When she does the Scarlet rot attack with the flower just before the flower fades.
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I feel bad to some extent cause I've made several "Radahn ain't all that" comments since I beat him on the first attempt after seeing so much hype and being disappointed, and I didn't get what people on their 15th attempt were dying to, but I totally get it if you tried to summon help for him. It really crystallizes the difficulty.
When you can't quickly switch to the horse, forget about it. You *need* the horse after the initial bombardment. It makes it so much more feasible. You just run away from the scary shit, then come back and slap him.
When you're in co-op without the horse, though, he's like Margit on steroids. Even worse is you have to keep yourself from laughing because it's Margit on the world's tiniest horse galloping around. You can't focus too much when you're laughing, which seems intentional tbh.
That's a fucking rough co-op fight, man. For people who just rolled through the game effortlessly, go back and try to help people beat Radahn. That's an event.
I would try different builds if knew where to get more larval tears.
I activated my first great rune and spent an hour trying to find her, even knowing where she was supposed to be. I guess I just kept missing her. Then,
I got to the Manor and the prison cell and holy shit. I'm level 68 and I feel like I'm under leveled for that whole area.
Oh I know. I've done it. I just wanna make sure that if I am in a tight spot and quit to kick them out I am not going to get into any trouble.
Rya mentions the precipice?
You definitely are underleveled
Yeah I completely agree with you here - if the boss design had never moved on from what it was like in DS1, whilst players still got more tools to use against them, it'd be totally monotonous and boring. I just feel like something I liked from those early games has been gradually lost with each iteration of the combat system, and playing DeS and DS1 again last year has only made that difference in encounter design more obvious - I miss that simplicity. It's kind of quaint to me that Artorias, who at the time was one of the hardest bosses in the series, has a less complex moveset than *the first boss* of Elden Ring, and honestly wouldn't look out of place as a standard enemy in the game's dungeons.
Caelid overall has pretty good monster design. Highly aggressive, good movement, but offset with giant heads to get headshots on.
Until you hit soft cap on primary stats the first great rune is going to be better than all others. +40 stats is just too good.
Okay, that's good to know. I've been cruising through everything (except Caelid) up until this point. Time to knock out more Liurna stuff first. Thanks!
oh no that's the one boss that never ever gets better lol
They have really since Bloodborne pushing the super high reflex bosses that demand dodges or other split second timing parries. The amount of constant non stop attacking spinning death blossom BS is just not fun to play against.
When I encountered a second mine (identified by its "mine" moniker and visual language) and could see that both mines on the map, which is exceptionally detailed and tuned to you using it in tandem with exploration on the overworld, were shown as an orange blob it became obvious the game language was saying "hey, orange blobs are mines. Mines are where you get upgrade materials. Occasionally you get a "bell bearing" and if you look at item descriptions and interact with NPCs, you know those are given to an NPC at your hub to expand shop options. You should go to those orange blobs when you unlock map fragments."
You seem absolutely incredulous at the idea people can play this game efficiently without using the internet tools, but so much stuff can be intuited by playing the game as intended and paying attention. Absolutely there's obtuse shit in the game, but it is nowhere near to the extent you seem to think.
I don't think that properly characterizes Bloodborne either. That was just the first game where you couldn't circle spam for an easy backstab. They started to really punish that shit then.
I'm not sure what they can do because there is a sizable minority of people who hate the complex boss design in ER which is fair but I don't think they can ever go back to DS1 style bosses because the player base just seems too good to be walled by those types of bosses anymore. Maybe the combat system and engine need to be revamped because boss complexity can't keep going up to combat increasing player skill and knowledge (seven games worth at this point) because at some point the bosses will have to become ridiculous in order to stop players from beating them in one or two attempts.
At this point I'm confident I won't beat her solo even with 99 on all stats lmao, but I'll try it again in NG+ I already know her entire moveset, with better weapons it will be better
After 90 hours, I think I'm ready to put the game down, until either the DLC is released or the PC version is patched into an acceptable state. I've rolled credits and beaten all major (including optional) bosses, with the only trophies left to unlock the Plat being the ones for the different endings and the ones for getting all legendary of each thing.
I didn't know it was possible, but Elden Ring surpassed TLOU2, GOW 2018, BOTW, Hollow Knight, and Bloodborne, to become the best game I've ever played.
I didn't know it was possible, but Elden Ring surpassed TLOU2, GOW 2018, BOTW, Hollow Knight, and Bloodborne, to become the best game I've ever played.
I'm happy to disagree because I think we have very different conceptions of what constitutes being able to 'search/look for something' in a way that feels good. But 'the wind' exists in Elden Ring too for story objectives, it's so important that the direction is permanently added to your map. They also added beacons which show up both visually and in your compass so there's something sort of mechanically similar in a way too.
But I would also push back on the Tsushima thing because what I was trying to reference was all the landscape or natural environment pieces that clue you in on nearby sites of interest and not the wind. I'm thinking things like the bird swarms for Haikus, the golden leaves for Fox Dens, smoke columns, the Shinto Shrines, etc. Even the wind is really only used for quest-givers/starting locations and it's player driven, you can only track one thing at a time. So you can't be pushed in multiple directions at once, it's optional, and you can't even track non-quests unless you spec into it.
Elden Ring has some smoke columns but they're used for ruined villages or the traders (whose campfire is far more visible). i can't really think of any repeating visual motif that suggests where a cave, tunnel, or catacombs might be outside of the witch statues (which themselves have to be discovered too).
Just wanted to gauge something:
Would anyone here be interested in a weapon trade? Why? Because I fought an enemy with two of the same unique weapon (one in each hand) and after defeating them I only got one. After looking into it a bit it looks like players can drop a weapon they already have for their co-op partner. This permanently removes the weapon for one player, but gives the other player a second copy.
If anyone is interested in this, I'm looking for someone to drop their Hoslow's Petal Whip for me to obtain, gained from defeating Juno Hoslow, the final request in the Volcano Manor quest line.
I'd be happy to drop a similar unique weapon, within reason - no legendary and such.
Edit: I'm on PS5
Would anyone here be interested in a weapon trade? Why? Because I fought an enemy with two of the same unique weapon (one in each hand) and after defeating them I only got one. After looking into it a bit it looks like players can drop a weapon they already have for their co-op partner. This permanently removes the weapon for one player, but gives the other player a second copy.
If anyone is interested in this, I'm looking for someone to drop their Hoslow's Petal Whip for me to obtain, gained from defeating Juno Hoslow, the final request in the Volcano Manor quest line.
I'd be happy to drop a similar unique weapon, within reason - no legendary and such.
Edit: I'm on PS5
I feel like unless you can stun lock her to death like that one user earlier did, she's basically impossible with a big, slow str weapon.
Never once in the series I felt "this boss may be impossible with some builds" until now.
But Bloodborne?
That game to me is still on another level entirely.
Man, R is kicking my ass. I keep managing to get him down to like 25% HP but he always gets me around there. I'm basically letting the summons do as much work as possible, and riding in with a charged R2 when the opportunity strikes. I feel like this is the winning strat, but I just can't get there. Level 104 STR build
I actually did find it on my own, but maybe they should've put it in one of the mines in Limgrave to make it that much more obvious.
Finnnnnaly beat Radahn. There were barely any summons left, he just had a small sliver of health left and I beat him with a R2 attack. The fight took like 20 mins but it's finally over!
I was aggressively credulous because so much of the Dark Souls online community is centered around the collective discovery and sharing of obscured information and knowledge. Many systems in their games are specifically designed with obfuscation for the community to untangle together; what are the details of spells, are their hard/soft stat caps, how does scaling work, resistances and vulnerabilities, where are notable chests with items, etc. Obviously it's the internet so our word has to be the end of it, but I still think you're way overestimating the average From Software fan's restraint in playing through completely blind and not constantly talking about or researching the game online as they play.
In a linear dark souls game you wouldn't have a problem of this severity because you'd be forced to clear the cave level where you get the ball bearing equivalent and discover what it does. My point isn't about the dark souls information meta-game itself, it's about whether that meta-game translates well to the open-world. I don't think an open world is well-designed when knowledge of a mechanic existing at all is restricted to something that players may never find or explore.
Depending on how you play, you may simply never venture into the tunnels to begin with even if you do notice the orange hue over them on your map. Not all of them even drop a ball bearing from the boss so there's no reason to expect that a player would understand how important they are. Maybe you enter the Limgrave Tunnel first and think they're just a one-time source of stones like a legacy dungeon. Maybe you enter one of the higher difficulty ones first and give up on the boss but forget to come back later.
Locking key mechanical components behind entirely optional areas with no clear hint or suggestion isn't good design; it's why so many people in the thread are constantly asking about it. An open world game cannot expect players to explore everything or every type of something. Especially when the upgrade system itself isn't hailed as a pinnacle of good design in the first place.
All it does is restrict player experimentation and allow for people to break the game by accessing higher tier weapon upgrades before they normally should have access by using Torrent or running past mobs in high level zones picking things up. Restricting +dmg weapon levels behind story bosses and letting players raise all their weapons to that limit afterward would be far more balanced and intuitive. As is, the system just emphasizes picking 1-3 weapons and sticking with them exclusively for the rest of the game.
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I'm honestly conflicted myself.
Like I'm not sure Elden Ring beat Bloodborne as my favorite, but it's clearly the better game? if that makes sense.
Ok so I was the same. It dragged the game down for a while. No matter what I couldn't beat him and he would co stand one shot me in phase 2. I went out and did other things. got to level 96 while also upgrading weapons and FINALLY beat Radahn. And it came super easy. Like, on my first try after. So just go elsewhere. His one shotting essentially became moot because not only was my health so high, but I could easily take chunks of off him in health.
God, everything in Azula is so terrible. "Refight the same bosses you've been refighting all game, but now they can't be staggered and will keep resummoning each other"
I really think everything after Lyndell is awful. There's been like 1 unique boss for the last twenty hours and everything is a bunch of stupidly strong trash mobs that aren't fun to fight.
That makes sense. I didn't know that coop activated invasions. Anyway, apologies to like ONE guy i invaded, the other ones all tea bagged or emoted so fuck them, they're not any less pathetic.
I think they should keep this design style but tone down the damage done a little.
Sounds good, thanks a bunch, much appreciated. Was starting to get paranoid with every choice I get.
That fight sucks so much. I tried summoning other people to help and the result was the both of us getting zerg rushed and dying in 1 combo string.
I can't really speak on Ghost because I haven't played it so I have no idea. I just saw one trailer about the wind ha ha.
There absolutely are signals in the game. Apart from the actual map itself as someone mentioned, ruined villages normally have underground areas, golden seed are found under the bright trees that you can see from far away etc. It actually shows you where you can get the detailed map. But some stuff is hidden away and you have to look for it. That's just the way it is.
If you don't like detailed, through searching and exploration then fair enough but I feel like it's a hallmark of From's recent games and it expects it of you. It's just a bit more demanding now in a huge open world.
I haven't consulted any guides and I'm very happy with the pace of developing and powering up my character from exploration and searching. Would I like more of everything? Of course, but it's just not that kind of game I reckon.
I went full str Greatsword+mimic tear. kill the summons first then him.
This is a good post. I do think the open world design ended up working very well with the Souls formula, but it does have some problems.
Elden Ring has some major arguments in its favor. It's basically Dark Souls 4, and a natural extension of the series since Demon's Souls.
It makes sense, right? We've all wondered, what if Dark Souls was an actual open world? That's Elden Ring. I think it's much closer to a Souls game than Bloodborne is.
But Bloodborne, man. Imagine they just port it to PC and put it on Steam. I'm no marketing genius but it will absolutely kill, especially after the success of Elden Ring.
I would go south after Stormveil and do the area south of Limgrave unless you've done that already, in which case go north.
I'm using a Longsword and the damage I was doing in the second phase was so small she recovered it in like 2 hits on my shield lmao
Does anybody know how i can access this island ? Its located west from the castle where you fight Godrick
https://www.xbox.com/play/media/ME5MPFRC
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