Run, regroup, gain some Ki (stamina), avoid their attacks, and return to the fight.Ī lot of the time, you can every sprint your way right out of combat. Do this in fights to put some space between you and your enemies. Run awayĪs long as you have Ki (the green gauge that’s effectively your stamina), you’re only a button press and a split second away from sprinting at full speed away from danger. We’ve beaten giant Yokai without looking once at our enemies. Lock on, and learn your Ki Pulse timing while watching your meter refill. Pick an enemy that you’ve fought a lot, so that you’re as comfortable as possible. It’s going to feel weird and dangerous, but give it a shot. And when they do attack, you’ll see the motion in your peripheral vision in plenty of time to block or dodge away. They rarely attack in the time between when you’ve finished attacking and your Ki meter is refilling. That’s how we created the habit.īelieve it or not, you don’t have to stare at most enemies while you’re fighting. That made us concentrate on getting a Ki Pulse. We just locked into enemies and stared at the stamina meter in the upper left. The way it finally stuck with us was - we fully admit - weird. You can also time hitting R1 to the moment when a bunch of blue particles coalesce around your character, but we prefer the bar because it’s clearer to see. The hardest part, honestly, is remembering to do it. There’s really not much to it - just time pressing R1 when your Ki meter is white and filling up. With a Ki Pulse, you can effectively regain a bit of the Ki (stamina) that you’ve just used - and that means you can keep attacking or reserve a bit of stamina for dodging or running away. You’re rarely going to kill an enemy with one hit, so make it a point to back off and conserve your Ki. If you find yourself standing next to an enemy, out of breath, unable to move, mashing buttons and praying, then you’re playing Nioh 2 wrong. Then back the hell away, regain your stamina, and wait for an opportunity to attack more. Attack only when you’re reasonably sure that you can get a few hits in without depleting your Ki gauge. If relentless aggression is your instinct, then reconsider. This is one of Nioh 2’s most important lessons: The game doesn’t just inconvenience you for running out of stamina - it punishes you. Keep smashing the attack button until your stamina runs out, and you can’t attack or dodge or run anymore for what feels like an eternity. The green bar (in the middle) at the upper left of your screen is your Ki gauge, which we’ll refer to interchangeably as your stamina gauge because that’s exactly what it is. Ki is Nioh 2’s most important mechanic, period. With patience, you’ll clear entire areas without ever getting ganged up on. Your goal is to separate your victims from their friends, and dispatch them one by one. Think of yourself as the boogeyman from a movie. We’ll talk more about this below, but it’s worth mentioning here. Use the environment (above) and items like stones (potbellied Gaki drop them all the time) or arrows (more on this below) to make sure you only draw the attention of one enemy at a time. Fighting even as few as two enemies at once is a bad idea. The other edge you can give yourself is making sure that you control who you fight and where. If you’re having trouble getting past an enemy or just need to find an advantage, look around and see if you can use the level’s layout to your advantage. Other alternatives let you completely skip fights, too. Many of them will bring you to a fight from a completely different direction, which radically changes how you approach it - sometimes even in your favor. But they serve a more important function as well: Shortcuts and secret alleys let you avoid some of those tough enemies we mentioned above. Mostly, you should explore them all to find useful items. The levels of Nioh 2 are full of looping paths, alleys, and shortcuts. There are plenty of other bad guys to kill. Put differently, it’s a really bad idea to fight strong enemies when you’re weak. You can always come back - and you should, when you’re more powerful and the odds are better. This is as true and applicable in hour 10 or 20 as it is in hour one. There’s no shame in acknowledging that a 25-foot-tall horse demon who can kill you in two hits is a battle designed for a more experienced player and a higher level character. Some enemies aren’t worth fighting when you first encounter them, and you can learn this lesson very early (seriously: within the first few minutes). Your journey won’t be easy, but here in our Nioh 2 beginner’s guide, written after several dozen combined hours with the game, we’ll give you some tips to make it less confusing and frustrating. Your first few day’s with Nioh 2 will be tough, confusing and fair, which is pretty much what we expected from a game designed to make you die a lot.
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