Difficulty levels?

[Squerol]

Hey. I've heard there are difficulty levels in this game...
Sadly, I couldn't find any detailed info on googles, I've just found that there are 5 difficulty levels in total (way of the samurai/strong/wise/nioh etc.)

So the question is:
- what are difference between difficulties? is there:
* different enemy placement?
* different enemies AI?
* new enemies movesets?
* more aggressive enemies?
- how to access them?

And by the way, I want to ask about PvP here. I've started second region and "Battle" online option is still greyed out for me... When it will be unlocked? I hope not at finish of the game.

Thanks.

[Royta15]

Taken from: http://forum.stingermagazine.com/t92-nioh-general-discussion#1628

Way of the Samurai: the one you start at, you need to complete the main missions to progress.
Way of the Strong: harder enemies, acess to divine gear.
Way of the Demon: Red Enemies now appear in each stage, sometimes as a new enemy and other times to replace old ones. These have unique buffs, like "debuffs get the reverse effect", "lightning weapon", "remove buffs when they hit you" etc. These are also faster, have more ki and ki-recovery.
Way of the Wise: more of the above start appearing, DLC enemies also appear in the main game now.
Way of the Nioh: more of the above, the hardest enemies replace older ones. So you'll have a hard time.

You acces the next difficulty in line by beating Queen's Eyes on your current difficulty. Aggression isn't increased.

The Abyss does give bosses the ability to cancel animations mid-animation into another to punish greedy players.

EDIT: can't comment on the PvP as I was already a few playthroughs deep, but I believe you have to beat region 3.

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You pretty much answered yourself
"- what are difference between difficulties? is there:
* different enemy placement?
* different enemies AI?
* new enemies movesets?
* more aggressive enemies?
- how to access them?"
NG = "way of the samurai
NG+ = "way of the strong"
NG++ = "way of the demon"
NG+++ = "way of the wise"
NG++++ = "way of the Nioh"


from NG++ "way of the demon"
you will start seeing new enemies "as in, taken from DLC areas, new placements, new kind of demons "red colored demons"
and pretty much everything else you mentioned will increase from Demon and upwards.

[Squerol]

Thank You very much guys for quick and detailed informations. Thanks Royta15 for source too.

NG+ modes here sounds really nice, not just lazy increased enemies stats like in many games, can't wait to try those modes.

Just one last thing -

"The Abyss does give bosses the ability to cancel animations mid-animation into another to punish greedy players."

You mean just the bosses inside "that" Abyss - if I read right it's just a bonus dungeon, no? No ability to cancel animations for main-game mission bosses?
The cancel animation thing for them sounds really awesome.

[DCI_Benway]

Originally posted by Monika:

NG = "way of the samurai
NG+ = "way of the strong"
NG++ = "way of the demon"
NG+++ = "way of the wise"
NG++++ = "way of the Nioh"

I don't consider these 'diffiulty' levels any more than I do in Bloodborne NG+ games.

NG is ball-busting hard and it only gets harder from there. Not exactly what people are looking for in 'difficulty levels'. That would be Easy, Medium, Hard, Nightmare, but instead we get nightmare, more nightmare and even more nightmare.

[The High Seraph]

Originally posted by Squerol:

Thank You very much guys for quick and detailed informations. Thanks Royta15 for source too.

NG+ modes here sounds really nice, not just lazy increased enemies stats like in many games, can't wait to try those modes.

Just one last thing -

"The Abyss does give bosses the ability to cancel animations mid-animation into another to punish greedy players."

You mean just the bosses inside "that" Abyss - if I read right it's just a bonus dungeon, no? No ability to cancel animations for main-game mission bosses?
The cancel animation thing for them sounds really awesome.

Abyss is a huge dungeon with 999 floors . You can access after beating way of samurai but cannot pass beyond 30 until you defeat way of the nioh . Basically ... the NG ( way of samurai) is just tutorial . The remaining NG+s are like “entrance exams” . The true game and the essence of nioh exist in Abyss .

[Squerol]

Originally posted by The High Seraph:

The true game and the essence of nioh exist in Abyss .

Ye, copy-pasted buffed boss fights over and over for f@cking 999 times, very interesting lol
Add repetetive floors to it, You have 999 floors of pure boredom.

I've posted message that You've just answered over half year ago, already been there btw :)

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Originally posted by Artie-Choke:

Originally posted by Monika:

NG = "way of the samurai
NG+ = "way of the strong"
NG++ = "way of the demon"
NG+++ = "way of the wise"
NG++++ = "way of the Nioh"

I don't consider these 'diffiulty' levels any more than I do in Bloodborne NG+ games.

NG is ball-busting hard and it only gets harder from there. Not exactly what people are looking for in 'difficulty levels'. That would be Easy, Medium, Hard, Nightmare, but instead we get nightmare, more nightmare and even more nightmare.

Given the game's nature; it's pretty easy/fair(?) at the start. After your first run (NG) the game gets a little difficult, but from NG+ you yourself can be difficult :)
Any certain build with minimal stats can and will make it a breeze. Even if you have no build, but a general sense of logic in using your stats points + weapons + everything else it gets easy rather quickly.
Games like this usually depend on repeated encounters, you only want to be OP not just to one-shot everything, but also see your work impact the highest difficulty with some sort of challenge I guess :v