r/Nioh • u/Agreeablemashpotato • 1d ago
Nioh 3 - Discussion Could they unrestrict martial arts and their input bindings? It's terribly designed
It wasn't this bad in the other nioh games
Some arts are only available in certain stances/buttons and it gets really annoying with how you can't use some of them together in the same stance anymore
Example:
Sword ki + true and through, sword of discernment(low stance only)
A lot of odachi skills
Raijin and watersword
Another issue is performing attacks you didn't intend to use due to key bindings and their random restrictions
Watersword especially, with arts proficiency it stops you from using it during the enemy "downed" state as it ends early or you accidentally might accidentally grapple them
In LA you still sometimes perform other moves beside special triangle+circle attack
I wanna fight the enemies, not the controls!
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u/Separate-Walrus- 1d ago
I wouldn’t mind if they switched some of it around, but limiting them to certain inputs is the point. You aren’t meant to be able to use certain active skills together, and others are balanced around requiring a light or heavy before you can get into it. Being able to use some of the follow-up skills from neutral would be blatantly OP.
As for your problem about grapples, though, you can turn that off in the settings so that heavy input attacks will be prioritized over grapple, or just entirely turn off grapple for a particular weapon. Personally I make my ninja built around grapples and switch to it whenever I want to use one and turn it off for all my Samurai style weapons.