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It's not a glitch.
If you go there after accessing Altus Plateau for the first time, the fortress is cleared out for the Radahn Festival. A while after you beat Radahn and speak to the Festival Host NPC the fortress should repopulate with enemies.
Its funny watching my friend play. He is in Lunaria, and he skips all the NPC dialouge and doens't look at any of the items he picks up or anything. He has absolutely no idea where he is supposed to go or what he is supposed to be doing right now. He hasn't even
after beating Godrick lol
gone up the divine tower
Are you not able to fight radahn till you go to altus then, or does fighting him while it's not the festival cause various lockouts for quests?
You can fight him whenever, but fighting him pre-festival is potentially a problem for the Ranni storyline? I don't know, by the time I got to him myself I was already well on my way through Ranni's storyline and I was told specifically to go kill him as part of it.
Yes, Godrick down on my first try. Summoned the Jellyfish and he immediately clapped it in under a minute.
Somehow lived with a sliver of health. He grabbed me at the end and I thought it was over.
I've seen people post about the Great Runes but I have no idea what they do yet. Guess I'm about to find out.
Somehow lived with a sliver of health. He grabbed me at the end and I thought it was over.
I've seen people post about the Great Runes but I have no idea what they do yet. Guess I'm about to find out.
Going off of similar instances, I don't thiiiink it messes anything up.
She just wants the dagger, which is found in the area unlocked by the star falling.
It miiiiight mess up the Blaidd/Alexander the pot bits of the quest, but so far the game's been pretty forgiving about just moving quests along if you accidentally kill a boss too 'early' for a quest chain
It miiiiight mess up the Blaidd/Alexander the pot bits of the quest, but so far the game's been pretty forgiving about just moving quests along if you accidentally kill a boss too 'early' for a quest chain
It probably would have helped had I been fully charging the spell, but it was my first time using it.
I set goals for myself that center me in a specific area, and I use the goal as an excuse to comb over the area.
For example, right now I'm looking for a secret way into a certain zone, which I was told I could find in a cave. So I've gone to the area next to the zone I want and I'm looking for the cave, and in the process I've uncovered bosses, dungeons, etc. It helps give my progress some meaning, though I do get distracted... The fact that there are times when you will unexpectedly go to a new place don't help!
But sometimes the new place is cool, or spooky, or at least has a boss to kill. That's helpful to my current secondary goal, which is to reach 48 INT so I can wield this new staff I found.
The only problem with this approach, which I'm running into right now, is that I start going in circles when I can't find the thing to progress my main goal. Like I've looped through this swamp I'm in probably 3 times. I keep finding new stuff, so I guess it's okay, but I feel like I'm misunderstanding the instructions I got.
So currently I took a break from that and I went and collected these other goal mcguffins I was told I needed, and now I'm going to head back to the NPC who told me about the cave, and I will see if she says anything different now that I have the "official" entry key.
I haven't got to play since last night, but this is where I stopped and plan to pick up today. I've seen people referencing this and have a question:
I've been to Altus so would think this means me. But there's a big ass dog miniboss at the start, there's a soldier around the side, she even though I haven't gone past the dog I did look further in just to confirm there were other people. Does this mean despite visiting Altus I'm "good" to work through here right now?
Once you've made it to Altus for the first time, the closed waygates on both sides of the Impassable Greatbridge activate. The one on the INSIDE of the bridge teleports you directly to the core of the castle in front of a bonfire. Once you're there you just walk out and you're at the boss fight. There are still some enemies on the outer regions of the castle as well as two sword-lions in the main courtyard, but the majority of the place is going to be cleared out for the festival.
What level did people beat a major boss 4th one I think
I'm got like 24 vitality and this boss pretty much requires 100% heals all the time for me otherwise I get killed by a single hit. Boss is too powerful. Not sure if Underleveled or just awful. I think I need something better to heal the horse too, not sure exactly what's required to make a frozen raisin.
Radahn
I feel like I literally run into content or something to do every 5-10 minutes at most, with the exception of if I'm running around an area I already discovered a shitload of things in. what helps too is just look at your map for a hot second and check if theres any part of the drawing that looks like a building or grave or literally anything, and theres usually something there.
I was watching one of my friends play and he literally just kept either missing obvious cues on his screen, or just taking a left instead of a right when he was right next to something rad, over and over again, it was driving me mad.
I beat him at 57 or 58 with about 24 vitality. I equipped some of the Knight Armor that the Twin Maiden Husks sells in Roundtable Hold and mixed it with my Banished Knight Greaves and then burned a Rune Arc and it kept me alive.
Gotcha. I'll just proceed past here for now and figure out how it's supposed to be reactivated when I finish that up then. Sucks, I didn't even do anything in Altus I was just exploring and looking for a method to reach the northern part of Ainsel River.
another thing that bummed me out in today's session was something I suspected would bother me, and it's ENTIRELY personal, but I just don't like doing the "go to this spot in a zone you haven't been in to get an item", I rarely do it and it annoyed me once again (but I really wanted this hammer).
For me, I really need to do a zone from the start and "learn" the zone as I progress through it. Rushing through it to a spot, collecting andom sites of grace without getting a "feel" for the zone really bothers me.
It's also why I usually don't like full respecs from one class to another in games (on in this case, one build to another), I prefer to slowly level a build and learn and get a feel for it as I progress. Like I never played any Souls NG+, I always prefer to just restart with a completely different character.
But again, like I said, this is purely a personal thing.
For me, I really need to do a zone from the start and "learn" the zone as I progress through it. Rushing through it to a spot, collecting andom sites of grace without getting a "feel" for the zone really bothers me.
It's also why I usually don't like full respecs from one class to another in games (on in this case, one build to another), I prefer to slowly level a build and learn and get a feel for it as I progress. Like I never played any Souls NG+, I always prefer to just restart with a completely different character.
But again, like I said, this is purely a personal thing.
You're definitely going to need to, at bare minimum, beat Radahn and then go BACK into the chapel and talk to the Festival Host until he tells you he's leaving. If you don't do that, the festival NPCs hang out in the courtyard before the boss fight like they're waiting for a rematch and the castle can't repopulate.
After 60 hours in the plot thickens. Huge reference with eye of Sauron and the appearance of not 2, but 3 fingers in the plot!
remember playing daemon souls in 2010 and having to go on gamefaq to get any info at all because hardly anyone knew what the fuck this game was at the time
I got the Glintstone Stars for 3000 runes but I kinda regret it; it uses far more FP but the damage dealt is not that bigger.
what are the best spells to learn?
what are the best spells to learn?
I think CHC means in the sense that it's a bummer reading people just shit on things you like, which I can definitely sympathize with. I could be wrong tho :p
Question- is there a way to increase blood loss build up for a weapon?
Some kind of ash of war attunement or something?
Some kind of ash of war attunement or something?
:p i guess it is worded more towards that way ,though both arent mutually exclusive
alright so I just got this game, is there a patch incoming to resolve the framerate issues with consoles or should I just stick with the ps4 version on ps5?
Bleed isn't already OP enough for you? :p
but no there isn't.
still the same unfortunately.
Hahah, there's a dagger I found that can power stance with a katana so I want to compensate the lack of damage and range with something.
But I found the answer to my question- there is an ash of war "Bloody Slash", it gives a big boost to blood build up.
Something like 38 -> 60
this combined with the amount of untagged late game boss names that have been huge lore spoilers for me are both reasons I should probably try to exercise the self-control to not compulsively read this thread. I don't expect everyone to feel totally enchanted and kneel at the game's feet and praise it as the unrivaled GOAT like I do, but reading pages and pages of people shitting on the boss design or complaining about how shitty a ton of the things I love are really is grating : /
I think most of all I'm disappointed that out of the massive amount of people playing and discussing this everywhere online, hardly anyone seems to care about the game's lore *or* plot? They put so much more effort into it than in the souls games and it even has GRRM's clear and distinctive touch but it's always just "game very hard. big man smash game, man strong" for a lot of people : /
considering that 76 hours in, my revealed map currently consists of (zone name spoilers obviously)
when I used one of the 4 belfries and got teleported to that
and looked where I was on the map compared to what I have uncovered, my reaction was once again, as usual with this game:
I assume it means each hit does more bleed. usually faster weapons have lower numbers because you hit more times.
the bleed value on bloody slash is for the actual skill only, it doesnt make any weapon do bleed with normal attacks.
West Lemuria
East Lemuria / Caelid
South Lemuria
Liurnia of the Lakes
Altus Plateau (west? I think the Capital part is east?)
Siofra River / Nokron
Ainsel River / Lake of Rot
East Lemuria / Caelid
South Lemuria
Liurnia of the Lakes
Altus Plateau (west? I think the Capital part is east?)
Siofra River / Nokron
Ainsel River / Lake of Rot
when I used one of the 4 belfries and got teleported to that
white tornado end game zone
I assume it means each hit does more bleed. usually faster weapons have lower numbers because you hit more times.
the bleed value on bloody slash is for the actual skill only, it doesnt make any weapon do bleed with normal attacks.
Just cleared the game with all achievements at about 47 hours (I reloaded for the other two endings). Would have been sub-45 if Malenia didn't kick my ass for nearly three hours. Did the whole game as a pure melee build using the Large Club.
Easy 10/10, one of the best games I've ever played and the best game From's ever put out. It's absolutely insane how much unique content there is in such an action heavy open-world game.
Easy 10/10, one of the best games I've ever played and the best game From's ever put out. It's absolutely insane how much unique content there is in such an action heavy open-world game.
This is the most fun I've had exploring a game in years. Love the fact that it seems never ending.
You're not really going to get any of that discussion until people have actually finished the game. I'm 25 hours in and have no idea what anything is and I don't care to talk about what anything is because spoilers.
Woo finished the game, clocking in at 91 hours and still missed a few things but every major boss was defeated. The whole ride was truly a masterpiece. I was only truly stuck on 3 bosses and all 3 of them were optional late game bosses.
I haven't went hard into a game like this in many years. It's all I played, it's all I thought about for a week.
I haven't went hard into a game like this in many years. It's all I played, it's all I thought about for a week.
Nono the dagger I have does have natural bleed build up, I'm looking at the weapon build up increase
I'm in an area that I've visited many times. I make a turn and I'm like "ooh, I've never seen this before." Keep running and climbing until I'm in some village with hanging corpses. I smash the enemies in the village and I see this devil looking mini boss thing that breathes fire on up. Heart starts racing because I know it's on and dude was chilling in the cut waiting. Swallow my drink, top off my health and go for it.
That feeling never gets old while playing this. It's quickly becoming the best game I've ever played.
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I just can't get over how immense this world is, I've just spent like 8hrs lost in a secret (maybe?) area that is as big as some of the Souls areas. And O. M. G!!!!!
This Astel boss is incredible!!!! And its designs is so pretty, eerie and terrifyng at the same time.
Also it just made me think the world is bigger than it seems, like Bloodborne did midway. It just doesn't look like its from this world, don't tell me that this game is also cosmic horror, don'tgivemehope.gif
Also it just made me think the world is bigger than it seems, like Bloodborne did midway. It just doesn't look like its from this world, don't tell me that this game is also cosmic horror, don'tgivemehope.gif
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