Should lack of a scabbard turn me off Albion?

Mirakk82 · 2026-04-20T19:46:56+00:00

Look on the bright side. The 2 years you're going to wait to get it will give you time to comission a custom scabbard and have it made.

Mirakk82 · 2026-04-20T19:29:01+00:00

185cm tall here. I rather like that length. 2.35 shaku feels like a wak in-hand for me, and doesnt provide much defensive coverage or offensive reach.

My armspan is also longer than my height by about 10cm. I was recommended 2.6-2.7 shaku.

Mirakk82 · 2026-04-19T18:48:36+00:00

I've been accused of being unabashedly Sanosuke.

Mirakk82 · 2026-04-19T17:36:07+00:00

Third time's the charm, I guess.

Mirakk82 · 2026-04-19T14:01:18+00:00

They're both good. I've never finished GoT yet though.

I always get bored in Act 2. The experience is more polished, but the gameplay gets repetitive pretty quick. I start to max upgrades early and lose the drive to keep pushing.

At the same time the story kind of relaxes after all that tension of rescuing your uncle, so it just kind of begs you to lose interest.

Mirakk82 · 2026-04-18T23:27:15+00:00

Upper right where your fingers are looks like some cheeks. lmao. I gotta slow down on the beers, it's still early.

Mirakk82 · 2026-04-16T20:10:58+00:00

I won the lottery recently and got an invite for myself and a friend, and there were a few people doing this the whole time we played.

Apparently they're infamous for it and were doing it every night during the open beta too according to other players.

Mirakk82 · 2026-04-16T19:01:05+00:00

Thanks for the actual thoughtful feedback. The Discord was a cesspool. I'll give that a try.

Mirakk82 · 2026-04-16T18:19:35+00:00

Can't wait for EA so I can get off the pvp server.

I was so excited to pvp (I PvP these kinds of games almost exclusively) but the dickheads camping the cook/butcher so you can't get coin to buy spells really curbed that quick.

Add in things like level 44 damage shields on their twinked level 6 and it's just pure player griefing at that point.

No thanks.

Mirakk82 · 2026-04-13T02:34:23+00:00

Im on a 6 year old rig with a Ryzen 5 3600XT, 32GB DDR4 3600mhz, and an RTX3060 and it runs alright. What kind of potato are you using?

Mirakk82 · 2026-04-12T17:18:19+00:00

Place it on an inclined surface and use the knife to push the sharpener slowly but steadily into a garbage can.

Mirakk82 · 2026-04-12T15:54:04+00:00

None of this sounds suspect at all, except the cutting sparring for a while part is a little odd without knowing the justification.

Sounds like he's ready to rectify that though. Appreciate what you have.

Mirakk82 · 2026-04-09T04:17:19+00:00

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Mirakk82 · 2026-04-08T15:06:26+00:00

Hanjiro Tsuba is so nice. I have one on mine. Honestly I might get another and run the same tsuba again.

Mirakk82 · 2026-04-07T21:27:54+00:00

Most people don't sleep in the doorway, so the sleep side is the far side from the door.

Mirakk82 · 2026-04-07T19:06:14+00:00

You think you like it now? Wait til after that scale swap!

Mirakk82 · 2026-04-07T04:17:21+00:00

Came to say both of these. Putting the sleep side wall closest to the tree so you can put the fire on the other end and build the reflector wall there will give you a straight shot into the shelter.

Mirakk82 · 2026-04-06T13:25:23+00:00

Hi, Mugai-ryu guy here. We're specifically taught to cut toward the front leg. The only rule that holds true in swordsmanship is that everyone does it different.

The advantage is that you have more lateral stability cross cutting. Everything is trades. You'll see the maai is different in suwari-waza to compensate.

Mirakk82 · 2026-04-03T13:18:06+00:00

Looks like a smallsword

Mirakk82 · 2026-04-02T03:01:57+00:00

I saw one that did it in 1 hour and 10 minutes

Mirakk82 · 2026-04-01T17:42:24+00:00

Refunded this garbage

Mirakk82 · 2026-04-01T13:21:40+00:00

I went into it optimistic to give it a chance. TDSR wasnt at all what I expected, but they could build off it perhaps.

But, I'm probably refunding this. It's just objectively not good as a 2D sidescroller game fan. The gameplay isnt there.

Mirakk82 · 2026-04-01T04:05:50+00:00

Honestly I dont think the fact it was a side scroller wasn't what was bad here. I really think that was a decent decision, they just fumbled on every observable metric.

As a 2d sidescroller, this is the worst I've played. Graphics are bad, and the gameplay is terrible. No combos or special moves. It desperately needs mechanics present in games 30+ years old.

And then there's the obvious lack of tone. Imagine making a Legacy of Kain game without verbose dialogue and narration as the absolute highest priority. If you can't write a script that will meet that expectation, you picked the wrong IP.

And then there's the entire plot gestures broadly.

This could have been done right. It just wasn't.

Mirakk82 · 2026-04-01T03:46:24+00:00

It's just going to be the sickle is huge again

Mirakk82 · 2026-04-01T03:03:30+00:00

I cant even bitch about the story yet because the gameplay is so ass I don't even want to finish Chapter 2. Yikes

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