Nioh 2 Update 1.11 July 29 Brings DLC 1 Tengu’s Disciple & More (Update)

Nioh 2 Update 1.22 January 4

Those who can’t get enough Nioh 2, Team Nina has released the Nioh 2 update 1.11 July 29 patch that brings in the Tengu’s Disciple DLC (first DLC drop for the game), and an assortment of new content even for those not willing to spend more money.

Nioh 2 Update 1.11 July 29 patch notes:

▶︎ How to play “Ushiwaka Senki”

* It will be released by purchasing the additional content “Ushiwaka Senki” or “Nio 2 Season Pass”.
    • New story “Ushiwaka Senki” added
      * To play “Ushiwaka Senki”, it is necessary to clear the main story.

    • Added a new weapon type “Trained”
      *It can be used from the beginning.

      Manoni armor

  • High difficulty mode is playable
    • You will be released by capturing the difficulty levels of “Sura no Yumeji” and “Ayakashi Yumeji”.
      In “Shura no Yumeji”, you will be able to acquire more powerful equipment, Tamashiro, and Emaki (new elements), and the upper limit of the player level and the limit value of + value due to soul matching will also increase.
  • Addition of new Yokai, Tamashiro, and Yokai techniques

  • Added new guardian spirit
  • Add new weapons, armor and accessories
  • Add new secretary skills
  • Add new gestures/portraits
  • Added new trophies, titles and play records
  • Added special effects and alignment effects that are added to equipment that can be obtained in Shura’s Yumeji
Free update
  • Added a new element, “Hyakki Yayuki Emaki”. When you
    destroy an enemy in missions with difficulty after “Ayakashi Yumeji”, “Hyakki Yayuki Emaki” will be dropped in rare cases. If you have the “Hyakki Yayuki Emaki”, you can try the “Emaki Mission”. By clearing it, you can equip the “Hyakki Yayuki Emaki” and further strengthen your player.
    In addition to dropping from enemies, “Hyakki Yayuki Emaki” may also be able to acquire other user’s Emaki through multiplayer and blood mounds. The “Hyakki Yayuki Emaki” mission is available in multiplayer with “Tsyoyo accompanied”.
  • Added new Ninja skill and Yin Yang skill
  • Added new “hairstyle”, “face decoration”, “body decoration” to appearance settings, and added “bath motion” setting.

Function expansion
  • Added a specification that allows you to continue from the company you last accessed when you failed in the regular account
  • Increased luggage storage capacity from 500 to 600
  • Changed to automatically replenish “Arrows”, “Bullet”, and “Cannonball” from the warehouse after death
  • If you make an advanced
    purchase reservation so that you can make a purchase reservation for the product in the company’s “Kiraku no Garakuta City”, you can consume God’s rice and purchase it automatically after your death or when you worship at the company. However, replenishment from the warehouse has priority.
  • Expanded to count “Used” in “Appearance code list” of appearance settings
  • Expanded so that you can check with the equipment before and after the change in the “imitation” of the “blacksmith”
  • Added the function to play the voice when you get Tamashii
  • Added “Order of Attachment Costs” in the order of the soul charge tabs on the Inventory screen
  • Expanded to display the commentary text of the Yokai skill when “Explanation” is displayed on the detail screen of the soul and the cursor is placed on the name
  • Added “Weapon” and “Armor” tabs when selecting materials for soul matching
  • Expanded so that you can transfer your soul generation to the warehouse at “Shindai Keirai” at the company
  • Expanded so that you can move even if you hold down the key by moving the tab in the tool column
  • Expanded so that you can select priority parameters after selecting “Recommended” in “Teaware” in “Redesign”
  • The following functions have been expanded for Photo Mode
    • Add “touchpad left side” and “touchpad right side” to “shortcut button settings” in photo mode
    • Added “Display Drop Items” to Photo Mode (Amrita is also applicable)
    • Changed “Camera Settings” in Photo Mode from “Activate △ Button” to “Activate from Settings Tab”
    • Expanded to display a dedicated icon when another player is using the photo mode during multiplayer
    • Changed to prioritize ON/OFF of “Blur” in Photo mode even if Photo mode is started while “Blur” is applied during the game
  • Expanded to freeze the time when offline while opening the PS4 home screen
    *Please note that the game does not stop during multiplayer play and when preparing for matching Marebito.
Adjustment
  • Adjustments regarding youkai
    • Adjusted the following elements to increase/decrease the youkai gauge while becoming a youkai
      • Reduces gauge consumption over time, attacks, evasions, successful defenses, and guardian spirits
      • Increases gauge when feats and grouping are successful
      • Increase the gauge by hitting “Fanging” and △ long press attack while becoming a ferocious youkai
      • Slightly increased the gauge with some of the fast attacks and △ long press attacks while becoming a ghost of Xun
      • While becoming a phantom youkai, the gauge is slightly increased due to the hits of “Yougetsu Ring/Yo”, “Yogetsu Ring/Yin”, and △ long press
    • Adjusted the increase in the increase and decrease in the youkai gauge, adjusting the ease with which the youkai skill gauge accumulates during youkai, and the upper limit of the gauge recovery amount
    • Added the specification that Amrita will be generated if you succeed in avoiding the enemy’s attack while becoming a ghost of Xin
    • Changed so that special effects of guardian spirits and soul generation will be exerted between the end of youkai and the accumulation of amrita gauge
    • Adjusted the movement that appears when you press “Reposition” after moving after hitting the enemy with the moon ring
    • Changed to not increase/decrease the effect time of youkai gauge and youkai activation status while becoming a youkai
  • Adjustment related to difficulty
    • Strengthen correction of enemy’s physical strength and power when calling out to Marevito
    • Adjusted Samurai Yumeji’s early missions to make level sync stronger
  • Adjustments regarding player actions
    • Adjusted the growth of the guardian spirit attack power by raising it
    • Changed the reaction when applying the guardian spirit of “Kage” to humans and adjusted the energy damage upward
    • Changed so that damage and energy damage caused by youkai technique will not be corrected by the property of the weapon (slashing/striking)
    • Taito martial arts “Yukitsuki Hana” adjust downwards so that even during the second and third shots, even if the toughness is high
    • Added the ability not to dull while attacking if the toughness is high in the great sword martial arts “Tobuki”
    • Rush performance added to the following martial arts
      • Sword martial arts “Yasha Ichimon” “Tiger Gori”
      • Spear martial arts “return to the sky”
      • Great sword martial arts “Crash”
      • Rotating stick martial arts “inch Jin” and “extreme skill inch Jin”
    • Adjusted downward when the following Yokai techniques were used too much against guarded opponents
      • Coloring
      • Demon
      • Three eyes
      • Horse head ghost
      • Minotaur
      • Bull ghost
      • Night sword god
      • Daedalaboch
  • Adjustments regarding enemy and ally characters
    • Adjusted to increase the attack frequency of co-op NPCs
    • “Honda Tadakatsu” earthquake attacks adjusted to be hard to hit in the air
    • Lowered the amount of attack power increase effect used by “Rizo Saito”
    • Adjusted the length of the suggestive effect displayed for some major skills used by Gamo Ujisato
    • Adjusted so that the attack of the “gaijin” can be reflected by the effects of “revenge note”, “sword sword, martial arts, and heaven blade”, and can be disabled by the effect of “arrow protection bills”
    • Adjusted resistance to all human enemies
    • Changed the ninjutsu “Genjutsu / 5th Fire” used by “Kato Danzo” so that it can be prevented with the “immovable posture”
    • “Hachisuka Koroku” now has a special effect when it hits the shell on the back and the attack is blocked, and the accumulation of status abnormalities is reflected in the main body.
  • Adjustments for various effects and abnormal conditions
    • Adjusted “Melee Damage to Poison Enemies” given to small items downward
    • Adjusted the fixed special effects of some equipment to improve performance according to item level
    • Changed the beneficial effect “Attack Augmentation” obtained with the guardian spirit “Amakugan Peacock” to be integrated with other “Attack Augmentation”, and adjusted the effect amount downward
    • Changed the defensive enhancement gained with the martial arts “Kongo” and the guardian spirit “Tenma Peacock” to be integrated with other “defense enhancement”
    • Changed the behavior of the beneficial effect “Attack boost” and the unfavorable effect “Attack reduced” to the variation of physical damage multiplier instead of the variation of attack power, and also adjust the effect amount
    • Changed the behavior of the beneficial effect “enhancement defense” and the adverse effect “defense reduction” to the variation of physical damage multiplier instead of the variation of defense power, and also adjust the effect amount
    • Abolished the specification that youkai can not be used and youkai can not be used while you are in the abnormal condition of Jyo attribute
    • Changed the special effect of “Melee” to apply to the attack of throwing a hatchet
    • When the “Ambush Penetration” effect is applied to a large cylinder, it will penetrate and explode multiple times.
    • Upward adjustment of the following special effects added to the soul generation
      • Drop rate from youkai
      • Equipment drop rate from youkai
    • Changed the special effect “automatic recovery of physical strength when in a predicament” and the effect of the item “cultivation mark” to not overlap
    • Increased the amount of magic power added to the special effect “Add magic power when the enemy is set to [Fire/Water/Thunder/You/Poison]”
    • Downward adjustment of the special effect “Damaged to receive damage (during youkai)” given to the soul generation
    • Changed the special effects that are activated by group attack to be activated by the following group attack
      • Ang Long Ya
      • Dragon Claw
      • Ang Long Point
      • Musou Futake
    • Changed the specification so that special effects related to “Ambition Hit” will be displayed when the firearm of the “Ghost Warrior” ghost skill hits the enemy
    • Adjusted the growth of the value according to the samurai’s evaluation of “Honda” samurai’s “martial arts damage” to be the same as other melee attack damage increase system
    • The following samurai blessing effect values ​​have been adjusted upwards
      • Oda, Tokugawa, Toyotomi, Sanada, Ishida, Otani, Asai, Maeda, Tachibana, Yoshikawa, Otomo, Shibata, Hojo, Takeda, Kitahata, Murakami, Niwa, Ashikaga, Ukita, Asakura, Hisashi, Ikeda, Araki
  • Other adjustments
    • Changed the condition to start the countdown for automatic departure of “Tsukuyo accompanied” when someone finishes
    • Changed so that you can’t use “Silver Bullion” in “Training Area”
    • Changed to not overwrite the frame where martial arts are already set when learning the secret book skill
    • Changed so that locked equipment can be selected by “Rehash” and “Modification” in “Blacksmith”
    • Changed the sort settings on each screen so that the settings can be retained by dividing them into three types: “Items that can be held together”, “Items that cannot be held together” and “Favorites”.
    • Change the order of skills in the displayed skill list on the status menu “Skill acquisition” screen
    • Partially changed the order of Yin Yang surgery
    • Changed the position of the demon fire (fire) when sorting the soul generations by type
    • Changed to play skill video automatically
Bug fixes
    • Fixed a bug that the spear’s “Opportunity” sometimes jumped over a downed opponent and could not hit
    • Fixed a bug that when the spear is equipped, if you perform a specific action with the mystery “changeable” set, it will switch to a posture different from the last posture
    • Fixed a bug where human enemies could not be interrupted by the guard during the spear martial arts “spear transformation”
    • Fixed a bug that the enemy sometimes fell into the spot without being thrown away when the energy of the enemy was cut off by the ax martial arts “Cloud Break”
    • Fixed a bug that the chain sword martial arts “Rantenryu” might not hit when used under certain conditions
    • Fixed a bug that the left back cannot be avoided in certain situations when equipping a sickle
    • Fixed a bug that it was possible to switch weapons during the action of the sickle martial arts “snake bite”
    • Fixed a bug that the power reduction effect of the Senki Martial Arts “Type 3 of Battle” is less than expected
    • Fixed a bug that some attack of hatchet is hard to hit weak points
    • Fixed a bug where if you change your attitude while performing an evasive action and attack immediately after equipping a hatchet, the attitude will return before the attitude changes
    • Fixed a bug that allowed you to set ineffective martial arts customization skills for “Kiki”
    • Fixed a bug that if you try to move in the opposite direction when you are dashing while youkai, it may take a long time to move to the next action depending on the state of the player
    • Fixed a bug that attribute accumulation sometimes occurred while the opponent was not hit when using a special skill
    • Fixed a bug that the special skill might not succeed for the big skill of “Rizo Saito” and “Danzo Kato”
    • Fixed a bug where “Rizo Saito” and “Rieya Maeda” sometimes became dying while still having energy
    • Fixed a bug that “Karato Senju” used by “Kato Danzo” cannot be repelled by “Refutsu”
    • Fixed a bug that “Kato Danzo” does not activate if you use “Turnover” to defeat it by group attack or specific counter martial arts
    • Fixed a bug that “Iai” used by “Tsukahara Uden” and “Shisoin Kosen (Sword)” may not be hit
    • Fixed a bug that “Tatari Moke” and “Kuro Tengu” did not move to the paralyzed state even if they satisfied the conditions for paralysis in the air.
    • Fixed a bug that certain special skill of “Tank” is difficult to return with phantom special skill
    • Fixed a bug that sometimes caused an iron ball to fly backward from the “Revenge” attack
    • Fixed a bug that the attack with a gourd of “Sake Douji” might not hit if it was in close contact
    • Fixed a bug where Amrita, who was robbed during the “Daigo Hanami” boss battle, can not be recovered even if it is destroyed without killing
    • Fixed a bug that the ghost of “Kamame” may not disappear after defeating “Kamame”
    • Fixed a bug that could cause damage when activating “Boar Twist” for “Kamame”
    • Fixed a bug that sometimes revived even if you killed “Biwamaki” in the darkness
    • Fixed a bug where in the main mission “Daigo Hanami”, after shooting a gun or a large barrel in a specific area, the technique of “Transparent Wave” can be immediately solved.
    • Fixed a bug where “Sneaking” was not displayed in the boss area in the main mission “Eye Reflection”
    • Fixed a bug that “Tadakatsu Honda” may not be displayed on the guest side in the main mission “Omotenashi (front and back) hospitality”
    • Fixed a bug that an item may drop in a position where it cannot be acquired in the delivery mission “Ryobei ​​no Kizuna”
    • Fixed a bug that two key items “Foreign Necklace” can be obtained by a specific procedure
    • Fixed a bug that the sound is played each time you pick up the soul of “Sake Douji”
    • Fixed a bug that Aiman ​​sometimes did not drop Soul Soul from “Ushioni” in the mission “Sakura no Sakura”
    • Fixed a bug that the correct rarity was not displayed on the reward screen of mission information
    • Fixed a bug in the mission clear rewards for the second and subsequent missions of the Submissions “Bat and Butterfly”, “Remaining Snow and Red Ruts”, and the Master Mission “Nijo no Kengo”
    • Fixed a bug that the filter strength value of “Photo mode” was common to all filters.
    • Fixed the problem that the default brightness of “Photo mode” was different from the expected value.
    • Fixed a problem that when throwing some throwing weapons with “Motion frame advance” in “Photo mode”, it behaves differently than usual.
    • Fixed a problem that could not be operated when opening “Photo mode” immediately before the death of the user
    • Fixed a bug that does not play properly when entering the event scene while “Photo mode” is active in Tokuyo
    • Fixed a bug where Amrita saved in “Silver Bullion” could be lost in rare cases
    • Fixed a problem that the cost may increase by 1 when multiple specific techniques are adjusted with “Technique”
    • Fixed a bug that the same effect as the current special effect may be drawn in the selection list when performing “Rehabilitation” in “Blacksmith”
    • Fixed a problem that “Operation of the Soul” is disabled after performing “Toyoyo’s Enchanted Items” screen after enshrining “Tosho no Yodai”
    • Fixed a bug that the decoration moves to the wrong position when changing the “body part” in the body decoration item of “Appearance settings”
    • Fixed a bug that the behavior when filtering with the item name of “Filtering” is not unified in “Sale” and “Disassembly” of weapons in “Blacksmith”
    • Fixed a bug that the message “Applying filtering” is not displayed when filtering when disassembling a weapon in “Blacksmith”
    • Fixed a bug that the “Favorite” setting of the surgical item set in “Technical skill” would come off at a specific timing
    • Fixed a bug that “Manufacturing method” can be added to Favorites
    • Even if there is no change in the acquisition status of martial arts before and after calling “configuration management”, “customize martial arts”! Fixed the problem that the mark is displayed
    • Fixed a bug that the equipments “Dogi Jacket” and “Dogi Hakama” that were obtained by an illegal method can be obtained from Blood Tosuka
      • If the save data has already been obtained, the corresponding equipment will be automatically converted into “Unarmor armor trunk” and “Unrelated armor knee shell”
      • We have already implemented measures to prevent unauthorized acquisition.
    • Corrected the symptom that the special effect with low effect was given priority when the same type of advantageous effect was added at the same time with Yin Yang technique item and special effect.
    • Fixed a bug that the special effect “Aggression boosted by exhaustion of enemies” did not activate when defeated by youkai skill
    • Fixed the special effect “Damage to enemies with abnormal status (fire/water/thunder)” not applied to long-range weapons
    • Fixed a bug that the special effect “Guard and add power” does not add power when guarding long-distance attacks (bows, guns, etc.), Yin Yang, Ninjutsu
    • Special effects “Additional power when the enemy is set to [Fire/Water/Thunder/Youth/Poison]” and “Additional power when you give damage to [Fire/Water/Thunder/Poison]” are not added when the conditions are met by youkai Fixed bug
    • Fixed a bug that the effect does not work even if you hit the “God of the Holy Spirit” or the “Bill of 99” for the special effects that will be activated on Yin Yang
    • Fixed a bug where special effects of “Aggression Increase” are not reflected in youkai
    • Fixed a phenomenon that the beneficial effect disappears if you apply a certain Yokai skill while the beneficial effect “Zanshin/Heaven” is active
    • Fixed a bug that the beneficial effect of the hot spring is activated when entering the hot spring even if the “Sexual Mark” is in effect
    • Fixed a problem that not only energy damage but also guard penetration damage can be prevented when guarding while the effect of “Zanshin/Human”
    • Fixed a bug that the purification attribute was not lost during the abnormal condition of the youth attribute
    • Fixed the problem that the Amrita gauge recovery effect of “Soul-Swinging Stone” becomes faster during multiplayer
    • Fixed a bug that the titles “Living and killing”, “Undefeated traverser”, “Lonely challenger”, and “Naked warrior” can be obtained with Marebito and Tokiyo accompanied halfway
    • Fixed a problem that when you activate “Transformation Technique”, “Youkai activation with physical strength 0 (in darkness)” may be activated at the same time
    • Corrected the symptom that if you meet the conditions of the special effects “Prevent death unless it is in a predicament” and “Activate youkai with 0 physical strength (in darkness)” while using “Defense Mark”
  • Other minor bug fixes

As for the new DLC,  here’s what’s coming in it (via the offiical site):

  •  Story (Hen)
  • New weapon type / Armor
  • New character / Yokai
  • New guardian spirit
    New stage
  • New skill
  • Higher difficulty

Story: The protagonist finds a company in Yashima, where there was once a big battle, with a whistle. When I tried to look it up, Sohayamaru shined brightly and landed on Yajima at the end of the Heian period as a “marebito.” And every time there was a big war in this country, there was a youkai shadow behind it, and I knew that the heroes had fought Sohayamaru to restore peace.

Once Team Ninja posts the complete patch notes, we’ll update the post. If you want to view past Nioh 2 patch notes, be sure to visit our official Nioh 2 hub page: Nioh 2

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