Nice, there's AI? I don't know if I want to jump in to tired salty online matches straight away.

The AI are pretty hard (i jumped straight to higher difficulty) - or maybe i'm just a noob. 

Everytime i play i subconciously try and play it like Dark Souls. I need to stop that.

It seems really well thought out and balanced. Dark Souls can become a game of who has the best weapons. This is more like a fighting game like Street Fighter i think.

Nexx wrote:

Paul the sparky wrote:

Can't get on with these paddles. AI level 2 is rinsing me.

What do you have on the paddles?  Remember you're not just limited to the paddles and can remap any of the buttons.  I've been thinking about moving Guard Break and Cancel to LT and LB and then moving the lock-on button to one of the paddles.

fullspectrum wrote:

Nice, there's AI? I don't know if I want to jump in to tired salty online matches straight away.

Yeah you can play any of the modes with AI.  It also has an endless Duel mode which is useful for training.

That last part sounds excellent for leaning the ropes.

Managed tute before Ara woke up this morning. Looks lovely and makes sense. Fingers crossed for mm.

Nah, I don't like it. It's a combat Noughts and Crosses that relies on its players' intelligence to inject depth, but against the ball-and-chain I can't block for toffee. I'd get better with practice, of course, but the visuals are too bloom-heavy to make that anything less than a frustrating slog. There's a spin before you have to block Right, but the other two are just too hard for my eyes to recognise reliably in time.

And I think it falls into the Fight Night series' trap of prioritising feel over function with its controls. Blocking with analogue's hardly an analogue, but I get where they're coming from with a design that mirrors the most basic real-life actions.

I'd much prefer to have the shoulder buttons for guardbreak (L1), shield (L2), evade (R1) and attack (R2), using the right stick for aiming all of those instead (initiating swings, 360° or otherwise). As well as providing a ton more nuance to strikes in place of six canned anims, with analogue triggers you could allow variable blocking and striking. Shallow taps for quick blocks that only work against weak strikes (partial defence against heavies), but with faster recovery. Bigger taps for heavy-strike defence could then be plus on block.

Yeah, it's a nice idea, but it's puddle-shallow pending the player's willingness to level-up against arbitrary demands. Unless you get on with its glitchily busy graphics, it feels like you're losing to the game as much as the person. And it's not as kinetically satisfying as I expected, rather a Dynasty Warriors 1.5 on that front, owing mostly to Ubi's trademark imponderousness. The cagiest berserkers, robbed of their and their players' essence. Shook Honor.

Played about an hour last night.

Got really excited by it initially but the more I played the more broken it seemed to be.

Looks like the only viable method is running around in a gang and just hacking lone wolves to pieces. 1 v 1 fights were rare, and the only option if you're on the wrong side of a  2 v 1 is to peg it.

Am I missing something?

OK will do tonight.

Are private matches possible in the beta?

Yeah you can do private matches. 

I started playing some Conqueror earlier and he is fucking dirty to play against.  Made a level 13 rage quit in my first game as a level 1 Conq.

Another rage quit. People just don't know what to do against him, this is great lol

i'm a muppet been playing only dominion just done a duel it's so much better. i surprised myself and won 3-0 did some crazy counter attack i don't even understand how i did. love the samurai basic dude

Anyone up for some games on Xbox or PC tonight?

I'd love to but I'm addicted to Astroneers.

So, by being a lazy fuck and not reading the thread, can I try this out on demo or anything? I've got an evening free...

So far my cursory feelings on this are that it is good when it clicks, but that's quite rare. I have also been having terrible connection issues which makes it much less fun.