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

[Lyric Suite]

So i'm finally back to Consecrated Snowfields, hahaha...

 

[Lyric Suite]

Lmao, i just rotted the Red Wolf, Theodorix, the two Black Knights and the Night Bird all in one swoop. Kinda funny to just cheese everything and have an excuse for it lol.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Alright, i fumigated the whole area, almost ready to get to Haligtree again. I guess that Melenia fight is gonna happen after all. I'm making a manual back up every single time i quit the game now. Never again.

 

[cruel]

How did you manage to get your save corrupted, if the game keeps a save backup copy? Shouldn't the copy be usable in this case? Sounds pretty unlucky, even for a power outage scenario.

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[Dhaze]

I'm now kinda interested in what your life looks like if Rykard doesn't meet your weirdness standards.

I'd argue most, if not all, the mainline bosses are unique in their own ways. I mean:

Is this less WTF to you than the Demon of Song?

Uh, yes, obviously. Someone with many arms and many weapons? Wow, let me think real hard on that one... Gilgamesh in Final Fantasy? Starkad in norse mythology? Dariq in 40k? Lang Bao Bao in 3x3 EYES? Grievous in Star Wars? That's just off the top of my head. Even if you consider the grafting angle, isn't there a guy in The Hitchhiker's Guide who gets a third arm to grab more tits?

Now I'm now kinda interested in what your life looks like if those meet your weirdness standards.

Meanwhile, the Demon Of Song, a morbid and grotesque frog-like demon, who reveals gangling arms with which he peels back the revolting, thick and slimy skin hiding a human skull? Yeah, that reads like something straight out of a Clark Ashton Smith story.

But I think in a year or two, the only Elden Ring bosses I'll remember clearly will be Rennala, Placidusax, and Astel. All in all, not a lot considering the astounding number of bosses.

I mean, I like myself a good cosmic horror montrosity jut like everybody else, but how can you not have getting suplexed by Hoarah Loux engraved in your memory for forever and a day?

Because that one my mind put in the Overly Long Delayed Attacks That Snap Into Action Memeness folder. "Oh, oh, careful! I'm gonna grab ya! Any second now! See how my arms are wide open, the better to squeeze you with? (yeah go ahead; you have time to roll one more time) But here it comes! Oh! Oh! I'm upon you, it's gonna happen! (sure, roll one last time) Now! I got you, ahah—triumph!"

 

[mediocrepoet]

But I think in a year or two, the only Elden Ring bosses I'll remember clearly will be Rennala, Placidusax, and Astel. All in all, not a lot considering the astounding number of bosses.

I mean, I like myself a good cosmic horror montrosity jut like everybody else, but how can you not have getting suplexed by Hoarah Loux engraved in your memory for forever and a day?

Because that one my mind put in the Overly Long Delayed Attacks That Snap Into Action Memeness folder. "Oh, oh, careful! I'm gonna grab ya! Any second now! See how my arms are wide open, the better to squeeze you with? (yeah go ahead; you have time to roll one more time) But here it comes! Oh! Oh! I'm upon you, it's gonna happen! (sure, roll one last time) Now! I got you, ahah—triumph!"

I think it's clear that you're approaching this different than these guys at least. Besides, by the time you fight Hoarah Loux, you've had substantial time to make your peace with the delayed attacks thing. The WWF powerbomb moves are funny as hell. I just wish he had some sort of Macho Man Randy Savage soundbites like, "I'm gonna bring you the pain! Ooh yeeeah!"
I swear that if you could get that as a weapon art on a caestus or something, Elden Ring would be GOAT material.

Re: wtfness, that's never a thing I look for or care about. It's more just, do I find the game engrossing or fun? I've never really been into the focus on bosses in Soulslikes and tend to bounce off the boss rush genre hard. I think this is a big reason I appreciate Elden Ring so much when some others have almost the exact opposite reaction.

 

[Dhaze]

In all honesty? The first time I fought Hoarah Loux I died because I had tears in my eyes from laughing so hard, I couldn't even play anymore. That SmackDown powerbomb shit of his was so unexpected and hilarious.

Imagine that you're bringing the Remembrance of Hoarah Loux to Enia—and you get a metal folding chair.

 

[NJClaw]

morbid and grotesque frog-like demon, who reveals gangling arms with which he peels back the revolting, thick and slimy skin hiding a human skull

That's a very poetic way to describe a pear-shaped motherfucker who lives inside a rubber condom.

 

[ferratilis]

After 140h of Elden Ring, I reinstalled the DS trilogy just to check how they feel to play now. Tbh, DS3 feels weird because movement is almost the same as in ER but without jump and guard counters. I keep pressing A to jump because that's what ER taught me. A lot of things feel almost identical between the two, but after playing ER so much it's like something is missing, as if I'm playing a demo for ER. DS2 feels as strange as it always did, with its limited directional movement and stiff animations, no surprise there. Although one thing I always liked about DS2 is how it handled player inputs, there's no buffering like in DS3/ER. You roll too late, get hit by a boss, then roll after the hit because the input was buffered, I always hated that. But imo, DS1 feels and holds up the best because it always had slower combat, you know what you're getting into with that game whenever you play it. Since none of the sequels tried to exactly replicate the weightiness of DS1's combat, it still feels great to play. Coupled with its amazing world design, DS1 will always be my favorite (with DeS being second). But ER is far above DS2 and 3, and we don't even have any DLC yet.

 

[Lyric Suite]

How did you manage to get your save corrupted, if the game keeps a save backup copy? Shouldn't the copy be usable in this case? Sounds pretty unlucky, even for a power outage scenario.

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No idea, i guess the game makes a backup every time a new map is loaded, so when the power went out it corrupted both since it happened during loading screen.

Doesn't matter at this point, i'm almost back to where i was anyway. Thank God i had made that manual back up a week ago, otherwise i'd have been seriously fucked.

 

[Lyric Suite]

No point to this other that i just wanted to show case my new toys:



The fists are maximum fashion but i found the reach lacking, so i went with the double whips as my alternative to the Great Stars.

 

[mediocrepoet]

I thought this was going to be completely dumb right up until I saw Malenia.

 

[Elwro]

Just fought the Mimic Tear. Such a wimp!


... and goddamnit, I spent literally hours searching for the place which opens after you kill Radahn ... I'm kinda dumb visually, I only noticed the stairs in Firelink Shrine after many hours ;-)

 

[Lambach]

Man, Scarlet Rot can do some work.

CARLET ROT EFFECTS
Targets afflicted with Scarlet Rot lose HP and take damage.

• Scarlet Rot on weapons inflicts (Max HP * 0.0018) + 15 per second for 90 seconds.
• Scarlet Rot on Rotten Breath, Ekzyke's Decay, and Scarlet Aeonia inflict (Max HP * 0.0033) + 13 per second for 90 seconds.

MORGOTT, THE OMEN KING COMBAT INFORMATION

• Health: 10,399 HP

That's ~47 damage per second over 90 seconds, i.e. ~4250 in total. I fought this guy in the most pussy way possible, I opened up with the Decay and just ran around him, poking him with Bloody Slash only when he would do his jump attack that's extremely easy to evade. The fight lasted well over 90 seconds because of it. One successful proc melted away 40% of his health and I didn't have to use a single Flask during the entire fight because of how safe I played it.

I kind of regret killing him this way, he didn't seem too tough, I believe I could've taken him out in a more non-pussy way after a couple of attempts, but he was a good trial run. Now I know there's a safe way to kill even the toughest bosses, should I ever get stuck on one, as long as they're not completely immune to the Rot.

 

[Lyric Suite]

I thought this was going to be completely dumb right up until I saw Malenia.

Meh, decline of memes. Should have made a new model resembling Bruce Campbell.

 

[Andnjord]

Now I know there's a safe way to kill even the toughest bosses, should I ever get stuck on one, as long as they're not completely immune to the Rot.

There's a couple...

 

[Lyric Suite]

Man, Astel is the worst boss to be summoned for.

When he does that grab attack, he spawns multiples of himself, and if he doesn't get you it invariably always gets the host. WTF is that shit.

 

[Lyric Suite]

BTW, i killed the nimble sorts in Ordina. I AM IN HALIGTREE AGAIN.

Putting my backup on an external drive in case another power outage corrupts my c disk getting both the save and the manual backup lul.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Lmao. Like, holy shit lol.

This past several weeks i've been getting strangers on steam sending me friends invites. I must have had like half a dozen and i couldn't figure out wtf was happening, until i realized it's people playing Elden Ring. I guess it must people i helped in co-op? How does this work? Is there a way to tell the account of the person you are playing with? I had no idea lmao.

I of course ignored them all as i barely like to talk to my real friends on in the internet but holy crap that sudden realization of what was happening...

 

[mediocrepoet]

Lmao. Like, holy shit lol.

This past several weeks i've been getting strangers on steam sending me friends invites. I must have had like half a dozen and i couldn't figure out wtf was happening, until i realized it's people playing Elden Ring. I guess it must people i helped in co-op? How does this work? Is there a way to tell the account of the person you are playing with? I had no idea lmao.

I of course ignored them all as i barely like to talk to my real friends on in the internet but holy crap that sudden realization of what was happening...

I forget exactly how to get into it, but there's a thing that shows the accounts that you've interacted in multiplayer with. I used it once because of the dickhead that was hacking in DS3.

 

[Lyric Suite]

SL125, weapon is at +20, barely any summons at Haligtree. Fug.

Figured i'd have a lot at this level range, but nope. Place is as deserted as when i did it at SL90 last time.

Ho well, i think i'll park my toon at this for now, since i'm getting the widest possible connections with a neat range of SL 105-150 and weapon upgrade +15-25:

https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Summon+Range+Calculator

Build right now is thus:

Vigor: 35
Mind: 33
Endurance: 25
Strenght: 17
Dexterity: 12
Intelligence: 7
Faith: 25
Arcane: 50

I wear Radagon's Soreseal normally but i ditch it if i'm using Godrick Rune.

 

[NJClaw]

SL125, weapon is at +20, barely any summons at Haligtree. Fug.

At SL125 you're supposed to have an upper-level limit for coop of 147. With a standard non-rushed progression, most people will be at level 150+ (I know I'm always around 170-180). Which means that you'll be in summoning range of mostly people who are doing challenge runs... but they're the least inclined people to summon for coop.

SL160-165 would probably be a good breaking point.

 

[Lyric Suite]

It's 147 to summon people but it is 150 to get summoned by others.

We'll see once i get to Melenia if i get zero summons for her i'll just finish the game first and then level up later if i care to co-op end game at all.

I'd rather finish the game at SL125 so i get something to do with runes if i go NG+ lmao.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Lmao, fuck you game. So 45 minutes no connections. I quit, come back, and now i'm getting them one after the other. Like, brah, you and your faggot netcode.

Is Loretta just the same shit as the ghost version? No added moves? How lame.

 

[d1r]

Lmao, fuck you game. So 45 minutes no connections. I quit, come back, and now i'm getting them one after the other. Like, brah, you and your faggot netcode.

Reminds me of the good old "Games for Windows Live"-days in Dark Souls. That game's matchmaking was just broken.