Nioh 2 Closed Alpha - May 24 (or 22?)-June 2 (gameplay trailer inside)

[Deleted member 37303]

Try Movie mode, I'm just glad it's got HDR, And to be fair the lighting is way better and the shines off the armor/Weapons.

Click to shrink...

Eh, I'm sucker for 60FPS. I will say it does look better in Movie Mode but I was just shocked with how rough it seemed in Action Mode.

?? this looks notably better than the original in terms of color palette and environmental detail...lighting especially is improved

Click to shrink...

I'm talking about character models and equipment. So many jaggies. And it just has this kind of blurry look to it. I feel like there's vaseline on my screen. Like I'm watching a 90's Barbara Walters special or something. Some areas seem to make it standout more than others. The UI looks nice and crisp at least. Again, this is just in action mode in 4K. Movie mode looks pretty good. I'm sure it will be better by release though.

 

[ClarkusDarkus]

The create a character models are actually really well done, Far better than Dark Souls types of offerings. Each to there own and all that though, I was impressed visually by most of it.

My only gripe is whether i am happy with the change to the living weapon ability.

 

[Morrigan]

If Nioh 1 didn't click for me, any chance this might do it?

Click to shrink...

lol no, sorry.

 

[FeArTriX]

Quick question is sloth talisman still a thing ?

I really hope they remove the thing completely.

 

[Deleted member 437]

Did they remove the ability to pause the game?

 

[Dlent]

Did they remove the ability to pause the game?

Click to shrink...

touchpad and then options.

 

[Res]

The create a character models are actually really well done, Far better than Dark Souls types of offerings. Each to there own and all that though, I was impressed visually by most of it.

My only gripe is whether i am happy with the change to the living weapon ability.

Click to shrink...

I'm playing in action mode, but I think the environments look a bit rough, especially in areas in the distance. Character models look very good, however. So pretty much in line with the first game

 

[Rendering...]

The character models are good and also hawt, but I resent not being able to make a custom dude in the character creator.

Those facial presets are really good though, from what I can tell.

 

[Van Bur3n]

Holy fuck is action mode hideous. I'll typically take FPS over resolution but I can't do this pixelated shit. Oh well, 30 FPS it is.

This shit is basically the same ass Nioh, but with these cool ass hatchets. Good enough sequel to me.

 

[salary0n]

Really digging the enemy variety here. The new yokai enemies are pretty cool, even the ones that got reused got some visual updates. Also the gallery is a gangster feature that I wish more games had. You don't get a good look at bosses when you're trying not to die, so it's nice to be able to get up close and personal with them in the gallery.

I will say, the second boss was a huge pain in the ass.

Spoiler

The hitbox on the head when it's sliding around is a few pixels too big and I got caught by it randomly sometimes, chunking my health down.

Click to shrink...

Do the gallery unlocked here? I can't seem to find it.

Spoiler: Spoiler

At first I find it hard to target his head until I found out that you can easily stagger him by hitting his hands. Sloth talisman help too since he really like to moving around.

Tomorrow I'll try the twilight mission, so far I'm pretty satisfied with what I got.

 

[Elyian]

They brought back those FUGGIN four sword wielding samurais from the DLC. They yield some great gear, but god damn are they as hard as ever. Can't get over how much fun these hatchets are though, those hatchet throws are amazing.

 

[Rendering...]

Idk that's just like saying add easy mode to sekiro imo I know dark souls already have those features ,but I feel like sekiro did it the best by not having any assist or easier mode in a game designed to be hard.

Click to shrink...

Team Ninja's Ninja Gaiden was designed to be hard too, and it wasn't any less of a game for having the cheekily-titled Ninja Dog mode.

Nobody has any confusion over the fact that the game will bust your nuts if you're not prepared.

 

[Van Bur3n]

I gave purple baby a dung ball and he tried to kill me the little shit. There have been people who would kill for these dung balls and this fuck spat in my face. No honor.

Also, where the guck is the kusarigama and dual swords.

 

[salary0n]

Quick question is sloth talisman still a thing ?

I really hope they remove the thing completely.

Click to shrink...

Yeah it's still a thing, it help me fight some annoying boss. It's a bit of a chore though to unlock it, since they no longer give you ninjutsu/onmyo point after leveling up Dex/Magic. So you gotta rely on the item that give you the points. Just use them to unlock kunai or talisman, and spam them to get more ninjutsu/onmyo point.

 

[SweetJohnnyCage]

Do the gallery unlocked here? I can't seem to find it.

Spoiler: Spoiler

At first I find it hard to target his head until I found out that you can easily stagger him by hitting his hands. Sloth talisman help too since he really like to moving around.

Tomorrow I'll try the twilight mission, so far I'm pretty satisfied with what I got.

Click to shrink...

Thanks for the tip. I haven't unlocked sloth, figured it was actually removed from the game given how broken it was in Nioh 1.

The gallery isn't called gallery, I don't think. But it's in the Starting Point area on the map.

 

[Jawmuncher]

All ya gotta do is kill the red revenants? Those things are everywhere.

Click to shrink...

Didn't even know that. Guess the only other suggestion would be better AI on boss fighter summons just blitz in a die every time I use em

 

[salary0n]

Thanks for the tip. I haven't unlocked sloth, figured it was actually removed from the game given how broken it was in Nioh 1.

The gallery isn't called gallery, I don't think. But it's in the Starting Point area on the map.

Click to shrink...

Yeah, sloth and weakness talisman is still existed, and they're still pretty op.

Thanks, I'm gonna check them tomorrow, I really wanna see the monsters up close, since I love their design.

 

[SweetJohnnyCage]

Yeah, sloth and weakness talisman is still existed, and they're still pretty op.

Thanks, I'm gonna check them tomorrow, I really wanna see the monsters up close, since I love their design.

Click to shrink...

Are they deep in the onmyo sphere grid?

 

[Rendering...]

Can someone recommend a basic build for someone whose entire Nioh experience consists of playing the tutorial and trying to pick the best handsome daddy to cut people with?

 

[salary0n]

Are they deep in the onmyo sphere grid?

Click to shrink...

Not really deep, you need 5 points if I'm not mistaken.

 

[dreamfall]

Beat the first mission and it was so good! A welcome return home after a slight Sekiro detour. Mastering new weapon abilities with those double axes is fun as hell. The first boss attack patterns were pretty funny - double kicking into pillars to drop water and come to a complete stop, and those fire tornado effects were awesome. Just felt properly epic! I feel like I need to relearn High stance switching, I kept forcing myself to rely on it a bit more in the first game.

 

[AmethystEnd]

I haven't read the full thread so maybe these changes are already known, and I already posted these in a couple discord servers so I may as well post it here. I just tried premade co-op for the first time in the demo. Here are the changes from Nioh 1.

1. In Nioh 1, if the co-op gauge drained all the way, you failed the mission and had to restart. Here, it's the same UNLESS your party is at a boss. At a boss, even if people die so much the co-op gauge empties and you can't revive your party any more, as long as one person stays alive and manages to beat the boss, your party succeeds.

2. In Nioh 1, in premade co-op you couldn't use shrines. You could interact with them and get temporary buffs but you couldn't use the shrine menus. You can in Nioh 2. Everyone in the party can level mid mission, do offerings, switch spirits, etc etc.

3, Three player premade co-op is fucking hilariously fun. Nioh 1 only had 2 player premade.

NOTE: Premade co-op refers to co-op through "Expeditions" from the Torii Gate on the world map, not summoning a visitor mid-mission through an Ochoko cup.

 

[SlasherMcGirk]

3, Three player premade co-op is fucking hilariously fun. Nioh 1 only had 2 player premade.

Click to shrink...

Dear God...There's gonna be a 5-6 same time post game bosses stages for co op aren't there.

 

[Hentailover]

As somebody who hasn't played DLC, Odachi is also a new weapon for me, and dang, upper stance shreds fools.

 

[Deleted member 2834]

Does this run at 720p? It looks so washed out.

 

[Shan]

I haven't read the full thread so maybe these changes are already known, and I already posted these in a couple discord servers so I may as well post it here. I just tried premade co-op for the first time in the demo. Here are the changes from Nioh 1.

1. In Nioh 1, if the co-op gauge drained all the way, you failed the mission and had to restart. Here, it's the same UNLESS your party is at a boss. At a boss, even if people die so much the co-op gauge empties and you can't revive your party any more, as long as one person stays alive and manages to beat the boss, your party succeeds.

2. In Nioh 1, in premade co-op you couldn't use shrines. You could interact with them and get temporary buffs but you couldn't use the shrine menus. You can in Nioh 2. Everyone in the party can level mid mission, do offerings, switch spirits, etc etc.

3, Three player premade co-op is fucking hilariously fun. Nioh 1 only had 2 player premade.

NOTE: Premade co-op refers to co-op through "Expeditions" from the Torii Gate on the world map, not summoning a visitor mid-mission through an Ochoko cup.

Click to shrink...

Those are some really solid changes, I didn't expect 3 players co-op too!

 

[Res]

Dear God...There's gonna be a 5-6 same time post game bosses stages for co op aren't there.

Click to shrink...

Okay, I didn't know I wanted this til now. Things would be chaotic, that's for sure

 

[GooZ]

How do I join other people's world ? It only let's me invite others to mine

 

[Van Bur3n]

Does this run at 720p? It looks so washed out.

Click to shrink...

Action mode does. It's fucking hideous. Even worse than the first game. Hopefully it's just an alpha thing or something. I don't know.

 

[Deleted member 2834]

Action mode does. It's fucking hideous. Even worse than the first game. Hopefully it's just an alpha thing or something. I don't know.

Click to shrink...

Yeah it looks worse than the first game. The gameplay is absolute killer though. Nioh got the most fun gameplay in single player games honestly.

 

[Zenkuso]

Wish I got a key /cry

Re-installing Nioh 1 on PC because it's eating my soul.

Love a lot of the changes though, keep what matters the same and fix things that didn't quite work.

 

[Shan]

Wish I got a key /cry

Re-installing Nioh 1 on PC because it's eating my soul.

Love a lot of the changes though, keep what matters the same and fix things that didn't quite work.

Click to shrink...

Thinking of doing that...after all even if I finished Nioh and DLC1..i've never played DLC2 and DLC3.

 

[jasius]

This Alpha is devilishly awful, I want this game now, and now I'll have to wait until I don't know when.

 

[Deleted member 437]

touchpad and then options.

Click to shrink...

Thanks

 

[Badgerst]

Wait no kusigrama (sp) weapon???? Boooo. That was my get down weapon of choice. Maybe in final build??? Maybe survey whining will bring em back...

 

[Deleted member 227]

Wait no kusigrama (sp) weapon???? Boooo. That was my get down weapon of choice. Maybe in final build??? Maybe survey whining will bring em back...

Click to shrink...

It's definitely only disabled for the alpha. There's only four weapon types for now.

 

[SmokedSalmon]

Just beat the twilight mission and had tons of fun. I primarily focused on skill and courage for stats.

As somebody who hasn't played DLC, Odachi is also a new weapon for me, and dang, upper stance shreds fools.

Click to shrink...

Yeah, it became on of my favorites in the last game. Low stance was relatively quick and with good range. Spent a lot of time with the hatchets in the demo though.

 

[Rai_11]

I was in the original's alpha and beta, and I have the complete edition of the original. Could t get beyond a certain boss (though how hard I tried), but glad to be invited to the sequel's beta. Currently playing Sekiro and loving it, hope they take some inspiration from it.

 

[Caim]

There is hidden items on the world map now too.

If your cursor suddenly turns purple while you're moving it you passed over an item.

 

[Adryuu]

So there's odachi, hatchets and what else? Katana and spear?

Never played the dlc shop getting to try out odachi and hatchets would be cool. If only I had been invited. Has someone used another person's code successfully? Or it's locked to account?

Twilight mission too. I want this alpha. I played every Nioh alpha/beta damn, KT!

 

[Van Bur3n]

So there's odachi, hatchets and what else? Katana and spear?

Never played the dlc shop getting to try out odachi and hatchets would be cool. If only I had been invited. Has someone used another person's code successfully? Or it's locked to account?

Twilight mission too. I want this alpha. I played every Nioh alpha/beta damn, KT!

Click to shrink...

Hatchet is a new addition with this game. It's pretty rad. Lot of ranged shit with the throwing.

 

[Hentailover]

Never played the dlc shop getting to try out odachi and hatchets would be cool. If only I had been invited. Has someone used another person's code successfully? Or it's locked to account?

Click to shrink...

Mutliple people did, works just fine.

 

[Adryuu]

Hatchet is a new addition with this game. It's pretty rad. Lot of ranged shit with the throwing.

Click to shrink...

Yeah I know. My question was what are the four weapon types active in this alpha. Also, so far the only really new one is hatchet, right?

 

[Adryuu]

Mutliple people did, works just fine.

Click to shrink...

Damn. Is it ok to beg for codes? If there's even unused ones still, lol.

 

[SmokedSalmon]

Damn. Is it ok to beg for codes? If there's even unused ones still, lol.

Click to shrink...

You missed last night when we were all begging for codes.

The weapons are katana, odachi, hatchets and spears. No new ones besides the hatchets.

 

[Van Bur3n]

Yeah I know. My question was what are the four weapon types active in this alpha. Also, so far the only really new one is hatchet, right?

Click to shrink...

Sword, spear, hatchet, odachi.

 

[Shan]

Thank you to a very kind soul who just gave me a code for Nioh 2. I'll be sure to play it ASAP.

 

[Sanox]

Guess I am not getting that email. Might as well watch someone play the Alpha now. Wanted to wait to play it blind in case I still got lucky but I guess that is not happening.

 

[Jawmuncher]

Almost had the 2nd Boss beat, got them to about half-way and that was without my Guardian spirit. Should be able to beat them tomorrow and then i'll call it a day (I don't mess with the twilight mission stuff).

 

[Jingo]

wl3atching all these comments and feedback really hurts to those who didnt get a code, its like we are were but we aint part of it, so weird..