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Nioh 2 |OT| Dark Soul Cores -- out now on PC, remaster available on PS5
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so, after griping about not having enough health, I killed the third boss without any more leveling up. I just had to play more of a distance game. Second boss in a row where I ran out of healing items and had to play the last minute or two straight with the tension of maybe dying at any moment, really fun when that happens and I win... less so when I lose lol
thanks, I had a suspicion there was some way to set this up, having read those skills, but I didn't know where.
thanks, I had a suspicion there was some way to set this up, having read those skills, but I didn't know where.
Do you want a second one ? It's a guaranteed reward from the end boss in NG+
I cant even get a FIRST one to drop in this Abduction mission
it took me countless hours and retries. So you are probably not doing anything wrong. All you can do is stack your luck and Kodama offering and pray to the gods of Nioh RNG
Anyone around to help out with Kashin Koji? Can deal with everything until he pulls out hit clones, then I get gang banged to death.
There are a good chunk of missions where you can just run to the boss without killing any enemies.
I don't have issues on my own. I usually create expeditions, they fill pretty fast, I do random encounters, I join pretty fast, I summon from time to time, no issue either. I'm in NG+ so I can't talk about NG online experience.
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I played lowish level character with very light armor for A Agility and Devigorate Talisman was a must for survivability.
Purification Talisman against Yokai enemies. It melts their Ki away.
Lifeseal Talisman against Human enemies. It slows down their Ki regeneration.
Barrier Talisman to increase your Ki recovery and automatically dispel Ki Pollution.
I don't think matchmaking is broken. It's just there's probably 10x more people looking for help than people offering help at the Torii gate. I helped probably over a hundred players and never had to wait more than 30 seconds to be summoned as a visitor.
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Some DLC info.
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Development of the DLC is still on track.
Of course, the safety and well being of the developers comes first. I certainly feel that I had my fill of the game so I wouldn't mind waiting a bit for the DLC, though it's nice to get an update on the matter.
So. Question on the tempering, stat sttack is best?
And does second weapon or range effect go on?
And does second weapon or range effect go on?
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Finally got my Platinum. Got side tracked by Doom Eternal but I finally came back to get the few trophies I was missing.
This Platinum is so much easier than Nioh 1, by the way.
This Platinum is so much easier than Nioh 1, by the way.
Same here, got it yesterday as well. Definitely easier than Nioh 1. I'll reinstall the game once the DLC is out, I plateaued pretty hard and my character is too powerful for the current missions.
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You had to do all the Twilight Missions for the "Samurai of Legend" trophy, which was a pain in the ass if you hadn't done them all by the time you finished the game. You had to wait maybe over a week for the missions you were missing to show up in the rotation.
Also, I seem to recall getting maximum proficiency for the weapon mastery took longer.
So there was much more Twilight Missions in the first game ? What is Demon difficulty ? DLC specific ?
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Yeah, the DLC Twilight Missions showed up in the rotation as well.
They added a bunch of post game stuff to Nioh 1 as well, some of which was really hard, but I don't think those missions where needed for the trophy.
Way of the Demon wasn't for the base game platinum, but at least some Way of Demon was required for 100% including DLC; same thing will be true here after DLC hits.
I recently got the plat and then only did about half of the dlc trophies cuz some of them were designed to keep you playing for a few more months and I'd rather clear Nioh 2 and return to Nioh later if I'm not burnt out.
There aren't any missions that appear after the final mission. So feel free to do whatever. The endgame is getting divine shit in NG+.
One thing that's missing from this game compared to the first are those side boss fights that are crazy as fuck making you fight a gank squad. I remember the nightmare that was Nobunaga and Ice Queen that appeared after you finish the game Nine-tailed Fox and mother's boy after you beat the final DLC. Annoying as fuck those. Not designed well at all. And yet, I kind of miss them.
that and bullet/arrow/cannon spamming are the Team Ninja special. It feels kind of incomplete without getting abused (and eventually overcome) those two-boss battles
Dual boss fights just don't fit this franchise well because of the way locking on works. As much as I love Nioh 1 and 2, the lock-on system needs work and attacking enemies without lock-on is just asking for trouble. Not to mention that the camera just glues itself behind you and kills your field of view.
Yeah agree that why this one doesn't have a lot of dual boss fights, the first Nioh had a lot lot more than this. Giant bosses are the same, the camera just don't work great in those either.
Meeting on the Other Shore (the Nobu/Yuki dual fight) nearly drove me completely insane. I did manage to win it, but it took me DAYS.
I remember winning this by spamming Windstorm non-stop, pre-nerf. lol. I probably couldn't win this fight again today.
the way I tackled it was to sloth them both then weakness on Yuki and focus all my attacks on her then face down Nobu on his own, it wasn't easy but that's basically how I got through every dual boss fight, take out the easier one first while playing keep away from the other.
Quick change scroll helped too.
Quick change scroll helped too.
Just started this, cleared out the first corrupted shrine on the first level. Seems tough, as expected.
But not sure if I'm imagining this, the game immediately strikes me as fairer? I got annoyed with Nioh quite often in terms of the way enemies seemingly had hyperarmour a ton of the time but in this the Yokai actually seem to be bothered by my attacks. They seem a bit less relentless as well, more obvious openings for attacks.
But not sure if I'm imagining this, the game immediately strikes me as fairer? I got annoyed with Nioh quite often in terms of the way enemies seemingly had hyperarmour a ton of the time but in this the Yokai actually seem to be bothered by my attacks. They seem a bit less relentless as well, more obvious openings for attacks.
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Well, in general Yokai in both games (at least the larger ones) have hyperarmor pretty much all the time until you put them in a zero-Ki state; once there you can just wail on them since even the slightest attacks will stagger them (applies to bosses as well). I feel the difference is that draining Ki in this game is more front and center and there are more tools for you to do so ( like burst counters and many soul core skills)
One random Ippon Datara outside of the Forge of the Twilight Enenra mission just dropped a Yasakani Magatama, just like that, poof. The funny thing is that I had a bug which prevented me to put a blue grave on the stage, so I quit the game just before the last boss, and when I went back the fucker was close to the door so I decided to kill him.
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Interesting that you never had one drop. I thought they were pretty common.
For me it was the Toxic Slime Soul Core. It was the only one I had to go out of my way to farm for.
I wish there was some kind of Soul Core list, where you can keep track which ones you currently have/missing.
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There is one!
Go to Soul Fusion > Select a Soul Core > Press SQUARE and select FILTERING > Select the top option (ITEM NAME) and you will see ones you had in your possession greyed out (even if you don't have it anymore). So you can cross reference that with a list of all the Soul Cores in the game to quickly find out which ones you're missing.
This game is insane in terms of how much shit it keeps track of.
It's like Dark Souls had a baby with Microsoft Excel.
Woooow. I wish I knew that before I got the platinum. Still, thanks for the tip.
This game literally tracks everything in the finest detail.
If you found the proficiency grind bad, don't even try to 100% the Ongyo / Agyo titles like I'm doing now ^^. The "kill 500 humans" with X weapon is hurting my soul, especially when I don't like the gameplay of some weapons...
Quick Question. Im trying to use the Golden Boy Set. I have Sozasamonji Matsurago Lvl 66 and master archers bow 56 equipped. They are in white on the set bonus screen. It shows 2 pieces of the Golden Boy set equipped. When I equip any other Master Archer piece it shows up red. It wont allow to get the other bonues for each next piece. It openly lets me do 2. Any help please.
That sucks. I've fallen to my death more than once due to analog stick drift problems. I really should stop using that controller.
Armor pieces have stat requirements. Master Archer's is a heavy set and it requires 9 Stamina and 8 Strength, those requirements can be halved if you get the Smithing Text and craft it yourself at the blacksmith, but since it's heavy armor you'll need to invest in Stamina regardless.
You get that from the lightning elephant boss correct?
That's correct. If you're going for the Smithing Text be prepared to grind though! Luck and Item Drop Rate help but ultimately it's all RNG.