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

[Silentstorm]

Welp, fuck this game, not for anything to do with being hard, but because i came back after a while and found i somehow lost hours of progress, i did notice that messages and MP stuff were missing in the last few hours but i didn't care, though this means the awful sewer dungeon under the capital isn't done, i would need to face Godfrey and Margott again, do the Volcano Manor sidequest again, defeat that snow dragon again and other stuff i had done, just hours of progress gone because...i don't know there was some issue with servers even though i play single player.

And no, i didn't get asked if i wanted to use the server or offline save i had like some people who experienced the same bug, the game just decided to erase hours of progress for no reason...and i really don't feel like doing everything again right now.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

Dark Souls itself was a clone of Soul Reaver. I am not joking.

 

[meanwhileInPoland]

Radagon fight slaps Gwyn back to the age of dark.

You'd almost expect that 20 years later, with a ton of experience and money, they'd be able to make something mechanically better...

I meant in regards to their soundtracks I think Gwyns theme is vastly overrated in Souls community and to be honest I cringed hard when I heard it in DS3 finale fight ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Radagon was a cool spectacle even if gameplaywise he is just ok and not great like Ishin.

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

Godrick, yet another fake difficulty boss. Summoning again, fuck em. I'll cheese my way through the entire piece of shit.

 

[Curratum]

If you want to go dumpster diving you could just go through games with the tag on Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/tags/en/Souls-like/

The only Soulslike worth playing, which I'd argue is on par with From's work when it comes to overall quality, mood and gameplay + lore, is Salt & Sanctuary.

 

[Silva]

Most Soulslike are fine, 7-8/10 games, actually.

The Souls formula is so good that even diluted it's better than 80% of the shit released these days.

 

[cvv]

The only Soulslike worth playing, which I'd argue is on par with From's work when it comes to overall quality, mood and gameplay + lore, is Salt & Sanctuary.

Yeah but for me a huge part of fun in Souls games is the combat and I just can't stand the 2D combat in those platformers. Compared to DS, Nioh or Surge it just feels so banal bleh boring.

Dunno, whatever rocks people's boat I guess.

 

[HeatEXTEND]

Okay now what the fuck do you do with Ulcerated Tree Spirit. You can't even see anything half the time. Holy shit these bosses are some real winners!

Stick to it's left side to mostly avoid frontal swipes.
Don't get hit by the bite-grab.
When he comes in for the bite-grab, ALWAYS dodge left, your left.
Don't get hit by the bite-grab.
Look for the telegraphed breaths, run in and punish, duh.
Don't get hit by the bite-grab.
Watch out for the tailswipe, dodge into it.
Don't get hit by the bite-grab.
Look down and avoid the pyres when he does the explode, he won't do anything else during it so just focus on the ground in your immediate vicinity.
Don't get hit by the bite-grab.
Second phase his frontal swipes become worse so watch out for those.
Don't get hit by the bite-grab.
If you are using a summon consider just fighting him straight up, it makes the fight less chaotic.
Don't get hit by the bite-grab.

Spoiler

I kid but that bite-grab is really the only actual party pooper, once you stop getting hit by it the rest is not that bad

 

[Lyric Suite]

So i felt like humiliating another fucker:



Except for some reason the Windows 10 video recorder gave me horrible frame rate drops (it didn't do that with my fight with the Tree Sentinel), so i tried using OBS and as you can see the video came up fucked up. Fucking hell.

 

[Sacibengala]

Welp, fuck this game, not for anything to do with being hard, but because i came back after a while and found i somehow lost hours of progress, i did notice that messages and MP stuff were missing in the last few hours but i didn't care, though this means the awful sewer dungeon under the capital isn't done, i would need to face Godfrey and Margott again, do the Volcano Manor sidequest again, defeat that snow dragon again and other stuff i had done, just hours of progress gone because...i don't know there was some issue with servers even though i play single player.

And no, i didn't get asked if i wanted to use the server or offline save i had like some people who experienced the same bug, the game just decided to erase hours of progress for no reason...and i really don't feel like doing everything again right now.

A friend got his save corrupted, his friend got rollbacked. There's a lot of the same issues reported online. It's a common problem in much of From software's games. I got a corrupted file in sekiro and a rollback in Bloodborne. I always keep backup saves since then. No matter the platform, it always can happen.

 

[Curratum]

So i felt like humiliating another fucker:



Except for some reason the Windows 10 video recorder gave me horrible frame rate drops (it didn't do that with my fight with the Tree Sentinel), so i tried using OBS and as you can see the video came up fucked up. Fucking hell.

Can't wait for you to reach later areas with that tiny healthbar and discover gank squads and spam enemy groups who one-shot you from twice as much HP... :D

 

[NJClaw]

Lyric Suite simp confirmed!!!

Can't wait for you to reach later areas with that tiny healthbar and discover gank squads and spam enemy groups who one-shot you from twice as much HP...

Thank God I don't take part in the no-health meta and played like 75% of the game with 60 Vigor.

 

[toro]

from twitch

Like most people, I play video games to relax and escape from the real world. Today I played Elden Ring with my friend and within less than a minute we were invaded and killed, our bodies defiled. I screamed and cried into my cat (who is my emotional support animal) and deleted the game. Tomorrow is my first therapy session, this game has given me severe PTSD and FromSoftware will be hearing from my lawyer. This game was obviously created by elitist far-right extremists.

 

[deem]

Curratum rushed to the ending at the cost of his enjoyment so he can access his real source of dopamine: shitting on a game on the internet.

 

[Strange Fellow]

Are there no upgrade materials for sale, by the way? It just occurred to me now. Previous souls games have always had titanite shards available for purchase from merchants, and after a while the lower tier ones become available in unlimited quantities. But I don't think I've seen a single smithing stone for sale in any of the the starting areas. Is there something I've missed? No need to spoiler me too heavily if so, but I sure hope there is.

 

[Lyric Suite]

So i felt like humiliating another fucker:



Except for some reason the Windows 10 video recorder gave me horrible frame rate drops (it didn't do that with my fight with the Tree Sentinel), so i tried using OBS and as you can see the video came up fucked up. Fucking hell.

Can't wait for you to reach later areas with that tiny healthbar and discover gank squads and spam enemy groups who one-shot you from twice as much HP... :D

I'm not making a low level run per-se, just keeping as low as i can for as long as i can.

I just skipped Stormveil and moved to the eastern side of Limgrave and all the mobs appear to be on the same level as the western side, so i'm just gonna keep going like this.

My house rule is basically this: don't level up unless necessary, but don't throw away runes/souls either. What i mean is that all the runes i gain will be spent on something, if not leveling, then store items, even for stuff i don't need (for instance, i bought all the sorceries even though i'm doing a faith build).

In all the previous Souls game i found out you CAN pretty much overlevel most of the content, which is how i came up with the idea of stretching low soul levels as long as i can without going so far as throw away souls. It worked very well on all my previous Souls games, so no reason why it shouldn't work here as well.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Are there no upgrade materials for sale, by the way? It just occurred to me now. Previous souls games have always had titanite shards available for purchase from merchants, and after a while the lower tier ones become available in unlimited quantities. But I don't think I've seen a single smithing stone for sale in any of the the starting areas. Is there something I've missed? No need to spoiler me too heavily if so, but I sure hope there is.

I know for a fact there is a way to get them in stores, at least for lower level upgrade stones.

 

[Cromwell]

No need to spoiler me too heavily if so, but I sure hope there is.

There are items you can find which can be given to the maiden husks in the hold. they then start selling smithing stones. I think you can get all stone levels except for the evry last one. I have somber stones up to 9 for example but no 10 and I am before what I assume is the last boss.

 

[Curratum]

Curratum rushed to the ending at the cost of his enjoyment so he can access his real source of dopamine: shitting on a game on the internet.

I didn't rush to the ending, I explored 90% of all areas, collected all sets I liked, did the longest questline and one other, then killed every optional boss that I could, all over the course of 102 hours.

 

[Shrimp]

Are there no upgrade materials for sale, by the way? It just occurred to me now. Previous souls games have always had titanite shards available for purchase from merchants, and after a while the lower tier ones become available in unlimited quantities. But I don't think I've seen a single smithing stone for sale in any of the the starting areas. Is there something I've missed? No need to spoiler me too heavily if so, but I sure hope there is.

The ability to purchase upgrade materials is unlocked by finding specific items. Most of them are either hidden in random areas of the open world (usually in the later stages of the game) or by defeating specific bosses like main quest bosses or side dungeon bosses.

 

[Cromwell]

I explored 90% of all areas

theres your problem. Its an open world game, they are all the same, if you do everything you will burn out and notice everything thats wrong with it. When I noticed that I had enough I went straight for the ending. Godfrey and Radagon are luckily not as spastic as the rest of the game and I like the fights. Btw even that fucking mountainlike firegiant rolls in this fucking game.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

"if you play the game then you won't enjoy it"
convincing argument

 

[perfectslumbers]

Chad Rusty could see that Elden Ring was mid while the rest of us were impressed by Limgrave

 

[Agame]

Is lvl 70 to low for Giant Mountain or whatev its called? Feels like I am going down to butt rape town.

 

[Strange Fellow]

Way to not spoil me too hard, guys.

I guess if I want a selection of decently upgraded weapons I'll have to do some lawnmowering