Update #80 - March 2019 Kickstarter Update is Now Live!

That PAX video is really interesting, it shows some curious new stuff there:

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People complained that Johannes looked to weird on the dialogue, his movement looked like he had just run a marathon, due to how strongly and deeply he was breathing. Now he looks MUCH better, contemplative, like a real alchemist. That small changed made a big impact on the dialogue scene overall.





So, the bookshelves are places where you can get new information. Such information probably goes to the Archives, but i couldn't get if there is a name for that. That is a nice feature, good for beginners in Igavanias. IGA said in the past he felt he needed to explain and give more information than his other games, where people just needed to understood certain things. I liked that.

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By watching the video fully, we can get a glimpse of new things. New itens, such as tomato, rusted ring, cotton, corn seed, rice seed and potato seed. I'm starting to believe that "Ring" was changed to "Rusted Ring". And what with all those seeds? We will be able to have a small plantation at some point? That would be neat.

Also, when the scene with Gebel started, the game showed "archives: compendium". So, that means we will have some way to acess scenes again? or maybe just info on about what happened in such scenes? Interesting...

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I just realized Skill Shard actually has rank and grade. So, you need to level it up to unlock more slot sets, most probably. But what about rank? Don't we increase it by picking up more shards of the same type? How we will do that with Skill Shard? It is a common enemy that drop it? That is...different.

Switch version could be locked at 30fps. But, it could also be by the fact that the camera can't record the screen properly.

Also, the graphics. I have nothing to complain anymore. It's like that wall of text I wrote at the subreddit actually mattered, and I feel very proud to have been one of this game's contributors to the improvement of the product....

Who knows?

Correct me if I am wrong though. Some games perform better handheld mode, right? Because of lower resolution? Or is it the other way around? I dunno, since I am a PS4/PC guy.

Nice to see the loadout switch feature confirmed. The doppelgänger soul and Ecclesia's switch system were great additions.
I'll echo the request for quick-using the Shortcuts with some input. If nothing else, please implement it on PC for the keyboard. There are so many buttons that setting aside eight for the shortcuts would be easy. Gamepad + KB for shortcuts (or Steam Controller alt. mode binds) would make things very fast. Not to mention that radial menus tend to be awkward on keyboard.

Loadout switching looks really useful!

It occurs to me just now to ask for a feature, which hopefully won't be too much to add--I plan to play on my PC with a DualShock 3. In order to do that, I have to convince my PC it's an XBox controller, which usually makes games display XBox inputs. This causes confusion for me; would you guys make it so that input graphics are selectable? I know you''ll be making DualShock input graphics for the PS4, so I am hopping making those an option to select in the PC version won't be too much to ask!

I wanted to know why some people disliked how the Shortcut Shard works. You hold one button, then use the analog to choose a set and that's it. I see people talking about it, saying that it would be better if it was "real time" or something like that. I failed to understand and i'm being honest. If anyone could properly explain it to me.

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I understand about key binding on a keyboards. I mean, let's take a FPS for instance. Absolutely all FPS in the whole world is simply better played with a mouse than it is with a controller, for the whole majority of players. Of course binding each one of the eight sets in a different key on a keyboard would be easier, but that also means creating a specific set-up just for PC keyboard users, considering the majority of players will play the game with a controller. That's one thing. Time spent on something very few are going to actually use it.

Now, about the radial menu, yes, it is a bit cluncky to use and select, and that's why it is actually a "pause menu" that instantly goes to the shortcut selection.

I still fail to see how this is worse than using some kind of real time selection, letting the player wide open to be attacked while hastly tries to find and choose the set it wants to use.

Well, it really depends on what they throw at you and i was actually thinking about this.
The shortcut system let's you create up to 8 different sets of equipment and shards. This is a huge number and will mostly only be useful if the game itself is so balanced that forces you to keep changing strategies on the fly to adapt to certain situations.
Idon't really believe they are still taking suggestions so late in development, but even so, this is something i've been thinking since the Shortcut reveal.
Bloodstained revealed at the PAX EAST 2019 video, as anyone can see on the picture above, that the game will have 8 attributes and 3 status effects. They are:

Physical Attributes: Slash, Thrust, Strike.

Magical Attributes: Fire, Ice, Thunder, Light, Dark.

Status Effects: Poison, Curse, Stone.

Igavania games always had a certain "pace". Most people simply equipped what is best and go along with it, although Igavania games always gave a lot of tools for us to play with. The later games gave some more variety than the others.

What i think is that Bloodstained really need a more balanced group of enemies and situations to justify these sets. I always like to explore everything and use everything i can, so, i'm sure i will try to create 8 sets just for the fun of it, even if some of them are useless (people can take a look at my suggestions here, and will see some of these are useless and just for fun) but it would be much better if the game actually forced us to play tactical, with strong enemies being really resistant to something, or giving out very high damage, or using certain elements and such that goes beyond the "usual best gear" the player would have at any given moment. That would make players feel the need to create sets to adapt to a tactical play.