Sui Generis

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

Even when in combat? Maybe I'm just dumb and forget which way each button moves me in relation to the current angle. Maybe my brain is too slow for the game. I'll give it another shot soonish.

Het into the habit of tapping the spacebar whenever you start to feel "uncomfortable". It seems to vary for different people. e.g. if I'm to the left of the screen facing right, my brain siezes up and I can't counter properly. And if I'm on the top of the screen I'm insta-dead. I guess it's the issue with making a fixed camera game with context-direction-sensitive controls; don't feel bad if you never get used to it.

Also don't feel useless if the mace guy at the beginning kills you. He's one of the hardest characters in the game if you don't count the cheesy broken magic sword woman.

 

[Harkon Haakonson]

if you don't count the cheesy broken magic sword woman.

What? There are 2 women with swords from what I recall (1 in Begginer, 1 in Expert) and none are particularly noteworthy.

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

The red shield/sword woman in expert. Her sword has ludicrous impact damage and is so short that most 2h weapons can't block it effectively. I haven't come up with an effective way to beat her because her weapon can do a lot of damage regardless of how off-center her attacks are.

Also I may have said this a trillion times but I bloody hate the 1h weapon animations. They're so retarded, it's like a sword dragging a person along.

 

[Harkon Haakonson]

People actually struggle with Expert Arena?

Take 2 handed sword, all armor, keep upgrading armor before her fight and she can barely even hurt you, or even hit you if you keep distance as you should. Shielders are all beaten the same way, sidestep into non shield arm side, and swing from their flank towards them, they'll have difficulty blocking, or even easier, swing while crouching from left to right repeteadly.

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

The rest of expert is easy, it's just her. She's killed me more than anyone else, even the mace guy at the beginning who killed me a few dozen times when I was learning.

 

[DanAngleland]

People actually struggle with Expert Arena?

I don't- I haven't even gotten past the novice level yet! Got stuck on the last or penultimate fighter and gave up a few weeks ago.

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

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It's not that hard to beat them all with the default 2h sword and some basic clothes. At some point you'll "click" and your ability to fight will become a lot more fluid.

 

[dustbiter]

It's very far from the best. It has high coverage but damage leaks through it even if it blocks.

It's a small amount of temporary damage, I don't know if there's some sturdiness stat implemented? But smaller shields means more risk of taking hits in the hand or arm.

People actually struggle with Expert Arena?

I don't- I haven't even gotten past the novice level yet! Got stuck on the last or penultimate fighter and gave up a few weeks ago.

Assuming you are using the two-handed sword, just maintain your distance and slight reach advantage against sword-and-board woman. The last guy is easy, his weapon's pretty slow so you can step in and try a swing when it's safe, and back off pretty easily when he starts swinging.

 

[Adorno]

Just got Exanima. Is there a way to not start over once you die?
I found a shield, but how do you block?

 

[Nahkuri]

Your character blocks automatically when you're not attacking. Just face your opponent.

 

[dustbiter]

For the main game, you can turn early checkpoints on and continue from the checkpoints you reached when you die. The checkpoints are between levels. Say you got to level two and got killed, you can continue and start at the end of level one.

Blocking is automatic when you don't attack, but it's best not to count on it. Stepping out of reach tends to be safer and it's easier to strike back from there.

 

[Duh]

You can probably also find the savegames somewhere and just keep a backup copy of them in case you die.

Though i would say, at least at the beginning the perma death is not a bad part of the game experience. Keeps things very tense.

 

[Adorno]

Thanks. Apparently I haven't reached a checkpoint yet.

 

[Mr.Milker]

There's an update coming soon(tm) apparently, but they're taking their time with this one. Should have a lot of new game content and hopefully new combat mechanics.
(I'd love if they added stabbing, though I suspect they're still working on the AI for that)

 

[Nahkuri]

All I want is a button for right-to-left swings. The current system is just so clunky it makes me not want to play the game.

 

[Harkon Haakonson]

It's literally so intuitive to right-to-left swing, if you think about it it's like Warband. It becomes second nature with some practice.

 

[Adorno]

Is there a good tutorial somewhere on how the combat works?

 

[Llew2]

Is there a good tutorial somewhere on how the combat works?

Basically...Get drunk ->Win.

 

[Baron Conrad]

This game has the best combat of any melee game I have played. Surprisingly the AI is okay too. I can't get past the fifth expert opponent.

Unfortunately Exanima requires no combat to complete 

Really excited for Sui Generis though.

Also, for some great fun, take a two handed sword. Slash and crouch 1/2 - 2/3 through the swing for an easy ankle sweep 

 

[Jhnking]

Is there a good tutorial somewhere on how the combat works?

If you check the steam guides there's surprisingly a few good ones, but generally if you practice in Arena mode for a few hours you can figure it out.