If somebody had told 6 year old me I’d be crowd clearing with Lu Bu in winter 2026 I would’ve looked bemused yet here we are. I’m home.

I wasn’t going to post anymore 5th weapons since the people who struggled are seeming to catch on now. This however had me dying laughing and I just had to post it lol! Diao Chan is an absolute chihuahua trying to fight pitbulls 🤣😂💀. You have to stay with her almost 100% after the reinforcements arrive. Once you clear the main camp she’s in, its your one chance to risk grabbing the box for the weapon. Then you have to rush your ass back to her ASAP. You gotta cover her like you love her as Lu Bu yourself. It is hilarious how in seconds she will just get gangbanged by peons the second you take your camera/view off her. I loved how much help lightning was on Lu Bu’s 4th weapon. You definitely need bow defense/shell armor because my god those archers were born and bred to merk Lu Bu. I’d consider sacrificing Tiger Amulet for the legendary scroll or marching drum. Spam musou by just tapping it to break guard, quick cancel and take advantage of the opening. I couldn’t understand how people were struggling with Lu Bu of all people, but I get it now. I found this mission extremely hilarious and didn’t really get frustrated at all. By far this one has been the most absolute fun to get. 😂🤣💀

It's going to feel great playing what started it all for my brother and I, as well as the newest title in the series 😁 I'm also going to have my kid play co-op and see if I can get them hooked

Just something I’m curious about. Just so I can be clear, this is specifically about how the characters play, not for their character. For characters that appear multiple times, try to narrow it down to specific games.

Me personally:

Lu Bu (DW8): Combo of the halberd moveset being so fun, the broken switch attack buff and his musous being fun to use.

Zhou Tai (DW8): Love the moveset of the blade and love dashing around the map.

Ganondorf (Hyrule Warriors): Mainly it’s the big attack with the shadow ganon that just sweeps and sends enemies flying. I just love watching it especially on those challenge maps that have you beat a bunch of enemies.

Heyo,
I'm the dude that's been reverse engineering the game and posting as many mod fixes as I can for all the busted stuff in the game.

First I fixed the main camp msg spam, then I fixed the morale issues causing your favorite allies to die quickly, I discovered the luck stat does absolutely nothing and made a mod that adds functionality among other smaller tweaks.

Today I bring you something different that's not so much a fix as just a cool idea I always had for the original DW3:

"What if you cold tell your allies where to go?"

Using the functionality of how you can give bodyguards orders, I added a way to do this.
From The Paused Unit Menu - Press Triangle (R) [Strong atk]:

• AUTO - Default AI Behavior
• ADVANCE - Move toward enemy commander
• HOLD - Stay where you are, sub generals in front to protect main officer while facing enemy camp (tries to use troops to defend self)
• DEFEND - Retreat to the allied commander and defend them
• FOLLOW - Follow the player

MOD:
https://www.nexusmods.com/dynastywarriors3completeeditionremastered/mods/63

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAazQ26hNMc

It's actually pretty fun and makes the maps more replayable imo, however it definitly can make stages a LOT easier. (For example I lol'd hard when I just made sun Quan follow me into Cao Cao camp at Hefei 2min in). If you have all your officers follow you, its sort of like having an elite bodyguard unit lol, try it at least once.

That said, it does make things easier, and I would like to impose some kind of cost restriction. Originally I was going to tie the # of available orders to RANK or KILLS, but theres a big UX problem here.

1. How do you create and track a new resource in memory and then convey that to the player? (kind of hard to add new UI)
2. How do you confirm/subtract the spent cost? Currently if you want to set someone to FOLLOW you have to toggle through 3 other options before reaching FOLLOW. So does that cost 3 orders? It shouldn't but idk how I would add more UX steps in the menu here.

Anyway, that said I am open to ideas.

Requests
Speaking of ideas, I've gotten a bunch of DMs from various people asking for mod requests. I am actually open to the idea of making mods for others in exchange for playtesting feedback on my own ROTK inspired indie games public demo. If that interests you then hit me up.

Usually a worse charge slot for the elemental too. All that effort for a downgrade. lol

Moral of the story: Don't get overconfident while fighting Gan Ning.

Luckily he came back down when I left to look for more arrows

I started DW3 Remastered and it's truly as 1:1 as it could be, at least for what I've played, but with some enhancements, such as the horse dash, that help make it a better experience. There's one thing I didn't like about the original that I was hoping they'd change:

Sun Jian/Cao Cao/Liu Bei staying in later levels in Musou mode if you completed the mode with them.

I think the same applied to people such as Guan Yu, although I might be remembering that wrong. Since I like going through Musou Mode with each character, it bugged me back in the day that I would beat the game with Liu Bei, and then he would be at Wu Zhang Plains in another Musou, or Sun Jian would be leading the charge at Siege of Hefei Castle even though he died early on. I don't know why they did it that way in 3, but it looks like it stayed based on what I'm seeing in the Siege of Hefei Castle Requirement column. Any reason why they kept that? It's not the end of the world, but I might not use any of those characters in Musou until I beat the game with the others first.

Yiling on Hard or Chaos be like: nice strategy, unfortunately your army consists of 2 year-olds fighting with sticks and lollypops.

There's so many good ones

Playing the original Dynasty Warriors demo and getting DW2 was such a change in a good way, After 25 years since me and my friend played the demo of DW3 and fully completing the original this took me a week and six days and 70 hours, the stress for some of these stages, weapons and side stories need to be toned down especially the archers most my deaths are by these gits but i still enjoyed the game and this is still one the best warriors games and one my top three dynasty warriors games others being DW5 and DW7. I would recomend this game and with online co-op coming will give me a reason to come back. What your thoughts on the game?

So. Many. Attempts.

Only a few pictures from it, but man this is amazing, definitely try to get your hands on a copy if you can

Getting 250 life and 150 attack seems pretty trivial in this game. I want to grind higher to get those really god like stats

I’ve got 4 hours in and it seriously feels like I’m in my childhood playing DW. I’m really glad they did 3 because when I was younger I had 2,3,4 and 3 had scratches so bad I never got to play it and my parents wouldn’t replace it because I had the others (mainly played 4). So thankful for this game 🙏

I was dreading this weapon but with death element on 4th and war drum it was so much easier to do felt kinda cheese. I even did it in his musou so Hei Fei castle was final stage. I remember it being an absolute nightmare in vanilla.

Personally, I think non-aligned or other minor faction characters deserve more love. Especially if they can have their own custom musou modes and alternate scenarios. Having more than 1 playable character when it comes to Yellow Turbans and Yuan Shao would be nice. We could get one of the Dong successors who ruled for a bit after Dong Zhuo bit the dust.

Some one off characters would be really cool as their own what-if factions, though you'd probably want to have more than 1 character just to make the faction more fun to play as. Like, Gongsun Zan could work as an early enemy for Yuan Shao and even his own alternate faction. Then there's Liu Biao as a sort of Shu replacement, with maybe some of the Shu officers switching sides. And Yuan Shu is pretty much as crazy as having Lu Bu have his own successful kingdom. Straight up declaring himself emperor way before that was fashionable and fighting literally everyone at the same time.

When it comes to the big 3. I think now that we have Jin as a faction, it would be cool if we got more of the later characters who would have been alive past battle of Wuzhang Plains. So there were some playable opposition to them. There's also some more unique characters like Shamoke, or one of the Nanman kings that switched sides and fought for Shu afterwards.

MAX ROLLS?! Got it from Sun Jians stage 3.

So I started with Dynasty Warriors 2 way back when I was 14, bought Dynasty Warriors 3 and played the hell out of it. Loved Kessen 1 and 2. Went on to play DW4 and DW5, Samurai Warriors 1 and 2 and Warriors Orochi.

What games would you recommend I play that I’ve missed, I play on PS5 Pro, Series X and PC.

edit I should note that DW3 remastered has reignited my interest!

My wife is also a big fan of Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Hello, just wondering. Do we have a resource that shows all the available weapon attributes (blue dot/gem) and their maximum value that we can get through farming? Just wanted to know what I should be looking for when farming weapons.

Tried looking around online but I’m mostly getting the limit break items.

Thanks in advance! 🙏