No Rest for the Wicked dev meltdown

yfw it worked

36k peak. 3-5k people playing now. 49k reviews. Seems to be doing alright. Pretty good for an early access game. What's the problem?

It's that easy. Grifting retards is so easy. Let's see if it also works for the Lords of the Fallen guys. I don't know, it being ESG exclusive is gonna make it tough. Most of these retards are Steamie cultists.

he's anti woke, that's why this articles exist.

The only thing I care about is:

Game releases in EA

bad

Game is EA kinda sucks as well

bad-er

Game not worth buying until and if it ever comes out of EA and is finally good

mhm exactly

saudis weaponize journos, trannies and leftyfaggots in their smear campaign to financially ruin a competitor and potentially buy-out the studio

Looks like they're reading from same handbook amerimutts and chinks have been using for the past decade.

You're vaxxed. I can tell

why did you decide to bring up lotf there anon
is the relationship between those two games in your head possibly something to do with your politics?

40 bucks in early access? Looks cool but i'll wait when the game is fully finished.

how is the game not out lmao, tortanic themselves out of embarrassment, WEAK DISPLAY

Go anti woke go broke chuds

What happened to Lara was fucked up.
I assume the dad is gonna an hero and i'm gonna randomly end up finding his body somewhere.

Jokes on discord

it really didn't sound like a joke.
there's not many ways to interpret "we need this to succeed or we're going under"

Because they're both mediocre looking games that are purposefully getting chudboosts to try to get more attention than they would get otherwise. It ain't rocket science.

Based signaling is cringe for the same reasons virtue signaling is. As if we haven't been shitting on virtue signaling for over a decade now.

Private Division imploded and nearly took NRFTW with it.

When I saw these news about the dude begging for reviews I thought the same thng
Did this dude think they were going to get 100k players with the patch or something?

Why don't we play as the girl?
instead we play as some armored mongoloid and literally none of the armor designs look good.

Reminder that Odessa's hand is among the swirl of hands on the logo
She probably gets the same treatment if we don't save her somehow

We had a fucking retarded faggot working at our company that shat himself because me and a dude I have worked with for 20 years were having a laugh

That is not anything signaling

takahashi

It's that Dean Takahashi faggot isn't it

complete brat

Now I really need to sex her.

Is this (You)?

Are the hands supposed to represent bosses? Because i recognize only the Caretaker boss hand in there.

Lord Takahashi strikes again

Too bad the game is still dog shit and completely fails at being either a good soul like or a good arpg while being a shitty survival game.
Hating journos don't make games magically better.

Not a bad point there, why do you play as some noname, unexplained mute retard?
I believe (hope) this is because of the early access and later on you will have something special that makes everyone know you are a cerim (whatever the fuck that is)
Right now everything feels kind of slapped together

I'm talking about the guy making polls about Type A/Type B shit and then going "The modern audience doesn't exist". Shit that is blatantly him just trying to look based for Grummz.

lead dev namedropped that he takes inspiration form Yasumi Matsuno

the game's art style is a western take on Akihiko Yoshida esque proportions

the plot is about some magical fuckery going on a remote island, an inquisitor forces are sent to investigate, led by a power hungry leader (female this time, also sufficently hot)

you're THE reinforcements, some sort of a representative of a local doomguy race

rune attacks are literally Break Arts

ton of crafting autism

Hot

he said that his company is in dire financial straits

He didn't say this you lying faggot. Congratulations on literally falling for the propaganda you're trying to defend. Fucking moron.

We are not talking about lords of the fallen you libtard faggot
YOU are talking about lords of the fallen because YOU are a libtard faggot, fuck off

brings up some retarded twitter warrior out of nowhere

Not beating the "biased for political reasons" allegations, anon.

No, he just implied it to guilt trip people and got mad when it left his bubble. The image is right there, retard. He's begging for positive reviews and suggesting that if they aren't there, the studio will close down within months. Oh, I'm sorry. It "MIGHT" close down lol

missing hot girl

Inspiration my ass

nta, but he did beg for reviews and dangled the threat of shuting down
Then he did the hardest backpedalling

ackshually

long post in reddit saying that things are actually fine
It was kinda sad

This guy is also a twitter warrior. That's what I'm talking about.
He got mad that his guilt-tripping review begging got exposed and deflected to "They just hate that the game has no trannies"

And just like the Lords of the Fallen guy, he wants backpats for putting Body Type A/Body Type B in the game and then taking it out.

This shit is transparent.

I've been hearing from a lot of people that the game is good, can any of you faggots confirm?

Better full view of her

still talking about an unrelated game

Anon you could not be more transparent.
It's blatantly obvious you want to shit on the dev because of your own political views, no one is fooled.

it's pretty funny considering no one cares about lotf anymore
it was just a desperate pr stunt. it wasn't very successful, the game is still mixed reviews on steam and the tide of new players has gone. not even anti-woke cares anymore cause the game was just meh. yet trannies let the game live rent free in their head.

she's not playable

Sorry, not boughtening your garbage. Just not going to happen.

It's always okay to abuse video game journos.

Have you considered playing it

but I don't want to buy it

Have you considered pirating it?

To be fair, if you are not fucking retarded you know there is no way things arent fine
A 15k peak on patch release with constant 5k players, either you are wasting your money on coke, or you are lying

The worst thing there is that, like other anons said, the game just isn't good. There is a story there for an actual journalist, but nope, they had to just label the guy as anti-woke and make it culture war bullshit, instead of doing a deep dive why the combat system feels like shit and timers on building upgrades feels like shit with how slow it is to gather materials.

They're angling for chudboosts and it's pathetic. They think doing virtue signaling but for the other side is the solution. Hope they both flop. Genuinely neither game looks good anyways.

This retard was also saying that he needed to change the entire attribute system because those poor lower common denominator gamers didn't get it just a week ago, too.

He literally threatened to not deliver the full game if it kept getting (rightfully) bad review

The game looks cool, but too similar to dark souls

You're retarded. The developer is the one who purposefully made it about the culture war.

The original article was about how the developer said that the studio (((might))) close down within months if they don't get a bunch of positive reviews. The journalist just took him at his word and went "Seems like they might be in trouble".

He replied with "LOL THEY JUST HATE THAT THE GAME DOESN'T HAVE ENOUGH TRANNEIS IN IT, THEY THINK I'M A NAZI"

And it worked. As proven ITT and by the positive reviews the game has now.

asks customers if they want type a/b or male/female

customers decide on male/female

they change it for their 2.0 update

this is somehow grifting

you fucking retard

Idgaf, the dev went full retard and decided to hide behind incels and chuds with based signalling to farm some defense
Its pathetic af and I hope he goes under

tags: tentacle rape, seedbed, vore, corruption, interspecies

Its good, but very unfinished
Stats are a mess because there are weapon requirements of 42 (as high as I have seen) which means that you need A LOT of levels dumped into the damage stat, while you still need stamina, HP, weight and focus (the resource for weapon skills)
Loot is basically an ARPG, completely random, everything, next patch is correcting this, because right now it makes going after hard to reach shinies completely worthless since there is no guarantee you wont get a fucking apple, with the next patch hard to reach shinies, bosses etc will give higher tiered rewards
Combat is very fun, there are a lot of different weapons with different movesets, and can parry basically everything with or without shield
There are already endgame systems, one where you go back to old zones to farm gear from monsters empowered with blight, and a kind of roguelike
The story seems interesting but it is probably the most unfinished part out of everything
You are a cerim (what is that, no one tells you) that goes to an island that is fucked with an infection of something, everything happens as if there should be an explanation as to why but there really isnt
Next big update is multiplayer, dont know if only coop or the PvP too
Overall, TL;DR: Again, very good, very unfinished

it was just a desperate pr stunt. it wasn't very successful, the game is still mixed reviews on steam and the tide of new players has gone. not even anti-woke cares anymore cause the game was just meh. yet trannies let the game live rent free in their head.

I don't know why you're fully agreeing with me and sharing my sentiment and then are mad and calling me a tranny. What are you even disagreeing with me about?

This desperate PR stunt is way worse than what the Lords of the Fallen CEO did, in my opinion. Because
1) He was shitting on his playerbase for being too dumb and talking about taking the attribute system because of the lower common denominators just two weeks ago
2) He begged for positive reviews on his discord
3) He got mad when this was signal boosted because it left his echo chamber, and pivoted to it being about culture war bullshit
4) He went on to cry that negative reviews should be illegal if they don't meet his arbitrary standards of criticism (Of course he didn't mind if positive reviews were just meme reddit thumbs up shit)
Basically, fuck this guy.

either a good soul like or a good arpg

It's both of those things but ARPG "players" aren't ready for what a good ARPG looks like
Remember how PoE2's ground loot is a complete joke? NRFTW solves the problem entirely

The more you seethe about the more I'm convinced to give it a chance and play it, keep going retard.

Game is fucking great
Their single player story is shaping up to be really high quality too, but you only get part way in currently due to EA. It stops at a decent enough point. Everything is voice acted by proper English actors and sounds like someone took Fromsoft characters and made them do a game with an actual plot where NPCs talk to each other for once. Shit is even lipsynced and facially acted properly by artists instead of by mocap and you can see the acting even in the main isometric view outside cutscenes

Don't care lol
Get grifted all you want, I'm not gonna stop shitting on these gay as fuck grifters
It's your money

Then again, if you're even considering buying any early access slop of any kind, you're already getting grifted to begin with

Libtard faggot is still going

Still not talking about lotf

I am playing with a friend because of the free coop thobeit
Only one needs to have the game

don't care

proceeds to seethe impotently

Dance for me monkey dance!

Early access soulslike

Shouldn't be surprised people don't give a shit

I want whimsical woodland creatures like Ori not fugly disgusting humans so I shan't be buying

I hope I manage to convince you to buy this slop by the end of this thread. I'm just getting started. Please post a screnshot of your purchase to own me btw

Chudboosts are when the developer doesn't bow down to Resetera "journalists"

Libtard faggot is deranged

Please go away

Bow down to what? lol
He guilt-tripped people on discord when it turns out he was full of shit. The journalist took him at face value and went "This company seems like they're in trouble", then he got mad.

Letting journalists report what you said is bowing down?

I was right in all those posts btw
And the other guy is based as well

It's promising but not very good at this point

timegating

enemy level scaling

abysmal drop rates of gems and embersneeded to add/reroll weapon stats

some bosses are fairly cheaply designed

weapon balance is nonexistent, bows and greathammers/swords are unusable

traders restock every 24h

you need to farm ingredients for healing food (somewhat mitigated by using lifeleech weapons/gems) and resources for the city upgrades

late-game areas still drop low-level gear

the crucible doesn't really reward you for trying and failing, you waste food/consumables if an attempt is unsuccessful

Where do I get a fucking katana man?
I fell for the fist weapons meme and they are FUCKING TRASH

You have a mental illness fuck off

The reviews were all about a controversial patch in the game and he convinced people that it was SJWs mad about the game being too based

they lost the gay furry audience

it's over
no wait they have bears

never beating the allegations

there are a few but they're all midgame drops bar the craftable
think the craftable is DEX/INT

THIS IS HOW YOU WIELD A SPEAR, BOY

there is something off looking about this game

You're the one mentioning something completely unrelated and malding about it. It's just funny that you let the game live rent free in your head while the main audience that lotf was aiming don't care about it anymore. It shows how obsessed you are with this dumb pr move from this small company desperate for attention and I can tell that the game in OP will also live rent free in your head for a while and you'll mention it out of nowhere in other threads talking about unrelated games.

I got a lot of other stuff I need to play anon and I am not the kind of person that is good at juggling multiple games at the same time. I usually focus on one game, or try to. Sometimes I start playing something else and forget what I was doing in the first game.
EA games are the worst, because sometimes it can take years for them to release proper and the full release game can look and play very different from the early access version.
I might grab it and just get to it when I get to it then.
Does magic find/rarity find exist on gear? That is usually my goto stat in most arpgs.

I‘d buy this game if it didn‘t have the gay mmo mechanics

Odessa and the inquisitor thot are both pretty good
Brown historian girl is also cute

but this looks... good?
politic and ideology aside, whats the problem with the game?
seems like a more than decent arpg
i remember skipping it cause it was on early access but i expected it to look worse

Yeah, the craft is dex/int, I went full dex
Im gonna kill myself

The problem with the game is that it's a solid soulslike with diablo esque mobile tier arpg timegate farming garbage thrown on top of it

yeah this. Moon should embrace the soulslike direction and push hard with it- strip out the RNG and the farming.

I don't understand the point of having to wait for the city upgrades
You have already gone to get the fucking materials

It was shown off as a Souls like with a cool art style but instead has a bunch of dice roll loot and grindy crafting systems bolted to it.

I believe Private Division was pushing hard for NRFTW to be a live service game.

discord

Mistake #1

but this looks... good?

Thing is its an Arpg. So the big question is how replayable it is. Ori games look gorgeous but the team always had problems creating any meaningful gameplay.

he convinced people that it was SJWs mad about the game being too based

He never said anything of the sort, you're reading the meta narrative about the journo narrative. He even clearly admitted fault for letting a change in enemy levels split past testing which made the update too hard on release, but they hotfixed that after one day

The issues which caused negative reviews on Breach release were:

Chinese language translation problems (China had most of the negative reviews but nobody looks at that)

Change to enemy levels in early areas making the game way harder (Immediately hotfixed)

Old characters no longer being usable (Changes to gearing made old gear no longer exist)

Old broken ARPG builds being fixed so people who cheesed the game lost their cheese

None of that had any impact on my enjoyment of the game so I thought everyone involved in downboating it was a twat

die to falling; the game

Probably, yeah

I'm going to buy it. I liked the first one when I played it last year.

not a fan of how people are portraying the crafting with the farming, or whatever "timegating" means in this game
i was expecting just an arpg with a dash of souls

politic and ideology aside, whats the problem with the game?

The problem here is not with the game but with the Path of Exile community latching onto it and trying to change it into something it's not. Some twitch grifters started playing it and the sheep followed suit, all while bleating that the game isn't fast, isn't instant gratification, doesn't shower you in loot, doesn't have seasons etc.

>he convinced people that it was SJWs mad about the game being too based

He never said anything of the sort

What's this, then? This tweet is from May 11. You can go look at the reviews by time of the entire month leading up to it. No SJW reviews in sight. Tell me with a straight face it's not him being full of shit.

I refuse to grind and wait like this is some shitty mobile game

Can you buy a house here yet?

It IS an ARPG with a dash of souls, there's one retard who doesn't play the game who keeps spamming something about mobile game farming which doesn't really have anything to do with anything, no idea what that fag is on about

weapon balance is nonexistent, bows and greathammers/swords are unusable

I don't know what game you are playing, because great weapons are straight up busted if you just learn the parry timings. I have a grug build that uses a big club and I have Berserk Slam on it, which kills ANY regular enemy (including the really big guys and bears) no questions asked and chunks bosses for a third of their HP pool.

Add to that the fact that the sheer weight of the weapons often push you into heavy equip load, which means you get access to the most broken CC in the game, the all-mighty shove.

You have buildings in the city you have to upgrade to craft better weapons, armor, enchants, etc
For those, you get the materials and then you have to wait like 1h for it to finish building, you can download a mod to make it instant
You didnt play the game

something about mobile game farming which doesn't really have anything to do with anything

You need to farm ingredients for any high tier food. Catching fish in particular is god awful. Several upgrades need high tier food too.
You need to farm building materials. A simple run through the game won't give enough to upgrade everything
There's a shitload of timegating all over the game. Building, bounties, the entire endgame system.
The drops are super inconsistent. Bosses are not guaranteed to even drop their own boss weapons. An INT run has a chance of only getting str and dex weapons.

get to city

upgrade a shop

"wait for 1 hour real time lolz"

upgrade it again

"wait for 4 hours real time lolz"

uninstall

May 11th

Resetera

He's literally right, but Restera is a californian journo bubble full of homosexuals who jerk each other off, they don't play or review videogames so the only influence they have is via media articles attacking the studio
The actual negative reviews were due to the issues I listed, and Mahler has said the same while apologising for the difficulty
(Which he shouldn't have, soulslikes should be hard)

Hey thomas, why did you end up taking the rape scene out of the game?

Is shove actually good?

You HAVE to farm if you don't you get

no food (hp restore)

no upgrades = no chance at all to even beat the game

It knocks everything that isn't a boss onto its ass. EVERYTHING.

tell me more

wow he's rigth and based.
I'm glad I bought Both Ori games.

Man I am so sad I went fucking dex, EVERYTHING else seems cooler

That girl that gets captured was meant to get raped but they decided against doing that

You need to farm ingredients for any high tier food

There is no farming system, you pick those ingredients up off the ground like Rowa berries while you're playing through the game, and if you're good or using heal-on-kill gear affixes then you'll have more than you need anyway

You need to farm building materials

You can optionally upgrade town buildings if you chop wood. You don't have to do that, it's side content

There's a shitload of timegating all over the game

The ONLY "time gating" is that it takes an hour for some of those optional town building upgrades to complete, which are not tied to progression through the game or the story so nothing is actually time gated retard

You got to a town, decided you no longer wanted to progress through the game and became obsessed with upgrading an Inn, then literally waited for 1hr in real time for an irrelevant town building to upgrade instead of playing the game because you're the sort of people mobile games are made to exploit. Play the game retard

so uhm... elaborate

Why is everyone dogpiling this dude? Everything he's posted has been the most milquetoast takes i've seen in a while.

magic find/rarity find

It doesn't exist, but considering the current dogshit balance and everything, you wouldn't want this trash stat on your gear.
I'm saying the blance is all over the place. I don't need to learn parry timings with a lightning scythe and a lifesteal gem because I can facetank everything. But if I equip a 2H sword, I simply won't have any openings/stamina to attack unless I parry.

the most broken CC

Shoulder bash works wonders against crucible knights but it sucks when you fight bosses, against whom quick dodges are ideal thanks to them moving all over the arena and having AOEs half as large.

What are you even talking about? You have goofy ass proportions compared to everyone else. And you are (canonically) dressed in what seems to be woven flesh and silk strapped shit. It's pretty clear what you are as a result of simply that.

that was never in the game.
that was just a thought you jacked off too.

You made that up and makes 0 sense considering the story

Ok beat the game without upgrading a shop I will wait.

You are dressed in woven flesh for 10 seconds of the game and everyone is deformed
OBVIOUSLY if you wear the armor they can recognize you

just don't engage with the content

just don't use heals

just pay no attention to those godawful fishing times

Actual retard or a shill

venturebeat.com/games/despite-its-beautiful-ori-games-moon-studio-is-called-an-oppressive-place-to-work/

You literally don't have to upgrade anything. You can just buy a house and place all the crafting stations there and you can upgrade weapons and armor out of the box in the smithy and the tailors.

Does upgrading help? Sure does.
Is it absolutely necessary? Nope.

*go woke go broke

The wokesters attack their own. Again.

so he wanted your character to be raped not that girl? lmao what a closet fag

grrrr
bratty princess odessa needs rape correction!

wait this is from the tranny Microsoft assistant who claimed she worked at moon studio but she never did.

sneaks a monster vore tentalce rape into the game anyway

Fishing

Why are you fishing if you don't like fishing? Lab rats exhibit more self control than you thick fucks

Easy, the game keeps dropping increasingly higher level weapons on the ground so you have no need to upgrade your old gear at any point. Of course you do have the option to keep your starting weapon all the way through the game if you want to do that, unlike PoE, but nothing forces you to mine ore and keep upgrading your level 1 starting sword

Bitch we just walked through a field made of man eating tentacles and everyone in the village is slobbering zombies, somehow not eaten by said tentacles.
You don''t fucking say?????

Anyway.

all progress will be wiped when 1.0 comes out

basically everything in the game that is interesting or requires a recipe has 0.0000001% drop rate shit

dev retards out if you ask hiim to add some form of account progress or at least transmog system so all the shit you got doesn't fade into nothingness whenever his dick gets hard for some shitty system nobody asked for and he wipes everything out

so never getting that either

Thanks Moon! It is indeed the controversy that sucks here, not your atrocious development time!
Looking forward to your, and I quote, "slowing down with patches going forward".

sounds like bullshit made up by a disgruntled tranny

I dunno, rape is a pretty good motivator

Why are you fishing if you don't like fishing?

Because half the good recipes have a fucking fish in it. Also because those recipes are used for weapon upgrades.
Are you retarded?

swedish

Absolutely disgusting, get out of my site you diet viking.

Nah, so far (haven't reached the endgame yet) the loot is dog shit too but for different reasons and is an absolute chore to manage which make it even worse.

Why are you fishing if you don't like fishing?

Because I want the focus restoring food, you dick.

Chuds are stupud and get grifted easily, stupid redpublicans!

OH MY SCIENCE IS THAT DIVERSITY AND BODY TYPE 1 AND 2 COMPLETE WITH BODY SCARS!! YASSS

???
this is the gender select screen

here's your female character, bro.

that's a troll from WoW's alpha

You are tying to engage a battle of retardation against mouthbreathers. Don't.

childbearing hips

she monke

But for real, it's a good design for readability.

This game seems neat.
How's mage builds in it? Are there sorcery memes like in other Souls games?

youtube.com/watch?v=SLw0oVlKYQ0

How's mage builds in it?

fucking STRONG but you do need to hit stuff in melee to charge up your focus (mana) bar.

Are there sorcery memes like in other Souls games?

Not yet as far as I know.

written by Dean Takahashi

Imaging citing made up bullshit from the cuphead guy AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

spells are overpowered as fuck, except you can't regenerate mana from range so you have to come in and melee or parry stuff to be able to recover resources

Is she ok?

literally impossible

Maybe he should've tried making a good game

Nah that won't be Mahler
I bet Mahler posts on chans regularly enough to not use reddit spacing

She got processed into upgrade mats. It's okay.

How do you turn focus cost into health cost like that?

Cerim eyes be like,

... <_>

a rare ring

Legendary ring does it. Gets you killed more often than not but fuck focus.

overtuned end game rings which will get adjusted, right now if you get a couple of rings in the postgame you can use health in place of mana while also lifestealing more health than you're spending which breaks the game in typical ARPG fashion

tch, damn brat

have to beat the game to make spell builds work

lmao

like it or not, that slanty-eyed retard has clout

fist weapons meme

skill issue

Woman speaks, but Chief Bucking Bison is somewhere far away, whisked on the wings of peyote

except you can't regenerate mana from range

This is gay as fuck, removing passive focus gain gem was a massive mistake that homogenized all playstyles, i'd rather have spells deal half the damage but with a support for full ranged playstyles

Not really. Spells one shot pretty much everything in the game, bosses including.
Pre endgame you basically delete anything by using any normal means of getting focus, like channel or food, stepping into battle and using any 150 focus spell.
Instant win button.

But there is still a gem that makes you regenerate focus in combat?

lies

It's fucking worthless for combat because it uses the same values they used for passive all-time regeneration. You will never generate enough focus for a single cast.
It also fucked up with the non combat runes like teleport or repair.

They didn't remove any of the means of getting focus outside of smacking enemies. It's just slower than it.

homogenized

We all know that what you're really asking for is to be able to kill shit from the opposite side of the map where you don't have to engage with enemy movesets at all or learn how to play
Caster players in soulslikes are degenerate

No fucking way. It's that guy?
youtube.com/watch?v=vfIn9OqhZWo

They removed focus potions and turned them into "+10% more focus gain" instead
They gutted passive focus gain gems so they only work in combat but slow as fuck for it

fucking christ anon lmao

Literally what I did and I JUST finished the campaign process yesterday.
Int, fire staff, channel, repeat for everything. Any non bosses died to a charged fireball, every boss died to whatever the name of the 150 fire aoe nuke is.

No, i'm asking a developer to provide a wide range of builds that don't follow the same fucking formula of melee focus gain. If he cannot balance the game with ranged options in mind, tough shit, be a better game designer.

the fastest way to get mana in this game is to parry, so if you want to play magic but you can parry then you're golden

As the maker of that faith based country hickey, I can attest this is an accurate portrayal.

Let's see if it also works for the Lords of the Fallen guys

Hey, I legitemately liked the game and wanted people to know that I liked it. The publishing CEO's stunts are just pathetic though.

The game will never see 1.0

At this pace it sure as hell ain't.

Ashes of war were a mistake. Worst souls ever

90% of journalists are jewish, the rest spiritually jewish. Why would Saudis call these literal nobodis "nazis"... I mean think about how retarded that sounds.

Shame to hear the game has issues. I love the artstyle at least

is this rape

That's the sad part I guess. Thomas is the source of everything bad with the game, and the source of everything good.
So we are never getting out of this unscarred

nerf fallen ember drop rate

plus extremely bloated loot to the point after 50 hours, finally you get to see it

get surprised when player do realms cheesing to farm it

kek

YOU GET MINOR FOCUS POTIONS AND UPGRADE STONES AND YOU WILL LIKE IT

that game looks utterly soulless
why cant chuds be creative?

If he cannot balance the game with ranged options in mind

He did, and the current version is what that looks like
They are talking about adding very weak ranged attacks that cost no mana, but they shouldn't bother because magic players don't deserve it

Soulslikes are melee focused games where enemies do damage up close with seeable animations. The content is never tuned to be a third person shooter, and from Comet Azure to CSS long range magic has never been anything other than retarded in soulslikes

This is not a soulslike, it's an arpg.
And the changes to ranged are confirmed to come next patch, not being discussed. They are also increasing the damage of most ranged skills and lowering their focus consumption.

He did, and the current version is what that looks like

No, he did not. All he did is playstyle homogenization. When even bows need 10 focus to shoot a single arrow, you failed as a game designer.

because magic players don't deserve it

You have literally no argument beyond your seething anger towards different playstyles. Worthless.

It's an EYYY ARRR PEEE GEEE

ARPG players think that genre label has to mean this and will not accept any gameplay under any circumstances

All the hands so far except the caretaker's are important characters
Theres ellsworth, king magnus, baurus, seline, etc

Don't worry, I am sure Thomas will keep fucking it up until we get there

So what the fuck is a Cerim? Are they a race or some weird interplanar entities that can jump across reality? The explanation for their respawn is weird as fuck.

That legendary drops guy on youtube talked to him

atm, just think them as Nephalem but muted.

Cerim are mute assholes who can use some odd magic.

Plague enhanced monkeys in some form of hive mind situation that gives them severe autism I guess.

Is this the MC? Or is it a create-a-character game?

Why are devs so thin skinned? He complained that people didn't know how to put their points into skills properly. Newsflash: That's your fault. You're the studio head.

You create a character who is some weirdo doomguy drinking mutant blood to get stronger.
The girl is a major character, a governor's daughter who sided with the rebels advocating for the island's independence, she sinks the ship with you on board, proceeds to get caught and humiliated and then slowly warms up to you.

the latter. the girl is this princess who pretends she's a rebel.

Character creation and the girl is a major NPC through the story

Thanks for confirming not only did you make it up, you also have not played the game AND took it for a tranny
Good sport, chief

preech

God just imagine how this shitter goes through the game with his overleveled butt buddy tanking everything with fingerprint while he spams infinite l2s

I mean he's probably not wrong. But I also don't think twitter melt downs are ever helpful.

all players in that video are shitters
especially you

And the game is better for it because you have to fight the enemies now

Sauce?

God bless someone for making the Vagrant Story game no one was making.
Next step is ti get VS director somhow on board and we'll be looking at pure kino.

see me in NRFTW invasions (u wont)

In the retarded playerbase defense, there are no tutorials, no explanations as to how much each state gives you, what the level cap is and until recently there was no resets.
So it is one of those times when retards, strangely, are in the right.

arbitrarily make 42 the max needed stat for endgame gear

also randomly make level 30 max level

also make it so that item stat requirements increase without warning or you level them up

Because fuck you that's why, etc.

Can you make a female character? Is it body types again? Can you make a good looking character?

Yes
No
No

Oh well, a pass then, I'm tired of playing as a potato in Western games

Good, begone.

this is the character creation screen. there's more choice beyond your initial selection, but you'll always have gorilla arms.

Whatever you say, Thomas.

Holy shit there is more bloom than actual objects

Anyways, fuck trannies fuck trannies fuck trannies

woah there, no need to oversell it, I already was convinced when he BTFO game """journos""""

If you fall for this shit, you're retarded.

but not as retarded as libtard or a game activist, err.. I mean ""journalist"", also keep seething your tears are amusing to see

also randomly make level 30 max level

I have literally no idea why he did this instead of introducing softcaps

Damn this looks pretty good. Im gonna have to check out their games. Ive seen the action game autists on youtube play no rest for the wicked but never picked it up cuz it was still in EA at the time.

This retard needs to stop talking. Like actually. Revoke his license to have an online presence and let the idiot go copy dark souls in peace.
I've seen this same retarded shit happen to Naoki Yoshida who was a champion of the people and very quickly, the more he talked, people realized he became the reason why FF is dead.

Jesus Christ mane, what the fuck...

Thomas works in mysterious and self-destructive ways.

Please go back to your chink softcore porn if you already know that's what you want.

that's not even how the model ultimately looks in-game though

I really wish the combat in this game wasn't hot garbage trash. I like every other system but the combat is so awful.

Nah, I'm not a weeb, I don't want a gook doll, I just want good designs, and certainly not whatever the fuck this is

Most retarded take to date, congrats on your forever pass to Upsidedown Township.

Not everything needs to be made for you. It's alright.

hot takes from the twilight zone

sexo

it's designed for readability from the overhead perspective.

game is initially advertised and presented as Diablo meets Dark Souls

everyone is hyped af, finally an ARPG with actual gameplay

dev proceeds to add retarded shit like town building with mobile game mechanics

adds even more grinding and waiting after people complain

oh noes, we're about to bankrupt, please be a dear and boost our Steam score real quick

so retarded, hope the studio shuts down

Wait it doesn't even say (body type A, body type B) it's just has pictures.
That's not that bad to start with.
and didn't they update it to explicitly say Male, Female?

Sorry retards. As someone who actually plays action games and not just diablo likes the combat of wicked is hot garbage.
Come back when your combat feels like Stranger of Paradise/Nioh 2/Wo Long.

7 hits to kill a trash mob that can 2 shot you

"gee i wonder why no one plays my game!"

it used to say body type

god I hate how fucking slow the walk speed is

Your bait is so low quality I will give you this for free so you can get by.
(You)

I play and enjoy those games and NRFTW combat is great
Combat gameplay is about the decisions you make, not about how quickly the pixels fly around on the screen

trash mob

has a mysterious skull next to its healthbar

its still a trash mob

infinite sprint outside combat.

I fucking hate parry games
fuck you fromsoft you fucking gas ass cunts

And what decisions are you making on Wicked that aren't attacking or dodging?
In SOP you have to very carefully decide if you're going parry, soul shield, dodge, or attack. And you have to decide if you're going to commit to your attack or cancel it.
You have to figure out how you will spend your MP that you can only get exclusively by fighting. Not by waiting for a retarded bar to fill up.

When I read this retarded game designer wanted to make the next "revolution of the ARPG genre" I was hoping to see an actual improvement over that genre. But it's just the worst parts of dark souls in a game about fighting things.

you forgot to add "in a world which has 3x the gravity of the earth"

Irrelevant, I don't want to have to hold a button down the entire time outside of combat to move faster than a crawl

Focus doesn't regenerate automatically in NRFTW either, you have to attack to get some, or parry to get a special attacks worth of it in one go.

kys rollslopper
If it were to you every single game would be Suckiro. People want souls to be RPGs with varying playstyles

they should have just added a ranged attack on staffs and wands like in guild wars 1 to get energy back

And what decisions are you making on Wicked that aren't attacking or dodging?

You sound like you play Strive
For starters sure, you can block and parry in NRFTW, you can backstab and build up / combo with status effects, break posture, i-frame through stuff with jumps or use abilities with hyperarmour to tank hits. Your MP is gained exclusively by fighting not by waiting for a bar to fill up, which you'd know if you'd played the game but you obviously haven't, and you have plenty of different ways to spend it while also managing your separate stamina. But all of that is just listing bullet points and is a bullshit way to discuss combat mechanics
How these games encourage and enable the analogue input between those bullet points, usually in the form of timing and spacing and the variables you have to consider when you make decisions is more important than anything you're going to put on a bullet point list

That's what we're getting in the next patch, apparently.

I'll wait for the coop update before I return.

Parries feel awful because the game has bad animations. Again, look at SOP. Every attack in that game is crystal clear. You know when a grab is coming too so it's easy to know what to do. And if you built for it you can just your skills to dodge attacks.

Your ability to play the game requires stamina Tommy. You can't dodge, attack, block or parry without it. None of those things you mention didn't exist in Dark souls already, by the way. And a lot of those things still exist in SOP, just done better.
So where is the revolution? Why not copy games that do combat better and ARPG better than souls?

Better to expose frauds then is it not?

being strong is... le bad

genuinely having a fatigue of soulsniggers that despise arpg as a concept now jumping on the bandwagon and shitting everything up. Guy in the webm probably spent 200 hours gearing up he deserves to clown on some trash mobs

If you have trouble parrying things in NRFTW, that's honestly a skill issue. Everything in the game is clearly telegraphed, perhaps a bit too much even.

The only thing I will say is that one of the first bosses, the one that spins the huge pole in circles, has pretty iffy timings on parrying on every revolution. But that has less to do with animations and more to do with the fact that the devs decided to make every other rotation drag, so you can't just settle into a rhythm.

So where is the revolution?

Maybe you'll find out if you go play it meppzy

I have such a hard time not just soulshielding everything. I've worked it almost too much into muscle memory. Thats it, 3rd times the charm. Definintely gonna play thru all the dlc

Everything in the game is clearly telegraphed, perhaps a bit too much even.

Don't bs him stret

level 30 max level

Nigger what? So you are just supposed to get to 42 in whichever random stat you choose to use the weapons and then just balance HP stam weight and focus? You only have 50 more points for stats doing that wtf

Oof, I see why the journos and other dysgenic mutants really don't like this one

Yeah, it's restrictive and retarded as fuck

Attack animations are terrible in wicked. They are unclear, precisely because it's overanimated. Again, look at SOP.

Even the timing for the barrage is clear to us.

Why would I sink more hours into something that's terrible from the start?

If you want to use fewer points in damage stats you can take a lower level weapon and upgrade it because it keeps its lower stat requirement, but having low damage attributes is probably a bad idea

Take literally any enemy and study its animations, anon. Everything has a tell, and not only that, every specific attack of an enemy has its own tell, so you know what is coming.

For example, the bear snarls before it commits to the three advancing bites (which is just a free parry if you distance yourself so that the last bite is the only one that's gonna connect) and it rears up on its hindlegs before it swipes with its claws.

The problem is that it's really good game that got fucked with early review and EA did not help. Their previous games were the much beloved Ori games with solid scores, so here they took a lot of damage despite NRFTW being good.

the game looks super woke
all the powerful or smart leaders or warriors are female or black.
meanwhile every single white guy in the game is weak, evil or incompetent and gets ordered around by women or blacks every cutscene

the bear snarls

that's not what having readable attack animations means

Yeah I know, but then you deal very little damage

The leader of the hub city is a white man and enjoys the respect of his subjects

The leader of the inquisition forces is white, though a woman

The leader of the rebels is white (though regrettably a ginger)

The seemingly capable ranger woman gets digested alive

The seemingly capable female inquisitor turns out to be a fucking wuss when push comes to shove and needs her male bodyguards to protect her

The female herbalist is utterly powerless to stop the head of the village and needs the Cerim (who can be white and male if you so choose) to sort things out

Yeah, super woke

"GRRRR" t. bear

While it does so, it cocks its head to ready itself for the bites

Do you even look at the enemies when you fight them?

nta but all the women should either be having babies or pregnant, including the one being digested

The timings in the game I have 500hrs in are less clear to me than the timings in the game I haven't played

shocking
Team Ninja isn't better at this you're just more eager to apologise for them

Nothing about a bear growling indicates the precise timing of the attack it's about to do
You are confusing a signal that (You) use to remember a timing that you've already learned through trial and error with an animation which actually informs the player about what is happening visually

Yes I am now arguing with both of you at the same time

The verticality in this game has been a work of art. They do level interconnectivity even better than Dark Souls. The only problem is that sometimes the fied camera angle can get in the way.

trash mob

skeleton head

Based retard

No game communicates exactly what an enemy is about to do via wind-up animations. There is a certain degree of trial and error involved in every game like this, even SoP.

The closest to really telling tells was Elden Ring (Margit's infamous cane for example), and as I recall, people really disliked how jarring it is for an enemy to just hold an attack for so long.

No game communicates exactly what an enemy is about to do via wind-up animations

When was the last time you fought asylum demon?

>CEO shits on the whole journos industry on twitter talking about journos taking cheques from the Saudi government and running deliberate smear campaigns against people who don't fall in line

Everyone is suddenly deathly quiet and won't report on his spergout

Very interesting. I was wondering how these urinalists pay for stuff with the garbage they write.

>CEO shits on the whole journos industry on twitter talking about journos taking cheques from the Saudi government and running deliberate smear campaigns against people who don't fall in line

Based, gonna buy the game now to support him. I'm 35 and there is literally nothing more important in the current gaming industry than to take down journo scum. No other factors plays this heavily into producing dogshit games.

Asylum Demon is actually a really bad example to bring up as his swipe and slam attacks have a near identical start-up animation.

Margit's infamous cane for example

Margit (as opposed to morgott) is a very very good boss, the reason people complain about a couple of of his animations isn't because the animations are too clear, it's because they don't indicate the timing of the active frames clearly enough

A good wind up animation doesn't mean a long wind up or a short wind up animation, a good wind up animation first establishes what kind of attack is going to come out, then has a pacing to its movement which tells the player when it's going to hit early enough for them to react to that tell

Look at the start of Pursuer's basic slash attack. It holds the sword back above its head for a fairly long time, but even if it were to sit there for 30 seconds that wouldn't be a problem, because the animation is designed to still indicate the swing is incoming right before it hits. Out of the anticipation frame of the sword being held behind him, pursuer then twists and rotates his body before the sword moves. This flexing of the body before the explosion of movement is a natural body movement that anybody can see and understand on first sight, and it happens early enough that if you react to his body movement as he comes out of the still of the anticipation frame then you will dodge the attack on reaction first time