Update #95 - Switch Patch news and more

3 PLUS WEEKS, ALMOST A MONTH OF WAITING ALL FOR F&$#ING NERFS NOBODY ASKED FOR?!?

”We’re not ready to release these improvements just yet, but we’ll be sharing more information in the coming weeks.”
That’s it, i’m done, i’m selling my game, 4 long weeks of waiting just to be told “wait for a few more weeks”.
No thanks.

People want stability patches. Instead you nerf everything? Absolutely not the update anyone wanted.

Holy moly this is not a good look.

gonna copy what I said on reddit:

Malediction and Dullahammer Head having more than 1HP seems weird. I think these types of enemies always had 1HP in previous games and it kinda just makes sense for them to be that way. Their pathing, numbers (quantity, not stats) and constant spawning is enough to define their threat. If you can't kill them in a single hit, there's not even a point in trying to kill them at all, as they'll move past you and at that point your attention should already be on the next one.

Nerfing Rhava Velar doesn't sound good. It's basically there for people who liked the Crissaegrim from SotN, which was OP as hell. I think it should keep its current power level. I don't even think it was as strong in Bloodstained as the Crissaegrim was in SotN to begin with. It's obviously very strong, but I think enemies in Bloodstained are more resistant than the ones in SotN, so its relative power level is a little lower, not only compared to enemies but also compared to other weapons (as in, the power gap between Rhava Velar and other endgame weapons is just not nearly as large as the gap between the Crissaegrim and, idk, Alucard's Sword). Emphasis on it being endgame equipment, too: this isn't something you get early on and outshines everything for the whole game (which could potentially be said about Welcome Company and Riga Storaema for the red shard slot, so I see where those come from at least).

I understand this may be them laying the groundwork for a more balanced experience in the multiplayer modes, to avoid having everyone use Rhava Velar or stuff like that, but even if it's balanced a lot better, the min-maxing mentality will always push the most competitive people into the one setup that performs ever so slightly better. If it's not Rhava Velar, it'll be something else, but whatever it is, they'll find it and flock to it. Meanwhile, if you're not particularly competitive and just want to have fun, you'll just use whatever is most enjoyable, so if the Rhava Velar's gameplay doesn't appeal to you, there's a ton of other weapons you might like more. You can see that in games that are primarily-online and "require" better balancing, like MMORPGs or MOBAs, which is not Bloodstained's case; quite the opposite, a ton of people seem to love finding setups that turn them into unstoppable killing machines at the end/post-game in these (which I think works just fine with it being exclusively endgame stuff).

I don't mean that balancing is entirely pointless or anything. I just mean they need to really consider how worthwhile their balancing changes are, especially if it diminishes the single-player experience in favor of multiplayer, as this is a primarily single-player game. It's good to fix extreme outliers, and honestly this is just one single weapon that I disagree on (for the record I rarely even use it myself), but I hope they keep this stuff in mind for future updates. Also I don't have an issue with the concept of nerfing some things (although I disagree with the Rhava Velar one), but I really really think nerfs to overpowered / overused things need to be accompanied by buffs to underpowered / underused things as well. Balancing exclusively with nerfs tends to feel pretty bad.

Edit: As some people here and on reddit have pointed out, multiplayer could also be balanced separately, which I find it unlikely as it probably takes more work (I wouldn't know, just a guess) and can be counter-intuitive to some players, even if personally I'd prefer it.

How about you refund my Switch copy for the coming weeks until you're ready to push out some fixes. But hey, get some paid DLC and nerfs out in the mean time. Ridiculous.

Pass, no one wanted nerfs. Farming takes forever already in this game and I see several of my tools on that list. Plus as already mentioned some of that stuff is an homage to other equipment which was OP just leave it alone. Honestly haven't been digging the last few updates at all. Hope some better news follows.

Yup, I'm not defending this crap, anymore. All of you that wanted to trash this company (not Artplay) effing go for it.

They nerfed budget Valmanway but didn't touch guns.

Bullet dodged.

Yes, yes focus on things nobody care right now. Show people that you don't listen to them. Be surprised by class action lawsuit when people are fed up with Your behavior.

[/u][/b][/quote] Fucking gamers, am i right?[/quote]


Show screens from PS4 version in eshop and show trailers on official nintendo channels with gameplay from superior versions. Hype poeple and reasure them about state of the game and after all this slap them in the face with something that barely is playable without patch? Oh those pesky gamers it's all thier fault! Let's tell them that we will 'try' to fix it, they should be grateful! I'm here just to see how this story unfolds. It's just getting better and better : D