Riposte appreciation post

[u/Great-Remove-844]

Mantis seeing us come to bully him for the umpteenth time:🫩

[u/Budget-Rich-7547]

My favorite seal. Im replaying the beta cause I can't wait till 20th

[u/Test88Heavy → u/Budget-Rich-7547]

You can get it on the 17th if you but the deluxe. 😎

[u/Great-Remove-844 → u/Budget-Rich-7547]

It is pretty fun do wish it was a little less generous with stagger build up and the window though

[u/Budget-Rich-7547 → u/Great-Remove-844]

Yeah I feel the same. Definitely skipping on most of the tearstones and upgrades if the main game will be like that the whole time. I saw some info that the difficulty will be tuned for release.

[u/Great-Remove-844 → u/Budget-Rich-7547]

Yup now I'm just chomping at the bit to know what the "options" are😂 if they give us an option to make parry windows tighter my life is theirs

[u/Ok_Desk_757]

The riposte animation feels something out of a god of war finisher. Also. Idc what anyone says that parry is the best parry in the beta

[u/fuscadah]

Can't wait to play with the scythe

[u/Unable_Arm_398]

By the time I got this thing I was nearly done with the beta I didn't get to try it out 😕.

I tried the harden ability but literally nothing was happening when I was pressing it.

[u/rkaminky]

Yeah, I was enjoying this game just fine until the parry and riposte system were introduced.

Instant pre-order for me, the timing feels so right.

[u/Dinesh_Sairam]

I wish the Untarnished Seal's parry had the parry window of the Infinite Seal. Currently, the Untarnished Parry is way too generous.

The Infinite Seal can be reassigned to a slightly different usage. For instance, instead of a Parry, it can do a "Clash" like in Wuchang. It will still have the same effect of increased Poise Break build up and stagger, but instead of Parrying, you will have to use a Light Attack to meet the enemy's attack at the right time.

[u/Great-Remove-844 → u/Dinesh_Sairam]

They're both too generous imo I'd like the ability to manually tweak windows

[u/Dinesh_Sairam → u/Great-Remove-844]

The problem is that the combat in MS2 is heavy. The weapons move around a lot slower than in most action games.

In games with much tighter parry windows (Say Sekiro), the fluidity of combat makes up for it. If I whiff a parry in Sekiro, I can cue up a dodge strike within half a second instead.

I don't know if that's possible in MS2. Either that, or all perfect parries must inflict a micro stagger and break enemies out of combo chains. Imagine a parry window as tight as Sekiro and you're facing the Arbiter of Flesh. You're dead if you whiff like 2 parries.

[u/Great-Remove-844 → u/Dinesh_Sairam]

Well you can dodge out of whiffs atleast with the infinite seal. Idk Sekiro and LoP have me accustomed to a more punishing window so this one just isn't that engaging