The Knight also surpassed each Nailsmith in skill with a single training session each, even mastering the Great Slash just by watching Sheo paint. The Knight also surpassed Sly without even needing to be trained by him. Alongside a ridiculous amount of skill, I'm pretty sure The Knight has some form of Accelerated Development.
Upgraded HK size, Upgraded HK AP feats, made proper speed calcs. All of this will be applied tomorrow as it is accepted.
Nice, nice. Which feats have been calced? I remember discussing if breaking the door to Hallownest or shattering crystals could get higher than the False Knight feat, so I'm curious if those were brought up.
So I re-calced the False Knight feat. Using frame-by-frame I saw that it wasn't pulverized but it shattered at the seams and then fell down along with FK and got crushed into fragmented pieces. The re-calc got 4.7 megajoules. Door to Hallownest...I could try it but it takes many hits to pry open so idk. Shattering crystals is something I'll make in the future but idk, my estimates put that at a few megajoules at most rn.
The door to Hallownest takes 13 hits to destroy iirc (I can check later), although I've seen calcs that just divide the energy needed to fragment something by however many hits it took to do so. Didn't really consider Crystal Dash as an option, although I'm not sure if it'd work since the objects aren't being shattered all at once? Idk much about calcs so I'm of little use here.
Think of it like this. If you shoot a bullet through 3 walls did the bullet hit the wall with three separate energies or with one continuous energy output?
That's... a good point actually, huh. Nvm then LMAO
It also states that the Mantis Lords have ruled their tribe for "countless generations", and that the Longnail Charm "extends the wearer's aura".
Done.
I'd love to see more imbalanced boss fights similar to the Mantis Lords; The 2v1 and 3v1 dynamic works really well as it is, enough to make Sisters of Battle one of my favorite bosses in anything ever. I think if Silksong expands upon the movement from the original (which it seems to be doing) and manages to combine that with a similarly chaotic boss fight, then that alone is gonna make Silksong my GOTY lol
I really want more replayability. Hollow Knight mingled with the idea with Godhome, but once you do the quests and beat the bosses, that's it. Nothing more to see, unless you impose a challenge upon yourself. Granted, I understand that that's more of a Metroidvania problem than a HK problem (Dead Cells, Ori, and even Super Metroid come to mind), but it'd be nice for the game to have a bit of post-completion longevity. Or, since that's kind of an impossible request, I'd want less meaningless red herrings. That room in Deepnest with the Seal Of Binding is a really good example. What is that statue? The game says it's nothing important. Why does it have a Seal Of Binding? The game doesn't even acknowledge that, despite the only characters that can create Seals Of Binding that we're aware of being Higher Beings (The Pale King, The White Lady, Grimm, etc.). I'd just really like to see areas like that get axed in Silksong.
I hope the new mechanics aren't too complicated.
Ngl I've seen people try and bring up Deepnest as the hardest area but like, Kingdom's Edge and Crystal Peak are so much more harder. Deepnest can be a bit annoying but for the most part its a lot easier because it isn't filled to the brim with hard-to-hit flying enemies with unique mechanics that make it harder to hit.
Okay, YES. The intensity of those fights are legit amazing even if they can be frustrating to hell and back in the beginning. And you have an excellent point regarding the movement, Hornet is agility incarnate and I'm very excited from the snippets of gameplay we've seen that could live up to those expectations.
City of PEAK. Now that you mention it, I hope we have a memorable side-compatriot like Quirrel again.
Honestly I can understand the concern. I have faith in Team Cherry that they've probably kept this in mind while developing her full moveset and arsenal (which I'm very excited to see).
Swapping charms mid-combat would be nutty but I am all for it. They should kick things up a notch and get wild, with an intensity in the combat to match it.
The mysterious atmosphere was honestly a pivotal part as to why I was enthralled by the game in the first place during my first run. It's a perfect balance of giving you just enough info to string you along and keep you hooked.
Honestly, I somewhat agree with you about the replayability aspect. I felt once I had beaten the game, that was really it and there wasn't much left to do. But from what I've heard, Silk Soul (the Steel Soul equivalent) will make the story beats and changes more distinct for replayability. So your prayers might have been answered lol
For context, here's the image for a Soul Cache:
The Hunter advises The Knight to strike the Crystal Crawler, so I doubt his claws can't pierce them. The Hunter doesn't really have any other method of attacking apart from his claws and mouth, so he def isn't talking about Spells.
I'd only scale higher end fodder to that. Basically anything that actually attacks us directly or just scales very high on the fodder list. Vengefly obviously wouldn't scale high so there's exceptions.
@Armorchompy was against that in the Essence Physiology thread when I suggested it, but I'm okay with that.
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Looks good.Fellas
It is with great pleasure that I inform you that..
9-A Hollow Knight feat.All our bugs keep blowing u-
I will be getting it accepted soon.
By wyrm, it actually happenedFellas
It is with great pleasure that I inform you that..
9-A Hollow Knight feat.All our bugs keep blowing u-
I will be getting it accepted soon.
Who would this scale to? (Apart from Hornet, HK, The Knight, and The Radiance, obviously)
Markoth scales. Every other boss significantly downscales and 2-mask bosses scale 2x above it so to 92 megajoules.
Why would Markoth scale to the Void crater? He gets killed by a bunch of Kingdom's Edge bugs. Also, if he did scale, we'd also have to scale Oro because he hasn't been killed by the KE bugs whereas Markoth has, indicating that Oro's superior. And then we'd have to scale Sly for being Oro's superior and Sheo for being considered superior to Oro by Sly.
Actually I think both Markoth and Collector scale. The void crater should scale to KE Hornet and these two are available after they fight her.
as per what I said above, Markoth didn't get killed by them. The four nailmaster will downscale from 9-A anyways.
Except this was already accepted in the CRT. Like ok, huge tough enemies who mainly rely on weight+kinetic energy do 2x damage. What's the big deal?
Markoth may or may not have died by the KE bugs, but it's too vague to know, so let's discard that. Markoth states that "Warriors, knights, kings, even time itself, they have no power over me." There are a couple of problems with this:
Sure, but then Enraged Guardian, Nailmasters (with their Nail Arts), and the Dream Bosses would be 2x above Hornet, which is still really weird. Double damage is a gameplay mechanic to indicate that enemies/bosses are especially powerful, not literally 2x as powerful, and the reason Hornet and HK deal one mask is probably for the sake of fairness.
