Anybody excited about Elden Ring?
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my radahn fight was a flurry of gravity bombs and npc phantoms, i thought i was in for a long night but it only took two tries
now in the capital and motherfuck everything here
now in the capital and motherfuck everything here
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capital is the most fun i've had with dungeon crawling in the game by far, love me some capital
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here is a serious Q
are their fedex quests in this one
are their fedex quests in this one
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i just finished the sewer and also motherfuck all of thatjawn galliano wrote: ↑19 Mar 2022, 07:33capital is the most fun i've had with dungeon crawling in the game by far, love me some capital
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did you really finish it tho? did you let the prisoner free?
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i am fucking serious answer my Q, the weirdest thing about DS was its sparse nature and lack of NPCs/character interaction, is elden ring the same
btw all that deep shit = fed ex quests
btw all that deep shit = fed ex quests
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well the nature of character interaction is mostly similar, but there are a lot more of them in this game
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i killed himjawn galliano wrote: ↑19 Mar 2022, 11:44did you really finish it tho? did you let the prisoner free?
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what a game
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nearly finished i think
there is so much content in this game, i feel kind of exhausted tbh
there is so much content in this game, i feel kind of exhausted tbh
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i'm in mountaintops of the giants and everything flattens me
currently trying to finish castle sol but that boss fight is fucking horrendous. feel like a fat hard-on bearer and his two friends shouldn't be one of the worst fights in the game but here we are
currently trying to finish castle sol but that boss fight is fucking horrendous. feel like a fat hard-on bearer and his two friends shouldn't be one of the worst fights in the game but here we are
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i've hit a point where i no longer care about soloing bosses, the difficulty of some of these guys is so high that i don't feel like grinding a few hours anymore.jawn galliano wrote: ↑28 Mar 2022, 19:06i'm in mountaintops of the giants and everything flattens me
currently trying to finish castle sol but that boss fight is fucking horrendous. feel like a fat hard-on bearer and his two friends shouldn't be one of the worst fights in the game but here we are
i booked it through the mountains to the fire giant and summoned alexander and he fucking crushed it, most helpful npc summon i've ever used
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oh i'm not so precious that i won't use the summons or whatever, just castle sol doesn't have one so you're limited to ashes
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you can totally co-op the boss at castle sol, i did it the other night. i kind of booked it through the whole place to the boss
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yeah it's apparently mandatory, the fight is literally unwinnable solo. this is honest to god the dumbest fight in the entire history of the series and nothing else comes remotely close
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i actually don't like a lot of the bosses in this game, the balancing is all over the place i think. i tried to co-op the fire giant with a full group but we kept struggling, the summons were decent too. but i try it by myself + npc summon and it takes two tries.
i don't feel particularly strong at the end of the game, you know what i mean. i feel like i'm struggling just as bad at the end as i was at the beginning.
i don't feel particularly strong at the end of the game, you know what i mean. i feel like i'm struggling just as bad at the end as i was at the beginning.
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yeah, i'm finding in the late game if you don't go with a build that's busted in some very specific way, you're at a huge disadvantage. all-rounder with bloodhound fang carried me comfortably through the capital but it falls off a cliff after that. i finally caved and respecced to an int build and the difference in power is fucking absurd.
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i'm still doing my pure strength build using the game of thrones looking sword
some of these builds are absolutely broken and it's insane
some of these builds are absolutely broken and it's insane
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they didn't learn the lesson of MTG's black lotus, you never give people unrestricted no-downside free mana! that FP tear is so busted it's unreal.
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did malenia yesterday, had two summons cheese her with swarm of flies. fuck that fight. almost everyone i summoned used swarm of flies, seems like the easiest way to kill her right now
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i'm partway through haligtree and also up to fire giant and both of those things are very difficult so i'm doing more random exploring
feel kinda bad going to the moonveil crutch like everyone else but you can't thrive in these areas without having something very dumb
feel kinda bad going to the moonveil crutch like everyone else but you can't thrive in these areas without having something very dumb
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i've developed a bad habit of just running through zones really fast instead of clearing everything slowly. accidentally found a major boss while exploring mountain tops, also needed co-op help for it
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so is it possible to play this as a like full coop campaign from beginning to end with two friends
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kind of but co-op in elden ring is convoluted
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yeah you can mostly do that. progress is only recorded for the host so you'd have to do multiple boss runs to progress each player. on the plus side you'd have a near-infinite supply of rune arcs
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i beat the game tonight, used summons for the remaining bosses
time played was 91 hours
time played was 91 hours
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i'm honestly not sure how i feel about elden ring. i think i enjoyed the exploration more than anything but the balancing felt all over the place and i didn't find myself enjoying boss fights the way i used to. my issues with the bosses really annoyed me, it felt like the classic sword and board build is not cut out for this game.
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jeez i’ve got like 50 hours on you and feel like i haven’t even scratched the surface. i hear you on the balancing though, strict physical melee builds really struggle in this game and make summons, ashes and co-op more or less mandatory in major fights. which i suppose isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but as someone accustomed to playing the rest of the series strictly solo using those builds, it still feels a bit dirty.
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pushing 60 hours now, think ive uncovered most of the map, this game feels quite special.
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cleared deeproot, beat fire giant, finished looting elphael but i'm stuck on the boss. malenia is a huge bitch!
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fire giant is my next big obstacle!
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fire giant isn't so bad, second half can get a little hairy but i beat him my second time getting to phase 2.
malenia though is seriously a stupid fucking fight. 2 full health bars, massive autoheal, a guaranteed kill move that can't be interacted with at all (if she uses it and targets you, it kills the run with no exceptions - the object of the fight is to repeatedly do it until you get lucky and this doesn't happen), and a hard HP check at the start of stage 2. good thing i started dumping tons of levels into vigor i guess!
malenia though is seriously a stupid fucking fight. 2 full health bars, massive autoheal, a guaranteed kill move that can't be interacted with at all (if she uses it and targets you, it kills the run with no exceptions - the object of the fight is to repeatedly do it until you get lucky and this doesn't happen), and a hard HP check at the start of stage 2. good thing i started dumping tons of levels into vigor i guess!
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my fellating lover played with me on the fire giant the few attempts i had at it and tomorrow i will go back in solo, think i can do better on my own with the horse.
not sure how to get to malenia though
not sure how to get to malenia though
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she is at the end of the haligtree, gotta take the secret lift up to consecrated snowfield and then do the puzzle in the town up north.
for fire giant though i only used the horse for the initial approach, didn't find him to be too useful in the fight itself. if you just chip away at his one ankle he takes a fuckload of damage, he's got a massive health bar but it melts quick
for fire giant though i only used the horse for the initial approach, didn't find him to be too useful in the fight itself. if you just chip away at his one ankle he takes a fuckload of damage, he's got a massive health bar but it melts quick
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yeah he seems pretty ok to deal with, just need to take some time on it, i presume frost is his main weakness ?
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i would assume so yeah. i have the frostbite rapier but i've never really used it because nothing ever seems vulnerable to frostbite. i just moonveiled his ass and between the magic damage and bleed procs he got fucked up
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truly, fuck malenia. this fight has basically soured me on the entire game. it's all i have left to do before i push through to properly beat it and i'm not sure i'm going to bother with any of it at this point. it is the worst-designed fight not just of the entire series, but of probably any game i have played in my entire life.
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FUCK THIS AWFUL BITCH
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she is optionaljawn galliano wrote: ↑08 Apr 2022, 05:35truly, fuck malenia. this fight has basically soured me on the entire game. it's all i have left to do before i push through to properly beat it and i'm not sure i'm going to bother with any of it at this point. it is the worst-designed fight not just of the entire series, but of probably any game i have played in my entire life.
i did it with two summons and they were both spamming swarm of flies, still took 10 or 15 tries
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she's a great rune boss with an achievement locked behind her, not at all optional!
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so just level up
you aren't doing it right mark
clearly
you aren't doing it right mark
clearly
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my black knife tiche destroyed her some runs and others did nothing, very hard boss but honestly i spent more time on astel.
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tiche is the best summon by far because she dodges and gets a lot of interrupts due to malenia's low poise, unfortunately it's not possible to actually beat the fight
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I watched my buddy play a bit of this earlier. That is all I have on this subject.