Wow, Capcom is really pushing new ground with such landmark features as being able to start a new save with existing save data. I'm in awe of these trailblazers making history and completely changing the way we play games. Sounds like a really advanced feature though, I hope they don't strain themselves too hard implementing it.
I feel like all the MTX talk is just to deflect from how bad the game was optimized. This is 20 min video of a dude barely holding in his exasperated rage at how shitty everything is running.
It's because Steve is a tech reviewer, so any GN game review will be oriented around autistic performance benchmarks. The general complaints took around a minute of the video at the beginning with the rest of it being dedicated to looking into the actual game performance to give perspective on what hardware you should buy if you want to play the game reliably. Everyone else is just being reactionary for the sake of clicks.
This, since Gamers Nexus is a major media personality and they're focusing on the technical aspect of DD2 being optimized like shit while every other gaming channel just says "microtransactions bad" for the n-th time as if it was suddenly big news.
OK, gotcha, that's something I can agree with more or less. I'm just a bit wary since some replies in the DD thread made me question if I am posting on kiwifarms or on Reddit.
Brother, Kiwi Farms, 4chan and Reddit are all the same.
Spells like frigor with solid projectiles do a shitload of knockback, and thundermine provides consistent damage while casting another spell and it provides knockback too. Levin is more of a precision attack when you don't want to obliterate the local area and salamander is DPS. Each spell has an ideal use case, its not just "what's your favorite flavor of explosion" like DD1 was. I haven't gotten deep yet as I was playing a thief to begin with, but it definitely takes a little bit of knowing the spells. I have yet to reach high level spells since I'm dabbling in all vocations for augments
Sword and bow assassin fucks bosses once you unlock gouge, probably my favorite skill in the game for really fucking up a weak sspot. You will want the yellow augments for climbing though.
Climbing is still very wonky and I fucking hate golems.
I haven't seen the male one but they do comment on: if your party is all women (something to the effect of "Our party is a party of women by and large."), other people who have a party of all women, other people who use all ranged characters, other people who use all beastren, and I had one that commented that their arisen refused to wear any clothes.
Climbing still sucks but unlike the first one it doesn't feel necessary for 90% of the game. There's the golems and some post credit bosses that you need to hit specific points, and possibly the final dragon just because he's so big, but everything else you can just melee for decent damage until it falls over and then hit in the face for ridiculous damage. If you're playing the mystic spearhand (which I'm going to call dragoon because that's a stupid name) you can use the dash to get above large monsters and then use the stab attack to get on top of them really easily. When you're on top of them you can use the Y strong/finisher attack infinitely as well so it deletes bosses. I can kill ogres/cyclops/chimeras in probably sub 30 seconds with that.
I watched Mutahar's review, and he talked about optimisation as well.
The reason it's hard to talk about optimization is you have fucking retards going "well, it runs fine for me" while ignoring that what they consider "fine" is considered fucking trash by most standards.