Exhaustion usually leads to eating one hit then dodge. As spear users you’ll get to the point where dodge costs one one hundredth of your stamina bar so you’ll be dodging way more than parrying lol.
I prefer jiggle-bites
Risk/reward. I agree stamina can be a problem early game, especially if you are using great sword. I would highly reccomend putting 3 skill points in "stamina consumed on successful guard". Stamina exhaustion is less of an issue the more you play
Can anyone else here corroborate? Sounds pretty worrying for me, nearly a dealbreaker.
It has no rhyme or reason where it crashes to dashboard on ps5 pro.
Still using dual weapons ftw.
3 Crashes in 55hrs
According to the PSN progress tracker I'm only 51% through the game, wow.
I did quality with no cap frames. You’ll get a drop here and there but it’s never effected the bosses.
I really recommend you to change the control scheme to the other one, its much better and its traditional Dark Souls, attacking with R1, dodge with circle and so on
Initially I considered changing things around but it was good enough. Might swap it out later to try again. Does it change how parry works too?
The timing is similar to the L1+ O unlockable.
Closer to Sekiro for sure. I feel like enemy movements are really well telegraphed. You never feel cheated when you die
I'm honestly finding this tougher than Sekiro, lol
Ain’t no way this is harder than sekiro and i have 4 bosses left lol.
Bosses have patterns that you’ll get completely wrecked if you don’t have the pattern memorized. It feels closer to Sekiro than any AC ever made. You’ll fight 2-3 bosses before getting to a boss that will either make or break you. I started from scratch and went with the spear, killed Viper in a couple tries. Felt good after that rage quit I had.
You know what? I can get behind this post at least, this is a better game than wilds and combat is better than wilds too.
I've had 2 crashes in 30 hours on Pro, otherwise the game has been completely bug free and super smooth. It's funny the only time I've experienced frame drops is when using the water bomb item lol.
In other news, I'm about to enter the 3rd region, completed every side quest up until now and found 95% of the soul stones/jarlings, can't wait to see what's around the next corner, last two stages were
Is this the crash? I’m also playing on a Pro. It literally just happened to me. Didn’t experience this before.
I'm on the final boss. Just by fighting him a few times and watching someone else beat him, I know this will take 3-6hrs to complete(no summoning). Absurd the amount of shit he throws at youHow the *fuck* does this boss have a second phase? Barely made it through the first, all out of healing and you now want me to fight the fucker again but he's now on steroids? Alright, going to be here for a while lol. The design of these last 3 bosses is god-tier though, I'm impressed
(Late game boss spoilers!)
Dodge is my bread and butter now as a spear user. I rarely need to reflect because there’s almost no stamina cost.
I had a lot of trouble with Viper because I only used the parry and wasn't aware that reflection was a thing lol
I totally overlooked the two counter mechanics as part of the game. Now I'm breezing through the last few stages and bosses
I've been rocking dual wield since the beginning and sometimes I feel like I'm downright oppressive against bosses. Trokka, the witch boss? Couldn't run away from me no matter what she tried. Pulverized her when I got her moveset down.
That’s a good feeling. Congrats!Downed Viper
