Stellar Blade / Project Eve Thread - aka Stellar Ass

My performance was a bit wonky compared to the demo. Turning down environmental textures to very high down from 4k helped a lot. I still get some stutters but it hasn't been enough of an issue to start turning other things down from very high/high to anything lower.

Turning off hints feels like a must, it doesn't take up enough screen real estate to be that annoying, but it's unnecessary.

Not only can you screenshot through Steam (f12) but you can also use the in game camera, just make sure to hide the UI and turn off the watermark if you choose to.
 
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Adam...Eve.... theres gonna be some religious references isnt there?
 
SSj_Ness (Yiffed) said:
Or a jealous woman.
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not a single hyperfocused detail on the eve model that might be perceived as wrong, therefore not a woman.
CaptainAutism69 said:
So which mods return the PC game to the original, uncensored version with blood and stuff?
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probably none at the moment as this censor was made during sony exclusivity era so PC modders can't fish a older build to restore the files, they have to make manual changes and that will take time, insert a masturbation joke in here.
 
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00R-Gundam said:
Adam...Eve.... theres gonna be some religious references isnt there?
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Yea it's intentional and pretty obvious once you get toward the end of the game. There's also a character literally named "Orcal" (like Oracle) and it's interesting your engineer is named Lilly (like Lilith from the Gnostic stories). The city in the trailers is called "Xion" (same thing the Matrix movies did .. lot of Matrix style religious references). There are still a lot of things that I don't get about the story. Warning, spoiler your replies for people who haven't finished the game.

Is Raphael Marks (Adam) like hundreds of years old? Did he artificially extend his life? He and Orcal are the only two Naytiba that somehow held onto their humanity, right? Orcal seems to have augmented his human body with tech. There are codexs and stuff that talk about "biological humans" but the current Androids aren't related to humans at all right? Any biological components are completely manufactured, which is why Adam wants to combine with Eve.

How many years have actually passed between the fall of humanity, the great cataclysm where the colonies dropped and destroyed the Earth, and the time of Stellar Blade? Mother Sphere totally cut off her creation it seems. They were separated from the network, and so their belief in her has turned religious.

Was Adam always controlling the Naytiba? (which seems to be a play on "Natives" since they're what's left of actual humans). Was it him that was fighting every wave of incoming fighters? Was he playing both sides when he picked up Eva, or has he lost control of the other "biological humans."

Did Mother Sphere implant the fake memories to make the robots think they were human before cutting them off from the network? What exactly is "the colony" in space. Neat idea, kinda dumb they can't see it from Earth or even from the space elevator battle. I guess it must be really far out from Earth or really reflective/transparent. Or maybe the robots are programmed so they can't see it? Eve and Lily talk about going back to the colony, but they are surprised when they finally see it in the "bad" ending, as if they had never been there or expected something totally different. (I've heard this was originally the only ending, and the two good endings were tacked on later?)

How are the androids "born." They all seem to have memories. Eve remembers when the cities were full of people. Are all those memories fake, or copied from much older robots? It must have been hundreds of years ago, yet they act like the space elevator was stopped recently/in living memory. Why are there robot children? Do they just say children forever? Do they move into older bodies? Obviously a lot of the robots just remain in cold storage. They see themselves as "humans" to differentiate themselves from drones and more basic robots, unaware they were created as well.

Side gripe, I wish dialog indicated the "master core" was needed for Adam and Eve to merge. It just being a key is stupid if Adam is already in there. Without some story explanation, the whole main quest arc becomes a McGuffin chase. 😡

Lilly said she had been hiding for 2 years. They also said the Space Elevator was operational ~100 days ago. If that was true, the elevator should have been operational during her dive. But it seems like it's been abandoned for much longer. Seem like the entire timeline is intentional written as an unreliable narration, and I wonder if any of it will really get resolved in the sequel.

If you notice, Raven has an "EVE" logo on her uniform. Eve does look different from the rest of her squadron. Are the EVE units different/special. Is Adam working with Mother Sphere to form some kind of future, or is their whole thing still adversarial at the end? What do you think of Mother Sphere's final appearance to them in both endings?

So many QUESTIONS. Would love to hear some theories on the lore.
 
Swap the green palette and her hairstyle; would she be recognizable? Or is it what she stands for that people are cooming for? The CCP have been shitting out aryan waifus for quite a while now and she's by no means the most popular one, yet I guess the first? Slop soul clones ain't nothing new either. I just don't get the appeal.
 
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⋖ cørdion ⋗ said:
Swap the green palette and her hairstyle; would she be recognizable? Or is it what she stands for that people are cooming for? The CCP have been shitting out aryan waifus for quite a while now and she's by no means the most popular one, yet I guess the first? Slop soul clones ain't nothing new either. I just don't get the appeal.
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You're always such a doomer when it comes to games that I have a hard time formulating a response to you. I think you should just stop following and playing games if you're at the point of your life where you're so dejected you can only manage 10 minutes of World of Warcraft a day.

Bonus tangent: I don't see how people are calling this a fucking souls-like. It has rest camps/checkpoints that refill your healing items. That's it.

Dark Souls: Incur penalties on death through loss of humanity/health and your souls/level-up currency.
Stellar Blade: No death penalties, doesn't even start you back at a camp in some instances, just respawns you with full healing outside the boss.

Dark Souls: No map and interconnected zones that filter you out by difficulty to encourage exploration.
Stellar Blade: Has maps and is pretty linear (barring sidequests.) Some areas are open but there are many points in the game where you are going through linearly.

Dark Souls: Most basic bitch combos that you commit to.
Stellar Blade: More varied combos to make hitting shit look cool.

Dark Souls: Co-op enabled with the penalty of being able to get invaded and murdered.
Stellar Blade: No co-op or pvp.

Dark Souls: Leveling and builds dictate your strength and playstyle.
Stellar Blade: Unlock anything in whatever order as you gain skill points, it's all permanent strength boosts to your core abilities or new combos/etc.

Dark Souls: Very sparse story with a ton of world building should you choose to follow it. Characters come and go at the drop of a hat and you can kill a ton of them.
Stellar Blade: Story is up front and center and it gets you quickly attached to the other characters.

Dark Souls: Has STAMINA meaning all of your actions matter in a fight.
Stellar Blade: No stamina.

I can piggy back off that last point with equip load and poise but suffice it to say Souls games tend to have them and Stellar Blade doesn't. I understand that not every souls-like is 100% on these tenets but it's like calling DmC or Bayonetta a souls-like. Even Nioh 2 which is extremely combo focused has magic and builds/leveling/co-op which makes it a much better souls-like comparison. Everything up above isn't even getting into the parts of Stellar Blade where you're locked into a third person shooter.
Anyway thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
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