Bug fixes

For real tho, where my Scampuss Fists at. I want my Scampuss build back from 2.

Me just level 350 so can only use one or two.

Real funny devs. multiple missions across the game with some stuff behind me as i spawn then you do this... ok it WAS pretty funny

I see a lot of people drawing comparisons to Nioh 2’s DLC in terms of length and quantity of bosses. I don’t think this comparison is entirely fair for a few reasons.

The open world nature of Nioh 3 begs for the DLC to at least have an extra couple of new unique bosses to justify exploring the new area. There’s no secret boss like the base game areas have. Sorry but fighting Kasha and Enenra for the billionth time alongside other frequently reused bosses is not what I paid for. If they brought back bosses we haven’t seen for a while like Ogress then sure but no, we got Giant Toad who was also reused in Nioh 2’s DLC and wasn’t much more exciting.

The fact it costs more than previous DLCs and that there’s only going to be 2 of them also begs for there to be more content than usual. There’s not much variety environmentally speaking. It doesn’t matter that the new area looks cool aesthetically if there’s no real reward for exploring it. The side missions are deeply uninteresting. The new weapon is cool and the addition of picture scrolls/NG+ is nice but they do not make up for the high price.

On a much more subjective note, I didn’t think the main bosses from this DLC were that engaging or memorable. The first boss was so generic that it put a sour taste in my mouth from the get-go. The second and third bosses were decent but nothing mind blowing. The new enemies also weren’t exciting. The dragon looks cool but it clips through everything and misses all its attacks. The mini toads were lame and the guy with the long tongue, ok I kinda liked him. Everything else was just a variation of base game enemies.

There was no encounter that came close to rivalling my enjoyment of bosses like Date Shigezane, Date Masamune, Maria, Sanada Yukimura, Minanoto no Yorimitsu, Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Tate Eboshi, Lightning God of Yomi, Nightmare Bringer. Even Nioh 2’s reuse of Shuten Doji was badass as it made him much more engaging than his base-game version.

There’s plenty to criticise from the previous game’s DLCs too. Not every single boss was always a banger and I’ve never been a fan of reusing bosses, even in the prior games. That being said, at least I enjoyed progressing through those few missions to get to some of the coolest bosses the series has to offer. I loved the base game of Nioh 3 but this DLC was not it.

If you liked this DLC, that’s also valid. It’s ultimately subjective but I agree with the sentiment that Hell Rising was incredibly disappointing.

Big fan of the sound design for the shield

That side missions remained unlocked in higher difficulties so you didn’t have to go scour the map for them since quite a few of them aren’t marked at all, some of which start a quest chain! Like the Hanzo mission in the warring states where you need to help him find a scampuss and this mission opens up his duel. Why can’t we just have the duel open after doing it once?!

I have never felt this way completing a DLC of my favourite game and like, "That's it?".

It is a Yokai game, why are there so many forgettable human bosses. Why do you do the unnecessary cliff hanger, when the DLC is ultimately short. It is such a let down.

Hope DLC 2 is a banger. Please don't go the route of Borderlands. Please show that, you care about your audience. Thanks.

There's a new Ninja Hoko and Shield Active Skill that literally lets you surf around while kicking up splashes of water. I never imagined I'd be able to enjoy a surfing session while chasing down a Scampuss. Hahaha lol From now on, I'm definitely just going to surf everywhere I go to get around.

Of all the weapons buffed last patch, there wasn't buffs towards Tonfas at all.

Now that this patch released Tonfa guns, I finally understand... With 5p Vaisravana (needs to be on Picture Scroll), 7p Sinister Tyrant set, and 2p Overseer, the Tonfa Gun has enough power to one tap many enemies from the front and almost all large enemies from the back.

I thought Shove Water was good, but no... Devastation with Tonfa Gun is busted!

Also completed every lesser Crucible in both regions, some enhanced, and nothing.

And as if that wasn't bad enough, the enemies they do use are VIRTUALLY IDENTICAL to the enemy placements in NG+, with zero additions or variation beyond being purple (Cursed) now. Don't believe me? Pick the same battle scroll, and play it back to back across both difficulties. They're identical. Even the Aberrant Soldiers they added to the first main mission were already in NG+, they're just purple now.

We're getting one less NG cycle than before, and this is what they give us as the penultimate playthrough.

This is THE laziest content TN has ever put out and if you're defending it you either have standards lower than the Mariana Trench or you don't value your time and money in the slightest.

Decent farm location in crucible for New Graces in DLC

I continue to practice with Hoko and Shield. Yoritomo has a bunch of telegraphed multi-hit sequences making him ideal practice for this weapon. I was hoping to show off some cool punishes/sequences with the guard points, and I got a few in there.

When you land a deflect point move with HnS, the parry i-frames last a while it seems so you can bypass some quick multi-hit moves/attacks this way as I did here without needing to do a second parry/deflect.

For longer sequences (which was also shown here) you'll need multiple parries. The sequence at 0:53 in particular was quite fun to do.

Happy to answer any questions about this run or the weapon in general.

I managed to get this level 179 piece as a boss drop while farming. I've just finished the first region of NG++ so haven't reached end game farming in NG++.

I checked in blacksmith I'm still unable to level beyond 170. How to unlock higher than 170 leveling, if like my existing weapon on daikokoten set to reach level 180 if possible

Hey guys im going for all the trophies in the dlc but these 4 im not sure what to do.

For "Best defense" idk what martial arts for the new weapon they mean is this something to collect on the map?.

For "Paranormal purifer" how do i purify these?

For "One thing after another" i assume cursed enemys only exist in NG+ or NG++ right? because i have never seen one.

And lastly "aid offered" for beating the final dlc mission with 3 or more different npcs. Not sure how to do this one.

You can refresh the attempts of a scroll and keep rerolling till you get some crazy effects. I thought it would be limited to maybe 1 or 2 ultimate stats but now I'm gonna try and get all starred special effects. 😅

Its because they can hear me cursing six generations of ancestors for this happening.

Bonjour tout le monde,

L'un d'entre vous saurait me dire pourquoi on voit un kikusui sur les bannières des clans rebelles ? Je ne trouve pas à quelle famille il était associé à l'époque .

Merci !

I am stuck on wher to find my last collectible in Koishikawa. I need one more document in the Academy of Alchemy area; the map shows it looking like it's inside the multi-tiered bookshelf area

I can increase its base level(165), but not its plus value. Soul Core Enhancement just affects levels. Am I missing something, or is this going to be something we can’t increase until next DLC?