Can You Beat Code Vein Without Weapon Attacks Or A Partner? (Gifts Only) [1/3]
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FAQ:
Q: You used a weapon to block, this isn't Gifts Only!
A: While I'm more clear about this in Part 2, it is implied in challenge runs that the rules should be interpreted as "not causing damage with anything except Gifts". I'm sorry that this was not as clear as it could have been. However, if you want to see this challenge done without weapon blocks, you can check out Revenant Owen's or PseudoDrifter's runs!
Revenant Owen's Gift's Only Run: • Code Vein - Gifts Only...
PseudoDrifter's Hardcore Casting Only Run: • Code Vein Hardcore Cas...
Q: Why are you bad? Why didn't you do any research?
A: This is my second time playing the game. I did 8 hours of research before the run, but there aren't many good sources to pull from. The best source is Revenant Owen's channel, who I discovered midway through the run.
Q: Did you do Depths and DLC?
A: Yes, I attempted them. That will be in part 3, coming eventually.
Q: Do you like Code Vein?
A: Yes! It's not my favorite, but I would love to see a sequel that makes improvements from this game.
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After the All Gwyns run, I was like "It can't get crazier than this."
Literally never attacking with a weapon? I don't have the self-discipline required for that. That's master level.
Gwyn run was pretty easy all things considered. Just a lot of bow shooting. If you looked at part 2, you will see why this is the most difficult run I've done yet
@@ChallengerAndyOfficial this man really said All Gwyn Run was kinda easy lol. Man this run really fucked you up huh?
@@ChallengerAndyOfficial how was gwyn run asylum part easy? I thought you were gonna rage quit every 5 minutes
@@brianw.2791 Easy because I just exploited the wall. If I had to do the 28 parries or however many, that would NOT be easy. But like in the end, the strategy to win is easy to accomplish, though incredibly painful.
...Jesus WEPT this man suffers.
From one challenge runner to another, I salute you. You couldn't pay me to attempt this kind of torture.
ty ty
Important Footnote: I never /attacked/ with a weapon. I only used gifts to cause damage. If someone wants to do the same run without blocking, I would be down to give advice, but I sure as hell ain't doin' it.
I'm a bit of an masochist myself, but my gaming skills are the ones of a Baby that can't parry normal gwin in a normal dark souls run, and at the same time my pc is so good that he can run an psp emulator with a lot of fucking strugle
But mark my words, the day i Put my hands on a decent pc and money to buy games, you are going to hear the name tech in all the internet, as the dumbest and worst gamer in history
@@keyman245 oh trust me, once you can parry Gwyn's first attack as you go through the fog gate, you will feel euphoria.
@@ChallengerAndyOfficial I died more than 30 times allready and my controler magicaly (that's not a joke, I didn't smashed him in the concrete wall) stopped working, and playing ds with mouse and keyboard is a fucking pain
you could use a fortified zweihander, it completely negates chip dmg while blocking
@@cyanxde_G59 that's what I did
I never knew about Field Mechanics...
You're like Mitten Squad but more masochistic, I love it!
Field mechanics is something that should be made known to every player, it's so frustrating.
Not sure about that. He's been playing Fallout for so long, and he drinks way heavier than me. My dream is to one day do a collaboration with him, but big doubt that'll ever happen, especially him being the kind of guy he is.
He’s more like ymfah: Actually entertaining and follows the challenges he sets to the T
@@ChallengerAndyOfficial Uhhhhhhhhhh..... I got some bad news
Holy shit almost half this video is the first boss wth
@Spourmo impossible run
I thought about trying this challenge myself, but it's too difficult. I'm still stuck at the character customization screen.
I said it in my own comment already. But I have enough trouble beating bosses and regular enemies with Io for help. Nevermind something this insane.
dark souls character customization is truly the dark souls of character customization
Wait! There's another game after create your character?
Anyone think it’s weird that Louis never once recognized the white-haired, yellow-eyed, doppelgänger of his sister that’s been hanging around his crib this whole time?
Maybe he’s been too busy staring at something else... just like us.
...
Wait a minute...
*facepalms* One of my favorite games of the past 3 years and I didn't notice this. (In my defence I have yet to beat the final boss yet i'm not very good.)
I know you were just making a joke, but his sister is Karen, not Cruz.
@@catchris99 I think they meant IO looks more like Karen.
@@catchris99 I mean, being fair, he should still recognize her then because he was visiting Cruz a lot before she frenzied.
The game: *not intended to be played without a companion*
You: ok but what if no weapon
I am so glad to see people are still playing Code Vein.
Yeah its such a good game.
*Ignore the DLC*
@@skeletonwar4445 the dlcs weren’t any good?
@@frankbeans6084 Sadly not. The DLCs were mega shit.
3 DLCs and each of them is a single small map with a recolored base enemy as miniboss and then a unique DLC boss with 100 challenge modifiers.
@@skeletonwar4445 thanks for the info. Just bought the game on sale,
@@frankbeans6084 The DLCs were basically just new Depths maps where you fight an Aragami on mega roids at the end. They're cheap enough for what they are I suppose, but Namco promised actual content and so pissed everybody off. The main game is great though.
Came here after the dark souls videos, very entertaining playstyle.
Code Vein is a good game. It's not the best game, but I hope a sequel will overhaul a bunch of the issues. It's more fast-paced, which is more my style.
The same with me. Dark souls video was over 1 hour video of pure pain & suffering mixed up with overjoying success. That's what i've been looking for. And btw i love code vein even with its problems.
So this is what it's like to play Dark Souls 3 using only miracles.
Jesus, the amount of pain you must go through to pull off these challenge runs is insane!
Props to you man, you definitely deserve more recognition for this.
Thanks! Sharing my videos always helps
dude you've put so much work and effort into this, its so heavily underrated
Thank you!
After the Gwyn Souls vids and this, I am convinced this guy is a masochist lmao
I just have a high pain tolerance and thirst for glory
@@ChallengerAndyOfficial video game challenge run glory is the purest of all glories
This seems horrible dont get me wrong, but nothing really gets close to what the gwysylum was
I really wonder who went and said:
"aight so we makin the first boss a flying poison monster or what?"
Or a boss that slows you down, because that will be a fun experience
The butterfly boss has really avoidable attacks, just stay a distance and dodge roll a lot. Also use fire
To be fair, the original soulsborne, Monster Hunter, has you fight poison bosses fairly early on a regular basis. However, they also offer better poison resistance and telegraphing of the poison attacks. However, the floor can often poison you, too, in those games.
@@ChallengerAndyOfficial And that was bullshit given how important speed is with her. She is, as you said, liquid bullshit.
Honestly, with all of this Challenge Runs you deserve every bit of support
Challenger Andy : I told him I’m not interested in prison sentence chan and promptly returned to the ruined city
Ad : You know, some people try so hard
hahahaha
"everything in this game hits like an isekai truck"
multiple times watching this and it still cracks me up
7:26 this is the moment that I learned you can change your blood code without resting at a mistle
This made me remember when I made Doug Walker in this game
My takeaway from this is that I'm so glad I'm not the only one who saw Invading Executioner and immediately thought of Water Stripper Miku
Dude your content is fantastic and I'm amazed you haven't blown up to the millions yet. It will come, I'm sure - just keep doing what you're doing. Best entertainment on the web right now!
Wow, that's high praise. Thank you!
Verbose and yet utterly unhelpful, ah yes it certainly is Code Weeb.
This is my biggest problem with the game: it manages to not tell me what the spell to ichor ratio is.
The intro the second "ARE YOU A FUXKING WEEB" had me in stitches bravo my good sir bravo.
19:10 That STRAP though, for real! There's a dark part of me that wants to stab whoever decided her strap should be like that.
I literally couldn't get over the strap when I first seen that scene. I was thinking just pull it up it's so easy!
You put the hollows of the elden ring subreddit to shame. Godspeed on all of your future endeavors because god damn do you have the patience and sanity of a psychotic saint
At first I was like, oh a spell build yeah I've made those
I didn't realize this man was going in parryless and drain attack-less, crazy
Yeah, this ended up being way tougher than I thought. However, @Revenant Owen already one upped me on this challenge, so now I'M the casual
Something about this channel reminds me of James from Angry Video Game Nerd, the way you go off on things when they’re difficult coupled with the long technical explanations. It’s my crack.
1:50 I’ve put quite a few hours into this game, even coming close to one shoting hellfire knight. And I was unaware you can just become Gilgamesh from fate! Incredible
Came from the DS All Gwyn Run, and though I've never played CV and am also a very low lvl weeb, I gotta say your runs are sick! Subbed :))))
I remember doing something similar to this run, and even with weapons and blood drain techniques, it's still brutal.
When you said "Everything in this game hit's like an an Isekai truck i fucking lost it!" great vid!
Haha thanks!
I'm devastated by how unsurprised I was by "piece of piss," I love this town.
You sir are very brave to try and block the Executioner
I'm currently doing the tower of trials and she's in it. Now that I have enough ichor/strong enough gifts, I don't block a single time. Her AI is extremely manipulatable in the first phase, and phase 2 all you have to do is dodge those dives and its EZ
I've never heard of this game in my life, but I'm here for watching this absolute madman do the impossible as a cute anime wifu.
Finally, the king has returned.
It's interesting that my boss order was so completely different.
I went bug, stripper, edge swords
Quality content made by a man of culture.
Best thing of 2021 for me so far is this channel
I've played this game a lot, but this is the first time I have seen someone that brave to try a run like this. God like masochism or not, fkng genius xd
This was my second time playing hahaha
''I'm getting that bath water by force'' almost killed me. This is gonna be a good video.
Oh man, I totally missed this in my sub box. Hell of a run, awesome video! I really hope you can get some more traction here, your videos are really something special
Thank you! Much appreciated
I keep coming back to this video because it's such a treat to watch
I just beat code vein today after three days of being in moe frustration.
And you are insane.
That shield bash around 21:00 is so tree sentinel. Gotta love it
I mean....code vein did it first
I love Code Vein, but starting the game and trying to learn all the nuances and mechanics was torture. Totally worth it though, I really love the game.
After I found the Zweihander, I just didnt care about anything but using it.
I still dont know how I made it to the endboss with that mindset...
@@Emi_Tempi same here lmao, i got the zweihander and didn't use anything other than it and gifts for damage and that was that
Might have to give it another try soon. I played it when it first came out and couldn't stay with it for more than a few hours. Just wasn't my thing, the visuals and artstyle were kind of crap imo, and all the different mechanics just seemed extra and unappealing. I've given up on games just to end up liking them later down the line, so maybe code vein will be the same
This is the video that make me pick up and play code vein. Beat it, did the tower trials, loved it. Now coming back to this video to truly appreciate the amazingness that is this run!
Glad you got into the game!
Im new and this is the first video i ever watched on this channel and i already love this man's content.... have my subscribe
Thanks I appreciate it! This is one of my favorite videos I made, mostly for the vtuber part after Oscar
That sweihander is so amazing it has the same move pool as the great sword from monster hunter
It was an honor to see you nearly quadruple you’re sub count in only a couple of days. Huge fan. Keep up the work!
yee thank you for your support!
came here from the gwyn run videos, code vein is one of my favorite games because of the creativity you can have in builds, love to see that used in a challenge, poggers
hehe thanks!
Just watched your Gwynn only run. Bro, props
Thanks!
I searched for code vein no gifts and found this run. I just finished part 1 and subbed. Great jokes, made me lol. 👌
Dude i finished code vein from like 5 months and i have to say that looking at you doing this is torture.
Butterfly of Delirium is pretty wack, that boss honestly gave me more trouble then 90% of the rest of the game
The poison damage annoys
POISON RUNNING THROUGH MY VIENS
The biggest issue with it is the fact that a majority of the better codes and abilities are gate-kept behind white castle which this creature essentially guards the door to. The game effectively tells you that unless you play like a pansy and poke it with ranged attacks while you let Yakumo fight the battle for you then you're gonna be in for a bad time. No playing the game YOU want for you, mister.
Really I found it to be one of the weaker bosses I beat it first try on my first playthrough
The Poison DOT is crippling especially with how little healing you have at the time, and some of the attacks it has are a little tricky to dodge. That one where it charges you leaving poison clouds being the worst offender since it can come in from weird angles/timings. Its not the hardest thing in the game but its hard for an early boss.
Kudos to you mate. I remember how much bullshit I went through doing a pipe-only run (no partners and no gifts that directly dealt damage) and that's only a portion of the assery you had to go through
Your suffering must have been legendary my friend. Mad respect!
the sequel to the story of the game is just god eater right now if only we had something with this gamestyle
as soon as delirum starts charging dodge spam to your left w.o the camera lock on, took me forever to learn to avoid her attacks but you move a bit more slowly while locked on, if you wait a second or dodge right, she'll either smack you or hit you with a poison cloud
>runs essentially a caster build
>gets a bit ruffled over relying on lock-on
Psstt... you can fire off spells free-aim, just have to tolerate looking at gift-chan's butt since the rough "crosshair" is centered on the base of the spine. Go on, give it a try. I used this method originally to shoot down hanging ambush enemies in the government building, and eventually I got good at firing spells off unlocked during boss fights.
Ah, the memories are coming back to me now. I have over 800 hours in this game and probably thousands of co-op tokens on my NG+5 character. I wouldn't call myself the best player ever: I don't do meta builds and I've never done all bosses solo, but I will call myself the #1 Cathedral tour guide because NOBODY else took that job lol.
All that mastery was not there in the beginning. The Butterfly took me two hours the first time I played, the frickin' Gilded Hunter took me less attempts that that! And the Execution even now is tricky. Even when you know her moves and general behavior, she can and will surprise you because of how fast her slide attack is and how huge its hitbox is. Many times she's turned the tides on me, but I don't get mad anymore
Today I missed roughly 50 attacks due to targeting being awful, and missed every free aim I attempted (about 5). It makes me sick how an enemy can move 2 steps and because casting and everything is so slow it just misses.
If you're that skilled, maybe you have some advice on my current issues. Find my comment on this video: th-cam.com/video/F0n__V-qDc0/w-d-xo.html
@@ChallengerAndyOfficial I'll have to practice your build, and get some rust out since I've been away from my desktop for a while, but I'd be happy to give it a shot
@@ThatMattaTatta No need now. I am very confident that I will defeat post-game tomorrow
Bruh omg, when you used that synonym for easy, i lost it. Magnificent work :3
It kinda bums me out that these videos didn’t do as well as Andy would’ve liked. I’ve never played this game, it doesn’t seem like it’s my style at all (though the character creation is indeed tempting) but these videos are really interesting and crazy entertaining. It obviously took a lot of work and it shows! If the algorithm took to these videos better I’m sure more people would enjoy the hell out of them.
Honestly I just need to stop complaining about it. I did learn a LOT from editing this video, has a lot of fun techniques and it one of the last BIG jumps I made in editing improvement. All Seath (current project) also is a big jump in effeciency as well as effectiveness. My favorite part of this video IIRC is still just the fact that me laying/throwing Io down in the beginning is literally just reversed footage sped up a bit and something as simple as that makes it look so good lmao
@@ChallengerAndyOfficial oh hey thanks for the wicked content, Andy!
CV is actually pretty pog and im happy people are playing it
this is the greatest challenge runner of all time. Andy is the best.
Having played a good bit of this game, forgotten about it and started again twice, the difficulty in this game is really something else. If you have a partner it's no problem and you can push through a lot thanks to luck and brute force. Solo, this game can be absolutely miserable with boss attacks. I dont think i ever got a boss down in less than 5 tries while solo (outside Oliver and the depths but thise dont count) meanwhile after picking the game back up a few days ago, with partners, I've only died 3 or 4 times and all but one of those were falling off a cliff
After hearing your rant about the butterfly, i was reminded of that because that was pretty much my first experience as well
Oh, thank goodness. You allowed yourself to block attacks. Trust me, not blocking makes Code Vein into a veritable hell. I focused more on dodging and using consumables or Blood Sacrifice to get ichor. Some bosses were definitely harder than others. I suppose I’ll compare my experience to yours.
Oliver Collins: Annoying as hell. Generally went the same way your fight against him did, but without blocking and more pain. Also was a bit higher level, I’d wager.
Butterfly of Delirium: Never have I been so close to crying in years. That blasted charge attack ruined me multiple times, because I still haven’t figured out how to predict the poison. The damned spins and poison spit didn’t help matters. Blood Sacrifice really was the MVP here.
Insatiable Despot: Honestly underwhelming. I always thought he was easy on normal runs, but he may have been easier since I was constantly fighting from a longer range.
Invading Executioner: Pain. Doesn’t understand personal space and that I’m not interested in her advances. Went similar to your run, but less hoping the attacks could be blocked and more bullet hell dodging. Most of the times I went for an Ichor Concentrate, the damned boss would invade my personal space and execute me.
Cathedral of the Sacred Blood: Damn this maze and its stupid tricks (and monkeys). Why would they put a mass of enemies between the last Mistle and the boss?
Argent Wolf Berserker: Pffft.
Queen’s Knight: Blasted spins. That’s all, really. The shield bash never hit because I was practicing social distancing before it was cool. His teleporting attacks got annoying, but I died around half of the times he spun.
Hey, you should check out Revenant Owen's Gift-Only Run (currently streaming on TH-cam). He is doing this run without blocking!
@@ChallengerAndyOfficial
Ah, perhaps I will. It’d be interesting to see how someone else avoided blocking.
This video deserve millions view. It's so well made and took you so much time. Bro, you are a legend
Yeeee thanks! Share my videos, it helps a lot!
I've just watched most of your videos, and you make ludicrously good content. please keep it up.
Thank you! New video within this week and new challenge run video hopefully done in march
Damn, I actually learned more about this game's mechanics than me actually playing the game up to 99%
Way too many things to read + me not wanting to use my brain outside of bonk/shoot
Glad the algorithm lead me here
*Water Hatsune Miku is the Satan in the Church of the Zweihander.*
I left this game when it came cuz i couldn't figure out the various mechanics but started yesterday again and boy was it good. Terraria really upped my patience to learn, ALSO the editing was good and clean, gameplay very good. Don't mind this but i compared you with Lillaggy when you further defined the challenge rules. All In ALL you gained a sub and i got a good channel to watch.
Andy, I have a challenge I've always thought about and wanted to see done. Astral Chain no upgrades. The only upgrade you can ever get is the forced baton upgrade in order to progress a tutorial. Otherwise, no legion leveling, no legatus leveling, everything as low as possible. This limits your moveset and could lead to some interesting strats as the game progresses. I know AC is only on switch, though, and I don't know if you have a capture card for it. Still an idea I think you could enjoy.
0:36 Sounds like all souls games. Honestly.
Streamer Andy brought me here, all I have to say is:
me, an intellectual: turns on auto-jump
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This channel is so underrated
"The Fextra wki said" and that was your first mistake.
(I'm binge watching all your videos after just having the "Oops, All Gwyns'" one recommended to me. You poor bastard, you've more than earned my Likes and sub.)
So many people are saying that, I didn't know that this was universal thing with Fextralife
@@ChallengerAndyOfficial Idk how it's so popular, if they even have info there's huge chances the info isn't even accurate. I haven't used them since DS2:SoTFS came out, the other wikis always update with accurate info before Fextra steals it and I'd rather have no info than misleading info.
@@Graysett There website looks pretty nice. It'd look better if it actually had information
I swear the cathedral of sacred blood allowed me to HEAR the sadist that deigned it laughing his/her ass off at everyone collectively losing their shit
These runs are great, thanks for making them.
Glad you like them!
Absolute champion. Amazing run, and I love all of your challenge vids! What a madlad, shine on Andy you crazy masochistic diamond
Subscribed after the DSR Boss run. You’re an absolute mad lad
your videos are really good, I really hope you get the traction you deserve
Thanks! Help by sharing my vids!
MONO went through HELL before getting to Six.
This is really good. Hope you'll keep 'em comin,man!
What other runs in Code Vein should I do?
If there's a randomizer that works for you, I'd say a normal playthrough without partner but every enemy is Virgin Born or another boss if others are harder?
I was thinking of doing that /with/ partners, but in any case, just looked at the mod a couple days ago and it's too unstable, especially for the virgin born
@@ChallengerAndyOfficial hopefully there will be something stable someday!
A partner-only run? Complete the game without doing any damage yourself and only buffing/supporting your partner?
@@RosiYYAP I believe this was done by Pseudodrifter!
I love your videos. You know what makes them even better? You saying Zweihander properly.
bro if you put this much effort in time for 300 views then i hope i can see your production value at 100k
One can dream. My other channel's videos get like 100x as many views, for a 1/100th of the effort
underrated use of old school windows 95 startup sound. loved it
Thanks!
This absolute chad is massively underrated
This game may have absolutely horrendous camera and level design, but can we all just stop to appreciate the OST?
As a British guy who uses the term "Piece of Piss" on a regular basis, I fucking died when you said it like it was the most confusing thing you've ever read
i finally understand the value of bathwater...
A lot of people call Code Vein bad, but I enjoyed it a lot on my two playthroughs of it.
I kept wanting it to be more. The more I play the more issues I find (but mostly in high level play). I hope a sequel comes out and is way better though because I love being anime waifu uwu
@@ChallengerAndyOfficial agreed. i did a playthorugh and while i enjoyed it, i have no intention of playing it again anytime soon (coming from someone who has well over 1000 hours in each of the souls games and has done countless challenge runs). there are just too many things that negatively affect the game imo to want to go back, with the field mechanic being a big one (the mechanic itself is dumb, but the fact that it's a hidden mechanic is abhorrent).
Props to you for doing this... 😮💨That must've been painful
Code vein was my first souls like, looking back i was horrible, I chose the coolest looking sword and stuck with it the whole game, didn't know I could use summons but I easily breezed past every boss by playing greedy, got to the last 2 bosses and the game forced me to respec my entire load out, swapping from dex to strength and learning patterns, the Virgin born was the boss that introduced me to soulslikes. Currently getting the platinum trophy for bloodborne, from soft is the goat
Clicking on this video I knew that I could *never* imagine doing this just because of Bladebearer and Cannoneer alone
It wasn't that bad...until depths version
So uh...i fought the insatiable despot and the butterfly before the stripper in my playthrough yesterday, first playthrough ever btw, so Mia never really entered a coma... She was just immediately awake after the fight
hahahahaha
here's my comment to appease the algorithm
Much appreciated friend!
Friend and I are running through at Level 1. On the last 2 bosses and then we've done it all. But I do NOT think it's easier. I feel your pain though.
Yo I just found your channel today and binged most of your videos. You make good shit man, you're hella underrated. Keep making quality stuff :)
Thanks! Stream Highlight video should be released this week, and next run video in May!
Bruuh, you're so lucky with the queen knight since he have a chance to go invisible everytime he teleport.
Didn't know that at all!
Huh? First time I'm hearing about this, and I cleared the game twice.
For real? Cause. I never saw it. .... Or maybe I was just to busy getting curb stomped to notice.
It's a consistent glitch that I got when playing on my third ng+ without a partner and somehow the bastard went invis when he teleport.