Topic: NIOH -OT-

Is anyone playing the NIOH beta? I like it a lot more than alpha. I hate to admit that the new tutorial made a big difference . Some thoughts below:

Good:

• Combat is excellent. The difficulty is right.
• I like the stances.
• I like the familiarity stat.
• I like the little spirits.

Bad:

• Why can't I quit without losing progress? The missions are too long to say "finish or lose progress"
• so many skills and I have no idea which to get. Most skills seem mediocre.
• because I don't know Japanese I have to read descriptions of things to find out what they are.
• it would be nice to compare weapons factoring out familiarity. "Will this weapon eventually be better?"

Did the developer did anything based on players feedbacks? It still seems like enemies are dealing a ton of damage and they are just as annoying as the cops in GTAV since they'll chase after me regardless how far I ran away from them. I'm having a little trouble getting the timing right with certain attacks and counters as well. Other than that, the game is quite fun.

At the moment, I'm stuck trying to defeat the vampire boss.:/

I fought the demon mini boss he was easy, but couldn't get past the 3 armored dudes behind his hut, had to sleep. I had no clue if that was near the end of the mission or nowhere close.

I didn't mind the incoming damage too much, seemed high stakes but workable.

You can actually exhaust enemies by making them run after you, then hit them when they are too tired to guard.

Is there DLC you can unlock like in the Alpha? If so, is it the same batch of DLC?

@Churchy: You'll unlock the same DLC after defeating the first boss but there's a second DLC that you can unlock from this beta. I'm assuming it's after defeating the second (vampire) boss, which I haven't done so, yet.

@WanderingBullet: Vampire boss? Oh this is so happening.

What skills did you get? I have kick, and fire weapon, but don't know what to get next? So many skill pts to spend.

Got to the first (demon) boss tonight, he's kicking my butt. Feel silly that last night I was stuck/dying trying to go the wrong way. le sigh. Great game. Hopefully the beta is open long enough for me to beat it.

Managed to beat the vampire boss with the help of a random who had lightning weapon. Didn't get any good weapons apart from some armors.

@Tsurii: Did you get that lightning sword from defeating Tachibana Muneshige? I'm at stuck on his mission currently.

@Tsurii: Ah, I see... cause Tachibana Muneshige uses a katana and lightning attacks so I thought you got it by defeating him.

Not entirely sure but I think those revenants (dead players) are random for everyone.

Okay, the cut-scene after the first boss has a totally random moment in it....

@Mega-Gazz: Yeah, I was surprised when I saw him appearing in the game as well. As for the cat, I thought it told him what the time was and that dawn was approaching.lol

I read a minor spoiler and apparently the cat is possessed by a Nekomata description here and is actually a supporting character. Also this thing smells a little like baloney but is funny.

edit because of spoiler tag fail where urls show through the spoiler...

@Mega-Gazz: So the cat was telling him the time!O_o

Nice find, btw.lol

OMG did you find the secret door Oni? best secret door implementation ever!

Not surprisingly doors can't move very far, so I just sat back a couple feet and shot it with arrows. I think it might have feebly thrown rocks. He does have a crit spot in the glowy red dots so you probably tagged one of those the first time.

Yeah, I think I've encountered two secret door onis. On both occasions I was with a random so we took it down pretty quick.

finally got my mark of the strong

Got my mark of the conqueror last night. I'm on the third mission now. I absolutely adore this game!

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Yes!

BTW There is a great cheese for the Tachibana fight. Well, multiple cheese methods but one that doesn't need unlimited ninjutsu or anything.