Weapons that require somber stones to upgrade are special weapons that (at least for the most part, I wouldn’t swear to all of them) have their own special moves so you can’t apply Ashes of War to them.
jpinard
3229
OK!
BTW this is the first time I think I’ve ever gotten a patch at 11:30 at night on PS5. Feels weird!
Another significant item in the patch notes are an extension of questline for perhaps half a dozen NPCs, so if you had any quests that seemed to go nowhere perhaps they will now.
Man, Barricade Shield already had a shitty duration and they lowered it?
Also something else I Only just found out - cracked pots are not used up! Consider them more like empty vials/flasks in that you can just re-use them again and create more bombs, etc. However many cracked pots you have found just serves as the cap for hoe many bombs you can make and carry at any given time.
ShivaX
3234
The Patching process is the slowest I’ve ever seen for any game ever.
Download: basically nothing.
Patching: “this will take like an hour probably”
What?
I think I could redownload the game faster than it’s “patching” right now.
ShivaX
3235
Compared to all the other similar effects Barricade lasted forever. Most are basically instant.
Now I hope it doesn’t go that far, but Barricade was too good imo. It’s a really strong effect and having it last for 10-15s per use or whatever it was is probably too much.
Kolbex
3236
I was for a while. It’s quite a bit slower than the katana but has a bit more reach. I really liked it for a long time but ended up using other stuff because I like to try various things. It’s a great weapon that doesn’t have any cheesy bullshit, unlike both of my current weapons, unless you count the bleed. A bit slow for some of the zanier bosses, though, which sometimes seems like almost all of them.
Clearly you didn’t play Monster Hunter World on PS4.
ShivaX
3237
I did not, but I have experienced it on the PC, which was not great.
I’m at 56%. It’s been like 20 minutes I think at this point.
Kolbex
3238
Forty five minutes to an hour was routine with MHW patches, what with it having to unpack and repack huge files and it being limited to the speed of a 5400rpm hdd.
ShivaX
3239
I’m at like 40+ seconds for a percentage point.
I literally could download it faster right now.
Timex
3240
That’s weird, the update on the XsX was seemingly instantaneous after it downloaded it.
ShivaX
3241
Steam also decided to update at literally the same time, so maybe that’s it?
But restarting steam means restarting this process and I’m at like 75% so to heck with that.
Edit: The worst part is watching disk usage peak for 1-2 seconds and then go to basically nothing.
Apparently it’s just taking it’s time.
Damn there goes Bloody Slash. It was pretty ridiculous so I guess it makes sense. But they didn’t touch Moonveil, or is that a hidden nerf?
At least I got 2 days of Hoarfrost, it was sweet having the hot girlfriend even for a brief time.
robc04
3244
I did in my first game. I used it pretty much the entire game after I got it. It was pretty nice with the long reach. I usually two handed in and just smashed enemies with jump attacks where I could. The ash definitely helped with some hard to evade bosses.
But you don’t understand. . . I needs it!!! :P
It took me like 5 mins on Xbox to pull it down. 5.6 GB
ShivaX
3247
Fair. It’s super satisfying to pop it and then guard counter a lot of the more annoying enemies.
Heck, I was just doing that exact thing to some annoying shits.
