My feedback after 65 hours and beating Echo Knight with 2 different characters

Wicked Feedback
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Hey,

So first of all I love this game, graphics, animations, sound, voice acting, gameplay and combat is top notch while level design is on whole another level :slight_smile:

Playing on i5 13600k, 3600TI @ 1080 on performance settings locked @ 60, I do get some FPS drops, when shiny weapons smash alot of boxes at same time and some other places (nameless pass elevator).
Playing with mouse + kb, it SUCKS HARD that you can’t rebind, and your default keys are bad, like how do you press shove together with D, and RMB should be for something you use most like block/parry, not focus.
Some early tip that you can press shift to run/jump to mouse cursor would save me alot of pain in Cave of Iona.

My first character medium weight / claymore - very fun to play, at lvl 30 with +life on dmg dealt it felt too easy. I don’t even need to dodge normal mobs.
Second character light weight / knife / 1h swords / rapier - also very fun, crushing flurry skill on dagger with focus gain seams op, you can permanently keep foes on their knees. I noticed with Light build if you run and dodge, you will stop running after dodge for a bit (BUG?), it doesn’t happen with medium or heavy. Medium almost feels smother than light.

I think combat difficulty is good, it’s challenging, but I like it. I died alot on first run , but part of it was cause I was not upgrading my gear as much as I should (maybe some tutorial or pop up info, that you should head back to town and upgrade you gear, so people don’'t rage quit on 2nd boss).
Parry feels very hard to time without shield (partly because MMB is bad, you have to move your finger for it) reward is not worth the risk of getting hit (so I stopped using it),

Hold F key to change consumable is bad and hard to use, you could make it selection circle (with direction) so it’s easier to select what you need.
Would be nice to have some more variety of weapons in early game, idk maybe I’m just unlucky, but all I got was daggers and small war hammer.
Some more info about on Runes would be good (like action description, dmg number), right now you have to put rune in other weapon to test it first or else you risk ruining your purple max upgraded wep with rune you don’t like.
Holding bow in offhand animation looks very bad (I avoid using it for this reason).
One does not simply walk into a shop without sliding at least twice at doors :upside_down_face:

Cheers !

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Hello,
I am back playing new patch and after 200h and beating Echo Knight with 2 more characters. So here is my feedback:

  1. Level 4 pestilence is too easy with almost max upgraded gear (Fast, Stag of Ember fire mage) and even more easy with fully exalted gear.
    I found it too easy on my normal weight not maxed out Claymore character also.
    Make more levels or existing ones harder?
  2. Somehow I missed that you can enchant gear with embers like 150h in? I don’t think I saw tutorial popup for it. Made my game and crucible runs so much more painful.
    More tips or codex to explain things is needed in general, like what is “fatality”, what does “infuse” means, what does electric and plague dmg actually does. what is regainable health etc ?
  3. Need more stats on player stat page, some important things are missing , like “healing”, “heat/phs/electric dmg increases”, attack speed, etc.
  4. Fishing feels too slow and unrewarding. Give more fish or make it faster.
  5. Game could use more music, very often when exploring there is none.
  6. Daily bounties/challenges at level 30 are not challenging enough and feel unrewarding, it’s much more rewarding to run pestilence, then bother with them.
  7. My house is still very crowded with chests (I collect runes and purples).

Bugs:

  1. If you have a lot of runes in your house, then when you want to put one in weapon you can’t see some of them (all don’t fit in the screen and there is no scroll down for more option)
  2. You can’t climb on top of Windmill after you do it once in campaign. Lever doesn’t work and the wing is not catching your jump.
  3. I still have some fps drops/freezes/stutter with my system sometimes when flaming/electrocuted corpses are exploding. Other than that I play with 100 fps. (i5 13600k, 3600TI @ 1440, 32GB ram, SSD).
  4. Custom keyboard keys keeps resetting every time you start game. I set parry on mouse2 and rune on R and when I login, pressing R does parry. Also I have run on Shift and inside house if I run into boxes with it, it gives popup to pick it up ?

Glad to see that all but 1 thing from my 1st post are addressed. Keep up the good work. Your game is amazing.
Cheers !