what to do here..?

[csxixmm]

very early in the game, recently off the crashed ship. my only weapon is a ♥♥♥♥ 2 handed staff which does hardly any damage and all my enemies are armoured with blades and aimbot fire bombs, my staff is broken and i have no weapon. literally how am i supposed to kill these enemies and move on? its not even like its a 1v1 fight either

ok ive learnt that fists are somehow stronger than the staff but the fire bomb throwers are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying and so hard to beat if it isn't a 1v1

[OldirtyPooch]

I got one for you; how the heck do you exit the game?

[csxixmm]

Originally posted by OldirtyPooch:

I got one for you; how the heck do you exit the game?

press start if on controller to bring up that tab that you can use to view your inventory and settings etc, its on that tab

EDIT: on MnK press tab to bring up said menu

[F4LK]

Literally parry everyone and everything, for the bomb throwers just rush to them so they start doing melee attacks which you can parry.
Every weapon has a a parry btw.

[MinT]

Explore a bit - there are loads of weapons in chests - staff, mace, knives so far just of the beach. Smash down a wooden wall on the beach for a hidden area - swim around a bit for several chests etc etc. - its not hard

[teasel]

I'm in the same boat, all equipment broken and stuck in a 3v1... makes me want to return the game

[ELDEN LORD]

Originally posted by teasel:

I'm in the same boat, all equipment broken and stuck in a 3v1... makes me want to return the game

i allready did and i felt way better after i hit the refund. 40 bucks for th at is jsut not cool. shouldnt be over 20 imo

[frostdrgn]

Yeah I feel like this is heavily biased to whatever weapon you get at start as well as heavily tuned to incentivese you to not explore.

Get bad weapon, get clobbered... enjoy fists and death. Thankfully they're not too terrible but it does mean that anytime the game will throw hard content you might die more then once (or just terrible platforming) your equipment will just break and you're soft-locked into no-fun mode.

Because your equipment will just break from any death not just combat you're better off: not exploring, avoiding any fight you are not 100% you can beat, etc.

Equipment drops are also extremely rare. It's.... less of a darksouls/diablo and more of a "survival game" IMO; which is not quite the type of game was expecting.

[Cryptic]

Originally posted by blinkninja1:

Originally posted by teasel:

I'm in the same boat, all equipment broken and stuck in a 3v1... makes me want to return the game

i allready did and i felt way better after i hit the refund. 40 bucks for th at is jsut not cool. shouldnt be over 20 imo

Agreed. I'm leaning toward that right now as well. I really like the game in terms of its style and everything but the performance and optimization are just so horrendous and the crashes and such that I'm experiencing in just my first hour are really really depressing to be honest. I've been waiting for this game and following it for months.

[frostdrgn]

Originally posted by MinT:

Explore a bit - there are loads of weapons in chests - staff, mace, knives so far just of the beach. Smash down a wooden wall on the beach for a hidden area - swim around a bit for several chests etc etc. - its not hard

I've opened maybe 15-20 chests and seen 0 weapons.

The game seems to be completely random with drops.

[OldirtyPooch]

Originally posted by csxixmm:

Originally posted by OldirtyPooch:

I got one for you; how the heck do you exit the game?

press start if on controller to bring up that tab that you can use to view your inventory and settings etc, its on that tab

I'm using mouse and keyboard and I don't see it anywhere in the menus lol

[csxixmm]

Originally posted by OldirtyPooch:

Originally posted by csxixmm:

press start if on controller to bring up that tab that you can use to view your inventory and settings etc, its on that tab

I'm using mouse and keyboard and I don't see it anywhere in the menus lol

press tab, its the open on the right of the little menu that pops up

[Cypher-_-Punk]

Originally posted by Cryptic:

Originally posted by blinkninja1:

i allready did and i felt way better after i hit the refund. 40 bucks for th at is jsut not cool. shouldnt be over 20 imo

Agreed. I'm leaning toward that right now as well. I really like the game in terms of its style and everything but the performance and optimization are just so horrendous and the crashes and such that I'm experiencing in just my first hour are really really depressing to be honest. I've been waiting for this game and following it for months.

all of these quotes tell me everything i need to know. This looks really good but i cant drop $35 on a game that barely functions but even more so is super unbalanced. Everything i am reading so far tells me this game is not in a playable state, just by the imbalances in the game itself.

[Jack_]

Originally posted by teasel:

I'm in the same boat, all equipment broken and stuck in a 3v1... makes me want to return the game

Skill isue. Refund yourself.

[tiamats4esgares]

All this hearing about weapons breaking easily and can't even beat fights because of it is concerning. In Dark Souls, Elden Ring, etc. your weapons don't break because you lose a few combats. If you die, just get back in and try again. That's what I like about that game. If you can't do it in this game....yet another thing making me not want to purchase.

[/Gquit]

Yeah, I just shut it down now that my only weapon is red and I keep being spammed with "Go see a blacksmith." I'm okay with firebombs being thrown at me from off screen. I can work around the rogue who spams attacks and depletes your stamina bar even though I'm parrying him. Sure, the stamina bar is good for one attack, one evade, and then back off.... zzzz. But now I don't have a weapon.... like WTF is this?