No blood for how long!?

[Danceswithcows]

I see mention of no blood until completion of reworked gore system, which could take a year. Is this accurate?

I'm just one player, but humans aren't unique snowflakes, so I'm sure there are others who feel the same as I; No blood = poor game play.

The blood is more than just meme gore, it's the primary way of gauging damage dealt and damage received. Other indicators of damage dealt/received are ambiguous or seemingly unreliable.

I've been following, waiting for blood to be re-added following the game show thing at the end of September. If we might not get blood for a year.... That's a huge bummer. The play test feels too incomplete for me to enjoy without it :(
Be back in a year I guess...

[YourFriendDoge]

Originally posted by Danceswithcows:

The blood is more than just meme gore, it's the primary way of gauging damage dealt and damage received. Other indicators of damage dealt/received are ambiguous or seemingly unreliable.

FINALLY SOMEONE TALKED ABOUT HOW THE BLOOD AND GORE IS NEEDED FOR THE GAME'S COMBAT MECHANICS. SO MANY PEOPLE SAY ITS WEIRD PEOPLE WANT BLOOD AND GORE WHEN ITS NEEDED FOR COMBAT. *cough* Sorry there but yeah blood and gore is needed for the game's combat

Originally posted by Danceswithcows:

I see mention of no blood until completion of reworked gore system, which could take a year. Is this accurate?
If we might not get blood for a year.... That's a huge bummer. The play test feels too incomplete for me to enjoy without it :(
Be back in a year I guess...

I feel that they are gonna try and not take a year we've seen what happens when devs take to long for a feature with a huge fanbase and its sad. But hopefully its just rumors and we get blood and gore re-added soon :<

[UnityII]

I honestly feel that the blood is one of the core parts of the game. Without it, you feel as if your using a foam sword to hit ur enemies.

[Greyrat]

Originally posted by Danceswithcows:

I see mention of no blood until completion of reworked gore system, which could take a year. Is this accurate?

I'm just one player, but humans aren't unique snowflakes, so I'm sure there are others who feel the same as I; No blood = poor game play.

The blood is more than just meme gore, it's the primary way of gauging damage dealt and damage received. Other indicators of damage dealt/received are ambiguous or seemingly unreliable.

I've been following, waiting for blood to be re-added following the game show thing at the end of September. If we might not get blood for a year.... That's a huge bummer. The play test feels too incomplete for me to enjoy without it :(
Be back in a year I guess...

There is blood in the demo so i dont understnad what u mean

[YourFriendDoge]

Originally posted by Greyrat:

There is blood in the demo so i dont understnad what u mean

This is the Playtest not the demo you can register for the playtest at the Half Sword store page on Steam, request to join the playtest than you get the better version of the demo.

[HSG Community Manager]

Originally posted by Danceswithcows:

I see mention of no blood until completion of reworked gore system, which could take a year. Is this accurate?

It is not, any estimate is misinformation. Any deadline or timeframe is currently speculation and will lead to failed expectations and disappointment.

It is being worked on and will release when ready.

[Danceswithcows]

Originally posted by HSG Community Manager:

Originally posted by Danceswithcows:

I see mention of no blood until completion of reworked gore system, which could take a year. Is this accurate?

It is not, any estimate is misinformation. Any deadline or timeframe is currently speculation and will lead to failed expectations and disappointment.

It is being worked on and will release when ready.

Thanks for the clarification!

[zxcuicideboy!let's all love lain]

i would say current playtest shouldn't have been released without blood and gore, because it's one of base staples of this game's design. the MOST remarkable feature in half sword demo was detailed response mechanics, and imo, the best response mechanic i've seen in recent games. not only your blows have visible and tactile impact, but it also affects tacticality of the fight since enemies actually flee/bleed out/start to fall when low blood or injured enough/etc
playtest lacks all of this. playtest's swinging was greatly improved, true, but without gore the battles feel too shallow and lack much of player's impact feeling. the battles feel less dynamic and get stale quick, as where i logged 30 hrs on the demo and still play it sometimes. they should have at least finished blood mechanic and dynamic emotion states for ai before releasing playtest, imo.

[Radix]

Originally posted by zxcuicideboy!let's all love lain:

i would say current playtest shouldn't have been released without blood and gore, because it's one of base staples of this game's design. the MOST remarkable feature in half sword demo was detailed response mechanics, and imo, the best response mechanic i've seen in recent games. not only your blows have visible and tactile impact, but it also affects tacticality of the fight since enemies actually flee/bleed out/start to fall when low blood or injured enough/etc
playtest lacks all of this. playtest's swinging was greatly improved, true, but without gore the battles feel too shallow and lack much of player's impact feeling. the battles feel less dynamic and get stale quick, as where i logged 30 hrs on the demo and still play it sometimes. they should have at least finished blood mechanic and dynamic emotion states for ai before releasing playtest, imo.

Kinda agree, especially since it seems to me like it could have been a simple toggle, have blood turned off by default and make the setting buried deep in the menu, really non-issue marketing wise imo, especialy since not all publishers are PG13 some would benefit form full one gore presentation of playtest.

[Rojo]

Y'all can wait a couple days, chill.