That's what I thought. It happens surprisingly early in the game.
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Ashen |OT| A Phoenix Downed
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So judging by their Twitter, I'm guessing the PC multiplayer has not been fixed yet? I'm going to be finished with this game before I'm ever able to play with my friend (who I talked into getting the game on the back of online co-op). We're both still enjoying the game. It's just unfortunate.
Anyone have any tips/advice for taking down the Shadow of the Ashen? I've tried taking him down numerous times but that second phase keeps knocking me out.
I finally entered Seat of the Matriarch. Things were going pretty well at first, to the point where the dreaded dungeon didn't seem that challenging after all. And then I found myself
and yeah, ok, it's hard.
surrounded by a LOT of big hammer guys and several Ukkotos
I don't think it has been fixed, no. I'm pretty sure I crossed path with a few players on the day following release, but no one since then.
Like a few suggested here a few days ago,I went and looked at my ''recent players'' list on XBox last night after playing for 90 minutes and at least 50 people joined my game...wow,thank god one of them stuck around for a while lol...I think the nav bar at the top flashes orange when a person joins.
Yeah. It happens in a story mission. You'll know it when it happens.
I might be misremembering because I just used Gefn's Blessing after getting it, but I'm pretty sure Guardians Pact is
atop the tower in the fourth area with the giant whale dragon on it. In the whale dragon's nest there's a guy who gives it to you.
No problem
Exactly what is happening to me, and how I feel too. I really like the game, but arbitrarily losing my companion sucks. Think I'm gonna hold off until maybe a patch dealing with this happens
This area is kicking my ass. The area past the bridge with all the crawling guys is really fucking me up. It also doesn't help that my AI partner despawned once or twice.
Got past SOTM boss and a little ways into the next area. The way your town keeps growing is great.
Also, the thing that happens after beating that boss is pretty neat too. Now I need to climb that giant tower and meet free willy.
However, once you do it a few times you kind of realize how short it is.
Also, the thing that happens after beating that boss is pretty neat too. Now I need to climb that giant tower and meet free willy.
I think it's the first real hurdle in the game.
However, once you do it a few times you kind of realize how short it is.
Yeah I went back to Vagrant's Rest after finding the boss room (gotta cash that $ before I go dying in a boss fight) but it only took me 10 minutes to get back down the 2nd time. 1st time you're like inching a toe into a room to see if something goes bump in the night but the second time you know where/when you can run through at top speed.
I loved SotM though. It was a masterclass in devilishly delicious level design.
Heck yeah! First time me and rando with a stick buddy took it so slow but we surivied. Second and thirs times was old hat and you really only had to stop at the bridge and a little ways after because all those crawlers would come at you.
I suck at this game. It's pretty fun though. I'm going to keep on going until I run into something I cannot get past.
All the bosses have a bonfire pretty much right near them without any/many enemies. Strangely enough it's the last boss that has the longest run back.
Take note of where in the dungeon you think your partner is despawning, and pay close attention to them in that area. Follow them, they may not actually be despawning. See my earlier post in this thread:
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I unlocked the final map area but I don't want this game to end. 😭
Anyone know if the OST is available for purchase yet? I asked A44 on twitter but no response yet.
Anyone know if the OST is available for purchase yet? I asked A44 on twitter but no response yet.
Sorry if already answered somewhere: Can I play the game completely in coop mode with a friend?
I felt that same way.
I think my one real complaint with the game is that the world feels small. Not even the world space, because the world space is fine. But like I don't really get the sense that there's anything beyond what I explored in the game. No other cities, no other cultures, no other deities. It's all kind of compartmentalized to the things you directly or indirectly encounter and their relevant histories. Even a lot of the item descriptions that sound like they're referencing parts of the world beyond are actually mostly describing things that you'll eventually encounter. I'm eager to find out more about this world and explore more of it. Here's hoping they do well enough to merit a sequel!
Okay so I'm not weird for noticing that too. Cool. And, frustratingly, that was the only boss I ever had to run back to because I beat all the other ones first try lol.
On Xbox, potentially. It's a little esoteric but it should be possible. Currently on PC there's a bug preventing any sort of coop though.
I know this post is old, but if you add the game as a non steam game you get their (steam's) nice controller configuration API. You can then use any controller you want and actually change configurations of it.
For people who already finished the game:
Reached the checkpoint in the palace. So I suppose the boss battle "Shadow of Ashen" is next on the list. Meanwhile got a quest that is on a map that I havent unlocked. Making me think that Shadow of Ashen is not the final battle and that locked zone is only accessible after this battle.
Correct.
It only gets more difficult going forward. You've got this!
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A44 and Epic still working on multiplayer issues for the PC version.
Not yet, but it is coming.
Not yet, but it is coming.
So I just started playing. Is the multiplayer similar to Journey where people will drop in and out without you knowing who they are?
Thanks! i got another reply from Leplutorius for using DS4Windows, but its good to know this to, i didnt, for the future.
The area after the second boss is such a game changer. Especially those guys who slam on you with pinpoint accuracy.
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Most likely it was a real person and not your AI companion. AI companions stay pretty much by your side, unless their path finding gets wonky. The easiest way I've found to get a feel for how AI behaves so it's easier to spot a human player is to turn off the Multiplayer so the game is forced to load in an AI partner instead. Then do vice versa. Also, when I get grouped up with someoen and I'm not sure I'll usually try beckoning, randomly jumping, and spinning in circles to clearly show I'm not AI - and almost all other human players I've ran into have done the same.
What can also happen is the game will despawn your AI partner when it has found a human to partner you with, and sometimes the human partner will despawn because they got too far away, or used fast travel/recall stone to go back to the home base - and then the game will try to populate in another AI or Human player.
For me, I've found it best to use the settings menu to pick and choose what kind of companion I want, and turn off the other so there is less of the phasing in and out. Either always an AI that follows me but sometimes gets stuck, or alway a Human (if available). You get less of the drops, and depending on the situation, the companion can be more reliable.
As an example, I forced the Human companion to help run through the Seat of the Matriach dungeon. It was slow going, but sometimes you'd get partnered with someone who had run sections of it before so they could show you the tricks - where things were hidden - and how to tackle encounters. Then when i got to the boss I kept getting grouped with people who would recall out of the boss encounter when they were dying. (either it was the first time, or they didn't want to loose the scoria, or something). So I switched over to an AI companion, and after a couple more tries for me to learn the patterns, we were able to defeat it.
The game finally clicked with me after the first dungeon/boss, so I'm still fairly early on. I wanedered into a cave and got jumped by a giant crab looking thing that kinda looked the Pokemon Parasect and narrowly escaped.
I will say that the difficulty seems uneven, and the first boss was... bad. But maybe I was doing it wrong? I've heard some troubling things about difficulty spikes and some horseshit bosses, but we'll see. Where I'm at, fairly early on, it feels good to explore and fight. I've noticed enemies seem to respawn even before I rest at a ritual stone, though, specifically the enemies in Vagrant's Rest before you properly establish the town. What determines that? it was pretty annoying to get jumped by enemies when I thought I was safe, because I cleared the area.
Also, the lore learns from Dark Souls' oblique vagueness, but fails to understand the most important lesson about why Dark Souls lore is so good: less is more. The overall light/dark ash theme is cool, and the artstyle, etc., but then some giant fantasy dude with a big absurd fantasy voice vomits generic fantasy exposition and I'm like "well, that's cool, bye."
I will say that the difficulty seems uneven, and the first boss was... bad. But maybe I was doing it wrong? I've heard some troubling things about difficulty spikes and some horseshit bosses, but we'll see. Where I'm at, fairly early on, it feels good to explore and fight. I've noticed enemies seem to respawn even before I rest at a ritual stone, though, specifically the enemies in Vagrant's Rest before you properly establish the town. What determines that? it was pretty annoying to get jumped by enemies when I thought I was safe, because I cleared the area.
Also, the lore learns from Dark Souls' oblique vagueness, but fails to understand the most important lesson about why Dark Souls lore is so good: less is more. The overall light/dark ash theme is cool, and the artstyle, etc., but then some giant fantasy dude with a big absurd fantasy voice vomits generic fantasy exposition and I'm like "well, that's cool, bye."
That's really helpful, I've turned off multiplayer for now to see how I do. Thanks!
What the hell does the Hearth relic do? It has no discernible description, yet the game wants me to drop 10,000 on it.
Relics in general I'm confused by. I went for the one that gives you wings, because who doesn't want wings - and the stats were neat too, extra scoria, or reflecting damage. The problem is... I can't seem to figure out how to get the wings to grow? The game says they can grow and that will change their funciton, but I've never seen them change from how they initially appear.
I believe it's the one that you start with. And it doesn't cost 10K to equip that one, it costs 10K to switch your equipped relic, period. The only reason you'd really want to switch back to that one is if you don't like the visual changes on your character caused by the other relics.
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