It's a charm. Always.
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Hollow Knight |OT| Cute Insects That Just Want to Burrow Into Your Heart
- Thread starter dancrane212
- Start date
OniBarubary
Banned
Precept of Zote 39: Frimaire is a busta
Edit: Oh holy shit, I just realized after reading some of those comics that the
Blue Lake
exactly what Quirrel was alluding to when you meet him on the CoT bench and where his last resting place is!
Holy poop this game is so cool
Crab Milk Mickey
Member
You can indeed heal when they throw their weapons.
Getting a nail damage upgrade (or offensive charms in general) isn't necessary for a reasonable fight, but it will obviously lower the difficulty.
You're in the right place. Not sure where you are in the wastes, but are you just not bouncing high enough off the mushrooms? If so then down-attack to bounce extra high. If not then there's just a path you missed somewhere that continues heading downwards until you get to the Mantis Village.
I tried everything..but downwards attack.
Messofanego
Banned
Should I sell this to this dude or hold onto it?
OniBarubary
Banned
Sell. All the sellable items have no other purpose and they give you tidbits of lore too.
Should I sell this to this dude or hold onto it?
What OniBarubary said, but also keep in mind that you won't drop those trinkets when you die, whereas you will drop any Geo you're carrying.
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
Oh, okay, thanks guys. Here goes the mountain from my shoulders (^__^)
WHOA!
There's also gonna be story DLC for this game? How you know?
Yep, there's a charm named Dream Wielder which let's you charge faster.
dream nail isn't meant to fight enimies/bosses with.
I mean, it was pretty obvious that shit was going to go down. And the other save point is not that far away.
Soul of the Beast
Member
I just realized that this game is coming to the Switch, Ohhhhhhhhhh
Rickenslacker
Banned
Whoa,
is a great boss fight. First one to actually wallop me and put up a challenge.
Soul Tyrant
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
I beat them in around four attempts without the nail upgrade but I can't remember what the benefits were. I know that I wished I had a stronger nail in the next area, which was pretty annoying all around.
If I were playing again I'd probably get the upgrade first.
actually one of them is a joke
Lost Kin
Go
back up a few screens until you get to where you saw Hornet on your way down. There's a new zone off the right that is your next destination.
Crab Milk Mickey
Member
There's no tangible benefit after beating them sans upgrade. You just save time and it was something the game only merely suggested after all.
Harbinger of War
Member
For anyone interested, Northernlion just started a Hollow Knight Let's Play. Is he the highest-profile YouTuber to do a series on the game so far? Here's hoping the game sees a nice boost in sales as a result, the devs absolutely deserve it.
Nice. One of NL's colleagues on the Roundtable Live podcast was a huge early supporter of the game. Nice to see some of it has rubbed off on Ryan.
Harbinger of War
Member
Yeah, I watched a little bit of Nick's playthrough and that, along with the Humble Sneak Peak and all the glowing praise in this thread, helped push me into getting it myself.
OniBarubary
Banned
BaerTaffy started playing it too. I think all the NLSS guys are giving it a shot which is pretty great. Other than that, it's mostly gotten a lot of play on Twitch and not as much on Youtube. Highest profile guy playing it is Hutts. I'd love if this helps them get the word out as Nick (RockLeeSmile) pretty much has it as his GOTY and there have been some big streamers with over 1000 people watching who have been playing it.
Harbinger of War
Member
Thanks for the heads up, I'll have to watch that as well. I'm not ready to do another playthrough any time soon (probably will wait for the Hornet DLC), so NL and Baer's LPs should fulfill my HK fix for the immediate future.
So does the beta branch on steam have better optimization, or bug fixes for inputs dropping? I'm taking so many hits due to inputs being dropped and auto-walking that the
is annoyingly more difficult than it should be. I'm having to double tap every direction it seems to make sure the input registers. The
had me take quite a few extra hits too.
Edited to be less ambiguous.
Trial of Fools
second Hornet fight
Edited to be less ambiguous.
OniBarubary
Banned
Hrm, wonder why you're getting so much input dropping. I experienced like...none except during the stuttering and after the latest patch I didn't have any stuttering at all.
I've been playing using a controller the whole time and haven't had any weird inputs that I can recall.
Never seen autowalking either. Is this a DS4Windows thing like I've seen in the Neir thread? Where it is double detecting your DS4? Is the Hide the controller box checked in DS4Windows?
Never seen autowalking either. Is this a DS4Windows thing like I've seen in the Neir thread? Where it is double detecting your DS4? Is the Hide the controller box checked in DS4Windows?
OniBarubary
Banned
I was wireless 360 with no issues
Meh...... That's a huge bummer:/
Oh wait lol nvm is from first page haha.
Wil get it on PC soon.
Harbinger of War
Member
I did have an issue with my wired 360 controller acting up occasionally, losing connection which sometimes led to the autowalking that Manzoon mentioned. But then again I figured that was an issue with the controller itself since I've experienced it in other games recently. Thought maybe the cord was damaged as a result of wrapping it up.
I am using an Xbox One controller wired up to my PC (don't have blue tooth or a dongle), it has given me no issues in any other game since I got it Black Friday (notably I beat Ori before playing this with non of these issues, also GTA V). It seemed better after that first update on steam, but that might have just been me hoping.
Love this game but it is annoying.
Love this game but it is annoying.
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
Oh yeah, I just meant I couldn't remember what items it allowed me to get in the next area. If there were something really good then it might have been worth struggling for.
It gets you a ton of Geo and the
nail length increaser
Edit: nm didn't see you had already done it
Oh come on, I can't believe I hadn't noticed yet. That's genius.
This game guys, this game.
So I just got home and did a few searches around to find out if anyone was having a similar issue. Some of the suggestions between the reddit and steam community threads were launching in big picture mode and futzing around with some GPU settings. All I did in the nvidia control panel was set it to maximum performance for the power saving settings, v-sync has been turned off since I first started trying to minimize this issue.
I launched in big picture and decided to use the stick instead of the d-pad. Just this one time, I only had the auto-walk happen once during the
instead of repeated controls locking up, not sure if it was big picture or me using the stick. It felt more responsive, frame stuttering was still there a little bit.
Anyone else using an Xbox One controller wired up, and did you primarily play with the stick or the d-pad?
I launched in big picture and decided to use the stick instead of the d-pad. Just this one time, I only had the auto-walk happen once during the
trial of fools(incidentally, I died when the side panels come out and you have to fight two mawloks)
Anyone else using an Xbox One controller wired up, and did you primarily play with the stick or the d-pad?
Rickenslacker
Banned
Is Hornet DLC confirmed? Her design and weapon is so cool that I've been wishing she was the playable character instead!
It was part of the Kickstarter and they reaffirmed they were still intending on it at time of release along with some other stuff. I hope it does come become she's a cool character and they could make a lot of cool moves with her awesome weapon.
just had a look at their Kickstarter Page.
they mixed the stretch goals a little bit around it seems.
2nd stretch goal was the White Palace.
but it also said there would be 2 new Bosses. Dusk Knight and King's Golem.
3rd stretch goal were 4 new quests and again 2 new bosses.
but here you don't know what that could be.
Colloseum of Fools was a stretch goal too.
but it was never reached.
Yet the CoF is in the game.
I was using the d-pad when I first started the game, and ran into the same issues you experienced. The game played much better for me once I switched to using the analog stick. I don't think that d-pad is all that great, I even found some areas much easier with the stick, like the bits where you to bounce along platforms by attacking downwards.
Rickenslacker
Banned
I just took a gander at the achievements aaaand
Looks like I'm never getting all of 'em!
_________________
Edit: Fog Canyon spoilers:
Looks like I'm never getting all of 'em!
That's great to hear.
_________________
Edit: Fog Canyon spoilers:
That banker bastard done robbed me! Hahaha I burst out laughing when the hut was nothing more than a standee.