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

[Cromwell]

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gurranq is maliketh right? Does anyone know if killing gurranq early has any effect on the maliketh fight?

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Space and time in Farrum Azula is convoluted. You're meeting Maliketh of a frozen past in Farum. Gurranq is the real, current state of Maliketh. They don't affect each other.

how did you get that info?

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Remembrance of Dragonlord Placidusax
>The Dragonlord whose seat lies at the heart of the storm beyond
time is said to have been Elden Lord in the age before the Erdtree.
Once his god was fled, the lord continued to await its return.
Old Lord's Talisman
>A legendary talisman depicting the ancient king whose seat lies at the heart of the storm beyond time.
>Extends the duration of sorceries and incantations. It is said that the ancient royal city of Farum Azula has been slowly crumbling since time immemorial.
Time holds no meaning in FA.

do you also know why you actally are there

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after melina burns the tree?

I stopped thinking about it a while before that point and just made my way through everything.

 

[deem]

Curious! I am playing offline, yet near the mysterious cephalopod I found a bloodstain. It must have been placed by the developer. Upon playing the animation, the dying character appears to be lifted up in the air. Reminded me of the invisible Amygdala in Bloodborne. Could it be a secret?

 

[perfectslumbers]

Curious! I am playing offline, yet near the mysterious cephalopod I found a bloodstain. It must have been placed by the developer. Upon playing the animation, the dying character appears to be lifted up in the air. Reminded me of the invisible Amygdala in Bloodborne. Could it be a secret?

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It's an NPC. The bloodstain is a step in his quest line

 

[Lutte]

do you also know why you actally are there

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after melina burns the tree?

I stopped thinking about it a while before that point and just made my way through everything.

You are told the moment you slay Maliketh.

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The Rune of Death is unbound
is spoken right after you kill the Maliketh of the past. Destined Death can finally happen to all in the Lands Between, and the burning of the erdtree can happen for real. It also means you can slay the Elden Beast.
Of course, you asked why you're there.. it's not explicitely told, but it seems most logical that it was just Malenia sending you while she was still burning. She's already shown her ability to teleport you to places that are Outside Of Time, when she teleports you to the rountable hold. Her goal is for the erdtree to burn (which only fully happens after Maliketh is dead) and for you to slay God and become Elden Lord.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Pretty funny coming back to the thread and seeing more and more people realize what a shitshow lategame is. It's gonna get harder and harder for blind shills to rationalize it as "oh you just nolifed through a massive game, it's your own fault for getting burned out LOL NO WONDER"

 

[deem]

There is several parts of Stormveil that I have not explored and don't know how to access. There is a locked from the other side door near one of the bonfires.

 

[Olinser]

There is several parts of Stormveil that I have not explored and don't know how to access. There is a locked from the other side door near one of the bonfires.

There's a couple different locked doors in Stormveil.

Are you referring to the one 'that does not open from this side' near the Grafted Scion? From the bonfire after you drop down in the church, you go past the knight/torchbearer that's patrolling, and then as you move forward there's sandbags on the right low wall that let you climb over it. You go past the windows outside polearm knight room, and there's a ladder you climb up, go across the roof, and drop down and you can open the door. It leads to the platform over the scion with the item - its a Stonesward key.

 

[toro]

Pretty funny coming back to the thread and seeing more and more people realize what a shitshow lategame is. It's gonna get harder and harder for blind shills to rationalize it as "oh you just nolifed through a massive game, it's your own fault for getting burned out LOL NO WONDER"

Yeah. I pretty much shilled for the game before release but then I've stopped after like 25 hours into the game.

The end areas are completely trash.

edit: Sunri you are a cocksucker regardless of your foul gender

I've played some pvp today and last area's mobs have 6k+ hp while most players have max 2k+. Great design.

 

[toro]

pvp exploit that let you apply status effects in an aoe around you, so you could just walk up to people and almost instantly deathblight them in pvp

 

[Lyric Suite]

Ho thank God Castle Morne is an actual dungeon.

This open world shit is truly a bane on humanity.

 

[Lyric Suite]

So people have been getting murdered and disappearing in my hold and apparently no body is noticing this except me. I found the cleric guy dead on the floor and the lady in black robes standing over him. Then she said some weird stuff and disappeared. No body else in the hold seems to care that there was a murder...

The buff you get from that skank lasts a nanosecond. I tried to see if the boost in poise showed up in the stats window and by the time i closed the menu the buff was gone.

A one time use buff that lasts a couple of seconds and you need to sacrifice 5% of your health to keep it in your inventory, to be used "when needed", which is never.

I got barricate a while back, which i never tried pre-nerf. Maybe it was overpowered before the patch but 3 seconds duration almost makes it useless.

I fucking hate short lasting buffs in video games. In the BG games and company i usually rarely use them 'cause it pisses me off that by the time you engage the enemy it is basically gone.

 

[Strange Fellow]

I got barricate a while back, which i never tried pre-nerf. Maybe it was overpowered before the patch but 3 seconds duration almost makes it useless.

It's not useless, the quick casting time means that you can use it like you would a parry, and it's absurdly strong, easily enough to tank pretty much any attack in the game and still have a full stamina bar left for retaliating. That said, I'm playing the game unpatched and barricade doesn't feel overpowered either. 10 seconds is usually not enough to be able to rely on it lasting for more than a single enemy combo anyway. Not sure a nerf was warranted.

 

[Sacibengala]

Finished the game today. I believe it's the the first soulsborne game (i dont call ds2 a game, by the way) that I got almost burned out. Very stressful to explore such a massive game. And the repetition didn't helped. And how in hell did anyone kills the last boss in melee? It was infuriating to chase that bitch. I used claws all the way, some bosses was hell, but the famous hardest ones I got them solo (if you count mimic as solo, anyway.)

 

[Terenty]

Tried to watch a 30min long explanation of the story and lore, but decided fuck it not worth it.

Sekiro is, imho, their best game story and lore wise, shame they decided to go back to their usual gibberish.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Finished the game today. I believe it's the the first soulsborne game (i dont call ds2 a game, by the way) that I got almost burned out. Very stressful to explore such a massive game. And the repetition didn't helped. And how in hell did anyone kills the last boss in melee? It was infuriating to chase that bitch. I used claws all the way, some bosses was hell, but the famous hardest ones I got them solo (if you count mimic as solo, anyway.)

Nope. Mimic trivialized pretty much every encounter in the game - haven't tried it post patch, though.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

So how good is Elder Ring? Were worries that open world would make the game worse correct?

 

[perfectslumbers]

So how good is Elder Ring?

Very good, but a tiring experience that falls off lategame.

Were worries that open world would make the game worse correct?

Yes, although the game has some things to make up for it like superior system design, more build variety, and better combat relative to ds3

 

[NJClaw]

Pretty funny coming back to the thread and seeing more and more people realize what a shitshow lategame is. It's gonna get harder and harder for blind shills to rationalize it as "oh you just nolifed through a massive game, it's your own fault for getting burned out LOL NO WONDER"

Almost nobody (at least here) denied this game's flaws. The copy-pasted dungeons ARE dumb, fighting reskinned enemies and finding rats of different colors everywhere IS shitty, and facing recycled bosses IS suicide-inducing. As a proud member of the blind shills, I have no problem admitting this. What I have a problem with is people taking these flaws and concluding that the game is utter shit even in its unique content because of them.

 

[toro]

Pretty funny coming back to the thread and seeing more and more people realize what a shitshow lategame is. It's gonna get harder and harder for blind shills to rationalize it as "oh you just nolifed through a massive game, it's your own fault for getting burned out LOL NO WONDER"

Almost nobody (at least here) denied this game's flaws. The copy-pasted dungeons ARE dumb, fighting reskinned enemies and finding rats of different colors everywhere IS shitty, and facing recycled bosses IS suicide-inducing. As a proud member of the blind shills, I have no problem admitting this. What I have a problem with is people taking these flaws and concluding that the game is utter shit even in its unique content because of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias

After eating a great steak with a shitty sauce, most people would remember the shitty sauce. That's why.

Edit: The game has excellent bits but the amount of filler content is staggering. Today I wanted to restart the game but I could not bring myself to do it because the only thing I could think about was the humongous amount of shit I have to replay. I've played some pvp, I've realized that Elden Ring is a just a meme game at this point and I've uninstalled.

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

So how good is Elder Ring? Were worries that open world would make the game worse correct?

It's the best open world ARPG in about 20 years. I'd say it's pretty good.

 

[Agame]

A DLC with like 4 interconnected Legacy dungeons would be awesome. Something like DS2 DLCs, except made into a cohesive whole.

Yes, I agree with you that the open world was a mistake.

 

[perfectslumbers]

Earlygamefags: It's the best open world ARPG in 20 years! :D

Lategamechads: (depressed, suicidal) it's the best open world ARPG in 20 years...

 

[Great Deceiver]

Pretty funny coming back to the thread and seeing more and more people realize what a shitshow lategame is. It's gonna get harder and harder for blind shills to rationalize it as "oh you just nolifed through a massive game, it's your own fault for getting burned out LOL NO WONDER"

Almost nobody (at least here) denied this game's flaws. The copy-pasted dungeons ARE dumb, fighting reskinned enemies and finding rats of different colors everywhere IS shitty, and facing recycled bosses IS suicide-inducing. As a proud member of the blind shills, I have no problem admitting this. What I have a problem with is people taking these flaws and concluding that the game is utter shit even in its unique content because of them.

This sounds like a strawman to me. Can you give me any examples of anyone in this thread saying the game is utter shit because of these problems?

 

[Strange Fellow]

We can probably get Curratum to say it on demand.

 

[Cromwell]

Nope. Mimic trivialized pretty much every encounter in the game

not the last one because it cant reach it most of the time.