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Pre patches MGO was superior to Battlegrounds, 20-30 min comm control rounds; but I'd still be down for more MGO in any form where the playerbase didn't die out immediately:

Yep, next question

@starvinggamer: @slax: If I had to guess he's probably harder than the average SFV character.

Historical part lacked narration so slightly worse than Vikings bit; it was alright. Gaping Dragon lady still irrelevant. Robocop scene okay, but predictable.

Stormare awesome of course, a slightly higher percentage of the episode was roadtrip/Ian McShane talking; always a plus. Lucy way better than Limo Guy. Overall a slight improvement over the first episode maybe?

MGS2 is probably the best one objectively, this Dark Souls trailer always gets me though:

@milijango: 201 I believe, using just a random Odachi drop with no enchants and with a katana build (her grab does over 3400 damage on the Way of the Strong) for the first two attempts, though for the last one I found a decent one. I'd say on my character is slightly below average level since probably 5-10% of people playing are level 750 grind masters; also plenty of gravestones with higher level even on normal.

Life altering realization: Ultradavid has legs.

@arbitrarywater: Update: Way of the Strong Maria is definitely the hardest boss in the game; she buffs immediately, never blocks and doesn't stagger and even if you did run her out of stamina she rebuffs at the next available moment. They also gave Date instant buffing (for both bosses on regular difficulty they only buff past 50% health) but there's at least a 10 second CD on him redoing it after you run him out of stamina so that fight's somewhat doable (though still dumb). I think NG+/NG+2 Maria is almost impossible without a ludicrously overlevelled character unless you cheese (via spells/maybe ninjutsu)/parry her, I doubt anyone has actually beaten the Way of the Demon version in a straight up fight without being like level 700 (yes people do that); though the concept of doing so is intriguing. Still I kind of like when the hard bosses can be fazed a little bit. She's basically super steroids Gwyn who has very few if any gaps in the strings and straight up never staggers; Gwyn is one of the best bosses ever without parrying but you don't really need a version that has no weaknesses.

That said the normal version is still fine, can be fought normally with stamina management etc.:

@arbitrarywater: I found her easier than the other two main bosses personally; will report back on the Way of the Strong versions later. They definitely buffed the shit out of ninjutsu so you can do a pure projectile/items character now more or less (might be pretty easy of course); kind of interesting when the other guy has that in co-op since most people are bad at the melee combat it means they're more likely to survive and thus get you more glory.

I think they buffed axes a bunch since a few months ago, might be worth another shot. The Odachi actually has less recovery than the Kusarigama for the most part, despite being a big fuckoff sword.

@hassun Rare footage of Yamazaki actually doing something: