P is slow and cluncky AF

[Captain]

I expected something like bloodborne movement, maybe a bit less since bosses are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ agile. It feels very frustrating to have such long animations u.u

[Virake]

doesn't feel clunky at all to me.

[Samseng Yik]

No clunky at all.
If anything, bloodborne is more slow and clunkier.

[Poyzo]

Same here, no clunkiness at all. Are you sure you aren't overweight? Keep yourself under 59%.

[nullpo]

For me it's not clunky but the movement seems slower? Really hard to describe but parrying and dodging feels wrong because the enemy tend to hold back a few seconds before attacking.

[Samseng Yik]

Originally posted by nullpo:

For me it's not clunky but the movement seems slower? Really hard to describe but parrying and dodging feels wrong because the enemy tend to hold back a few seconds before attacking.

This is a gameplay design pattern to catch player off guard or force player to play better.
You can't judge a game by "attack animation should be something in my expectation and my imagination".

The right thing to do is catch the timing after saw the attack few times and remember it.

[Groen90]

Animations are overall on par with Fromsoft's in terms of clunkiness. If you feel slow you're either overweight, using a very slow weapon, or you're imagining it.

[Glimmer]

It's not clunky at all. Try switching out your weapon or checking your equip load.

[nullpo]

Originally posted by Samseng Yik:

Originally posted by nullpo:

For me it's not clunky but the movement seems slower? Really hard to describe but parrying and dodging feels wrong because the enemy tend to hold back a few seconds before attacking.

This is a gameplay design pattern to catch player off guard or force player to play better.
You can't judge a game by "attack animation should be something in my expectation and my imagination".

The right thing to do is catch the timing after saw the attack few times and remember it.

Really funny that you went defensive on neutral comment. I'm just relaying my impression.

Anyways since you ask for it, I'll judge the game. The animation tend to hold back really contradict with the whole parry and sidestep style they go for imo. That's why it felt wrong to me. If they went for ds roll and block system it's fine, but parry and sidestep works better with fluid movement like sekiro.

[Loudness]

Weapons are hit and miss, some feel really terrible and unfun, others are great to play with.

Most boss weapons are OP and feel nice to play, you can also make a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of fluid, fast and responsive feeling weapons if you experiment with handle/shaft setups. I didn't experiment too much with the mechanic in NG, but still had an electric coil head/acidic handle and it worked really fine for me.

[Sonnenbank]

Boss attacks have preload and release phase.
you have to deflect when the preload -> changes to relase phase.

now ofc preload is different length for every attack.
but inside the attacks it is consistent.
so the same attack always has the same preload length.

This enables a smooth learning curve for players that have a brain

[Kevin Ryan]

Originally posted by Capi:

I expected something like bloodborne movement, maybe a bit less since bosses are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ agile. It feels very frustrating to have such long animations u.u

Apparently it's not that clunky since you put 20 hours on the damn thing.

Why is there so much rage bait this week? lol

[Deathwing1306]

You should try LotF then :)

You will apologize to LoP very quickly for saying that the controls suck...

[nullpo]

Originally posted by Kevin Ryan:

Originally posted by Capi:

I expected something like bloodborne movement, maybe a bit less since bosses are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ agile. It feels very frustrating to have such long animations u.u

Apparently it's not that clunky since you put 20 hours on the damn thing.

Why is there so much rage bait this week? lol

Putting few hours before critic=not enough time
Putting a lot of hours before critic=you must enjoy the game

[Deathwing1306]

Originally posted by IndictMe:

Yeah OP I feel ya. This game is derivative garbage in every sense of the word and the combat feels horrible. I can’t understand why people are praising it. And then the ending with Dorothy. I could feel my eyes rolling out of my head when that part played. Not an original thought left in this industry.

lol

[xnamxoutlawx]

It's definitely slow but I would not call it clunky at all try playing Lords of the Fallen 2014 and you will know what clunky is or Red Dead 2 is also a good example of what clunky it, the slow part though is most likely on purpose they just wanted a more slow and methodical play style like the first Dark Souls as compared to say Bloodborne.