Arena Thoughts?

[Sl4ker]

anyone here killed the werewolf in dark mode without 10 hours of rolling rolling rolling hit rolling rolling rolling ?.-)

 

[username_3236168]

i am really enjoying it, but they could turn it into a really great multiplayer/co-op !

 

[complistic]

It's hard as hell.

 

[zaklaberg]

The shop is empty for me. Does it fill up with items later on or what? So far I only played on dark mode and have progressed no further than level 5. Great fun though

 

[IronBar]

Depends on what you mean by empty. If you mean that there's only potions, traps and such but no weapon or armor, then that's it, you get your armor and swords through the round rewards.

The werewolfs are a bit incomplete. For example, they don't have stun/adrenaline kills, they simply can't be stunned and trying to use the Swordsman adrenaline does nothing. Even some enemies don't get the kill animation but they still take a big amount of damage. They also seem way too strong (What I did was try turn the difficulty to Hard and I got killed with two hits with 76 armor and 510 health.)

 

[weasel8778]

The arena is a great addition, but I agree with the others in that the werewolves are annoying as hell. You can't use the swordsman adrenaline move on them and their health is ridiculously high -.-

 

[weasel8778]

And how do we know at what difficulty were u playing in the leaderboards ? Now thats just stupid because example 50k points in Dark mode ain't close to what 50k points are in Hard Mode. Hard is easy compared to dark...
If the waves are infinity, than u can almost in any mode chunk up a bunch of points. Or am i missing something u can tell which mode the player played ?

The points system takes into account what difficulty you played on. It is balanced, especially since the difficulty ramps up after each cycle of the 30 waves.

 

[chromie92]

The arena is a great addition, but I agree with the others in that the werewolves are annoying as hell. You can't use the swordsman adrenaline move on them and their health is ridiculously high -.-

Magic adrenaline move is the best.

 

[Gameboy03]

Is there any way to go directly to the Arena battles in the Tutorial?

Thanks.

 

[electrocide]

No

 

[Ranuncolo.107]

Moreover, It seems that the Arena in the Tutorial is somehow different than the one in the Arena mode.

 

[zaklaberg]

Well, I can't even buy traps/potions/ingredients in the shop. It is 100% completely empty....

 

[electrocide]

Well, I can't even buy traps/potions/ingredients in the shop. It is 100% completely empty....

Because u have mods that alter gameplay. Like all items in shops of innkepeers or MMs...delete all mods, including weight changes. Should be a clean game as 2.0.

 

[FuKuy]

I think Arena mode needs some COMPARE features in-game.

 

[username_2648340]

my arena scores still won't show up here. What gives?

 

[yandownie]

great addition to the game even if i,m rubbish in the arena,with practise it'll make playing the actual game much easier no doubt

 

[Mothra]

I love the arena. Serious challenge, fun and welcome addition to hone your skills.
And the werewolf is a little bossfight, getting hit is NOT an option just like with the Kayran or Draug.

 

[alpha_zen]

I think, arena is quit funny (after aquiring enough levels to unlock the other three skill trees), except for some bugs. At the start of every wave I can't turn the camera for two seconds or so. Then, from time to time Geralt just doesn't want to cast any sign (energy is full, no blocking done before). Needs a couple of seconds until he changes his mind. But I think I already had this problem pre-2.0. And the last thing: unfortunately the game crashed in arena mode after collecting about 30.000 points at the end of a wave when the "lobby" should have been shown. :/

 

[Sideras]

Im loving it, got passed the archers and did the dumbest thing possibly at the werewolf, tried knocking him off the edge.

Great warm up for Dark Souls and it's addictive as hell.

edit: Btw do people playing on normal - hard get to be on the leaderboard? I mean how do I know the top 10's aren't playing arena on normal like hell.