
r/absolver

Tackling ones opponent instead of sliding into them
I was getting really annoyed with only being able to slide into my targets as well as getting ambushed fight after beating up an enemy near a ledge. As a result of my frustration, I though, why can't we tackle them? I imagine something like this, you run towards them, jump to tackle them, and if successful, you grab them in the air, you going forward, them going backwards, you punch them once, throw them to the ground on their back, then role into a fighting stance facing forward, or backwards depending on your inputs turning the tackle. Think I'm gonna post this on reddit too.
So, the target would get a bit of damage from the initial grab, like a slide kick thing already does, then more from the hit during the tackle, and then a large chunk from the slam on the back. Granted, you may not end up doing any health damage to them due to how stamina works, or maybe you could because you can't necessarily block a tackle and it's resulting offensive movements.
Thoughts?
Windfall School?
Are there any windfall schools on Xbox? I joined one but I don’t think I like how slow the attacks are. Just started playing I’m level 30 and my Dexterity is my highest stat. Any tips, tricks, setting changes, or school suggestions would be helpful also Dm if you need a co op partner
Picking the game back up after a years long haitus
Would love to play with y'all some time :) I remember now why I liked this game so much
Hi everybody!
Is there anyone who can play with me right now? It's too bad the server is dead.
Someone run a fade
Im on xbox oce servers Feenmachine5650
EVO Absolver
I set up a lil spot at EVO in the free play section. Quite a bit of people had passed by and asked what was up, and a few of them even sat down to play!
I explained what Absolver is, how it works, how it plays. Aome people even asked for specific coaching on how to play. A few said they'd be getting the game even.
I got permission for every pic taken while people sat down to play.
I'm only gunna be doing it for this one day, cause what a pain in the ass it was to carry the whole set up to this spot. I still got a few more hours left of the day, and I'm gunna be staying until about half an hour before venue closes at 10pm Vegas time.
Edit: they close the Free Play Area at 9. Ended the day after packing it all up. Ima do ts next year 100%
they put this game on sale on xbox, and then shut down the servers
it was playable online for a day and now the servers have been shut down. that is so incredibly scummy.
i'm requesting a refund from xbox, this is ridiculous
Map and beginning area
It would have been nice if they they gave us a map, even cooler if it was made from essence, or even a collection of connected little stone slabs like the doors for the downfall places. Then collapses away or disperses when you cancel the map. I kept getting lot and confused. Also, for some reason I kept thinking their was a way to the beginning area, but their wasn't, I would be nice to go there again. Fuck, gonna make another post just thought of another idea.
There are giant bosses?
I finally became an absolver last night, technically this morning. I decided to see what the downfall update stuff was. It's a dungeon with a boss that's twice my size, pretty cool. But it got me thinking, why couldn't they let us get giant forms. That would have been so cool. I know it'll never happen but I wish Sloclap would come back to us. Please abandon the soccer game and just turn absolver into a live service, please. I need more powers, more moves, more absolver crack. It's addictive.
What they could have added
So, after realizing your levels can reach 1000, I've come to the conclusion that the devs fumbled an astronomical bag. Lets start with the downfall update. You always start in that sams place, that could have made that entire mine exploration with enemies and bosses all the way down that get harder and harder. And better than starting near the top, they start us at the very top of the mine hole, just at the very edge. Give us crawling animations and let us crawl down the walls, slowly draining stamina. Make an extraction fighter where you go in, give the mine attendant something of value, and come out with a tradable essence materials or anything else you find. The mine attendant works for a new BBEG one that wants to bring back Adal to it's former glory and is using the armors and clothing and weapons they aquire from us to stitch together an army. And at the end of each season an instance of the army is sent to everyone's game world. The army size would literally the determined by how how many actually articles of clothing or armor and weapons the attendant collected, each one being equipped to an individual soilder with an solid ethereal vessel making up the rest of the form. If more than 10% or more of the accumulated amount of ethereal soilders are killed then we go another season with no progress being made of Adal's reconstruction. If 10.01% or more of the soilders are killed then our savior failed to have enough time to rescue us from the army.
The savior is a character who always theorized that someone would want to use a niche essence power to build an army to one day try and rebuild Adal, so they've been training their body and power until they were needed again. (Idk how much time has past in all this, so i can't do the whole, "they trained for 1000 years," shtick, sorry)
If the Adal is ever fully revitalized the players then choose one of three sides, Pro New Adal, Anti New Adal, or Neutral with neutrals being pestered with random visits from pro or anti npcs with propositions to goint their side. They slowly get more and more hostile in an attempt to force your decision. If you find them all off both sides leave you alone forever. Pro Adal get access to a library of essence research and crafting benches to make weapons and armor as well as schools that teach new fighting styles. Antis get access to a wide network of mini settlements spread in each area besides Adal. They don't belive in using any of Adal's methods of getting weapons and armors and powers so they seek inward for power, hunt beasts for armor made from their flesh and fur, and use special techniques to make weapons from nature. The inward power is elemental in nature and is slowly decided based on your overall style of combat during a tribal ceremony, more aggressive gives you fire, defensive gives you earth, more parrying gives you watter and more dodging gives you air. The grow beyond those base four, bust that's usually how it works out after the ceremony concludes... usually.
I hate how they have crafting tables under the coliseum but did nothing with them.
That's it, that's all I got. I was gonna give more ideas than just the mine one by my brain kept rambling. Hope you have a good day or night stranger.
new player
got into the game recently, what in the FUCK is wrong with the parry system. Directional parry is cool, whatever, why do SO MANY moves look like the wrong direction, why is the parry window inconsistent as FUCK and what in the world is the point of a parry if it doesn't let me get a simple jab in. Doesn't matter if it's forsaken or faejin the parry feels like shit and I just get my shit pummeled in until I'm out of stocks. It feels fine against the NPCs so why is it so fucking bad in 1s? I get the whole "parry before the hit" bullshit but what does that matter if I'm just gonna eat the hit anyways?
"Connection to server lost" keeps repeating on Xbox on the US east coast, what's the issue?
Every 5-15 seconds or so I keep getting the server connection error and the game is lagging like hell. I live in West Virginia, my friend who lives in Georgia was having more minor issues but no disconnects, and my other friend who lives in California isn't having any issues at all, so I think it's localized. Anyone else having this problem or has encountered it before, and if so is there anything that can be done about it?
edit: my game isn't even doing the constant disconnect/reconnecting anymore, it completely failed to even connect to the server on the title screen.
edit 2: the friend who lives in Georgia also can't connect to the servers at all now.
Absolver with avatar elements
Wouldn't it be interesting if becoming an absolver awakened a special internal essence one that slowly built upon itself as you leveled more and more. The resource could be used to expell elemental energies, fire, water, ice, lighting, earth, sand or metal with a technique similar to any of the currently acquired ones, only it needs a bit of a wined up before expelling the element. For example, an upper cut would launch the material up and on to the target, a low kick would lauch the material in a side forward spray along the ground, staining it with whatever was launched or a jab would simply lauch the material at high speeds towards the targets direction. All of the moves would project the materials slightly differently. Anti-internal energy armors could be made from harvesting the internal essence of another. Lets say, level 100 is when you reach absolver, so 200 would be when this new energy stops cultivating, whatever that ending about is at lvl 200, be it 50 or 500, that's the max your vessel can hold of the internal essence. That's it for the idea. That you for taking the time to read this and have a good day or night stranger. I love this game so much.
I've had this as my profile picture for years can someone tell me what it is and who drew it?
An idea for how this glorious game could have been so much more
I was uploading my gameplay to youtube when I remembered this idea as I was typing the title out. I don't feel like fixing it up for this post so I'm just gonna copy and paste the text I put in the video. Fuck, I wish sloclap didn't stop working on this beautiful game. It could have been so much more. The lore videos I've been watching have such good ideas and foundational material too.
There's a buildingish building with a giant red door in the background of that one place with all the water with the people on the wood dock things. That door could have led to a different place with new warriors, ones who left Adal before it's collapse, ones who sought a different form of power through the essence. And the only way to get their could have been becoming even greater than an absolver that granted you the power to form a type of solid material just under your feet, allowing you to "walk on water," maybe the dude that grants you the power once you reach the right heights is a Jesus like character. Going a more benevolent path grant you the power through his, while going a more malevolent path, aka, removing the mask of your defeated foes, to reach those higher heights, leads you to the same power, but it's granted by a Lucifer type figure who has other plans in the works.
That whole biblical mythos is, and probably will always be, stuck in me. It's so alluring. The abandoned son clawing at the creations of his father in an attempts for some level of affection and understand while trying to make their view points known to all in hopes of making existence more free, and fun and spicy. All while dipping in and out of floods of temptations, oh so sweet sweet temptations.
Thank you for taking the time to read this. Whoever you are, have a good day or night.