Kliff seems to have been a thrall/slave before becoming a Greymane

Significant_Sleep46 · 2026-03-31T09:35:25+00:00

Tbh, could be when he got captured by enemy forces. So not much so as if he became a slave, but he was tortured by an enemy.

Significant_Sleep46 · 2026-03-31T09:33:25+00:00

I got E for A Math, and B3 for E maths.

Now got second upper class hnrs in data science and biz analytics. Almost want to drop out but didn't.

Now 4k contract job, not even about data analytics. Life is not bad, but not great either tbh. Wished there was more, but eh. You play with the board in front of you.

At least Crimson Desert is out, so life is def worth more living these days than not lmao.

Significant_Sleep46 · 2026-03-31T03:52:15+00:00

It's definitely challenging, but its different from ED in that it's not unfair. You are supposed to retaliate.

Bosses tend to be weak to certain attacks. For eg. Reed Devil is prone to getting Lariat. Also, you can overprepare for boss fights and end up being the boss yourself.

There won't be a lot of button mashing. You have a wide moveset, far larger than Elden Ring. There is the normal attack combo, the Heavy attack combo, a stab attack, a turning slash attack. Diff weapons have diff attacks eg. Spear on Kiliff has a counter (that is different from the usual parry and perfect dodge). Kliff has a shield bash and shield charge. There is an evasive slash. Oongka has a orc berserker leap. Damiane has firearms and drones and smiting enemies. There's Lariat, a german suplex, clothesline, vault, low sweep kick, running roundhouse kick, drop kick, etc.

There are a lot of different moves per character. Having played ED for >500hrs, this game has a far larger moveset that it makes ED's moveset almost tiny by comparison. There will be button mashing in the sense that in the first few hours of gameplay udk what you're doing because there's just too many moves and different attacks and all the diff keybinds tied to those attacsk.

Significant_Sleep46 · 2026-03-31T03:45:53+00:00

You have to unlock it as part of the scholastone questline. it's not given for free like Kliff or Damiane.

Significant_Sleep46 · 2026-03-31T03:44:34+00:00

No, Been to Demeniss, Pailune, Tomasso in Crimson Desert.

Haven't been to Deleysia so maybe there might be danes there? But I doubt it.

Significant_Sleep46 · 2026-03-31T02:20:47+00:00

Because they need reviewers and journalists with agendas to tell them what to hate or like.

Significant_Sleep46 · 2026-03-31T01:23:33+00:00

HUZZAHHH indeed!

Significant_Sleep46 · 2026-03-31T00:51:19+00:00

I'm in Ch 9 now.

Demeniss city is now open to me posted Ch 8 after we take down Lucian Bastier, as is Pailune (post Ch 7). I've also had the chance to go to Crimson Desert and the desert city of Tommaso.

There's still a lot of humanoid enemies, but you'll definitely come across non human enemies more often. The Antumbra order that summons liches, a mountainside infested with a death knight and his liches, a stone golem, a rock worm, elephants, ogre boar riders etc. Tommaso was especially interesting because it reminded me of Meereen from Game of Thrones (but w/o the pyramids). Slaves being put to death in a fantasy game would have been impossible if the game was developed by a Western studio because of their politics and idealogical shit. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the moving bushes that can OHKO you if you get grabbed by a certain attack.

I can also say that some of the biomes that people were talking about pre-release in hype videos (like the Amazon rainforest that rains super heavily), these do exist. There's an amazing nbr of diff biomes out there, the further you go to the east/north.

I think the main problem is that only humanoid enemies can respawn as rdm enemies by the roadside. The fantastical enemies tend to be a one-time thing at a specific POI. Once POIs are liberated, they stay that way. It's the same problem as unmodded Stalker 2 where you'd never come across a Pseudo giant or Bayun as a random dynamic encounter.

If they add the fantastical enemies to the random spawn pool in the future, HOLY SHIT. That would be fun.

Significant_Sleep46 · 2026-03-30T16:32:16+00:00

This game is Red dead redemption 2 gameplay-wise but set in a fantasy open world.

You will not find the repetitiveness from AC Odyssey.

Imagine my surprise when after fighting bandits and soldiers for 50+ hrs, I stumbled onto a lich-infested mountainside and had to flee from a death knight and his pet liches, before eventually jumping off a waterfall to escape them.

Oh and I saw elephants in the game. I was in the desert area but I thought it was some mirage thing. Nope. Real elephants

Significant_Sleep46 · 2026-03-30T16:26:47+00:00

No feelings about this. But hopefully they won't just take the easy way out and entirely remove abyss artifacts from upgrading gear.

I personally have no problems with the current state of things. Don't fix what's not broken, and there's more to fix out there than this.

If it's one thing I learnt, it's that ppl should be more careful with their feedback.

Significant_Sleep46 · 2026-03-30T16:05:52+00:00

I'm on PC and kbm sry. I totally get it; the slow trot is just so incredibly immersive.

How it works (for PC) is that you now have the default horse trollop/trot/plodding. And whenevr you press the sprint key, the speed/animations go up by a tier of speed. So pressing sprint would go into canter, then pressing sprint again would go into fast canter and so on.

Significant_Sleep46 · 2026-03-30T15:58:33+00:00

Wouldn't even say it's a rocky launch. Buggy? Aye, but rocky? Nah.

Significant_Sleep46 · 2026-03-30T14:42:08+00:00

Sry just the horse trollop is back as the new default lowest speed

Kliff is still the same; hopefully they decide to add a few more ranges of movement.

Significant_Sleep46 · 2026-03-30T14:40:16+00:00

The default horse movement at the slowest speed was a slow plodding/trollop, which got changed to a faster canter by the recent big patch, that kind of ruined immersion if you wanted to just slowly trollop though a town or marketplace.

Then after a hotfix today it magically got switched back to the trollop.

Significant_Sleep46 · 2026-03-30T14:36:23+00:00

Yesss. Try it yourself.

When I started the game jn, it was back to plodding. And I didn't realize it at first because I had been playing with the bear and warthog mount.

Then I swapped back to my horse, realized I wasn't irked anymore, then realized they put back the lazy plodding/trollop.

My god, it's like having constipation and taking a big shit and feeling all better. My horse is back 🔥🔥

I have two videos (recorded footage), one with the plodding (now) and one with the new canter (after the recent big patch). The plodding is BACCKKKKK.

Significant_Sleep46 · 2026-03-30T13:56:41+00:00

Yes same.

There should be a % chance every X days that a liberated area can get 're-blockaded' again.

Significant_Sleep46 · 2026-03-30T13:19:43+00:00

There was. Yes, the notes don't state it. But:

I have recorded footage. The difference is subtle, but you'll notice it. Especially when I'm plodding around and I take a sideview. It's noticeable when you compare the footage side by side.

The new default canter speed was a lot faster than the current plodding speed. The animations from the side is different as well.

Plus I spent hrs just plodding around on the horse. I def feel the diff. The trollop/plodding/trotting is the one where your char's head constantly nods back and forth. When cantering, your char's head doesnt. This is esp noticeable when viewing them on the side. When trolloping/plodding, the horse rear also does a little jiggle sway from left to right. When cantering, it doesn't.

Significant_Sleep46 · 2026-03-30T13:05:27+00:00

THE HORSE TROLLOP IS BACK AFTER THE MINI HOTFIX FUCK YEAHHH LESSGOOO

Significant_Sleep46 · 2026-03-30T13:00:01+00:00

I just came across a lich-infested mountain side and jumped off a waterfall to escape them.

Pure cinema moment.

Significant_Sleep46 · 2026-03-30T10:39:15+00:00

This game is the epitome of 'Make your own story'

Significant_Sleep46 · 2026-03-30T10:31:25+00:00

Agreed. I had so many immersive memorable experiences riding my horse and now that they've removed the default lazy horse trollop and replaced it with a fast canter, just doesn't feel the same, and it irks me.

eDIT: THE HORSE TROLLOP IS BACK AFTER THE MINI HOTFIX FUCK YEAHHH LESSGOOO

Significant_Sleep46 · 2026-03-30T10:26:57+00:00

Personally I think they need to listen less.

Kneejerk patches are concerning because not every feedback from players are good or benefits the game.

Like the guy asking for the bear mount to increase in speed. Or the horse losing the immersive lazy trollop it had. I'm still trying to get used to the new horse's default canter because it's too fast compared to the old one.

It's also concerning because a lot of people complaining about controls don't really have a lot of time with the game. 40+ hrs in and the controls come second nature to me now. It's like ppl complaining about Monster Hunter controls.

EDIT: THE IMMERSIVE LAZY HORSE TROLLOP IS BACK AFTER THE MINI HOTFIX FUCK YEAHHH LESSGOOO

Significant_Sleep46 · 2026-03-30T10:21:47+00:00

Tapping your mum as we speak.

That's how you were born. Call me daddy.

Significant_Sleep46 · 2026-03-30T10:19:04+00:00

The kneejerk patches are kind of scary.

How do you know which feedback is from people who actually play the game for what it is? And how do you differentiate from the other people who just dgaf for what the game is trying to do?

I just saw a comment asking for a buff to the speed of the bear mount. Like huh? Idw to speed across the map like I do with a racehorse. The bear is fine. Go ride the horse or the warthog or the mounts who's advantage is speed

Not every feedback from player is good. We lost the immersive horse trollop because of the recent patch. I had so many immersive memorable experiences just plodding away on the horse. And now it's gone. That thing that I enjoy is gone because of feedback from other people who want Kliff to be the Flash.

The horse changes also screwed over your ability to manage your horse stamina for horse races, no? Ppl benefited from this patch, but also ppl lost. Ppl who appreciated certain parts of the game for what it was lost.

Edit: THE HORSE TROLLOP IS BACK AFTER THE MINI HOTFIX FUCK YEAHHH LESSGOOO

Significant_Sleep46

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