Demo was really fun until....

[fairtoki]

Demo was great, I was going to pre-purchase until i met the "Tree Sentinel" boss at the end of demo...

WTF is this...

Elden ring was more balance than this boss.

Edit. I play DW8+Empire so know who the boss is. I use "Tree Sentinel" as metaphor and to not spoil who haven't finished DEMO.
It just my opinion that boss is kind of out of place from DEMO. There are no needed for insult or rude comment. I just share my opinion on game. Sorry if it insult to Game fans.

Also i already beat the boss.

Again i love the game, just think it out of place for DEMO and leave bad taste for casual play.

[BabyPanda]

Originally posted by Ralathar44:

Originally posted by Hugal:

Can't believe some of these comments, it's Lu Bu, it doesn't matter what attack he uses when you are talking about realism, you are one soldier killing thousands of other troops as one, realism was never something that you had to think about when playing a Dynasty Warriors game, he was not hard when you learn how he works like any other Dynasty Warriors that has him to fight against optionally.

Who said anything about realism? He just didn't fit in with the tone of the rest of the map and officers. Everyone else was superhuman, but nobody else was farting energy waves across half the screen. He doesn't fit in the context of the rest of the game.

Even in some of the sillier characters in earlier games that shot lasers and stuff were confined to the fan users. Lu Bu has magic beyond even the silliest versions of the fan users in earlier entries.

totally agree, he is just another over buffed super human having slashes over the map, smashing the ground like hulk and grabbing you like a chicken. Wth is this thing? Why have to make Lu Bu into such super human boss, I just afraid the full game will have these enemies, cause they already made such a Lu Bu and also checkpoint functions which we can retry and retry.

[Chippawaffen]

Originally posted by sisanchubc0107:

totally agree, he is just another over buffed super human having slashes over the map, smashing the ground like hulk and grabbing you like a chicken. Wth is this thing? Why have to make Lu Bu into such super human boss, I just afraid the full game will have these enemies, cause they already made such a Lu Bu and also checkpoint functions which we can retry and retry.

that's just lu be being lu be no one has ever match his aura in DW. Zhang Liao, Ma Chao, Zhao Yun are contenders for top 5, but the gap from 1st to 2nd is wildly wide

[DeeAiZee]

Zhang Jiao is gonna be crazy at this rate lol

[Chortles]

Originally posted by DeeAiZee:

Zhang Jiao is gonna be crazy at this rate lol

... there is in fact footage of him out on YouTube.

[Ralathar44]

Originally posted by Chippawaffen:

Originally posted by sisanchubc0107:

totally agree, he is just another over buffed super human having slashes over the map, smashing the ground like hulk and grabbing you like a chicken. Wth is this thing? Why have to make Lu Bu into such super human boss, I just afraid the full game will have these enemies, cause they already made such a Lu Bu and also checkpoint functions which we can retry and retry.

that's just lu be being lu be no one has ever match his aura in DW. Zhang Liao, Ma Chao, Zhao Yun are contenders for top 5, but the gap from 1st to 2nd is wildly wide

Again, he's always been OP but its just been pure stats. Played all the games since 3 except the clusterfluck of 9. The moveset he's been given this time is way beyond the normal.

For instance DW 8 is recent with tons of videos.

- His grab and slam was definitely in 8, but it wasn't a 50 meter sonic speed charge 1 shot move and it only came at the end of his combo.

- His yell aura move did have red energy but it stopped within like 3-5 feet of him. It didn't shoot energy waves all around him 30 ft out.

- His polearm swipes had the red energy but they were only slightly longer range than normal melee weapons, they didn't fire blade beams out 30 ft.

- etc.

[NOBLE SIX]

Originally posted by fairtoki:

Demo was great, I was going to pre-purchase until i met the "Tree Sentinel" boss at the end of demo...

WTF is this...

Elden ring was more balance than this boss.

Edit. I play DW8+Empire so know who the boss is. I use "Tree Sentinel" as metaphor and to not spoil who haven't finished DEMO.
It just my opinion that boss is kind of out of place from DEMO. There are no needed for insult or rude comment. I just share my opinion on game. Sorry if it insult to Game fans.

Also i already beat the boss.

Again i love the game, just think it out of place for DEMO and leave bad taste for casual play.

Any Tips? I've got no rice buns left and about 50% health...

[Juno]

Originally posted by REVENANT:

Originally posted by fairtoki:

Demo was great, I was going to pre-purchase until i met the "Tree Sentinel" boss at the end of demo...

WTF is this...

Elden ring was more balance than this boss.

Edit. I play DW8+Empire so know who the boss is. I use "Tree Sentinel" as metaphor and to not spoil who haven't finished DEMO.
It just my opinion that boss is kind of out of place from DEMO. There are no needed for insult or rude comment. I just share my opinion on game. Sorry if it insult to Game fans.

Also i already beat the boss.

Again i love the game, just think it out of place for DEMO and leave bad taste for casual play.

Any Tips? I've got no rice buns left and about 50% health...

Go to one of the bases as the pots there regenerate on restart and it'll replenish your goons to do barrage/charge abilities.

[evilbom]

tbh i really enjoy the demo even i dead before meet Lu Bu
what i see in demo is Art and Tactic (command troop) weapon choice in demo we have type of weapon and Gem system

not sure about full game will be grinding like Empire Version

[RageFather]

I play for fun and always on the easiest difficulty, and I managed to get Lu down to 1/4 life on the first try. I didnt care about fighting him again- that would be work, not fun. However, I was picking up with the officers that the new system is forcing you to block and parry no matter what, but it doesnt feel as narrow a timing window as WoLong at least. I think the difficulty on this is about right, given that i avoid challenges at all cost, but can still hit block once in a while. if it's more lubu-esque bosses, I'll be waiting for wemod to hold my hand; you may want to do the same if youre a fan of the series.

Overall, I am happy the game has more than just a square square triangle going for it. I suspect they are going to paywall many features, like character customization or hero DLC, since its Koei.

[Chortles]

Originally posted by RageFather:

I play for fun and always on the easiest difficulty, and I managed to get Lu down to 1/4 life on the first try. I didnt care about fighting him again- that would be work, not fun. However, I was picking up with the officers that the new system is forcing you to block and parry no matter what, but it doesnt feel as narrow a timing window as WoLong at least.

Hero difficulty does narrow the timing window, however Wo Long seemed to have dodging be nearly useless whereas you could parry everything, meaning that if your timing was consistent you could outright stand still... whereas in Origins it's almost inverted: parrying doesn't work on orange or red attacks, whereas if your dodge timing is good enough (in the demo it helped that every weapon has a version with the "Extends the input window for Perfect Evades" bonus) you'll get enough Bravery for Battle Arts that parrying even normal/strong attacks ("white indicators") is optional.

[Juno]

Parry is very good in this game.

[effina713]

For all who played the older game sishui gate is where he destroy everyone lol.

[Rockpaw]

Also something to note about most Dynasty Warrior demos. (At least from the ones I've tried) They give you underpowered gear/levels. So honestly if your playing the game well and trying to gear up I don't think the actual game will be this difficult.

[Nihrahk]

Eh, I wouldn't compare him to tree sentinel. Tree Sentinel isn't that bad. Lu Bu here is more comparable to Gwyn of the OG Dark Souls... when you don't use any parries in terms of difficulty.

It definitely was a pretty BS fight though, but it was just an additional challenge from the devs. Come full release, you can probably just bonk your way through as usual most of the time. We'll see soon enough, but the gameplay is more similar to Wolong. There's even some elements from Wukong, but mostly with how the perfect dodges work. There's not really much else. What I'm saying is that it will probably be a bit more difficult than other DW games.

As already mentioned, we likely have underpowered gear and levels too. I mean, just on normal, if you take a few hits from some generic officers, you're almost dead already. We might be a level 1 character taking on a map that's meant for level 5-10, or we're a lvl 5 character with lvl 1 gear taking on a lvl 10 map. Meanwhile, Lu Bu may be level 20, considering how tanky he is, but has nerfed damage so that every hit isn't a one shot.

[Sthrall]

Ffs we all know we're gonna face Lu Bu at shisui gate