ALICIZATION LYCORIS Combat System Breakdown 

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It really started with Infinity Moment, which was only released in Japan.

Yes and I do love xenoblade

More like one of the recent Tales Of games.

Yeah, when you spend 10 mins and the boss doesn't lost any hp then suddenly combo hit in and it die.

@@AzureRoxe Tales is more fast paced and has depth compared this game.

@@TheZombie2415 which tales game?

lol ikr, ive been following his sao related content since hollow fragment... his videos are just very consise and i love it.

In addition, if you equip the Passive skill to allow +1 Skill Connect EX, you could do an entire Lv 3 Chain Burst by yourself with the previously mentioned methods

@@wesleylover7860 in 5:35 u can choose your tactics

@Aqua Wolf in 5:35 u can choose your tactics

Problem is, not every character has this behaviour, so you can't tell them to do this. Apparently, on console you can use the records menu to modify your teamates AI, however, that menu is broken on PC making it so all we can do is delete stuff that's already there or swap things around, but not create new behaviours or modify existing ones.

@@mira12825 yea i was curious y I couldn't do the sont miss chain thing

@@wesleylover7860 you have to practice while your skill is starting press l1 then pick skill for your team mate then change partner to use a skill on them too.

I feel like it's kind of intuitive but there's depth if you want (chain burst, soul linkage, parrying/deflecting etc) and you're rewarded for it. A lot of MMOs did something similar to this game where auto attacks are just for generating mana and a majority of your damage comes from skill spamming. Maybe you just never played any games like that and it's not your fault.

in a nutshell, we all are judging the game too early

I feel the exact same way. I never had this issue with either Lost Song or Fatal Bullet. Yet this game comes along and pulls the "forget what you know" Black Ops 4 card. It frustrates me how this game expects me to memorize every little bit of the combat system on top of everything else.

@@BlueKazuki So I'm about 50 hours into the game now and I've learned a bit more but there's still lots I can't navigate through efficiently, even with the youtube videos. I've honestly played about 80% of the available MMOs since 2003. I started with FFXI and WoW and have been in and out of every one of them for some length of time. That said, I think it would have helped tremendously for the game to force you into doing these mechanics when they're introduced like many games do. Infact, if I recall, it did at the beginning. Unsure as to why it stopped, but I digress. The AI Learning and the Online feature to download behaviors if not very well refined. It's a good concept, but it feels like players who don't want to spend time trying to figure it out will likely never optimize it at all. I still am not sure if I'm even doing it right despite watching videos of people trying to break it down. I've started to come to enjoy parts of it now, even though I think some of the sword skills are virtually impossible to make any use of because you could just play efficiently using half the trees anyway, maybe I haven't explored enough but with certain weapons it's definitely true. Maybe they're intended to go on your party members, but unless you're all using the same weapon IDK how you'd make it work. But honestly, and I'll wrap it up with this: The game engine needed to be something else. The clunky recovery periods are grating sometimes, the janky physics on terrain are infuriating sometimes, the camera is seemingly developed by satan himself, it basically reminds me of any Illusion soft game I've ever played (I'm sure others who know what I'm talking about can attest). This game coulda benefited from not taking the Bethesda approach of using the same engine for 10 years. If somehow they didn't do that, it doesn't show at all. But I've played past games and this seems exactly the same to me.

Can't disagree. I must have searched and experimented for over an hour before I figured out on the PC how to cast all eight sacred arts. I could use the four skills that were single button skills, the 12, 3, 6, and 9 o'clock skills but to cast the water spell? Frustrating as hell.

I'll have to warn you. The optimization for the game is not in a good state right now. You'll probably experience alot of frame drops and maybe sluggish controls. However, don't let that put you off as the game is really fun and the Developers have said they're working on fixing the optimization. I hope you'll have fun with both SAO and Ghost of Tsushima!

good call, the slideshow I have on the xbox version gives me a headache and is the second largest problem I have with the game.

I knew it would have frame rate issues. I'm going to do the same.

I hear that Bandi namco are working to fix the frame rate right now, so that’s great. And when you do get the game, then I hope you enjoy it!

@@Slippypippy270 Is there a place I can check to stay updated on their framerate issue?

ive heard about these framerate issues but is it just a console thing? cos i play on pc and have had no problem aside from long loading screens.

you should experiment with the sacred arts, the wind one level 1 increases how high u jump, and your falling speed. and metal level 1 also places a block that u can stand on. Might help with grabbing those chests :)

Tip: Get a bow before you do Renly's first event....Because those bats are not fun to fight solo

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Damn 22 hours, how is it down the road I loved all the boss fights in the tower in the first chapter died a few times to eugeo

Hurd U Beloved The dialogue gets annoying but its expected. In my opinion it does get better as more areas are unlocked, more side quest and multiplayer makes things much more fun

Hurd U Beloved quinella keeps killing me

How long is the game

I heard that they got inspiration from ( I think Final fantasy 14 or 13. Sorry if this is incorrect, I don’t know that much about final fantasy.) so that explains why everything I’m this game fells better!

It is like an infinitely more convoluted form of ff7 remake's combat. They definitely dropped the ball on making it easy to grasp for new players. Maybe they can patch in better tutorials.

@@d0minican0milan0 Yeah I'm guessing the update patch is gonna be an improvement

@@Slippypippy270 That definitely seems right mix of 13 and 14 together

Bro I feel your pain

Omg lol i lost twice but honestly it was alot of fun

that fight alone took me over an hour, because I would just spam basic attack and vorpal strike over and over and over again because the game was awful at teaching you how to do anything (hence why I am watching this video)

n0rric I feel that, I didn’t even know about the sword skill tree until the eugeo fight lol

shun jay glad I’m not the only one

max affinity on each character i think gives u one, at least for the main heroines

I'm not sure if it's intended but the same thing does happen to me every now and then. Could be a bug.

Not sure I'm correct, but it might be because: - your teammates are not in combat (they have not attacked the enemy / buffed you) - you need to lock your target At least that's what I think I have observed. Might be wrong.

You need to lock on your target AND be in a fight. Attack the enemy once and then it works.

And it has happened more than once too.

do u use the skill which allows for solo chain bursts maybe? I cant remember which class it was under but there was a skill which lets you do that.

@@KuronoKenxhi believe that's a weapon perk on a wooden sword. Used it like 10 hrs before realizing you had to equip that weapon perk into one of the dpad slots lol

its basically identical to Hollow realization's combat system in terms of sword skill connects, risk and chain bursts.

It does cover the earlier part of the Alicization anime, but it's not in a way that can really replace it honestly. It's good enough if you just want to play the game though. It's fun to play, but it does have it's issues that Bandai Namco say they're going to patch. So it might be worth waiting and keeping an eye out for that.

@@HavianCritDmg thanks, I'll wait a bit then, it looks fun, love the vids by the way..

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I haven't play AL. But I looking up those explanation, it similar with HR. (I need 7+ month to adaption how HR battle system).

The difficulty ramps up the levels of enemies from what I’ve seen so far. I’m only on chapter 2 but I put it on hard as soon as I could and enemies who were in the 20s jumped to the 30s. The lvl 1 rabbits you can occasionally find in the fields that die to one hit jumped to lvl 12 on hard but yet still due to just one hit while I’m only level 25. Normal attacks don’t do that much damage to other mobs around the teens to shred their hp so it seems like it just ups their level and stats somewhat.

@@SoaringxDragon I'm playing around in Death Game mode and and everything is a minimum of LV45+ in Ch.2 and the first area boss was Lv102. Yup, can't do anything against them with a mid level 30 team.

adapt then

To start off with, unlock a set of sword skills to use with your weapon of choice. Just don't neglect your one handed sword too much, since they make you use it for certain fights in chapter 1.

@@HavianCritDmg ty sir, i unlocked a set of skills for a bow combo, and a sword combo, then grabbed a few passives.