For those who don't understand, Drunk style has really strong and simple counters that are really difficult to deal with if you aren't used to fighting them, and close to impossible to deal with when fighting someone who is actually very practiced in the game
I’m guessing the super annoying spammer was drunk style. While our poster here had to slowly wait out the entire battle just to throw a single punch every now, and then.
@@slippingstones With the way he was moving and how his head bobbled like a funko pop I think it's safe to assume the templar was the Drunk style player
For anyone unaware of what is going on, the opponent is just using low-tier cheese. He mashes out super armor moves the moment he gets hit, so there isn't ever a trade of turns. Whatever pressure could have been applied from our side is instantly turned into defense because of how abusive super armors(and the side evasion of drunk style) can be. Imagine playing guilty gear or blazblue but your opponent has unlimited burst. Mortal Kombat, but your opponent has unlimited breakers. It isn't that they can't be beaten, it's just that it is not fun. What we saw here was an inexperienced drunken style trying to beat an experienced windfall by exploiting a gimmick, and failing. This match was fun for nobody.
Ive always been windfall and my buddy stagger and we have had some of the best matches. Its all about knowing your opponents moves really (can be hard to read unless you know what avoids to use)
@@vaporsouls6752 They could always return to the Absolver universe and make an incredible singleplayer game in it. I mean even bigger and more extensive and-depth than the the SP experience there now. And making the entire game and combat styles much easier to balance.
@@acedelaforet9220 I'm not a PvP guy honestly, it just kills my creativity and overall enjoyment of playing a video game. So if you're more a PvP competitive player you might not find enjoyment in Sifu, of course when you'll start to have 60 to 100 hours of playing Sifu you'll start to see patterns in the AI, that happens in every Souls / Beat them all / Combat games. But if designed well the AI can still surprise a player if its adaptative, it's the case in the Souls games. Moreover the strong point of games like this is not really to kill your opponent but how you do it
@@ptit-monsieur I feel every fighting game should have pvp and online play. Especially sifu seeing as tho a big part of their audience is absolver players. Hopefully they add a multiplayer dc further down the line after release like how naughty did with Ghost of Tsushima
@@thechosenone4422 It died on launch man. I remember it came out and I was hyped af, lots of players online. The problem was the servers couldn't handle the load and by the time they had the servers in working condition everyone had left.
game needed larger areas, and more enemies, wouldn't have minded enemies with voice acting/grunting too. The combat was hella fun but overall the world just felt dead.
Yeah I stopped playing this game all together like 1 week after launch when I realized there was no more content to do after like 3 areas. I was hoping for so much more I was massively disappointed .
@@lechking941 I have so much ideas that could've made the game better (in my opinion), like nun chucks, bo staffs, maybe fighting styles based on animals (mantis, tiger, scorpion etc) or have enemies that require a party to defeat. Tbh even though it's a different style game, they could learn a thing or 2 from the dynasty warriors franchise
@@DimiArt DYNASTY WARRIORS?!?! Dimi farts please leave the premises with your shitty ass take. Like you had me literally up until you said that, completely DIFFERENT games. Like i know yyou mentioned its different but fuck dude its not just different its like hamburgers vs Chow mien. ireally dont understand why even have bracers in the game if their so limited. Nun chucks or bo's wouldve been sick.
@@themagicpotato7997 it stopped receiving major updates a few years ago, the average run time to "beat" the story is 5-8 hours, upwards of 12 if you're a completionist. The games replay value kind of relies on pvp or exploration of the combat system, but the combat only goes so far. this game feels like it could have had so much more
@@beepbeep8489 its sad because for whatever mysterious reason it felt like devolver digital chose to keep putting out other games instead of more resources into this one which was proving to be slightly more popular than the others imo
Such a shame too, it had so many locations that felt like there could be another fight there but they never got to it. No idea why they just abandoned it
is good to see there's still people who are interested in this game, Absolver was my favorite fighting game at the time it came out so much potential with all the different fighting styles and incorporated martial arts into the combat system it felt like it was a game made for met at the time since i've always loved martial arts and i've been a student for over 12 years, sadly around the time i started taking the game more seriously and trying to go full on competitive on it and becoming really good to the point of fighting content creators like ocandersis and judas, its really sad that the game died down so fast since i feel like it had the potential to be one of the best martial arts fighting games ever made but sadly it died down
well, there weren't many bosses or areas to fight in, so the only thing that was really fleshed out was the fighting. I beat the game in about 4-5 hours when it first came out.
you’ll always have people like that on fighting games. “Oh he learned that I like to spam the exact same moves in the same pattern? we’ll do it again!”
@@086009970611 First thing I do when I come up against an orochi is prepare to parry a horizontal quick attack. 9/10 orochi's start by doing that stupid sidestep spining quick attack, then get mad when you parry, and dumpster them
Those some of the easiest people to beat. They are strictly offense driven so just purely focus on defending and they wont be able to do anything with those weak moves
Really my only gripe with this game was how long it took to learn new moves sometimes, I shouldn't have to look up and join people's schools just to get access to all the moves in a kit. Other than that it was some of the most satisfying meaty fighting I've seen in a while holy shit I used to get so hype every other match
ya all they should have done post launch is kind of get the story moving and just build the world out from the inital i have a feeling this world is in a LOT more turmoial thanit seams.
I was trying to make out what was wrong, and it just seems like owl has more health or durability, or the new player had lower damage. He was giving good enough, but his health was dropping much faster per hit.
I think what was wrong was bucket head was using a particular series of attacks that are very niche to block or avoid, primarily charged attacks. Most new players just focus on blocking attacks and trading blows, and charged attacks completely dumpster stamina when blocked, making it easy to break through defences. If you're up against someone who knows the timing of charged attacks, you can't win because you don't have any good openers, but against most new players, it's an easy stomp.
If that possible, make sure you research the movement and add tons of weapons, katanas, Nunchucks, Ropedarts, staffs, Bow, and parkour. MFs love to parkour.
I quit like a year or two ago cuz some people in online matches toxic as shit, and ruin the fun of a match lol. It sucks too cuz i did enjoy the ambiance of this game
Can confirm. As an Absolver player, it’s SO much harder to deal with Drunken Fist moves when you’re just starting out. You really need to learn to start reading moves and defending carefully before it gets easier to fight players with moves like that
What really bothers me about this is that the drunken style user isn't even taking advantage of how drunken really works in this game, successful forward style action with stagger gives a 12+frame bonus to a lot of moves and the side style actions are easily chainable to gather stamina since stagger gains stamina regen bonuses that collect as you perform perfect dodges, and the back style stagger can be in niche situations feinted to continue said stamina regen gain. A lot of people don't know this, unfortunately this makes a lot of people who pick the style up at first, think that stagger is just some super aggressive style that you can just mash into hella hard and just continuously pressure the enemy with, but its real strength really comes from being sudden, you wanna be *suddenly aggressive* and take advantage of burst of stamina, play defensively, chain a few evasions and then start pressuring your enemy, and for the love of god stop spamming charge attacks, that shit might work on a new player using any style tbh as a lot of new players don't know how to answer them. Each charge has an answer, some are easier depending on the style you are playing, I'd say wind and faej certainly have the easier options, but unfortunately, new players won't know this and as most fighting games have proven aggressive characters tend to be the hardest for new players to learn to fight against because aggression tends to win a battle against someone who is genuinely trying to read take advantage of mistakes (but said person isn't experienced enough to do so so its a down hill battle from there)
This was a great explanation. I've recently picked the game up and noticed that. Drunken style seems to be a much less defensively based style than the Khalt method. I noticed that by staying just out of measure and using short, Burst combos, is the way to play Khalt. I have no idea about others though. Drunken fist looks like an even more mobile version of Khalt without the absorption and I'm excited to try it.
@@ForticusKrorkenstein Another big tip using stagger, learn to feint your style actions, the forward stance option, the back action and the two twist can be cancelled and they really shine in this, a lot of people like to go for the hits built into them but the hits do little damage and tbh don't chain well into a lot of attacks, an amazing Stagger style can chain several feints together an on opponents string, get a SHIT TON of stamina regen since they stack with each other and then start going on the offensive especially if you have the stamina advantage, at that point your like a whirlwind, you can throw bunch of attacks without worrying about abotu your stamina depleting super fast and your opponent pretty much HAS to weather it, there's also a mindgame element to feinting your stance moves as Stagger, the back stagger especially as the attack that come sout from it very slow, but if oyu are on it you can back stagger stance option into a feint and quickly throw out a 10-12f jab and its actually WAY faster then the actual hit that comes from it. The hit is useful i that the range is very tricky and can catch some people off guard who aren't watching their footsies
They also emote me alot LMFAO, instead of trying to help me they just be cocky and mean about it, I'm still learning tho I still want to get good at the game, but it's hard when online players are so toxic for literally no reason, like I just started a week ago chill tf out
You wont get good anymore bro game is dead sadly. It takes a bunch of time to get into this particular game and the only people left are vets whom are gods at this point or randoms with annoying decks that just cheese or ragequit. I used to be really good at it even wnet on a 40game winstreak but now if i try it again i'd prolly get 3-0d even by bronze 1s.
I dunno he hit you same times as you hit him so I quess his attacks were weaker or easier to hit? I don't play this game so please explain is there more dmg builds or styles than other?
His opponent is using a style that can be a nuisance to deal with and is easy for less skilled players to pick up on, but nearly impossible to counter in the hands of a skilled one. The style includes some get out of jail free cards that can be difficult to wrap your head around as a new player. In this case they know how to deal with this kindof playstyle so it does not seem like much is going on here, but if you pit their opponent against a newer player the gap becomes more visible. You should try the game tho, it deserves more attention and I love seeing new players come in! It's a really great tight-knit community.
@@salad__ I've been playing For honor for 4 years, my level is quite high and I'm having a lot of fun. I'm interested in Absolver, but I'm not sure if it's replayable like for honor, so I'm giving up. What do you think about this?
@@aliilkcan Absolver is all and only about hands. It's pretty much strictly for pvp and competition, it doesn't have a big expansive story mode, it has downfall but that dosent present much replayability. The funnest part of the game is testing your skill against people you always see and the ones that always beat you
For me usually high levels attack me when I’m attacking bosses Edit: does anyone know how to turn off pvp? Cause it’s getting out of hand and I’m really enjoying this game
The gameplay looked cool, but some sort of on explanation would have been SUPER helpful. Never seen this game before but the combat looks really clean and interesting.
Tldr ver. Drunken style is cheese, but if you're good you can easily break their poise, people who use drunken style usually arent actually good at the game
The counter to drunk fighting, both in this game and real life is to not attack first. Even in this fight, the damage the opponent did was when the drunkard attacked.
Man, I used to adore this game and still enjoy watching it, but the poor balance decisions actually made the game worse in many aspects further down the line and now that they've abandoned it altogether I just can't bring myself to go back. Once they gutted Khalt I was out because that was the style I put literally thousands of hours into and the only one that really fit my playstyle and deck. Then there was all the changes to frame data and specifically giving alot of moves a silly amount of + frames leading to the combat just losing that fast pace and fluidity it started with and ending up with fights like in this video - slow, tedious and clunky feeling. I'm looking forward to Sifu but I'm gutted that there isn't a PvP alternative. I so, so hope that once Sifu is out, it's successful enough that Devolver or even another studio will pick up this combat and deck building system and balance it properly into the game it deserves.
@@coxyozora7510 are you deadass?! Let’s fucking go, I just started the game 2 days ago after not playing for like 3 years and now I’m hooked to it again. so to hear that they still care abt the game to an extent makes me glad
I can agree with this video. There's a few things that turned me away. I spent a while after release getting "good" at the game and learned how to fight with my guy, beat the main little story then needed to grind pvp. It was just full of this fighting style with them exploiting a fast hard ti counter conbo that could besily open you up for a deadly punish. Follow that with lots of bad internet connecetion, idk if it has ever been the game or me, it's not really fun. I got into it again for a few weeks last year and it was fun until I tried to grind pvp again.
idk i used drunk style and the pros i fought just used combos that all ways broked your guard or very annoying hard hitting moves that are pretty fast, i had figured out their certain attaks thats negative on block and this one player set that in his combo where every time you blocked you couldn't dodge the guard break, i all ways thought drunk style was the weakest because it drains so much stamina
I played this game so much long time ago on xbox gamepass, I think i was late to the party, because there were not that many people playing but i was able to still enjoy the online experience. I hope they make an Absolver 2, this game was actually very fun, I loved just finding people and fighting or helping them.
Very low chance since they basically cut their losses almost IMMEDIATELY after releasing downfall, or whatever the last update was called. But i do hope they make a second one that is more refined
I really wanted to get into this game but got so overwhelmed and disheartened within the first 30 mins. I felt like the game didn't teach me anything outside of simple stuff I could've figured out myself.
@@XxXQuickScoperXxXJoinTheParty Not quite. For Honor explains all of its mechanics, and I never had a problem with any "2D" fighting games like Streetfighter or Skullgirls.
I was jade when I stopped playing. I noticed a lot of other high tier jade players when getting beat would just lag switch out, string combos and destroy you without a thought. I called quite a few of them out on reddit and posted the video of the fight. Its been a while but this game was fun before the cheating took over.
The Drunken style is stupidly powerful for no reason and absurdly easy to use. A lot of players will dwell in newbie areas, usually naked, and murder anyone who walks by just for laughs. The style is hard to play against if you aren't experienced in the game just yet and leads to people quitting before getting to a point they could deal with it. Even if you defeat the trolling player, they'll just respawn and hunt you down as they have nothing better to do but cause rage quits and misery. You'd only spend your time fighting a troll instead of enjoying the game.
also side note, hyper armor moves are easily counter by the built in dodge, blocks and absorbs, but if you dont time it perfectly, and theyre trash players who throw all hypers in one build, they can pull them back to back and eat your counter. be careful yo
maybe its just cause i dont remember much of the mechanics for this game, but honestly that fight didnit really seem that impressive.. im not saying i could do any better, but there was still a lot of blows being traded. i guess cause im used to crazy flawless fights as being impressive when it comes to fighting games.
Nah, this is the actual best fighting game ever, no joke, it's just that the skill ceiling is simply not a thing and you can go above and beyond to become a literal god I personally have a lot of fun trying to beat people who are way better than me, so maybe i'm biased on "the best fighting game ever", but in this game YOU are your OWN CHARACTER, you create the moves, you make the combos, and there's so much freedom to express yourself i'm 100% convinced no other fighting game tops this one But alas, some people go "i lost, game bad", even though a main part of the learning process here is to lose, it's a gamble wether you'll love or hate this game tbh, idc about tryhards too, because i'm a persistent little bitch and i do not stop fighting them until either i win or they quit lmao
@@AtreyusNinja Hell yeah, I hope you get someone to introduce you to the mechanics tho, because if you fight AI for most of the time, you'll get your ass handed to you on PvP, be careful
Bruh I remember when this game first came out, I was up late at night, ran into some random and we decided to team up. This game was SOOO hard for me solo
It was a fair fight nobody really got cleaned sweeped. I have one move that makes people rage quit... the simple jab. One of the fastest moves and it interrupts combos if you are great with timing.
this is the most well designed, highest skill ceiling, MOST DIFFICULT fighting game of all time. especially on PC, it died sooo quickly because it's just so hard.
nah, there are lots of people willing to play. As long as there are enough advertisement and attractive enough, they will at least try. If they don't stay at the end, all it means is other games are more attractive, that's all
@@fluquor8035 That's literally his point though. A lot of other games are more attractive to play BECAUSE they're easier. It's the same reason I preferred to play CSGO over R6, I just did not want to learn the more advanced mechanics in R6 required for me to git gud.
@@42ndMoose if it's through cosmetics, then it becomes a quagmire of microtransactions where the game tries to incentivize buying cosmetics with real money at every turn, so nahhhh Some games are good but not mediocre enough to gain a large following. That's why we have "cult classic" series like SMT, which are too hard for normies tl;dr normies playing games mean only casual games will take precedence
Not sure why this popped up on my feed since I've never played the game but from what I can see there's some armour moves and some parries. Is that what demotivates new players? I've never played this but usually both armour moves and parries have long ass windups and recovery frames making them easy to punish. Not the case here maybe?
Between armor actually being the equivalent of going hard mode on this game to drunk style being obscenely overpowered in the right hands is why I let go of absolver myself. If absolver 2 happens they need those 2 mechanics changed.
didnt the devs say this game was going to go nowhere like ever? additionally they dont have cloud saves for an online game. so once i upgraded my base ps4 to a gold 1tb and saw my character who beat the game, and unlocked every move but like 3 (i was literally able to count them on one hand) i gave up. absolver could of been something. but nah
I'm really sad about this game. I got it for the PvP but I joined too late to be able to keep up with anyone, when I try to go into PvP they always kick my shit in with some super weird fighting style that I can't possibly predict as a new-ish player. It gets really demoralizing when there's nothing I can do about getting my ass handed to me without any chance to even learn anything FROM it.
Most late game players just use spam decks or broken combo decks nowadays since the games been abandoned. I suggest playing it offline if you just want to beat the main bosses
oh than take your time in the open ended pve side, spar with others or join em in lvling, fight the 3 bosses and be ready for a HELL of a trial with the 4th and final one. oh and be warned this game rewards skill with pvping, oh and if your openly sparing be nice like ds take a bow and revive the downed, as its quite a silent supportive game. pvp as you see here is a bit of a odd mess if you dont know what ya doing but overall its a nice game.
Bruh why's everyone in the comments so salty, like just get good, it's not that hard, if they go for an attack you have 4 options; block, circle dodge (idk what it's actually called I just call it that cause that's the button on PS4), special dodge/parry (windfall, drunk stumble, etc.) Or retaliation with a faster attack. And for the love of God fuckin pay attention to your damn stamina, most of the skill issue people seem to have is with the stamina, cause stamina is how you use everything, literally max it out, I recommend leveling it to 25 cause that's the last meaningful increase to the stamina total, my main is set up with 9-8-25-25-17 (low str and dex cause I use higher damage moves) and try to keep your mobility between 20 and 25 (mobility isn't as good as it sounds but like everything in this game, it IS necessary), drunk style and windfall are noob traps, they're really good, but you'll plateau late game (which is really just early game depending on who you ask and how you wanna play) if you don't try khalt, faejin, and forsaken, trust me, switch up your combat deck too, if you notice that people are dodging low a lot throw in some sweeps, if they're dodging back throw in some lunges, to the side? Give me a good ol roundhouse. Literally just get better, not even trying to be mean or anything, it's like fighting in real life, it's easier for some yes, but at the end of the day, you're going to lose a few before you start winning them all
this game is still being played? i loved this game when it came out but from what i understand the game died? its nice to see ppl still playing absolver though, maybe ill jump back in
I like playing absolver for all the different fighting syles. I just wish I didn't have to forcibly play pvp to be able to fight bosses again. I got to rank 10 to refight the first boss and getting to that rank alone took me a few days as every match I played I was up against somebody who was max level or double the level as me. If that wasn't a clear explanation, to put it simply I lost every match I got into. Nowadays I'm only playing the normal way and doing downfall missions because I can't win a single match. That's mainly saying I can't get good
the absolver skill curve was always steep. minus the fact that there were only ever a couple thousand active players at any given time, you'd always see the same two dozen or so players at the top leader board each week
wait, hold the fuck up, you're telling me people are still playing Absolver? This used to be one of my favourite games when it came out but the playerbase dwindled so very fast that I gave up on it. Has it gotten any updates? Are people still playing? Now I really want to check the game out again.
The game basically hasn’t received any updates since the downfall update, Sloclap dropped the game to work on Sifu (which looks awesome). They said they MIGHT pick the game back up and give it updates after Sifu’s release, but there’s no guarantee. As for the servers, they’re doing really well on PS4 and PC for NA and EU servers, no clue about Xbox tho
For those who don't understand, Drunk style has really strong and simple counters that are really difficult to deal with if you aren't used to fighting them, and close to impossible to deal with when fighting someone who is actually very practiced in the game
Thanks for the explanation, I had no idea.
I’m guessing the super annoying spammer was drunk style. While our poster here had to slowly wait out the entire battle just to throw a single punch every now, and then.
@@slippingstones With the way he was moving and how his head bobbled like a funko pop I think it's safe to assume the templar was the Drunk style player
To me it just looked like one was better than the other, a bit of practise and the other guy would get better the same with any game
@@dajmoneq2840 😂😂 At least do research before u say stupid stuff like that
For anyone unaware of what is going on, the opponent is just using low-tier cheese. He mashes out super armor moves the moment he gets hit, so there isn't ever a trade of turns. Whatever pressure could have been applied from our side is instantly turned into defense because of how abusive super armors(and the side evasion of drunk style) can be.
Imagine playing guilty gear or blazblue but your opponent has unlimited burst.
Mortal Kombat, but your opponent has unlimited breakers.
It isn't that they can't be beaten, it's just that it is not fun.
What we saw here was an inexperienced drunken style trying to beat an experienced windfall by exploiting a gimmick, and failing.
This match was fun for nobody.
I fucking hate Stagger
thanks for the explanation buddy
Ive always been windfall and my buddy stagger and we have had some of the best matches. Its all about knowing your opponents moves really (can be hard to read unless you know what avoids to use)
it looked a little fun tbh
Can't wait for Sifu so that I can enjoy Sloclap's talent on a solo experience with respectful AI
Sad thing is im in love with the absolver lore and artstyle
@@vaporsouls6752 They could always return to the Absolver universe and make an incredible singleplayer game in it. I mean even bigger and more extensive and-depth than the the SP experience there now. And making the entire game and combat styles much easier to balance.
Honestly im not too excited about the AI. ya it probably wont be annoying but its going to be super easy to beat up
@@acedelaforet9220 I'm not a PvP guy honestly, it just kills my creativity and overall enjoyment of playing a video game. So if you're more a PvP competitive player you might not find enjoyment in Sifu, of course when you'll start to have 60 to 100 hours of playing Sifu you'll start to see patterns in the AI, that happens in every Souls / Beat them all / Combat games. But if designed well the AI can still surprise a player if its adaptative, it's the case in the Souls games. Moreover the strong point of games like this is not really to kill your opponent but how you do it
@@ptit-monsieur I feel every fighting game should have pvp and online play. Especially sifu seeing as tho a big part of their audience is absolver players. Hopefully they add a multiplayer dc further down the line after release like how naughty did with Ghost of Tsushima
This game has such a great concept but I guess some of the execution was rough.
This game have such potential, but it's all lost because devs has abandoned the project
@@thechosenone4422 It died on launch man. I remember it came out and I was hyped af, lots of players online. The problem was the servers couldn't handle the load and by the time they had the servers in working condition everyone had left.
@@babadook1283 reminds me of splitgate but thankfully they were able to get it together in time :)
if you mean the servers on launch, yes , everything else was respectable
Hopefully they implement something like this in sifu and learn from their previous experience
Damn, thats some good super armor he's got there. Almost why i stopped playing; that and co-op is dry as hell even with the downfall update.
game needed larger areas, and more enemies, wouldn't have minded enemies with voice acting/grunting too. The combat was hella fun but overall the world just felt dead.
Yeah I stopped playing this game all together like 1 week after launch when I realized there was no more content to do after like 3 areas. I was hoping for so much more I was massively disappointed .
@@DimiArt indeed, just needs a little bit more activity.
@@lechking941 I have so much ideas that could've made the game better (in my opinion), like nun chucks, bo staffs, maybe fighting styles based on animals (mantis, tiger, scorpion etc) or have enemies that require a party to defeat. Tbh even though it's a different style game, they could learn a thing or 2 from the dynasty warriors franchise
@@DimiArt DYNASTY WARRIORS?!?! Dimi farts please leave the premises with your shitty ass take. Like you had me literally up until you said that, completely DIFFERENT games. Like i know yyou mentioned its different but fuck dude its not just different its like hamburgers vs Chow mien. ireally dont understand why even have bracers in the game if their so limited. Nun chucks or bo's wouldve been sick.
i loved absolver so much i wish the game itself had more content tho
did it end or something? ive never seen this game
@@themagicpotato7997 it stopped receiving major updates a few years ago, the average run time to "beat" the story is 5-8 hours, upwards of 12 if you're a completionist.
The games replay value kind of relies on pvp or exploration of the combat system, but the combat only goes so far. this game feels like it could have had so much more
@@beepbeep8489 Dang, that’s rough
@@beepbeep8489 its sad because for whatever mysterious reason it felt like devolver digital chose to keep putting out other games instead of more resources into this one which was proving to be slightly more popular than the others imo
Such a shame too, it had so many locations that felt like there could be another fight there but they never got to it. No idea why they just abandoned it
is good to see there's still people who are interested in this game, Absolver was my favorite fighting game at the time it came out so much potential with all the different fighting styles and incorporated martial arts into the combat system it felt like it was a game made for met at the time since i've always loved martial arts and i've been a student for over 12 years, sadly around the time i started taking the game more seriously and trying to go full on competitive on it and becoming really good to the point of fighting content creators like ocandersis and judas, its really sad that the game died down so fast since i feel like it had the potential to be one of the best martial arts fighting games ever made but sadly it died down
I feel the same way. I LOVE fighting games but there was always something missing. This game filles the holes that other fighting games were missing.
5mo later im playing now😭
@@bachii1051 is there more than 10 players at a time?
well, there weren't many bosses or areas to fight in, so the only thing that was really fleshed out was the fighting.
I beat the game in about 4-5 hours when it first came out.
@@nerotheweirdo4755 did you platinum it tho?
you’ll always have people like that on fighting games. “Oh he learned that I like to spam the exact same moves in the same pattern? we’ll do it again!”
That is what happening in for honor lol
@@086009970611 facts, the amount of times Kensei players dodge attack amazes me.
@@086009970611 First thing I do when I come up against an orochi is prepare to parry a horizontal quick attack. 9/10 orochi's start by doing that stupid sidestep spining quick attack, then get mad when you parry, and dumpster them
@@086009970611 I've been in a hate hate relationship with that game for a long time. I've quit for now, but I know it's a matter of time.
AI grindset
i thought he was going to show an opponent with the super speed spam decks. where they just hit you so fast it feels like you can't do anything.
Those some of the easiest people to beat. They are strictly offense driven so just purely focus on defending and they wont be able to do anything with those weak moves
turns out that blokcing light attacks doesnt drain much stamina...
its the heavy attacks that do.
@@therusty9993 and shure heavy spams are easy because more light deal em its the peopel who use unblockables that you need to fear
@@lechking941 been too long since I played absolver to remember mechanics
@@therusty9993 OOF eh thinkfully it can be easy to get back into visa the pve stuff
Really my only gripe with this game was how long it took to learn new moves sometimes, I shouldn't have to look up and join people's schools just to get access to all the moves in a kit. Other than that it was some of the most satisfying meaty fighting I've seen in a while holy shit I used to get so hype every other match
ya all they should have done post launch is kind of get the story moving and just build the world out from the inital i have a feeling this world is in a LOT more turmoial thanit seams.
I finished the game without unlocking any new moves
@@aidankelly7075 yea anyone can but use those basic moves in pvp n u will get clapped
@@lechking941definitely feels like we only got to see a small bit of the actual world
@@dontkickmychick6076 hm no idea what i typed but memory of the game ya we only see a TINY bit of the world
I was trying to make out what was wrong, and it just seems like owl has more health or durability, or the new player had lower damage. He was giving good enough, but his health was dropping much faster per hit.
I think what was wrong was bucket head was using a particular series of attacks that are very niche to block or avoid, primarily charged attacks. Most new players just focus on blocking attacks and trading blows, and charged attacks completely dumpster stamina when blocked, making it easy to break through defences. If you're up against someone who knows the timing of charged attacks, you can't win because you don't have any good openers, but against most new players, it's an easy stomp.
He was just throwing. He was doing good at the beginning of each match and then he either tunnel visions of button mashes.
@@Gabronthe mhm almost forgot this was a fighting game.
The guy is super armor spamming.
@@maxenzie1897 also the lower your stamina the less damage you do (at least I think it was that way a couple years ago) and he is button mashing.
I think my favorite part of absolver is its artstyle, I'm gonna try to learn how to recreate it
If that possible, make sure you research the movement and add tons of weapons, katanas, Nunchucks, Ropedarts, staffs, Bow, and parkour. MFs love to parkour.
Straight up people love ac unity and spiderman parkour
@@WolfDragon6000 🤣🤣🤣 wtf
Oh and add a place with a lot of monkey I love monkey especially the fat one
@@Nicolo-ue9xu a monkey fighter…. 🤔I like the way you think.
I've literally never head of this game before but even this rage clip looks sick
Same
I quit like a year or two ago cuz some people in online matches toxic as shit, and ruin the fun of a match lol. It sucks too cuz i did enjoy the ambiance of this game
I feel that. Some people are toxic but it’s rare now on PSN.
@@WolfDragon6000 damn lucky. I have the xbox version
@@KmoneyB12 that’s explains alot.
@@WolfDragon6000 yep. U already know. Which is why i havent tried goin back on there.
@@KmoneyB12 The game seems to be like for honor, People be toxic in these kinda games no matter the platform
Can confirm. As an Absolver player, it’s SO much harder to deal with Drunken Fist moves when you’re just starting out. You really need to learn to start reading moves and defending carefully before it gets easier to fight players with moves like that
What really bothers me about this is that the drunken style user isn't even taking advantage of how drunken really works in this game, successful forward style action with stagger gives a 12+frame bonus to a lot of moves and the side style actions are easily chainable to gather stamina since stagger gains stamina regen bonuses that collect as you perform perfect dodges, and the back style stagger can be in niche situations feinted to continue said stamina regen gain. A lot of people don't know this, unfortunately this makes a lot of people who pick the style up at first, think that stagger is just some super aggressive style that you can just mash into hella hard and just continuously pressure the enemy with, but its real strength really comes from being sudden, you wanna be *suddenly aggressive* and take advantage of burst of stamina, play defensively, chain a few evasions and then start pressuring your enemy, and for the love of god stop spamming charge attacks, that shit might work on a new player using any style tbh as a lot of new players don't know how to answer them. Each charge has an answer, some are easier depending on the style you are playing, I'd say wind and faej certainly have the easier options, but unfortunately, new players won't know this and as most fighting games have proven aggressive characters tend to be the hardest for new players to learn to fight against because aggression tends to win a battle against someone who is genuinely trying to read take advantage of mistakes (but said person isn't experienced enough to do so so its a down hill battle from there)
This was a great explanation. I've recently picked the game up and noticed that. Drunken style seems to be a much less defensively based style than the Khalt method. I noticed that by staying just out of measure and using short, Burst combos, is the way to play Khalt. I have no idea about others though. Drunken fist looks like an even more mobile version of Khalt without the absorption and I'm excited to try it.
@@ForticusKrorkenstein Another big tip using stagger, learn to feint your style actions, the forward stance option, the back action and the two twist can be cancelled and they really shine in this, a lot of people like to go for the hits built into them but the hits do little damage and tbh don't chain well into a lot of attacks, an amazing Stagger style can chain several feints together an on opponents string, get a SHIT TON of stamina regen since they stack with each other and then start going on the offensive especially if you have the stamina advantage, at that point your like a whirlwind, you can throw bunch of attacks without worrying about abotu your stamina depleting super fast and your opponent pretty much HAS to weather it, there's also a mindgame element to feinting your stance moves as Stagger, the back stagger especially as the attack that come sout from it very slow, but if oyu are on it you can back stagger stance option into a feint and quickly throw out a 10-12f jab and its actually WAY faster then the actual hit that comes from it. The hit is useful i that the range is very tricky and can catch some people off guard who aren't watching their footsies
They also emote me alot LMFAO, instead of trying to help me they just be cocky and mean about it, I'm still learning tho I still want to get good at the game, but it's hard when online players are so toxic for literally no reason, like I just started a week ago chill tf out
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You wont get good anymore bro game is dead sadly. It takes a bunch of time to get into this particular game and the only people left are vets whom are gods at this point or randoms with annoying decks that just cheese or ragequit. I used to be really good at it even wnet on a 40game winstreak but now if i try it again i'd prolly get 3-0d even by bronze 1s.
I have literally 0 clue what I was supposed to see
Knight: *Aha! U thought I excelled only in swordplay, eh?*
MC: *oh F*ck off*
_(TRIPLE KILL)_
I dunno he hit you same times as you hit him so I quess his attacks were weaker or easier to hit? I don't play this game so please explain is there more dmg builds or styles than other?
His opponent is using a style that can be a nuisance to deal with and is easy for less skilled players to pick up on, but nearly impossible to counter in the hands of a skilled one. The style includes some get out of jail free cards that can be difficult to wrap your head around as a new player. In this case they know how to deal with this kindof playstyle so it does not seem like much is going on here, but if you pit their opponent against a newer player the gap becomes more visible. You should try the game tho, it deserves more attention and I love seeing new players come in! It's a really great tight-knit community.
@@salad__ I see. Thanks for explaination!
@@salad__ I've been playing For honor for 4 years, my level is quite high and I'm having a lot of fun. I'm interested in Absolver, but I'm not sure if it's replayable like for honor, so I'm giving up. What do you think about this?
@@aliilkcan Absolver is all and only about hands. It's pretty much strictly for pvp and competition, it doesn't have a big expansive story mode, it has downfall but that dosent present much replayability. The funnest part of the game is testing your skill against people you always see and the ones that always beat you
@@salad__ looks like he has hyper amour or some shit
oh he got mad mad at the end doing all those charge moves XD
For me usually high levels attack me when I’m attacking bosses
Edit: does anyone know how to turn off pvp? Cause it’s getting out of hand and I’m really enjoying this game
Are you still on story mode
@@marquesgalbraith1068 yeah I’m still trying to find “the marked ones”
Go to options from the main menu(not in game) and change offline mode to on
While in game you can do social > invitation only. Otherwise just turn off multiplayer mode from the main menu screen
Turn off your connection.
The gameplay looked cool, but some sort of on explanation would have been SUPER helpful. Never seen this game before but the combat looks really clean and interesting.
never heard of it either but the character movement looks clunky
Tldr ver. Drunken style is cheese, but if you're good you can easily break their poise, people who use drunken style usually arent actually good at the game
@@tonytendencies4698 cause its a fighting game; you don't go back on a move once you make it, unless you're feinting
@@SafetyKittenthink you replied to the wrong person
@@tonytendencies4698 I didn't Tony, I meant to reply to you my friend :)
The counter to drunk fighting, both in this game and real life is to not attack first. Even in this fight, the damage the opponent did was when the drunkard attacked.
Wow, Way Of The Drunken Master really is the strongest Monk subclass
Man, I used to adore this game and still enjoy watching it, but the poor balance decisions actually made the game worse in many aspects further down the line and now that they've abandoned it altogether I just can't bring myself to go back. Once they gutted Khalt I was out because that was the style I put literally thousands of hours into and the only one that really fit my playstyle and deck. Then there was all the changes to frame data and specifically giving alot of moves a silly amount of + frames leading to the combat just losing that fast pace and fluidity it started with and ending up with fights like in this video - slow, tedious and clunky feeling.
I'm looking forward to Sifu but I'm gutted that there isn't a PvP alternative. I so, so hope that once Sifu is out, it's successful enough that Devolver or even another studio will pick up this combat and deck building system and balance it properly into the game it deserves.
two years later, the FGC needs this now more than ever
@@Lets_Get_This_Bread Not really an option for console players unfortunately.
Olcadan taught that newcomer a lesson
i wish this game could still be updated and supported
This is why new players keep playing*
Just found out about this game thanks to your video, hope a sale goes on soon
theyre are making a game called sifu
"This playstyle is just to make new ppl ragequit"
Me: good deed indeed
I would quit too if my character's fighting stance was him showing his ass to the opponent the whole time.
ah yes, the cancer style, they should probably remove this or atleast rework it
They haven’t touched the game in 2 years fuck makes you think they’re gonna fix it lol
@@1cvjs you've seen the interview yet? they say that if sifu get enough traction they're going to continue absolver again
@@coxyozora7510 are you deadass?! Let’s fucking go, I just started the game 2 days ago after not playing for like 3 years and now I’m hooked to it again. so to hear that they still care abt the game to an extent makes me glad
@@1cvjs no fucking way I had 300 hours on this game and I thought I wasted all of them
@@carlo2038 nothing is ever wasted if you enjoyed those hours and found a game that you loved.
Yo! You got a sub from me for this hotness you released, this game is so fire!
Been YEARS since I've played this beauty of a game.
I can agree with this video. There's a few things that turned me away. I spent a while after release getting "good" at the game and learned how to fight with my guy, beat the main little story then needed to grind pvp. It was just full of this fighting style with them exploiting a fast hard ti counter conbo that could besily open you up for a deadly punish. Follow that with lots of bad internet connecetion, idk if it has ever been the game or me, it's not really fun. I got into it again for a few weeks last year and it was fun until I tried to grind pvp again.
As soon as I saw the lava texture for the axe kick in sifu.... I knee sloclap was involved
idk i used drunk style and the pros i fought just used combos that all ways broked your guard or very annoying hard hitting moves that are pretty fast, i had figured out their certain attaks thats negative on block and this one player set that in his combo where every time you blocked you couldn't dodge the guard break, i all ways thought drunk style was the weakest because it drains so much stamina
I was never good at this game but I sure do miss it
the poor knight is drunk. he forgot his sword and now all he can do is flopp around instead of actually fight
I stopped playing because I kept getting jumped by a group of friends hanging out by the first boss
we needed joe rogan yelling in the back for a couple of those counter kicks
omg i loved absolvere buut there was no content so i just stopped playing
So essentially it'll be top nerds meta-gaming casuals. Where have I seen this before?
I played this game so much long time ago on xbox gamepass, I think i was late to the party, because there were not that many people playing but i was able to still enjoy the online experience. I hope they make an Absolver 2, this game was actually very fun, I loved just finding people and fighting or helping them.
Very low chance since they basically cut their losses almost IMMEDIATELY after releasing downfall, or whatever the last update was called. But i do hope they make a second one that is more refined
This was way easier to follow than watching two high-level players fight.
I fucking loved this game and I hoped it would become huge, too bad.. too bad
After looking at this game for 2 minutes and 42 seconds, i have to wonder why anyone would start playing it.
aha same
Because people wanted a martial arts game where you could make you're own kinda style. They fucked it up badly.
Because people wanted a martial arts game where you could make you're own kinda style. They fucked it up badly.
dude looks like a pots and pans robot
“I’m mad that someone is playing the game in a way that’s allowed and works”
I really wanted to get into this game but got so overwhelmed and disheartened within the first 30 mins. I felt like the game didn't teach me anything outside of simple stuff I could've figured out myself.
@@XxXQuickScoperXxXJoinTheParty Not quite. For Honor explains all of its mechanics, and I never had a problem with any "2D" fighting games like Streetfighter or Skullgirls.
Legend has it there is only one stagger really left on xbox
is that a crusader doing kung fu
Me, not knowing what game this even is: *Hm, Yes. Very much.*
Holy shit, I remember seeing this game, thinking it was really cool...and then never playing it.
I have the feeling like I missed out
It's still around, why not buy it and try it out? It might take a while to really learn though, depending on how good you are at fighting games
I keep hearing talks of them going back to absolver after sifu. they have a lot to clean up.
The talk is probably just false hope since the games been in a dead state for a while and they'd have ALOT they'd need to fix/add
I was jade when I stopped playing. I noticed a lot of other high tier jade players when getting beat would just lag switch out, string combos and destroy you without a thought. I called quite a few of them out on reddit and posted the video of the fight. Its been a while but this game was fun before the cheating took over.
The super armour spam is indeed powerful but only good against new players, experience player will see it predictable and learn to punish that move.
The Drunken style is stupidly powerful for no reason and absurdly easy to use. A lot of players will dwell in newbie areas, usually naked, and murder anyone who walks by just for laughs. The style is hard to play against if you aren't experienced in the game just yet and leads to people quitting before getting to a point they could deal with it. Even if you defeat the trolling player, they'll just respawn and hunt you down as they have nothing better to do but cause rage quits and misery. You'd only spend your time fighting a troll instead of enjoying the game.
also side note, hyper armor moves are easily counter by the built in dodge, blocks and absorbs, but if you dont time it perfectly, and theyre trash players who throw all hypers in one build, they can pull them back to back and eat your counter. be careful yo
This game looks amazing I'm super sad it died out and never got popular
maybe its just cause i dont remember much of the mechanics for this game, but honestly that fight didnit really seem that impressive.. im not saying i could do any better, but there was still a lot of blows being traded. i guess cause im used to crazy flawless fights as being impressive when it comes to fighting games.
I wish there were grab moves that could interrupt the shielded moves.
holy shit another absolver player? my respect for you is at max
I used a boxxing style with a mix of heavy/light mid/low kicks. I had a pretty nice record. I wish I recorded more fights.
Accurate, i stopped playing because just like in this video, I didn't understand anyfuckingthing
i whish i could understand what is going on xD, this game, would you recommend it? is the pvp unbalanced? is the pve good?
Nah, this is the actual best fighting game ever, no joke, it's just that the skill ceiling is simply not a thing and you can go above and beyond to become a literal god
I personally have a lot of fun trying to beat people who are way better than me, so maybe i'm biased on "the best fighting game ever", but in this game YOU are your OWN CHARACTER, you create the moves, you make the combos, and there's so much freedom to express yourself i'm 100% convinced no other fighting game tops this one
But alas, some people go "i lost, game bad", even though a main part of the learning process here is to lose, it's a gamble wether you'll love or hate this game tbh, idc about tryhards too, because i'm a persistent little bitch and i do not stop fighting them until either i win or they quit lmao
@@officialburgar so it's more or less "Dark Souls but with your fists" or something like that?
@@officialburgar k i see, i added it to my whishlist for now :'D thx.
@@DepressedCrow basically, yea, except the Bosses are the players
@@AtreyusNinja Hell yeah, I hope you get someone to introduce you to the mechanics tho, because if you fight AI for most of the time, you'll get your ass handed to you on PvP, be careful
Yeah, this is why I stopped too. That, and I couldn't make a heavily armored boxer.
I don't know what I was supposed to be looking for
From what I can see it lacks proper timing with attack interrupts and attacks just go trough regardless, as if you might aswell spam attacks.
take a shot everytime haapy1 uses a superarmor attack
Blessed by the algorithm
on this episode of why is this on my recommendeds
Bruh I remember when this game first came out, I was up late at night, ran into some random and we decided to team up. This game was SOOO hard for me solo
seriously? no one gets this intro is from the matrix fight scene between Neo and Morpheus?
It was a fair fight nobody really got cleaned sweeped. I have one move that makes people rage quit... the simple jab. One of the fastest moves and it interrupts combos if you are great with timing.
and its basic so its even worse than my love of a brake dance like spin move
@@lechking941 so basically you play like shit
Now I really want to play this game again
No one is going to talk about the kick at the end? holy shit
yo this game is awesome looking! i gotta check it out
this is the most well designed, highest skill ceiling, MOST DIFFICULT fighting game of all time. especially on PC, it died sooo quickly because it's just so hard.
nah, there are lots of people willing to play. As long as there are enough advertisement and attractive enough, they will at least try. If they don't stay at the end, all it means is other games are more attractive, that's all
@@fluquor8035 That's literally his point though. A lot of other games are more attractive to play BECAUSE they're easier. It's the same reason I preferred to play CSGO over R6, I just did not want to learn the more advanced mechanics in R6 required for me to git gud.
they just need to be more rewarding, either better cosmetics, or commentated through an audience.
this needs to be an esport. if it's balanced.
@@42ndMoose if it's through cosmetics, then it becomes a quagmire of microtransactions where the game tries to incentivize buying cosmetics with real money at every turn, so nahhhh
Some games are good but not mediocre enough to gain a large following. That's why we have "cult classic" series like SMT, which are too hard for normies
tl;dr normies playing games mean only casual games will take precedence
tekken is more difficult
Not sure why this popped up on my feed since I've never played the game but from what I can see there's some armour moves and some parries. Is that what demotivates new players? I've never played this but usually both armour moves and parries have long ass windups and recovery frames making them easy to punish. Not the case here maybe?
Between armor actually being the equivalent of going hard mode on this game to drunk style being obscenely overpowered in the right hands is why I let go of absolver myself. If absolver 2 happens they need those 2 mechanics changed.
i mean drunken style has to be the weakest i forgot it's considered a attack which can be dodged or parried extra..
didnt the devs say this game was going to go nowhere like ever? additionally they dont have cloud saves for an online game. so once i upgraded my base ps4 to a gold 1tb and saw my character who beat the game, and unlocked every move but like 3 (i was literally able to count them on one hand) i gave up.
absolver could of been something.
but nah
I literally have no idea what's going on. I've never heard of this game. Why do the fights look weird?
because it's real fighting
@@darthtiberius3716 It is not real fight.if you try to turn your back and do weird kicks during fight you will be in coma
@@burakylmazer6645 and that was the comment i was looking for :D
@@darthtiberius3716 real fighting? what kinda fighting you do?
@@darthtiberius3716
>Real fighting
>Exposes back to opponent
Pick one
i have stopped playing months ago because i thought the servers got shot down. where tf did i get that information ??
Omg, I haven't played this game since CBT. Still alive?
Damn you had CBT? Are you alright?
No, it's not.
Looks hard af!
I'm really sad about this game.
I got it for the PvP but I joined too late to be able to keep up with anyone, when I try to go into PvP they always kick my shit in with some super weird fighting style that I can't possibly predict as a new-ish player. It gets really demoralizing when there's nothing I can do about getting my ass handed to me without any chance to even learn anything FROM it.
Most late game players just use spam decks or broken combo decks nowadays since the games been abandoned. I suggest playing it offline if you just want to beat the main bosses
@@GrandpaJenkins9001 I mean, like I said, I got it *for* the PvP, I had and still have no interest in the PvE.
THIS GAME LOOKS AMAZING AND I NEVER EVER HEARD OF IT TILL NOW WHAT THE.....
oh than take your time in the open ended pve side, spar with others or join em in lvling, fight the 3 bosses and be ready for a HELL of a trial with the 4th and final one. oh and be warned this game rewards skill with pvping, oh and if your openly sparing be nice like ds take a bow and revive the downed, as its quite a silent supportive game. pvp as you see here is a bit of a odd mess if you dont know what ya doing but overall its a nice game.
@@lechking941 whoops haha
@@Ploxza96 XD
Bruh why's everyone in the comments so salty, like just get good, it's not that hard, if they go for an attack you have 4 options; block, circle dodge (idk what it's actually called I just call it that cause that's the button on PS4), special dodge/parry (windfall, drunk stumble, etc.) Or retaliation with a faster attack. And for the love of God fuckin pay attention to your damn stamina, most of the skill issue people seem to have is with the stamina, cause stamina is how you use everything, literally max it out, I recommend leveling it to 25 cause that's the last meaningful increase to the stamina total, my main is set up with 9-8-25-25-17 (low str and dex cause I use higher damage moves) and try to keep your mobility between 20 and 25 (mobility isn't as good as it sounds but like everything in this game, it IS necessary), drunk style and windfall are noob traps, they're really good, but you'll plateau late game (which is really just early game depending on who you ask and how you wanna play) if you don't try khalt, faejin, and forsaken, trust me, switch up your combat deck too, if you notice that people are dodging low a lot throw in some sweeps, if they're dodging back throw in some lunges, to the side? Give me a good ol roundhouse. Literally just get better, not even trying to be mean or anything, it's like fighting in real life, it's easier for some yes, but at the end of the day, you're going to lose a few before you start winning them all
bold of you to assume it gets new players.
Thats why I use faijin now, can't keep dealing with that damn hyper armor
this game is still being played? i loved this game when it came out but from what i understand the game died? its nice to see ppl still playing absolver though, maybe ill jump back in
I like playing absolver for all the different fighting syles. I just wish I didn't have to forcibly play pvp to be able to fight bosses again. I got to rank 10 to refight the first boss and getting to that rank alone took me a few days as every match I played I was up against somebody who was max level or double the level as me. If that wasn't a clear explanation, to put it simply I lost every match I got into. Nowadays I'm only playing the normal way and doing downfall missions because I can't win a single match. That's mainly saying I can't get good
the absolver skill curve was always steep. minus the fact that there were only ever a couple thousand active players at any given time, you'd always see the same two dozen or so players at the top leader board each week
I used to fuck shit up with that drunken style back in the day
Hol up.
People are still playing this game? I loved absolver way back.
wait, hold the fuck up, you're telling me people are still playing Absolver? This used to be one of my favourite games when it came out but the playerbase dwindled so very fast that I gave up on it.
Has it gotten any updates? Are people still playing? Now I really want to check the game out again.
The game basically hasn’t received any updates since the downfall update, Sloclap dropped the game to work on Sifu (which looks awesome). They said they MIGHT pick the game back up and give it updates after Sifu’s release, but there’s no guarantee. As for the servers, they’re doing really well on PS4 and PC for NA and EU servers, no clue about Xbox tho
is owl head fighting like xiaoyu from tekken?
i stopped playing after like 40 minutes cause i got to the first pvp zone in the world and got spawn camped by 3 guys
turn off pvp lol
@@fatfurie i just started the game, i didn't know that was even an option xd