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Path of martial arts: leaked sneak peaks, and discussing thread

CAUSEROW

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Story mode Wu Heir smokes Chu Muchen. At the end of the fight, Chu Muchen’s strength was reduced to a barely strong Late Houtian. It was a sad sight to see, him desperately and weakly punching us for his Ice Wisp lol
 
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had nothing better to do so i gave in to curiosity and played the muchen fight. and now can't help but think that if we spare the wisp, given that it's an ice elemental. that there might be a chance for it to be able to help us thaw ai. there's of course no evidence for this other than that it just feels right.
 
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Kro said:
had nothing better to do so i gave in to curiosity and played the muchen fight. and now can't help but think that if we spare the wisp, given that it's an ice elemental. that there might be a chance for it to be able to help us thaw ai. there's of course no evidence for this other than that it just feels right.
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By that logic, elemental dao can do the same but better. Why let a free powerup go away? Anything not strictly main story plot is always at risk of being dropped.
 
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sevyrex said:
By that logic, elemental dao can do the same but better. Why let a free powerup go away? Anything not strictly main story plot is always at risk of being dropped.
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that may be, but i'd figure that you pretty much have to reach the limit of the elemental dao level and get some other powerup to do it yourself. but if you get the wisp to help you then the checks to thaw ai will be fewer and/or lower
 
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Kro said:
had nothing better to do so i gave in to curiosity and played the muchen fight. and now can't help but think that if we spare the wisp, given that it's an ice elemental. that there might be a chance for it to be able to help us thaw ai. there's of course no evidence for this other than that it just feels right.
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Did you not read the part where yang bohai catches the wisp if you let it go? Letting it go won't do anything
 
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So guys.. I gave in and played the fight since i had nothing else to do in my free time. I know I know, i was the one who preached patience and ****. But I didnt have anything to occupy me during my free time and i thought why not, im gonna play this multiple times anyway.

Niki did change the fight system, i forgot how it was for the blood hunter ones but the fight is way more sandbox-y than before. It feels more like a turn based fight now where during your turn you can choose to attack, defend, or you have an 'other' option where you can choose your transformation or taunt and some other stuff depending on what goes on during the fight. You can break his domain in 3 different ways in the other option, so you get the gist. Niki really went overboard with the amount of options you have during the fight. You can specifically go just body or just dao or both. If you have strong stats, you can go apeshit on him. Story mode MC's will eat him for breakfast and im not kidding. He gets dumbfounded after we manage to overpower his first two big attacks and i think there are 4 or 5 inluding the domain, the world freeze and the wisp. His big attacks will escelate in stats from 60s to 70s to 80s and eventually somewhere close to 100. You can increase your stats temporarily via the defensive options during the fight but it might become usless after he escelates furthur. If Niki is going this route, then i dont think he will do impossible checks even for story mode MC considering MC can win 100 stat checks.

You can actually almost kill him multiple times but he has i think 3 life saving artifcats and talismans which he keeps using everytime MC almost kills him. In the attack option, we have seprate options which have even more multiple options within. Attack options has physical attacks, elemental, body, void and tri-dao. each of these has atleast 3 different attacks. After exhausting all his options, man gets tired and gives us the sneak peek where he says we are a nobody yet we beat him. Niki actually added an option to call him out on calling us a nobody which was pleasent surpirse considering we actually talked about this after the sneak peek. Depending on your response and whether youre cocky insulting and arrogant, he will either just give up respectfully and try to crush his token to escape or he will unleash the wisp. We can try to destroy the wisp but its costly. MC states even the weakest wisp is atleast EX. And yes we can absorb the wisp for dao exp. You can also set the wisp free out of pity cuz it begs for mercy when you try to abosrb it. If you free or absorb the wisp, Chu Muchen goes manic and attacks us throwing weak punches telling us to give the wisp back to him lmao. He looks so pathetic and pitiful. But before he breaks his token, or when he weakly tries to attack MC, Someone jumps in screaming "let me help you" in an "unexpected turn of event" acc to MC. That someone is He Gang most probably. So he's showing his true colours after we did all the work for him.

Niki did a good job with the fight but my concern is stat balancing and that each moment in the fight feels a tad bit detached to the existing narrative. Niki needs to find the sweet spot and blend in MC's choices and what Chu Muchen does to respond to it. In simple terms, the cohesion of the fight is kinda off. It might be difficult considering he made the fight system way more sandbox than before but over time im sure he'll figure it out. I also have a concern on how the after match of the fight will be handled but Niki can just give priority to the important moments in the fight like the domain, wisp and stuff like that. I enjoyed the fight. Depending on how the fight goes for you, it might just become your favourite fight in poma.
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Hopefully if that Wisp being freed MC can get the Wisp help in the future Like I don't being saved by their kinds or something
 
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CAUSEROW said:
I hope he gets stuck at LH now lol
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He didn't fall to a LH level, he was exausted and weak after the fight, he still is a genius, peak houtian level that will ascend to xiantian anyway. Unless we kill him, i didn't try to kill him. But i guess if you break his armor and then use the lethal strike it will kill him, have to try it later. I did the lethal strike before breaking his armor
 
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But i don't think it will come back, it is said that he is a early xiantian level, mc at just ascending to Qi Sea will be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> in comparision to a normal early xiantian, so if mc can't save Ai by themselves with a elemental Dao and golden seed, neither will it
 
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Now that i'm thinking about it, mc absorving a wisp should be more than enough to ascend to Qi Sea, mc is already a pseudo xiantian, the lore is just holding him back, would be funny if we pull the same card agaisnt tang ruo. We are having a tough but equal fight, both at full power, then mc just grins and release all his power and lighting strikes the arena, when the clouds clear out we are ascended. I bet a lot of you would be mad, but it is no secret that Wu heir is 99.99% ready to breakthrough. Maybe ruo could the "now i'm actually a peak houtian" BS and be broken and we do this. But i'm 95% sure both of them will fight at a strong early xiantian power at the final duel.
 
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Kamisama said:
But i don't think it will come back, it is said that he is a early xiantian level, mc at just ascending to Qi Sea will be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> in comparision to a normal early xiantian, so if mc can't save Ai by themselves with a elemental Dao and golden seed, neither will it
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Eqi sea = middle xiantian
 
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Kamisama said:
Now that i'm thinking about it, mc absorving a wisp should be more than enough to ascend to Qi Sea, mc is already a pseudo xiantian, the lore is just holding him back, would be funny if we pull the same card agaisnt tang ruo. We are having a tough but equal fight, both at full power, then mc just grins and release all his power and lighting strikes the arena, when the clouds clear out we are ascended. I bet a lot of you would be mad, but it is no secret that Wu heir is 99.99% ready to breakthrough. Maybe ruo could the "now i'm actually a peak houtian" BS and be broken and we do this. But i'm 95% sure both of them will fight at a strong early xiantian power at the final duel.
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Niki said cultivators don't ascending like MAs do
So it's prolly gon be diff
 
Kamisama

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I played it again, yeah, we can't kill chu muchen, only put him to sleep, damn plot armor. I'm having way too much fun at being a body refiner. I'm glad nicky changed that exchange with yue fang, where we almost broke our entire arm trying to punch him, now we can not feel a thing while he is surprised at our strength. It still makes sense for him to be stronger given his background, but not for long.
 
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