Earlier this month, the Stellar Blade devs stated they had been a bit “scared” by diehard followers who’d already poured dozens of hours into the demo. After seeing one participant who’s spent 60 hours grinding by the demo’s restricted content material to max out Eve’s talent tree, I believe I perceive why.
That participant is hardwarecheese, who not too long ago posted an image of an almost full Stellar Blade talent tree to Reddit below the title “nearly maxed out!” Within the put up, hardwarecheese wrote “I’m excited to switch over all my knowledge to the complete sport and expertise it for the primary time with alot of the strikes unlocked from the soar!”
The responses to that thread are about what you’d count on, operating the gamut from impressed by the dedication to questioning why anyone would spend this a lot time on a seemingly pointless train. The Stellar Blade demo is meaty relative to what you’d count on, but it surely’s nonetheless a restricted chunk of the sport’s content material, which suggests hardwarecheese needed to spend an entire lot of time grinding the identical stage again and again.
All instructed, hardwarecheese has spent “about 60 hours” within the demo. “I do a loop again to the save level on the ladder earlier than the parking storage,” they clarify, including that the purpose right here is to “get tremendous snug with all of the strikes combos and variations!” In one other remark, hardwarecheese says that “My private purpose was to discover ways to use combos together with good parry to all the time recharge beta so the sport move could be entertaining however efficient.”
That grinding is about to switch to the complete sport when it launches later this week, as saved progress from the demo does carry over. I am unsure there’s any sport I might be keen to spend two-and-a-half full days repeating the identical stage again and again in, however hey, who am I to inform somebody that they are having fun with a sport an excessive amount of?
