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Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night |OT| What is a Kickstarter?!?! A Miserable Pile of Delays!

JCK75

JCK75

Member
I love the hell out of this game on PC, I mean I'm running it at over 100fps at 4K on a GTX 1060 (not my main rig just my weakest gaming rig at work)
I played about 2 hours on switch and it's still enjoyable but good lord I hope they can fix it, feels much less responsive, laggy at points and the worst is when you go to jump up to a higher level and it goes to a black load screen for 15 seconds, and when it comes back you need to move left or right it does not register your movement in time and you drop back down to another 15 second load, you could end up spending 2 minutes just trying to jump up to another level.

I can live with 720p, I can live with 30fps.. I just want it to feel responsive and not have those terrible loads... will wait for those patches because having it on switch is awesome.
 
jshackles

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
TheDuskwalker said:
It only happens when doing select magic.
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Probably so. I run a level 9/9 Chaser Arrow (the monster-seeking arrow magic that fires like 6 arrows at once) and I was mostly fine throughout the fight until the end when he died and all the chips went flying.
 
RobRSG

RobRSG

Member
Playing it on Pro and seems to be far from 4K, which was promissed... Looks 1080p or just a bit higher than that.

Samsho 2019 too.
 
Wonko_C

Wonko_C

Member
jshackles said:
I fought the gambler boss guy and my framerate (which has been a rock solid 60fps) on PC dropped down into the single digits. I've got a Radeon RX580 / 8GB. Seems like some places are worse than others, regardless of the platform.
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And here I thought it was because I play the game on a 10+ year old CPU (Core2Quad @3ghz). Some graphic setting must be bugged because I put everything to low just to test and the slowdown during that part is low. Exiting from the pause menu brings the game down to 30fps for a few seconds too.
 
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shark sandwich

tenuously links anime, pedophile and incels
Man I am enjoying the hell out of this game!

I’m having a blast experimenting with shards. My favorites so far are:

- Teps Oceus: basically it’s chain lightning. Powering it up gives you more hits. It hits all enemies on the screen instantly!

- Dullahammer Head: heads that fly around and attack things. Get 9 shards and you’ll have 5 of them. Definitely the most powerful familiar I’ve found so far.
 
AcrosstheSea

AcrosstheSea

Banned
Game is fantastic bugs aside!

I have a few qualms here and there that prevent it from being my favorite IGA game ...( That still remains SOTN for me personally) but what a start for a series. If they build on this game it could easily surpass this.
 
#Phonepunk#

#Phonepunk#

Banned
i found the best place to farm money.

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equip the spike armor and use your flip to get on top of the train. there are two lamps that go by every second or so in a loop. you could go here and just leave the game for 5 mins and make a ton of gold.
 
zenspider

zenspider

Member
dirthead said:
Ignoring the fact that NPCs are lying to you, the system is just really weird. Games have taught people for decades that duplicate items are worthless. It was a really bizarre design decision to actually make duplicates valuable. What's the end result? You end up grinding more? I don't see any real interesting mechanics there. It's just a lame attempt to pad the game by encouraging people to farm duplicate items. Really, you could have achieved the same thing by simply making shard drops more rare and requiring the same number of kills to get 1 as it currently takes to get 9. The system is unintuitive and weird.
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It's not that obtuse. They explain in a tutorial dialogue that collecting dupes will upgrade the shard you already have. Plus there's crafting system that breaks down duplicate items into something useful - so it's not training players to sell stuff.

In game, the church wants to profit from the shards and the alchemists want to use the shards, so it's consistent as well.
 
#Phonepunk#

#Phonepunk#

Banned
having multiple souls/shards were in Dawn of Sorrow and Aria of Sorrow as well. so this is something we've known about for 16 years
 
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Hotspurr

Banned
Ended up getting the game on PC. Very smooth performance at 4k on gtx 970. I'm pleasantly surprised by the visuals and the combat feels really good. My only gripe was single attack animation for the weapons but I guess it's for classic reasons and it doesn't matter that much anyhow. I also enjoyed playing it on a big screen. Originally wanted it for the switch but that ended up being a trainwreck so ultimately ended up with a better experience. Hopefully they keep supporting this genre, it's quite nice.
 
jshackles

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
zenspider said:
Oh no! my game auto-updated to 1.03! I already got the
Silver Bromide.
Am I good?
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You're fine, the bug only affects save files that go from 1.00 or 1.01 to 1.02 or higher. On PC, this really only affected people who started their save file in the beta.
 
LegendOfKage

LegendOfKage

Member
#Phonepunk# said:
i found the best place to farm money.

giaF3Vo.jpg


equip the spike armor and use your flip to get on top of the train. there are two lamps that go by every second or so in a loop. you could go here and just leave the game for 5 mins and make a ton of gold.
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Too bad you have to keep starting the train again, but this is still pretty cool. You can also use the Welcome Company ability, if you don't have the spike armor.
 
Fatalmephisto29

Fatalmephisto29

Neo Member
Keep in mind that all 4 backer rooms are need to be visited to get a 10% for your map completion. Discovered this on my nightmare playthrough
 
sol740

sol740

Member
I picked this up yesterday because of the overall positive reviews, and the reportedly mild kickstarter jank, and despite not having played SOTN since the re-release on 360, it's like a comfy pair of broken-in slippers.

Died last night after a decent amount of exploration, only to realize I hadn't saved for some time. I wasn't mad about it, audibly swore, and then kind of laughed it off. "So this is how this feels again?" Not that I wouldn't appreciate an auto-save feature, but I guess that's the feel they're going for.
 
jshackles

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Finally finished the game at right around the 17 hour mark. Before I walked into the final boss room I had 99.80% so I guess I found just about everything on my own. I only opened one "key door" so I guess I'll be going back to mop that up next.

Might try for 100% achievements.
 
#Phonepunk#

#Phonepunk#

Banned
what's the deal with the giant bell? i hear your supposed to get it to smash through the floor but i can't figure out how to do that. is that a weapon move? what weapon should i use?
 
jshackles

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
#Phonepunk# said:
what's the deal with the giant bell? i hear your supposed to get it to smash through the floor but i can't figure out how to do that. is that a weapon move? what weapon should i use?
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It's just one bell that's above the rubble on the floor in the one area. You can keep jumping on the tip of it to make it ring. Do that 4-5 times and it should fall down, opening the path. You don't have to attack the bell or use any particular weapon, could probably be done if you had nothing equipped at all.
 
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shark sandwich

tenuously links anime, pedophile and incels
#Phonepunk#

#Phonepunk#

Banned
jshackles said:
It's just one bell that's above the rubble on the floor in the one area. You can keep jumping on the tip of it to make it ring. Do that 4-5 times and it should fall down, opening the path. You don't have to attack the bell or use any particular weapon, could probably be done if you had nothing equipped at all.
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uh it's not working. im jumping on the sides of the bell over and over, it's just ringing. it's the one high up above the rubble.
 
jshackles

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
#Phonepunk# said:
uh it's not working. im jumping on the sides of the bell over and over, it's just ringing. it's the one high up above the rubble.
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There was another user reporting having issues here too. Are you stepping on the top lip of the bell? If just just jump on the top of the bell, it'll ring but it won't create enough back and forth sway or momentum to fall. Otherwise, maybe it's a bug some people are experiencing?

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AcrosstheSea

AcrosstheSea

Banned
I still think SOTN is my favorite IGA game, the way that castle was designed, the 2D visuals, the music, being the son of dracula...is just hard to top for me.

Having said that, this is easily my second favorite game from him and a sequel that improves on this could easily be my favorite game.
 
Berserking Guts

Berserking Guts

Member
FUUUUUU!!! I have one trophy left and it was a missable! I think it's called Usurper. Well, I think I might put that Plat on hold for awhile.

Still, what an incredible game.
 
F0rneus

F0rneus

Tears in the rain
Berserking Guts said:
FUUUUUU!!! I have one trophy left and it was a missable! I think it's called Usurper. Well, I think I might put that Plat on hold for awhile.

Still, what an incredible game.
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I hate it when stuff like that happens. But on NG+ you can basically get back to that (what you need to do) fairly quickly.
 
Starlight Lotice

Starlight Lotice

Member
Only 3 Demons left.

I think I need 44 (which I know where it is, but need to brave myself up for it), the Harrier one which I can't find and 127. Is the last one OD?[/SPOILER]
 
LegendOfKage

LegendOfKage

Member
Dice said:
We should have gotten "NeoGAF Member" as a credit so we could all pretend it was us.
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There are actually "clans" of backers in the credits. Maybe for a sequel.





And thanks to Courier Dan's you tube comment:

Backer timestamps!
6:15 Operation Akumaclan
8:02 Clan Broadsword
11:46 Clan The Speed Gamers
12:04 Dungeon Clan
13:45 Clan SwimmingBird941
13:48 Clan Cat O Nine Tails
17:56 Clan NCS
18:31 Clan Chuggaaconroy
19:15 Clan Vinesauce
20:28 Clan ProtonJon
22:22 Clan Kinda Funny Games
23:19 Clan Rapier
26:48 Clan Mega64
28:06 Clan Far From Subtle
28:30 Clan JoshJepson
28:32 Clan AlphaOmegaSin
30:18 Clan Game Grumps
35:48 The Zaibatsu Clan
40:07 Clan Egoraptor
41:15 Clan Game Sack
42:38 Clan Katana
52:03 Clan Bullwhip
57:27 No Clan (Backers that didn't choose a clan)
1:16:27 Clan Iron Flail
1:17:42 Clan StephenPlays
 
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jshackles

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
TheDuskwalker said:
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OK I'm losing my mind. I have one room that isn't on this map (near the waterfall) and I seem to have every other room. I've looked at several other maps and still haven't found it. I have 99.90% map coverage.

I do have one room between the ice caves and the giant land that my map shows as not filled in, but my minimap shows it in blue and I can stand it that room and look at the map but it still shows like i haven't been here. I think my game is bugged. Might have to start my NG+ play through anyway.
 
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