Desperado plays Gedonia

This stump with roots is one of the most extreme examples, but the gnarled mess of a prop with messier collision detection is a great example of why movement on any surface has weird inconsistencies.

This time I'm testing jumping on a flat surface. The jump arc is uninterrupted by differences in elevation. These jumping tests show that jumping in general is only useful for climbing surfaces and is actively detrimental the rest of the time, a significant difference compared to the first Gedonia where movement has almost no limitation and jumping is almost always advantageous to use.

Climbing up things to plummet off them. Finding a few more things populating the world.

This is a demonstration of the inconsistencies with jumping on inclines and how momentum of walking/running affects jumping. I'm holding either forward or backward directional key while rapidly tapping the jump key for most of the video.

Vantage points are a huge advantage for any long-distance attacker. They're also great for skipping jump puzzle sequences. They're not helpful when entering the void dimension. I was wondering why there's no music, then I remembered I turned the music all the way down in the first test version and the setting was saved from back then.

I've been flopping and stumbling around the world for all these videos, but this time I'm doing it on purpose.

There hasn't been much options in these quests so far. Quest completion is based on the world and the game automatically saves to some extent, so if I want to try these quests again with this same character I have to create a new world. Having the world be able to be shared between multiple different characters has a lot of potential for constructing separate instances of the world and how different characters would benefit from the differences in the world.

This time I'm wandering off to see the rest of the world. I forget to follow roads, walk face-first into tree branches, and remember I have skele-archers as my personal army at zero charisma.

This round of testing is more about the general experience of the game instead of combat capability. I haven't explored a whole lot of the world so far but there's plenty of room to put events.

Damage bonuses from equipment aside, how does a warrior that sometimes casts spells work in this test version of Gedonia 2? Open by casting a spell from a safe distance. Your next spell takes too long to cast before the enemies run into you.

I finally remembered to use tab targeting. Necromancer summons help when dealing with large crowds of enemies but die easily because enemies walk into them, pummel them to death, and then stand there until I aggro them.

A little grinding for a few more levels and to unlock more useful archer skills later, I find no use for the power shot or kick skills anymore. They're too slow, weak, and stamina-hungry. Wastes of time. Upgrading rogue shot to hit multiple targets instead of only one in exchange for a longer cooldown, paired with upgraded multishot with a tighter spread, makes archer feel more like you're carrying a shotgun rather than a bow. Long distance shots have terrible accuracy. Double jumping during combat is worse than standing still for 1 second while enemies are in hot pursuit of you. Your horizontal movement drags to a near-halt which lets melee enemies catch up to you very easily and gives long-range enemies the only opportunity to hit you with projectiles you'd normally be able to simply walk around when dodging doesn't work.

Without the 0 cost arrows at the one NPC in this extremely early version of Gedonia 2, I would never play archer in this game. You'd run out of arrows in seconds while it takes hours to make more. Arrow economy is somehow hundreds of times worse here than it is in Gedonia 1. Movement and aiming with archery is a lot more janky here than in Gedonia 1. It's mostly because of the tank control movement combined with momentum based movement. Tank controls mean your character can't technically move left/right/back without first rotating while stationary so that the direction you want to move is also the direction your character's full body is facing toward. Momentum based movement means if you're holding W to move forward and then let go of any WASD button, your character will still be moving after you're no longer pressing any buttons to move. These two things together make movement very inconsistent and throw off an archer's aim. It's why I'm constantly starting and stopping movement. This is before trying any other playstyle available. At the time I'm uploading this video I've tried a little of the other playstyles available and oddly enough, archer feels the most efficient given an unlimited supply of arrows. Damage is great, freedom of mobility is great; but these are only in comparison, not as if someone were picking up Gedonia 2 for the first time without having played Gedonia 1 at all. Gedonia 2 has a long path of development ahead. This test version will be available until March 4 2024 where it apparently will no longer be playable after that date. Anyone that wants to try this for yourself, go to the discord channel for Gedonia here: https://discord.com/channels/622004219859173378/1148191923757137960

This update added a couple small skills that passively boost the stats of companions. This recording is a "before" sample to show the difference in power for a pure bard that doesn't use any magic.

This is very reminiscent of blood master's summons blood-gunning things down. There's one very important difference: summons have much more accurate attacks. Long range companions shoot slow-moving projectiles. Melee companions have much smaller hitboxes and by extent range of being able to hit things.

An earlier update improved stamina recovery for warriors, which is especially important for the more aggressive playstyles of the enduring and crusher warriors. Warriors were also improved by being able to stun and knock down enemies to a limited extent, which is great for dealing with large crowds. Warrior still isn't as strong as other builds, but it's a lot closer now than ever before.

Max 100 runes in everything. Normally this same progress would take about 4 minutes for mages, spellswords, and sniper archer. The blood summons can barely keep up with how quickly this evaporates enemies.

I forgot to upload this one. This build is half skirmisher for the upgrades to throw weapon, half snakebite for the +95% throw weapon damage. I still don't really understand the 5 set bonus for skirmisher, especially compared to nearly doubling the damage of the one attack that makes skirmisher worth using over other warrior builds.

Clearly I should play test this build more thoroughly before judging it as the worst in the whole game. If you pay close attention, you can tell I'm trying different methods of pushing the button for hemorrhage. At first, that's how long I was pushing it just to see if it was going to cast correctly--and ended up doing about 30k damage in less than 1 second. Then I tried a few short taps, as short as I could make them, and I could still hear about 2~3 casts of hemorrhage each "tap" I tried to do. At the end I held the button down. Expect this to be deservedly nerfed in the near future.

Sometimes the displayed damage numbers are a lot higher. The game is adding up simultaneous hits and treating them as a single hit with the cumulative damage rate. The hits aren't really simultaneous, but the game decides to comprehend it that way, and who am I to judge?

Have it equipped with full experience. Stand in the center of the living weapon temple. A cutscene will play. Any upgrades to your living weapon will automatically update based on the ranked-up version of the weapon. You don't have to redo the hardening with blacksmithing.

Skirmisher is a lot like dark assassin in some ways. There's a lot of jumping and attacking. Skirmisher's average damage output is pretty similar, but spread out over time with each spear thrown instead of gambling whether shadowstep decides to work, if the enemy slowly walks away when you drop down and makes you miss, and needing to stand still so much, skirmisher gets to leave.

Having extra jump height makes reaching and completing this trial a little easier. I usually skip this one. At least I don't have to stand still under icicles like other strength builds with this character.

Skirmisher is one of the better strength builds. You only need 2 pieces of the armor set with 2 pieces of the snakebite set to optimize the damage of throw weapon, which is the skill I'm using to throw yellow spears that keep homing in on the ground for some reason.

Being a 4 agility archer isn't enough jump height to keep up with serenade of speed but the burst damage is good for speeding up runs at the frozen temple. The softlock might be fixed but the situation doesn't happen as much to know for certain. I think it almost happens at least once in this video, the bugs spawning and being immediately killed by explosive+multishot, and the game didn't softlock.