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What's your big "Oh, THAT'S how I do that" moment? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I remembered a good brainfart of mine and wondered if anyone else had one to share.

Mine is this: I couldn't figure out how to parry attacks in MGR: Revengence all the way up to Monsoon. I just jumped around a lot and played ultra aggressively and it worked! ...Kind of! I just had to make sure I NEVER used heavy attacks. Blade Wolf was a nightmare but I was able to muscle through, but Monsoon? No way in hell.

I still blame the combat tutorial though. "To parry, push the control stick toward the enemy and press the light attack button!" I interpreted that as "just make sure you're facing the enemy and time the button press right." when they meant "Push the stick in the direction of the enemy and press attack AT THE SAME TIME."

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Martials are "balanced" its just that they're balanced around like 8 encounters a day with multiple short rests so that casters actually have to conserve their slots. Which is of course a stupid goddamn way to balance the game because no ones going to play it that way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

From personal experience, by the time casters have depleted all their spell slots, martials are low on health as well, making the balance finicky at best even if you're having multiple encounters per long rest. The game is balanced in a way that makes it impossible for martials to shine: you either play with few combat encounters, thus allowing the casters to shotgun their infinite spell slots at the enemy, or play with multiple combat encounters per long rest, which has martials on death's door because their HP drop faster than the casters' slots.

It's also difficult, from a narrative perspective, to fit so many combat encounters in a single day, to the point that I honestly don't think it's possible unless you subscribe to some form of gritty realism ruleset (7-day long rests, long rests in safe zones, long rests at the end of a narrative arc, etc...).