From Software Elden Ring - From Software's new game with writing by GRRM

[mediocrepoet]

Server is down, maybe the patch is incoming?

Not yet, they say a patch is coming soon and that they know what the cause of the issues is.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1245620/view/3101295627264160192

EDIT: Right after I posted that, it downloaded a 9.9MB something or other.

 

[Tyranicon]

I feel like I'm pushing my progress too fast because the basic enemies went from three-hitting me to two-hitting me.

Maybe I should finally put something in vigor.

 

[perfectslumbers]

Maybe I should finally put something in vigor.

When the tree knight killed me in literally one hit, I decided to start putting points in vigor lmao

 

[Ysaye]

Running the game as an Sorcerer Astrologer, early thoughts:

(1) I concur with others that it has a Dragon's Dogma feel without the NPCs (although I have used summons yet so I might think it was even more like that if I did)
(2) So far nothing has felt too bad that I couldn't take out with a bit of magic and well timed dodging but I presume I am coming up to Margit which might be something else (I also left the Sentinel alone for now). I have put all my level ups into Intelligence; haven't needed the vigor or endurance yet but at this stage I am able to avoid getting hit for the most part;
(3) I haven't got used to the horse yet; it seems useful for gunning and running with magic and just moving quickly through traps but I really have not really had any success with weaponry
(4) Someone earlier said that they kept accidentally crouching when trying to move around in boss battles and I am having that minor annoyance as well
(5) Not totally sold on the open world yet; I am not saying things don't feel well designed but I am getting the same feeling I do with Wizardry 7, in that I know it should be good but I just feel like it would be more neat to provide discrete but more interesting paths. As I said, it kind of feels Dragon's Dogma like or maybe Ys 6.

 

[Tyranicon]

Maybe I should finally put something in vigor.

When the tree knight killed me in literally one hit, I decided to start putting points in vigor lmao

I'm doing a pretty unoptimized STR/FAI paladin run, so I'm pretty starved for stats.

Tree Sentinel does a lot of damage. Sad that his halberd has a pretty bad moveset.

(5) Not totally sold on the open world yet.

The later areas are much more interesting and visually appealing, and there's more traditional Dark Souls type levels where the main bosses are. IMO the opening area is kind of boring, and gives the wrong first impression for the game, especially for those used to Fromsoft games.

 

[cvv]

Tree Sentinel does a lot of damage. Sad that his halberd has a pretty bad moveset.

What are the reqs on that halberd? Guessing it's gonna be some Mourne's Hammer NG+ shit, 50 Str and 30 Faith.

 

[Wunderbar]

Tree Sentinel does a lot of damage. Sad that his halberd has a pretty bad moveset.

What are the reqs on that halberd? Guessing it's gonna be some Mourne's Hammer shit, 50 Str and 30 Faith.

Spoiler

 

[Salvo]

Tree Sentinel does a lot of damage. Sad that his halberd has a pretty bad moveset.

What are the reqs on that halberd? Guessing it's gonna be some Mourne's Hammer NG+ shit, 50 Str and 30 Faith.

Spoiler

30 STR, 14 DEX, 12 FTH

EDIT: ninjad

 

[Tyranicon]

IIRC, the golden halberd's 1H moveset is

Light: overhead vertical strike, left sweep, right sweep

Heavy: overhead vertical strike, overhead vertical strike

Not great. Don't remember 2H.

 

[potatojohn]

I use a keyboard and mouse but the button prompts are all for a controller, despite no controller ever being plugged into this PC. The mouse sensitivity is also super high.

Will from ever learn how to do a PC port properly?

 

[Curratum]

I use a keyboard and mouse but the button prompts are all for a controller, despite no controller ever being plugged into this PC. The mouse sensitivity is also super high.

Will from ever learn how to do a PC port properly?

Don't be like those neanderthals on Steam. There is an option in the menus that can switch all onscreen button prompts to your mapped keyboard and mouse inputs.

 

[proxon]

My Vagabond is around level 30, and after a few weapons upgrades he is wrecking everything so far, but more about weapon upgrades later. Starting zone looks too shiny and friendly for a Souls game, but you get reminded quickly enough that it's a From Software game. Mini bosses everywhere, some chest that teleported me to some red swamp etc. I especially like how Miyazaki trolled people who took the key as a starting gift. Right at the begining of the game you got a lock that you can use it, and there is a mini torture dungeon inside, with an optional boss that is harder than Margit

Speaking of Margit he is weak to bleed, and was a pushover since im using Curved Greatsword that builds bleed on hit. When it procs he loses like 1/5 of his health, that and two spirit pets and he was gone.

Exploration is rewarding so far, i got a bunch of weapons, necklases, but still no armor sets. Combat is the same as in DS 3 which i liked the most in souls series, so another huge plus there. Now the downsides, i don't like mounted combat, it's clunky, and some boss fights are clearly designed around it, like lake dragon and that rider at the start. What i really hate is what they did with weapon upgrade system. You use smithing stones now, and to upgrade a weapon you need smithing stone +1, for next upgrade you need +2 etc, I got a full inventory of +9 smithing stones that i can't even use, what the fuck Miyazaki that is some mmo shit. I got around this by using a boss weapon, that uses different smithing stones, so i got it to +2.

About performace, i got a solid 30fps at mixed high settings at 1080p, here is my toaster

i5 4590
8gb of ram
970 graphic
ssd
win 10pro

 

[Ryzer]

Combat is the same as in DS 3 which i liked the most in souls series, so another huge plus there.

Someone should explain why it's a plus because I fail to see any advantage of DS3 gameplay. It's full-on retarded rolling spam.

 

[Shrimp]

I've seen other people also report having great success with using bleed builds, but I haven't tried it myself yet since outside a DEX weapon dropped by an NPC invader I don't have a weapon that inflicts it. I'm sure I can get some from a merchant somewhere, but I haven't really looked for it yet. I guess I should be keeping an eye out for it since it seems like it might be a good investment.
I found an incantation to infuse my weapon with poison, but I'm not sure how useful it is. Poison is obviously pointless on regular enemies and so far of the three major foes I've tried using them on (Margit, a giant miniboss that a teleporter trap sent me to and the Sentinel at the start of the game) it felt like two of them either were completely immune to poison or severely resisted it since I never managed to poison them despite hammering away on them.

 

[d1r]

How are flails? Do they have interesting movesets?

 

[cvv]

How abundant/rare are smithing stones? I sunk a few into the starting broadsword and now I'm kindda regretting it.

Are upgrade mats dropped by mobs too or are they just one-time shinies?

 

[Curratum]

How abundant/rare are smithing stones? I sunk a few into the starting broadsword and now I'm kindda regretting it.

Are upgrade mats dropped by mobs too or are they just one-time shinies?

There's a cave in the crook of a lake cliff near the start where you have a bunch of miners and upgrade stones, got maybe 12 from them. Got that Lordsworn greatsword (claymore) to +3 and I'm wrecking things, about to wreck the boss in the same cave too.

Not sure you can farm upgrade stones in the starting area, probably will be able to later.

 

[Shrimp]

How abundant/rare are smithing stones? I sunk a few into the starting broadsword and now I'm kindda regretting it.

Are upgrade mats dropped by mobs too or are they just one-time shinies?

I've been in two mines where they were very abundant. In one of them they could be gathered as regular open world materials, but I don't know if they respawn.

 

[Raskens]

So is the combat more slow paced like Demon souls, DS1 and DS2; or more fast-paced like post DS2?

 

[Curratum]

Seems like my shitty FPS comes from the CPU.

Saw benchmarks with my GPU and CPU combo, same shitty fps like me. Just switching out the CPU to a better one gives you locked 60 fps on Medium, and I'm averaging 40 with very frequent drops to 30-something just because I'm on an i5 3470.

Why the fuck is this game CPU-bound?

 

[d1r]

So is the combat more slow paced like Demon souls, DS1 and DS2; or more fast-paced like post DS2?

Combat is the same as in DS 3 which i liked the most in souls series, so another huge plus there.

 

[Wunderbar]

Anyone know where to find Mace? I bought one from the twin hags merchant at the Roundtable hold, but I want the second one for some dual-wielding goodness.

 

[cvv]

So apparently you can't cut Margit's tail, decline.

 

[Kruno]

I think the people who are having performance issues are having because of CPU. I noticed my CPU fans would spin up quite a bit in some parts, no performance issue, but if people are having slowdown issues when their CPU fans go crazy it could be the game is more CPU demanding than normal. The new Intel chips still have teething issues which might impact the game as well.

This could be why running the game with the exe without EAC runs better.

 

[Shrimp]

So apparently you can't cut Margit's tail, decline.

Have tail cuts even been a thing since DS1?