Libra Of Souls

[Eguzky]

If it wants you to lose, you lose.

I've been trying to get to a far south area for 6 attempts now:

Every 3 dots, I get attacked. ANywhere between 4-7 'A warrior stands in your way!' on every attempt. And since you don't heal between each of these..

Every attacker button-reads with a 95% accuracy. (The second I drop guard, I'm hit. The moment I attack, I'm blocked or parried)

No less than 4 times, their special attack has outright ignored my blocking for no reason because I HAD TO DIE. I mean, blocking for 3-5 seconds beforehand, they start charging, I keep block held..nope! The game forced me to drop it so they could kill me.

Every time, the enemy was immune to ring-out even though the match rules DID NOT SAY 'immune to ring-out'. Yes, I grabbed a person with Raphael's normal grab, the enemy's back to the edge of the arena, and they would slide along an invisible wall.

This is frustrating. Attempt #7 to get to 'The Far Southern Tribe' mission. Maybe THIS time, Libra of Soul will stop throwing 50 enemies on me to suck my health away before I get there.

[HighLanderPony]

Just don't play this garbage of a mode, I doubt you'll be missing out on much.

[Eguzky]

What the raging ♥♥♥♥.

I am fighting an AI; I broke his guard (It went into slow-mo, he flailed backwards, etc).
...He blocked my next attack.

The ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hell is the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ point of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ guard break if it lasts 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000005ths of a second!?

[Eguzky]

And now the game cheats by disabling my special attack!?

I broke the AI's guard, hit to do my special (I had a bar and a half) and nothing happened. I hit it again..nothing.

The game just decided 'Oh ♥♥♥♥! You would WIN if that worked so..no. ♥♥♥♥ you'
And then his special went through my guard.

♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥!

[HighLanderPony]

Ever heard of fight or flight? I suggest the latter.

[Eguzky]

Annd that's SIX times the game cheated me out of a win by refusing my R2 input (Soul Crush) after a Guard Break.

Because Hard = Cheating peice of lazily-coded ♥♥♥♥.

[Artuurs|Sick]

just keep attacking i guess, and dodging instead of blocking

[Homyak]

You've got food to restore health at ALL rounds and merceneries to ease your struggling.

[Eguzky]

Originally posted by Homyak:

You've got food to restore health at ALL rounds and merceneries to ease your struggling.

Which means ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ against this one character. He literally reads all inputs and disabled Soul Crush if said SC would kill it.

Not ignores or blocks, no. Soul Crush refuses to activate, even with 2 bars, if its use would kill the ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Edit: And Mercenaries mean NOTHING. If the game wants you to lose, your AI controlled Merc will barely attack more than once a minute and get face-pounded so they ensure doing maybe 1 hit to the enemy before you step in.

[AnonTwo]

Soul Calibur mission modes have always been like this, with heavily varying AI's.

It lacks consistency but it's not neccesarily a bad mode. I'd say the good fights outweight the bad.

The whole explore mechcanic can be frustrating indeed though, just because of how little opportunity you have to react to a skilled AI and adjust after fighting so many easy fights.

Mission mode has a habit of lulling you into a pattern and then crushing you.

[ƬᗩԲԲվ]

Libra of souls has a massive amount of cheap ♥♥♥♥ in it. You'll just have to outlevel everything, slot your weapons, or use mercs and food to even stand a chance. And even with all that you'll run into complete BS matches. Such as (Your opponent has infinite soul gauge and absorbs health.) Ive raged so hard at this mode.

Edit: And yes mercs are practically useless most of the time. Then other times Ive had one beat an opponent twice its level. Seems completely random.

[Enmu]

Tried to come back to this mode after a year thinking ''weeell maybe I judged it to quickly''

WTF this mode is broken
I tried travelling a long distance and died cause I forgot your hp stays where it was in the last fight and that's all on me (could have used food).. But then I retried the same route and at some point I thought oh I'm gonna use a mercenary (lvl 55) for a fight to keep my main at full health (I thought) but the mercenary fights like a half dead snail and was left with a hair of hp... at least he won I said BUT in the next fight, (lvl 16 bandit pretty easy usually) I told myself ''ok no use for the merc''.. But again I was left with the previous mercs hp ON MY MAIN CHARACTER which makes no sense.. so got killed with one strike not understanding at first what happened....
If I had known I would've used food but they don't tell you anywhere whats your hp before a fight.. So how the F could I have known
why would hp from another npc transfer on your character?? why use mercs then!!??

I saved it on video to go back and look at what happened...

I like all the other modes of this game... but THIS is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
and I've played weapon master in the older games and really enjoyed it even if at the time I couldn't create a character which for me is a + nowadays

[CZI]

I'm playing this mode for very long time on Xbox, but still not finished.
(make all style to master level and fight against the style ancient)

I'd suggest play this mode when online match will be completely dead after SC7 or SC8 release.

Sealing astral chaos mission is fun to see random pick from online shared character.

[Duke]

maybe you need to improve at the game
it doesn't "cheat", you just lost

[erikoshandi7]

and here i am for wishing AI in soulcalibur 6 could more difficult tho, cause actually they are very stupid. and it makes libra of soul very boring too

[CZI]

Originally posted by erikoshandi7:

and here i am for wishing AI in soulcalibur 6 could more difficult tho, cause actually they are very stupid. and it makes libra of soul very boring too

Following mod may work for you. (I've never tried though)
Libra of Soul mode at higher difficulty
https://www.nexusmods.com/soulcaliburvi/mods/24

I've finished always 100% soul charged Lv 85 Inferno. It was pretty tough. Last most difficult mission will be Lv 99 one.