Bloodborne
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As some people like to do souls games completely blind, including game mechanics, I'll post the following in spoilers
Regarding blood (soul) loss
You no longer drop your bloodstain, but it is absorbed by the monster that killed you. You need to find that monster again and kill it. What killed you gets a visual representation by sparkling / glowing eyes. If you die before reaching that monster again, you lose the exp tied to the first monster similar to blood stains. You do not lose HP or go hollow when dying, certainly not seen that been mentioned as a issue in any of the streams I have seen
Gun combat
It is not as viable as ranged combat in the previous souls games, however, there is a crit mechanic in place. In certain animations, if you time shots right, you can get head shots for massive crits. This includes shooting some enemies repeatedly that can lead into a stagger animation that lets you head shot. Unlike Souls games though, this game will not let you cheese enemies by ranged shots.
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Healing
Unlike other souls games with a limited amount of flasks that required a rest to reset, this game uses blood vials for hp regen. Similarly to Demon Souls leafs. However, they drop 1-2 a time from nearly every enemy. This lets you play for a much longer amount of time. It stacks up to 20 from the start (1 gem is around half hp bar regained). Vials picked up past your max just vanish. So if you see streams and they don't seem to pick up loot, it might be because they play min max, and run back and pick up as they use them. Seems that 1 in three enemies drop vials, so HP items are not rare. At least not in the starting town.
Another heal mechanic is that you get HP back from enemies that hit you by hitting them. This, combined with no shield, makes it a far more aggressive game than the previous souls games.
Another heal mechanic is that you get HP back from enemies that hit you by hitting them. This, combined with no shield, makes it a far more aggressive game than the previous souls games.
jooka
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Canceled my pre order for physical and grabbed a prepaid card to get to play some tonight, 9 can't get here soon enough
Noodleface
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I can't play until after work tomorrow. I have considered "working from home" but I've done that too much recently. The bloodboner will be strong
Lenas
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Lenas
Trump's Staff
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Go to Bloodborne, hit the options key and choose Information. Mine had only preloaded the first 6GB or so out of 29. Don't be stuck waiting.
Utnayan
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We are going to do Coop missions and die faster than Vitality's weiner in the bedroom at 2am on a Saturday night.
Vitality
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Noodleface
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Intrinsic
Person of Whiteness
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I'm like you and have avoided slmost everything, but the little blurb I saw on a Youtube video said you get to set a 'password' that someone else can use to join your game. However, when you do that you also somehow open it up to others invading, and that Bell Maiden chick comes... it'll all be a surprise to me!
Valderen
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My PS4 is alive again. Started it in safe mode, reset to factory setting and rebuilt the database and then it started again.
Gonna play with some tonight to make sure it doesnt shut down again on its own while I used it, if it's stable I'll get Bloodborne. I hope it doesn't die again.
Gonna play with some tonight to make sure it doesnt shut down again on its own while I used it, if it's stable I'll get Bloodborne. I hope it doesn't die again.
