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Quote from: Dunamisdeos on October 23, 2020, 02:22:20 pm

YO hang on, do you have guard up as well? Is it knocking people around even with guard 5 and guard up? Because that's my bread and bacon.

I aint done it yet.

Yeah, I always have Guard Up, too (of course, Guard Up only makes some unblockable attacks actually blockable; it doesn't protect you from chip damage and knockback). Guard 5 with Lance shield is the important thing to note, and I was still getting tossed around like a chickadee in a windstorm.

It's not uncommon to block a fireball and then be forced to block two or more subsequent fireballs because of the knockback-lock, losing roughly 1/6th of your HP, a huge chunk of stamina, and being propelled halfway across the battlefield right into the range where Fatalis starts spamming the horrible fire-cone of pain. That's actually blockable (you might need Guard Up), but it inflicts yet more chip damage and completely locks you in place while you're guarding it, wasting more time and slowly hacking away at your HP (and your desire continue).

While I'm sure the fight is doable with Lance, you'll have a much easier time doing the damage you need to do if you switch to an evasion-centric build.

Do you have the other one, I think it's Guard+ or Super Guard or something?  THere's two guard traits, and one of them allows for guarding normally unguardable moves like Vaal Hazak death ray.

I don't think you're expected to actually read or follow rules for most things that aren't combat.  Nobody cares about wilderness travel and logistics anymore and the people who do are the heavy duty grogs who have their own rules for it, so the market for official 5e rules for such things is zero.

In vanilla MHW I switched back and forth between greatsword and bow once I was tired of lance, Iceborne I was exclusively greatsword up until guiding lands where I started getting into hammer.

The iceborne upgrades for greatsword made it way too much fun though, hypermobility and so many ways to near-instantly transition to TCS, you could keep your damage up constantly and easily follow the monster or dodge whatever it did, and as soon as there was an opening you could go straight for TCS.

I watched John Wick 3.  It was bad, but entertainingly bad.  There's a fourth coming out next year, and a fifth already confirmed, they will definitely be bad.

The franchise is increasingly about this ever-expanding continental assassin universe which becomes more ridiculous and unwieldy every installment.  It was fun in the first movie, but now it's like every single person on Earth is a member of some secret society or another that serves the High Table.  There are four or five scenes where John Wick is walking somewhere and it cuts away to shady dudes watching him pass.  There are three separate scenes where John Wick comes up to some underworld figure and hands them some kind of token and persuades them to honor it and help him out in some way.  Four or five maybe, depending on how you count it.  There are three scenes where the adjudicator meets and punishes said helpers for helping him.

The rest of the movie is just ridiculous over the top action scenes.  With each movie the action feels less personal and intense, more indulgent.  The final bad guy of this one is just some guy.  There's a scene in the continental (where he can't kill John Wick cause assassin's creed laws) and he sits uncomfortably close to John and starts gushing about how excited he is and how John is his personal hero and shit, which is kind of funny but also the only characterization the guy gets, and he's the final boss of the movie.

In the penultimate fight scene the Continental is deconsecrated and a High Table kill team comes in with magic body armor and the continental loyalists, who all know that they have magic body armor, run out with regular pistols anyway so they can die and establish the threat.  John himself uses a 9mm carbine, again just to establish that these guys are really tough and to make it more exciting when he runs back and gets an armor-piercing gun, even though he already knew they had armor before he picked the carbine.  He just did it for movie reasons.

It kind of sucks, but the action is still good, and the increasing insanity of the series is still funny.  I don't think that'll hold up for another movie though.

Paul WS Anderson is a plague.  A few parts of the resident evil movies are so bizarre they're funny, like the wesker fight, but overall not worth watching. 

I can see what a monster hunter movie should've been in my head.  Start in the monster hunter universe.  Monsters have been disappearing and they've sent a hunter to track one (probably the ultimate antagonist monster, a legendary or just a flagship big boy like rathalos or diablos) and find out why.  He finds a portal deep in the jungle and sees his quarry go through.  While he's investigating, another monster shows up and attacks him, and they both go through the portal, ending up in medieval england.  With the countryside being ravaged by monsters, he's gotta teach the britons how to monster hunt if he wants to get back home and close the portal.  At the end he finds he can't get home, but that's okay because he's come to love this place and its people.  Maybe at the end find out that he's saint george the dragonslayer, for maximum schlock.

And there you go, you've got monster hunter without guns, you've got a natural way to introduce randos to how the world works with the protagonist teaching the kings men how to kill and craft, and a silly schlocky script in keeping with shit like Sonic and Detective Pikachu.  And then for the fans there's plenty of room for fish out of water jokes about monster hunter people.  He slays the monster attacking the village, the lord throws him a feast, when they unveil the table laden with beer, all kinds of food, a roast boar, he's like "wow is that all for me?"  Flat comedy shot of the lord and his people laughing, then hard cut to them looking aghast as the protagonist eats half the feast in like ten minutes.  The monster flies off a cliff, everyone's like "how do we get down there?" and then the protagonist runs past them and just jumps the fuck off, lands completely unharmed, looks up at them like what are you waiting for.  In the training montage have him swinging a greatsword around, he sets it down and three or four soldiers try and fail to pick it up.

I haven't paid much attention past watching that gameplay demo they did way back when the game was supposed to come out in April.  I'll probably decide which starting background to go with when I read what they are in the game.

Along the same lines as the soul bug, unless I'm missing something it looks like the necromancy post-battle window supersedes the regular captives window.  If I'm playing a demon or something and take a point in necromancy to get soul-powered golems, when I win a battle I get the necromancy window instead of the deal with captives window, and can no longer extract souls post-battle.