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Rajaah

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There's no 'ideal' way to play it on a PS5. The game has no support for VRR or 120Hz (or even HDR) so there's nothing you can do besides try out quality and performance and decide which sucks less. Balance is awful, don't even bother. Performance mode isn't the no-brainer that it should be because the game uses FSR3 framegen to boost 30 fps to 60, which is not what it's designed to do. And it still drops below 60 fps at times, which makes the lack of VRR even more annoying. I just got the game when the physical version finally released, and I ended up sticking with quality mode because fake 60 fps with lots of input lag and uglier visuals is pointless imo.

It doesn't seem like any of the stuff Digital Foundry pointed out at release was ever looked at by Game Science. The only performance tuning they did was for the PS5 Pro, turning balance mode into 40 fps in a 120Hz container (which I assume is the way to go for people who have a Pro and a 120Hz TV) and swapping out FSR3 for PSSR.
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Performance framerate isn't great which defeats the purpose and Quality's got framerate issues to the point it almost feels like slowdown at times. This is definitely one of those games that is probably better played on PC. Think I'll also stick with Quality mode for this one which is surprising to me but yeah.

This seems like something that could move PS5 Pro systems if it fixes all this / combines Performance and Quality. Anyone play it on PS5 Pro yet?

Also wondering what I should spend skill points on. I spent my first 8 points on all six levels of +HP and both levels of the fast attack opener range extension, which seemed like a no-brainer but is a much smaller upgrade than I was hoping for. No clue what to do next in the skill tree. Haven't even figured out how to parry yet, unless the staff twirl is a parry (seems like it's for blocking projectiles mainly?)

Very cool game, feels like an easier version of Sekiro. Surprised there isn't a standard level-up system or stats.
 
Chimney

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Finally got around to this and really enjoyed it. I apparently missed 3 fights and idk how since I spent 45 hours painstakingly crawling around every invisible wall in the game. idk if I can be assed to NG+ to find them but have to redo chap 3 again <_<. The challenges and gauntlet look interesting though.

As soon as I found the spell that prevents you from using other spells but boosts fighting stats that was it for me as nothing else looked interesting and I barely used them before then.

Char was pretty stacked by the last fight so it was a bit trivial. Erlang was the hardest and felt like an actual Sekiro style fight with 8 attempts.

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Finally got around to this and really enjoyed it. I apparently missed 3 fights and idk how since I spent 45 hours painstakingly crawling around every invisible wall in the game. idk if I can be assed to NG+ to find them but have to redo chap 3 again <_<. The challenges and gauntlet look interesting though.

As soon as I found the spell that prevents you from using other spells but boosts fighting stats that was it for me as nothing else looked interesting and I barely used them before then.

Char was pretty stacked by the last fight so it was a bit trivial. Erlang was the hardest and felt like an actual Sekiro style fight with 8 attempts.

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My stats are significantly worse than this (only have like five bosses down lol). 420 HP. I got all six +HP nodes in the skill tree. How do you raise HP more, and the other stats? Is it all from equipment? I'm still in the starting equipment and haven't found any upgrades whatsoever, a couple hours in.

This game nearly ran me off at first with that big-headed guy in the woods, and I'm glad it didn't because I beat the next few bosses and got the hang of it and now I'm getting a lot out of it. Staff-fighting is fun as hell. Had people over this evening and we were jumping off the couch when someone won a boss fight, watching each other lose over and over, and it was tremendous.

Got to the Whiteclad Noble and his second form just whoops my ass. I hate bosses like this where you have to repeat the first form to have any shot at learning the second. At least it isn't the first boss like in Wo Long Fallen Dynasty.

Great game. Grinding skill points now and putting them into +Stamina, +Critical Hits, and the two Might passives for the fire-wielding alternate form. Maybe Four Banes Resistance too IDK how important that is. After HP, the other thing I already got was every possible upgrade to Immobilize, which is so OP.
 
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My stats are significantly worse than this (only have like five bosses down lol). 420 HP. I got all six +HP nodes in the skill tree. How do you raise HP more, and the other stats? Is it all from equipment? I'm still in the starting equipment and haven't found any upgrades whatsoever, a couple hours in.

This game nearly ran me off at first with that big-headed guy in the woods, and I'm glad it didn't because I beat the next few bosses and got the hang of it and now I'm getting a lot out of it. Staff-fighting is fun as hell. Had people over this evening and we were jumping off the couch when someone won a boss fight, watching each other lose over and over, and it was tremendous.

Got to the Whiteclad Noble and his second form just whoops my ass. I hate bosses like this where you have to repeat the first form to have any shot at learning the second. At least it isn't the first boss like in Wo Long Fallen Dynasty.

Great game. Grinding skill points now and putting them into +Stamina, +Critical Hits, and the two Might passives for the fire-wielding alternate form. Maybe Four Banes Resistance too IDK how important that is. After HP, the other thing I already got was every possible upgrade to Immobilize, which is so OP.
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You can raise stats primarily through findable pills and celestial medicine made by a certain NPC you'll eventually discover and various pieces of gear/curios can also provide them, but the latter is less relevant than the first two.

I mainly focused on survival/stam tree early on with a few points in thrust stance because spells didn't interest me and I wanted to be better at raw combat. Thrust stance is really really good imo. It's very forgiving/safe when you are learning to "see through" (parry) due to the distance given and the follow up thrust is very strong. At end game it helps your stat stacking monkey gain even more crit if you go that route. You can reset your tree/medicines/relics as often as you want though so if you need something particular for a fight you can always swap to it and swap back after or just try out everything.

NG+ is basically when you have a full kit to be OP and min/max builds for various spells or transforms or qi cheese etc.

This is what my combat focused tree at endgame looked like. Four Banes resistance was one of the last things I added as it didn't particularly matter much if you weren't getting hit and you get a soak that removes it if you do at some point.

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good tips. i focused on my stamina, survival, then the other stuff. i love the combat, but spells i try to buff up too. i don't use them on non boss enemies.
 
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You can raise stats primarily through findable pills and celestial medicine made by a certain NPC you'll eventually discover and various pieces of gear/curios can also provide them, but the latter is less relevant than the first two.

I mainly focused on survival/stam tree early on with a few points in thrust stance because spells didn't interest me and I wanted to be better at raw combat. Thrust stance is really really good imo. It's very forgiving/safe when you are learning to "see through" (parry) due to the distance given and the follow up thrust is very strong. At end game it helps your stat stacking monkey gain even more crit if you go that route. You can reset your tree/medicines/relics as often as you want though so if you need something particular for a fight you can always swap to it and swap back after or just try out everything.

NG+ is basically when you have a full kit to be OP and min/max builds for various spells or transforms or qi cheese etc.

This is what my combat focused tree at endgame looked like. Four Banes resistance was one of the last things I added as it didn't particularly matter much if you weren't getting hit and you get a soak that removes it if you do at some point.

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This helps. I'm farming points now, at about level 30 or so. So many things to get, can never have enough points.

Exhilaration looked like a great skill, restores health when you use a focus point (i.e. a strong attack that spends the point?)... however after putting 2 of 3 points into it, I'm not seeing ANY health restoration whatsoever when I do a strong attack while fighting, even when a point gets spent. Dunno what's going on with that.
 
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This helps. I'm farming points now, at about level 30 or so. So many things to get, can never have enough points.

Exhilaration looked like a great skill, restores health when you use a focus point (i.e. a strong attack that spends the point?)... however after putting 2 of 3 points into it, I'm not seeing ANY health restoration whatsoever when I do a strong attack while fighting, even when a point gets spent. Dunno what's going on with that.
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The heal is extremely minor. Think by end game it would heal maybe 1/20 of my health bar so I wouldn't rely on its viability and focus more on just not getting hit =D. Exploring everything and just progressing gave me adequate levels, but there is a good spot to farm once you reach Chap 4 if you need will/levels. Until then I wouldn't worry about it, but what I'm talking about is in my spoiler if you want to use it then.

Shattered Pools Shrine - You'll see a bunch of silk stacks hanging from the ceiling. You can just murder them and reset. If you use the exp/will/item curios it adds up quick. I banged out like 150k will and like 10 levels in 30 minutes. Rat Guai transformation to make it super fast since it can explode and clear them all out in seconds.
 
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You guys think this game is worth full price? Looking at the physical copy for $70 after tax.

Seems like a game you'd play once and then never touch again, kind of like God of War.
 
Chimney

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tugofpeace said:
You guys think this game is worth full price? Looking at the physical copy for $70 after tax.

Seems like a game you'd play once and then never touch again, kind of like God of War.
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I think so if you enjoy semi challenging combat RPGs. The story was decent/engaging as well if you like mythology. I got 45 hours of it without 100%ing and redoing NG+ and all that comes with it. Could probably get 100 hours easy if you did all of that.
 
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