Now add in the coop mod to duel your buddies with this :). I use Elden ring reforged, the Bloodborne roll mod, and coop. Makes for some fantastic sword fights

Im currently trying to mosh those two mods, a randomizer, and the co-op seamless mod into one right now. I feel like mungo stupid brain over here.

@@Mrbird321 which mods specifically? Can’t help now, but maybe later I can show you what I’d do to get them working

@@SpankyDmonkeyChannel I've got the randomizer, Swordsman and Seamless all playing together now. I'm trying to figure how to merge the c00000 anim files of the bloodborne step mod as well.

@@Mrbird321 got it. Yabber is your best bet. You can drag one of the c0000 files into it, and it’ll turn it into a folder with a ton of little tae files (animation files). Then it’s a matter of choosing which to replace, which to not. When done you drag folder back onto the yabber exe and it will return it to its regular state. I did reforged mod and dodge roll with just the movesets of straight swords and greatswords in swordsmanship mod. The dodge roll mod I used was a completely diff file that didn’t mess with the other mods, but I don’t know if that’d be the case if I used swordsmanship fully

Literally video game combat at its final form

Man the sequel maybe they learn form every game

Peak medieval/fantasy gameplay

*Enhanced sekiro deflect* this apply to all shields, also only greatshields should have the possibility of hiding behind it for any given period of time. Irl if you tried staticly blocking with a medium shield: everyone would just aim for everything you're not covering. So this is how I see it: (Blocking input while 2handing a weapon, or 1handing a weapon with something in the left hand that's not a shield or spell item): - Sekiro parry with chip damage taken (Blocking input with a small/medium shield): -Has to be timed -Still recieve chip damage on sloppy timing -On perfect timing you revieve no chip damage and parry into a reposte. -Small shields have more forgiving parry frames, but you recieve more chip damage. -Medium shields would be the opposite: less parry frames, but more forgiving chip damage. (Blocking input for a greatshield 1handed and 2 handed): -Can hold the block button for a constant guard. -all of these shields block 100% physical -1handing is like normal in Elden Ring -2handing greatly reduces stamina damage taken -Attacks while 2 handing with greatshields heavily stun, but you deal very little damage unless you're using the cannon and flame thrower shield ashes. Everything with to do with blocking and stamina is taken away exept with shields. Every other way of blocking relies on "posture mechanics". Also status effects still work the same as in game: if you parry you're not taking any damage or meter build up. Ps: As a bonus I think it would be cool if you did increased posture damage while poise attacking/using poise to trade into an enemy attack.

wtf, just play seriko

I remember Mount and Blade, it had a combat system when you attack on the right moment you parry the enemy’s attack.

I like this, use poise as an interactive to determine how much chip damage you take from deflecting with a sword, a colossal sword would have poise high enough to ignore deflection and so on

@@deez-nutz_420 i think with a colossal, youd just end up with a regular guard break instead or the equivalent of one, if not something similar. or maybe it just does massive stamina damage and unless you built specially for stamina limit youd take at most one hit or just break entirely.

@@murray821 sounds a lot like for honor's crushing counters too. I never actually knew you could parry in m&b

@@Berlinbower attacking at the right moment would result in a parry attack, but if the enemy would do the same you could have a parry chain.

Like what mods?

From soft really dropped the ball with elden ring combat

@@thesupreme8062 yeah. Mohg is like the perfect speed for an elden ring boss/enemy

@@shagarumedic I agree

most of elden ring seems like a DPS battle

Why not just make it part of the core moveset for certain weapons? I mean if you have something THAT useful as an Ash of War then why would you use any others?

@@thegamingaristocrat7615 future souls game maybe

@@thegamingaristocrat7615 Because a sekiro like deflection system would absolutely break the game balance of an souls RPG.

@@thegamingaristocrat7615 It would certainly make two handing most weapons make a whole lot more sense if you could deflect with a perfect guard.

@@xFrakster And my point is that then it would pigeonhole everyone into using that ash of war and none of the others would get used ever.

i’ve always felt that the bloodborne dodge is the least satisfying in the series. maybe it’s the animation, or just the feeling you get from dodging, but it lacks the ass-clenching intensity or weight of other games in the series. i feel that des-ds2 was the prime for feeling in dodges, after that point it’s just felt worse imo

If Elden Ring had bloodborne dodging, it wouldn’t be a very difficult game

@@supasneak slow it down slightly then.

@@megamilkxl3414 imagine having such an invalid opinion imo

@@megamilkxl3414 personally having to perfectly time every step so I don’t get fucked by kos is plenty enjoyable for me

would be delicious, it would bring the level of hype Metal Gear Rising's battles bring

It makes sense she already feels like a sekiro boss

malenia surely feels like a sekiro boss, not a difficult one, maybe on par with genichiro, she has the same kind of flow.

just like deflecting all of Genichiro's combo

@@user-sb7wj1vn4x yeah, if we compared her to those bosses, she isnt anything special. Wolf would tear her apart easily

Not the same thing.

I think it was to keep the encumbrance weight and shields intact. But do you reckon making the low weight dodge a Bloodborne dash, and then making the mid or heavy weight dodge the roll/fat roll would’ve worked?

Bloodhound step is the worst thing about Elden ring by far.

One word to get rid of the clunky roll...Mods!

Apparently, the thought of a second goty award scared the devs so they went for that joke of a gameplay and decided to put bosses with insane damage that, imo, are worse than ds3 in terms of moveset and gimmicks. At least they nailed the qol

@@travman1987 that's mainly due to devs being too pussy to balance it because they know it's perfect for casuals

Do you know what weapons hes using? I cant seem to find that

@@ValkplaysPC Claymore.

Greatsword parries was hard af in ds2

It's about perfect deflection from Sekiro, I do agree tho that stagger shall occur only after a couple of perfect deflections instead of one.

Greatshield builds will always fuck the PvE enemies in all the games where they exist. If you don't do Greatshield builds its because you are weakening yourself on propouse or you are just ignorant about their capacity. Blocking has always been overpowered in these games.

@@ElDrHouse2010 and how is this related to the stagger in the deflection?

@@ElDrHouse2010 or because playing like that is boring af

I think like extremely fast start ups should be staggered this way. Of course this mod didn't think about balance, but it's possible.

i mean the game is how you make it lmao

@@ImSerg Eh. I disagree. There's a lot of build variety, at least at the beginning, but it's pretty damn apparent that fromsoft wanted to funnel you into a particular dodgespammy build with a quick weapon. Using a shield for example, is pretty not-viable late game (Hell, Melania pretty much has a built-in hard-counter to shields), which is a shame because I really liked using the guard counter they added. During my STR build run, the best option during combat pretty much every time was to just jump attack, because jump attacks are just by far the best option at your disposal easily. I also feel like magic in general has never really felt good in souls games, especially for bosses. Thats more just my opinion though.

@@FlashBash64 You should try parrying. I feel like parrying is underrated. It is hard, but when you get used to it, it’s satisfying as hell. Doesn’t work on all bosses though but it does work on Melania.

@@user-mq1wb9wl6t True, maybe next time I'll try to parry her. I can see that helping a lot. Parrying has always felt extremely situational for me in souls games, so I never really felt the need to get good at doing it. I liked it way better in sekiro or bloodborne.

@@FlashBash64 Malenia only counters shields if you have poor damage output. Ideally your using any of the shield friendly weapons. Dragon kings cragblade and bolt of gransax make shields perfectly usable on her with huge safe damage output

Right? I just dont understand how FromSoft looked at Bloodborne (what is considered the peak SoulsLike game) and said “yeah lets not do that again, even tho everyone loves it”

@@Carlisho Peak Souls? No respec, pretty empty exploration, hollow NPC interactions especially once you leave Yharnam, least amount of replayability post NG. I know this last bit isn’t important to some but the Online/Co-op/invasion system was absolutely terrible.

@@waltersullivan2727 you don't really play souls games for the co-op, the rest is completely valid, but makes no difference when every other facet of the game is a legitimate masterpiece. The combat, the feel, the look, the atmosphere, the story, the lore, the style, the systems, the gameplay loop, the weapons, the attack oriented parry that does damage JUST to get the parry off. The entire game is satisfaction incarnate. Having legitimate, albeit limited, weapon combos other than just pressing the same button 4 times in a row is something many don't even know about, and was never implemented again. In summary, shit was fire dawg.

@@jacobdoolittle128 thank you I was about to say all of this but you took the words straight out of my head lol

it’s overrated. The main game has 3 good bosses, gerhman, moon presence, father g. The rest are terrible and lackluster. The scenery and architecture is fantastic (I’m a sucker for gothic Victorian era), they get the lovecraftian elements down pretty well, but it has its flaws. It has the best weapons in any from software game and the dodging is superior. But the game is way to fucking easy, thankfully the DLC is harder and had some of the best fights. And the lore is great. Bloodborne does things right but it’s not even close to the best.

thank you!

Agreed. The problem with deflect is that it negates the damage with 0 resource wasted, trivializing fights. The mist step ash of war has a large recovery window by locking you in a jump, consumes FP and ash of war slots. And it's one of the strongest AOF if you use it correctly; imagine a deflect

@@ncrranger6327 deflect would be more frame perfect than mist ravens as its either deflect or get hit.

@@ncrranger6327 ah yes, never use good ideas because good ideas, got it 👍

@@ncrranger6327 You still have posture in ER, they easily could just tweak the damage numbers so that not parrying or dodging was devastating and an imperfect parry while low on posture results in a break, plus imperfect parries would still incur damage. I played Sekiro with the bell demon on from the moment I heard it existed, you genuinely had to learn your opponents. Elden ring kinda just follow a "He's swinging so it's time to dodge spam" mentality. Or worse, you hold block. It's not like the system would be hard to implement, they've already done it in other games. fights in elden ring are generally trivial though, I don't really understand your statement that THIS would trivialize them. Like you die alot in ER sure but they're rarely actually a case of you not being able to keep up. many of the primary methods of fighting involve either just face tanking with 100% damage negation or staying the fuck away from the enemy until they do one attack and then jumping them. Mages quite literally JUST stay the fuck away most of the time unless they're running some carian shit to feel spicy and then they're just playing sword builds with resources and magic damage. In many cases just spamming an Ash is your whole playstyle. These ARE trivialised fights. There's nothing really to them. Most of the difficult fights aren't hard because they take skill they're hard because the enemy either blasts big health chunks, has a huge AOE or just spams attacks. Or there's two of them....And they do all of these things simultaneously but out of sync And your main defense is basically to find your own form of cheese that you can spam. And even then, many bosses that are tough, stop being so if you just dump points into vigour because raw damage output is often a bosses main reason for being hard to beat. When your health bar is half the length of your screen many of them stop being so punishing and you can do that practically before you even finish two areas. I was starting to lose interest specifically because every weapon and style I picked up just had a gimmick to it that you spammed. Dual curved, just jump attack with some kinda debuff and you applied it instantly. Cool? Now what? Oh do it again? Okay I guess? Big swords? Jump attack big dudes for big damage, permanently stagger smaller dudes with every swing. Nice. Katana you just spam till their health bar explodes, knives you spam faster, etc And you're kinda punished by trying shit out because some of it sucked straight out and some of it was TOO good but was a pain to get off and the stuff that DID work and wasn't boring, became boring. Because you spammed it. I stopped playing at the gargoyles just because I was like "Yeah, I can and have beaten both of these enemy types separately even while underleveled, but there's two of them so now it's literally just their movesets getting spammed out of sync." I could jump ones sweep, land and block the follow up and dodge through the next attack then come up, block and power counter, in my sleep. I haven't played in like 2 or 3 months and I can practically still SEE that fucking gargoyles combo. But add in another gargolye and suddenly I'm getting smashed over the head after jumping the first one because their move set requires contradicting actions. That's literally just artificial difficulty. They're both easily beaten on their own I couldn't and still can't fathom why they didn't use sekiros combat as a template. Like you could do so damn much with that games attacks, chaining five or six different methods of attack back to back in a high speed combo, Running attack in, parry, counter attack, dodge backwards, jump to avoid a following sweep, land and throw a star that you could then chasing slice through, jump attack, back step, jump forward, kick off them and land to release an art that you could chain into another prosthetic and that whole thread is realistically about 5 seconds of combat. And elden ring basically has all the same shit sekiro had, they've just decided to remove how fluidly it all went together which is baffling because they COULD have made unique combinations out of all the variety in the game between your weapons, throwables, ashes and the enemy types, where every fight flowed as brilliantly as Sekiros boss fights did with a fuck tonne of combat customization to be done by you in the moment But instead, you just pick what aesthetic flavour of whacking stick you want, and you whack people with the same 2 moves over and over again. Parry and step dodging atleast would reintroduce the need to learn an attack pattern because really in ER if you didn't know the pattern you would probably survive just spamming roll anyway. Tweaking this mod to be like bell demon Sekiro would just make the combat better in general. Punishing but fair, learn the moves and you'll survive

I think that has less to do with the dodge animation and more to do with the fact that "dodge" and "sprint" are both assigned to that button, and are prioritized in such a way that dodging happens when the button is released instead of when it's pressed. If they simply made it so that a dodge is performed when the button is pressed, and then holding will let the player transition into sprinting, it'd feel a lot more responsive. Though I still think the quick step animation would be a much better animation for that transition.

But you can actually do that IRL , check at 1:45 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p-CEqqWC08-wg5c.html

Yeah because doing a fast quickstep in full plate is also super “immersive”. Lmao get out of here

As you did in every Souls game

@@theemeghost2323 Well yes, it is, far more immersive. That sarcasm really backfired.

@@ChuckPalomo No phasing through attacks and dodging extremely quickly while wearing full Havel’s is not immersive.And who gives a shit about the dodging mechanics at the end of the day it’s the same fucking thing,I swear bloodborne fanboys are fucking crazy.

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@@theemeghost2323 he's not wrong it's dark Souls but worse

@@theemeghost2323 I don't agree with your opinion therefore you are a nerd! 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶

@@theemeghost2323 Damn bro you riding it hard

@@chrwhish hard facts. It's literally just dark souls 3 but worse. The jump is good, the block counter is useless on 90% of builds, and the player is way too slow compared to what you're against. And this is just the combat system don't even get me started on boss designs, balance and online. Elden ring is absolutely the worse soulsborne game up to date, even worse than ds2.

Power stance is overpowered and has no draw back in my opinion, it's always the best option for melee builds, so balancing it by making it not able to parry would be nice.

isnt there quickstep and bloodhound step ashes of war in Elden Ring, or are they different from this?

major balancing? just make parrying make the player take damage to the poise so if they spam it they get their poise broken lol

@@skapunker96 they are in the game but since theyre both ashes of war you would have to sacrifice something powerful on your weapon for the mobility. which isnt really that good of a tradeoff when it comes to high end gameplay. thats why these kinds of mods are fun. makes the gameplay more aggressive but you have the tools and recovery to not get bullshitted by bosses

@@tyhjyys true, though I dual wielded an uchigitana + blood katana and nodachi + malenia blade; put bloodhound step on the katana and nodachi, that way I had mobility but could switch to high power ashes of war. Have you run these mods, are they smooth throughout? I take it you can't play online with these mods?

Then parry

@@cold1895 We have alternatives to parrying and parrying is risky while blocking will help avoid damage from followups. Also weapon blocking could be a thing if they boost up the stats again. Try blocking with a greatsword, it's almost as good as a regular shield but without the need to carry one.

@@cold1895 I'll always imagine the "perfect blocking" to be more proper deflections; attacker's stance wouldn't immediately break, but they would lose a whole lot more stamina when their attacks are deflected, thus multiple deflected attacks could finally break their stance and open them up for a riposte. In fact, they already sort of implemented this; parry-able bosses requires multiple parries before they could be riposte'd. And in contrast, the defender who actively perfect block would lose much less stamina. Regular blocking already makes you lose varying stamina based on the weapons attacking you, and afaik it also applies to attackers based on the weapons they're wielding and what kind of shields they're attacking. Perfect blocking would then modify these stamina consumptions, increasing combat's dynamic. It would've been a safer, more long-term alternative to parries, more of an instant result with higher risk of receiving HP damage when you could have not. They could've even integrate it with guard counter, and poise as well.

They should just disregard PvP entirely. Make it so it only works offline. That would immediately balance so much of the bullshit in the late game and keep the same "balance" in multi-player.

Hopefully you won't have to kill some friendly npcs to get it

Isn’t that what bloodhound step is for?

@@3hxde kinda? But I’m talking more like the wood grain ring where it gives you a different dodging animation and more dodge frames rather than completely changing the weapon art just to dodge where it can be used for damage.

@@JaceShadow quickstep ash of war

Ikr

The combat is very same as in DS3

I havent played dark souls 3, im not some seasoned veteran. Im giving my opinion as someone who is fresh to the genre. As of now I have 300 hours on elden ring and I still maintain my points. Edit: and I was comparing it to sekiro and bloodborne, which I have played

Yeah the enemies more specifically boss do feel hyper aggressive like Melania that's basically a bloodborne boss

@@bulwark7840 I loved sekiro and Bloodborne. Elden ring to me was definitely game of the year for 2022 but in my opinion not my favorite fromsoft game. It felt fun exploring the world but I never grew to like the dark souls roll combat and bosses. Like bloodbornes quickstep and sekiros deflect much more. Idk but with elden ring I don't have the urge to replay it any time soon, since I don't really feel like there a lot of reasons to come back other than the open world, much of which I already experienced.

Danitjim made a video about these exact complaints: m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sJNxfdWgm7HLgYU.html Just like Ds3, and every other souls combat, it has unlimited potential as you gain more experience as a player. The game doesn't need to be more complex, it is the player and their strategy that needs to develop.

Skill issue. I have never used BHS and beat the game several times

@@4pfBulmond Neither have I and I can still say ER has some of the worst bosses with sometimes ungodly combos.

@@ThyBigCheddar only bosses with ungodly combo is Malenia and Elden Beast

@@4pfBulmond Radagon, malekith, godskin duo, Godfrey phase 2.

@@ThyBigCheddar skill issue

''when You wanted to be a ds3, sekiro, ubisoft sandbox and bloodborne at same time but ended up to be clunky, halfassed, repetetive, unbalanced as never before oversized copypasta with weak soundtrack''

@@SquerolBoss Now I still enjoyed Elden Ring, but not as much as I could have. It's like a 6 or 7 out of 10 for me.

I feel like they didn't borrow anything from Bloodborne and Sekiro, and that's the problem.

@@ChuckPalomo They borrowed the stagger mechanic, jump button, and made the bosses as a fast as the bosses you'd see in those games.

@@SquerolBoss The soundtrack is really great though. It was great for the first half until everything started repeating. There's also close to 0 replayability so yeah.

It's always easier to improve upon what was made. A good foundation is perfect for building on. Might I suggest looking at what was made as impressive, and what is presented here as even more so? I would love to have the seikiro deflect in elden ring, but I'm on console and it's not to be. However, what I have is still a phenomenal showing from the company.

@@nathanbrown8196 Nah. They didn't have to make rolling the main defensive maneuver. They could have done something different with the shields or made parrying way more diverse, like adding Sekiro-type deflects amd stuff. The alternatives to rolling are not good, and it's bad game design imho

@@MrGargamel1198 Dodging has been the main defensive maneuver since 2009 with Demon Souls, shields as I see it function as an alternative to memorizing dodge timings, allowing players to take a easy path costing stamina. I agree the combat could have been miles better, unfortunately. But what we have is great on it's own; it expanded the system of the previous games. That's why although it could use a better dodge, Bloodborne dodge is part of the original game identity and design, and it doesn't fit in the ER context. And sekiro parries trivialize combat if not adapted to ER. One important note to mention is From as a company. ER gathered a *lot* of hype since 2019. They had a lot of pressure to develop the game within a schedule to not lose the hype created by marketing. As with most games, a lot of content was cut or rushed in order for the game to be profitable. Another one is that it's an open world, and this changes development a bit. One example of that is reused assets thoughout the game; my point is that player expectation needs to have the context in mind

@@ncrranger6327 and with context in mind. It is not 2009 it is 2022 with two successful games (that BOTH got phenomenal reviews and opinions) that did not use the 2009 roll and with this context in mind, elden ring should have had the bloodborne dodge.

@@ColdNorth0628 While not quite the BB dodge. The Quickstep WA is a very close second. I have found it a nice way to speed up my evasion since I rarely use Weapon arts. Like I put forth before. The game has a strong foundation. It's a real shame that others don't agree, but thems' the breaks I guess. Sorry the game disappointed you.

From what I can tell it uses both the Swordsmanship mod and the Bloodborne dodge mod. I'm pretty sure they don't work together, but if i remember correctly there is a way you can get them to function together. I think there was a guide on the swordsmansip mod page? Worth checking out.

I tried the mod with my pal using seamless coop and it makes fighting someone a bit more complex because they can actively counter you and you can counter their counter, but it very much depends on the weapons you use.

@@TheKnightDrag0n I dont see the issue, if you counter you get the stagger bar, the more you counter the more the bar fills up and get staggered, that means the more agressive you are, the more likely for you to win, just like sekiro, so we can see a real fight instead of watching each other for who to attack 1st

@@TheKnightDrag0n what mod is this?

@@homesicknight Swordsmanship

If it's gonna be like how people could "chain-parry" like how people can chain "chamber-blocking" in Mount&Blade, count me in. Yeah, you can already chain-parries in Sekiro, but that one has the posture mechanic, whereas Elden Ring got the traditional Souls stamina system, so I'd assume Fromsoft didn't implement Sekiro's deflection due to this.

What's the mod's name??

I've played Elden Ring Reforged and it didn't destroy the balance of almost every weapon class, nor did it wreck the importance of other defensive elements 😐

@@duckdodgers1953 so, all collosal, scythes or daggers can also deflect? and if they don't, they have something similar to equal the odds? I should've qualify that this is what I personally think, but also should say that the commitment to a slower animation is part of the trade-off of a collosal, but also, there's counter attacks, and blocking with weapons are really, really useful.

@@enman009 yes they can all deflect. Deflecting isn't a differentiator since you can do it with everything You do need to be able to block, so you lose the crazy damage of powerstancing if you choose that. Since bosses weren't balanced with deflection in mind (and the timing isn't as generous as Sekiro, and being too early isn't as generous either) there's still plenty of places where you use spacing, jumping and dodge rolling Overall game was definitely better for it. It's not OP because of the huge amount of attacks with wonky delays - it fills a similar niche to parrying, but easier to pull off and with less reward. Opens up a whole world of guard counters without shields.

@@duckdodgers1953 Oh, sounds cool. Probably I will try it with bosses and strong enemies (no hope for balance). I don't miss it thou, counters and jump attacks are my breath and butter.

Would've made it cheesy and easy af, like really easy. These mechanics were not meant for this game and in order for them to work properly would require a complete overhaul of the game so they fit in the way they should

@@azzy9293 I do agree, it would probably make it easy. But then I guess you would alter the game around the combat if say you wanted to add the deflect in. We can agree the side dodge would be fair however ?

@@azzy9293 "complete overhaul of the game" like what, for example? I don't see Fromsoft having to go that far, instead of making it restricted to certain character builds and/or even a set of equipments. It would be no different than restricting sorceries and incantations, heck it would've make it even better if they finally elaborate on the bare bones RPG mechanic by tying these mechanics to a stat, or better yet the starting class so they can be more meaningful options instead of simply what you start with when you could've just get other class's stuff later on.

Because of a quickstep change?

@@__-gf3zn im saying there are all these assets from games they pulled from and they could of made combat like this instead of how it is with slow rolls and block counter being basic as hell

@@jiddy30 would cause huge blance issues

@@robyfaraa4105 yes because the game is so balanced right now it would obviously make things worse (sarcasm)

@@jiddy30 sarcasm or not that is true

That's correct, gameplay could have been so much more, it's their most ambitious title yet

They keep using it because it just works. It gets the job done and I don’t think I’ve seen anyone complain about it until Elden ring. I do think it should be changed though at this point. I’m tired of the same old rolling animation as well and I think quicksteps will overall just fit these games much better. Hopefully in their next games it’ll be quicksteps

@@AlcyoneSivin7 elden ring enemies are too fast and aggressive for a roll system. That doesnt mean that the roll should be phased out the souls genre though it has a place in slower games like dark souls

@@thesupreme8062 then dont just roll? you have dodge, blocking and guard counter to use.

like the other guy said it just makes the game more fun

@@azir387 bloodborne Quickstep have less startup and recovery frames, maybe irs who doesn't know what he's talking about

It's the kind of thing I really like for PvE, however would never want to deal with online / with other players.

When you're swinging around a weapon wider than a bloody sofa, I don't think it entirely unreasonable for it to be able to provide a large amount of protection. All you'd have to do is hold it in front of you and you've basically got a wall. Hammers I'm not so sure about.

It's not so far fetched as it seems. There is two very simple things would make this viable. Firstly, deflect would need to function like "guard stability" for weapons and scale with endurance. Second, make armor viable. Let me explain. First bit, guard stability for weapons would mean having deflect pull from stamina. Heavier weapons would have higher stability meaning two-handed weapons become viable for defense. It's likely that greatswords, polearms and spears become the meta for this mechanic. UGS and super heavy weapons would be great for deflection but slow on recovery. Shields would obviously work best at deflection becoming more relevant in skill based play and getting beginners familiar with the mechanic. Secondly armor and "defense". Armor is largely ornamental in current iterations of FromSoftware's game design. However, in ds1 and ds2, armor was a viable means of defending from hyper specialized players and enemies. Essentially if you couldn't block or dodge, you could count on your armor to shunt part of the damage based on the current level of resistances granted. The problem was there were "go to" armors in the game and everyone abused them. I would suggest, give all armor sets a relevant defense value (physical OR magical, but not both), and have armor grant guard stability. Include a scaling endurance or intelligence/faith buff so armor stays relevant as you progress. This keeps hyper specialized meta from overwhelming the player base but still rewards creative play and probing for weaknesses in armor. Dual wielding will need a few tweaks, and damage scaling (desperately) needs a rebalance. All in all however, it would be fairly easy to implement without breaking the game... But that's just my opinion.

@@thegamingaristocrat7615 That's true, but that's also blocking, not deflecting.

@@LoverofTragedy that could've been the difference between UGS and GS UGS Block GS parry

Probably because it’s an RPG, while Sekiro isn’t.

@@leadfaun Didn't stop them from making sekiro ennemies in a rpg

@@thegk-verse4216 so they aren’t Sekiro enemies if they had to make them. If you’re saying they have “Sekiro speed”, then what, is Oceiros a Sekiro enemy because he’s absurdly fast?

two compeltly differnt games bro

Not really. It's just two different types of games. If you want to play Sekiro, then go play Sekiro.

Look out for The Convergence mod. The Dark Souls 3 version basically reworked the game.

PVP has always been a stapled-together mess so I'm not sure people should care as much. And as for enemies, I don't think it unreasonable to add a mechanic that makes some of the tripe in the latter half actually reasonable.

Magic would just go through the parry. Or just do half damage snd eat stamina. Bigger the weapon in pvp the more stamina it would eat. The enemies are already pretty balanced out seeing as most are more ds3/bloodborne era of balance with aggression being cranked up. The answer to bloodbornes speed is just aggression in return. Push the player in a challenge and it would be bank

Nightmare to balance out ? Nioh got pvp games with weapons that had greatshield level block power, along with multiple weapon parries. They only couldn't balance it because unlike ring, they got 191717117 different effects that could stack. Yet skill pvp with that same block was fine. Deflection is nothing.

I swear to God, the f***ing PvP is what's ruining these games. That's why we don't have tightly designed combat. What's even more infuriating is that the PvP is still a mess. I would be fine if they had the same roll spam combat if PvP was balanced but it isn't. It's a lose lose situation.

they already don't balance the game around pvp so i don't see the problem.

yeah this isn’t improving it, this is changing the style of the game entirely

It is

Tuned? It's basically just the same as dark souls combat but with quality of life improvements. Would've been cool if they tried to blend in more defensive options. Not hating on elden ring as a whole just not a big fan of the combat since I never really liked dark souls combat.

@@chrwhish yeah, it's not

@@jirivoborsky7010 it very much is.

@@chrwhish no it isnt

I use torrent in literally every dragon and night cavalry fight. And why do you want jumpable attacks? That just makes the boss using it look stupid for even trying that shit.

Torrent is insanely good for most of the open world bosses, what are you talking about? The only boss that Torrent sucks against is the Wormface boss at Altus Plateau.

@@utisti4976 and the fire giant. You don’t have I frames dodging with torrent and he’s only really good In fights for chasing down bosses that run away. You do way less damage on him and the only time I really use him is to take advantage of his I frames while mounting. Grounded combat is way more optimal for damage

@@utisti4976 you can literally get knocked off your horse and one shotted

you are all right i guess im just angry that i can't use torrent on the cooler bosses like godfrey or godrick or elden beast. Another issue is that u can fight all these bosses without torrent and your fine sometimes its more preferable so that you can actually roll attacks.