General for Shift games (Code Vein 1 and 2, and the God Eater series)Adjacent IPs also welcome to discuss!https://www.bandainamcoent.com/games/code-vein-ii/newsFeedback Survey: https://survey.bandainamcoent.co.jp/jfe/form/SV_cThTP5iiR12ZE6GNewest Patch: https://www.bandainamcoent.com/news/code-vein-ii-patch-notes-version-1-0-7>WikiCode Veinhttps://codevein.wiki.fextralife.com/Code+Vein+Wikihttps://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Code_VeinCode Vein 2https://codevein2.wiki.fextralife.com/Code+Vein+2+Wikihttps://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Code_Vein_IIOnline Password: cvgPrevious: >>561904404
Our beLouved.
>>563222881Indeed
Ah, I love the 107 update! I'll admit, while I figured it was rational that the notes of "added presets" meant the custom presets, a small part of me was hoping they meant something along the lines of face presets. But even still, love all the extra additions! Though, it's kinda weird how they made new game plus difficulty a menu toggle. And one that persists across all characters...I'm definintely happy to have it, just a weird way to implement it. I'm guessing because it was added after the fact.
>>563224972I'm surprised they didn't add it in from the start. A lot of people liked that feature in CV1.
Latest update seems to be a lot more stable. Doesn't suddenly perform a lot better but I didn't notice any stuttering or slow downs which is a solid improvement.
SEDUCING Holly
>>563227296That looks more like Holly is seducing (You), tbdesu
>>563227096I hope that it becomes stable enough for the /cvg/ anons of old to be able to play CV2.
>>563229402I'll need a new PC regardless, mine is about a decade old
>>563229402I wonder if they're even still here. I know it was basically avatarfagging, but it was nice seeing some regular faces...
>>563233603I'm still here
>>563235189I know YOU are still here. You post a lot. But there's so many I haven't seen return from CV1...
>>563233603I keep the general open, but since I can't play 2 yet, I often can't chime in.
>>563235606I know lack of co-op killed the interest of some people
>>563233603For some reason, a lot of /cvg/ oldfags are in /lcg/I bet at least two of you have /lcg/ opened right now.
>>563228641Bigger.
>>563233603Avatar posting doesn't seem to be as prevalent this time around as it was in the past. Which leaves me to wonder if more familiar faces have actually visited here than just who has posted pics
>>563239719Think about her poor neck, anon. We can't just make her hat bigger!
>>563229402They all died gruesomely. It's a curse that haunts the general. If you post your OC enough, it'll get you too.
>>563229402I've been posting here but my CV2 character doesn't look like my CV1 one so I'm hidden from prying eyes.
>>563240939BIGGER
>>563241263Stealth anon...
Overall, do you like Jadwiga or Coco/Rin more?
>>563244558I feel like Jadwiga's story was a bit more involved, but Coco and Rin were very nice.
I think this hairstyle is missing some layers, this is some JUST-tier shit.
>>563249240Yeah that one was copy/pasted from CV1 where it had the same issue. I mentioned it in my feedback survey but yeah. I typically fix it by stuffing a hair accessory back there.
Lewd>>563249240It's obviously to appeal to the balding demographic.
>>563227296>二人きりで薬湯浸かりたい時は… 私を呼んでね?>When you want to take a soak in a medicinal bath, just the two of us... just call me, okay?>Fun Pun Time: 呼んだ can mean to "invite" someone, but it can also mean to "summon/call on" (a doctor). So Holly's being cheeky here, and she totally wants the protag's Pipe of Thralldom.>(the fucking wall of text her dad is dumping, but it's too much for the character limit)>Holly, what's with that suspicious atmosphere? Who is that? I don't know that young man! I never knew that you had become such a fine doctor... Well, you're my and Monika's child, so I never doubted that you would become a fine doctor... But who is that man? What's this about a bath? What's this about being alone together? I won't allow it as long as your eyes are red! Holly, why!? It's because I took my eyes off of you! Ah, Monica, help me! Our daughter is so kind-hearted, noble, and beautiful, and now some man, with the frame of a monstrous beast, whom we don't even know, is soaking in the hot springs alone with Holly! Aaah! Monica, our daughter has just finished growing into a strong, beautiful, kind-hearted, innocent, heroic, virtuous, pure, magnanimous, wise, and unparalleled beauty, and this ugly, sullen man gets treated kindly by our daughter and goes int- i-i-into the b-bath a-aaal-alone with her aaaaaaAAAAAGHHHonestly, I'm not learned enough in Japanese shit talking to fully understand the intent of 「…どこの異形魔獣の骨とも知らん男…」。どこの~ can be read as 馬の骨, or "someone of unknown (familial) origins". With the section starting with どこの~, and ending with ~の骨, my inclination is to assume it's a play on words where Camilo is deriding the protag as someone of unknown origins, but swapping "horse" for "grotesque beast" to be extra cunty about it. However, at the end of the day, I remain a try hard できない
>>563251292Kek.If only we could reassure Father Astorius that we'll be a good son-in-law.
>>563250027Where waist
>>563252812She gave all of her food to her friends...
DUDE
>>563255629Fat Lou, our SAVIOR
>>563256617LMAODUDE
>>563266381AIIIEEE MY VIRGINITY
>>563263753Need Maid Holly
Good night, /cvg/ bros
What are the biggest changes in the patch? I haven't played in a while.
>>563269165Stability improvements, NG+ no difficulty increase option, in-game Companion affinity tab
Ganbarou!
>>563285142>did someone cast the autism forma on you?
>>563285142Doing my best...
>>563285648>Mind Overburden Effect: Autism
>>563286390Affects everyone here
>>563294090My Willpower is also Overburdened, so I'm slow
now that we can see the Affinity how much is needed to unlock everything at the Gift Exchange?
>>563295279That was already answered even before the update by others who looked under the hood of UE5. 70% IIRC.
>>563296242>gifts and quests only go up to 60%it will take forever to get 70% on all companions unless they allow you to take anyone from the get go in NG+
>>563296242>>563295279They buffed the Affinity gain for certain actions, didn't they?
>>563296885You should gain now more affinity from being accompanied as long as the enemies match your level. No idea if they also buffed the gifting but there is now a shop you can buy everything for 3k haze each anyway.
>>563295108Our HEROES
>>563301823AND Iris
>>563301823>>563301860and a dog (wolf?) and a cat
>>563303820Cat and Dog did great things during the upheaval, don't diminish them by not counting them among the heroes.
>>563295108no Jadwiga?
>>563304009Behind Zenon
>>563308431>White Hollygross
>>563309665She's anemic. You need to give her blood.
>>563308431>>563309665>White Holly>it's realThe fuck happened here? Artist drawing the Pathos miniboss version of her?
>>563311448Yes ma'am! Right away ma'am! All of it!
I really love how talkative the companions are. It's really cute how mad Holly gets when you crash the bike.
>>563318570Holly has so many voice lines and interactions while exploring. It feels like they wanted to make up for her relatively short main quest.
POST MORE JOSEE
>>563285082>NG+ no difficulty increase optionThe absolute state of CV playersInfinite resurrects weren't enough I take it
>>563326705That was a thing in CV1, anon.Code Vein NG+ is also a MASSIVE boost to enemies.
>>563326117
>>563326705I didn't ask for that feature. Doesn't appeal to me. But NG+5 doesn't either. If I'm replaying I want a new character, a new main weapon and some build changes. Unfortunately for CV2 finding the sweet spot where it's harder but not annoying is tough. Doing lvl 1 playthroughs with lvl 1 weapons and no improvements to healing is doable but it's kinda lame ngl. >>563327176>NG+ is a MASSIVE boostI steam rolled the 2nd clear so I don't really agree.
>>563331905CV1 did, at least.
>>563326117I really need to save more stuff from Twitter
Will we be able to go inside the Frontier Bureau in the DLC?
>>563345267Imagine the softness
>>563345267Shio no!
>>563352303I'm glad she redeemed herself in the end. Still surprising we never fought her, though.
>>563345267Yuu and Alisa family when
josee doesnt play fair; she is crafted for ( you ) but...you know..i cant..because of the implications..
>>563357413Because she molested you?
>>563357953lou gives me everything i need, josee is too straight forward; lou could even smell her hornystink on me after that encounter. i felt bad
>>563358206Oh no...And then Holly comes in
Even though I know how to pronounce Jadwiga and Josee properly I still can't help but pronounce the names the way they do in game. My fault for playing the game with the inferior gaijin audio as opposed to the superior glorious Nippon track.
>>563358548Holly never mounted you and sucked you dry from two ends at the same time.A pity, since it meant she couldn't hope to hold a candle to Josee
>>563360984how is it pronounced anyway? i just say "sex" and "jose ayy"is it different with jp?
>>563361230She does shove your face into her tits if you're short enough.
>>563361270They at least try to pronounce the names correctly in Japanese except for Sybil. Neither track gets it even close.
>>563360984Are you mixing up the french pronunciation with the Spanish one? Because she's correctly addressed with the french pronunciation most of the game.
>>563360984How do you even pronounce Jadwiga?
Night, /cvg/ bros.
>>563361960No they don't. The vowels are right but the consonants are wrong, which is ironic since it's generally the other way around when it comes to inaccuracies.
>>563363506Boobs should be bigger
>>563363506Boobs should be smaller
>>563363506Boobs are just right
>>563363506Boobs should be smaller, but the leotard should be for a bigger size, creating visible empty space in the cups
>>563363506Boobs
>>563370556Boobs are important
>>563374807Cute!!!
>>563362414Sleep well zzzz...
>>563374807Lol
sigh you really have to try hard to make this game playable don't youIf I'd known how this was going to play out I'd have levelled up the character but not levelled up any weapons instead of the reverse. Now I'm left with a game where bosses die in less than a minute and my character dies in one hit but it doesn't matter because you respawn endlessly and have shitloads of estus which instantly full heal after respawningWhat does this game look like if you try to play it normally by levelling up and upgrading everything with a companion? I can't imagine there's even a videogame to be played during normal progression
>>563388664>using a coward range stick for distance and acting elitist about itHands not good enough for you?
>>563392489>acting elitistI'm playing what I want to play and trying to make a game out of it, what part of that is supposed to be elitist? The game literally won't allow you to die, you just keep popping back up
Complete and utter Lou marriage
>>563388664Most people would have died to the stomp
>>563398264Chompers
What in the world was Eva wearing
Now that eggs are no longer the best thing to give everyone, what should I be buying and spamming?
Lou likes her eggs fertilized
>>563400314>Pic related will be real
>>563402739Remember that Eva was 18 years old
>>563405613Well, eggs are still the most cost effective option by a LONG shot. But if Haze isn't an issue, then the gettting companions preferred gifts from the new shop will make the process much quicker.
>>563388664Most people cry about no co-op or the bosses being unfair so we're outvoted regardless of how easy the game is. If you level up pretty much anything too much you'll trivialize the difficulty and yes it's hard to find the Goldilocks range. I haven't found it yet. Not upgrading anything, besides normal Bloodcode progression, hasn't exactly been a lot of fun. Maybe upgrading weapons too would be the right choice so you're made of the thinnest paper but at least you can kill the bosses and regular mooks in a reasonable time frame. Haven't quite progressed far enough to get to the actually challenging fights.
>>563412320The bosses in CV2 felt super fair to me. Don't know how people were having issues.
>>563398264Is Holly the only companion to not have another permanent companion character be connected to her?
>>563415803Zenon
>>563416119...has Jadwiga
>>563412320>Not upgrading anything, besides normal Bloodcode progression, hasn't exactly been a lot of funFrom what I can tell, if you don't level the character up then enemies start one-shotting you by about the mid point of the game. But getting oneshot doesn't kill you because the game is silly. Also that's unbuffed, if you start buffing survivability you can be tanky even at level one and there are a lot of other tools that will prevent you dying like survive fatal hit with 1HP when above threshhold, which is all of the time. Also since you have no HP every estus full heals you and resets the resurrectI started out just doing moderate weapon upgrades and no level upgrades, took everything to +1/+3, but halfway through the game my unbuffed damage on trash felt like it was becoming a slog and I decided to go up to +3/+9. But then I found Blade Dance and now if I go all in on damage buffs my damage is too high, the buffs are too impactful again. Meanwhile I'm still getting oneshot 8-10 times per fight on first attempts but without actually dying which is frustrating and sillyWhat the game really needs is no resurrects and lower damage gains from buff stacking
>>563415803Iris
>>563417154Who
>>563414285There are a couple bosses that don't leave you much time to breathe. And bosses that spam spells with huge AoE. Hero Zenon was a big difficulty jump so I wouldn't be shocked if some players got filtered by him. Frantz and I'm blanking on his name but the first Bodyguard/Assassin guy you fight are pretty challenging early game bosses. I wouldn't disagree that some bosses/elite enemies have unfair attacks that are basically guaranteed to hit you. That's just not really a problem when you level up your stuff and heals normally though. First timing bosses in CV2 is quite common due to how much healing you can get combined with guaranteed revives. I dunno. They finally nerfed Bell Bitches which is an inarguably good decision but they really should've did that sooner. >>563415803Her parents are around and Lycoris is a companion for a good chunk of the game if you don't speed run the main story. With mods she can be permanent.
>>563416473I must not understand your question, in that case. You can play the entire game and complete Zenon's questlines without ever getting Jadwiga as a companion. Do you mean connected by family/blood? Then Iris and Noah also fit that category.
>>563417372Iris will get her revenge one day...
>>563416745>enemies start one-shotting youYes but it depends on what attack you get hit by. Some attacks seem to be percentage based rather than flat damage or they're just meant to interrupt you because I still do survive attacks in the mid game. But heaven forbid you be anywhere near a grenade explosion because that's a guaranteed death. >the resurrects are badNo they're good. It allows the game to bullshit you on occasion and include unfair attacks that are extremely difficult to avoid. Even when you level up normally bosses can 2 shot you very quickly so the game is balanced around the revive existing. You've simply upgraded your healing too much if you were looking for ball busting gameplay. There are enemies that can easily kill you twice before you can run away and heal yourself, engagements where you're outnumbered and enemies that'll throw daggers or grenades if you try to flee. Try your image fight without spamming AoE spells. The game can be a lot harder if you actually want it to be. Or it can be a cool action game where you have tons of OP tools to use and feel powerful. But there's no benefit to them balancing the game in a way where you're gonna die twenty times regardless of how much you upgrade your character.
Handfeeding Lou
>>563420375She WILL be loved
>>563420706She has to eat ALL the eggs
https://x.com/Myohn3/status/2043220127609758020Man, what a blast from the past.
>>563424519I'll be thoroughly loving Iris in a moment.
>>563422852>No they're good.With resurrects happening as often as they do it is practically impossible to Fail at endgame bosses, because even if you get oneshot by a single hit of a big bullshit attack sequence you will just "die" become invulnerable as you slowly stand up and the rest of the attack whiffs through you, then you tap one healing item and you're instantly full again with another resurrect ready to go. And you can do that what... 15 times in a single fight? How long does a boss fight need to be for the boss to kill you through 15 cheat deaths
>>563430956>yhen you tap one healing item and you're instantly full again with another resurrect ready to go. That's just not accurate. I don't know where you're getting it from. The resurrection has a cooldown. Healing back to full doesn't reset it. The first revive cooldown is very short but subsequent revives until you touch another Mistle get longer and longer.
>>563430603>another Alter Ego crossoverSurprisingly common
>>562583953hey I found that level
>>563388664having a companion out actually does make the game hardermerging with your companion gives you a significant stat buff and causes enemy and boss aggro to focus solely on you. With the companion out, you lose that buff and the enemy aggro is split, which can make some attacks unpredictable or annoying to dodge/parry from different anglesI played the entire game with a companion out and had a hard time, played through NG+ with a companion merged the whole time and the game turned into a breeze
>>563435286I like it a lot.
>>563445336I'm shocked they didn't include outfit customization for the CV1 stuff from the beginning. A lot of them look great with the new changes.
>>563442679Memories of /cvg/...
>>563438736>causes enemy and boss aggro to focus solely on youIn most content this is going to make the game easier in a shitty way, by giving you free damageI can definitely understand it being cancer on this guy because it changes the angles of followups, so I get where you're coming from here, but making the fight cancer by having the angles of followup attacks be inconsistent isn't my idea of a good timejust finished, it was good but I can't recommend it to people because it was too weeby, maybe I'll just recommend the OST
>>563442679How come we don't get art like this here for CV2?
>>563453982Not as many new OCs.
>>563454613What a shame
>>563453982Most have moved on and never returned for the sequel. No one to draw any art and barely anyone to draw any art of, unfortunately.
Holly milkBut alsoLavinia milk
>>563461182Cute Io
>>563461126
>>563464595KINO
>>563464502Holly has such a lewd and slutty body but such a kind and caring and innocent personality god I want her so bad
>>563465556>Have an absurdly lewd body>Actually a massive dork who can't help but ramble about random biology trivia>Sometimes flirts with you between trivia
>>563453982I still have MS Paint...
stop posting women lou is getting mad at me
>>563467319
>>563467650NYO....
>>563467319Just post Lou, then
>>563467319Nah
>>563471259josee!! nooo!!! dont suck my cock!!!!!! AHHHHHH
Someone post Rin without her mask
>>563471895
>>563471895>post RinNo problem>without her maskWhat are you? Some kind of sicko?
>>563465556>>563465947The people learn the sexual allure of autistic women.
>>563472558What if I am, huh?!
>>563474056Well then you'd be among your kind.
>>563478204Makes you wonder what the game would be like with more time, bigger budget and less troubled developmentCV2 had only a bigger budget at best
>>563467813
>>563478498Huh? That's just a mock-up of what the Thorns Jail (Ivy Blood Veil) would do in-game. I'm not sure what more time would have done besides maybe a different opening to the game that explains the Island that blows up and how you died. At least that's what I would focus on, that or fleshing out Gobbo's plot line. Code Vein 2 and lots of UE5 games would've benefitted from alpha releases/actually competent playtesting. If CV2 launched as it is right now, I think things would've gone better. Not crazy but better. And that required a launch and then 2.5 months of feedback based patching. Surely they're still working on the DLC too and we have no idea as to the extent of it.
>>563480372Isn't that CV1 concept art?Certainly looks like Eva1 needed a healthier dev cycle way more than 2, but 2 clearly suffered from some complications since they had to cut online at some point in development
>>563480372Maybe Iris could have gotten some proper plot involvement with more dev time. There's also the second Josee section consisting of just two fights, compared to the dungeons that Holly and Lyle get.
>>563480565I bracketed in the what I recalled it being called in CV1. It works the same in both games. Code Vein was a mess but I think it was one of those projects where they started making a game and then people saw it and said "I like this but I don't like that," and they basically reworked the game to meet what people said. Io went from minor (probably generic) character into a central story figure. Her actual implementation into Code Vein is quite tenuous. She's in the beginning, then mid game she's completely absent and then later mid game she says she wants to start going on adventures with you but the story and cutscenes never reflect that. And then she suddenly appears at your side twice during the Finale. Once before the boss at the doors and then during the good ending final cutscene. The God Eater connection might've saved the game in some sense but casuals keep telling me CV2 not being a direct sequel killed all their interest so that really didn't help in the long run. Love Code Vein but it's a miracle series. The first game was an extremely troubled development and it's miraculous that they stitched it together just enough to somehow make an excellent game. And then 2 even happening at all is kinda crazy. I'm grateful it exists and turned out as good as it is. >>563480923Yeah, the Bureau should've been a dungeon. Damn shame. The courtyard showdown is cool to be fair. I wonder if they cut it simply because they wanted the fight in the courtyard but couldn't figure out how you'd clear the castle but then end up in the courtyard.
>>563480734Now we just need the horns
>>563483116What will the Horns Jail do?
>>563480734Should have hired some environmental artists too
Code Bane
>>563484181bull charge
>>563473802I've always loved dorks thoughBut my preference is more on the gloomy end
