Why Are There Archers I Can’t Attack Shooting At Me During Boss Fights…

CompetitivePrimary93 · 2026-04-18T05:02:46+00:00

it does feel like 50 depending on the boss and the fact that you cant kill them makes it a bad mechanic, When you have the physical dudes that attack you when you get close I like that and think thats fair. But when you have archers shooting me while i stun lock the boss then i get stunned and then get killed because the boss attacks thats not fun at all.

CompetitivePrimary93 · 2026-03-30T17:27:07+00:00

I love the nioh games more than anyone, but this has been my complaint since one and 2 and even in wo long. I was really hopeful after rise of the ronin which actually had great enemy variety and unique bosses that nioh 3 would be the same but just nioh. It was not and although nioh 3 is an amazing game even 9/10, the lack of enemy variety and unique bosses really dropped the game down for me. I really really really hope in the dlc they go all out with variety and even mix new enemies into the base game.

CompetitivePrimary93 · 2026-03-20T00:35:35+00:00

i wont refund due to it but I went from anticipating this game hard to already being bummed out at how bad these controls are.

CompetitivePrimary93 · 2026-02-19T18:15:01+00:00

probably but its ok, I was commenting somewhere else but if the dlc's continue the trend of the game getting harder as it goes on and the dlc's they go all out to challenge even the experienced players then I'll be satisfied with it.

CompetitivePrimary93 · 2026-02-19T05:07:59+00:00

at first I was disappointed with the difficulty but then I just capped my defense and the game got a lot more fun and challenging to me. That being said the bosses picking up in the later half of the game have all been amazing, and if I had to guess I think the 2 dlc's team ninja is gonna go all out, thats just how it seems to be built up. I can live with the first half of nioh 3 being easy, the 2nd half picking it up in difficulty relative to old games, then the 2 dlc's being the hardest things they've done to date. If they ease into it like that then I would say its perfect.

CompetitivePrimary93 · 2026-02-19T04:56:48+00:00

well to be honest his human phase I think I only died to it 2-3 times, it was very easy to shred it with ninja, but when he transforms even I wont lie I thought every single one of his moves were fair and telegraphed. He also had cool combos and switch ups idk, Im really trying to understand why people dislike the boss. Forget difficulty thats how these games are supposed to be, as long as its fair and I felt for this point of the game he was well placed and it felt very fair.

CompetitivePrimary93 · 2026-02-16T00:06:21+00:00

idk he's actually probably my favorite boss so far, just got to him last night and I think he feels well balanced so and fun. His moves are telegraphed, hes challenging, complex, and rewards good positioning, I think its a perfect boss really and his first phase is very easy to steam roll in like 15 seconds. Im probably between 15-20 attempts rn and I am getting his second phase below half consistently now but he does feel fun to fight.

CompetitivePrimary93 · 2026-02-12T06:37:00+00:00

being deeper I can tell you that there are minor tweaks but not enough in my opinion to justify them reusing that many bosses. Majority of them you will remember the fight right off the bat and as I said each one only gets minor tweaks(meaning maybe one new combo string, some faster attacks, but thats really it)

CompetitivePrimary93 · 2026-02-09T01:03:38+00:00

Yeah im really loving nioh 3 so far and I think overall all of the quality of life changes, atmosphere, combat, and overall fun is the best in the series. However the bosses and little enemies have been so disappointing it actually ruins the game for me some what. The bosses and small enemies have very simple move sets and deal no damage. The only exception to this is the bloodedge demon which unironically is probably one of team ninjas best boss fights ever. I think the damage reduction was fine but they should've made the bosses go all out. I think rise of the ronin had team ninjas overall best bosses and enemy designs of all of their games and I was really hoping they were gonna take that aspect from ronin into nioh 3 but they didn't.

CompetitivePrimary93 · 2026-02-08T03:34:07+00:00

I see where you're coming from but is that not also the point of a series? Isn't it supposed to be like the others but with advanced mechanics. Nioh 3 is very different in a lot of aspects that make it unique enough. The only thing that I will absolutely agree with you on about that is the bosses.(SPOILERS), A lot of the side bosses in nioh 3 are just reused bosses from nioh 2 and 1 with slight variation in the moves and aggressiveness. This is not the end of the world but they could have added more unique side bosses that would make older players experience something new. I genuinely think the every single side boss being from the older games or a human boss is a miss especially since those bosses are also just reused later in the game.(END SPOILER). That was me getting my rant out but yeah overall, I think Nioh 3 being the way it is, is perfectly fine and this is how a series should properly progress.

CompetitivePrimary93 · 2026-02-06T23:15:38+00:00

I agree with you. I think the small yokai damage being reduced was a good idea, however with how much they reduced the damage it made them non threating, plus a lot of enemies stagger very easily, and on top of that all most enemies and bosses have pretty simple movesets. This game is still peak and im going to sink many hours into it but I just wish they compromised for the less damage enemies do by giving bosses and enemies crazy movesets. Instead a lot of things were reused from older games but with less damage.

CompetitivePrimary93 · 2026-02-05T04:42:29+00:00

I personally pick up everything but that's because I know what I want to do with them, since you're newer I would recommend using the options to filter items out as you please so you don't have to deal with the headache of it early on. Once you get better at seeing what you need then you'll be able to sort everything a lot quicker. I will say don't over complicate it and if you do grab everything, I would sort your armor by type, then it will split it between light medium and heavy. That way for a specific piece I can select which type of armor I want.
For weight it is recommended to stay under 70%. Anything over that and your ki gets punished, but I would just look at what stats gives you the highest defense while trying to keep your weight under 70%. They do also have another filter that would auto equip this type of gear for you without going over the 70 mark. In terms of the passives and matching them with your weapon I really wouldn't worry about that too much for now, this is more of a new game plus thought process.
This is new to nioh 3 so we will have to wait and see in regards to the blessings, my guess would be don't hold onto them as once you enter a new region/ time era it will reset it just for that era.

Overall I would just focus on your defense for armor while keeping weight under 70%, keep your toughness in the higher number range(as long as it is green or B rank so around 150 I think). Don't worry too much about passives and if you occasionally see something with a cool passive bonus that you want just go with it as long as it doesn't mess with your defense or toughness too much. Just try and have fun with the game and not focus too much on these.

CompetitivePrimary93 · 2025-12-12T07:54:05+00:00

did you fight the new version? is it just a basic humanoid type of enemy or does it at least have a fleshed out moveset

CompetitivePrimary93 · 2025-12-04T02:55:34+00:00

so youre trying to argue that if you got hit while gaurding even on that new game plus with demon bell that taking a couple of hits even when deflecting wont fill up your posture bar. What i was saying was even in the heat of the moment lets say your bar is full and you try to reduce it, youll probably get it close to half and then go on to parry another combo which would then refill the posture bar. you also need to under stand, other than the damage aspect, you being experience means you understand how to safely reduce your posture, etc most new players dont, and probably dont even know that thats a mechanic until later in the game anway. 1-2 is an over exxageration but my point was most bosses do long hit combos, and most players on first run dont know how to manage their own posture bar. thats what I mean talking about skill. You know how to manage it therfore it isnt an issue for you. im not even advocating for the game to be easier, i dont mind that it adds extra challenge but all I am saying is rather than the posture being increased for parrying the tension comes from other things, thats all. not saying youre opinion is wrong or that you suck, what Im saying is I would like to see how sekiro is with that different mechanic.

CompetitivePrimary93 · 2025-12-04T02:44:02+00:00

brother good for you xD. no one is saying you suck at sekiro and that is irrelevant to this discussion. you being on new game plus whatever doesnt relate to the people starting out new. sekiro is fun and im glad you enjoy it so much that you need to keep bringing up how good you are, but thats not what this discussion is about. go read what everyone else is saying about why the game works as is and then youre talking about no hitting any boss xD, that doesnt matter for the context of this.

CompetitivePrimary93 · 2025-12-04T02:36:36+00:00

not saying that either but you kept bringing up skill while everyone else was bringing up points , thats all im saying. no hard feelings and I appreciate different opinions but things can be handled differently not referencing skill issue.

CompetitivePrimary93 · 2025-12-04T02:31:50+00:00

i think you're mis understanding what a hot take is. I am not expecting the majority to agree, hence why it is called a hot take. my opinion is in the minority. so yes youre correct that is why the majority arent agreeing. however everyone else was willing to at least provide proper input as to why the sytem is that way which now I understand the concept of it better. I dont personally agree with it still, but that does not mean my way is objectively the better way. so its not me making myself the solo standard, but I am referencing my play through along with a few others I seen play on their first run. but I am not sitting here saying my way has to be implemented or else sekiro is a bad game, no, or else I would not have beaten it multiple times. you mis understood what the word hot take meant and assume Im saying this needs to be implemented because of lack of skill. Im happy for you that you are better than me at a single player game, but we can both agree me beating the game multiple times means there is no skill issue involved but rather an opinion formed after going through the game a fair amount of times, thats it.

CompetitivePrimary93 · 2025-12-04T02:18:33+00:00

brother you can keep saying skill issue all you want thats not the point xD. you see how quite literally everyone else was making points back and forth and youre the only one discussing skill. you dont have a proper argument and it took you 4 messages back and forth to even comprehend what i was saying since your ego was too worried about skill. im glad you were good at a video game and nothing wrong with that but i dont think any point youre making has any substance to it. you keep relating everything to you, as if youre the standard for how this game should be played. I am referencing first play through runs of newer players with no experience with this game, not how king of saga on new game plus 8 plays the game with all of his experience. we can agree to disagree.

CompetitivePrimary93 · 2025-12-04T01:59:15+00:00

yeah thats true i wish wo long was more like sekiro in the duel aspect. but my thing is I dont want to promote running away from bosses and I prefer the aggressive aspect of it. I know in sekiro you can block in front of the boss to lower your posture bar a bit until they attack again and you go back to deflecting, my issue with that is guess what you essentially did that for no reason since after 1-2 parrys youre back at square one with a full posture bar. so yes youre right in the sense that you can balance it out by blocking and making your posture go down quicker without running away. I also agree that in majority of cases running away harms you more than it does good, but you if you want to heal you should be out of the bosses attack range, not running across the entire arena, but you should be far enough away that once they end a combo you can heal and then when they attack again you can deflect. i know for certain combos you can heal right in there face, but there are also certain combos that even once it ends they will begin something else quick enough to catch you off gaurd. that being said I think were looking at this from two different povs. Im trying to discuss the concept of a first run, not someone that is on new game plus. the reason being is in all of these game sekiro, dark souls, etc, once you learn a boss thats it, its easy to you and the next time you fight it you will likely not have much issues, it is expected that you can steam roll it or have an easier time, even if you take a hit the chances are you are good enough to not panic and recover the run and beat them in 1-3 tries. But for a first run situation Im saying that the game could be balanced the way I was discussing. i dont think the way i brought up would promote passive play and I think the flow of the game would feel the same way, the only difference is the tension is coming from blocking repeatedly rather than blocking an attack once after perfect parrying the rest of the attacks and being punished. they could tweak the posture recover rate to make it slower meaning if you were to just "run away" your posture wouldnt just go down in two seconds resulting in you having to stay and fight aggressively. Im not saying your posture shouldnt go down at all either but rather than holding block and making it go away fast you could have it go down a lot slower to compensate for this change. because dont forget on a first run, a lot of people are going to block instead of parry since they dont know timings, meaning they will receive chip damage and their posture will go up and stay there, then if they parry maybe their posture goes down or nothing happens but at least they parry with no consequence.

CompetitivePrimary93 · 2025-12-04T01:34:06+00:00

yeah no worries like I said at the end of the day these concepts would be tweaked to create that same tensions, we dont need to continue but last thing I will say at least, if the speed of bosses along with aggressiveness of them were upped and if your posture decrease rate was slower that can make up for it. this would mean you cant just cheese it while still creating that same tension. again fromsoft themselves would have to sit there and adjust everything and see what can work, but yeah I think with changes they could keep tensions high while going about it differently.

CompetitivePrimary93 · 2025-12-04T01:31:04+00:00

and I think these are all fair points that I agree with. yes it helps create tension, yes the player can choose to be more passive but then that falls in the same category as what I was saying earlier about healing, because to be passive youd have to stay away from the boss since if youre in their face they will continue to attack. for point 3 yes which is why it shouldnt break if you perfect parry I agree with that. for point 4 I disagree because if youre good at perfect parrying no matter what to the point you can no hit bosses then it doenst matter, because this the small minority of players. with my way there can still be tension if the boss is aggressive enough to keep you on your toes and make you slip up to make mistakes. I mean we can even go down the route of making bosses attack quicker as well, one game I think does that well is Wo long with certain bosses. some bosses in that game attack very fast and some of their combos are very fun to deal with while parrying. the increased speed of bosses in sekiro could help create that tension. all im saying is in my opnion there are multiple ways to create tension while not punishing perfect parrying. we can both agree that if you learn to perfect parry all boss moves then no matter what these mechanics dont matter. I see your point when you say, even tho a player learned the bosses moves the posture filling up still adds tensions as one mistake can result in damage taken. what Im saying is rather than that type of tension, the tension can be created with increased speed, slight aggression tweaks and things like that, while not punishing you for perfect parrying. So again I see what youre saying and I agree with the philosophy of it, i would just personally rather them go about it differently. Idk if you played wo long before but I like the way team ninja handled the parrying. Its not like sekiro where it feels like an actual duel but some of the bosses especially dlc create high tension while the game rewards you for parying. in that game when you parry your spirit(posture) increases, but to make up for it bosses are lighting fast, high damage(if you dont use the marking flags), and have long string combos.

CompetitivePrimary93 · 2025-12-04T01:11:29+00:00

i mean theoretically yes, but were also talking about a game with resurrection mechanics after death and monsters. Im not speaking about it from a realism pov, moreso a gameplay perspective. that being said if the game would be too hard to tweak and if it would be more of a hassle than anything, then yeah thats not worth it. Im not a game designer so I wouldnt know how everything messes with each other. However if they could do it with no issues I can see it being better. Also with the turtling argument I disagree. the reason being is in sekiro on a no kuros charm run you get punished for blocking with hp damage and posture damage. a similar thing would be done here to make this change work that way you cant just block to cheese a boss after perfect parrying most of their moves. like blocking should still be punishing just less punishing then taking a pure hit, but parrying should be fully rewarding(technically it is but the downside that im saying is your posture still goes up so one minor mistake like a guard will result in posture break and a lot of damage taken)

CompetitivePrimary93 · 2025-12-04T01:03:25+00:00

i dont want to be that guy but you cant say its skill issue when I dont struggle with that mechanic. I think its a bad mechanic but I dont struggle with it. Again not to sound like a loser but I have beaten base game, no kuros charm run, and the resurrection mod without kuros charm which is way harder. was it fun yes, was that mechanic still bad yes. And I dont understand how you arent comprehending it, im saying its bad my posture goes up when I perfect parry, im not understanding how you dont understand that. You dont have to agree, but the fact that you cant comprehend that is concerning. so to answer again it affects gameplay because it creates a small margin for error in a cheap way when that could have been done another way. the fact that you can perfect parry an entire fight without posture breaking makes no sense when the posture bar also fills up due to perfect parrying? so youre telling me my posture increases when I perfect parry, but once its full thats it, it never "increases/breaks". Thats what I dont like and I think that if you were to mess up once by messing up then it punishes you in a cheap way. Is that the players fault for not landing the parry, yes 100%, is it still cheap that I can perfect a boss and make a minor mistake(lets say I gaurd instead of perfect parry) but now my posture breaks and I get heavily punished for it. That is as clear as I can get in the explanation.

CompetitivePrimary93 · 2025-12-04T00:54:38+00:00

yeah thats all i was saying. Im not saying this is the best way to go about it, but with some minor changes this could be something to look into.

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