halfsword-chat-⚔

[shell bronze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1367410980425957499/1445429742697447484/larrrpp.gif

[mental kelp]

How much free time is needed? I can play hs literally ever day but like for how long

[ashen sluice]

My wifi is so terrible so all i see is blur

[shell bronze]

you do not qualify to sit at this table

[little verge]

I get you, still felt worth stating. There are allot of things this job has changed my perception on.

[robust crag]

like no sleep

no eating

no drinking

[mental kelp]

Same old

[robust crag]

nothing just pure testing

[little verge]

The more the better.

[thick plume]

well i guess then heres to hoping i get selected

[ashen sluice]

Fuck you discord :(

[vital perch]

hey , if that's okay to ask , what do you especially seek for in those applications?

[robust crag]

...

[mental kelp]

Back in the day I would clip spam till morning

[ashen sluice]

Blur

[vital perch]

"back in my day" 🧓

[thick plume]

i have a 2,000 dollar pc and nothing but time to spare
i'm sick right now and probably will be for the next few days so i can do nothing but half sword for days on end

[ashen sluice]

Oh i had to restart my phone is all

Okay

[thick plume]

:3

[wheat leaf]

Rookie numbers

[little verge]

Cannot specify, will result in people not giving honest survey answers. We do have a target for the testing though. This is an expansion of closed testing that has been underway for a few months.

[ashen sluice]

Are you half swording it

[shell bronze]

yeah but your days are over

[vital perch]

understandable

[shell bronze]

dont forget to take your nightly meds

leave the clip spamming to me

[robust crag]

if you look carefully

[lapis cave]

thats a fire pose ngl(unless you're the guy who's currently sideways)

[ashen sluice]

Haha no leg

[robust crag]

🤣 Okayyyyyy that made me laugh xD

[thick plume]

how dudes moving like

[ashen sluice]

Samurai

[lapis cave]

mgr:r is such a fire game

[ashen sluice]

Ghost of yotei

[thick plume]

REAL

[lapis cave]

i suck at it but it's fire

i beat the game on the lowest difficulty

💯

[thick plume]

i wasted so much time on mgrr in 2021 and 2022

[robust crag]

clean

but at what cost...

[thick plume]

DAYUM HIH WILLY

IT GAWN

[cinder merlin]

Wait can you do it again, I didn't see it

[thick plume]

spear impaling him in the dihh

[cinder merlin]

thanks

but real questio, how do you take pictures from Halfsword and bring them here?

[cosmic stratus]

Press C

[robust crag]

f12

or snip

or c

[cosmic stratus]

For angle then read above

[robust crag]

for an angle C

for just picture use snip or f12

[cinder merlin]

I mean like move the pictures from halfsword to my camera roll

[robust crag]

Email it urself

[cosmic stratus]

Ah. Just open the image on steam right click it then "view in file."

[cinder merlin]

thanks

[cosmic stratus]

Then- Yep. What will said.

[robust crag]

If ur moving it from pc to phone

[robust crag]

Not heard that name in a while 😂

[cosmic stratus]

Shorthand my beloved.

Lol

[robust crag]

I normally get called Willie's brother

Willie's brother william 😂

I'm running out of ways to kill

I need new ways

[cosmic stratus]

Try to pommel punch someone so hard you snap their neck. That'll keep you busy for a while.
Lol

[robust crag]

Don't I've actually tried one thing for 6 hours once 😭

ERMMMM

ERMMMM

@cosmic stratus

[cinder merlin]

Very specific but what I have is fun

[wheat leaf]

Have you learned the art of headbutting?

[robust crag]

HOWWWW

IM ALIVE

[cosmic stratus]

Im sorry?!

[robust crag]

GOD WILLED IT

[cosmic stratus]

God willied it you mean.

[robust crag]

YES

[cinder merlin]

Let me guess, COmmoner boss?

wait, nevermind

outfit doesn't match

[robust crag]

This guy

[cinder merlin]

I have a recommendation for more fun on the militia branch

[robust crag]

trust me hes a dead man

[mental kelp]

@little verge is the closed testing going to have a version of the split screen or just the base game

[cinder merlin]

get the spear that's got two prongs coming just below the actual stabbing part, just run at everybody

[little verge]

It will feature everything coming in EA.

[robust crag]

HAHAHHA KARMA

[cinder merlin]

HOW DO YOU DO THIS

[robust crag]

I dont know

[little verge]

Max out gore slider.

[robust crag]

i just do it

macwenderbeast i have no head...

[little verge]

But did you need it?

[robust crag]

ig not

xD

[hearty thicket]

I thought what I was seeing was you repeatedly stab yourself

[lost bison]

I've only managed to stab myself in the face like twice in my 200 hours its cool tho

[cinder merlin]

I have miserable quality on Halfsword

but I do have a picture

[lost bison]

Jesus 275 now

[hearty thicket]

I’ve managed to slice myself In half with the opponents axe in their hand

Several times

Easy yoink pfp

[robust crag]

HOW

HOW DO I SURIVE

[cinder merlin]

Are you celebrating because you managed to not die, or celebrating because you still have an arm to fight with

[robust crag]

Both xD

and i have a willie still xD

[cinder merlin]

Can't relate, I am the ultimate swordsman

[robust crag]

IM UNKILLABLE

[cinder merlin]

Duel at dawn

[robust crag]

https://tenor.com/view/for-honor-knight-sword-warden-kneel-gif-16620185541262559922

[small glen]

@mental kelp so it does appear there a chance we'll see bascinets in half sword

[robust crag]

FEAR MEEEE

[surreal helm]

half sword

[robust crag]

cant lie beautiful

[surreal helm]

yes

[sleek gull]

The look of: "Yeah, and now what?"

[robust crag]

xD

@sleek gull u cant do this

[sleek gull]

Prolly not

[robust crag]

what is ur tv bro

[robust crag]

you know when u fuck around and find out thats what i did xD

[sleek mica]

Is there a known timeframe of when emails will be distributed?

[sleek gull]

Nope

[sleek mica]

OK

[mental kelp]

How come

[small glen]

rare armory will be added (weapons and armor) BUUUUT

they will be super rare ingame

and are in super poor condition

so you will not just hop on half sword and see like 5 guys with a bascinet

[mental kelp]

Me when I stumble upon the ancient river bascinet in the Frankenberg forest

[small glen]

Bascinets are 50/50

its not a promise

but the chance is there

[mental kelp]

I wanna get on the closed testing so I can see what arms and armor they got now

[small glen]

same but also because i do wanna test the game

[small glen]

I wouldn't mind the bascinet in game

so long as its actually rare

like i am not going to spawn in and see it just sitting there every time i play half sword

I do assume

[mental kelp]

They should make it so people laugh at u if u wear it

[small glen]

theory, the bascinet if added will likely replace the armet in Spoil

[toxic shadow]

lmao i got a boss to pick up a different weapon

[mental kelp]

Spoilance would make sense for it cause it’s literally all about taking what you can get

[small glen]

OH and

a bunch of new shirts are likely being added

[mental kelp]

Yea

Probably some of them that appear in the artwork already

[small glen]

Likely

[hearty thicket]

Sometimes you can beat them into picking up every weapon on the ground or on their waist

[small glen]

i assume the longer doublets

[muted granite]

WHAT

[small glen]

will be added

100% in ea

[mental kelp]

If I get into testing it’s gonna be hard to not immediately attempt clip spam in half sword chat lol

[muted granite]

🥹

[vital perch]

@sleek gullcare to pick a loadout for me?

[small glen]

fr

[hearty thicket]

Temu clueless

https://klipy.com/gifs/yeah-waitwhat

[vital perch]

a knockoff of clueless' loadout

[hearty thicket]

Clueless’ loadout

https://klipy.com/gifs/yeah-waitwhat

[small glen]

the new grips ❤️

[hearty thicket]

Terminal velocity across the cheekbone from 6 inches away

[small glen]

don't mind Duke

he the punching bag here

[mental kelp]

Oh yea if they got like mordschlag and stuff

Talhoffer pilled

[small glen]

Smashing my fav willie over the head with my bastard sword pommel 🔥

oh yeah

willie appearance is being redone too

[mental kelp]

yea they have a few new character models

also

[small glen]

new willie looks honestly better

[sleek mica]

There's multiple ones

[small glen]

wdym

[sleek mica]

The ones shown in the back alley teaser

That's not the Willie we know

[small glen]

those aren't willie

those are completely new characters

[hearty thicket]

Me when my new Willie skin finally arrives

[small glen]

@sleek mica man in the armor is willie

[sleek mica]

I kinda see it

[small glen]

assuming the dead guy is also willie

[hearty thicket]

Is this from EA?

Or previews?

[small glen]

its been confirmed actually

thats the new willie

[small glen]

#announcements

scroll up

see?

[robust crag]

??

[hearty thicket]

Is this a pov that will be revolving in the game?

Like the gameplay pov here?

Or is this strictly a promotional photo

[small glen]

it will be third person to first person, the picture was just taken via photo mode likely

[hearty thicket]

I know a few of the hema games have this kind of pov but I didn’t want to make any assumptions

Would the performance of the Closed testing be severely degraded from that of the demo?

In regards to people trying to run it at all

Because of the different maps I’m assuming will be in there

[rare hearth]

id assume some maps, like the forest one, is going to be heavier to run

[hearty thicket]

But fidelity wise would I still be able to smoothly run if I can already?

[rare hearth]

idk, maybe 🤷

[sleek mica]

Frankenburg Forest will look incredible in cinematic with the lighting

[hearty thicket]

The screenshots of the game look beautiful and I’m thinking I should just borrow my step dads laptop with a 4070 in it

When the time comes

[rare hearth]

i hope ea will have better graphics configuration

like you can have high textures but low shadow

etc

[rare hearth]

true

[hearty thicket]

Given the age of the beta I think the ability to fuck with the graphical settings is pretty great

But shadows and reflections can be a bummer if you can’t turn them off optionally

[slow anchor]

Defo will, try clicking on the word "graphics" in the current demo's settings

[hearty thicket]

Click the word itself?

[slow anchor]

Yes

[rare hearth]

it just has presets

[hearty thicket]

Does that enable a higher performance preset?

[slow anchor]

No no, the word

[rare hearth]

oh

i have a feeling you're lying

[hearty thicket]

That’s really cool

[rare hearth]

but ill test

[hearty thicket]

Lmfao

That would be something that a dev or someone would put in silently

Very thoughtful

[rare hearth]

tbh

i just found out today that you can have some kind of resting stance for your weapon

[hearty thicket]

You can also swap sides with pole and two handed weapons

I found this out after I beat the ultimate challenge

[hearty thicket]

X will swap the side of your stance essentially in my experience

[rare hearth]

if you press left/right mouse butoon time with a weapon willie will rest it on his shoulder

[hearty thicket]

Is bro colorblind or sumn

[rare hearth]

if you do it with a buckler or a shield willie will extend it

[hearty thicket]

Did you know you can put the arm shields and bucklers on your body and back like a turtle

[rare hearth]

OH SHIT THATS A THING?????

ITS REAL

[slow anchor]

I would never lie

[rare hearth]

but cant be configured

[rare hearth]

im sorry not to trust you

[slow anchor]

I'm not named moai after all

[hearty thicket]

Probably something you gotta change and look at the visual if it doesn’t have things like low medium high ultra

[robust crag]

AI?

[hearty thicket]

I wonder how much of a performance gain you’d get from nuking the view distance

[rare hearth]

@grok is this real

[hearty thicket]

Given that you’re only really worried about 25 feet around your personal surroundings

I’d imagine that loading the stuff in a bigger map if it’s more open ended would be horrendous potentially

[robust crag]

Where do i find i

it

[past abyss]

OH WOW

[rare hearth]

go to settings, display, and click on the word Graphics

[robust crag]

OH

OHHH

OHHHHHH

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[rare hearth]

thanks mopsenfiedler

[robust crag]

WHAT NOWW

[ashen sluice]

i hate this axe

dang bro ate too much uranium 😂 😂

it cant even dismember smh

[hexed pasture]

really hope i get closed testing

hella excited

[robust crag]

if u get it send 1 to me

like just 1

number 1

[past abyss]

why dont they just let everyone test

[hexed pasture]

well they will

when it releases

just sign up for the closed testing ig

[rare hearth]

the game isnt ready yet, closed testing means you will test an unpolished unready version of the game

[little verge]

We need to do some testing on very specific builds.

[jagged sail]

Wait I did the form what were the questions for the pc specs for?

[little verge]

To deteremine what your PC specs are.

[jagged sail]

So to see if it’s worth giving the person early access?

[rare hearth]

they need to test how would the game preform for different pc builds since not everyone has the same specs, so they need to know

[white trail]

can he still fight https://medal.tv/games/half-sword/clips/lXZyTlhb6-wQvsBsi?invite=cr-MSxGNUYsMzcxMDUzMTM5

[hexed pasture]

my pc alright

it should be able to run full swor

sword

[jolly gorge]

id be happy to send in my specs incase theyd happen to be valuable for testing, but im also a bit short on time - would it be an overly involved process or am i gonna be free to just boot up the thing and report back on whatever it is that i'd be told to check?

[ashen sluice]

i like killing my own teammates in buhurts because its funny

[rare hearth]

betrayal!

[ashen sluice]

:(

[spiral crater]

how i can beat the ultimate challenge

[ashen sluice]

turn down blood and graphics

thats how i did it

[rare hearth]

also will testers be required to sign an NDA or something

[spiral crater]

why

[white trail]

turn blood completely off or else it will make you crash

[spiral crater]

oh

[rare hearth]

dont really need to turn down graphics

but it does help sometimes

[ashen sluice]

"NDA" never heard of that!

[spiral crater]

i said because the game hate me and i only have a knife to fight a guy with a mega sword

[hexed pasture]

uhh

[formal forum]

Anyone know why abyss just crashes whenever I hit someone?

[hexed pasture]

nda scares me

[rare hearth]

it do be non-disclosed

[formal forum]

If no damage is done to willies then nothing happens

But even a little bit of damage

Causes the game to freeze

[rare hearth]

turn blood a little down

[formal forum]

I dont think thats the issue
Even with 20 dead npcs my game wasn't crashing like that

[rare hearth]

this is an issue with the blood plugin used for this build, its unstable and causes crashes

[formal forum]

It says a fatal error occured

[formal forum]

Oh

Aight

Thanks

[rare hearth]

np

[spiral crater]

if i can defeat all and the baron spawn its impossible to kill him because im hurt and the baron its strong

[rare hearth]

also make sure you're using dx11 not dx12 in the in game display settings

[rapid pond]

Sadly best way is to NOT get hurt

[rare hearth]

dx12 could crash your game

[spiral crater]

impossible

[rapid pond]

Basically you gotta bot skill issue the entire challenge

[rapid pond]

Or put your damage to min and their damage to max

[hexed pasture]

cant believe we were asking for halfsword in like november/december when closed beta is only releasing now

jeez

[ashen sluice]

please tell me that they fixed fatal error crashes in the new gmae

gfame

game

[rapid pond]

At least the date is actually confirmed, the build is playable they just wanna guve hs a smooth experience

[rare hearth]

yeah, the ultimate challenge is supposed to be hard, you will need many attempts to beat it

[rapid pond]

Game is not even remotly the same

[rapid pond]

Dont forget that the ai damage is bugged and way too high

[spiral crater]

and luck because i need good rng

[hexed pasture]

will they even have the arena anymore?

or will that be gone?

[rapid pond]

No clue, go look in anouncement thats where all the spicy stuff is at

Or go look at galaxy vfx artist pics

[rare hearth]

it will be fixed, they are working on new blood (blood 2.0) and instead of it being a 3rd party plugin they made the blood themselves

[wheat leaf]

They’d prob keep it as just another map option

[rapid pond]

Isnt it gore 2.0

[rare hearth]

most probably

[ashen sluice]

ah

are they gonna have better gore?

[rapid pond]

Maybe not initially

[rare hearth]

same thing really, though the main thing causing the crashing is blood not gore

[rare hearth]

yes

[rapid pond]

But working organs and falling eyeballs will come

[hexed pasture]

thats what i was gonna say

[ruby trellis]

i just want multiplayer so bad i dream of it every night

[hexed pasture]

the gore in halfsword is already great

[rapid pond]

Only gonna be splitscreen

[rare hearth]

i think if you scroll enough in #work-in-progress you will see blood 2.0

[ruby trellis]

hopefully one day

[rare hearth]

also if you look at the steam page screenshot and videos

[rapid pond]

Or just go look in the "every image of gore 2.0" thread in general

[rapid pond]

Splitscreen will come

Its literraly been played on the fest

[ruby trellis]

no im saying online ik split screen

[rare hearth]

it is confirmed that early access will have split screen multiplayer, you will be able to play with someone else co-op or use steam remote play

[rapid pond]

Im hoping for steam remote play

[rapid pond]

Oh ? Nice

[slow anchor]

Ye but we gon be on blood 3.0

[rare hearth]

online is really hard to do, most probably wont be available

[slow anchor]

We got 2.0 rn

[rare hearth]

oh

i thought 3.0 is after ea?

[rapid pond]

Wich i assume will be way more optimised and realistic considering 2.0's beauty

[ashen sluice]

I CANT SEE IT

[rapid pond]

I think its a bit after release ?

[ashen sluice]

sorry caps

i cant see the 2.0 blood

[rapid pond]

I dunno if a dev has the right to confirm that

[slow anchor]

The darker blood on the stems page is old blood way back from 2023 I think

[rapid pond]

Its current blood

[rare hearth]

https://discord.com/channels/1043854763189600337/1279922212421505149

[rapid pond]

Gore 2.0 leaks showcased falling brains, exploding heads, detailed entrails and such

[ashen sluice]

can opener

[rapid pond]

Thing will look like a fucking live leak footage and im all in for it

I cant wait for the crossbow and gun thing with weird name

Funny weapons

[hexed pasture]

medieval rive

[ashen sluice]

why is willie having a period in that thread

[jagged sail]

Speaking of gun I might make a proper gun with like animations and holding

[ashen sluice]

wtf

[hexed pasture]

rifle

[rapid pond]

Already wxist

Mod devs cannot post it though

[hexed pasture]

where is kevin

[jagged sail]

Wdym we made the gun

I mean luke made it

[rapid pond]

No like, they can post pics but not the mod itself

[jagged sail]

Ohh I thought you were talking about the pics

[rare hearth]

i also kinda wonder, will closed beta testers be able to play the game splitscreen with non closed beta testers?

[rapid pond]

Im assuming its mostly cause its messing with a LOT of the code to make guns work

[brittle bridge]

100% no, im pretty sure

[rapid pond]

Depends on if there will even be closed beta testers lol

[brittle bridge]

splitscreens is also local

[ashen sluice]

poor willies, i might be a sadist but it'll be fun to bash in willies' heads in and watch their brains spill out :p

[rare hearth]

i think its because you need to to modify the game files in order to do this type of modding, which is not allowed by the devs

[rare hearth]

steam remote play

[brittle bridge]

so i think you can play with your brother

[brittle bridge]

that would require the game on your steam

[rare hearth]

yeah but only for 1 person

[rapid pond]

I cant wait to slice my girlfriend in half with actual swordman techniques

[rare hearth]

only the host needs to own the game for steam remote play to work

[brittle bridge]

you dont need both to have the game?

[rare hearth]

nope

[brittle bridge]

didnt know that, thats nice

[rapid pond]

Whole point of remote play tbh

[rare hearth]

yeah i love it

[ashen sluice]

in half sword... right?

right?

[rare hearth]

lmao

[ashen sluice]

right...?

[rapid pond]

And then play half sword

[brittle bridge]

in that case, depends if they turn remote play on

[rapid pond]

Its a bitch to use.

[brittle bridge]

yes and you need a controller

[rare hearth]

its confirmed it will be on in early access, though they might turn it off for closed beta

[brittle bridge]

yeah thats what i mean

[rapid pond]

Tbh any games with remote play require a controller

[brittle bridge]

yeah, thats why i dont like it that much

[rare hearth]

yeah it sucks that it needs controller

though

[rapid pond]

And also cause it dont work half the time

[rare hearth]

you can use parsec

[ashen sluice]

i mean half sword early access will have a campaign and a gauntlet with several maps right?

[brittle bridge]

parsec?whats that?

[rare hearth]

idk if parsec allows 2 keyboard though

[rapid pond]

More

[somber geyser]

What's good halfswordians

[rare hearth]

its like steam remote play but its a dedicated app not by steam

[rapid pond]

Campain gauntlet is like 100% certainty

[brittle bridge]

the problem with the controller is not because of steam, its windows, windows doesnt allow 2 mouse or keyboard to act separately on its system

[rare hearth]

instead of having it for specific games you can have it for your whole pc, i havent used it but it hear its basically the same

[ashen sluice]

i like half sword gore but its a little blocky and choppy (no pun intended) so im verryyy exciuted for the early access

[rare hearth]

yeah, though there was a game called brawlhalla, which is a platformer fighting game similar to smash bros, that allowed 2 keyboard to be connected to the same pc to have 2 different characters so it is possible but it must be hard or something since it isnt widespread

[ashen sluice]

why do willies come closer and beg for mercy

like bro do you want to die

[brittle bridge]

yeah but they used different keys on the keyboard and that game doesnt need a mouse, halfsword cant be played with just keyboard

[rare hearth]

since its a fighting platformer you can play it soley on a keyboard

[rare hearth]

oh yeah true

[worldly coyote]

slammed

[ashen sluice]

do you think if i plugged my ps5 controller in, it would work?

[rare hearth]

yes but idk if windows natively supports ps5 controllers

[ashen sluice]

they do

oof you can see the tendon

[rare hearth]

then you most probably can

even if you cant

you can use steam input

or any other third party apps like Ds4Windows or ReWASD

[ashen sluice]

do you think the fps will be better

because i get 30 fps in buhurts or carnages

[brittle bridge]

I thought about that, i dont remember exactly why, but it would be really hard to use those for that, im pretty sure it was something to do with those not fixing the mouse problem, keyboad would be fixable easily

[rare hearth]

they MIGHT add dlss or frame gen so who knows maybe

also

new blood (and possible gore) could be better optimized though the game will have more content so you might not notice the optimization

[ashen sluice]

dlss would be cool

[rare hearth]

well anyways, i shall go sleep, goodnight halfsword chat i wish you all the best

[ashen sluice]

doing a bravestand killed my game

goodnight!!

[placid wigeon]

If Nvidia flex was ported to ue5 would half sword use it?

[placid wigeon]

Good night

[ashen sluice]

nono i was saying good ngiht to quin

[ashen sluice]

probably

[rare hearth]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/853259878700285962/1336013022656725032/attachment-3.gif

finally found the gif

[muted granite]

i gat this

[ashen sluice]

i feel like macbeth over here jesus

[worldly coyote]

dudes shoulder is gone

holy

[white trail]

completely empty

[radiant patrol]

cereal bowl

[wheat leaf]

I find it pretty cool the blood effects come directly from his temporal artery, shows how detailed even the current gore system is

Matter of fact he has pretty much all of the major arteries, temporal, femoral, jugular, subclavical, carotids, it’s all there

[hearty thicket]

the fact that no weapon could really smoothly make this cut tells you willy has no brain

[white trail]

i did it with the scythe

[hearty thicket]

i literally said its like i have all of my major arteries the way id just get poked once and bleed out

and then i said this would be the game where youd have anatomically accurate shit

[supple ember]

Anyone interested in voicing something? Its like 6 lines.

[hearty thicket]

yo?

does my mic have to be super good

and does anyone apply to me

i have a standalone mic

but its not like a bjillion dollars

[shell forge]

What does it mean if sparks are coming out of Willie's head?

[hearty thicket]

it means your metapods defense cannot go any higher

the fact that hes still alive makes this somewhat better

[fallen glacier]

anyone have an issue after leaving the game paused too long you can no longer look around with the mouse?

[tropic heron]

oh damn, I got pranked by the announcement

I thought we were getting a release date

[hearty thicket]

i have a issue where .8 seconds after i take a fatal blow my game shuts down

and my laptop lid shuts

anyone else experience this sometimes????

[tropic heron]

I have the same problem, except my computer explodes

[hearty thicket]

oh --- my - p-cc-c-c--c--

[heavy kettle]

Ayo @little verge Will half sword cost money? if so how much

[hearty thicket]

most likely no more than 30-40 bucks

[tropic heron]

I can guarantee you it will cost money

[heavy kettle]

Pretty decent price

[hearty thicket]

but certainly going to be one of those really great indie games

[heavy kettle]

Yeah

[tropic heron]

It will be well worth it

40 bucks is too much imo

For an early access title

[hearty thicket]

i wouldnt expect triple a price for the size of the studio but i think the developers well deserve the fruits of their labor thus far

do you think theyre gonna make you pay again????

[tropic heron]

Full release, for sure, but 20-30 depending on how much content there is on ea release

[hearty thicket]

almost the past year has been dedicated to the full game i believe

and optimization

[tropic heron]

It's going to be an early access title, so it wont be finished on launch

[hearty thicket]

adding weapon types and shi

if you got anything more than 30 hours on the demo i aint hearing anything bout 40 bucks is too much

[fallen glacier]

I've had more fun with the demos than any recent triple a game I've played lately. Depending on how much content/how polished the full game or even EA is, I wouldn't mind paying over 40 for it

[hearty thicket]

i just passed 30 hours today and i dont think ive had this much fun with a demo ever and ive definitely not enjoyed or felt a refreshing gameplay loop in a single player game like i have with just this DEMO

[tropic heron]

Idk, The Binding of Isaac cost like 20 usd on launch

[hearty thicket]

in a very very long time

[tropic heron]

And it was complete

[hearty thicket]

just because you got on the train before all the cars are locked together doesnt mean it aint gonna end up delivering your cargo

people were very vocal about cyberpunks fail to do anything on a full launch

key words full launch

[tropic heron]

That's an outlier amongst outliers

[hearty thicket]

the things these developers are doing in the size of the team they have allocated

will take time

they do not have the unlimited time and funding other studios have from the getgo

and before now i doubt theyve been able to monetize very much off of the demo

be realistic and understand that just because the binding of isaac was a smashing success doesnt mean that the programming isnt insanely less complicated

[tropic heron]

lol

lmao even

I don't think you realize how hard a good roguelike is to make

[hearty thicket]

ive seen plenty of roguelikes

[tropic heron]

Most of them shit, right?

[fallen glacier]

that was also in 2011, about 30 dollars today. The game itself is also no bigger than Half Sword's demo. Not saying there isn't much to the game though, I haven't played it and there can certainly be quite a lot done with a small amount of data, see Sekiro being only 14gb.

[tropic heron]

And I said that 30usd would be a fair price

[hearty thicket]

this one had a good enough demo for you to look forward to the full release and youll be upset that the early access doesnt mean more than the words tell you

early access

[tropic heron]

Why would I be upset?

[hearty thicket]

you seem to be pretty combative over the performance of the developers

[tropic heron]

Combatative?

[devout lion]

to be fair they haven't been on a good track record regarding ea release date

[tropic heron]

What?

[devout lion]

and also controversial changes to the demo

[tropic heron]

I haven't been combatative at all

[hearty thicket]

they seem to have really large ambitions

[tropic heron]

YOu have been

[hearty thicket]

my fault

[devout lion]

ok calm down sigmas

[tropic heron]

I've been ignoring it

[devout lion]

we are all willies

[tropic heron]

But my guy, it's a game we are both looking forward to

We are on the same side

I just felt like a 20-30 usd price would be more fair than a 40 usd

[hearty thicket]

i understand but evaluating a game before a glimpse at what a final build would entail is extremely difficult

[tropic heron]

Which is why I would be way more comfortable paying a lesser price than 40 usd when I don't know what the final build would entail

[hearty thicket]

especially if the final build would be night and day different i would struggle to understand from the game studios perspective to not charge a upgrade to the full game or something of the nature

[fallen glacier]

seeing the sneak peeks of the new blood and gore gives me a lot of hope. I've never seen a game with that sort of realistic violence aside from rdr2 but this is taking it next level

[tropic heron]

I am looking forward to the game tho

A lot

[hearty thicket]

maybe 20$EA-->20$upgrade for full game

[tropic heron]

This and Queens Domain are my most anticipated games

[hearty thicket]

its still too early for even the devs to give you an answer id almost say for certain

[supple ember]

I mean doesnt have to be studio quality but preferably good. DM me

[tropic heron]

Yeah, that was my stance

[fallen glacier]

I feel like 90 - 95 usd is a good starting price for EA, might be a bit low even

[tropic heron]

1 gorillion dollars

But tbh I'd pay 40 usd

Begrudgingly

[buoyant ravine]

gotta keep it to the beat. also thats a strange ending

we wont talk about that one part in this video

[grand tulip]

I wouldnt mind $20 for half sword

will there at least like steam remote play available for half sword

to compensate for not having multiplayer

[golden aspen]

First firearm in the game

[buoyant ravine]

Ka-bang-bang BITCHES!

[surreal helm]

piracy

[buoyant ravine]

wrong gif

on god

[buoyant ravine]

"Privacy" not Piracy

[surreal helm]

"

[remote salmon]

how did you even do that?

[surreal helm]

where are his clothes

[remote salmon]

https://tenor.com/view/thors-snoresson-vinland-saga-gif-10590730517288116726

[snow monolith]

🤣

[surreal helm]

his willie is going to be cold 😭

[azure sierra]

What

[tender quest]

you killed my eardrums

now ima kill you

[azure sierra]

lol

Be not the cause of my death

[surreal helm]

moderator

[azure sierra]

what the fuck is this emoji

[tacit sonnet]

its .

[surreal helm]

???

[azure sierra]

wtf?

[tropic heron]

🫃 🫃

[twilit escarp]

the face of a man kicked in the nards by a pair of naked legs

so hard in fact, his hat flew off his head

[surreal helm]

[long bone]

guys if I have integrated graphics card that isn't Nvidia or AMD, what do I say in the survey?

[tropic heron]

Damn, my boy is rocking the intel integrated graphics

[long bone]

yeah lol

[tropic heron]

I used to do that

My old hp pc

[fallen glacier]

houndeye!

[tropic heron]

It was a piece of shit, but it did its job

[long bone]

mine too

[fallen glacier]

[tropic heron]

Get yourself a better one when the ai bubble bursts

[long bone]

I will

[fallen glacier]

can't believe the ram prices and what not cus of this nonsense

[tropic heron]

It's insane

[surreal helm]

about ai, i got 2 kits of ram for ~$88 each a few months ago, they cost $430 for a single kit now (2x16gb ddr5)

[tropic heron]

I got a new pc 1 month before shit hit the fan

32gb ram

[long bone]

good for you

[tropic heron]

Cost like 20 bucks

Today, the same ram costs 1000 usd

In my country at least

[long bone]

that's horrible

[tropic heron]

Yeah, I'm glad I got mine when I did, but I feel bad for everyone else

[long bone]

I think everyone feels bad because of that

it's really unfair tbh

[tropic heron]

First it was the graphics cards and bitcoin miners, and now its ram and ai

[long bone]

not being able to buy RAM because of AI

yeah

although I don't have an actual customizable computer, I was planning to buy one this year

[tropic heron]

The grim dark future involves renting games and streaming them on geforce now

[fallen glacier]

when I was building my PC in 2023 the 64gb of RAM was just shy of 100 dollars. Today that same RAM costs 600 dollars

[tropic heron]

I'm worried that they wont drop when the bubble bursts

Sticky pricing, you know?

[fallen glacier]

true

[tropic heron]

Me when I see John Ram, the inflator of prices

[long bone]

lol

[tender quest]

if people keep buying then the prices wont drop

[tropic heron]

People keep buying FIFA and COD every year for 80usd

[surreal helm]

that's some expensive fish, an $80 cod.

[tropic heron]

I'm starting to think that Adam Smiths invisible hand has been doing nothing but giving us the finger for the past 10 years

[long bone]

I'm sure of that already

[tender quest]

https://tenor.com/view/penguins-of-madagascar-skipper-kowalski-analysis-analysis-madagascar-gif-23546606

[long bone]

nice

[tropic heron]

Clean cut

But yeah, I just finished Wolfenstein 2, so now would be a perfect time to release Half Sword

[surreal helm]

half sword tommorow

[tropic heron]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/177755221592637441/1459489746073157633/RDT_20260110_1110512924530559320830467.gif

[tropic heron]

Damn, bro posted politics and got sent to Brazil

[tropic heron]

He fell for one of the classic blunders

[surreal helm]

what

[tropic heron]

Didn't you post a gif of that laughing baby with a highly controversial guys face edited on top?

Someone did

[surreal helm]

???

no

[buoyant ravine]

so much force in that throw it broke his bone

[tropic heron]

Oh mb, someone else got got

[tender quest]

https://tenor.com/view/james-franco-are-you-sure-gif-25610993

[buoyant ravine]

@long bone

https://tenor.com/view/mr-beast-good-boy-mr-beast-good-boy-gif-18819841

[surreal helm]

pretty sure

[tropic heron]

Dw, I'd also deny it

[tender quest]

what if i told you that your pants are immolating

[surreal helm]

what does that word mean

[tropic heron]

It can be our little secret

[tender quest]

https://tenor.com/view/searching-research-do-the-research-google-it-yourself-google-it-gif-17009769278136023278

[long bone]

burning I think

[surreal helm]

https://tenor.com/view/epic-embed-fail-ryan-gosling-cereal-embed-failure-laugh-at-this-user-gif-20627924

[tropic heron]

https://tenor.com/view/the-big-lebowski-steve-buscemi-i-am-the-walrus-donnie-gif-2340205343720924205

[buoyant ravine]

https://tenor.com/view/table-mess-lmao-laugh-gif-5126644939264248578

[tropic heron]

Scams in game footage btw

[unkempt pivot]

With this "closed test," aren't they afraid that testers will leak screenshots/videos? Unless they're taking measures to prevent this as much as possible (NDA, build with limited content, or simply hoping that testers will play by the rules...)

[small glen]

@little verge This is actually a good question..

[shell bronze]

i mean

you would expect a proper game studio and company to have a firm policy and nda in place

[soft osprey]

There is surely measures in place or it wouldnt be much of a point in testing being closed

[fierce wedge]

burger

[velvet hedge]

there should be an option for intel gpu on the test survey imo

[west cloud]

full sowrd

[wheat leaf]

I don' need non of dem phancy sophistercated swords, just put my faith in ol' whacker

[unkempt pivot]

I just remembered that I participated in a closed playtest a long time ago (2012 from memory) there was a watermark all over the screen with the Steam ID

But I believe that, in terms of consequences, it amounted to the revocation of playtest access

[small glen]

I haven't played in 3 weeks..

[west cloud]

just like those bf6 alpha leaks

[small glen]

i am choking!

[fierce wedge]

a aurughhghhhhhhh

[wheat leaf]

might be my new fav weapon

[fierce wedge]

all must convert to the hammer

[devout axle]

i want to apply for the closed testing so bad but i think my parts are too bad

[wheat leaf]

doesnt matter what your parts are its just a survey

[devout axle]

you think so?

[wheat leaf]

its to see what components most people have so they can get a better understanding of how ea will need to be optimized

[wheat leaf]

i just did it lol

[devout axle]

Bet!

thanks for helping me out bro

[wheat leaf]

[fierce wedge]

aaaauuagghgh

[small glen]

Uh

no its for closed testing

[hearty thicket]

some mf was talm bout i have a gt 460 laptop

[small glen]

They are trying to see who has good specs to first understand requirements and ability to test

and who has meh specs

Its FOR closed testing

[hearty thicket]

probably just to see if their target audience is already sort of cut out from the enhancements the full game would offer to everything, or if they could optimize well enough for it to be playable for the majority

although this would imply that they would optimize less if everyone had crazy pc's i doubt they wouldnt look into optimizing as much as possible

[wheat leaf]

so how do i get me some closed testing then

[hearty thicket]

thoughts and prayers

[small glen]

be selected by the devs

[wheat leaf]

ill muster up my biggest pretty please followed by pinging every one of them rn

[hearty thicket]

good luck with that one so far nobody has succeeded

[wheat leaf]

that oughta' do it

[hearty thicket]

i had to tell some russian dude that the EA wasnt out and that they could apply for the thing and pray just like you have to

bro was like elp me i need elp with early

but everyone seems really excited

regardless of how involved in the community of HEMA related things

to a much further degree in that community as well

but i really like the unity we all have in loving the game and eating up every little bit of development or release news

[tropic heron]

I'm fiending for half sword

[hearty thicket]

as frustrating as it may be to be limited to the demo for all this time we couldve had no demo to play for free

cyberpunk was in development hell for like 10 years just to release like pooboo

we got proof of concept and its damn good and sure as hell enough for me to hold out and support until the final product is out

most games dont even get as good as the trailers shown at games conferences

[tropic heron]

Real and true

[wheat leaf]

i cant quite tell what the balance is between both sides of the players, in terms of ppl that play purely for the HEMA/realistic side of things and those who take it more at face value as a fun slasher, like if theres more or less of another. but the closed testing is probably more basedf around PC components over playstyle to test a wide spread of performance levels

[calm scroll]

please lord above tell me half sword vr is gonna be made

[hearty thicket]

the balance has tipped severely recently

someone will probably make a mod

[calm scroll]

i would pay easily like an extra 50 for that

[wheat leaf]

to which side?

[tropic heron]

Half Sword vr would make me puke

[hearty thicket]

probably further from hema but not in a way that would isolate or make the communities segragated

or hostile toward one another

theres always gonna be a few strange individuals but i can say at the end of the day this server hosts a great number of wonderful individuals

[calm scroll]

but would it not be peak

[hearty thicket]

i said someone should make a full body suit with one of those things that physically moves you around

[tropic heron]

Yeah... but man would I be getting motion sickness

[wheat leaf]

i dont think so either i didnt know how else to describe it lol, not really 2 sides but just who plays for what reason. the few big streamers that played the game definitely put a lot of hype behind it too so a lot of that following is more for the less technical more fun side of it

[hearty thicket]

i think a lot of people are invested in the games development for the same reasons but they may not all know how to articulate that fact

in a commensal way

[calm scroll]

true

[hearty thicket]

not a lot of people are willing to invest the energy to actively participate or they got other shit goin on

like how many thousand people are in here but how many are daily chatters

[tropic heron]

It's a solid, and unique game

[hearty thicket]

for sure is a solid and unique game

[tropic heron]

There aren't any games quite like this

[hearty thicket]

but i think where its super cool and super unique, is that it is so solid and unique that it doesnt necessarily make it something with a border to entry to almost anyone

[tender quest]

its one of the games of all time for sure

[tropic heron]

I believe it's that simple. It's a well made, extremely fun game that doesn't feel like anything I've played before

[hearty thicket]

its like getting over it or one of those rage inducing games if they were made to be fun

[tender quest]

and one of the games ever made

[hearty thicket]

at least one of them so far

[wheat leaf]

very distinct difference is the complete control of weapon movement, where every other slasher uses preset animations

[tender quest]

that we know of

[hearty thicket]

mayhaps

[tropic heron]

Take RPGs. I have played many, many rpgs. Whenever I play a new one, it already feels familiar. I don't have that pre-existing knowledge here

[hearty thicket]

it goes much further and it can be also simplified even further

[hearty thicket]

i agree that a game has personally never felt this fresh for me before

especially a single player game

[tender quest]

who would win
me
or

[tropic heron]

Yeah, and I can guarantee you that Ubisoft or some other company will try to make a copy and fail miserably

[hearty thicket]

maybe this is what its like to live through the release of the next cod franchise level game

[tropic heron]

5000 years of 5000 half swords

[hearty thicket]

swords have been cool for almost all of human history

and fighting with swords, even cooler

[mental kelp]

sorry for this but sometimes the steam clips just dont work so u gotta keep trying it with diff exports

[hearty thicket]

swords and crossbows?

give me a diamond camo and we're set

[tropic heron]

The guy who made the first sword probably thought "damn this is sick as hell"

[hearty thicket]

the guy who made the first sword probably knew what the fuck he was doin

[tropic heron]

Pointy stick

[hearty thicket]

you dont just accidentally forge a murder weapon lmfao

[velvet hedge]

The guy who made the half sword probably thought "damn this is sick as hell"

[tender quest]

hate fighting these polearms, all they have to do is swing horizontal into your side and it will most likely pierce through

[hearty thicket]

now this

https://tenor.com/view/mop-sponge-bob-talent-show-discord-gif-22147384

[hearty thicket]

some weapons you do have to give extreme space and respect

other times you have a advantageous matchup

[fallen glacier]

what's the tallest you got yalls willies

[prisma tiger]

a lil bit above the second row of black dots

without mods

[fallen glacier]

dang nice

[prisma tiger]

nice parry my friend

[mental kelp]

thanks

[thick pilot]

do we know if theyre gonna add more voicelines in the next update/full release?

[hearty thicket]

i would certainly think so but i dont think thats their main focus right now

potentially more story based things from what i gather

[north gazelle]

I really hope i get into the closed testing

I got a good pc too hopefully i get selected

[hearty thicket]

yo momma cee my p real good too

[wheat leaf]

brostralopithecus fr tried emoting on me

[velvet hedge]

i got a 6000 on cinebench

[hearty thicket]

i gave yo momma 6 poundins on a city bench

[velvet hedge]

sorry for you 🙏

[hearty thicket]

https://klipy.com/gifs/yeah-waitwhat

bro momma is obama

[wheat leaf]

@mighty nexus

[hearty thicket]

@mighty nexus

[wheat leaf]

that one wasnt as funny

[hearty thicket]

im still smiling

[fierce wedge]

@mighty nexus

[wheat leaf]

see thats funny

[fallen glacier]

im smiling

[hearty thicket]

i may have exhaled rapidly several times

[wheat leaf]

realest shit i heard all minute

[hearty thicket]

ive began to laugh more recently but i noticed how empty my face was before

but i think ive also started to embrace the joke that the rest of my life is gonna be lmfao

i got banned from a boomer facebook app for saying i got a lobotomy

[hearty thicket]

@mighty nexus

[hearty thicket]

see now this one has layers

willy has some clear augmentation in the photo here

and hes holding his mouth

and the thing is

when it really gets down to it

so yeah

goodnight everyone

[fierce wedge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1249244170598617089/1304742785110249522/giphy.gif

[wheat leaf]

nobody expects to be stabbed by a hammer

[fallen glacier]

didn't even mean to do this but I finally got the beggar pants in abyss

[woeful frigate]

that was sick lol

prob my 3rd fav game now

[wheat leaf]

thank you! its a very fun game

[patent yarrow]

sup everyone

[fallen glacier]

noo my SHIRT.. almost had it

[patent yarrow]

When will the game be released? Is there an exact date?

[patent yarrow]

😄

[wheat leaf]

after tomorrow

[weak osprey]

First time I ever saw a willie wear a shirt

[patent yarrow]

fine

[trim scaffold]

hi

[patent yarrow]

Another dead project like Dark and Darker

[patent yarrow]

sup buddy

[wheat leaf]

lol early access is releasing in the next 2 months

[patent yarrow]

Wow... after 2 whole months... FINE!11

[fallen glacier]

earlier I managed to make em change pants too #halfsword-chat-⚔ message. Afaik it's the only way to get the default beggar set in abyss, or their other unique clothes. That default white beggar shirt seems to be glitchy though, I don't think it has normal physics like the other shirts which is why I think it glitched into the ground or whatever

[weak osprey]

Willie is smart but he doesn’t use his brain power often

[trim scaffold]

2 months isnt that far im hella excited

[woeful frigate]

brain fart is his ermmmmm {error willie.exe stopped working} XD

[glacial bloom]

Yo what sens do u use?

[wheat leaf]

800 dpi on mouse

i tweak it slightly depending on weapon size/weight

[glacial bloom]

Gotcha

Thanks

[bronze radish]

when is ea releasing

[paper kernel]

Never if you keep asking

[bronze radish]

still Q1 2026

[fallen glacier]

of next universe timeline

[split meadow]

Any guesses on the price when it comes out?

[woeful frigate]

£10k easy lol

[split meadow]

lol what about US dollars

[woeful frigate]

worthless that monopoly money to me XD

[split meadow]

I’m not quite sure how to respond lol

[ashen sluice]

how did i knock his helmet off wtf

[ashen sluice]

one thing i dont understand about halfsword is that the opponents bleed out of their helmets

or have blood on them

[hasty bloom]

naginata execution

[runic quest]

how do i get my half sword to not have evil crashes

[fallen glacier]

turn blood down maybe, I've heard it can cause crashes

[ruby zephyr]

pray

[fallen glacier]

is it worth it to use bucklers like this for pseudo-armor

[burnt pine]

dose that work?

[fallen glacier]

I noticed earlier when I had a buckler equipped like that it seemed to block/deflect a hit but I'm not sure. First time trying it with 2

[sturdy jolt]

Very soon

[plain brook]

how can it be dead, it was never alive its a tech demo

thats like calling the matrix awakens a dead game because nobody plays it now that unreal engine 5 is actually out

also its entirely singleplayer so "dead" isnt something it can be "abandoned" might fit if it wasnt so feature complete even as a tech demo

[wheat leaf]

very snappy bind transitions

[light musk]

@tepid jasper desbloqueame we, te tengo que decir algo.

[zenith breach]

dont play baron tier ever

[viral phoenix]

it's saved me before, but it also seems to get in the way of moving my arms properly to attack

[zenith breach]

ive beat this dumbass game like 3 or 4 times

[zenith breach]

yes

extremely worth it

esp in baron tier or playing abyss

[zenith breach]

im addicted 😔

[fallen glacier]

that's great. I hate games where you store a shield on your back or wherever but attacks just go through them like nothing

[viral phoenix]

you notice the shield save people on the commoner tier boss, bastard has one that makes hitting him even more of a pain than it already is

[wheat leaf]

its only when you expect the shield to save you that it lets attacks through, but when you dont expect it to it wil save you

[zenith breach]

super easy kill

let him swing

dodge back

push n thrust

works every single time if youre fast enough

does not require slow down

i dont even use it

[fallen glacier]

same

[zenith breach]

the game automatically becomes easy if you use the right stuff each tier

[fallen glacier]

gotta be careful kicking coffins open

[zenith breach]

pitchfork, longsword, plancon, plancon, broad halberd, broad halberd, poleaxe, big ass knight sword (esp with a mace)

[zenith breach]

you gotta be careful around coffins overall

everything trips on them or gets flung by them

[zenith breach]

then whichever holy book you believe in n prayer beads

[fallen glacier]

true. This is one of the funniest vids I've seen

[zenith breach]

wtf

[wheat leaf]

id argue this is in the top 5 halfsword clips ever

its so perfect

[fallen glacier]

yeah lol

[wheat leaf]

https://tenor.com/view/halfsword-half-sword-halfsword-game-half-sword-game-gif-14454650096982323610

[zenith breach]

yoinked

ahem

[zenith breach]

you gotta commit to your swing

and get used to the length of each weapon

[wheat leaf]

this hammer specifically needs a bit more help switching to halfsword grip i find, if i did it before swinging or during the swing it'd go all weird grip

your right i do needa get used to this things length tho lol, its one of the few weapons i havent spent lots of time with

[fallen glacier]

shoulder blade is exposed but it's ok

[light pike]

https://medal.tv/games/half-sword/clips/lY9bvfIadJ--4Zti-?invite=cr-MSxSczMsMjg3NjQ4MDQ5&v=11

HOW SHARP WAS THAT FUCKING KNIFE BRO

[hearty thicket]

I’ve seen the knives slice people clean in half

Your reactions justified tho it’s pretty rare lol

[light pike]

why is he aura farming on me 😭

blocked my attack while covering his face who is this guy

[fallen glacier]

that's brazy lol

[hearty thicket]

https://tenor.com/view/lego-movie-wyldstyle-this-guy-is-the-special-hes-special-special-gif-25178099

[fallen glacier]

is billhook better than plancon?

[hearty thicket]

which one is bill hook

which one is plancon

planccon

[wheat leaf]

Billhook is the super long one with a hook, plancon is the spike stick

[hearty thicket]

plancon

objectively the billhook

[fallen glacier]

plancon, billhook

[hearty thicket]

im crazy so plancon

[wheat leaf]

god i love plancon 🤤

[fallen glacier]

internally it's named "WarStaff"

[hearty thicket]

using militia or the rank above that with plancon carried me to man at arms when i beat the gauntlet

[wheat leaf]

dont ever let someone tell you its a goedendag

[hearty thicket]

aye aye

[fallen glacier]

true. Also someone was tryna say there's no boar spear in the game, that's a lie

[wheat leaf]

which one is the boar spear?

[hearty thicket]

thats what they called my pecker in college

🙁

🙁

[wheat leaf]

ohhh the big spear

[hearty thicket]

they didnt call it that in college.

[fallen glacier]

the arms on the side are designed to stop the spear from continuing to pierce through the boar so it protects the hunter

[hearty thicket]

my willie isnt compensating for anything in my pfp

[wheat leaf]

i havent used that spear in a fat minute, ima run it rn

[hearty thicket]

ive crossed a line where ive been in the half sword discord more than ive played half sword recently

is this bad

[fallen glacier]

na

[hearty thicket]

oh i thought for a moment i ha-

i had sta-

started tra-

https://tenor.com/view/the-incredibles-syndrome-buddy-pine-discord-reddit-gif-1954320315783291994

[fallen glacier]

uh o