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Devil May Cry 5 Second Demo (PS4/X1): Up on Xbox/PSN now
- Thread starter R.T Straker
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The special button, when you use Dante's trickster style, behaves like its own independent dodge. If you use that contextually, it allows for teleporting. As Nero, when you equip the appropriate arm, that same button behaves like its own dodge. And as was mentioned, the jump itself has frames of invulnerability, working like a dodge.
DMC, for better or worse, has stuck to the same basic button layout that the original game had way back in 2001. Personally, I was hoping they'd overhaul the control scheme for 5, but... well, they didn't :P
Honestly, though, you can get used to it pretty quickly, and the new moves and tweaks they've added for 5 make you much more mobile than in previous games even without a universal one-button dodge. Once I got up to speed with the first demo I never felt like I needed a better dodge move.
From DarKaoZ stream he just confirmed that you can buy enemy step in this demo (15,000 orbs) as well as shuffle for red queen.
Double jump, the air red queen combo and exceed 2 have to be bought now.
Basically boils down to it's always been that way and also that the combat systems would suffer by giving over an entire button that could be used to switch out weapons or offer more of these directional dependent actions.
The thing is so much of DMC is done through lockon, direction on the stick and the face button. It's the gateway to everything in these games. So from that design decision it makes some sense that they don't just have a dodge button. When you get used to doing stingers and launchers then dodging is only slightly more complex than that.
Both Nero and Dante have arms/styles that make dodging easier, but you have to switch out different moveset to do it
Holy hell, someone call an ambulance. Vergil's having a seizure!
Yeah, otherwise I'd be pissed over that no PC thing. Doubt there will be one.
Another question, is this game designed to be pretty easy to pick up story wise for newcomers or is playing the rest pretty essential? I've watched the anime when I was a teenager and actually rather liked it, and the only other game I'd really be interested in playing is 4 which I heard is set way before 5.
Capcom's apparently made a catch-up video for newcomers to the series, which is either included in the game itself or is just going to be released online (I don't think we know yet).
DMC is really not a lore-heavy series; you'd get the broad strokes in like five minutes. If you can keep straight which white-haired guy with a sword is which, you're most of the way there :P
You can just go to the NZ website and download it there. It's downloading right now for me in Australia.
Good to know! Haha
Just switch regions. Took less than a minute to change region to NZ, find and install to console using the Xbox app.
It doesn't work like that on PS4.
Thinking about it, I have a US account somewhere. I just need to figure out the password.
I thought they added region changing to the PSN store last month though? I haven't tried it yet.
And some journalists already proofed, that this is not as easy as it sounds. :P
I think it was only that you can browse but you can't buy anything.
Oh wow; I had no idea. Exclusive demos seem like a new level of dumb - especially with a franchise like this which is trying to restore its reputation. Still, glad we all have the chance to play this demo.
Punchline is so awesome!
Only played for about 10 minutes or so, had to leave it for now but can't wait to dive back in, try it out more, it's so cool riding it, plus animations are amazing as expected. :D
So edgy... I love it.
Punchline is so awesome!
Only played for about 10 minutes or so, had to leave it for now but can't wait to dive back in, try it out more, it's so cool riding it, plus animations are amazing as expected. :D
Early impressions: this feels really different from DMC4.
Early annoyance: in classic DMC fashion, camera control feels like shit. Vertical movement is like completely disconnected from the horizontal one. Itsuno why do you do some of this weird shit.
Early annoyance: in classic DMC fashion, camera control feels like shit. Vertical movement is like completely disconnected from the horizontal one. Itsuno why do you do some of this weird shit.
AU links for PS4 and Xbox:
https://store.playstation.com/en-au/product/EP0102-CUSA13447_00-DMC5DEMO00000001
https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/p/devil-may-cry-5-demo/bq15hgtf5c1z
8.8GB on PS4
https://store.playstation.com/en-au/product/EP0102-CUSA13447_00-DMC5DEMO00000001
https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/p/devil-may-cry-5-demo/bq15hgtf5c1z
8.8GB on PS4
This series along with a few other notable Japanese studio games initiated that practice unlike modern day Sony exclusive copycats .
Nice surprise, didn't realize we were even getting a demo. Does the demo have difficulty settings? I'm definitely interested in really experiencing what DMC is all about, and I assume that means that I should play on a harder difficulty that really forces me to learn the combat system?
Yeah, I'm having a really great time here with the demo but the camera still is bad. I've gotten used to it, but that's sort of a bummer
Tho tbf it's mostly that one hotel room that causes the big issues. Most of the other time I still feel able to track whstst happening.
Anyway this demo has soothed lots of doubts I had about about 5. It's more floaty and heavy but when you adjust to its more momentum driven style it does start to click. However I'm a bit disappointed by Pro framerate. Interested to see what X players have to say cause I might double dip on this.
It's just a nitpick, I just find it unfortunate this part of the controls haven't been modernized further. DmC featured perfectly fine camera controls. It's better than DMC4 here, but still feels off.
I think the gameplay changes is something I'm going have to get used to with more time.
They do have a dedicated dodge button. It's the jump button. You have invincible frame on the start up of the jump.
Don't know why people don't just tell you that.
I highly recommend that you read through this thread OP to get an idea of what you can do in the demo :
https://www.resetera.com/threads/de...ad-update-demo-period-has-now-finished.85650/
This new demo has more stuff in it though which needs to be added in but it should cover the fundamentals that you need.
Seems like it, I noticed that during a stream of the last demo when the guy (I think it was Ben Moore) had problems dodging attack by jumping vs rolling.
I'm okay with this balance- Jumping is easier to do but less I-frames vs Rolling that is harder to do but more I-frames.
