linkdevivo Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 (edited) Best advice anyone can give you in this game is don't dodge unless necessary. It's hard to get the timing at first but don't be afraid to get in enemies' faces. The low level enemies will never break your posture so you can just hold L1 until they finish their attack and hit em for a deathblow, the bosses you try to take a Deathblow from stealth ALWAYS, and then work on their posture instead of dodging. You should only dodge (sidestep) when the enemy is going to make an attack that you can't block (I/E the thrust types with the red symbol) and even that can be deflected with the Mikiri counter skill, though there are some bosses who you can't counter like this. I've read somewhere that you shouldn't care about health but not in my experience, some SOB's are just too hard to get their posture down so you need to lower their health first. Keep in mind that this is for the first 5-10 hours of the game, as i haven't gotten farther than that. Seriously, keep a cool head and don't dodge everywhere like in bloodborne (game kicked my ass playing this way) Edited March 22, 2019 by linkdevivo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrakeHellsing Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 This will be good advice for me, as I'll be starting the game soon (once the download is done, 20 minutes to go). But it's good to know that blocking and deflecting is what one should focus more on. So thanks for the advice, much appreciated 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ERock4484 Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 I haven't been playing this, I just noticed DrakeHellsing's Smolder picture from the link to the forum on the front page and wanted to approve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newhopes Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 Parrying is a waste of time just leaves you open, just jump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YTPerfectParadox Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 Everyone seems to be saying this but all deflecting does for me is destroy my own posture and leave me stunned and that's if i even manage to time it right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linkdevivo Posted March 23, 2019 Author Share Posted March 23, 2019 3 hours ago, Terarded said: Everyone seems to be saying this but all deflecting does for me is destroy my own posture and leave me stunned and that's if i even manage to time it right a deflect will never destroy your own posture, only blocking will do that. Try to press L1 as soon as the blades collide (not after) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EightBitArtist Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 4 hours ago, Terarded said: Everyone seems to be saying this but all deflecting does for me is destroy my own posture and leave me stunned and that's if i even manage to time it right youre not timing it correctly then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IXander9 Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 This is the hardest thing for me in the game. We’ve been so programmed to dodge through their other titles that it’s more like muscle memory. Good advice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevengeancePrime Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 Dodging and jumping are just as useful as blocking and deflecting, it all depends on the situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linkdevivo Posted March 23, 2019 Author Share Posted March 23, 2019 14 minutes ago, ObliviousSenpai said: Dodging and jumping are just as useful as blocking and deflecting, it all depends on the situation. Yeah this is true. But this thread is if people are going in thinking it's dodging like bloodborne. Dodging is not as important as deflecting and blocking in this game, the loading menu tips even say so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJ_Solo Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 The game should say dodge aggressively. Dodging into a counter is pretty important. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infected Elite Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 I find it weird you can stealth kill a lifebar of a mini boss or boss. BUT the they never lose sight of you so you can't do it again. if they do lose sight they end up at full health again. I get the challenge. just weird we cant stealth 100% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrakeHellsing Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 14 minutes ago, LegacyJKO09 said: I find it weird you can stealth kill a lifebar of a mini boss or boss. BUT the they never lose sight of you so you can't do it again. if they do lose sight they end up at full health again. I get the challenge. just weird we cant stealth 100% I found that out the annoying way. Wanted to stealth kill that stupid chained ogre, but when I stealthed him a second time, the same deathblow icon was removed instead of killing him (I was able to loose him eventually in the small area). But yeah, it's weird that it wont accept it like that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevengeancePrime Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 11 hours ago, linkdevivo said: Yeah this is true. But this thread is if people are going in thinking it's dodging like bloodborne. Dodging is not as important as deflecting and blocking in this game, the loading menu tips even say so. Dodging is pretty important in quite a few fights like with Lady Butterfly and the chained ogre. Blocking and deflecting in those fights are essentially useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychescape94 Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 17 hours ago, ObliviousSenpai said: Dodging is pretty important in quite a few fights like with Lady Butterfly and the chained ogre. Blocking and deflecting in those fights are essentially useless. Blocking and deflecting are essentially useless against Lady Butterfly? Oh my.. I parried the shit out of her, broke her posture really fast, worked totally fine. What are you talking about? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevengeancePrime Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 2 hours ago, psychescape94 said: Blocking and deflecting are essentially useless against Lady Butterfly? Oh my.. I parried the shit out of her, broke her posture really fast, worked totally fine. What are you talking about? It was a complete waste of time for me and far more risky than just dodging and hacking away at her. Took me about 2 - 3 minutes to finish her like this with only two gourds. I shouldn't have said they're useless as I'm sure there are players like yourself that benefit more from using those techniques, but I believe in general, more players will find success in simply dodging and occasionally deflecting/blocking during this fight especially since it's one of the earlier boss fights. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarmatura93 Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 I'm really trying to adapt to this, as I have a tendency to dodge on pure instinct whenever things gets hot around me. That being said, getting the timing down on parrying is quite hard. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linkdevivo Posted March 24, 2019 Author Share Posted March 24, 2019 1 hour ago, Zarmatura93 said: I'm really trying to adapt to this, as I have a tendency to dodge on pure instinct whenever things gets hot around me. That being said, getting the timing down on parrying is quite hard. tell me about it. Game kicked my ass the first hours because i dodged after every successful hit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hakoom Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 i usualy use the tom and jerry tactic to get through its working lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlessTheDead Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 Totally agree with this, it's something I had to learn (still learning) hard not to play like Bloodborne, but when I deflect it's much easier. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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