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Has anyone actually gotten used to parrying in Elden Ring?
Because I hear about nobody actually parrying in this game, ever, outside of just now when people started talking about it. And that one famous clip with Sunhi parrying Margit like he's a newborn.
Otherwise nobody ever talks about parrying in Elden Ring, cause the risk/reward is all whacked out.
I almost missed talking to Doll Ranni cause I rarely rested at graces unless I had to at that point lol, quite silly.
There's this
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I do it sometimes when I'm feeling adventurous, or I have no other choice lol
It's really satisfying...when you know it's possible and aren't just guessing on timing.
Yeah, big time. It hasn't felt this consistent since DkS1. The timings are very standardized, almost all attacks are parryable, the animations are much more forgiving and intuitive than DkS3. I parry constantly, it's great.
I just had a wild idea of putting "no skill" on my Uchigatana and "quick step" on the Wakizashi.
Would I be smooving??
Would I be smooving??
For me the open world has always felt like 25-30% too big overall. I feel very strongly you could trim it down without impacting the sense of discovery, wonder, and pacing that it provides. A bigger issue for me is how disconnected the different zones/regions are from one another. They are sadly very isolated and standalone when I was hoping for more interconnections and fluidity between them (even if they were teleport related due to the geographic layout). In some ways it feels like an MMO with very disparate zones with one very obvious entrance/exit where the landscape changes dramatically along a clear fault line.
I also find that the level of precision you need while exploring this giant space to be out of whack relative to the rewards but that's more subjective. For me personally it's just nowhere near comparable to the detailed design of their density based linear games. Having to comb along the entire stretch of a cliff face running half the zone looking for any hidden outcroppings that might have a cave entrance visible from one angle is not super enjoyable.
I think they needed more open world visual tells that you were in relative proximity to entrances or points of interest so you can better shift between travel mode and search mode. Even with ruins where you know there's supposed to be an entrance because you checked your map and the game put a big icon on it, they're sometimes really hard to see or notice even though the placement suggests they're supposed to be obvious. Few and far between were the entrances that were actually rewarding to find, such as the one that's inside a walled room you have to figure out how to jump into.
I also find that the level of precision you need while exploring this giant space to be out of whack relative to the rewards but that's more subjective. For me personally it's just nowhere near comparable to the detailed design of their density based linear games. Having to comb along the entire stretch of a cliff face running half the zone looking for any hidden outcroppings that might have a cave entrance visible from one angle is not super enjoyable.
I think they needed more open world visual tells that you were in relative proximity to entrances or points of interest so you can better shift between travel mode and search mode. Even with ruins where you know there's supposed to be an entrance because you checked your map and the game put a big icon on it, they're sometimes really hard to see or notice even though the placement suggests they're supposed to be obvious. Few and far between were the entrances that were actually rewarding to find, such as the one that's inside a walled room you have to figure out how to jump into.
Really impressive.
I parried a lot in Dark Souls 3 but it felt strange to me here, like it's weirdly delayed or something. I couldn't get used to the timing of it.
Could never get used to it in Bloodborne either.
Damn.
But there are always elite SL1 players. When I said I don't really see anyone talking about parrying I meant it, like here, reddit, elsewhere. Convo has been dominated by dual wielding and ashes.
That's also why I'm glad for the various nerfs. Get people talking about other tactics.
Had my first save corruption on my ps5 I guess. My game started acting sluggish so I restarted the system and when it rebooted... Demons Souls game me a notice its save couldn't sync due to being corrupted o.O
I played that thing for like 20 hours when it came out that's so weird. I was completely terrified because I was on my phone and just saw the word "corrupted". Phew.
Dang you stomped him. Thought that fight was a lot of fun but very tough for me haha.
I played that thing for like 20 hours when it came out that's so weird. I was completely terrified because I was on my phone and just saw the word "corrupted". Phew.
Dang you stomped him. Thought that fight was a lot of fun but very tough for me haha.
I do it with the crucible knights as its easy to parry them heh.
LobosJR has a SL1 Malenia fight where he parries every single one of her attacks without fail. It's not hard at all.
Hmmm just did the Dastardly duo and were they this easy? I put Muttley to sleep and went to town on Dick until dead then to Muttley. I did this until the fight was over, didn't even die. Did Fromsoft nerf this fight or is no one putting these bastards to sleep.
I don't want to play any future DLC at NG++++, so I've started a new character.
It's daunting starting from scratch again.
Planning on powerstancing katanas as a samurai.
It's daunting starting from scratch again.
Planning on powerstancing katanas as a samurai.
I have no idea why they made the design choice for death to reset the time back to morning but it's extremely aggravating in an open world game with a ton of night-time exclusive content. Especially in a Dark Souls game where you're dying all the time which means the vast majority of your exploration time is during the day unless you intentionally always pass the time to night when you respawn.
Honestly, there's almost no benefit to exploring during the day because unless you look things up after the fact, you'll never know what locations had optional night-time content because there's absolutely no visual indication whatsoever when you pass them by in the day outside of the Evergoals. I don't think there's any day-time exclusive content either so it's not like it's six of one or half dozen of another.
Honestly, there's almost no benefit to exploring during the day because unless you look things up after the fact, you'll never know what locations had optional night-time content because there's absolutely no visual indication whatsoever when you pass them by in the day outside of the Evergoals. I don't think there's any day-time exclusive content either so it's not like it's six of one or half dozen of another.
Something's wrong with the shadows (I guess) in the snowy late game area. Can't take a screenshot right now, but I'm playing native ps5 version and whenever I look at the snow, it gets covered in tons of black triangles, squares, etc, like the shadows, textures, or mb something else is messed up. Only in that zone tho.
My friend had such a hard time work General Rahn he wanted me to tell him when I got to him an stream it. I streamed it and beat it on my third try. Get fucked, close friend.
This happened to me on XSS but ONLY on the plateau near the Hero's Grave in that area.
Oh ok, found out Muttley was susceptible to sleep when one of the Divine Towers. I was playing around with Sword of St. Trina which is not a bad set up, now I just carry around a bunch of sleep arrows.
Last achievements I need involve different endings and I have a question
I just acquired the Frenzied Flame for the Lord of Chaos ending. I also need the standard ending to get all the achievements. My question is which would likely be faster, going through the process of getting the item I need to undo the Frenzied Flame once I reach the end and then duping my save file, or just running NG+2 and speeding through just the core path to get the basic ending?
Finally got around to installing the easy mode patch today and just...ooh baby, it's hitting just right. Getting to hop on and explore this world at my leisure after a long day is just *chef's kiss*
First I kept running into Deathblight scrubs and Moonveil spamming clowns, now I gotta watch for this in PVP. Jeez…
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BRB, just beating every Souls game, Bloodborne and Sekiro all in succession without getting hit once
HappyHob did it so must be easy
Don't run through NG+2, that's just silly. Dupe your save file. There's a Site of Grace after the final boss before you activate the ending. And you can still fast travel elsewhere and do whatever.
Yeah, I didn't really noticed it until I was fighting a Night's Cavalry and it was so annoying having to pass time everytime I died. It's especially bad when I forgot to do it and have to go back and forth again.
It's way way way worse for the Bell Bearing Hunters
You need to pass the time to Night and then rest to get them to spawn. Very annoying
You can parry enemies off their mount and the horse will just... walk around. I wonder about those ant mounts lol. Been trying to make a build for NG+ and was trying out a spear+shield combo, since I want to learn parrying in this game (it's a complete coincidence that's where the conversation on this page was going lol). I'm cowardly so just running through Limgrave to get the timings.
Can you? The patch notes said it fixed a bug allowing you to warp out of the ending, I don't know if that's what it referred to. Wasn't sure what it referred to.
This game has literally consumed me. If I'm not playing I'm thinking about my next build or reading a wiki on weapons, etc. Lost so much sleep lately but damn I'm having fun.
I think the patch notes were referring to
opening the map and warping to a grace site, without activating the one in the ending spot
Ah that would make sense. I just tested it and you're right.
I feel like half the coolest areas are optional. Which isn't new for their games, but there's just a lot more of it now to where it makes the Open World nature more justified.
Went back to my old standby farming spot that I haven't been to for 100 hours and the boulder had the glowing eyes on my first go.
I miss playing Indiana Jones with you too, boulder friend.
I miss playing Indiana Jones with you too, boulder friend.
the entire
underground map area is optional. all the ranni and fia stuff, and mohgwynn's palace
all technically "optional" but then again I think this game's concept of optional and mandatory is weird. Like, what IS mandatory?
Getting two elden souls is mandatory but it's any two so right off the bat, none of the first half content of the game is "mandatory", or rather, you can choose any 2 I guess. Then the
capital is mandatory, mountaintop of the giants is mandatory, in the sense that it's where you trigger the endgame. and then... that white tornado area is mandatory right? which leads back to capital to finish.
This of course bypasses the entire
Malenia stuff, which includes the other snow area, hallingtree and elphael, that's one open world and two traditional "souls" zones right there. Under the capital you have the giant sewer area, all optional. And of course like I said before all the udnerground stuff which could be it's own game by itself.
oh weeping peninsula, the southern area of limgrave is 100% optional. And also 90% of
altus plateau besides the Capital
Optional end game boss
Yep malenia is by *far* the hardest boss I've fought thus far. I CANNOT reliably roll her crazy air flurry attack during P1. I vowed not to use bloodhounds step but it seems like rolling that particular mechanic requires lots of luck and rng.
Any tips for a 2x bloodhounds fang (+10 and +9) power stancing quality build to own this crazy boss?
Any tips for a 2x bloodhounds fang (+10 and +9) power stancing quality build to own this crazy boss?
I finally caved and respecced… I beat Radahn, Godrick, Astel, the Regal spirit, and Rennala with 10 vigor. And that's just legends. But I got tired of losing in one hit and needing to practice each boss to perfection. I'm at 22 vigor now. I can use the mimic summon finally. I'm not impressed by it so far—my albanauric lady seems way more effective in all the fights I've tried. But at least I have the option now, I guess.
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