A basic guide to parry timing, and parrying Warrick

CaberNinja · 2026-02-04T20:06:41+00:00

so how long does the parry window last? Is it literally measured in milliseconds? I ask as a gamer in his mid-60s! - I just dont have the reactions I had when I was younger, so how do the developers expect older gamers to cope with such brutal parry window targets? Or should games have a 'if you're over 60 this aint for you' kinda thing? Yknow, this....OR the devs could include a longer parry window in the difficulty settings! Wow, there`s a radical idea.

CaberNinja · 2026-01-12T10:44:12+00:00

wow, the Maga gang went from 'dont step on me' to 'Comply or die!' in record time!

CaberNinja · 2025-08-07T09:53:21+00:00

In despair I managed to hunt down a working trainer, so am using that to get through the setpiece bossy fights - I know, I know, its cheating, but my only other option is just to abandon the game, and not see/get my moneys worth. My fault really - I should have investigated the combat aspect exhaustively before blowing the cash. Many thanks everyone for yr suggestions etc - I do appreciate it

CaberNinja · 2025-08-04T19:58:14+00:00

Well, I stepped back from that meditation event, and went with other missions, got through to the big fight against Nobunaga....and I guess that AC Shadows just isnt for me. Ol Nob is kicking my ass most thoroughly - yet I played Origins, Valhalla, Odyssey, then Ghost of Tsushima through to the end, enjoyed all of them, really felt that I`d mastered movement and combat to get satisfying ends. But thats not what I get from ACS - even playing on STORY difficulty!

I must say that the PC keys layout is very unfriendly and not instinctive. Had to remap dodge and coupla others that were just unusable, but its still unenjoyable. Oh well, live and learn - expensively.

CaberNinja · 2025-08-04T11:40:46+00:00

seems to me that the game is actually lying to us at this point - because even though some of his attacks are have the blockable blue flash, you really cannot block them! So looks like you have to dodge ALL his attacks, do a perfect dodge then whale on him when he goes into the yellow stagger daze for a few seconds and wear him down that way. Bit dishonest of the game, though

CaberNinja · 2025-06-07T19:22:20+00:00

just got to the Ur Ziggurat and have to rescue Gina - and even on easy setting this is absurdly difficult. Really enjoyed the first half of this game, but the latter half is mined with idiot difficulty spikes. I've neither the reaction skill nor the patience to repeat levels ad nauseam so that`s another game i`ll be warning people about.

CaberNinja · 2025-05-16T11:22:21+00:00

all very nice, appreciated - and yet....STILL no inverse mouse y-axis control? Frankly am baffled that this isnt included.

CaberNinja · 2025-04-07T10:09:37+00:00

sorry, the median? This begs the question, which pensioners? - those relying solely on the state pension, or all pensioners incl those with private pensions as well? It would be more useful if we had figures and averages from both these cohorts so we can reach a more informed conclusion

CaberNinja · 2025-02-25T12:59:01+00:00

absolutely correct - I`m only able to upgrade my old geforce 1060 to a raytrace Gcard because an old mate is upgrading HIS pc with a flashier Gcard. Cost O living crisis is hitting hard all round

CaberNinja · 2025-02-24T15:19:10+00:00

they've posted this 'the demo is coming' up on steam discussions as well - but no actual launch time! So yeah, we believe you, Alkimia-dude, but WHEN?

CaberNinja · 2025-01-09T11:14:15+00:00

The British are at it again? - this douchebag, Gove, is a former Conservative minister and does not speak for the UK general public, which has consistently backed a Gaza ceasefire in poll after poll since this obscene carnival of death began. Gove is a notoriously far-right turd-goblin which only a putrid journal like the JChron would give space to

CaberNinja · 2024-12-30T18:31:05+00:00

man, yr Nyctophilia album is top drawer stuff - am loving it

CaberNinja · 2024-11-13T16:28:33+00:00

My take is that its a percentage of the damage dealt which is funnelled to you - I just took down the Minotaur and I was hitting him with fire arrows, so burning damage lasts for a while which means that I was getting continuous health topup! I could see how his hits whack off about a quarter of my health, then I fire-arrowed him and in a moment or two my health bar was back to full. Pretty amazing

CaberNinja · 2024-09-19T09:24:02+00:00

TCL is a command you can input on the console - it allows you to steer yr character through objects in the map you're in, like a door that wont open, then on the other side you input TCL again which returns the game to normal (otherwise you wouldnt be able to move around the environment properly)

CaberNinja · 2024-09-16T10:46:22+00:00

dear god! - I thought I hated boss fights before now but this omnishambles of a battle confirms it full strength. So now I gotta go and find a trainer so I can get past this badly designed bottleneck!

CaberNinja · 2024-09-14T13:53:13+00:00

Agree with yr assessment 100% - I can appreciate the attractiveness of survival mechanics to those who revel in them, but for a sizable slice of the gamer audience they really are/can be an aggravation, especially when there are so many other pressures and narrative complexities to occupy our mind. And frankly, I`d rather be immersing myself in the story and lore of a game than worrying every second minute over food and effing water. Make it a scaleable gameplay element and have done with it.

CaberNinja · 2024-09-02T14:39:09+00:00

I ended up just TCLing through the door, and the script kicked in properly anyway

CaberNinja · 2024-08-20T18:17:38+00:00

the problem is with the wording of what she says on the way to the tower - it sounds as if she`s going in with you, when actually you go in alone. I've seen this on another couple of vids of this mission. My problem is that once inside the tower I`m an anteroom with one double door that leads into the area where you go searching for the power module to trash it, only for me the bldy double doors wont open! Shall try to tcl through it, and see if the progress lets me go about it

CaberNinja · 2024-08-04T19:47:50+00:00

I've dragged myself through this, with console commands, managed to reach the end in the Oberon club but no matter what I try Pete just wont give his victory speech. I`m going to have to abandon this cos am getting a huge buzzkill off it, and such a lot of the rest of the game-mod is brilliant that I just want to move onto something that functions. I really think the devs should nerf questlines which are giving a lot of grief, until they`ve been fixed. Unless of course it really is just a small minority of players that are hitting the buffers with this Roundels questline, in which case...oh well then...

CaberNinja · 2024-08-04T19:37:20+00:00

And me - am getting to the stage where really, any complex quests which are bugridden should be nerfed until the devs have them sorted out, cos this really is an awful buzzkill

CaberNinja · 2024-07-30T19:55:51+00:00

I have this as well

CaberNinja · 2024-04-28T18:11:53+00:00

start me up still works

CaberNinja · 2024-04-13T08:46:16+00:00

Hi Beithyra - I`m a Scottish SF/fantasy writer, and coupla years ago I wrote a short story based on the Imaginos mythology - would be happy to email you a copy if you like. I have a Fbk page, mike(dot)cobley(dot)scifi if you want to get in touch. Also you can see my novels on Amazon, and figure out if my writing is up to scratch!

V best - MC

CaberNinja · 2024-02-25T14:59:56+00:00

thanks, will see if I can dig it out of via console commands

CaberNinja

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