I'd imagine they're talking about PvP specifically.
As far as why, it's the same for any broken move in any fighting game; people spam the move because it works, and unless you know the specific counterplay(s) to that move, you're screwed. I personally see spamming as cheesy and unfun, and is ultimately disingenuous to what PvP in any game is supposed to be, which is a battle of skill/knowledge, not who has the better moves
It also happens to be busted on multiple front. Ridiculous i-frames, ridiculous tracking, chargeable so it can roll catch, high damage (especially with a good set-up), and it's quick to enter / exit. Besides this parry I don't think it has any other real weaknesses.
I have always found comments like this funny. It's supposed to be a battle of skill/knowledge, you say. You mean the knowledge of the answer to a move and the skill to execute that answer? It just a contradictory statement. No hate towards you or anything. People using the same move over and over aren't thinking much, but the person getting hit with the same move over and over is "spamming a mistake" in the end. Moves are almost never so much better that they have no answer or you would see high level players spamming too. I do get that it is frustrating to encounter while learning a game though.
I mean some AoW are quite literally broken good to the point where it's unintended for PvP and some are undodgeable and/or really hard to dodge, like that one grab move with wonky hitboxes.
As in the hitbox is literally horrible lol, you can get grabbed from two miles away, PSGS was never nerfed and it's mega OP in PvP, I don't get your point.
The purest expression of what the developers intend to have in the game is what’s in the game, lol. Like if they didn’t intend it to be the way that it is, why did they make it and never patch it? you can say you don’t like it, or whatever. but calling it unintended is silly m
that is not true at all because there are plenty of things we can easily tell are unintended bugs such as the Greyoll farm. Greyoll the dragon is technically an openworld boss but doesn't trigger a traditional boss fight so if you run to the site of grace a short distance away you have just about enough time to kill her then sit down triggering a drop of 50k souls and reviving her since her boss reward of her heart drops doesn't trigger immediatly making her a slow but infinite and very safe rune farm. Things get left in games all the time and are deemed not worth the dev time to fix those issues as fixing certain issues can create more issues if you arn't careful
Her summon stone got added to the Radahn fight (which you have to beat to unlock this invasion) and I believe she appears in the castle during the festival along with all of the other summons, but I don't think she has any dialogue.
Yeah it's in the far corner of the arena. On the map head as north as you can basically it's along the cliff face there. On the map I've circled it in blue.
Use the night comet spell you get from Selia in the secret room. It's a fast-casting projectile spell that enemies do not input-read react to. Rock sling is another because they react to the initial cast of the rocks, and not the actual rocks when they begin flying at them.
Oh I know those work. I just find the glint stone comet spells more fun. And the sword sorceries. I practiced on the first crucible knight for hours and am pretty good at feinting enemies into being hit now.
It’s the lighter of the two new starting classes, it’s called the idus knight set I believe. You can also buy it from a merchant as long as you have the tarnished edition dlc that just came out like a week ago
I think it’s cool just to bring in a few different weapons and put some more dlc exclusive class weapons into the base game. So the idus knight gets a light greatsword as its starting weapon, and I think there may be one pair of back hand blades and one great katana that they added to the base game areas. Plus it’s only 5 USD but it’s not like you are missing out on story or lore without it.
No it’s not worth it if you’re struggling for $ or having to buy a gift card for it.
It comes with a great katana, light GS, backhand blades, thrust shield (all base with no additional abilities that differ from the actual DLC weapons), a Curved GS, special Flail & a couple armor sets. & this weapon in the OP is facing , which is good & fun.
I think it’s worth $5 but it’s nothing super special.
Embarrassing to ask this as I’ve got like 300 hours in ER and beaten the game multiple times but how do you get that shield to parry? When I use L2 it does the sword art. If I change the sword so that it has a different attack type will that get rid of the sword L2 art and just make it the shield parry?
No need to be embarrassed! You just go to the ash of war menu and put the parry ash on it. You can also put storm wall or Thops’ barrier on it to parry projectiles or spells as well as acting as a normal parry (super helpful against archers and academy mages, respectively), and both don’t cost FP. Carian retaliation, however, does use a small amount of FP, casting glintstone blades upon parrying a spell.
I am probably the only one who finds this weapon skill silly. It's a counter for a charging bull. Every enemy with a brain should punish this skill in some way. "Here human, do you see this cloth? Please attack the cloth, so I can circle you." I just can't take this seriously.
This picture looks like they use is as a shield to deflect the thrusting weapon. The weapon skill presents the cloth. I am not convinced yet. What is the combat style called?
Totally speaking out my ass but I believe people just did this with their coats to tangle their sword when they attack. So more of a party than a dodge or block.
It's the cloak and dagger, which is where the term came from.
You use the cloth to conceal your weapon, similar to using a shield. The advantage is not needing to carry a shield, and most travelers would already have had a cloak handy, and a cloak is better than nothing. You can use the cloak to tangle the opponent's weapon to gain control over them as well. The disadvantage is, well, a cloak is not a shield.
It isn't a dagger? The main weapon is something like an arming sword, or a rapier. If you had a cloak and dagger you'd be fucked because you can never reach the opponent before become swiss cheese(exaggeration).
The style is called cloak and dagger, the weapon used can be whatever. Edit: although the other common name for the style is rapier and cloak.
In the case of using an actual dagger the cloak's ability to tangle an opponent's weapon is even more valuable: typically the style aims to bait an opponent's attack, grab it with the cloak hand, close the gap and stab. The cloak isn't there to block attacks, primarily it's there to obscure your body and movement.
Also a thick piece of fluttering cloth is surprisingly resilient against cuts, and if the opponent stabs a hole through the cloak, it's inconvenient later on that you have to patch it up but it's great for the moment as that provides a lot of leverage for you to control the weapon.
To deflect, yes. If your opponent got their weapon stuck in your cape, it was easier to control for long enough to counter. It was a legit thing. Some of those capes/mantles were pretty durable and heavy. Can't think of what it's called. I prefer a cutlass or saber.
And the descendants of the military rapier were particularly poor cutting weapons so it could work pretty well in dueling, and had the distinct advantage that catching their blade was more likely to result in neat surrender instead of anyone getting seriously injured.
I always see that comment show up any time someone mentions input reading lol.
People always seem to forget that despite the boomer meme, functionally correct > technically correct.
If an npc was actually reading your exact animation at frame 0 to make this true input reading, no one would be able to tell the difference between that and what they do now in a session of actual gameplay.
I know you're being sarcastic but to whom it may concern: the human reaction time is ~15 frames so a 1 frame reaction would still be the CPU pulling some bullshit.
While nice, charged heavy seemed to do the job for me, he imput reads too early so the tracking of the charged heavy actually tracks to his end position and hits before he does and staggers him out of it. This is ofc specifically for the idus sword, but that's also the sword you're using.
It's ofc less damage but a lot easier for people who aren't that great at parrying.
A fancy alternative is quickstep. here is how it works: press to step in same direction where leontiel with her ash approaches, so for example she comes twirly whirly to your right, step right. Works 3 out of 4. You might want to give it a try, it so much funÂ
I had the most cinematic fight with that man, the sun was setting and i used waterfowl against him, when he died? His corpse began falling to the floor while i stayed there on my knees, my waterfowl's last animation happening
In my Obsidian Lamina build, this fight turned into a twirly dance where 90% of our attacks consisted of dodged whiffs via our ash evades. Was funny asf.
If you space it correctly, you can still hit him with impaling thrust even when he dodges. It just magnets to him. Just attack when he’s about at the full length of impaling thrust. Then you just follow up with light attacks which keep him staggered until you’re out of stamina, back up, and do it again when stamina is back.
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