want to like Zork but he's so ass in duels. His attacks are parry fodder and abilities take ten years to use.
>>745992429marlowe for me hes my nigga. he just keeps coming back to life.
How do I land hits as Zork?
>>745999636
>>745992327Im not even playing in session 3 in already bored after the first 8 hours.
>>745998109I do think duos is more fun. Even though my partner didn't really know what they were doing.
>duos victory scene has both characters drinkingCute!
Why does 4chan not care about duskbluds?
Ran two more matches just to get at that itch. I hate Pajama Sam's look but can't deny he's fun to play.Zork has my heart right now though, goofy motherfucker really is AC-coded. I'll be eager to see what the other bloodsworn end up as.Also really feast and the famine out there with virtue some games. I went one where I was zero nearly two rounds, and then another where I ended up at the cave and was just rolling in virtue. I need to git gud but finding virtue without slaughtering minibosses really feels like a roll of the dice (by design I'm sure)>>745992429Where are you guys seeing the info on Kin?Anyhow I kinda like Marlowe, at least just from vibes. He's a chummy kind of guy.
>>745999875it doesn't help that the game is multiplayer focusedsingleplayer>multiplayer
>>745999875too many poor browns
Do ringouts count as a kill? I got one with the dino grab but lost the match so I didn't find out
>>745999875>not on PC>not single-player Fromsoft game>tendies don't care about non-Nintendo games aside from owning Snoys
has anyone ever seen the mihulsa cavalrfyman darkness before? first time seeing it today
>>745999945Yeah. But you can air tech and usually make it back to the arena.
>>745999850Thanks for this, I can't win a duo to save my life.
How do you get good with the senator? his pokes are slow, and guard counter suck with him. I maxed his stagger and weapon attack power, but he just can't do combos fast enough.
>>746000069Dino and hope that the idiot on the other side doesn't know how to avoid it. Dino then ranged fucks people up.
>>745999897Everyone shits on marlowe but he's amazing against passive players, they can't just get rid of him and his poison whittles them down
>>746000101I keep forgetting he has range, shit
>>745999897Archive has the info screen for Kin (and everything else).
>>745992327Game is fine so far I guess just pretty repetitive. I’m confused because some guys here were saying that there was a single player story mode confirmed but this is all just online pvp, is it because it’s just a network test and the rest of the game will be in the full release? Did they give any more details in interviews or anything?
>>745999294I did it! I got destroyed in pvp during the match and had 0 sword virtue but managed to win the FFA at the end
FUCK YOU DINOSAUR NIGGER
>>745999945No, they just lose like 50% health I think.
Is there a consistent way to get Collector Commendation? Just killing a lot of named enemies?
>>746000178Missed that somehow, thanks>>746000126I think it's just how unassuming he is compared to Baritone or Valentius, really taints things when it's just some bum from London
>>746000406That's from picking up items no?
>>745999946>>tendies don't care about non-Nintendo games aside from owning SnoysThe funniest shit is how hard they're trying to shill the game but even they realize its nowhere near close to Bloodborne and that they're basically shilling multiplayer slop.
I just wanted to stop by this shill thread to say this game will flop. Carry on.
SHUT UP and POST videos.
>>745995152Here's the archive for all the kin
>>746000406there's blood commendations for NPC killing, and Collector from getting itemsthose are currently the only two, and good luck getting the blood one if there's a layla
>get 1v2'd>lose a life>other guy loses a life to the sweat with twice our virtue>decides to tunnel me and i get 1v2'd again before the leading guy even loses a lifePeople are fucking retarded man.
>>746000151His bird is great for applying pressure.
>>745999636jump r2howl
>>746000690Here's the weapons and shields
I hate when I find something with like 10 seconds left and can't reach it in time...>>746000368nice!
>>745999945Not a kill outright but heavy damage which could be a kill
>just won the final 1v2 as zorkcant win against the zork mancant beat it
>>746001183Were you against 2 Jans?
Shame on my face. I lost as Albert against 2 Layla.
>>746000734If I got the sewers to myself I'd end up getting both commendations (or second place). I think people have begun to catch on that it's way too strong though since there's even several beastmen that spawn down there every time and since it's all corridors you don't have to spend any time looking out for things.
Had to play with my Xbone controller because you're fighting the joy-cons as much as the enemies in the game.
Where the FUCK is that ritual site that's smaller and on the clocktower site? I ran around forever trying to find it. I know the sewer site but this one eluded the fuck out of me.
>>746001219same thing with the caves, rows and rows of enemies
Is Bloodfang the amount of NPCs killed or a point system? Like if I kill a beastman is that 1 kill? If it's only 1 kill I really feel like they should change the system to point based, otherwise literally everyone is going to run to that square in streets where there's like 12 guys around a bonfire and always get #1 kills.
Is the netcode in this the usual FromSoft fare or does it actually look like your hitting an enemy when you hit them?
>>746001353Miraculously better
just fought a senator at the end that was so laggy the sound stopped working
>>746001212i was against a jan and a senator
>retard senator spamming dino grab>jump jump jump jump>does it again>oops you held the button a nanosecond too long charge jump grabbed>get thrown off and ringed out
>>746001484AH not me then. I went into a finale with 130 Virtue while the other 2 had ~60 each and got 3rd versus a Zork and other Jan. If you get in-between your two opponents in the 1v1v1 you can die IMMEDIATELY.
>>746001353It's hard to say, they might have actually gotten their shit together or it might be a result of the demographics of the people who signed up for the network test. At the very least, based on the names I am getting matched with English speakers and not like kensuke228831, so that's an improvement.
I don't get how you get more healing items. I just noticed something makes it go up but idk what.
>>746001551it's a pick up
Straight up Zorkin' it under the blood moon
>>746001353Actually good. I went into thinking 'Nintendo + From with a multiplayer online PVP game is the worst idea ever' but it does work.
Man every single final battle is against zork somehow
>>746001551In the match, there's a bar above it where you regen one use every so often. So if you don't use any, the more you have available for later. In the final phase, it's capped and you don't get more than 2, but I think you get healed for biting people.
>>745999875>why are people not posting in the middle of the last chance to play this game until who knows when?
>>746001353Pretty good, only had one moment where a mini boss teleported and then got hurt a second after i hit it. and that's with 6 hours of playing across the entire weekend
>>746001651Nevermind, this guy is right >>746001568, you pick up stuff from enemies to fill the bar, it's not over time.
>>746001531I hate it when I get grail rounds like that and one moron hyperfocuses on me to such a suicidal degree that he puts himself at 1 life to the other guy's 2.
>>746001773I think you only begin to regenerate if you have less than two, and it's only up to 2. Similar to if you die, you respawn with 2.
>>746001551It's goldblood, you pick it up all over the map
>>745992327How the fuck do I tell who my "friend" is? The marker doesn't appear.
Just whooped someone's ass so bad in the final duel he gave up mid fight. Feels good man.
>>746000608Nah, I'd win.
>>746001353All of the sync issues I've noticed are in PvE. The PvP actually feels like what you're seeing on screen is what's happening. Which is like a first for FROM.
I'm so thankful that the game doesn't kick you out when you dieI've been running around, fucking with things and experimenting without worrying too much about needing to load into another match
>>746001970lock onto anybody you see. Also any time someone sigil related is around you get notification
>>746002039I think the game is compensating for a lot of people being around. Same reason the bosses spawn in and out.
i fucking hate fighting jan. is his running r1 impossible to block???
>>746000690>>746000941Thanks bro.
If you were the Albert with the Albert against a double Senatorsaurus, it was a pleasure drinking with you.
Hot chick and fat bastard victory.Duos are pretty fun
tier list of kin. I get top 3 every game but I've only won like 5 games.>Will win for youBeatrice>Complete nuisance BaritoneValentiusMarlowe>Effective, but tends to be easily targeted downGargoyle Avester>Dies to a stiff breeze, not very usefulNiaWolf
>12 matches with Zork>10 wins solo>1 duo win>1 second place that was on my first matchThis character is a beast. Lost a bunch with other characters though
>>746002636I have had 3 matches with him. Can't get to the final phase (with anyone). No clue what I'm doing wrong. I can never find other players, either.
This game needs to better convey that pvp outside of ritual sites is an active waste of time. So many retards attacking on sight and chasing down like it's fucking fortnite.
>>746002579Beatrice just saved the faggot I was fighting a minute ago. Had him on the magic pixel and then Beatrice runs in from offscreen and does her flippy-do grab. I was livid.Still won though.
>>746002771I usually spend my time killing mobs and mini bosses, also those werewolves so I always end up with the most kills and item picks which gives me enough virtue to survive the culling each round when sweats aren't playing (almost never needed to go to those rite things), and I'm always level 20 by the end with a bunch of upgrades and a level 4 or 5 Kin.But the game can be quite confusing anon, so don't beat yourself over it.
>>746003009You do get a blood powerup out of it. It's not worth chasing people but it's kinda worth ganking them if they're already low.
>just won a match with zork with FIVE stacks of his rape health steali almost killed the entire lobby and just had their health on me. this feels actually so evil
>>745999875Because the game isn't out yet
Duos suck when you're paired with someone that has no clue how to win
>was 4th on phase 3 as Trang Lanh>rush back to ritual site after getting killed with 20 seconds left>find the motherfucker in 3rd place>smite his ass with 2 snakes in a row>he gets wiped at the very last second and I survive
It's alright for a while but this game is going to absolutely fucking die in a few weeks after release.Even if some players remain, the problem is the ones who remain are going to be the wiki flowchart turbosweats and every round will be maximum adderall addicted fent freaks playing the game 'right' like a moba
>>746003589Isn't this the inevitable conclusion up any online game.
a few tips from me to you:>the top left church has 2 large flame virtues, very good for securing a lead so you can continue farming on the first few nights>one is on the ground level at the end of the church, another is on the upper level above the chandelier>the big white robe guys are really good xp and good at helping you kill stuff when you spellbind them. make parrying them a priority>WEAPON INFUSIONS!!>weapon infusions are mega important to get and you can get multiple>seem to cap out at 5 or so>the difference between a fully upgraded weapon and an unupgraded one is like double damage or something. you genuinely deal so much more damage
>>746003589Are you aware that every fucking autist in existence plays these except me
>>746003702to add on: >if youre a zorker you should go for iron infusions as they keep your lightning element on heavies but will increase your damage way more than getting multiple lightning infusions
>>746002579marlowe is the genuine goat i love him so muchhe just keeps up pressure and DOESNT DIE. he ALWAYS keeps it up and is mega tanky alongside shitting out poison aoes everywhere that do respectable zoning damage. hes my favorite kin for sure
>game based entirely around "souls" pvp
In an interview, miyazaki says there's offline bot matches. but it won't help with "progress" whatever that means
>>746003589Isn't that the point of ranked matchmaking? You sweat, they sweat. You're casual, they're casual.
>>746004095Also, ranked matches will have "seasons"? I'm not sure what that means, but casual matches won't have those
Got my last win with Zork and I'm done, better quit with a win.Didn't notice before but some characters shields can be strong or weak against certain elements, and that's probably why I always get burned with the chinese girl when I block someone that has a fire weapon now that I know she's weak to it..>>746004060Yeah he said it's just there so people won't have nothing to do when they do maintenance on the server. He also said that you can get the story stuff even if you don't win any match.
>>745995075There's duos mode in the test too but you still have to queue solo and get a random match
>>746003875it honestly feels more like AC combat due to everyone having 4 jumps and a dash.
>>746003702You can get different infusions or the same type that stacks?
>>746003875But there's no backstabs...
>>746003702>2 large flame virtuesHuh, I was only aware of the one from the guy all the way in the back.
>>746004351>He also said that you can get the story stuff even if you don't win any match.oh damn, nigga's cooking
Noticing that people don't fight much around the map anymore
>>746003589I said the same thing about NR and they still have a decent playerbase a year later, slowly dying right now though.I think it has 6 months if tendies do get into it.
>>746004521Same type only.
>>746003702Do weapons infusion also affect range weapons?
>>746004563yeah the one abovet he chandelier is really unknown about atm so its free every match>>746004714they do not from what i could tell but i also only ever played with the iron infusion once i figured out they stack>>746004521only the same type stacks!
Motherfucker got eliminated by a guy with the same virtue. Fuck you. All I had to do is touch the fucking gold crystal. That was my last. Won enough to come out satisfied. Sorry Vietnamese wife... we didn't make it...
Why is everyone i play with on duos a fucking retard?
>>746004890>Sorry Vietnamese wifeThe one blud I haven't won withShe needs some serious buffs
>>746000690Much appreciated, thanks!
>>746004714I believe it says lead weapon but I could have sworn I poisoned someone as layla
>>746004714I don't think they do, but they should for chingchong, since she's actually throwing her weapon, and she's otherwise terrible
>>746001353Surprisingly good. Not perfect of course, but I can't say much myself since I'm forced to play with at least 200ms against the rest of the world. It's actually quite easy to get used to it, and I didn't experience any phantom hits or desynced grabs/ailments.
Man, duos blow. Gotta love the partner that goes off to god knows where instead of doing literally anything as a team.
>every duo i've played with in the past hour has fucking DCed in the final phase
>>746002567Fuck man I didn't know there were duos. Or do you mean the wife sigil?
>>746005129just queue for team games
Most people don't expect the guard counter. It has saved my ass numerous time
Duos are fun when you're hard carrying your tard teammate
>>746005075I get wanting to level up independently at the start, but for the love of God come to the fucking ritual site once it's open. I was playing duos with this guy and we were about to be culled and this guy was miles away killing random mobs.
>>746005129You que for team games this entire time anon
>>745999636t-pose... PRAY
>>746004926Some characters didn't click with me like Layla and her, or even Zork. But yeah, she was by far the worst one. It feels like she has no pros.
>>746005159>>746005201I didn't even bother pressing the "Casual Match" button to check if there were other modes. I love to assume things. I'm asooming.
I hate when the rituals are not normal level. What the fuck do you mean they are in the sewers this time which overlaps with the church exactly.
>>746004609Nightreign isn‘t pvp
Jan has like, negative range on his attacks. I'm amazed I managed to win with him.
>>746005328True, and not on pc which has a larger player base, specially of From fans.Still think couple of weeks is a bit too little time for it to die, it might get dlc as well, it all depends if it gets some post-launch content like the ever darks that were drop feed.
>>746005393His saving grace is that his dash attack with his blink active comes out lightning fast, and you can keep up with people dashing away in the air and meet them where they land
>>746005453I‘m not sure. I didn‘t get into nightreign but a coop souls where you just fuck up bosses with buddies makes sense. Souls pvp is engaged with exclusively by autists who want to troll casuals by invading them and sucks if done “competitively“ in every souls game. More content doesn‘t fix this
>>745992327>Jan (me), Albert, Layla finals>retard Albert would rather help Layla win that do the right thing and eliminate twice before having an honorable 1v1how are we at the end of the 4th real test and people still don't know to focus Layla down without mercy?
>>745992429I actually really like the Sister of the Briar, she helps out a lot in PvE building up stagger on bosses. Final round its all about the big guys though, Baritone and Emperor fatass are both great.
>>745992843oh no... she's cute. Didn't notice when i was playing.
>>746005238>can go invisible >for ten seconds>in a game where ratting is pointless and harmful even towards your chance at winningwhat WERE THEY THINKINGReally hope release has a few new abilities for everyone that can be swapped in and out.The snake can stay, but she needs a real bread and butter skill that's useful 99% of the time like everyone else instead of just existing to set up snake ults that can still be dodged
>>746005627I would agree with you but it isnt fully pvp, its this AirRiders hybrid thing, so im not sure if it will dry as fast as it would if it was just pvp.
>>746005129Go into matchmaking settings
>>746000690does the wolf get good at level 5? i had him at level 4 at the end of the round, If i'd known he had an ultimate skill i'd have grinded a bit more for him.
>No character creator>Characters are all around the same size and humanWhy couldn't they just let us pick a weapon loadout without having to play a leukemia patient on meth?
>>746003589You're right on the money. It won't be friendly to new players (50% of players in the match just get culled by a timer, esoteric mechanics)And the people that stay will be using guides on reddit and youtube to find the best farming strategiesIf anyone wants to have fun in this game, they need to buy it on release because this game has a half-life of fun that's ~10 days long if they're lucky. It's gonna be a blast when everyone is dumb and learning -- before the meta slaves take over
I wonder how many people have no idea the upper part of the cathedral exists, I've only seen like two others up there before.
>>745997740there should be no ring outs with the dino. you can literally jump after the throw. you just killed retards
>>746005859At max level he's good at interrupting people, almost up there with valentius but he's very easy to focus down
>>746005927I was wondering where the second Virtue point was in the cathedral just now. must be up there.
>final round>against 2 layla’s>get ganged up on immediately by 2 layla’s and lost my first life almost instantly>manage to coordinate with one of them to take out the other>the last one proceeds to just run to the corners while firing off sniper shots>any attempt to close the distance and they just dodge/run away>little I can even do since i’m zork and slow>kept alive solely cause of gargoyle keeping me healed>spend like 6 minutes chasing them around>manage to win once my human missiles finally start landingCalling it there cause holy fuck that was annoying. Least i’ve finally gotten the hang of PvP
>run into a Layla who actually knows how to use her melee and use howls to punish dash attacksthis bitch has no weakness...
>>746005927Probably more people than the ones that know about the cave. Hell even sewers, swamp, and forest rarely have people
>>746006080yeah every time i start in Cathedral clear it out and then think "surely the sewers is already cleaned out" and i go down there am surprised to see nobody has touched it yet.
>>745999875m8 there's been like 5 threads up at all times the entire weekend
I got a new personal best in this session. It really does pay to be blood thirsty for other players. Matches overall feel a lot more competitive than the first session. People are are getting good. Makes it even more fun. I wish I could buy this game right now. Can't wait for the full release
Despite coming out of the sewers multiple times I have no idea how to get to there from the church. I can never find the stairs
>>746006080I've seen a decent amount of people in the big room in the cave
>>746006080the cave is my go to phase one spot. In the 22 matches I've played I've never seen anyone in there even once
>>746006146>sword virtue that high>with Tranghot damn
>>746006179i wanna say the entrance is on the south? side, in a separate building a bit away
Triple Trang finale (I managed to win)
>>746006146>52 murder points with OOH MAMMATell me your secrets
>>746006241I keep trying to tell people that she is slept on. I was seeing more of her tonight which made me happy
>race of vampires that live under the see>attack called "human" rocket
>>746006280based cold moon enjoyers
>>746006313did you power up the snake? or was it the charged range attack?
>>746006439both. I try to get 2 charges on the snake and get it fully powered up as fast as I can. If the snake hits I'll start using charged throws to prevent them from healing and then dash attack once I get close enough
>Kill a boss>upgrades he drops are an item that gives you a shitty dash or (element you're not using) damage upthis shit gets on my nerves. the status up upgrade should just be "all status build up".
>>746006548damn, that's the same thing I doand IT FUCKING WORKS beware the snake lady!!
Got three wins in a row and then couldnt win another game after that. Just so many bad plays at crucial moments.Also FUCK the stagger system, FUCK the kin, and the chakram chick has the most bullshit melee attack magentism in the game
>>746006313Yeah she's very annoying to deal with if you play cautiously. She's hit and run so it's hard to deal with if you run the fuck away, cloak, then slash a couple times (every character has a two hit true combo), back off, and throw some rings at them. I think her snake is hard to get off properly because the animation lock is so long. Sometimes you can confuse people by jumping before casting it but if someone is good they will punish the shit out of you and it can get you killed. It's probably safer to cast from far away. Her spellbind passive is underrated for PvE if you howl the big guys and it gets good when you have multiple charges of her skills.
>>746006554That "shitty dash" can literally win you grail fights, you dummy, use it
>Got the big Slurp on my final roundYup, it's the age of ZOOOOOOOOORK
>>746005181duos are amazing when you hard carry your teammate but then he can pvp in the end
Fuck this, 80% of the time I get tag teamed in the last round, am I really just that unlucky?
>>746006669bro i'm playing Jan, i get infinity of that dash for free.
>>746006727you exude threat aura
>>746006662The forward snake is a bit faster and is really good for punishing other slow skills. Also great for third partying and stealing kills
Couldn't get into the finals once. Spent half my matches desperately trying to find things to do to get upgrades, or completely unable to find other players. The game has style, but even with the lengthy tutorial it's utter shit at communicating what to do to win matches.
>>746006763how do you get the spinning around you snake? I keep missing with the forward snake
>>746005194this was working really well for me if you aren't a retard - one guy go to ritual early, other guy keep getting virtue and exp and such, try to draw ding dongs to a boss fight that is barely winnable, your teammate gets all the ritual things and you get more virtue also. If your teammates health starts dropping use a medal to get to him and help out, and then just do rituals. If we can do coordinated team stuff with friends, duos are gonna be awesome.
>>746006797Neutral on the L stick when you press X. There's some weird input buffer though because I'll randomly get forward snake sometimes too
>>746006775jesus man, it can't be that hard. What is it you can't understand? Did you only play 3 matches?
>>746006727You playing Layla? Because I no longer let that shit fly. Layla gets hard focus until she's dead.
>Zork tries to R1>howled every single time>tries to rocket>jump up and dash to fuck him over>tries to missile>sprint into him and get a fat comboZork redditors BTFO
>network test is overAt least I can go back and kick tutorial Jan's ass
>>746006840>don't movefuck, that's gonna be hard during the 1v1v1
>>746006885you can't boot into the game anymore when the servers are off m8
>>746006662>every character has a two hit true comboExcept against Zork, the fat fuck.
>>746006885No you don't?
>>746006870haha I've also become racist towards that ghoul ass bitch. My kill priority goes Layla > Zork > Senator > the rest
>>745992327I watched a guys recorded stream on youtube but the video got taken down.Any places where I can see full matches from the network tests? I wanna see what the game is like.
Who's highest priority during grail matches?for me it's >1.Zork>2.Layla>3.Jan>4.Trang>5.albert>6.senator
>>746006908>>746006914You can hang out in the house still if you're not in a match. I just loaded into the tutorial again
>>746006870You'll only make it a 2-v-1 against you at that rate. Layla will focus on you for hate-targeting, and the third party will realize you're a rage-blinded retard and take advantage as well.
>>746006974I'm wailing on the test dummy presently
I got my first win just in the time for tests to end, so I'm satisfied. Pretty fun game, I look forward to seeing what the final release has.
>>746006973This is accurate. t. Zork GOD
If youre getting tag teamed try to bait the opponents into targetting eachother. Eventually they will get bored chasing.
>>746006870No, I always rotate my pick, I think I don't get teamed most of the time when someone has same character as mine. I guess people want mirror match 1v1 or they think I'm on their side.
>>746007047that's why trang is so dangerousshe can just ghost the match
>>746006867Like 9 or so. I run around looking for bosses, and either find trespassers that are vastly too hard for me to solo, or minibosses that takr more than half the time limit to fight. On the occasion I was doing well minibosses and sucv stopped making the number go up fast enough. I try to look for other players and can NEVER find them. I go for the glowing sigils and get ganked by 3 other players colluding. If the only relevant part of the map in rounds 2 and 3 is the special zone, why bother leaving the rest open? For funsies? As a joke?
Guaranteed flop if priced higher than $60,
After 12 hours, I can easily say this isn't going to be worth whatever they're gonna charge for it if it really has only three maps..
>>746007113For sure, especially since you also pay extra for online.
>>745999196>are there plans for a dlc thing like with nightreign?Yes. Miyazaki said they plan on supporting the game and adding content for a while
>>746006973Zork is accurate but just because he's easy pickin's and if you ignore him he starts to sperg into you
>>746007104>I run around looking for bosses>If the only relevant part of the map in rounds 2 and 3 is the special zone, why bother leaving the rest open?man... you should probably play the tutorial again and actually pay attention this time
>>746007147After playing for the same amount I can say I like the game enough that I doubt anything could prevent me from playing the full version
Do you guys actually fight the big bad trespassers? Most people are retards that get murdered ASAP and soloing them take too much time to kill.
My favorite guy is the Senator I feel like him and Zork are the best. His bird projectile is good and both his specials are great, plus you get bonus damage for perfect guards. Thrusting swords are LITERALLY the PvPfag weapon so he’s great.
>>745996436Does the game look any better than that webm?Feels like I'm watching a switch 1 video
>>746007371completely ignore them, at this point i occasionally trigger them just to trick other people into wasting their time on the fights.
>>746007371Not until phase 2 or 3 and only if its early in the round. Otherwise the time investment doesn't seem worth it.
>>746007371only on phase 3, and i dip out if no one joins within the first 30 seconds
I need to do the survey and tell them about how a stagger animation on a boss cancels their death animation until the stagger ends.
>>746007296I understood the things the tutorial said. Unlike the tutorial, you aren't handed free players and upgrades, and trespassers giving virtue means nothing when it gives it to the leading players who help you as well. They just take an assload of time away from running about trying to find minibosses. The maps need to be VASTLY smaller or have more bosses/minibosses. If they add a PvP arena mode it'll end up the most popular because it'll be straightforward.>>746007430>>746007371Case in point about the trespassers.
>>746007371I noticed that nobody wanted to ever fight the duo horseback riders in the swamp. If those were there, the summons would always run away and I don’t really blame them it’s a huge waste of time for that one in particular and you can tell it is just by looking what’s put in front of you. People will help for the rest though, so if you’ve got 3 people might as well kill the thing.
>>746007371multiple infusion users can keep proc'ing the lighting stun, got lucky with a group that knew what they were doing so the great trespasser died quickly
I wonder what other Strbro characters await in the full game. I thought Jan was alright and Zork was awesome, I hope we get a guy who powerstances stuff.
>>746007530You are focusing on the entirely wrong things and playing as if bosses and PVP is what the entire phase is supposed to consist of
>>746007371I tried it out in my last couple matches. Doesn't feel super efficient but some of the upgrades can be really good.
I like the game a ton, and its really fun. I think the odds of it being "solved" are low because the game has so many different ways to play and the randomness elements basically increase the hurdles to optimal error free plays.People said nightreign got solved but ive had runs that were literally perfect and we still wiped at the end because players make mistakes all the time.Also theres a ranked mode.Im very much excited for what the final product will have for finales, because grail fights get really exhausting quick.With numerous different win conditions this game will be insanely fun and addicting.
>>746007819>I think the odds of it being "solved" are low because the game has so many different ways to play and the randomness elements basically increase the hurdles to optimal error free playsI was thinking about this too. I think the people worried about that happening don't fully grasp the breadth of ways you can succeed in this game.
>>746007403I had to do some serious downscaling to make the file sizeHere's an unmolested version if you want to see how the game actually lookshttps://files.catbox.moe/sqetpw.mp4
Jumping the shark with how many retarded "blood" "dusk" etc terms there are to describe items or mechanics that are actually pretty simple. Doesn't help that the vague/non-existent marketing has primed people to talk about this like it's some opaque sweatfest. LEVEL UP TO FIGHT BETTER SO YOU CAN GET MORE VIRTUE. EACH ROUND THE LOWEST #VIRTUE HOLDERS GET CULLED. LAST STAGE IS A 3 MAN FIGHT. All that needs to be said but From is so retardedly dead-set on their lore even in multiplayer games that it's obfuscating everything and it's going to be normie poison (and you need normies for a sustainable MP title). Will release to 8's and then die a slow and ugly death as Duskblood apologists call everyone stupid for not "getting it". Zork deserved a better game. Oh and the input lag is hideous
>>746005658>go into finale with a Layla alliance duoI tried, man, I tried. These mummy bitches are a menace.
>>746005787Ratting can get you into the final fight, but invisibility is also basically useless for it because it's rarely needed to actually get anything and doesn't really work well enough in a PVP fight.
>>746006313Was getting better with her by the end, but I Zorked too much during the first half of the test days, so I wasn't good enough to get a win before it was over.I did please an old man for ???? and then immediately eat in in Phase 2. Sorry love.
>>746008009cool story
We'll be able to switch the first skill and passive in the full game right?Every single character has something like "signature of [insert name]" in their 2nd skill and passive description, but not for the 1st slot.
>>746007959getting two charges of the t-rex really helpsneed to get up on that
>>746008220I think well get weapons too honestly
>>746007910Exactly, the game is so wildly unpredictable with so many interlinking systems and random elements, ON TOP of being very punishing for mistakes at crucial moments.Also different characters will favor wildly different playstyles, and weve barely scratched how many different consumables will be in the final game.Items are always insanely undervalued in these games for what they can do.When you look at a game in an analytical esports way you can see the conditions and player rankings and assume what may happen but duskbloods is so mechanically dense with so much that players cant even account for.The kin system being random is a huge one for instance, as well as what parts of the map will have things, you still cant control what youre gonna find.Its like playing fighting games in training mode vs playing in actual matches, or even in tournaments. The pressure to perform adds a lot more uncertainty.Not every player is gonna watch the same guides, read the same tierlists, watch the same influencers, or even watch videos at all.
>>746007371depends on what level things look like on day 3. I usually just beat up minor trespassers.
>>746008262I think I saw jan using something other than his axe in some leak clip
>>746005787Her invisibility needs to be instantaneousI had one fuck me over just r1 spamming with poison/lightning earlier
>>745992327>Zork finalist vs two Laylas>mfw they start shooting eachother instead of 1v2ing me>i end up winning
“I eat Zorks for breakfast” - Petrus
>>746008326You can start to get a feel for where things are, mostly the Flame Virtues and Affinity Enhancements. But it's easy to go to the same section with the same random spawns, but have better or worse luck actually finding the blood guys or the kin enhancements or the like. And then, of course, if someone else gets there first, depending on what it is, you gotta know what they looks like and if you should get out of dodge to get somewhere else with more stuff still.
>>746008402You eat shit for breakfast!?
>>746008394I feel like if it had a doge built in so you're not just right where you were and still a target, it'd be more useful regardless.
>>746008394I sniped one going invisible with my spirit bird.
>>746007767If you ignore bosses and ignore PvP you will be woefully behind in experience, have extremely few upgrades, and have no sword virtue.
>>746008547Think he'll get eaten by a Gru?
>>746003183Didn't read the skills before, now I get why I end up my matches with the HP bar almost going full screen>>746006973My priority is always the Kins, but if you ignore the fat fuck he will Zork you from behind 100% of the time, same for the dinosaur dude.
>>745996436>Not in the grail fight, because I wasted all my time munching people instead of collecting virtue, againThis is so true and so fucking shit, fuck the virtue system. Casual ass slop game
>>746008396It's Verd all over again
>>746007371>get summoned to a boss fight>materialize directly in front of the trespasser just as they're starting to swing>immediately die and get kicked from the fightyou're welcome.
Miyazaki is a funny guy, fucking made Zork part of a clan of other Zorks and they have a special “Zorken Sea of Fire” bombardment setup or whatever.
>>745992429It's... It's literally me... Thank you fromsoft...
>>746008589Supposedly the sigil system in the full game will give you other ways to play, like hunting down other players outside the ritual if you want to focus entirely on pvp
>>746008538Says the guy who didn't make it to the final round once. I didn't say ignore it. I said you shouldn't be focusing solely on those things. Especially early on.
Damn, I wasnt sure about this one but these threads are kinda selling me on the game. Wild we still dont have a release date
>>746008650There’s confirmation on a sigil that lets you troll players fighting greater trespassers and kill them there. That’s basically the overworld Elden Ring invasion jackpot scenario and they made it a gameplay style.
>>746008651The people who get to the finals are the ones who PvP best. 100% of the time. I'm just bad at fighting and finding players both. It is what it is.
>>746008650there's even a hint at a 9th player becoming a great trespasser
>>746008702God I hope that isn't a mistranslationI'm gonna spend every match at the top of the clock tower with layla free aim sniping every dipshit I see
>>746008680I think genuinely wanted to make sure online wasn't fucked before committing to a date. I hope it isn't months away or god forbid next year.
>>746008736>free aiming with a stick>no joycon mouse supportgross man
>>746008723I won 13 matches during the test windows. Everything you've said just paints a picture of someone that doesn't understand the game
>>746008764There's not even gyro controls, right? Not that Layla needs to be easier, but still.
>>746008587the health steal is so funny because THEY have to kill you, like, you cant just die and they get their health back. they actually need to go back and hunt you down to get it back it’s insane it’s the most malicious passive in the game
>>746008802Sure thing, anon. What a god gamer, you're so very cool and smart.
>>746008812No, none of it. We have lockon, so it sucks to not have anything else for free aim.
>>746008723I won like 90% of my matches and I almost never did PvP outside of the final phase, I just focus on upgrades and making sure I'm level 20.
>>746008890And how did you get virtue?
>>746008852Didn't say any of that. You're just dense and think you understand how to play the game, but you don't.
>>746008940hmmm I wonder... if only there were a tutorial where its literally spelled out for you...
>>746008952If you say so. I'm sure you won every match without fighting any bosses or players, since those are so useless.
>>746008940If you farm the map you get virtues from commendations (killing enemies and picking up items), flames, and repulsion (named enemies and trespassers). Sword and pledge virtue (PvP and holding relic sites) are a waste of time if your character is shit at it.
>>746008980The tutorial says you kill bosses and players, but you clearly know better than the game itself.
>>746009012you might actually be retarded. sub 100 IQ for sure.
You guys were using the legend right, and going areas that had the specific upgrades you were looking for? You didn't just wonder around where felt most comfortable right?
>>7460089401st place killing mobs and picking items, I think the werewolves/mini bosses can give you some as well. Also finding the purple things.I only go to the rites if really need to, which happened like two times.
so this game was running at 40 fps mostly right?
>>746009007Commendations only give like 10 virtue max, though. Repulsion seems to be the go to without pvp, but anyone who is leading can just join in and grab more virtue as well.
>>746009047B-lined it for fire/poison upgrades as Vietnamese Waifu, but I'm not sure how much it helped me in PVP. Definitely useful against the mobs, you can even poison the poison werewolves, as odd as that seems.But otherwise didn't learn enough of the map to be able to usefully farm stuff. I'd head to a skill upgrade or kin exp site and sometimes find a lot but sometimes not. The affinity and flame spawns seem pretty set, but not sure about any other area drops.
>>746009069You can get a lot of repulsion killing the lower tier bosses since they'll take much less time to kill and nobody is going to get pinged to join, and they're hanging around in relatively high density in some locations.
>>746009069>Commendations only give like 10 virtue maxMore incredible insights from someone that doesn't know what they are talking about. There are screenshots itt with 30+ just from commendations.
>>746009069The trick is to get both, preferably at least one first, and then hold it for at least two phases, if not three, since you're awarded every phase. I had runs where only one guy did anything good at the ritual virtue (and enough that he was clearly fighting actual people) and then two others got a huge amount of PVE virtue (some flames, the commendations, other and some repulsion). That can enough to get you into the 60's, which at this point is enough to get you into the final phase.
>>746009179>30>in 3 rounds>with 10 eachQuick math test, what's 10x3?
>>74600921544 here >>74600701336 here >>746006146fucking moron. You can't even succeed in the game and then when people tell you your approach is wrong due to flawed thinking you double down like a sperg. Pathetic.
>>746009212>60 for the final phaseI was regularly at 70+ without surviving to the final phase. Most finalists had 100-160 in my matches. I dunno, bad luck I suppose.
>>746009068In handheld yes I think, it seemed higher than 30. In docked it's trying to hit 60 but mostly fails and often drops below 30, esp. during bosses
>>746009281You're the one losing your temper, god gamer. So cool.
>>746009317I accept your concession
>>746009164Sewer has at least four of the normal/poison beastkin in the sewers each phase, which are fairly free after a few levels. That's 12 virtue right there even if you just do it during phase 1, along with their drops.Didn't spend too much time figuring out when to hit the tougher, non-boss enemies. Leopard became pretty easy fairly early, but I ended up not fighting the big werewolf or double whirligigs that often.
>>746009352Same.
>>746008723I played over 20 games and got the the final round in all but 2 of them.the only thing worth doing is running around picking up items and killing mini bosses. doing literally anything else is a waste of time, which you don't have because the rounds are so fucking short.it's actually complete fucking cancer and I hate it and they need to completely rebalance it.
From has to stop hiding actions behind fucking emotes.
>>746009362thanks for admitting you are wrong and bad at video games
>>746009389Thanks for losing your temper and sperging out.
Game bad
>>746006973same exact priority. I also go out of my way to kill a zork if I see him for being a reddit chungus character
>>746009282It's definitely something that's going to be in flux for awhile. If the sword pledge pursuers can reliably start killing people with the red crystal, then you might start to have problems. But I got a lot of runs where only one or two managed to get a lot of that.People are also going to have to figure out how to target specific players. If you're near the bottom, you're encouraged to target other lower virtue players since you just only need to beat them to advance.
>>746009212>That can enough to get you into the 60's, which at this point is enough to get you into the final phase.I've never seen people get to the showdown without at least 90 something. I was usually in the low 100s.
>>746009401I already accepted your concession. You can stop replying. You were wrong and couldn't admit it at first due to your aspergers, but came around to the truth in the end
>>746009359Sewers felt a little OP between the density of beastmen, all the rats you could kill very quickly and the abundance of items to pick up. If I got it all to myself, I was getting a lot of commendation points. There's even some common flame spawns and it very easy to route since it's just corridors.I hope there's a single player exploration mode (not just a bot mode) with regular spawns so you can figure out the lay of the land at your own pace, especially since there's gonna be 3 maps.
>>746009457Nah, I'm correct, but I accepted your apologies for losing your temper and calling names.
>>746003589I hope they include PvE or even solo modes that focus on killing bosses. Just make it stealth nightreign 2 and I'll happily play it for hundreds of hours, like I did the real thing this past year
>>746009445Checking my pictures, I was getting in with 60 pretty often, but usually what would happen is someone would completely dominate the ritual PVP, so they'd have 100+ virtue, but then you'd only have one other player 70+. Sometimes you'd get them higher, which was when you had 2-3 three people able to kill a bunch of people in ritual phase.The meta might honestly be that people who are less bad at PVP need to stop "feeding" people during the ritual phase. There's only so many pledge virtue to go around, but sword virtue is essentially uncapped, limited only by how fast the losers can throw themselves on the dominators' swords.This also relies upon being able to quickly check how people are doing on their virtue and from where, which is another fucking thing to keep track of.
>>746009607they said there a thing to make the final match a boss fight instead
>>746009607I wonder if custom matches would facilitate something like that if you they let you force a boss in final phase instead of PvP.
>>746009519>can't understand a very straight forward tutorial>plays like an idiot and fails to ever make final 3>complains about it>describes playing like an idiot>is told to not play like an idiot>claims playing like an idiot is correct>is proven wrong multiple times>a-actually that didn't happen!retarded sperg can't help but dig in your heels
>>746009519>Nah, I'm correct
>>746009654I really hope custom lobbies have a lot of rules options so you can do gimmicky shit like only getting virtue from pvp or host dumb scavenger hunts where you can only get flame virtue.
>>746009625>who are less bad at PVPstupid negatives, I mean "less good." ie. if you're pretty certain you'll eat in PVP, just hit the bricks. Maybe get in there early, secure a site, then just avoid getting got and harassing people if you need to keep the pledge.
>>746009625That's crazy. I basically got to 60-70 regularly (as regular as it can be in under 10 matches), and the top 3 was always 80-90 plus maybe the sweats were out, I dunno. Once the full game is out I'll be able to experiment more and figure things out more naturally. Map knowledge is clearly the most important thing outside pvp ability, because my worst matches felt like just running about almost at random looking for minibosses.
>>746009703You don't need to sign your post, anon.
>>746009703>>plays like an idiotHow so?
Where's the singleplayer, From?Where's the half a dozen new leads doing their own games, From?Where's AC6's expansion, From?
>>746009765I have to imagine there will be maybe 2-3 match making types per map (and then the ranked and unranked and the subtypes of standard, set alliances, or no alliances at all). Probably also a depth of night mode, though it's worth noting the menu right now has you pick a character before the matchmaking, so there seems to be no way to change your character if you get a random match type.We know there will be a ninth player invader game mode, where you invade a normal session with only a PVP goal in mind, so that could be it's own thing or sigil or something. I don't imagine much customization on the lobby side beyond that. Anything else is probably something you try to do in mission. People seem to even be reading the boss coop phase 4 as something determined in mission, but I don't recall the wording leaning towards that.
>>746009921Here's your bone, now fuck off.
Worse than Nightreign for the fact that every character is stuck with one melee weapon, while in NR you have ER's 250+ weapons you can mix and match.Also triple jump and airdash? PvP fucking looks like Armored Core at this point, no wonder everyone's playing the sniper.
>>746009921Too busy making fun games instead.
>>746010160Everyone being stuck with their weapon works in its favour as a PvP game since you immediately know what to expect when someone decides to pick a fight with you.
>>746010160we don’t know if we can swap weapons yet. customization is still locked, and if you paid attention the game listed your weapon AND chosen caharacter at the results screen. we could very well see zorks with layla snipers/katars
>>746010237how is that a good thing
>>746010280Have you played a pvp game that isn't a Souls game, Anon?
>>746010305this is a souls game
>>746010330It's really not. You guys really need to stop trying to fit every single FromSoft game into this box.
All projectile skills seem so fucking ass, especially senator bird shit
>>746010407They're for applying pressure, they're not really meant to be your main offence (unless you're Layla).
>>746010257>paid attentionHey woah now slow down dude
>>746010257i doubt the cuztomization is gonna be that significant because of the pvp nature of this. You'd want everyone to be at their baseline, you wouldn't want someone to be overpowered from the very start of a match because of a gear unlock they got.
Is it really worth cutting undersea internet cables to zork around?
soulchuds are going to optimize the fun out of the game day one
>>746010160What's scary is that zooming around to snag away virtue point at major sites and points of interest is more rewarding than everything else. So if it remains unchanged it'll turn into a zoom zoom simulator like nightreign. The most successful games I saw were people doing that and refusing coop.
>assuming deep sea cables are for internet wake me up when summer ends
>>746010731At least in nightreign you’re all zooming together. This game is like playing nightreign solo without the weapon and boss variety
>>746010359This is literally a souls game though with the same stamina system and no animation canceling.
>>746010697Only because the game is extremely shallow and devoid of build variety as well as very weak enemy/miniboss variety. Thats why you already see 5+ Sniper Layla in every round.
>>746010885Please feel free to submit your gameplay experience and suggest adjustments via the feedback form on the official website.
>>746010731the only hope I have for this game at this point is invasions. if I can totally ignore the collectathon garbage and just try to kill people, that might save it.but it's probably going to be something like a random player gets chosen to be an invader.
>>746010793>same stamina systemAttacking doesn't even consume stamina lol
>ranked modeIt will kill the game and turn it into esports slop.
>>746011760>esports slopThe game won't last 6 months with the severe lack of good bosses and build variety for the characters.This is just a cool experimental thing FROM managed to get as a part of the port begging from Nintendo for Elden Ring.
The worst part is that Miyazaki is now saying they're not done with single player games, implying they didn't work on a new game along with duskbloodstfw another 3 years of waiting
>>746012406Ranked mode implies committed updates, balance changes, metas and bullshit like that. Why not just do a leader board or something like that?
>>746012495Ranked more more implies they want shift the wheat from the chaff. Nightreign also has a ranker mode, of a sort, for similar reasons, but because it's PVE focused there's the added wrinkle of making it more punishing. But for a game with a big PVP focus, you need to do this avoid some of what we're already seeing: some lobbies where there are 3 PVPers just clearly a cut above the rest, so they just steam roll everyone in the ritual phase and secure a spot in the final each time.
>>746012795Ranked is never used to just keep the same player base together, it's used to prioritize which players to cater to for balance changes.
>>746013156Armored core 6 has a ranked mode.Its fromsoftware are not a live service developer, they add ranks just so players that care about climbing leaderboards have something to aim for, yes they gather data but they dont balance games like fucking riot or blizzard, with meta of the month shit.
Can't wait for the 8 way Layla matches to become the norm.
>>746013156Anon I don't know how else to tell you that of course the purpose of ranked modes to to segregated the "differently skilled" sections of the player base. Fucking of course it is are you fucking stupid? If you don't do that then the casuals will keep getting stomped by the dominate players, leading to them getting frustrated. And, if the dominate players are actually interested in playing and not just looking for an easy fix, they will get tired of getting matched with people not capable of keeping up.
hand it over, that thing... your steam release...
>>746014878Here you go.
I only saw some kin like the backflipping machine gun bitch a single time. Meanwhile I was getting the fire dude every other match.
>>745999946>>tendies don't care about non-Nintendo games aside from owning Snoysmate, they hardly even actually care about Nintendo games for S2
>>745992429he just liek me fr fr
I feel like 90% of players didn't even know sigils existed. I became a sworn enemy once and never again.
The movement in this game is probably the best in any PvP/PvE game I've seen, dunno how From Software does, but they complete shit on every west cuck studio that ever existed. The dash and jump feel so natural almost make shit like Deadlock seen like a school project made by trannies. Also, duo's seem the most fun so far, the 1v1v1 was too chaotic, but 2v2 felt really good.
I shan't be buying a switch 2 will wait for pc port :)Judging by the fact there's only 30 images and a handful of screenshots in a thread of 400 replies tell me you guys probably shan't either
>>746016348You need to play more games
>>746016535screenshot was disabled for the network test. Anyway here's Kitao saying thanks.
>>746001353Surprisingly pretty good. So far the only issues were finding a game that worked during queue, but it did find one I didn't feel any problems
>>746016535you cant take screenshots or capture footage of the game. it enables HDCP when you launch it
>>746016535they disabled screenshot function here is my zork win first game.>>746016627I've played more games than you will ever timmy, name a game with smooth movement like this.
IS HE WRONG??post test discussion thread>>746016523
>>746016746Could be, but then it's on a tendie console, so the meta will take way longer to be figured out. Also, it has a more casual playerbase, so people will play more for fun instead of going, "Uhm, I can't get a job besides being a trashcan man, better go le pro in video games." (He doesn't go pro.) Think that's more a PC fattie thing.
>>746016847yet the network test already had metafags with like 50 virtue on phase 2
>>746016746>"Am I wrong!?"Yes.
>>746017001well, youll see after launch that the game will basically become unplayable after a month :)
>runs like shitdropped
>>746016947well that's not hard you just run around and grab the chairs, also you get virtue for everything the person with the most npc kills gets them, the person who loots the most, and so on. I'm more excited to see how the pve end boss battle play out.
>>746016947also don't forget there are 22 million switch 2 user if just 1 million or lets 500k play this game you will have a fucking huge game population.
>>746017081>"also don't forget there are 22 million switch 2 user">banking on them to actually buy into a game that isn't Pokémon or stapled to the consoleYeah good luck with that lmao
>>746017298there will be more than enough people playing this
>>746017035sorry mate jimmy mczoomer already got them all - he knew the best route after all
>>746016651>>746016679>>746016686Fair enough but also gay of From
>>746016679Found many people streaming or uploading videos of their games. However I shan't post them on /v/incel central because whenever I do one of you disgusting little turds do a copyright strike. I watch them for me and me alone :)
>>745992327I'm kinda hooked. I thought it would get boring really fast, but now I need to see how the full game works, how the metaprogression works, if there is an ending.If they worked hard on it, there should be plenty of secrets and a lot of shenanigans to use to trick people. A hidden 9th player in some modes would be so good, and that's something they already did previously with Mirror knight or the yellow king. There's plenty to do with the framework they have, I just hope they have enough events to make the sessions varied enough.
I want them to have a PvP only mode. Let me do the grail battles all day without the 20 minute lead up and that would be kino.
>>746016746That's the state of every game, do not let anyone tell you otherwise. Especially when there's a part of the Souls community that lives for proper routing(speedrunners) that will do it for fun day 1. It will be Nightreign again where you sprint to all the good shit. In Duskbloods you will AoE down all the enemies following you with skills, and then move to the next point of interest to check. >>746016847There's a ranked mode so all the sweats have an incentive to look up shit online so they can brag that they're Blood Platinum or whatever.
>>746019169If ever there was a game for them to try their hand at The Battle of Stoicism in again, this would be it.
>>746007256Nice, a live-service game
>>746016746He's wrongMetafags will be in ranked modeCasual mode will be full of retards, much like nightreign to this day
>>746020213there's plenty of retards in depth 4 with 700 hours played that are still cracking gaols open at lvl 2 and getting stomped by a crucy.
>>746020213That didn't happen in Overwatch, how this works is:>players have fun dicking around in casual at the start>high end of ladder discovers the meta>the middle ranked players watch their streams and videos to git gud so they can get higher ranked>the middle skill level meta becomes the same as the high end meta but played poorly in comparison>those middling players go to casual to stomp noobs >the casual meta is now infected because it's the only way to winThat's what happened to Overwatch after they introduced ranked play and every other online game follows that pattern. You can't escape from the meta, it trickles down until you're at the very bottom mmr of ranked mode where all the people not interacting with the meta end up.There's also nothing stopping people from making extra accounts to smurf in with their friends in ranked 2v2s. Really, a bunch of the casual 2v2 games will probably devolve into 1 really good player carrying their bad friend.
>>746020475The retards can never make it to depth 5 because they're retardedThat's what makes depth 5 unironically easier than 4, or the carry-or-lose hell that is 3In duskbloods however, the retards are your opponents rather than your teammates, so the game will be enjoyable for some time before becoming a sweatfest, three years or so depending on how they dripfeed content
>>746016746the souls pvp community love sucking all the fun out of everything they'll definitely do it to this game too
PC niggers not being able to play this is the best part.
>>746021079>people that spend 2x the price of the switch 2 on a single gpu can't afford the switch 2???
>There's a jobber emote that lets you do thisKwabooty
>guy rolls up on the same farming spot as me round 1, think he's a knower>starts attacking me, but I propose an alliance>while he's checking my details out my kin is attacking him>accepts alliance, but dies at the same timewhoops my bad bro
>>746007371The bosses are one of those things that will probably be more reasonable to do in the final product when people have reasonably strong builds
>>746021157>he thinks east europeans spent 2k on a PCDid you not see the hardware threads here? Most people have 10 year old gpus
>>746007371the rewards they drop are pretty significant. like not getting air juggled is huge.
>>746021454those are probably south americans and eastern europeans that don't even buy games to begin with. if it was on pc and they couldn't pirate it, they're not playing it anyway.
>>746007371killed the vampire boss alone as zork.
>>745992327What the fuck it’s a multi player game?
>>746021663Why not?
>>746021572Go on any steam survey and check the hardware most PC niggers have PS3 hardware. Why do you think f2p games are so popular on PC?
Trying to talk about this game online has been pretty miserable between the:>Sour grapes that are mad that Fromsoft had the gall to develop their game exclusively for the "kiddie console" (blame Sony's generational fumble).>"Souls vets" mad that Fromsoft actually made something pretty different this time and can't accept that the game that this isn't really a Souls game at all besides superficial similarities.>PvEsissies mad that Fromsoft finally made a PvP oriented game a grand total of once.>Single players mad because they gaslit themselves into thinking NR and this were some hard pivot towards multiplayer only games (it wasn't).
>>746021779>Go on any steam survey and check liescheck liesretard
>>746021779f2p games are the most popular on fucking everything, even consoles.
>>746021663Are you living under a rock
>>746021876>"Souls vets" mad that Fromsoft actually made something pretty different this time and can't accept that the game that this isn't really a Souls game at all besides superficial similarities.This group is by far the worst. They seriously piss me off>DEVELOPERS SHOULD BE FREE TO DO WHATEVER THEY WANT INSTEAD OF SOULLESS TREND CHASING (as long as what they do is specifically for me)
>>746021876Yeah legit I have been going to fucking reddit in hopes of finding some meaningful discussion. For better or worse, the game's main sub is super vapid and instantly pushes me away with all this "omg yes it's perfect im gonna day 1 buy ZORK haha".I really wish my friends picked up a Switch 2. At this rate the only person I'm going to be able to talk about it with is my gf and we're just gonna have to take turns with the one console. Shit sucks
STOP USING GAYSTATION BUTTONSA LIGHT ATTACK ISN'T R1NO SUCH THING AS A JUMPING R2USE THE CORRECT BUTTON TERMINOLOGY
>>745992429Fromsoft gets me.
>>746022097It's really been eye opening that Miyazaki's and Fromsoft's loudest "fans" don't actually respect them as a creatives but merely see the studio as an outlet that should cater to them.Not that this is unique to Fromsoft, but something about this specific scenario just feels particularly disheartening.
>>746005925which is why they should completely randomize the game every month/week. don't give spreadsheet fags time to make a wiki or videos, it'll be outdated the moment it's released.
>>746021876why don't you contribute? game looks pretty bad>pointless air mobility in a game where the lock on is impossible to lose and aiming is not required. unless someone convinces me otherwise, it just looks like smoke and mirrors to try and fool people into thinking they've added more depth to the moveset.>forced 2 hit combos like dark souls 3 saw one pvptuber say that zork can permastun you with a shock buff which is an insane thing to miss even in a playtest>finale is a pvp on a boring flat arena>no stable 60fps, fromsoft netcode, nintendo serverslooks like something that would be fun for maybe a week.on the plus side, it might give fromsoft more experience and they might make pvp better for their future titles. but that's not guaranteed seeing their track recordalso imo but making your own dudes to fight others is way more fun than playing as premade characters most of whom are ugly
>>746022690> lock on is impossible to loseYou aren't gonna magically magnetise to enemies. Even with air dashing, it's easy to whiff if the enemy is actually moving and because everyone has ranged attacks, you need to learn how to effectively close the gap without eating shit.>just looks like smoke and mirrors Okay so you haven't actually played the game.>zorkYou only get lightning on your charged R2/dash attack, and you can't quickly follow that up with another.>finale is a pvp on a boring flat arenaActually, one of them had a slight slope that has the potential to LOS projectiles. I agree they should lean more into utilising vertical elements though.>no stable 60fpsUnfortunate but a not a genuine issue in reality.>fromsoft netcodeDidn't suffer a single phantom hit. In fact, the general sentiment is that the netcode feels better.
>>746022690>>746023043One of the final arenas takes place on the central bridge. You can jump on top of the gateways.In my very last run, on Trang, which went kind of wild with VP (like 150 vs the other guys at like 75), I just immediately went invis and jumped to the top and spectated 2nd and 3rd place during it out for the honor of fighting me as the final boss
>>746022690>>no stable 60fps, fromsoft netcode, nintendo serversThe game ran like a pretty smooth, and the netcode was fantastic. How about you form your own opinion instead of watching other people play the game? Oh, wait. KEK. Also, there's literally free aiming with Layla, not that aiming is some deep skill though you fucking moron.
>>746024960>The game ran like a pretty smoothYes saar the blooddusk did the needful and ran a smooth.
>>746025350imagine calling someone saars when you can't even afford a switch 2 you fucking retarded poorfag.
For a fromsoft release even despite the shills the threads are pretty low in number and very slow. Get fucked fromslop. Are you making another service online centered pvp turd after that? Go on you hacks. This is karma for abandoning armored core 6.
The multiplayer was fun but I feel like the rushed battle royal fortnite style gameplay does the atmosphere music and world a disserviceJust make a singleplayer expansion or something please. Such a waste of a setting. With Nintendo exclusives of established franchises you're always given spin off/experimental style games and never the true formula
>>746022097>something different >Fortnite arena heroes battle >right after people were displeased about nightreignIt's like asking Randy to let his team make a new duke nukem and in the end we get a visual novel.
>>746025925You guys were crying about duke nukem forever even though it was a good game. There's literally no point in pleasing you because you will just cry, and probably play some f2p slop at the end of the day, where you cry about your teammates.
>>746025397So is the Switch 2 the poorfag choice or is it the richfag console? Make up your fucking mind.
>>746025925>people were displeasedIt sold like 5mln, brought new players to FS games, and became pretty popular, especially around the release of everdarks
>>746026060the point is if you can't just drop 450€ on a new console you have no right to talk about anything.
>>746025810Fortnite unironically has way more downtime than thisEach phases should be as long nightreign days honestly
>>746026030projection and ad hominem >>746026117damage controlHire better shills, assets from my last software. Or even better, forget shilling and make the solo games you built your legacy on and don't antagonize your player base. >but memezaki made a tweet about how maybe they'll go back to making good games later on, in two years, or three, or fourI'm not interested in tweets, I want games
>>746020961>Lose or hell that is 3Nah I'd argue depth 1-3 are easily carryable. D4 is a bit more complicated thoughbeit.
>>746026128>EurobucksOh. It's you.
>>746008723I got to the finals and won without a single sword virtue point
>>745992327Which was your favorite Bloodsworn? I only played Zork.
>>746008723I only had to go to the PVP zones at all if I got especially unlucky during the PVE and my virtue buildup was too slow the HP bonus in the final round you get for having tons of virtue isn't that difficult to deal with if you're good at the game anyway
Does the game has any sort of replayability? Anything to unlock or progress? I gave up on games that are "just fun", I need muh achivements to feel any sort of joy
>>746028559>51>zero sword>zero pledge>fucking 25 commendationYou were playing with super shitters
Sort of considered not playing in the last window. Did anyway and had fun but went to bed before it was over. Woke up and wanted to play more. Damn. They got me.
>>746028836albert. he's my favorite 1v1 character. both his shoot followup and air dash r1 are great for staying on top of people. albert beam is surprisingly hard to punish if you give him distance and the blood slashes can combo into an r1. his gun is an anti air and roll catch machine.
>>746029341I did but, largely because only just started getting good.
>>746022126Explode
>>746029527You can't detonate gays just by telling them to explode. It's not a thing you can do.
>>746028836As an enjoyer of cute girls and feet I've been playing a lot of Trang. Though I can't deny how fun Samir's skills are. Zork is also very fun. I wish I tried Jan more.
>>746022147My brain still defaults to the Xbox layout.
Glad I didn't get a Switch 2 for this game, lmao the videos look so fucking jank
>>746029853>As an enjoyer of cute girls and feet I've been playing a lot of Trang.Did you ever get some cool stealth kill with her? How viable was that?
>>746028983There's character progression stuff. Skills and passives. Maybe cosmetics?But in general that's kinda sad bro. Especially because nowadays it's basically impossible to unlock everything in any given multiplayer game.
>>746022147They should have just put attacks on the face buttons, terrible controls
>>746029926NTA but not at all. If you're close to other people they can lock onto you. Closest thing is ninjaing a couple kills with Mama Natha.
>>745996684I did my job by not playing the test and telling FS that the hardware holds back a great game which would really shine with crossplatform and multiplat.
>>746029047>>746029047Sure but it's possible to PvE your way to the final arena. I didn't even do that well, I could've easily traded some repulsion points for more pledge points
>>746029926Impossible unfortunately. You have to be third partying
>Worrying about MetafagsI just block their accounts and they're not allowed in my matchmaking.Does switch allow blocking recent players? It's true though only the first month will be decent after that? Retarded meta slave sweatfags will be the only thing around. If you block most of them I guess the game does die with it
>>746030346God I hope she has alternate starter skills in the full game.I like the chakrams and I like the snek. Also people say that the stealth skill has PvE uses but I don't know what you're talking about. If there's an encounter you want to skip you just run past it and nothing tries particularly hard to catch you.
Post clips, bros, preferably oh mama
>>746029926It's not viable at all. They can see you if get too close or attack. It allows no free hits. It is was way too slow when everyone can shoot and zip around. It is best used to run away or get people to fight each other instead of you in big PVP brawls. It really should be a faster fast and be able to be done mid air. I'm ok with it not giving free hits and being only 7-10 seconds. That allows for good repositioning or a heal.
>>746030605Don't have a capture setup.
>>746021876If it’s hard to get any good discussion, maybe it says something about the game itself
>>746028559based pvebro
>>746031194This does go to show that the ritual is way too centralizing. You get 12 points per kill or capture if you have the matching stone. There is no way to keep up with that if you decide to farm the rest of the map instead
>>746031140All of the shit flinging is due to console warring
>>746031290the points you get per kill depend on the level disparity between you and your opponent and how often you arleady killed them. i once dominated someone so hard he only gave me a single sword virtue point per kill
It was a pleasure Duskblooding with you anons, see you on release
>>746031290Yeah it's clearly meant to be a catch up mechanic for people that didn't get much in their search. But it kinda goes overboard especially since it gets two rounds.
>>746031410>>746030605+share some tips for her, and impressionspls
>>746031290What even happens if no one goes to the ritual thing?
>>746031290I did. Between commendations and flame virtues it's pretty easy to make up the difference. Commendations are cumulative across phases and if you're fighting in the ritual, your farming speed drastic goes down.Flame virtues can also be 6 or 9 points and if nobody is paying attention, it's free and incredibly fast. I only hit up the ritual site if I needed points to stay in it because you don't get blood power ups for killing people at the ritual.
>>746031467Then no points are distributed. But if no one is contesting you, you just take all of the pledge points yourself and that's like 36 VP potentially.
>>746031290I think sword virtue should decay in value so that people will actually go after pledge sites. too many games I ran around getting 3 pledges for free because everyone else was trying to rack up kills.
>>746031649It actually does. You get like half points for subsequent kills.
>>746031867then it's either not enough or people are just being stupid.
>>746031410that area was the most kino one won my 2v2 there
>>746024960>The game ran like a pretty smoothfor a console, maybe>the netcode was fantasticwe'll see when the game comes out>How about you form your own opinion instead of watching other people play the game?I've played these games a lot, taking a glance is enough for me. Can you rotate an apple inside your head?>there's literally free aiming with Laylatheres literally free aiming in all of these games and it's useless 99% of the time, you missed the point entirely.thanks for the useless reply
>>746031462Charged Chak throws provide good pressure and can track hit people jumping around. I hope you like getting close because CQC is your main thing. Heavy hits can combo in lite hits. Her howl has a pretty short window but I believe it comes out faster than anyone else's. Go invisible before you engage, slap them with Molotov or chakram when they least expect it. The snake can be controlled a bit. It usually just goes straight forward but if push the stick left or right it will do a circle around you,
>>746032354oh yeah and I forgot, don't sleep on her AOE spellbind skill. You can get a whole mob going if feed on enough. A lot of times the ritual sites have a bunch of NPC that nobody really bothers with. So you can get gang going and overwhelm people or just distract them while you make a pledge.
>>746031462Her ranged attack is really good and at long range has great homing (but it breaks if they're too close)Snake takes a while to activate so you want to do it at range and mix up forward for hitting them or neutral if you think they'll rush you. I always tried to prioritize as many snake upgrades as I can and relied on that as my main damage in PvP, hitting them with ranged chakrams if they dodged away.I was pretty consistently getting top 3 by focusing on PvE and jumping into the ritual site to snipe some kills with the snake third partying.
What makes the senator so shit?
>>746028559That's not going to fly at release I think. 51 points is L O W (that's 2 kills at the Ritual Site) and at release, the PvE farmers are going to get griefed eventually to knock them out of their #1 place for kills/collecting items. Right now everyone is focused on themselves because the game is new, eventually the meta will shift to also denying others once players understand the game better.In tendie terms, right now everyone is picking the triple mushroom but eventually they'll start going for blue shells because it lets everyone else pass you and kicks a competent person out of the final stage.
>>746033013He's great, what are you talking about?
>>746030607it's going to be like spy in tf2 where people will play around your stealth and aoe you out. jan will literally pyro you out with his flamethrower lmao. legitimately a worthless ability, it WILL get swapped out for something else when you have access to more abilities.
>>746033013He has the best combination of melee/ranged attacks out of the playable test characters and his skills are above average for PvE and fast enough to catch people off guard in PvP when you use them at mid/long range. He's not the best at PvE and PvP but he is above average at both.
>>746031290I was getting 27 points per kill and like 20+ points for capture. It's way more than 12. It really invalidates the fuck out of every other type of point except killing the boss. I got 31 points for dealing the most damage to the group boss as Layla (the machine gun fucking obliterates them and you have 100% up time for damage).
I stopped playing all my other games for The Duskbloods and now I don't want to play anything else besides The Duskbloods? How the fuck does From manageD to do this to me?
