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I can finally stop playing.
 
How do you consistently beat the axe giant first boss? I have really only ever picked into it
 
Neodanthril said:
How do you consistently beat the axe giant first boss? I have really only ever picked into it
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Long Candlestick - Alternate between whacking his head with the long end and thrusting at his belly the spikey end.
Knife - Stick him in the belly after he misses a downward swing.
Shovel - Sidestep to your left and whack his left arm after he misses a downward swing. Do this 2 - 3 times uand his arm will break, you will hear the crack and see his arm weaken greatl. Then just whale on him.

Bait out downward swings and hit him before he brings it back up to swing again.
 
A small patch released today. Mostly fixes to falling over/getting up and weapon handling. The fatal errors aren't fixed yet, but the devs say they're working on a fix and that it's related to gore (NB turning blood and gore down helps avoid fatal errors in the ultimate challenge).
Hello everyone,

Here's a small update addressing some of the frustrations you mentioned in the previous build:


  • Falling down is now harder
  • Getting up is faster
  • Weapon handling has been improved
  • Performance improvement (might not be perfect though, we're stil working on it)


Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand:

  • We brought ground fight back.

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About Fatal Crashes:
We’re aware of the fatal crashes, especially during the Baron fight. These issues stem from a third-party Unreal Engine plugin we’ve been using for some of the blood and gore effects.
While we initially tried to debug it, we’ve hit its limitations. That’s why we’re now developing our own in-house solution, which will be ready for the Early Access release — offering both improved stability and next-level wounds for you to inflict on poor Willie.
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Thanks again for the tremendous support, we still can’t believe how big Half Sword has gotten, and it’s not even out yet!

Half Sword Games & Game Seer

Also someone made a mod for custom weapons which I thought was cool. I was under the impression Unreal engine games are hard as fuck to mod, so I'm not really sure how this guy did it.
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TheArtilleryman said:
the strat to beating the gauntlet is picking the spiked stick in tier 4 and sticking with that for the rest of the game.
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Before that, the pitchfork from tier 2 is your best bet, especially against the tier 3 boss with his big fuck-off sword. Love the spikey staves though; it's so satisfying to land a clean hit to the head with them, especially against higher tier enemies. They're definitely overpowered though, hell, you don't even have to use the submission mechanic when using one. With the staves, one or two good blows to the head will knock any enemy unconscious, if not break their neck and/or kill them, regardless of armor. It's kind of ludicrous how good they are.

Neodanthril said:
How do you consistently beat the axe giant first boss? I have really only ever picked into it
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Artilleryman's advice is solid, but another method can be holding alt. Holding alt with a weapon puts you in a stabbing stance and makes enemies less willing to come into range. You can use that feature to back bosses into a fence, which will stun them temporarily and give you an opening to swing at them.
 
It's finally released (in Early Access). Already suffering from Unreal Engine syndrome (even worse optimization, bugs, crashing). Complete with jannies being jannies towards complaints. Stick with the demo if you really want to play this game for the time being.
EDIT: Played for an hour, getting a refund. The game runs poorly (although only crashed once in the intro), there's barely enough content added since the demo such as the random "game modes" (don't get knocked down, stay in circle...that's it I think) that are barely even worth talking about as they add very little to the game and you can't even pick them in the free mode.
The combat feels worse than the last demo, you can barely handle any weapon longer than a basic Messer so just stick to short range, thrusting either works fine or straight up does not work at all, health and stamina is wonky since it seems to have been reduced or something, you fall over way too easily now (which might be intentional considering they made a game mode out of it), AI is worse and provides no challenge, weapons either can't be justified using (like the flail) or one tap (I've bisected a man with an axe just by turning slightly), and while all these can be said for the demo, any issues from the demo either remained unfixed (I've seen bugs from the demo still present, Unreal Engine everyone) or made worse.
I think they actually removed a bunch content from the last demo since you can "make your own weapons" and shit, unless they locked most of said content from the free mode (which I assume has most of the shit you'll see in the progression mode) since there's barely anything, which would be retarded. Maybe you only get up to the last tier you made in the progression mode?
As for what I enjoyed? I did think the new maps are interesting (if buggy and broken, especially the slums which has insane LOD issues that causes framerates to nosedive into being unplayable if you look a certain direction), the Abyss is even more unnerving for the first time until you realize the "lost souls" (enemies you killed turned into zombies) are an absolute pushover, with the Abyss now simply serving as a way to break progression since it seems to give you weapons and armor above your rank which you can keep (they sell for less but still, you can get what seems to be Knight rank gear in Peasant tier). They sound like they should be biting you too but nope.
Environmental hazards are a neat thing, they rarely work but hey it's something.
What the hell were they doing all this time when the previous (Steam) demos are more enjoyable? Definitely don't touch this game for a year.
 
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The progression mode is pretty decent. They cribbed a decent amount from exanima's arena mode where you can hire additional fighters and manage their equipment. You have a gold and item stash that persists between lives, and can insure pieces of gear to avoid losing them in the abyss. You also keep whatever you have equipped when winning a battle. The loop of die -> fight out of the abyss for a second chance is still present, however the abyss enemies you fight are now sprinter zombies and you have to kill an equal amount to the people you've killed in the main game to leave. You don't enter the abyss at all if you haven't stacked any bodies, which leads to making a conscious choice of using blunt weapons and forcing surrenders on downed enemies to have a fighting chance when you eventually die.

Tiers and ranks are the same but have been stretched out, taking longer to reach the next tier, which is done through a 7+ round tournament in the classic arena map.

Performance isn't great as redditors have pissed their pants over, but after some fucking around with settings the game runs fine. Pausing for 5 seconds on level load helps a lot with the fps drop as it allows assets to load in.

Spent a couple hours grinding and made my way to commoner tier by the skin of my teeth. Got very lucky checking the merchant and getting some metal armor which will hopefully hold out for another tier or two.
 
3rd patch is out, reviews are climbing from 30% positive to near 60%.

The brainlet kneejerk reaction to this game was a wild one, and pretty fucking mystifying tbh. Reminds me of the splitgate 2 launch but without the eye of sauron that is r/gamingcirclejerk actively shitting down the throats of devs because of a maga hat joke
 
elrond hubbard said:
The brainlet kneejerk reaction to this game was a wild one
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Except it wasn't a kneejerk reaction, the game was borderline unplayable for a lot of people. It's getting better from what I'm reading from the patches so naturally people are coming around to it. And much like other games with awful launches, the people who weren't there for the worst of it are going to come in and rate it more favorably.
If something releases in a dogshit state, people are going to say it's dogshit until it isn't, not sure how it's a kneejerk reaction when many of the criticisms is still valid. It's still not great and I find myself still enjoying the demo for the game way more, but it's definitely getting better and I'm glad, I'm tired of the few games I actually show interest in these days having a mountain of problems or just not even being what they promised.
 
elrond hubbard said:
The brainlet kneejerk reaction to this game was a wild one
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Having played the original demo, and the one that came out recently.
I don't think it is.
It feels like the game has gotten progressively worse.
The first was a simple run through the dark picking shit up and gutting people. The visceral effects were really well done. It feels like they toned it down a lot in the second and from what I've seen of early access, its gotten a lot worse lag wise and still lacks that absurd amount of visceral charm.
 
I have not been this disappointed with an Indie release in a good while. The demo on itchio gave me faith that they wouldn't make it such an unstable pile of trash.

I would highly recommend anyone who was hyped for this to play We Who Are About To Die if you want to get rid of the taste of shit out of your mouth.
 
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