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Combat Mod Makes Playing ‘Sekiro’ Feel Like ‘Bloodborne’
It’s obvious that Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is Dark Souls set in feudal Japan (which is not a bad thing), so why not make it more like another Souls game? The Bloodborne Combat Mod for Sekiro by thefifthmatt seeks to do just that, tweaking Sekiro‘s parry-focused combat to prioritize dashing, as well as tweaking the invincibility frames to be more like Bloodborne‘s system.
That’s not all that’s been reworked, as the mod also includes a variation on Bloodborne’s Rally System. After you’re attacked, you have a small opportunity to gain back health as long as you return the damage. Also, the mod makes it so that blocking doesn’t deflect attacks anymore, which results in you receiving damage.
The mod also reconfigures Sekiro‘s posture system to stand in for Bloodborne‘s stamina meter, resulting in you being penalized for constantly swinging and dashing all over the place. In other words, you’ll have to attack smart.
To get this working, you’ll first need to snag the Sekiro Mod Engine, following by the Bloodborne Combat Mod itself.
Indie development duo Beck & Branch Games and publisher Neem Interactive have announced that their viral horror co-op extraction builder GRAIN ROT will be launching next month on Steam on August 7. The game has already been wishlisted almost 200,000 times, and garnered over 350,000 demo downloads during last month’s Steam Next Fest, earning it one of the Top 15 most-played demos during the event.
Set in a scorched wasteland where everything burns, you and up to four friends must descend and break into shifting ruins, rip out furniture, and scavenge for loot for your Outpost base before the Corrupted close in. Make it back alive, then rebuild the Outpost to better your chances for the next run. Of course, in addition to the monsters lurking about, you’ll also need to be wary of your own team, which can leave you high and dry in order to save themselves.
Each time your vessel catches fire or gets smashed to pieces, your Living Spark will need to find and possess a new one, allowing you to keep riding the cursed elevator deeper in the search for loot. Furniture can be smashed to splinters as you use the debris for resources or feed it to the Grinder for gold. The deeper you descend, the worse the Rot becomes. Bodies warp. Voices distort. Emotes become…worse. Or possibly better?
As mentioned, you and your friends can betray each other in order to get out of a jam. Dropkick enemies or “accidentally” launch your ally’s Spark out of their vessel. Block them in a monster-infested corridor or get stuck in the crossfire. However, as you’d expect, the chaos you create can come back to haunt you, so be smart about goofing off.