according to the patreon's newest post, a hotfix was released, and it should be available from the same link you were given to download it in the first place. any chance you could provide us with that?
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seems like i encountered a clicking and zoom bug when setting the resolution up. Putting it back to 1280x720 fixed the game play issues.
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I stand corrected good sirs
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Honestly, that could be a very valid way of playing and would make a very good video if the game wasn't NSFW.
I'm not sure how possible it is now, tbh... I'm at 125 strength and I spend like 5 minutes clicking to get two-shotted by the demon lord and deal like.... 1/8th to 1/16th of her health bar. Kinda stuck on it.
I wonder if a magic build is any better?
It's a shame Pornhub is locked down now, no way in hell would anyone submit an id to be a creator. Otherwise you could just upload challenge runs there like in the old days. Lol
...I mean I guess you could also upload a heavily censored video to YouTube, but imagine how much work that would take.
Hey, I started as a broadsword user, but got annoyed by always having to change to the bow to hit enemies in the back row.
Tried playing just bow, but felt weak, then changed to magic, since you can hit both rows with most spells and started advancing the game pretty fast, it's good mp also can be increased and the speed it recovers too. Focus o WIT on multiples of 20 and the rest on INT, whenever you have enough for more 20 on WIT, reset stats and add those points.
I also had issues with the demon lord, but what worked was using the first thunder skill to stun, then using the third ice and fire skills, when she recovers, use the third thunder skill, it stuns too, then both second fire and ice skills too, use suck mp whenever needed, the status potions too, you can use the tentacle bind to combo her too, up it to lvl 3. And keep that rotation, buy all the potions you can use per fight and use them for MP and HP and you should be good to go after practicing a bit with spells. They are good because you can keep guarding while they hit, but the downside is there is a lot going on on the screen and sometimes you can't see anything, lol. Ah, the 1.0 build has a bug that the firewall doesn't disappear after using it, so the effect persists until you close the game, which sucks, but I hope the dev fix it, great game!
I managed to beat it thanks to your advice! It seems magic is much more viable, at the very least for boss battles, than the strength path. I'm not sure if this is a popular opinion, but it's kind of sad when there's a META because it feels like other paths aren't fulfilling to use, so it seems more imbalanced. I also had that issue with the bow switching annoying me, it caused me to die often, I basically just put one skill point into the lightning stun and tried to brute force it with tentacles.
I'd say the main disparity comes from the fact that skill points recharge far too slowly compared to magic, and regular physical attacks require more stamina with less return than magic. This seems to make it a slog and a risk to play with physical attacks, and the heavy damage moves can't be spammed like magic, despite only doing around the same amount of damage.
It didn't help that on my computer, f1-f3 for some reason is considered the fn key + f1-f3, instead of just the keybind. I don't have a function lock key so that was awful, but later on I found out tab at least lets you shuffle weapons which is nice.
I managed to beat the Demon Lord with like, 3 health potions, then at the end where her attacks get insane, at about 10-25% hp, just take a power potion, mp potion, and use tentacle bind, then blitz it to mitigate the risk of being oneshotted by skipping through the final phase.
I ran into a few bugs too. For one, the Demon Lord's retry button occasionally doesn't work, and picking her in the training room crashes the game.
I do think that magic is generally more viable, at least from my experience with it in the older version, but I wouldn't call physical impossible to win with or anything either. With the full release I started a new game on the hardest difficulty and ran a sword build, dumped all my points into strength until I hit 99 then swapped over to endurance for more stamina. Had a bow in my second slot just to deal with annoying ranged enemies I didn't want to parry to death, but otherwise it went unused.
It worked out surprisingly well, even if needing to essentially no-hit every stage due to having no HP was one of the tasks of all time. Felt incredibly satisfying when I finally managed to start consistently parrying all of the Demon Lord's attacks, ESPECIALLY the combo she did in her second phase.
My strat for her was to start with a cross slash to not waste SP, then attack until I had about half stamina left. React to attacks accordingly (parry/block/dodge/counter), cross slash when SP is just about full again, and repeat until ranged segment. Keep parrying while occasionally popping off a shot with the bow if stamina is high enough, then swap to sword and parry the triple fall. She should stagger here, or if not here, after her first combo attack. Cross Slash -> Triple Slash -> Seven Slash -> Tentacle Whip + M1s, then stagger finisher when time is almost up. Immediate ffw to second phase with a bit more opportunity to damage her during the transition.
I just repeated that the whole time. No items required, just parry after parry. And also a few blocks and dodges, but mostly parries. I would give tips for dealing with specific attacks, but it's more muscle memory than anything else for me.
Thanks for the strat.
I definitely don't think a physical build is IMPOSSIBLE, I was mainly referring to the challenge of beating the entire game with level 1 stats, like I was unintentionally doing for half the story like a dumbass. I do think that's *realistically* impossible, especially for the latter two bosses, but I'm sure there's someone out there who could do it, but probably painfully so.
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How does anyone even play this? The mouse cursor is off in the menus, when "targeting" the screen zooms in on an empty area making it a complete guess to hit anything, and the middle click "parry" either doesn't fire off or is so delayed there's no way to time it!
rather easily, but that's probably just the parade buster player in me speaking
update the game to v1.01, that's a bug with v1.00
if it still happens even after that, which it shouldn't but might, change back to the default resolution
as for this i don't know what to say about it. make sure you're not out of stamina (because parry requires stamina to use, which i personally think is dumb) and that you're not in the end lag of a skill, because those both stop you from being able to parry. that's my best guess at your problem.
Haha, I wondered if I was the only one who noticed how similar it felt to Parade Buster. Though I found this was actually quite a bit harder than Parade Buster in some sections, at least for me. I actually found it through the MGQ collab.
Have you heard ExcessM is releasing a new game soon, I think in this upcoming month?
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actually, the dev specifically noted parade buster as an inspiration for this game. that's how i even found it in the first place, i searched up "parade buster" on kemono while i was looking for something different and stumbled upon this game.
no arguments about this game being harder than parade buster though, because it absolutely is. the Flash Counter system makes parade buster itself an absolute joke in terms of difficulty, regularly leaving me at 3+ seconds of full invincibility even on the hardest difficulty. this game DOESN'T have that, so by default is more difficult.
well yeah, i mean i literally started a thread for the discussion of excessm games over in the general discussions category. though the notification is appreciated nonetheless, or at least the thought behind it is.
That's cool! Yeah, Flash Counter pretty much just let me mow through the game quite easily with all that extra time to use. It was very difficult for me to lose any stage, ever.
And haha, my bad. I usually frequent the game specific threads more. I think I might have seen your thread at some point as I thought your name looked familiar. I guess my deja vu wasn't quite good enough.