u/Cpt_Camembert

1. Turn off all enemy UI

That means enemy level, all attack indicators, vulnerability state, everything.

2. Set difficulty to forgiving

3. Unbind healing

I hate the combat in this game so fucking much. However, since playing with these settings, it can be pretty fun at times.

I'm playing with minimal markers and obviously no health bars visible. How do I know which guys are the samurai daisho? Do they have special armor or something?

Am I the only one or is the dynamic brightness adjustment way overdone? I'd be in a Kofun and ​everything is supposed to be super dark, but I can see pretty well, because the game turns everything into this contrastless grey. Then when I turn on a candle, suddenly grey turns into actual black and I see even less then before.

It's also way too bright at night. I turned off HDR to see if it made a difference, but it didn't.

So this kind of annoys me: For some assassination animations the camera is completely free to move, for some it sweep snaps into position and cannot be moved until the animation is complete and when doing double assassinations, the camera instantly cuts into some predetermined angle and cannot be moved until the animation is complete. This can be very disorienting and more often than not, I need the camera to be looking in some specific direction, whether it be the direction of my escape route or towards additional enemies.

I like doing double assassinations, but the camera is making me avoid them... Anyone else feel the same pain?

I don't understand who this kind of weird shit makes it into a full AAA release...

For combat I found the game way more enjoyable after turning off almost ALL of the hud and indicators. No enemy health bars, no levels, no attack indicators, no state indicators (vulnerable etc). It feels much more grounded and I can concentrate much better on the actual animations and stuff. I turned down the combat difficulty to forgiving, because not knowing which attacks are flurries or unblockables is a bit of a disadvantage. Also I don't like the sponginess...

I also​ have everything turned off regarding stealth. No detection meter, no awareness indicator, no intuition, no last seen silluete and I don't use Eagle Eye at all. I'm using the normal stealth difficulty, but sometimes I'm amazed at how blind enemies are when I'm literally on a tight rope in front of their faces, but 3 meters from the ground. Must be those straw hats really restrict your view above...

For exploration, I have no compass and I only allow myself to look at a map at a kakurega or when I am in a named area, like shrines, temples or certain districts. I would walk up to monks or merchants to "ask" directions. Outside of those areas, I'm only allowed to ask for the way, that is I stand next to npcs, turn on the trail marker for a few seconds, then turn it back off again and continue moving.

I only use scouts inside kakuregas. Fast travel can only be done from kakuregas and to kakuregas. Ideally while switching characters so I can pretend that they made their way over there in the meantime.

I have gotten lost a few times and it took me a good 25 minutes to find this tea cup collector guy in kyoto the first time around. It's a very slow game, but waaay more enjoyable. You should give it a go.

I'm 50 hours into the game. I don't need tutorials anymore! Let me turn them off!

No, you cannot turn them off in the HUD settings. It specifically says: "does not affect tutorial messages". That makes this even more mind-boggling. They specifically designed this button to NOT remove tutorial messages... How dense is that?

Man, the combat system is ass. The animations, the spongy enemies. And the fact that unless you are target locked to one of your combatants, Yasuke or Naoe will literally assume casual strolling stance when you move around without attacking. It's so fucking goofy, I hate it.

This is my current setup, that I am very proud of:

Jailbroken LG TV running HyperHDR and screencapturing software locally. Two ESP32 boards taped to the back of the TV. One of them is running the LED strip around the TV directly and is connected to an external power source. The other is connected to the TV via USB for power and is running the six Athomtech RGB bulbs inside these Ikea paper lamps as virtual LEDs over Wifi. All the bulbs came preflashed from Athomtech with WLED.

I can also control the TV strip and both Lamps (as one instance) to run the normal colors and effects and stuff, so they also make great mood lighting for Netflix and ... WLED nights ;)

It's been some time since I've set this up, so I don't remember all the details, but I'd be happy to follow up on any specific questions.

Anyways, enjoy my favorite scene from my favorite movie :)

EDIT: guys, how do I do this? Everytime I try to post this as a video post, the video just ends up being a link to the very same post??

https://reddit.com/link/1uv3qom/video/vz7hk3zzxxch1/player

The song I'm looking for is about 14 minutes long, on Spotify and the best way I can describe it is a forest, thunder scene with rain, occasional animal screams and a general orchestral hum or drone. However, it's definitely not one of those "10 minutes of forest rain" - type things for studying, or at least I had no luck finding it when searching for it as such. ​There are no lyrics and as far as I remember it does not have a very descriptive name (otherwise I would have probably found it already), but I think the name did have the word "world" in it, though I'm not sure. The most prevalent instrument is probably like a chello...

So this might be difficult. The song I'm looking for is about 14 minutes long, on Spotify and the best way I can describe it is a forest, thunder scene with rain, occasional animal screams and a general orchestral hum or drone. There are no lyrics and as far as I remember it does not have a very descriptive name (otherwise I would habe probably found it already). The most prevalent instrument is probably like a chello...