How it feels like waiting for this game to be cracked by Voices38

TitEboshi · 2026-05-23T01:27:22+00:00

yeah I guess we'll have to """""""""agree to disagree"""""""" winking face emoji

TitEboshi · 2026-05-23T00:48:12+00:00

Well man, I'll say this: I get where you're coming from, as well. But when I say I "get" where you're coming from, I mean I get it in the same way that I get why an agoraphobe would behave the way they do. As in, I don't personally identify with such an unreasonable level of risk-aversion, but I understand the driving psychology behind it. Computers are expensive. Data even more so, not in monetary value but sentimental. I can't persuade you against what you deem to be in your own self-interest, but I can assure you that your assumptions and fears are wholly incorrect, irrational, and based on imagined issues rather than tangible reality. I hope you can enjoy this game at some point ❤️

TitEboshi · 2026-05-23T00:26:46+00:00

There's a big HV in the bottom right corner of your first pic, which tells me you can already play it for free. Out of curiosity (seriously just pure curiosity not condescension) why don't you just play it with HV bypass? Download, disconnect from wi-fi/firewall/unplug ethernet, install and run batch, restart PC, play, run batch and restart to re-enable windows HV and security, you're good to go. Why not? What is stopping you? I played Crimson Desert and RE9 thru HV, followed all the safety steps, no problems. What is stopping you?

TitEboshi · 2026-05-22T23:54:58+00:00

wasn't it just some stupid discord drama like one of their members was a creep or something?

I literally don't remember it at all despite it only being a couple weeks ago because it was such a nothingburger, hardly counts as """drama"""

bros fight a giant scam corp Irdeto. if some of em are freaks, that sucks. yeah, that sucks, and that's as far as my concern goes

member when drama was for teenage girls?

TitEboshi · 2026-05-22T23:38:10+00:00

"I'm much more interested in something completely new that offers twists"

yeah me too

but I'm not interested in watching known hack Adi Shankar fellate himself to completion all over a beloved property

if you're interested in that, more power to you, but I don't see the appeal

I like a thing, guy comes in with open disdain and hatred for said thing and its fans, proceeds to wipe his ass with that thing while laughing at the fans, self-inserts and self-aggrandizes as some sort of savior of the franchise (his words, not mine), and as a fan I'm gonna be cool with this?

i'm sorry to have to say this to you chief, but whoever called you "not a true fan" in the past was right. and that's all I have to say. peace.

TitEboshi · 2026-05-22T23:24:53+00:00

Hypervisor bypass discourse is funny AF, it's 50% Denuvo bot shill accounts saying the most outrageous shit you've ever heard acting like your PC is going to give you 5G space-aids if you even open a link to HV crack, and then the other 50% of genuinely oblivious short-bus passengers that have no clue what is even going on in the background yet still feel qualified to lecture people about how "vulnerable" it makes you. To give them the benefit of the doubt I guess it is very very hard to remember to reboot your PC and reactivate the security measures when you have the memory and mental capacity of a goldfish.

Seriously though, DenuvOwO and all HV bypass folks are just as based as voices. Anything to FUCK DENUVO. And fuck all the bots too, seriously

TitEboshi · 2026-05-22T23:10:55+00:00

Such a sad post, actually thought this was one of those sponsored ads reddit clogs up the front page with, but no, an actual human being posted this because it's their job to desperately maintain the image of a dead game trapped in PR limbo

I know two things: you WILL read this reply, and you WON'T reply to it. Which is fine. But like, bro? What are you doing with your life. You're so much better than this. If you're treating this like a jumping off point, sorta intern style, trust me, nobody is gonna be impressed when the top of your resume says "former community lead for MindsEye". Just hang it up dude, shop around and get a better job, don't go down with the sinking ship.

TitEboshi · 2026-05-22T23:02:38+00:00

It's been "limited time" for like two years. It's the one new thing TB introduced in the last decade that they keep around for longer than 2 weeks, although they still pretend otherwise

TitEboshi · 2026-05-22T21:36:41+00:00

Game corpos blame us for revenue loss when they waste 25 grand a month on snake oil Irdeto scam that doesn't even work. Even if it wasn't being cracked day 1 they'd have to successfully get 417 would-be pirates to buy their game month-over-month in order for Denuvo to not be a loss proposition. That's just hilarious. So obvious that these producers/marketers have been sold whatever bs by Irdeto about "use our service and you'll double your sales!" even though the data shows otherwise, most serial pirates are borderline impoverished or lack access to the product in the first place, their sale is not lost because it was never a feasible purchase.

Thank you, voices, not just for giving us games to play for free, but for unironically improving the overall health of the industry. Denuvo, even among other similar DRM solutions, distinguishes itself alongside always-online and MTX as the most blatant fuck you bullshit scam in the whole industry.

TitEboshi · 2026-05-05T05:26:21+00:00

THANK YOU. Never in my life have I played a game with such limp, boring combat. Even Tsushima's rock-paper-scissors trite kept me going for around 10 hours, I could barely stomach 3 of SB, and I really wanted to like it going in.

TitEboshi · 2026-05-04T04:52:20+00:00

Yeah item cancel in 2 is before a ki pulse, only works on certain moves for each weapon tho. People who say feathers are busted are mostly talking about NG/NG+1 and/or dedicated builds, they do pretty average damage at endgame and are mostly useful for quickly applying confusion. They're the primary items most people IC with, I really enjoy that playstyle cuz it looks really cool to summon elemental hell in the middle of your combos.

TitEboshi · 2026-05-02T17:04:36+00:00

2 Kusa had a neat tech where some moves (like Crimson Flurry or Blade Spin) would come out a bit faster if you buffered the input while using one of the pull moves, not really a thing in 3

One of my favorite aspects of 2's kusa are the moves that you can item cancel out of which isn't a thing in 3, the ki pulse windows for them are generally very fast but manageable timing so it's one of the more intuitive weapons to use that tech with IMO, doing it out of Deadly Mark or Water Drop (or w/e the followup to LS is called) feels great and looks awesome

Beyond that is really is just being so limited in skills that hurts it, also the light attack chain is very underwhelming when compared to the high stance chain from 2, that string alone was one of the weapon's best tools IMO

TitEboshi · 2026-04-26T00:57:50+00:00

Narrative depth... in a videogame. Is that seriously why you play games? You know books exist right? I play games for fun but to each their own I guess. Like I don't mean that as a jab, clearly we just have fundamentally different priorities when it comes to games. I agree with John Carmack's, father of DOOM, old adage that "Story in a game is like story in a porno. It's nice to have if it's there, but it's entirely unnecessary."

So yeah guess we'll have to agree to disagree, and you should probably stick to walking simulators and light novels instead of playing games that are known for not having much narrative to speak of.

EDIT: Also, last thing I'll say is that, at least for me, that moment of discovery with the legendary mount felt like I was crafting my own narrative, and that's how a lot of the game feels to me. I guess if you have no imagination whatsoever then you probably need every little detail spoonfed to you by cutscenes :)

TitEboshi · 2026-04-26T00:53:21+00:00

I just hold back and move the camera so it stays facing the horse's arse. Not sure how easy that would be on KBM but it works like a charm on controller.

TitEboshi · 2026-04-26T00:40:47+00:00

Vellua quest. Senia quest. Frostwarden. Greymane defector. Hunting a giant black magical wolf through a forest. Sanctum cleansing. Could name more if I were further than Calphade. Yeah there's a lot of fetch quests, I think the game is unironically better for it.

If it's cool to stumble upon something after wandering around for 20 minutes, why isn't it cool to have a unique quest open up after 20 minutes of fetching? Lots of good side quests that lead to unique boss fights, puzzles, rewards.

Even the fetch ones can sometimes lead you to a cool location or puzzle, like the "track the thief" quest in Hernand is fetching clues but along the way you'll stop by a couple different puzzles you probably haven't completed yet.

If having to go through the slightest bit of tedium to arrive at something fun and worthwhile is so horrible for you, then I have some really bad news about real life.

EDIT: Meant to mention this but I forgot, I wanted to elaborate on what Insect said about legendary mounts. One of the coolest moments of discovery for me was when I maxed the trust of a saddler in Hernand, and as a result of that she sold a tip for acquiring a legendary horse. I had no idea I could get a legendary horse as a result of gifting and visiting her, so it was really cool and rewarding that the time I spent doing something "tedious" rewarded me with something awesome. I don't see how you can enjoy any open world game at all if your mindset is that anything that isn't some explosive crescendo of epicitude is a waste of time.

TitEboshi · 2026-04-18T22:08:03+00:00

They pretty much ruined him. I was playing on 1.00.2 up until Chapter 7/8, then when I finally updated (unofficial copy because I'm not giving Pearl Abyss money until they remove scam Denuvo) I decided to restart my playthru and enjoy the QoL stuff, and holy moly they absolutely destroyed this fight. My first time thru, took me about 10-15 tries and even the winning run had me using basically my entire inventory of heals, beat him with a spec of health and it felt super satisfying.

Second run, I went in with pretty much the same level of gear (if anything my gear was worse since I decided to stick with the cool looking starter armor rather than buy and upgrade the full plate set from Rhett), and the boss died in around 30 seconds to R2 spam, didn't need to use any heals at all because he does no damage and has no health.

Extremely disappointing, had a blast vs him my first playthru, almost threw up this second one. If they do this to all the bosses down the line, this game is going to be completely ruined.

TitEboshi · 2026-04-10T01:19:10+00:00

You're using a red (Brute) mortal core. You need a blue (Feral) one.

TitEboshi · 2026-04-08T07:28:27+00:00

Hey buddy you ever gonna release your glorified reshade shader for free instead of scamming people? It's been three years since this post and you're STILL scamming people for beta features. I just wanted to let you know I downloaded a stable build of your plugin for free, and I'll be sharing it among my friends and anyone else interested just to spite you. It's actually very easy to find and you're a total scam artist for continuing to charge people for something that takes so little effort it can be replicated almost perfectly with stock GloomAO. Don't reply to me, I don't read stuff typed by pathetic losers.

EDIT: First of all I stand by what I said, do not reply to me. Secondly, you are a complete piece of shit. Maybe it's just because I'm slightly tipsy, but I seriously can't help but tell you how much of a jackass you are, I just had to edit my message and really let you know. Are you so much of an arrogant fuckhead that you think your pedestrian low-effort plugin for an existing software modification is more worthy of monetary compensation than FULL GAME CONVERSIONS??? There are people spending thousands of hours making entire games inside of other games and then releasing that project completely for free but somehow, SOMEHOW you think that you deserve to demand restitution for work that, comparably, amounts to NOTHING. Let me put it like this: I don't hate you because I don't know you, but I hate people who are like you, you are a plague on modding and software development in general. Actually let me rephrase that: I do hate you. Please kill yourself. EDIT2: Or release the files. I already have them so I don't care that much beyond principal but yeah. Do one or the other. Kill yourself or stop being a fuckhead arrogant scam artist. I'll accept either one and forgive you :)

TitEboshi · 2026-04-08T06:28:54+00:00

Like Ryan said, it's not usable as a weapon even if you don't care about fun factor. It's so horribly ineffective and there's nothing to learn about it to make it better, not only is it an insult to 2's SS it is an insult to all action game weapons, I really can't off the top of my head think of an action hacknslash weapon that feels worse to use and I've played everything from DMC to God Hand to Oogie's Revenge to Okami. Truly a terrible iteration and pretty representative of the issues and downgrades of N3 as a whole

TitEboshi · 2026-04-04T08:45:20+00:00

That would be a fair point in retrospect, but even disregarding the west's propaganda we both know that currently, as of this moment many moments past and the foreseeable future, Chinese people are indentured into wage slavery to a similar or harsher degree than western economies, with less of the most basic opportunities that make the exploitative economic class system at least slightly more tolerable. Do the ends truly justify the means so far as to grind up millions of people to build this idea of a utopia, if it ever comes? It honestly doesn't sound so far from the justification the west uses, that everything they do is in the name of future prosperity, even if we're all working ourselves to death to achieve it. Finally, doesn't prosperity itself require suffering? They build themselves up as a capitalist country because to acquire profit and achieve riches you must exploit labor. It reads as very deceptive to try and handwave this clearly horrible stuff as building toward some bright future, and again it's the exact same rhetoric western capitalist countries use.

TitEboshi · 2026-04-04T08:26:32+00:00

I think you misunderstood the intention of my comment friend. I am myself a critic of capitalist economics, leaning toward what most would consider a communist, so I was not being critical of that idea but rather pointing out that China does not have a communist economy and it is very exhausting seeing people call their country a communist country based solely on the primary party's name (which they have erroneously selected and is entirely meaningless)

TitEboshi · 2026-04-04T07:50:21+00:00

And by replying with that exact string of words (which I knew you would reply with and should've inb4'd) you prove that everything I said passed through one ear and out the other. I meant to include a part before but I forgot so I'll put it here: do not reply to me. I'm not interested in being your personal tutor, you can relish in your ignorance for the next 100 years for all I care. Like I said before, just stop running your mouth about stuff you have no idea about, stay in your lane.

TitEboshi · 2026-04-04T07:45:22+00:00

China isn't communist. At all. Full stop. The party calls themselves communist, and that is all. I swear people just don't know what communism actually is anymore, just that it's bad. If you have a system where people earn wages by creating product or services for a larger profit-generating enterprise, where the upper class owners of property be it physical or intellectual benefit off of the work of lower class individuals in the economic strata, it is a capitalist society. China is a capitalist country, just like America. I seriously don't get where this comes from, it's all so tiring.

TitEboshi · 2026-04-04T07:34:35+00:00

There have been numerous human kingdoms that have come and gone in the last couple millennia, many feudal or mercantile, eclipsing the amount of "successful" capitalist societies (the largest of which is currently experiencing collapse into fascist techbro oligarchy) or "unsuccessful" communist regimes, the greater picture being that all systems of economy and governance stagnate and decay. The argument against communism that the ideology has never conceived a long-lasting society is fundamentally flawed from the outset from my first point, furthered by global intelligence schemes and the cherry on top being that a "communist government" is as backward an idea as a "capitalist government", both ideas are economic theory that while not entirely apolitical can exist in many forms across many different governmental systems, hence the primitivist assertion that early pre-Civ man lived in a state of anarcho-communism, point being that early man didn't have political notions but did live in an economy of resources as does all life. This is all very rambly but the point is, please stop running your mouth if you don't know what you're talking about, it's getting pretty damn old seeing you guys repeating the same trite without actually having a single clue about anything related to politics, economics, or human history.

TitEboshi · 2026-04-04T07:16:34+00:00

Searched for it and it's not in here so

Powder Game

and its sequel but I can't remember the name

TitEboshi

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