Bandai Namco are financially obligated to keep calling players bad instead of acknowledging their game is shit.
They're literally the reason the "Prepare to Die" marketing campaign exists at all. They are the reason Souls became this.
Don't fricking defend a multi million dollar company for perpetuating their own autism, they chose this path.
You can’t blame the company for the playerbase moronation of >everything that isn’t one on one no items final destination isn’t REALLY playing the game
black people are just women in mens bodies. they have the same brain chemical balance as a women. why do they care about bling? shoes? why do they lose their shit over the slightest inconvenience? why are homies so zesty?
>Bandai Namco are financially obligated to keep calling players bad instead of acknowledging their game is shit.
Their game isn't shit, they just took the guardrails off for the idiot casuals that got their one-shot builds from Twitch streamers. Sorry you have to actually play the game now, fricking homosexualS
It's shit, and Elden Ring was shit too, and people are finally waking up to this fact. The emperor has no clothes. Releasing this DLC is the biggest mistake they could've made, next to never porting Bloodborne.
you can always play last of us or some shit you know. elden ring dlc wasn't made for you. there are also mmo's like ffxiv and WoW you can play that's more your level.
1 week ago
Anonymous
>elden ring dlc wasn't made for you
I'm just most of you frodmrones cum a bit in your pants everytime you write those words. How good must it feel to have you ego struck like that?
1 week ago
Anonymous
Try this game out, you'll like it much better. Also, look, it has a katana! like the weapon you used in Elden Ring! pretty cool, huh?
1 week ago
Anonymous
Reminder that Elden Ring copies Ubisoft towers for unlocking the map.
they're literally suggesting ways to make the game easier
it's not their fault you homosexuals refuse to use features given to you to the best of your ability, level up more, build your character better, use spirit summons, summon players just use every tool given to you for christ sake, if you are getting your ass beat in the DLC leave and explore to find more scudutree blessings, it's the intended design of the game.
I assure you it's not that hard once you start using your brain.
Yeah, and how many Skibidi blessings are you gonna find before Rennala decides to throw like 10 hits in a row that are all gonna take away 50-60% of HP of a 60 VIG medium-heavy armored character?
You can get like 9-10 maybe which is good enough for like 20% increase in damage done and 10% decrease in damage taken. Wow, now you'll be left with like 2% HP after missing a single roll through her 6-7 hit combo, and guess what, she's already preparing her next one while you're trying to heal.
A lot of these blessings are locked behind Shadow Keep content... quite a few in a keep itself iirc, 5-6 behind the hogrider boss, I believe there are two in abyssal woods that you need to get through the keep in order to reach, there might be some in the northwestern area as well...
I only have the northwestern area left to explore and the final dungeon, and I'm at level 15 blessings. Maybe I missed some along the way, but being at like level 12 didn't stop Gaius charge from 1HKO-ing me randomly while sometimes doing less than 40% of my HP...
Yall are talking about the Scadutree blessings like they're gonna triple the strength of your character each time you take one.
You get like 1.5-2x stronger at max level, and there's shitton of content to get through... it's not like you just pick up a couple and suddenly you feel the difference. Even at 15 now and going back to some content I missed, it's just barely doable.
Midra and Putrescent knight are the only more or less fair bosses, and even they have annoying status build ups to deal with
The PC release of Dark Souls in 2012 and the subsequent birth of the "git gud/filtered" epic reddit maymay has shown disastrous consequences for any Souls discussion.
Not just souls. Any game that is even perceived as difficult can't be criticized anymore. It's to the point that I suspect some devs lean on the difficulty, at least in their marketing, to deliberately create a rabid defense force for their games.
Lmao these games aren’t actually hard they are just marketed that way and you slop it up. Every single one of these pieces of trash I’ve played I cleared in an afternoon
>>game series known for being hard
NOOOOOOOO THAT'S JUST THE RESULT OF THE PREPARE TO DIE MARKETING, DEMONS SOULS SPAWNING HARDER ENEMIES THE MORE YOU DIED IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT BECAUSE IT JUST IS OK?
Sorry it’s casual. I know you built your entire identity as a hardcore real gamer around playing souls games but your carefully constructed image is simply a lie. The games are easy. The games are casual. And so are you
demons souls does not spawn harder enemies the more you die, it spawns harder enemies if you die in body form, and it only spawns new enemies in certain areas and only on specific world tendency levels. WT is also reset to global level on each session if you go online. most players will never be affected by any of this. why lie?
1 week ago
Anonymous
>it spawns harder enemies if you die in body form, and it only spawns new enemies in certain areas and only on specific world tendency levels.
that's what I meant >WT is also reset to global level on each session if you go online
If you play online then you get raped by invaders, which is a whole new layer of difficulty that ER doesn't have >why lie?
I'm not
>THAT'S JUST THE RESULT OF THE PREPARE TO DIE MARKETING
It literally is. DeS and DaS aren't total baby games, but they're not obsessed with being difficult either. But then dark souls got known as the hard game because it was moderately challenging in an era of baby games. Fromsoft and bamco saw this and came to the conclusion that difficulty was the primary thing that people liked about the game and so from prepare to die edition on that became the focus.
>but they're not obsessed with being difficult either.
Name 1 area in elden ring that's as bullshit as the bridge to anor lond or the entirety of blightown with its fricking toxic snipers that WILL kill you unless you're super alert and check every corner.
I said they aren't total baby games. They're not afraid to be hard at times. Which is why they got the reputation they did since everything else at the time was afraid to do that. But most of the game is not stuff like the anor londo archers. And even the stuff that is hard in dark souls is more like solving a puzzle. You die to toxic snipers one or two times and then you go buy some moss from sewer lady and maybe even use the spider shield and then they become a total non-issue. The capra demon shits on you until you figure out you can run up the stairs and kill off his dogs without him flattening you and then the fight becomes trivial. It's actually kind of strange that the series went in the "git gud" direction when dark souls itself was designed to encourage "you didn't beat the game" types of strategies.
they deliberately overtuned the enemies in the dlc BECAUSE they put the scadutree fragments around as something to find. its pretty fair and reasonable to incentivize exploration and giving even max level players something to grow/progress with.
No no no don't you understand, some Gankerirgin spent 5000 hours maxxing his STR character, and he has to TRY again in the DLC?? That's just bad game design!!!
But instead of beating a miniboss to get prayer beads you ride your horse past all of the boring copy pasted enemies you already killed a thousand times in the base game and scoop the bits off the floor
it must be pretty obnoxious putting a mechanic in the game to make it easier, having people not use that mechanic, and then those same people b***h about the game being too hard. If I was the developer I would want to strangle them
You can't fathom how stupid people can be. I'm a general contractor and I've had doctors make deficiency reports because they locked a door with a dead bolt and then thought it was stuck closed. I mean we all have our moments but when outsource everything to everyone else even someone who has spent 12 year in school is gonna be like "doesn't open much be broken"
>it must be pretty obnoxious putting a mechanic in the game to make it easier, having people not use that mechanic, and then those same people b***h about the game being too hard. If I was the developer I would want to strangle them
I agree, but on the other hand, it is strange for a base game to have one type of power up mechanic, then the expansion keeps using it, but really requires a completely different power up mechanic.
That has to be confusing for people who don't follow any news.
None of those were designed to obsolete leveling up.
They all also have clearly visible effects. When you go to use them, you see what will happen. Actually, I don't know about gloveworts since I never used them.
When I go to use a scadutree blessing, I don't know what is happening. It's possible that I'm moronic, and just mashing the action button every time I use one, but I had to look up exactly what they do right now.
The DLC is hard no matter what level you are or how broken your scaling is. They throw out your stats and essentially ask you to start over, so everyone can enjoy the challenge. Scadutree Blessings aren't a crutch, they're a reason to explore and become strong because everyone is weak going into this DLC.
Exactly. People need to just play the fricking game and enjoy it.
>make it easier
The scadutree shit is put in just to make it playable. And "using that mechanic" requires running around aimlessly hoping you find them. Progression in the DLC is not woven into the gameplay loop as tightly was it was in the base game. Some people reach Rellana with +8 scadutree blessings and others reach her with +2. It makes a huge difference in the damage you deal and receive.
>running around aimlessly hoping you find them
You mean exploring the map? They're easy to identify after the first time you find a new source. They're at Miquella's crosses, churches, dropped by glowing pot Black folk and some field midbosses, and then a few are in some random places on the floor.
I don't get why people play Souls games without exploring everything.
The mechanic isn't designed to make it easier, it's designed to make it harder since they debuff the value of the levels you gained in the main game in the DLC. Just block the DLC from entrance until you get to Godfrey or further and scale it to level 110. People who got to 150+ in the base game were not looking for the DLC to be hard anyway.
that final boss is the most cancerous piece of shit I have fought in any soulsborne game and the only one I didn't play was demon souls.
That phase 2 is extremely frustrating with the aftershocks hitting you right after your roll iframes end and how it becomes hard to read the boss telegraphs with that design change and beams hitting the arena
Funny how me and many other players have already cleared the final boss despite all the complaints I hear about it. How about you take the time to improve your skill instead of whining on Ganker about le hard vidya boss?
>game gives you a pop up tutorial on what it does when you first pick one up >game gives you another when you select "shadow realm blessing" from a site of grace >I DONT UNDERSTAND FRICKING MIYAHACKI REEEEE
I'm shocked you even managed to make a post here.
I'm sure people understand how it works, but why do you need it is what people are failing to understand. After all, why would you need a mechanic to improve your ability to take a hit? Surely, the bosses are not overtuned to the point that you will take a hit or something, right?
It's an rpg. The skibidi fragments reduce damage taken and increase damage dealt based on a fixed equation that takes into account your characters level and if/how many new game pluses are added. They are here so players who are slightly lower leveled can enjoy the dlc and the ones who are overlevelled can be brought back down to reality instead of one shooting every boss.
1 week ago
Anonymous
That's not true at all. Max level in base game doesn't do anything for SOTET because the enemies are scaled to the new leveling system, which is why people are getting their shit pushed in because of gaslighting comments like these. Calling it a catch up mechanic is misinfo, the devs intended you to use it for any SOTET playthrough so they could keep the base game's pvp balancing at around level 150.
if we're playing this cared then I imagine people probably will get confused that this use case- that is to say, "levelling up" your stats- isn't covered by the base game "level up" mechanic instead.
>leveling up your healing isn't covered by the base game level up mechanic >leveling up your weapons isn't covered by the base game level up mechanic >leveling up your summons isn't covered by the base game level up mechanic
From every angle it's just braindead morons being braindead morons
>After all, why would you need a mechanic to improve your ability to take a hit?
It's a new DLC in a new World with new power scaling. It really isn't hard to figure out.
>Can they please fix their fricking camera, or stop designing spastic giant boss fights that make it so you can't see what the frick is going on
Just makes bosses that are meant to fit in the screen at the distance your are meant to fight them. There is no good reason for the bosses and enemies to be as big as they are. Half the demigods are taller than two houses or nearly as tall as a One Piece character.
nioh is alright but gets jerked off way too much here. most fights feel like your just flashy-slapping things until they die. The game lacks weight unless you are using literal hammers with high stance. everything else feels like you are slapping things to death.
I think they're trying to desperately preserve their "prepare to die" image towards their fanboys while also covering up the fact that the scadu mechanic is poorly implemented and explained.
Let me rephrase that,the game doesn't explain it enough and doesn't insist on it enough so even morons get the point that those thing should be their priority. >how fricking stupid do you have to be to not understand how it works
You underestimate how stupid the average elden ring player is (remember 25 million copies)
I think the Scadutree blessings should have a distinct drop appearance so it's easier to spot while exploring.
Cause I've found them in spots that don't have the visual indication usually marked with Miquella's crosses.
Let me rephrase that,the game doesn't explain it enough and doesn't insist on it enough so even morons get the point that those thing should be their priority. >how fricking stupid do you have to be to not understand how it works
You underestimate how stupid the average elden ring player is (remember 25 million copies)
Because Fromsoft is going to cater to those types of people you fricking moronic Black person
how many times do they need to explain it to morons like you until you figure out "collect item and level up"???
Sekiro is the hardest because you can't summon other players to beat it for you. Some old Armored Core might be even harder because failed missions couldn't be replayed and failing could put you in crippling debt or seldomly give you a permament game over outright if you didn't save scum.
It takes 5 minutes on youtube seeing the most popular videos on elden ring to realize that most normies straight up google HOW TO GET STRONG BUILD and nullify the entire experience of the game.
They can't google now, and there aren't clicky bait YT shorts where the jump+l1 build carries the game, so of course it's hard for these literal morons.
I can't remember the game, but there was a time where some reddit shitters thought they could smash Ganker in some random game, then they challenged Ganker and got slapped the frick out.
nuGanker would get smashed instead.
v didnt really slap them. One guy with 240 ping carried the entire v team. Which is pretty much how this website works. You have 1000 parasites and one person making OC
v didnt really slap them. One guy with 240 ping carried the entire v team. Which is pretty much how this website works. You have 1000 parasites and one person making OC
I can't remember the game, but there was a time where some reddit shitters thought they could smash Ganker in some random game, then they challenged Ganker and got slapped the frick out.
nuGanker would get smashed instead.
Been not coming back moron. Discussion (and this includes critiques at a game and its topic) and OC on the board declined sharply each year after 2014, not to mention the ability for Ganker to spontaneously play a game as (celebrated here) between the WGRD match and Tribes Ascend.
It's almost like this board got replaced by increasingly boring people and schizos who were in turn automated by ChatGPT. No point in believing in the post you're seeing, responding to, and being responded by is human. The context is there to reject it all as a Plato's cave of words shaped by a dataset. A cleansing of the palette if you would. Time to frick off to a smaller forum with verifiable human users or continue morbidly sticking around here to play Voight-Kampf.
1 week ago
Anonymous
Not that Ganker hadn't been worsening year after year prior to 2014 either, it's just impressive how much worse things can always go.
There was also a Battlefield match around the same time as Tribes where Reddit had to cheat by kicking Ganker players from the match to avoid losing. Also, why the frick is that guy using a commie flag with Patton's name? Glad that gay got stomped.
1 week ago
Anonymous
I know, how dare they sully the red banner by associating it with that shrill-voiced drama queen.
Nu-Ganker is more Reddit than Reddit and every time we get an RTS thread shitters have a meltdown over multiplayer. This isn't the same Ganker we have today
A couple years ago troon cosmo was streaming smash and Ganker decided to snipe his game to epically troll him and he ended up wiping the floor with all of them
Ganker obviously picked the wrong fight there.
A bunch of gays from reddit? Sure.
A troony in smash? That's jumping on a pool full of crocodiles and wondering how you didn't win in the afterlife.
it was the shazbowl in tribes: ascend. I had a memorial mousepad made back when they did those $1 custom mousepad things, lost to time tho >nuGanker would get smashed instead.
yeah without a doubt
v didnt really slap them. One guy with 240 ping carried the entire v team. Which is pretty much how this website works. You have 1000 parasites and one person making OC
it's pretty disheartening how Ganker's population has changed from being the people who created the git gud meme and constantly joked about hating casuals to being people who will have a board-wide meltdown about a game being too hard
Telling people to eat dicks because they suck at a video game should never be used as a way to cover devs and their shit design because your personal pride is hurt when it gets called out.
Git gud is a phrase/meme that has been emptied of any kind of substance and is used as the go-to shutdown of all cirticism because some morons can't fathom that from might have fricked a few things up along the way.
I'm not the one kvetching about "y-youre d-d-defending b-bad game practices!!!" Wow, almost like the same exact "artificial difficulty" malding homosexuals were doing 10 years ago, back when you were in diapers.
>incentivizing exploration?
More like punishing players for not playing the game the way they want. You have plenty of ways to incentivize exploration (weapons, equipements, secret areas, quests, bosses, vistas etc ...), this is probably the absolute worst one (getting murdered because you didn't pick some specific shit up along the way)
Plenty of people complained about all the exploration rewards in the base game being armor and weapons because any given character isn't going to use the vast majority of them and thus effectively gets nothing. There's no winning
>Ubishit collectables
What ubisoft game has a dlc area at the end of the base game that scales based on how many of a certain item you collect in it?
1 week ago
Anonymous
I'm talking about needing to collect an arbitrary number of items hidden in the ooen world to make progress in a quest.
are you going to complain next about how the base game makes you go to "ubisoft towers" to upgrade your estus?
Yes, I am. And I have. It's fricking boring. The open world only manages to make the core Souls formula way more tedious, nothing more. I don't care about your "muh vista!" screenshots of empty fields you post on Reddit. The open world objectively sucks in this game.
1 week ago
Anonymous
>I'm talking about needing to collect an arbitrary number of items hidden in the ooen world to make progress in a quest.
So something entirely different than the skibidi fragments?
1 week ago
Anonymous
You know what, you're right. Not even ubisoft is that moronic.
everybody can tell that it was put for muh explorations sake.
but that doesnt mean its done well.
at best its still fricking boring literal number go up pavlovian dog gameplay.
it dispels the illusion and thats really bad for an atmospheric game.
It's a shit way of balancing the game. Collecting that shit is fricking BORING and you need to find a shit ton bdfore you even notice a difference. You can fight Margit SL1 no problem. He'll still need at least 3 hits to kill you. These bosses take chip damage and one shot you before you can even comprehend what's going on if you don't do your "exoloration" chores. Frick that shit.
It is a shit mechanic but once you get as many as you need then the DLC isn't any more difficult than the base game, that's why I'm perplexed by the utter meltdown over its difficulty
1 week ago
Anonymous
It shouldn't be in the game altogether. Just make it scale like the Dark Souls DLC's did. No one had a problem with those. Game has stat caps anyways.
>He'll still need at least 3 hits to kill you
Why are you lying? Margit will flatten you instantly on SL1.
1 week ago
Anonymous
Nope. Maybe you just suck.
1 week ago
Anonymous
It's not about skill level, moron. Margit will one-shot you on all classes if you don't take the time to grind/upgrade your gear.
1 week ago
Anonymous
Git gud
1 week ago
Anonymous
Beat the DLC. Assuming you're the Black person who's crying about skibidi tree balancing, you shouldn't be saying git gud to anyone.
1 week ago
Anonymous
>beat the DLC >can't beat Margit
kek, sure you did
1 week ago
Anonymous
Reading comprehension reps por favor.
1 week ago
Anonymous
Get gud
1 week ago
Anonymous
I simply said that Margit could one shot you on SL1, which is true. Are you being deliberately obtuse? I never said that I was incapable of beating him, just not on SL1 with non-upgraded starting equipment because im not some speedrunner freak.
1 week ago
Anonymous
>I never said that I was incapable of beating him,
you are implying as much with your constant whinging
Scat tree is terrible game design. The base game has a nice gameplay loop where you fight to get runes that make you stronger, but your progression in the DLC is entirely based on the scat tree blessings. This is all because From wanted to allow characters at all level ranges to have a challenge but it was executed terribly. It's impossible to tell whether you're just being shit or if you need to go hunt down more scat fragments.
Not really. You had to fight bosses stronger than you to upgrade your stats, whereas in this dlc you can simply explore and come back stronger to beat the boss you had trouble with.
I think the game should encourage exploration by having interesting areas to explore and rewards to find and not encourage exploration by hiding stat bonuses in specific small corners of the still incredibly empty map that are oddly missable.
I also think From shouldn't make bosses untenably aggressive in a slow game to further incentivize you to need these stat boosts or lean into summons which have the age old issue of pulling aggro alone making bosses free.
It's not a bad mechanic.
Honestly I'd rather have the entire game "leveling" being based around this, remove character levels entirely, put Scatman Seeds all over and then all the people who whine about muh builds and "unbalanced shit" will stop existing, no more undeserved weapon/spell nerfs/buffs that completely ruin the game
I use shields and magic and explored the map for Scadutree fragments first, I haven't gotten stuck on any boss yet. I don't actually like Elden Ring's boss design and emphasis on combat in general, but there's a difference between criticizing that and throwing tantrums all fricking weekend because you can't beat the boss and beg the company to make the game easier like Ganker is doing. Play the game and adjust to it or just don't play at all, not like you're being forced to. It's a video game we play after work to rot our brain
it's pretty disheartening how Ganker's population has changed from being the people who created the git gud meme and constantly joked about hating casuals to being people who will have a board-wide meltdown about a game being too hard
Ganker is full with aging millennials who are grumpy because things aren't the way they used to be. When the base game released and everyone was having a blast while Ganker was writing bitter essays about how miyazaki betrayed the real fans™ because panic rolling and r1-spam got nerfed.
>n...n...n...no u
Never been on your moronic site. You homosexual millennial redditors are ruining every game because your attention spans are changing and ability to do difficult content is going down and you don't have as good hand eye coordination due to age. Go play another moronic slow paced story driven game like TLOU old frick
Whether or not you have been to reddit (you grew up there lol) doesn’t matter. The entire internet has been poisoned by reddit. You have never known a world untainted by Reddit. That taint runs deep in you and you will never be free of it. This is not your place. You do not belong. Take your poisoned soul and go
My problem with the boss design in this game is that the damage they deal is so over-tuned that you aren't really allowed to engage with them in an enjoyable way.
You're either excessively roll-spamming halfway across the boss lair to avoid getting two-shotted by their anime AOE attacks, or you abuse a completely busted build that takes that staggers and two-shots them before the fight even gets good.
But in truth, a lot of it is also this as well:
[...]
Ganker is full with aging millennials who are grumpy because things aren't the way they used to be. When the base game released and everyone was having a blast while Ganker was writing bitter essays about how miyazaki betrayed the real fans™ because panic rolling and r1-spam got nerfed.
While the DLC gets a lot of things wrong or just outright refuses to fix some of the inherent flaws from the base game - it still gets a lot of things right. The art direction and environmental set pieces are still as gorgeous as ever, and music has definitely improved somewhat, with some pretty catchy boss themes and solid atmospheric tracks.
Just wait until you get to the twink eboy and his chad brainwashed brother. Those frickers onshot even at level 13 blessing and it feels like slapping them with wet cardboard
>Go through this long as frick copy paste dungeon with like 5 elevators >Fight Jori the Inquisitor who teleports away (the teleport does damage like Radagon's), spams projectiles, and spawns up to five fricking spirits
Every part of this DLC is just miserable. Death Knight is the only fun boss I've found.
I just beat Bayle and I'm seriously considering dropping the game. What an obnoxious fricking boss fight that was. This shit isn't fun. From need to stop doing dragon fights if they can't unfrick their camera.
The current bosses at max blessings should have been the bosses you fought at no blessings, and collecting the blessings should make them less powerful to make their difficulty more in line with older souls bosses. I understand that Miyazaki wants you to explore for the Scadutree fragments, but he didn't have to make the DLC ridiculously hard without them. An upgrade should make the player feel more powerful, while the blessings only make you feel less weak. They are not strong enough to make you wipe the floor with an enemy.
Yes, the games only worthwhile content is the bosses and legacy dungeons. Wow I sure love exploring barren wastelands for crafting ingredients that are worthless!!!
I want to take on the game at my own pace. Especially a DLC where leveling shouldn't be a problem. You being properly leveled with a build you like and ready to go was the best part of Souls DLC's. Nobody missed the "collect these giant souls before you can fight the boss" shit from Dark Souls 2.
1 week ago
Anonymous
>i want the game to cater to ME
There are so many choices of games that appeal to that sort of mindset, yet you choose Elden Ring, simply because it is the flavor of the month streamer game you've heard about. Yet you do not seem to realize that this is not that sort of game, and you are merely coping and sneething into the void.
1 week ago
Anonymous
Every DLC in every Fromsoft game prior to this one explicitly catered to that anon.
It's you who is in fact the tourist.
1 week ago
Anonymous
Lol, wasn't the whole sales pitch of Elden Ring "go where you want, do what you want?". You shills need to get your story straight.
1 week ago
Anonymous
wat, every souls DLC except the ringed city was placed around the middle of the game and clearly balanced for a character at that point in progression
1 week ago
Anonymous
No it wasn't. It was balanced for endgame. You didn't even play them, you lying homosexual.
1 week ago
Anonymous
an endgame character eats bosses like artorias alive, it's obviously not the intended experience. It sounds like you went into those DLCs crazy overlevelled and now you're assmad that you can't do the same thing here
1 week ago
Anonymous
>an endgame character eats bosses like artorias alive
And then fails at Kalameet and Manus
1 week ago
Anonymous
fighting manus with an endgame character is an absolute joke. kalameet sure but that's clearly meant to be an extra challenge boss that you come back to later
>NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I CAN'T WIN BY FARMING BLOOD ALBINAURICS TO GET TO LEVEL 400 AND SMASHING EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!! IT'S A STUPID MECHANIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
filtered, really unfortunate
the same reason there's way more than 30 golden seeds in the base game, moron-kun. please think hard for a moment and then summarize why you think that might be
Why does the DLC have more vital collectibles than the entire base game?
the same reason there's way more than 30 golden seeds in the base game, moron-kun. please think hard for a moment and then summarize why you think that might be
its trial and error mixed with 900 different options that all play the same, roll and attack.
people are just done with the genre, fatigue and the DLC brings nothing new other than flashy animations
its turning into the sims really
>level up your Scadutree Blessing
Cool. How? >uh, actually, you were supposed to go to this incredibly specific spot to unlock the secret pathway around the boss so you could go to the next chunk of open world and collect those skibidis before you come back here to fight it didn't you know?
Who the frick greenlit this shit? It doesn't feel like a reward for exploring, it feels like a punishment for not following a guide.
Why is Ganker suddenly bad at video games? I thought we were all hardcore gamers
Imagine this post has a frog pic
Why am I so shit bros? I have beaten all of their games with their respective dlcs and I dont seem to get better
The DLC is kicking my ass
>DLC takes place at end-game, when you've beaten most of the really hard bosses in the base game >somehow people are surprised when it's not a babby-tier cakewalk
There's nothing here that's crazier than the haligtree, but most people didn't do that, instead they overlevelled and outscaled everything to the point where they twoshot permastagger bosses. Now they can't do that so they're forced to reckon with their own inabilities.
>there’s nothing here that’s crazier than the haligtree
*has 50k health*
*beyblades into you at 140mph*
*summons rocks you literally can only run away from*
*sucks you in with a 20 frame startup 360* aoe*
*does double cgs slam followed by expanding aoe that hits four times total you can only dodge by jumping*
*uses bloodflame attacks*
*does phase 2 at 70% health*
*floats into the air and does massive 360* aoe follows up by randomly appearing pillars of light everywhere across the arena all at once*
*teleports behind you*
*sends light projection clones into you at 140mph*
*stomps on the ground and does a 360* aoe*
*shits out pillars of holy light with every attack*
*does a 360* field of holy light beams after basic combo*
*turns invincible and fricks off into the sky, launches 4 holy light missiles before crashing down on you with the force of a nuclear bomb*
Return to Monster Hunter, chosen undead. Made by developers who respect your skills and try to design fun, challenging combat instead of just trying to frick with you.
>level up your Scadutree Blessing
Cool. How? >uh, actually, you were supposed to go to this incredibly specific spot to unlock the secret pathway around the boss so you could go to the next chunk of open world and collect those skibidis before you come back here to fight it didn't you know?
Who the frick greenlit this shit? It doesn't feel like a reward for exploring, it feels like a punishment for not following a guide.
>I have to look at a GUIDE in a FROMSOFT game!!! I didn't have a problem with the equally if not worse case of this with npc quests let alone the fact that there is a 0% chance i played any of their other games blind, but now it's unforgivable!
>it feels like a punishment for not following a guide.
Which is exactly what i've been saying
>incentivizing exploration?
More like punishing players for not playing the game the way they want. You have plenty of ways to incentivize exploration (weapons, equipements, secret areas, quests, bosses, vistas etc ...), this is probably the absolute worst one (getting murdered because you didn't pick some specific shit up along the way)
but look at the answers I got.
But to answer your qeustion it's not about who greenlit it but who will fricking buy it and defend it. Fromdrones.
>It doesn't feel like a reward for exploring, it feels like a punishment for not following a guide.
That's... literally how you're supposed to play the game. Your self-imposed challenge run where you refuse to look things up is not the intended way of playing nor should the game be considered bad because it doesn't work well when playing like that. >Guys wtf I'm doing a no weapons or armor run and I'm getting my ass kicked! This doesn't feel fair at all!
How do newbies who started with Elden Ring go back to DS1-3 and not instantly realize how much fricking better they were? Did you have to play the games on release to appreciate them or something?
Erm sorry sis that doesn't make for good youtube clips or reactions so every boss needs a 25 hit combo, AoE's after every attack and an instant dash okay?
Imagine this post has a frog pic
Why am I so shit bros? I have beaten all of their games with their respective dlcs and I dont seem to get better
The DLC is kicking my ass
>Make base game easy to cheese and become overleveled >Sell 25 million copies(20 million are casuls) >DLC made properly difficult >Millions of seething casuls ensue
Bravo Miyazaki
Getting stuck in block stun and then getting insta gibbed was never good gameplay and souls fans are only realising that now that they have to watch death loading screens 3x instead of 2x
The only response they have now is "git gud" which apparently protects from legitimate criticism like stuttering, recycled assets and pointless overworld.
Why the frick would i care about who else dilslikes it when i have issues with it and all i get in return are variations of "git gid" and "you suck" trying to dismiss everything i said as if i just insulted someone's entire family.
I don't care if you care. You asked why "fromdrones" dismiss criticism. My answer is that it's almost universally coming from chinks. But you still do suck and need to get good. You whine like this every time a new game or DLC comes out. Crying like a child that your old muscle memory doesn't apply anymore.
>Game is shit >NOOOO YOU JUST SUCK
You need to be 18 to post on this site. Seething at any criticism directed towards just a game is a sign of mental illness.
On a more serious note, the mechanic makes sense because the game is an RPG. Fromsoft can't make good games since DS2, so that RPG mechanic in a game that tries to be also an action game just fail super hard because most of their players are stupid. The fact that this game got GOTY is beyond me. The director trying to cram everything in a single game is a massive moron.
This will be all over in a week after Black folk make videos like " HOW TO GET 200 SQUADALATREES BEFORE MARGIT AND BECOME OP IN THE DLC" just like in base game
I mean if you summon and use ashes I'm pretty sure you can just sit and jerk off in a corner until half the boss' healthbar has been depleted. Elden Ring is not a difficult game.
This. All the raging about the DLC is casuals realizing their Youtube OP builds don't work. Once actual fans figure out how to break the DLC, the casuals will fall in line.
Wouldn't know beat her on the second try using the new great katana sword art and face tanking don't care, boring as frick pontiff clone get some new ideas memehacki.
>fallenstar beast AGAIN >tree sentinel AGAIN (2x) >dragon rehashes AGAIN (at least 7 but gave up counting) >flailing moronic pus of man gay shit enemy AGAIN (3+) >deathbird AGAIN >marionette soldiers, recycled other normal enemies lost count stopped caring tbh
two years btw, 10/10 btw
>summon mimic tear >boss jumps across arena right when youre in the middle of animation, either killing you or putting you dangerously close to death >try to summon in a break of the enemy's spastic attacks >they always recover quickly and punish you
On one hand they constant whinge the game is too hard, but then refuse to use the myriad of tools the game gives you like summons because "you didn't beat the game".
And then eventually rng turns to their favour after the 40th time, they finally win and gloat on anonymous internet forums and tell other players to "git gud".
I cannot, for the life of me, understand how morons like you STILL cannot comprehend how summons break the game when bosses now spin like a top after they swap from a move that was tracking you to a move that was tracking a spirit ash.
I don't want to use summons because it isn't fun. It is strictly too easy, which makes it boring. Maybe you're dogshit enough that summons are still fun because you get rolled by every enemy, but I do not.
Summons have NEVER functioned in a Souls game. These games break in half the moment you bust out an additional target. They have done so for years.
If you think they do not you fundamentally do not understand the mechanics well enough to have this conversation.
Use a shield, use magic, roll, do whatever the frick you want. But saying summoning isn't a fundamentally different experience then a 1v1 encounter is moronic.
>Summon Mimic for Rellana >She suddenly turns around mid combo because she finished an attack string and started a new sequence which reset her aggression to another target >This is the same experience as when she only hits you
Spirit ashes are intended for Elden Ring. Just because Fromsoft is bad at balancing the mechanic doesn't make it any less intentional. You guys are fundamentally misunderstanding the problem that separates ER from every previous game. How can you argue that summoning is not intended when it's baked into literally every aspect of ER's game design? Fromsoft treats spirit ashes no differently than a melee weapon. They are rewards for exploration and killing bosses. You find upgrade materials for them. They have a dedicated upgrade merchant in the main hub. Having to fight multiple targets is exactly why Fromsoft has designed so many enemies and bosses to have 360 degree attacks, large aoe, and projectiles in every direction. It's a quick, easy and lazy way to design combat. They don't need to account for where the player and the summons are positioned if they simply have attacks all around them. However, because they're building on the ai programming that they designed for 1v1 engagements from previous games, they still can't successfully neutralize multiple targets.
The end result is what I call bi-polar combat design; it's needlessly harder/more lopsided for traditional 1v1 engagements and a walk in the park, 1-minute kill if you use your Pokemon, devaluing any semblance of get gud.
1 week ago
Anonymous
So are you saying everyone saying SotE is too hard is refraining from using summons? I kind of doubt that
1 week ago
Anonymous
People can say it's difficult any number of reasons. It's not an either or scenario. I have no doubt there's people who simply aren't good and complaining about the difficulty. There are others who aren't using the new mechanics and are misunderstanding the difficulty of the DLC. One can also say it's difficult precisely because of what I said above. As everyone knows, bosses can still have instakill attacks even if you summon. For the record, I haven't played the DLC yet and am speaking as someone who beat the game and haven't touched it since launch year. I always beat the bosses solo including Malenia, Radagon, etc, like previous games because that's what I prefer. I like the game and intend to buy it eventually, but I'm not under any delusions of it being a masterpiece.
1 week ago
Anonymous
Perfectly said.
Basically you're going through a chore if you fight some of these bosses solo, or you're turning the game into a bit more actiony Final Fantasy 12 if you're using summs...
the reason that people do this especially in elden ring is because it's straight up boring and way too easy if you actually use all the tools
either the game is too easy or way too hard, there's no satisfying inbetween.
Why the frick would i care about who else dilslikes it when i have issues with it and all i get in return are variations of "git gid" and "you suck" trying to dismiss everything i said as if i just insulted someone's entire family.
The PC release of Dark Souls in 2012 and the subsequent birth of the "git gud/filtered" epic reddit maymay has shown disastrous consequences for any Souls discussion.
the reason that people do this especially in elden ring is because it's straight up boring and way too easy if you actually use all the tools
either the game is too easy or way too hard, there's no satisfying inbetween.
Beat the DLC. Assuming you're the Black person who's crying about skibidi tree balancing, you shouldn't be saying git gud to anyone.
It's a troony trying to gaslight you.
>Summon Mimic for Rellana >She suddenly turns around mid combo because she finished an attack string and started a new sequence which reset her aggression to another target >This is the same experience as when she only hits you
[...]
it's "git gud" you fricking casual moron
I didn't buy this despite loving ER because most modern DLC for single player games push bullshit to make things more tedious to disguise how short the DLC is and it seems like that is in this game too.
>pleeeeeease explore you have to explore this frickhuge empty map you know what we put a bunch of uhhhh- s-scidaddu fragments that make your character x100 stronger and you're useless without better get to it.
Design better levels.
Yeah you'd have to be the best hunter in the world to pull off a furious ranjang with base gear in under 3 carts. Not that I doubt that someone of that skill can exist, I just doubt that you're it, pal.
I don't want to explore. I want to beat the game like my best friend Kai Cenat. Why no, I don't read anything that pops up on my screen. I spam A as quickly as I can to advance through tutorials and dialogue. I'm really in a hurry to get through this game quickly so I can get back to watching my best friend Kai Cenat on stream.
>make the most casual Souls game so far >people can outlevel bosses if they have a hard time >release dlc that's more in line with the previous Souls games >all the shitters start complaining
Sucks to suck Asmongold zoomers.
You don't, your build just sucks. I took down lion dancer first try with like one scat blessing and I'm not even that good, I still take over an hour on Malenia most times
>more in line with the previous Souls games
I refuse to believe you played the previous souls games. Not just talking about boss difficulty. I mean level difficulty, planning, patience moving through the world. Actually inane opinion. There's simply no way
Cry more little baby.
I'm rolling in deep and dicking bosses after 3-4 tries. While you're all watching streamers with 400+ deaths and crying on reddit about your super duper meta build not working in the DLC anymore, I'm nearly done with the game already.
Take heart though. I'm sure you can suck a mean wiener.
Same way as he's pretending to be "gangsta" who spouts stupid shit like "yeah I would 100% be looting during COVID" or "Always Be Cheating" and so on. Like a thug he wishes he could be (for some reason).
Does WoW even have any remotely difficult content? From what I've heard it got casualised to hell early on and even a noob could solo basically everything.
1 week ago
Anonymous
Yeah the top tier of raids has always been pretty hard
gays are mad the game is too hard but I’ve seen plenty of people wreck the dlc. They think they can go in there with whatever build they had and do fine but no. Wait a couple of weeks and the hardcore players will do build guides that once again trivialize the game.
>Usually fromsoft's DLC are well received.
The Dark Souls III DLC had mixed reviews from the community. But that was mostly because they were expecting the DLCs to make the game story clearer, when it was moronic on purpose.
ringed city had bad reviews because people would go in underlevelled and then get their shit pushed in. not too dissimilar to what's happening here actually
How does this even happen? The only ways to get to the RC are through beating the entire game up to the final boss, or beating the other DLC which tops off with a three phase Lady Maria fight. Anyone who gets to the RC should be beefy or skilled enough to handle it's challenges.
>ringed city had bad reviews because people would go in underlevelled
You need to have be in the final area or have beaten a 3 phase fight to get to the Ringed City so I am calling bullshit on this.
From thought that people were finishing the game at a higher level than they usually did or wanted them to grind a little or something, I don't really know how they got it wrong but they ended up nerfing some things pretty quickly
I didn't buy this despite loving ER because most modern DLC for single player games push bullshit to make things more tedious to disguise how short the DLC is and it seems like that is in this game too.
It's not. This is literally Elden Ring 2. The map's not as big but it's far more dense, trust me, you will be in the DLC for as long as your first ER playthrough was
Are the tourists saying a "souls" game is too hard?
What moronic universe am I at? Of course it's hard - that's the fricking point.
GIT
FRICKING
GUD
SCRUBS
>demons souls and dark souls has an assload of new mechanics to learn >everyone adapted and got gud >elden ring dlc introduced one new mechanic >NOOOOOO IM A PROFESSIONAL IM USING THE ULTRA BROKEN WIKI BUILD I CAN NOT LOSE THE GAME IS AT FAULT SOULS GAMES ALWAYS SUCKED MY MOTHER IS A MAN
It's time to calm down you stupid b***hes
this is exactly what happens, and is why you should never open up your community to casuals. The Casuals are the ones b***hing about the DLC, the veterans are doing just fine
>this is exactly what happens, and is why you should never open up your community to casuals. The Casuals are the ones b***hing about the DLC, the veterans are doing just fine
This is true, but veterans can be a problem, too. They need a bigger and bigger challenge until the game series becomes completely busted.
Dark Souls I plays like a completely different game difficulty wise, whether that is a good or bad thing.
If Dark Souls I had recent Fromsoft difficulty, would the Soulsborne genre have taken off in the first place?
>People have always rightly criticized fromshit
You mean that xboxBlack folk have always thrown around buzzwords that mean nothing to discredit the games that have for the past decade only increased in popularity
You really, really need to gimp yourself in such a terrible way to make these games hard.
I don't get it, I am an elitist in lots of other games, and I truly do not fricking get it with the souls series.
In Elden ring there's like 20 other ways to break the game aside from summons.
Some weapons straight up fricking break the game, AI can be abused to hell and back, etc
I remember reading posts of people saying they had to overlevel to like lv300 in bloodborne to defeat Rom, I am just convinced the people who play these games because they are "difficult" are just fricking stupid.
>all the shitters overlevel the base game content >enter dlc thinking they're hot shit >don't play the game properly >don't bother collecting fragments >get shit on
>invent entirely new progression system. >Make it a moronic fetch quest to acquire to pad the game length. >make it impossible to experience the actual content if you don’t do the fetching
Cancer
Base game: >Make an open world with the expectation that most people probably aren't autistic enough to scour every single optional dungeon for items their build doesn't even need. So the bosses should be balanced with the expectation that the player will do just a bit of optional content before going to the boss gatekeeping the next zone >Autists clear the map 100% anyways and then complain all over the internet that the dungeons are repetitive, distances between them too empty and the loot in them pointless. Also that bosses are too easy if you do all the side content
Fromsoft: >Ok well we definitely underestimated the completionist autism of capital G gamers in [present year] so we should probably come up with a better rewards for the optional dungeons and how they relate to the main progression
DLC: >We made the dlc still open world, but slightly smalelr and denser, exploration now rewards you with powerups that are always relevant no matter what build you're playing! >The same autists now skip all the side content, bum rush the bosses without any power ups and predictably get their shit pushed in, then complain that the game is too hard, even though they refuse to engage with the solution
>You guys are b***hing and getting filtered more than 90% of game journalists
it's really sad how true that statement is. the DLC isn't that hard, you just have to explore and try. Sorry your handheld reddit-created 100% build doesn't work anymore, homosexuals
>set up a false strawman >make up what people are doing in game >make up even more what people are doing in the game >strawman their complaints >"HAHAHAH THESE GUYS ARE SHITTERS AND I AM BETTER THAN THEN DESPITE NEVER LEAVING MY HOME IN OVER 2 YEARS"
You all need to find meaning in your lives. This ain't it.
It says I am right to criticize fromsoft. Anything a pink haired lesbian black journo who sleeps around for shekels supports is my enemy. You are on the wrong side israelite
>ADHD moron beat the DLC in under 48 hours >OMG I DIDN'T HAVE FUN
You are moronic
1 week ago
Anonymous
>you can't have fun in a single player game if you play under 250 hours
are you fricking moronic? Most single player games are like 8 hours long
1 week ago
Anonymous
>are you fricking moronic? Most single player games are like 8 hours long
You created a strawman because you're too moronic and butthurt to do otherwise, jfc how embarassing
1 week ago
Anonymous
You said utter bullshit that you can only have fun with x amount of hours played in a single player game of all games. Fricking moron
1 week ago
Anonymous
Backpedaling and goal post shifting eh? To be expected from a trooner. Why does the fromBlack person have a mental breakdown if their precious game is criticized
I mean, whatever, sure I'd rather they didn't have access to western internet at all, but if the website owner wants them on, at least make normal people not see their comments.
I'm skibidi +10 but i'm still dying in 2 hits and the bosses give very little openings for you to heal with their long ass combos and and hardly any recovery afterwards. Every boss feels like I'm trying to learn an endgame secret boss on a level 1 character.
Im assuming they expected people to scour the map for these things and now that the game is out they see everyone is going straight for the bosses and doing everything at a lower scadu level than they where expecting
There's definitely some FromSoft fatigue going around, thanks to everyone else in the industry shamelessly copying their shit - but it's also laziness on From's part too, as well as them eating their marketing words to a T and gradually ruining their games with increased difficulty bullshit, to the point where it breaks the general combat & game balance altogether.
It sounds more like we're seeing the vax melting people's brains, because it seems like the DLC isn't that hard if you just do what the game tells you to do and get the skibidi blessings.
Don't forget the disease itself also melts people's brains. This isn't the old world anymore, most people are cognitively on the decline. I run into people now that can barely talk and when you ask them a question they can't answer or say something totally unrelated.
Okay, but seriously, why didn't they just balance the DLC around higher levels? Why introduce this shitty scadu shit does nothing outside the DLC and doesn't enhance build variety inside the DLC.
Honestly, I think the DLC was rushed out the door before it was finished, which would explain Rellana getting jack shit and Romina. Who seems like she should be an important character, but is just some random b***h you stumble onto, kill and never think about again.
I don't see why anyone would be confused by the skibidi tree fragments. Did people skip the tutorial popup? The main issue I had with the DLC was the dogshit camera. Half the bosses you can't see if you lock on and they move too fast to free cam.
It barely even helps... They're acting like you can get twice as strong before fighting Relanna and the Dancing Lion, when instead, you're likely gonna end up with maybe 15-20% increase in overal power at very best unless you're literally gonna explore every nook and cranny before you face Rennala in which case you might end up being like extra 5% stronger.
Yeah, levels in the base game don't make you all that much stronger on a level to level basis, but there are spikes you can hit when you reach stat reqs for a good weapon/spell, when you clear put a whole zone and you have like extra ten levels to put into VIG, when you find a bunch of upgrade mats that let you get a couple more weapon levels...
It's a lot more gradual in the DLC, and the difficulty keep outpacing the upgrades...
Like every boss fight I either near-perfect it or I die miserably... Might as well remove the healing flasks all together because most of the bosses will never give you any space to heal back up after taking away 80% of your HP when you get caught by like two slashes of their 10 hit combos... and worry not, they're already charging the next attack that will kill you while you're drinking, and if you roll too soon you're dead nearly every single time.
As I said in another thread, some folks would defend From even if Miyazaki showed up in your room to ass-frick you before entering the fog gate because "It's a Berk reference, you stoopid!"
>It barely even helps...
Percentage is misleading. Going from two hits killing you to just barely surviving them is a huge increase in your options and decrease in the pressure an enemy can exert.
5% increased defense is bigger than it sounds. It is a significant fraction of a whole new talisman's increase. Then on top of that is gives you more damage, which reduces the attrition you have on the boss.
If one scadutree blessing was a talisman, players would take it every time.
>1) doesnt matter in the dlc >2) destroying your build makes the gameplay linear and narrow fitting >3) some bosses attack across the arena the second you enter the gate. so you have to find some time to summon. And even if you do, you have another leveling mechanic for spirit ashes, otherwise they just get raped to death due to the overtuned damage right now >4) again, some people have other builds
That requires them to give up on their build, and they can't try new weapons either from the DLC. Whats the point of the DLC if you have to use some broken mechanic but can't win with any weapon you want?
The point is that some folks will be like "I beat the game pretty easily, with my SL300 build using BB and Mimic Tear" while the others will be like "Lol, I beat the entire thing solo with a long sword and no armor at SL70 and felt like I was overleveled... Bosses only took like 20% of my HP, so I have no clue what yall are talking about" and stroke each other's egos while lying through teeth lol
Elden ring is such a dogshit game IT DESERVES to be played with the most broken builds that just fricking stunlock, annihilate and analy rape bosses. This game DESERVES to be played in seamless coop + 4 mimic tears + magic + rivers of blood + all buffs + whatever the frick. Game is SHIT. FRICK IT.
I played 1st DS back on my Xbox 360 for probably 1 thousand hours and I have over 200 on DSR on steam. It was legit a good game but ER is insufferable, I still completed it 4 times and during my first playthrough I was thinking that I just need to "git gud" again and suffered through untill I klled Elden Beast. It was just a STR build with Zwei, no weapon art.
After I saw all the shit the game has to offer (which is anal rape) I decided to do the raping myself and just run the game with pre-nerf ice stomp and other shit and oneshotted every single boss, then did the same thing in coop 2 times. It was a huge joy just not giving bosses 0.000000000000000000000001% chance at doing anything. Frick their input reading, frick the delayed attacks, frick Miyazaki he needs to kill himself.
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU CANT MAKE ME UPGRADE >AAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIEEEEE ITS TOO HARD NERF THIS
it baffles me how many stubborn morons there are
Bandai Namco are financially obligated to keep calling players bad instead of acknowledging their game is shit.
They're literally the reason the "Prepare to Die" marketing campaign exists at all. They are the reason Souls became this.
Don't fricking defend a multi million dollar company for perpetuating their own autism, they chose this path.
You can’t blame the company for the playerbase moronation of
>everything that isn’t one on one no items final destination isn’t REALLY playing the game
sorry homosexual, if you summoned, you didnt beat it
Hell, if you use OP magic, you didn't beat the game.
Used a weapon? You DEFINITELY didn't beat the game.
Achievement said I did
Go back to discord, troony.
schizo jeet defending fromslop everyday
Schizo pussy smashing his keyboard in anger that he can't beat an easy video game lmao
It also helps stroking the ego of their hardcore fanboys
Man brownoids make everything so overly dramatic and hysteric
black people are just women in mens bodies. they have the same brain chemical balance as a women. why do they care about bling? shoes? why do they lose their shit over the slightest inconvenience? why are homies so zesty?
Damn bro that shit makes sense especially the shoes thing
>Muh prepare to die
How long are you gonna seethe about a decade plus old marketing campaign?
Given it made everything that followed poorly designed, as long as it takes for From to release a good game again.
>Bandai Namco are financially obligated to keep calling players bad instead of acknowledging their game is shit.
Their game isn't shit, they just took the guardrails off for the idiot casuals that got their one-shot builds from Twitch streamers. Sorry you have to actually play the game now, fricking homosexualS
It's shit, and Elden Ring was shit too, and people are finally waking up to this fact. The emperor has no clothes. Releasing this DLC is the biggest mistake they could've made, next to never porting Bloodborne.
just practice and git gud.
>It's shit, and Elden Ring was shit too
homie you cringe
ur game sucks lol, also easy as frick
you can always play last of us or some shit you know. elden ring dlc wasn't made for you. there are also mmo's like ffxiv and WoW you can play that's more your level.
>elden ring dlc wasn't made for you
I'm just most of you frodmrones cum a bit in your pants everytime you write those words. How good must it feel to have you ego struck like that?
Try this game out, you'll like it much better. Also, look, it has a katana! like the weapon you used in Elden Ring! pretty cool, huh?
Reminder that Elden Ring copies Ubisoft towers for unlocking the map.
they're literally suggesting ways to make the game easier
it's not their fault you homosexuals refuse to use features given to you to the best of your ability, level up more, build your character better, use spirit summons, summon players just use every tool given to you for christ sake, if you are getting your ass beat in the DLC leave and explore to find more scudutree blessings, it's the intended design of the game.
I assure you it's not that hard once you start using your brain.
Yeah, and how many Skibidi blessings are you gonna find before Rennala decides to throw like 10 hits in a row that are all gonna take away 50-60% of HP of a 60 VIG medium-heavy armored character?
You can get like 9-10 maybe which is good enough for like 20% increase in damage done and 10% decrease in damage taken. Wow, now you'll be left with like 2% HP after missing a single roll through her 6-7 hit combo, and guess what, she's already preparing her next one while you're trying to heal.
A lot of these blessings are locked behind Shadow Keep content... quite a few in a keep itself iirc, 5-6 behind the hogrider boss, I believe there are two in abyssal woods that you need to get through the keep in order to reach, there might be some in the northwestern area as well...
I only have the northwestern area left to explore and the final dungeon, and I'm at level 15 blessings. Maybe I missed some along the way, but being at like level 12 didn't stop Gaius charge from 1HKO-ing me randomly while sometimes doing less than 40% of my HP...
Yall are talking about the Scadutree blessings like they're gonna triple the strength of your character each time you take one.
You get like 1.5-2x stronger at max level, and there's shitton of content to get through... it's not like you just pick up a couple and suddenly you feel the difference. Even at 15 now and going back to some content I missed, it's just barely doable.
Midra and Putrescent knight are the only more or less fair bosses, and even they have annoying status build ups to deal with
>t. Ubisoft
The PC release of Dark Souls in 2012 and the subsequent birth of the "git gud/filtered" epic reddit maymay has shown disastrous consequences for any Souls discussion.
>subsequent birth of the "git gud/filtered" epic reddit maymay
All of that shit started here.
>noooooo 4cuck is le heckin based and would never make cancer its le reddit it’s le Reddit! Praise da sun xd!
Sorry anon but once a meme shows up once on reddit you're not allowed to like it anymore. I don't make the rules.
Not just souls. Any game that is even perceived as difficult can't be criticized anymore. It's to the point that I suspect some devs lean on the difficulty, at least in their marketing, to deliberately create a rabid defense force for their games.
nice cope shitter lol
Lmao these games aren’t actually hard they are just marketed that way and you slop it up. Every single one of these pieces of trash I’ve played I cleared in an afternoon
These games aren’t hard. You’re just bad at them. Super embarrassing.
holy shit go back you fricking casual
They hated him because he spoke the truth
Zelda lost, by the way.
>game series known for being hard
>they make some DLC
>it's even harder
>gamers throw a fit
git gud
>>game series known for being hard
NOOOOOOOO THAT'S JUST THE RESULT OF THE PREPARE TO DIE MARKETING, DEMONS SOULS SPAWNING HARDER ENEMIES THE MORE YOU DIED IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT BECAUSE IT JUST IS OK?
Sorry it’s casual. I know you built your entire identity as a hardcore real gamer around playing souls games but your carefully constructed image is simply a lie. The games are easy. The games are casual. And so are you
>DEMONS SOULS SPAWNING HARDER ENEMIES THE MORE YOU DIED
you haven't played demons souls
>black phantoms aren't real
the level of dishonesty on display here is incredible
demons souls does not spawn harder enemies the more you die, it spawns harder enemies if you die in body form, and it only spawns new enemies in certain areas and only on specific world tendency levels. WT is also reset to global level on each session if you go online. most players will never be affected by any of this. why lie?
>it spawns harder enemies if you die in body form, and it only spawns new enemies in certain areas and only on specific world tendency levels.
that's what I meant
>WT is also reset to global level on each session if you go online
If you play online then you get raped by invaders, which is a whole new layer of difficulty that ER doesn't have
>why lie?
I'm not
You just literally admitted you lied
>American reading comprehension
>THAT'S JUST THE RESULT OF THE PREPARE TO DIE MARKETING
It literally is. DeS and DaS aren't total baby games, but they're not obsessed with being difficult either. But then dark souls got known as the hard game because it was moderately challenging in an era of baby games. Fromsoft and bamco saw this and came to the conclusion that difficulty was the primary thing that people liked about the game and so from prepare to die edition on that became the focus.
>but they're not obsessed with being difficult either.
Name 1 area in elden ring that's as bullshit as the bridge to anor lond or the entirety of blightown with its fricking toxic snipers that WILL kill you unless you're super alert and check every corner.
I said they aren't total baby games. They're not afraid to be hard at times. Which is why they got the reputation they did since everything else at the time was afraid to do that. But most of the game is not stuff like the anor londo archers. And even the stuff that is hard in dark souls is more like solving a puzzle. You die to toxic snipers one or two times and then you go buy some moss from sewer lady and maybe even use the spider shield and then they become a total non-issue. The capra demon shits on you until you figure out you can run up the stairs and kill off his dogs without him flattening you and then the fight becomes trivial. It's actually kind of strange that the series went in the "git gud" direction when dark souls itself was designed to encourage "you didn't beat the game" types of strategies.
>DeS and DaS aren't total baby games,
Yes they are
>game series known for being hard
This meme again.
Well from the financial point of view, it worked
Until now I guess
Scadutree blessings are a dogshit mechanic.
Nah.
It's lets real ones have good endgame fights while also giving the tourists a win-con.
they deliberately overtuned the enemies in the dlc BECAUSE they put the scadutree fragments around as something to find. its pretty fair and reasonable to incentivize exploration and giving even max level players something to grow/progress with.
No no no don't you understand, some Gankerirgin spent 5000 hours maxxing his STR character, and he has to TRY again in the DLC?? That's just bad game design!!!
They are the exact same mechanic that you praised in Sekiro, Black person
But instead of beating a miniboss to get prayer beads you ride your horse past all of the boring copy pasted enemies you already killed a thousand times in the base game and scoop the bits off the floor
Nta but all the places where I got the blessing were not copy paste. They had the new enemies from the dlc
it must be pretty obnoxious putting a mechanic in the game to make it easier, having people not use that mechanic, and then those same people b***h about the game being too hard. If I was the developer I would want to strangle them
You can't fathom how stupid people can be. I'm a general contractor and I've had doctors make deficiency reports because they locked a door with a dead bolt and then thought it was stuck closed. I mean we all have our moments but when outsource everything to everyone else even someone who has spent 12 year in school is gonna be like "doesn't open much be broken"
>it must be pretty obnoxious putting a mechanic in the game to make it easier, having people not use that mechanic, and then those same people b***h about the game being too hard. If I was the developer I would want to strangle them
I agree, but on the other hand, it is strange for a base game to have one type of power up mechanic, then the expansion keeps using it, but really requires a completely different power up mechanic.
That has to be confusing for people who don't follow any news.
>What are golden seeds
>What are smithing stones
>what are SOMBER smithing stones
>what are gloveworts
Yes, those are mechanics in the base game also used in the DLC. Are you okay anon? You seem to be having a moron stroke.
None of those were designed to obsolete leveling up.
They all also have clearly visible effects. When you go to use them, you see what will happen. Actually, I don't know about gloveworts since I never used them.
When I go to use a scadutree blessing, I don't know what is happening. It's possible that I'm moronic, and just mashing the action button every time I use one, but I had to look up exactly what they do right now.
The DLC is hard no matter what level you are or how broken your scaling is. They throw out your stats and essentially ask you to start over, so everyone can enjoy the challenge. Scadutree Blessings aren't a crutch, they're a reason to explore and become strong because everyone is weak going into this DLC.
Exactly. People need to just play the fricking game and enjoy it.
>make it easier
The scadutree shit is put in just to make it playable. And "using that mechanic" requires running around aimlessly hoping you find them. Progression in the DLC is not woven into the gameplay loop as tightly was it was in the base game. Some people reach Rellana with +8 scadutree blessings and others reach her with +2. It makes a huge difference in the damage you deal and receive.
>running around aimlessly hoping you find them
You mean exploring the map? They're easy to identify after the first time you find a new source. They're at Miquella's crosses, churches, dropped by glowing pot Black folk and some field midbosses, and then a few are in some random places on the floor.
I don't get why people play Souls games without exploring everything.
The mechanic isn't designed to make it easier, it's designed to make it harder since they debuff the value of the levels you gained in the main game in the DLC. Just block the DLC from entrance until you get to Godfrey or further and scale it to level 110. People who got to 150+ in the base game were not looking for the DLC to be hard anyway.
Even with max Scadutree the final boss kicks your ass.
that final boss is the most cancerous piece of shit I have fought in any soulsborne game and the only one I didn't play was demon souls.
That phase 2 is extremely frustrating with the aftershocks hitting you right after your roll iframes end and how it becomes hard to read the boss telegraphs with that design change and beams hitting the arena
Funny how me and many other players have already cleared the final boss despite all the complaints I hear about it. How about you take the time to improve your skill instead of whining on Ganker about le hard vidya boss?
Just level it up over 20 then, duh. 🙂
skibidi bussin doesn't slow down boss hyper agressiveness or make you dodge faster.
it's trash combat balance, simple as.
Fr fr on g
your level doesn't matter, when every boss has a 12-hit combo that stunlocks you to death
mommy mommy the video game won't let me win and feel like a cool dodging samurai thread #3712
wtf i love clunky gameplay now
>omg it's like so clunky that I have to plan out my inputs because of queuing instead of sperg panicking
>"wtf do you mean this fromsoft game is slow and clunky????" -some moron in 2024
you missed dmc thread?
What the frick is it
I’ve been playing for hours and im still not sure
>game gives you a pop up tutorial on what it does when you first pick one up
>game gives you another when you select "shadow realm blessing" from a site of grace
>I DONT UNDERSTAND FRICKING MIYAHACKI REEEEE
I'm shocked you even managed to make a post here.
I'm sure people understand how it works, but why do you need it is what people are failing to understand. After all, why would you need a mechanic to improve your ability to take a hit? Surely, the bosses are not overtuned to the point that you will take a hit or something, right?
>actually it's the game's fault that I can't flawless every boss
lol
If that is not the case then why is bamco telling people to upgrade using the new tree mechanic?
It's an rpg. The skibidi fragments reduce damage taken and increase damage dealt based on a fixed equation that takes into account your characters level and if/how many new game pluses are added. They are here so players who are slightly lower leveled can enjoy the dlc and the ones who are overlevelled can be brought back down to reality instead of one shooting every boss.
That's not true at all. Max level in base game doesn't do anything for SOTET because the enemies are scaled to the new leveling system, which is why people are getting their shit pushed in because of gaslighting comments like these. Calling it a catch up mechanic is misinfo, the devs intended you to use it for any SOTET playthrough so they could keep the base game's pvp balancing at around level 150.
>Play a RPG
>confused by the existence of mechanics to improve your stats
if we're playing this cared then I imagine people probably will get confused that this use case- that is to say, "levelling up" your stats- isn't covered by the base game "level up" mechanic instead.
>I imagine that people are completely braindead morons
ok?
>leveling up your healing isn't covered by the base game level up mechanic
>leveling up your weapons isn't covered by the base game level up mechanic
>leveling up your summons isn't covered by the base game level up mechanic
From every angle it's just braindead morons being braindead morons
>A rpg were i have to level up to get stronger
Truly groudbreaking.
I really love how after all the butthurt that malenia caused miyazaki double down and ignored the criticism
Because the game isn't meant to be a game you play perfect? What kind of inane commentary is this?
>After all, why would you need a mechanic to improve your ability to take a hit?
It's a new DLC in a new World with new power scaling. It really isn't hard to figure out.
>get told how to parry once in the first 10 hours of the game on the tutorial
>never use it again
>dont remember when i'm forced to use it
is there away around renella? I brute forced her her since I assumed there was no way to get more skibidis
Can they please fix their fricking camera, or stop designing spastic giant boss fights that make it so you can't see what the frick is going on
the fricking ass camera that hasnt been improved at any point in the series history is now more cancer than ever with these fricking bosses
That would require From to git gud so its never happening.
Yeah they should appeal to streamers and normalgays instead like From.
they really need to start using AI on the camera.
>Can they please fix their fricking camera, or stop designing spastic giant boss fights that make it so you can't see what the frick is going on
Just makes bosses that are meant to fit in the screen at the distance your are meant to fight them. There is no good reason for the bosses and enemies to be as big as they are. Half the demigods are taller than two houses or nearly as tall as a One Piece character.
Nioh and Wo Long won in the end.
won what, the respect of 50 Ganker shitposters? LOL
as opposed to thousands of sub human twitchgays? yeah that's a victory. the biggest turds draw in the most flies.
Wo Long is fricking shite LMAO
sincerely a Nioh main
the elden ring dlc copied the worst bosses from wo long. wo long was a trojan horse for fromsoft and they fell for it.
Wo Long is great.
sincerely a Nioh 2 main
nioh is alright but gets jerked off way too much here. most fights feel like your just flashy-slapping things until they die. The game lacks weight unless you are using literal hammers with high stance. everything else feels like you are slapping things to death.
yea it won most blandest boring game ever made
Tn should be executed
So instead of fights where you need to git gud, you NEED to level up the new mechanic? Doesn't sound like properly designed boss fights then.
Elden Ring's bosses were absolutely shit. I'm glad people are finally recognizing this. I'd rather just play Dark Souls 1 again for the 40th time.
are you moronic
No, I'm right.
The "git gud" meme and this constant claiming their games are difficult have killed souls games.
It's not 'git gud' it's telling players to level up in their fricking RPG
urging them to use a shit mechanic they've poorly implemented
Explain how it's shit and poorly implemented
Is this their way of saying you should scadu on out of the DLC if you hate it so much?
I think they're trying to desperately preserve their "prepare to die" image towards their fanboys while also covering up the fact that the scadu mechanic is poorly implemented and explained.
>and explained
bro what
there's a tutorial popup that explains it
how fricking stupid do you have to be to not understand how it works
Let me rephrase that,the game doesn't explain it enough and doesn't insist on it enough so even morons get the point that those thing should be their priority.
>how fricking stupid do you have to be to not understand how it works
You underestimate how stupid the average elden ring player is (remember 25 million copies)
And why should i care they are morons who can't read?
Because Fromsoft is going to cater to those types of people you fricking moronic Black person
I think the Scadutree blessings should have a distinct drop appearance so it's easier to spot while exploring.
Cause I've found them in spots that don't have the visual indication usually marked with Miquella's crosses.
how many times do they need to explain it to morons like you until you figure out "collect item and level up"???
>devs had to tell the players "Hey gays, level your character up ya dingus."
Humanity is regressing
Helldiver moment
imagine being a fromtard
Glad to Elden Ring take the spot as the hardest Fromsoft game. All their other shit is baby easy in comparison
Sekiro is the hardest because you can't summon other players to beat it for you. Some old Armored Core might be even harder because failed missions couldn't be replayed and failing could put you in crippling debt or seldomly give you a permament game over outright if you didn't save scum.
>scat tree
This is a suggestion to fix the camera in your slop of a game.
I love that Fromsoft don't give a frick about the baby rages and just make whatever the frick they want, popular or not. They don't give a frick.
You mostly love that it feeds your ego making you think you're superior for playing their slop.
Oh look another sour grapes seethepost. It's okay, you can cope knowing none of the mean soulssloppers will EVER beat you in a fortnite 1v1
You are superior for playing the best games in the industry instead of getting filtered and crying about it in discord
What scat tree level are you guys? I think i only have one boss left and i'm at +14.
It takes 5 minutes on youtube seeing the most popular videos on elden ring to realize that most normies straight up google HOW TO GET STRONG BUILD and nullify the entire experience of the game.
They can't google now, and there aren't clicky bait YT shorts where the jump+l1 build carries the game, so of course it's hard for these literal morons.
How does it feel knowing that Ganker is on the side of normie shitters who are getting mauled by this DLC because they don't play the game correctly?
I can't remember the game, but there was a time where some reddit shitters thought they could smash Ganker in some random game, then they challenged Ganker and got slapped the frick out.
nuGanker would get smashed instead.
v didnt really slap them. One guy with 240 ping carried the entire v team. Which is pretty much how this website works. You have 1000 parasites and one person making OC
Found the pic, apparently it was a BR sniper
Not just Tribes
Good times that are never coming back.
Been not coming back moron. Discussion (and this includes critiques at a game and its topic) and OC on the board declined sharply each year after 2014, not to mention the ability for Ganker to spontaneously play a game as (celebrated here) between the WGRD match and Tribes Ascend.
It's almost like this board got replaced by increasingly boring people and schizos who were in turn automated by ChatGPT. No point in believing in the post you're seeing, responding to, and being responded by is human. The context is there to reject it all as a Plato's cave of words shaped by a dataset. A cleansing of the palette if you would. Time to frick off to a smaller forum with verifiable human users or continue morbidly sticking around here to play Voight-Kampf.
Not that Ganker hadn't been worsening year after year prior to 2014 either, it's just impressive how much worse things can always go.
There was also a Battlefield match around the same time as Tribes where Reddit had to cheat by kicking Ganker players from the match to avoid losing. Also, why the frick is that guy using a commie flag with Patton's name? Glad that gay got stomped.
I know, how dare they sully the red banner by associating it with that shrill-voiced drama queen.
Nu-Ganker is more Reddit than Reddit and every time we get an RTS thread shitters have a meltdown over multiplayer. This isn't the same Ganker we have today
Why couldn't reddit field such a guy huh?
Yeah that's what I thought.
A couple years ago troon cosmo was streaming smash and Ganker decided to snipe his game to epically troll him and he ended up wiping the floor with all of them
Ganker obviously picked the wrong fight there.
A bunch of gays from reddit? Sure.
A troony in smash? That's jumping on a pool full of crocodiles and wondering how you didn't win in the afterlife.
it was the shazbowl in tribes: ascend. I had a memorial mousepad made back when they did those $1 custom mousepad things, lost to time tho
>nuGanker would get smashed instead.
yeah without a doubt
accurate
it's pretty disheartening how Ganker's population has changed from being the people who created the git gud meme and constantly joked about hating casuals to being people who will have a board-wide meltdown about a game being too hard
Telling people to eat dicks because they suck at a video game should never be used as a way to cover devs and their shit design because your personal pride is hurt when it gets called out.
Git gud is a phrase/meme that has been emptied of any kind of substance and is used as the go-to shutdown of all cirticism because some morons can't fathom that from might have fricked a few things up along the way.
Or maybe you're a zoomer who forgot his place lol
Nice projection
I'm not the one kvetching about "y-youre d-d-defending b-bad game practices!!!" Wow, almost like the same exact "artificial difficulty" malding homosexuals were doing 10 years ago, back when you were in diapers.
shit design like incentivizing exploration?
>incentivizing exploration?
More like punishing players for not playing the game the way they want. You have plenty of ways to incentivize exploration (weapons, equipements, secret areas, quests, bosses, vistas etc ...), this is probably the absolute worst one (getting murdered because you didn't pick some specific shit up along the way)
>play RL1
>NOOOOOO WHY DOES EVERYTHING KILL ME IN ONE HIT WHY CAN'T I USE EVERY WEAPON STOP PUNISHING ME FOR PLAYING THE WAY I WANT
Plenty of people complained about all the exploration rewards in the base game being armor and weapons because any given character isn't going to use the vast majority of them and thus effectively gets nothing. There's no winning
Making you search for Ubishit collectables before you can fight a boss isn't incentivizing exploration. It's a chore.
>Ubishit collectables
What ubisoft game has a dlc area at the end of the base game that scales based on how many of a certain item you collect in it?
I'm talking about needing to collect an arbitrary number of items hidden in the ooen world to make progress in a quest.
Yes, I am. And I have. It's fricking boring. The open world only manages to make the core Souls formula way more tedious, nothing more. I don't care about your "muh vista!" screenshots of empty fields you post on Reddit. The open world objectively sucks in this game.
>I'm talking about needing to collect an arbitrary number of items hidden in the ooen world to make progress in a quest.
So something entirely different than the skibidi fragments?
You know what, you're right. Not even ubisoft is that moronic.
are you going to complain next about how the base game makes you go to "ubisoft towers" to upgrade your estus?
everybody can tell that it was put for muh explorations sake.
but that doesnt mean its done well.
at best its still fricking boring literal number go up pavlovian dog gameplay.
it dispels the illusion and thats really bad for an atmospheric game.
git gud is a strawman at this point. NPC's like (You) will endpesly spam it as an excuse to not engage in any critical discussion.
critical discussion in this case being shitting your pants because you're supposed to make your character stronger to win the game?
It's a shit way of balancing the game. Collecting that shit is fricking BORING and you need to find a shit ton bdfore you even notice a difference. You can fight Margit SL1 no problem. He'll still need at least 3 hits to kill you. These bosses take chip damage and one shot you before you can even comprehend what's going on if you don't do your "exoloration" chores. Frick that shit.
It is a shit mechanic but once you get as many as you need then the DLC isn't any more difficult than the base game, that's why I'm perplexed by the utter meltdown over its difficulty
It shouldn't be in the game altogether. Just make it scale like the Dark Souls DLC's did. No one had a problem with those. Game has stat caps anyways.
>He'll still need at least 3 hits to kill you
Why are you lying? Margit will flatten you instantly on SL1.
Nope. Maybe you just suck.
It's not about skill level, moron. Margit will one-shot you on all classes if you don't take the time to grind/upgrade your gear.
Git gud
Beat the DLC. Assuming you're the Black person who's crying about skibidi tree balancing, you shouldn't be saying git gud to anyone.
>beat the DLC
>can't beat Margit
kek, sure you did
Reading comprehension reps por favor.
Get gud
I simply said that Margit could one shot you on SL1, which is true. Are you being deliberately obtuse? I never said that I was incapable of beating him, just not on SL1 with non-upgraded starting equipment because im not some speedrunner freak.
>I never said that I was incapable of beating him,
you are implying as much with your constant whinging
are bad mechanics just beyond criticism now?
>it's bad because.... I CAN'T BEAT IT
Scat tree is terrible game design. The base game has a nice gameplay loop where you fight to get runes that make you stronger, but your progression in the DLC is entirely based on the scat tree blessings. This is all because From wanted to allow characters at all level ranges to have a challenge but it was executed terribly. It's impossible to tell whether you're just being shit or if you need to go hunt down more scat fragments.
So you're saying Sekiro is terrible?
It waa done way better in Sekiro. Not even close.
Not really. You had to fight bosses stronger than you to upgrade your stats, whereas in this dlc you can simply explore and come back stronger to beat the boss you had trouble with.
Sekiro's boss fight balance is not the same
I think the game should encourage exploration by having interesting areas to explore and rewards to find and not encourage exploration by hiding stat bonuses in specific small corners of the still incredibly empty map that are oddly missable.
I also think From shouldn't make bosses untenably aggressive in a slow game to further incentivize you to need these stat boosts or lean into summons which have the age old issue of pulling aggro alone making bosses free.
Games are beyond criticism when they enter the normalgay sphere, sorry chud.
It's not a bad mechanic.
Honestly I'd rather have the entire game "leveling" being based around this, remove character levels entirely, put Scatman Seeds all over and then all the people who whine about muh builds and "unbalanced shit" will stop existing, no more undeserved weapon/spell nerfs/buffs that completely ruin the game
Let me guess, your definition of playing the game correctly is using mimic tear and powerstance colossal swords?
I use shields and magic and explored the map for Scadutree fragments first, I haven't gotten stuck on any boss yet. I don't actually like Elden Ring's boss design and emphasis on combat in general, but there's a difference between criticizing that and throwing tantrums all fricking weekend because you can't beat the boss and beg the company to make the game easier like Ganker is doing. Play the game and adjust to it or just don't play at all, not like you're being forced to. It's a video game we play after work to rot our brain
>I use shields and magic and explored the map for Scadutree fragments first
The scadutree shit is why the DLC is so unbalanced in the first place.
It's stupid but you gotta do what you gotta do
Ganker is full with aging millennials who are grumpy because things aren't the way they used to be. When the base game released and everyone was having a blast while Ganker was writing bitter essays about how miyazaki betrayed the real fans™ because panic rolling and r1-spam got nerfed.
>Ganker doesn't gatekeep aging redditors from this site
>they invade and ruin this site
What do you expect?
You realize you are the Reddit baby and us old folks founded this site right?
>n...n...n...no u
Never been on your moronic site. You homosexual millennial redditors are ruining every game because your attention spans are changing and ability to do difficult content is going down and you don't have as good hand eye coordination due to age. Go play another moronic slow paced story driven game like TLOU old frick
Whether or not you have been to reddit (you grew up there lol) doesn’t matter. The entire internet has been poisoned by reddit. You have never known a world untainted by Reddit. That taint runs deep in you and you will never be free of it. This is not your place. You do not belong. Take your poisoned soul and go
My problem with the boss design in this game is that the damage they deal is so over-tuned that you aren't really allowed to engage with them in an enjoyable way.
You're either excessively roll-spamming halfway across the boss lair to avoid getting two-shotted by their anime AOE attacks, or you abuse a completely busted build that takes that staggers and two-shots them before the fight even gets good.
But in truth, a lot of it is also this as well:
While the DLC gets a lot of things wrong or just outright refuses to fix some of the inherent flaws from the base game - it still gets a lot of things right. The art direction and environmental set pieces are still as gorgeous as ever, and music has definitely improved somewhat, with some pretty catchy boss themes and solid atmospheric tracks.
Are you discord subhumans seriously still assblasted about Elden Ring? It has been 2 years. It's over, you lost, move on
NOOOOO GIVE ME CHEATS ALREADY CHING CHONG PING PONG
Why are they crying this time? Is it cause of the dancing dragon?
lion*
I'm at level 13 blessing and the bosses aren't hard anymore, I don't summon either
Just wait until you get to the twink eboy and his chad brainwashed brother. Those frickers onshot even at level 13 blessing and it feels like slapping them with wet cardboard
>Go through this long as frick copy paste dungeon with like 5 elevators
>Fight Jori the Inquisitor who teleports away (the teleport does damage like Radagon's), spams projectiles, and spawns up to five fricking spirits
Every part of this DLC is just miserable. Death Knight is the only fun boss I've found.
I just beat Bayle and I'm seriously considering dropping the game. What an obnoxious fricking boss fight that was. This shit isn't fun. From need to stop doing dragon fights if they can't unfrick their camera.
>Erdtree
aight
>Haligtree
sure
>Skadutree
excuse me?
makes more sense when you realize it's supposed to be pronounced like shadow
影樹
it comes from old English, it is LITERALLY just "shadow tree" or scaedutree
b***h I'm not using those.
The current bosses at max blessings should have been the bosses you fought at no blessings, and collecting the blessings should make them less powerful to make their difficulty more in line with older souls bosses. I understand that Miyazaki wants you to explore for the Scadutree fragments, but he didn't have to make the DLC ridiculously hard without them. An upgrade should make the player feel more powerful, while the blessings only make you feel less weak. They are not strong enough to make you wipe the floor with an enemy.
What the frick do the blessings even do? I don’t see a difference at all
You need a frick ton to feel the difference. Happy grinding!
you literally can't grind them though, do you have any idea what anybody is even talking about
Wandering around looking for that shit is grinding in my eyes. Also: some enemies drop it, if you didn't know homosexual.
>exploring the map is grinding
what a baffling comment, were you hoping the game would just be a boss rush? how did you even tolerate the base game?
>how did you even tolerate the base game?
I didn't
Then why are you here?
Just to suffer
Yes, the games only worthwhile content is the bosses and legacy dungeons. Wow I sure love exploring barren wastelands for crafting ingredients that are worthless!!!
I want to take on the game at my own pace. Especially a DLC where leveling shouldn't be a problem. You being properly leveled with a build you like and ready to go was the best part of Souls DLC's. Nobody missed the "collect these giant souls before you can fight the boss" shit from Dark Souls 2.
>i want the game to cater to ME
There are so many choices of games that appeal to that sort of mindset, yet you choose Elden Ring, simply because it is the flavor of the month streamer game you've heard about. Yet you do not seem to realize that this is not that sort of game, and you are merely coping and sneething into the void.
Every DLC in every Fromsoft game prior to this one explicitly catered to that anon.
It's you who is in fact the tourist.
Lol, wasn't the whole sales pitch of Elden Ring "go where you want, do what you want?". You shills need to get your story straight.
wat, every souls DLC except the ringed city was placed around the middle of the game and clearly balanced for a character at that point in progression
No it wasn't. It was balanced for endgame. You didn't even play them, you lying homosexual.
an endgame character eats bosses like artorias alive, it's obviously not the intended experience. It sounds like you went into those DLCs crazy overlevelled and now you're assmad that you can't do the same thing here
>an endgame character eats bosses like artorias alive
And then fails at Kalameet and Manus
fighting manus with an endgame character is an absolute joke. kalameet sure but that's clearly meant to be an extra challenge boss that you come back to later
DSP using this same argument as to why the DLC sucks.
Nice job
he's right. now he just spam roll+jumping attack and all bosses easily. game is trash
They are literally essential if you aren't some rl1 autist. It is a stupid mechanic and THE sole reason everyone is having so many problems.
Do you do bonus damage as well? Why the frick can't these morons just give us the numbers/percentages.
Yes. You need scadutree blessings to not do chip damage. The whole thing is fricking moronic.
Oh okay, I am so sick of the obtuse garbage they put in these games just fricking tell me what these blessings are doing stat wise.
They do, moron. The bonus to your damage output and negations are all highlighted in yellow.
That isn't true, moron. You do damage just fine at low blessing level, what really stings is the lack of negation.
They do, moron. See above.
All 3 (or 2) of you, please, git gud and aqcuire more Scadutree blessings.
So the final boss will legit 1 shot you if you don’t get any blessings?
The move where he swings both swords at the same time one-shot me with 17/20 blessing, and full heavy armor, at 50 Vigor
>THE sole reason everyone is having so many problems.
Who's "everyone"? Are you talking about all the short bus riders?
>NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I CAN'T WIN BY FARMING BLOOD ALBINAURICS TO GET TO LEVEL 400 AND SMASHING EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!! IT'S A STUPID MECHANIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
filtered, really unfortunate
Why are there so many fricking shards? Is this a joke?
You don't have to get all of them. A frick load were added specifically so that you'd be running into them everywhere you went.
Why does the DLC have more vital collectibles than the entire base game?
the same reason there's way more than 30 golden seeds in the base game, moron-kun. please think hard for a moment and then summarize why you think that might be
Still haven't played Elden Ring.
I thought everyone that played it loved things being difficult or knew what they were getting into.
Just how difficult is it?
Like harder than Halo LASO? (I don't have too many references for hard games)
its trial and error mixed with 900 different options that all play the same, roll and attack.
people are just done with the genre, fatigue and the DLC brings nothing new other than flashy animations
its turning into the sims really
get gud
Nothing is harder than LASO. The DLC is slightly easier than the endgame of the base game.
>DLC takes place at end-game, when you've beaten most of the really hard bosses in the base game
>somehow people are surprised when it's not a babby-tier cakewalk
There's nothing here that's crazier than the haligtree, but most people didn't do that, instead they overlevelled and outscaled everything to the point where they twoshot permastagger bosses. Now they can't do that so they're forced to reckon with their own inabilities.
In short, skill issue.
>there’s nothing here that’s crazier than the haligtree
*has 50k health*
*beyblades into you at 140mph*
*summons rocks you literally can only run away from*
*sucks you in with a 20 frame startup 360* aoe*
*does double cgs slam followed by expanding aoe that hits four times total you can only dodge by jumping*
*uses bloodflame attacks*
*does phase 2 at 70% health*
*floats into the air and does massive 360* aoe follows up by randomly appearing pillars of light everywhere across the arena all at once*
*teleports behind you*
*sends light projection clones into you at 140mph*
*stomps on the ground and does a 360* aoe*
*shits out pillars of holy light with every attack*
*does a 360* field of holy light beams after basic combo*
*turns invincible and fricks off into the sky, launches 4 holy light missiles before crashing down on you with the force of a nuclear bomb*
Other people have already beat it. Just keep trying.
Use summons
Don't forget the grab attack that instakills by literally turning you homosexual
The signs were all there from the beggining
Why the frick isn't dropped by the bosses like souls
90% of the people complaining suffer from skill issue. We are in the golden age of GIT GUD
I'll never understand people defeding fromsoft tooth and nail.
Don't tell me people still cap themselves at 120?
Funnily enough SL barely matters in this DLC, it's all about fragments collecting because the damage scaling is off the fricking charts.
Return to Monster Hunter, chosen undead. Made by developers who respect your skills and try to design fun, challenging combat instead of just trying to frick with you.
>extremely heavily gear and upgrade dependent grindfest with zero narrative and limited map variety.
Nah
Yes but enough about Elden Slop.
it wasn't made for you.
>Made by developers who respect you
Yeah nothing says "respect" like patching denuvo into games people already bought
>Literally cutting off my words to make up your own strawman
FromDrones only argue in the bestests of faiths.
monster hunter was ruined with world.
its not a good time for action game fans.
Scadutree? Yeah, you did not beat the game.
listen to this guy if you want to beat the game
stay away from the "you didn't beat the game" blessing
>level up your Scadutree Blessing
Cool. How?
>uh, actually, you were supposed to go to this incredibly specific spot to unlock the secret pathway around the boss so you could go to the next chunk of open world and collect those skibidis before you come back here to fight it didn't you know?
Who the frick greenlit this shit? It doesn't feel like a reward for exploring, it feels like a punishment for not following a guide.
>I have to look at a GUIDE in a FROMSOFT game!!! I didn't have a problem with the equally if not worse case of this with npc quests let alone the fact that there is a 0% chance i played any of their other games blind, but now it's unforgivable!
>it feels like a punishment for not following a guide.
Which is exactly what i've been saying
but look at the answers I got.
But to answer your qeustion it's not about who greenlit it but who will fricking buy it and defend it. Fromdrones.
Motherfricker, just pick a road and you'll find at least 2.
>It doesn't feel like a reward for exploring, it feels like a punishment for not following a guide.
That's... literally how you're supposed to play the game. Your self-imposed challenge run where you refuse to look things up is not the intended way of playing nor should the game be considered bad because it doesn't work well when playing like that.
>Guys wtf I'm doing a no weapons or armor run and I'm getting my ass kicked! This doesn't feel fair at all!
Why is Ganker suddenly bad at video games? I thought we were all hardcore gamers
election year
What happened to slow methodical gameplay?
Left it behind after Dark Souls 1.
How do newbies who started with Elden Ring go back to DS1-3 and not instantly realize how much fricking better they were? Did you have to play the games on release to appreciate them or something?
Ds3 sucks, it's a giant corridor half comprised of swamps in which you do nothing but roll r1
Bloodborne had dash, rally, and bullet crits.
Serkiro had parry.
This game gives you no tools for the fast bosses except to roll spam.
newbies hate these games because they aren't open world.
Erm sorry sis that doesn't make for good youtube clips or reactions so every boss needs a 25 hit combo, AoE's after every attack and an instant dash okay?
>Explore the game instead of beelining to dungeons
It's that fricking easy,
Git gud, shitters.
skibidy tree scat tree scatman seeds
keep em coming kek
Imagine this post has a frog pic
Why am I so shit bros? I have beaten all of their games with their respective dlcs and I dont seem to get better
The DLC is kicking my ass
Dark Souls 1 is my favorite game of all time.
Elden Ring is shit.
Just how long are you morons planning on seething?
Forever. They'll never channel it into gitting gud.
>Make base game easy to cheese and become overleveled
>Sell 25 million copies(20 million are casuls)
>DLC made properly difficult
>Millions of seething casuls ensue
Bravo Miyazaki
Aside from the fact you can still cheese with the new broken stuff? You can still spam blasphemous blade moron.
Shut the frick up casul. Hope your sword gets nerfed again.
Getting stuck in block stun and then getting insta gibbed was never good gameplay and souls fans are only realising that now that they have to watch death loading screens 3x instead of 2x
No one learned from the base game to explore and level up.
Idiots.
I mean............................................
If you don't, the average boss fight will simply last longer.
I'm not wrong.
Why can't fromdrones cope with the fact that people don't like their stuff?
The only response they have now is "git gud" which apparently protects from legitimate criticism like stuttering, recycled assets and pointless overworld.
Don't fall for their crap.
I got gud and I'm still unsatisfied and unhappy.
except you didn't and you cry on the internet like the typical 90's baby
Because the only "people" disliking the game are fricking chinese. Filter steam reviews by language.
Why the frick would i care about who else dilslikes it when i have issues with it and all i get in return are variations of "git gid" and "you suck" trying to dismiss everything i said as if i just insulted someone's entire family.
I don't care if you care. You asked why "fromdrones" dismiss criticism. My answer is that it's almost universally coming from chinks. But you still do suck and need to get good. You whine like this every time a new game or DLC comes out. Crying like a child that your old muscle memory doesn't apply anymore.
>Game is shit
>NOOOO YOU JUST SUCK
You need to be 18 to post on this site. Seething at any criticism directed towards just a game is a sign of mental illness.
On a more serious note, the mechanic makes sense because the game is an RPG. Fromsoft can't make good games since DS2, so that RPG mechanic in a game that tries to be also an action game just fail super hard because most of their players are stupid. The fact that this game got GOTY is beyond me. The director trying to cram everything in a single game is a massive moron.
You do just suck, and you're a moron buttmad samegay
scadu you love me?
use a shield Black folk
This will be all over in a week after Black folk make videos like " HOW TO GET 200 SQUADALATREES BEFORE MARGIT AND BECOME OP IN THE DLC" just like in base game
I mean if you summon and use ashes I'm pretty sure you can just sit and jerk off in a corner until half the boss' healthbar has been depleted. Elden Ring is not a difficult game.
Correct. It's a terribly designed game that is either braindead easy if you use the tools you are given, or moronic and annoying if you don't.
This. All the raging about the DLC is casuals realizing their Youtube OP builds don't work. Once actual fans figure out how to break the DLC, the casuals will fall in line.
So once again it's "shit designed solved by bruteforcing / cheesing". This is exactly the issue with elden ring as a whole.
There is no fun bosses anymore, its just spam OP shit and facetank everything because who wants to spend hours learning these attack patterns.
>There is no fun bosses anymore
Rellana was fun as frick. Frick you casual gay
Wouldn't know beat her on the second try using the new great katana sword art and face tanking don't care, boring as frick pontiff clone get some new ideas memehacki.
>fallenstar beast AGAIN
>tree sentinel AGAIN (2x)
>dragon rehashes AGAIN (at least 7 but gave up counting)
>flailing moronic pus of man gay shit enemy AGAIN (3+)
>deathbird AGAIN
>marionette soldiers, recycled other normal enemies lost count stopped caring tbh
two years btw, 10/10 btw
So I take it there's still alot of rolling involved?
My record is 9 rolls to avoid a single attack string.
Rolling and then some.
The game right now is literally roll until its your turn, get one hit in, repeat.
>summon mimic tear
>mimic takes aggro, get some hits in
>I take aggro, the mimic gets some hits in
??
Game is as easy as it used to be from my personal experience.
>summon mimic tear
>boss jumps across arena right when youre in the middle of animation, either killing you or putting you dangerously close to death
>try to summon in a break of the enemy's spastic attacks
>they always recover quickly and punish you
Happened way too many times.
It’s a joke the people complaining it’s too hard are jeets and chinks
This is embarrassing, Fromies...
You don't have the right O you don't have the right. Git gud.
Is there a map where all the blessings are
Fromsoft players are hilarious.
On one hand they constant whinge the game is too hard, but then refuse to use the myriad of tools the game gives you like summons because "you didn't beat the game".
And then eventually rng turns to their favour after the 40th time, they finally win and gloat on anonymous internet forums and tell other players to "git gud".
I cannot, for the life of me, understand how morons like you STILL cannot comprehend how summons break the game when bosses now spin like a top after they swap from a move that was tracking you to a move that was tracking a spirit ash.
I don't want to use summons because it isn't fun. It is strictly too easy, which makes it boring. Maybe you're dogshit enough that summons are still fun because you get rolled by every enemy, but I do not.
Summons are the intended way to play the game moron. Next you'll screech about how using a shield and rolling also break the game.
Summons have NEVER functioned in a Souls game. These games break in half the moment you bust out an additional target. They have done so for years.
If you think they do not you fundamentally do not understand the mechanics well enough to have this conversation.
Use a shield, use magic, roll, do whatever the frick you want. But saying summoning isn't a fundamentally different experience then a 1v1 encounter is moronic.
Copium
>Summon Mimic for Rellana
>She suddenly turns around mid combo because she finished an attack string and started a new sequence which reset her aggression to another target
>This is the same experience as when she only hits you
I hate that From is appealing to shitters and how summons and glowworts are fricking everywhere that make people think that "they are intended."
Spirit ashes are intended for Elden Ring. Just because Fromsoft is bad at balancing the mechanic doesn't make it any less intentional. You guys are fundamentally misunderstanding the problem that separates ER from every previous game. How can you argue that summoning is not intended when it's baked into literally every aspect of ER's game design? Fromsoft treats spirit ashes no differently than a melee weapon. They are rewards for exploration and killing bosses. You find upgrade materials for them. They have a dedicated upgrade merchant in the main hub. Having to fight multiple targets is exactly why Fromsoft has designed so many enemies and bosses to have 360 degree attacks, large aoe, and projectiles in every direction. It's a quick, easy and lazy way to design combat. They don't need to account for where the player and the summons are positioned if they simply have attacks all around them. However, because they're building on the ai programming that they designed for 1v1 engagements from previous games, they still can't successfully neutralize multiple targets.
The end result is what I call bi-polar combat design; it's needlessly harder/more lopsided for traditional 1v1 engagements and a walk in the park, 1-minute kill if you use your Pokemon, devaluing any semblance of get gud.
So are you saying everyone saying SotE is too hard is refraining from using summons? I kind of doubt that
People can say it's difficult any number of reasons. It's not an either or scenario. I have no doubt there's people who simply aren't good and complaining about the difficulty. There are others who aren't using the new mechanics and are misunderstanding the difficulty of the DLC. One can also say it's difficult precisely because of what I said above. As everyone knows, bosses can still have instakill attacks even if you summon. For the record, I haven't played the DLC yet and am speaking as someone who beat the game and haven't touched it since launch year. I always beat the bosses solo including Malenia, Radagon, etc, like previous games because that's what I prefer. I like the game and intend to buy it eventually, but I'm not under any delusions of it being a masterpiece.
Perfectly said.
Basically you're going through a chore if you fight some of these bosses solo, or you're turning the game into a bit more actiony Final Fantasy 12 if you're using summs...
get gud
the reason that people do this especially in elden ring is because it's straight up boring and way too easy if you actually use all the tools
either the game is too easy or way too hard, there's no satisfying inbetween.
No souls game is actually hard though. The only hard part about them is actually finishing these boring ass games.
get gud
>pleeeeeease explore you have to explore this frickhuge empty map you know what we put a bunch of uhhhh- s-scidaddu fragments that make your character x100 stronger and you're useless without better get to it.
Design better levels.
>frickhuge empty map
Literal lies, it's denser than any basegame area
>Design better levels.
That went out of window when they decided to make it an open world game.
Fromssoft make dogshit souls games. Nioh, Code Vein etc. are all better than any dogshit from can make.
Nioh 2 combat is so much better than this, shame everything else about it is terrible.
It was also a step in the wrong direction.
You can beat any monster with any gear.
Base monsters maybe. But try facing off tempered monsters or Fatalis without optimal gear and you'll get screwed.
Those are optional. And the only way to get optimal gear is to kill Fatalis several times after all.
Can (You) solo Furious Ranjang with base hunter armor and greatsword?
Yes. But probably not two at once in the arena unless I get many carts.
Yeah you'd have to be the best hunter in the world to pull off a furious ranjang with base gear in under 3 carts. Not that I doubt that someone of that skill can exist, I just doubt that you're it, pal.
You can tell there's a woman behind this account.
I don't want to explore. I want to beat the game like my best friend Kai Cenat. Why no, I don't read anything that pops up on my screen. I spam A as quickly as I can to advance through tutorials and dialogue. I'm really in a hurry to get through this game quickly so I can get back to watching my best friend Kai Cenat on stream.
hmmm but the game rewards you for mindlessly throwing yourself at the boss like an adhd zoomer until you learn the patterns?
not when it forcibly lowers your stats until you explore enough
get laid
get gud
>make the most casual Souls game so far
>people can outlevel bosses if they have a hard time
>release dlc that's more in line with the previous Souls games
>all the shitters start complaining
Sucks to suck Asmongold zoomers.
Must have missed the part in previous souls games where I needed skibidi fragments to not do chip damage to bosses hmm
Dark Souls 2
Not a souls game.
Ds2's fight against the king needs you to collect giants souls to do any damage to it
You don't, your build just sucks. I took down lion dancer first try with like one scat blessing and I'm not even that good, I still take over an hour on Malenia most times
>more in line with the previous Souls games
I refuse to believe you played the previous souls games. Not just talking about boss difficulty. I mean level difficulty, planning, patience moving through the world. Actually inane opinion. There's simply no way
It's a troony trying to gaslight you.
Cry more little baby.
I'm rolling in deep and dicking bosses after 3-4 tries. While you're all watching streamers with 400+ deaths and crying on reddit about your super duper meta build not working in the DLC anymore, I'm nearly done with the game already.
Take heart though. I'm sure you can suck a mean wiener.
I beat them in 1-2 tries with a greatshield. Baby game for streamers and pornstars. Dark souls 1 was harder. not because of the bosses though
Jerma will beat the DLC before Asmongold, a retired old man will beat the supposed hardcore gamer ass-mongoloid
AsmoBlack person hasn’t been hardcore for like 10 years now. He regularly shills for games to be made more casual.
the truth is, he was always a casual, pretending to be a 1337 gamer
Same way as he's pretending to be "gangsta" who spouts stupid shit like "yeah I would 100% be looting during COVID" or "Always Be Cheating" and so on. Like a thug he wishes he could be (for some reason).
He did legit nolife WoW for awhile but that’s not saying much
Does WoW even have any remotely difficult content? From what I've heard it got casualised to hell early on and even a noob could solo basically everything.
Yeah the top tier of raids has always been pretty hard
rollslop
gays are mad the game is too hard but I’ve seen plenty of people wreck the dlc. They think they can go in there with whatever build they had and do fine but no. Wait a couple of weeks and the hardcore players will do build guides that once again trivialize the game.
Usually fromsoft's DLC are well received. But somehow on their biggest game ever, they fumble? what the frick happened?
indians worked on it
Nothing happen contrarian frick
Dlc is the best so far
Only changs and pajeet mad because
1. Skill issue
2. Toster pc
>Usually fromsoft's DLC are well received.
The Dark Souls III DLC had mixed reviews from the community. But that was mostly because they were expecting the DLCs to make the game story clearer, when it was moronic on purpose.
ringed city had bad reviews because people would go in underlevelled and then get their shit pushed in. not too dissimilar to what's happening here actually
Never had a problem with that. Probahly because I always left it for last.
How does this even happen? The only ways to get to the RC are through beating the entire game up to the final boss, or beating the other DLC which tops off with a three phase Lady Maria fight. Anyone who gets to the RC should be beefy or skilled enough to handle it's challenges.
It's a troony trying to gaslight you.
IIRC it was balanced for characters that are level 160 but people would tend to finish the game closer to 130
>ringed city had bad reviews because people would go in underlevelled
You need to have be in the final area or have beaten a 3 phase fight to get to the Ringed City so I am calling bullshit on this.
From thought that people were finishing the game at a higher level than they usually did or wanted them to grind a little or something, I don't really know how they got it wrong but they ended up nerfing some things pretty quickly
Literal lie
it's "git gud" you fricking casual moron
I didn't buy this despite loving ER because most modern DLC for single player games push bullshit to make things more tedious to disguise how short the DLC is and it seems like that is in this game too.
It's not. This is literally Elden Ring 2. The map's not as big but it's far more dense, trust me, you will be in the DLC for as long as your first ER playthrough was
Well you're wrong here, the DLC is fricking ginormous.
Blood and wine still best DLC ever
>the dlc sucks! everything does so much damage
Go explore then and get those items that reduce damage lmao
Holy strawman batman! The fanboys have lost their marbles!
get gud
Sounds boring
So I'm forced to explore then? I don't like being forced.
Is this the worst DLC ever made? Technically it at least didn't ruin the base game, like Crimson Court did for Darkest Dungeon.
It's the best DLC ever made, until the factorio expansion
>factorio expansion
that shit is going to be a completely different game and I'm not sure I will like it
>souls fans brag that their games are hard
>devs push a new dlc with hard content
>NOOOOOOOOO MIYAZAKI-SAMA TASKETEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Bunch of posers.
fromdrones will defend this shit but immediately seethe whenever a boss is too hard for them
But it's you moron discord trannies who were crying for years about the base game now saying the DLC is too hard.
jeet spammer spamming threads with fromslop
You know you can use spirit summons if the game is too hard for you right?
This is a suggestion - fix the frame drops and add ultrawide screen support.
I doubt these blessings are going to help against the DLC bosses's constant swinging.
Are the tourists saying a "souls" game is too hard?
What moronic universe am I at? Of course it's hard - that's the fricking point.
GIT
FRICKING
GUD
SCRUBS
It’s not hard. You are a casual who fell for their marketing
Damn that's a lot of jeet shills
Nah you are wrong OP. It is the players fault
>you have to collect things to level up now
are these things unlimited? Can you essentially over level like you did in vanilla?
You can only get up to lvl 20. About 50% damage reduction.
So instead of dying to 2 swings you die to 3?
>demons souls and dark souls has an assload of new mechanics to learn
>everyone adapted and got gud
>elden ring dlc introduced one new mechanic
>NOOOOOO IM A PROFESSIONAL IM USING THE ULTRA BROKEN WIKI BUILD I CAN NOT LOSE THE GAME IS AT FAULT SOULS GAMES ALWAYS SUCKED MY MOTHER IS A MAN
It's time to calm down you stupid b***hes
this is exactly what happens, and is why you should never open up your community to casuals. The Casuals are the ones b***hing about the DLC, the veterans are doing just fine
>this is exactly what happens, and is why you should never open up your community to casuals. The Casuals are the ones b***hing about the DLC, the veterans are doing just fine
This is true, but veterans can be a problem, too. They need a bigger and bigger challenge until the game series becomes completely busted.
Dark Souls I plays like a completely different game difficulty wise, whether that is a good or bad thing.
If Dark Souls I had recent Fromsoft difficulty, would the Soulsborne genre have taken off in the first place?
no it would be labeled a zoomer game and binned
Ur a moron. All of the games including ER are the same. It’s all rollslop. People have always rightly criticized fromshit
>People have always rightly criticized fromshit
You mean that xboxBlack folk have always thrown around buzzwords that mean nothing to discredit the games that have for the past decade only increased in popularity
it's amazing how two words can trigger a complete meltdown
is the reminder that you are completely responsible for your failure in life to hard to bare?
get gud
It’s amazing how you gleefully simp to dei pedophiles
get gud
You really, really need to gimp yourself in such a terrible way to make these games hard.
I don't get it, I am an elitist in lots of other games, and I truly do not fricking get it with the souls series.
In Elden ring there's like 20 other ways to break the game aside from summons.
Some weapons straight up fricking break the game, AI can be abused to hell and back, etc
I remember reading posts of people saying they had to overlevel to like lv300 in bloodborne to defeat Rom, I am just convinced the people who play these games because they are "difficult" are just fricking stupid.
ya im doing a 10 vigor 10 mind run and i've beaten the base game and im halfway through the dlc
is it hard, ya, but not impossible and i loke the challenge
i can't fathom the 60 vigor morons who are complaining about getting killed in two hits
>all the shitters overlevel the base game content
>enter dlc thinking they're hot shit
>don't play the game properly
>don't bother collecting fragments
>get shit on
You love to see it.
>making up moronic scenarios in his head due to weird elitism
please have sex I beg you
>invent entirely new progression system.
>Make it a moronic fetch quest to acquire to pad the game length.
>make it impossible to experience the actual content if you don’t do the fetching
Cancer
You can experience the content without collecting those items if you were good enough.
Base game:
>Make an open world with the expectation that most people probably aren't autistic enough to scour every single optional dungeon for items their build doesn't even need. So the bosses should be balanced with the expectation that the player will do just a bit of optional content before going to the boss gatekeeping the next zone
>Autists clear the map 100% anyways and then complain all over the internet that the dungeons are repetitive, distances between them too empty and the loot in them pointless. Also that bosses are too easy if you do all the side content
Fromsoft:
>Ok well we definitely underestimated the completionist autism of capital G gamers in [present year] so we should probably come up with a better rewards for the optional dungeons and how they relate to the main progression
DLC:
>We made the dlc still open world, but slightly smalelr and denser, exploration now rewards you with powerups that are always relevant no matter what build you're playing!
>The same autists now skip all the side content, bum rush the bosses without any power ups and predictably get their shit pushed in, then complain that the game is too hard, even though they refuse to engage with the solution
Fromsissies just can't win
>and denser
I fricking wish
Do Scadutree Blessings shrink Gaius' hitbox?
>You guys are b***hing and getting filtered more than 90% of game journalists
it's really sad how true that statement is. the DLC isn't that hard, you just have to explore and try. Sorry your handheld reddit-created 100% build doesn't work anymore, homosexuals
>set up a false strawman
>make up what people are doing in game
>make up even more what people are doing in the game
>strawman their complaints
>"HAHAHAH THESE GUYS ARE SHITTERS AND I AM BETTER THAN THEN DESPITE NEVER LEAVING MY HOME IN OVER 2 YEARS"
You all need to find meaning in your lives. This ain't it.
Woah so true *braps in your moron troony face*
>first instinct is to fulfill his fart fetish
>calls others trannies
>this is a comeback in the moron troony world
Oh man
>guy who devolved to fart fetishism with his comeback is saying this
The projection is off the charts.
>defending journos
Absolute state of fromtroons
>Absolute state of fromtroons
if journos are better than the fans then it's the players that are the troons lmao
/thread
Imagine losing to the Cuphead video lmfao
Game journalists aren't the one complaining the game is "2 hard" and they suck as at video games so what does that say about you
It says I am right to criticize fromsoft. Anything a pink haired lesbian black journo who sleeps around for shekels supports is my enemy. You are on the wrong side israelite
>pink haired lesbian black journo is better than you at video games
pathetic
>he supports the troon
Kys and ywnbaw
It's not supporting troons to point out you worse at games than them, but you're a moron so that shouldn't surprise me
The absolute cope of low-skill Black folk
And beat the game Friday afternoon jung moron it’s just shit and no amount of pandering will engooden it
>ADHD moron beat the DLC in under 48 hours
>OMG I DIDN'T HAVE FUN
You are moronic
>you can't have fun in a single player game if you play under 250 hours
are you fricking moronic? Most single player games are like 8 hours long
>are you fricking moronic? Most single player games are like 8 hours long
You created a strawman because you're too moronic and butthurt to do otherwise, jfc how embarassing
You said utter bullshit that you can only have fun with x amount of hours played in a single player game of all games. Fricking moron
Backpedaling and goal post shifting eh? To be expected from a trooner. Why does the fromBlack person have a mental breakdown if their precious game is criticized
test
>When chinks are so stupid they don't know how to vidya
in all honesty, why the frick do we even share the internet with the indians and the chinese?
money, unfortunately. I wish we could just IP block China and India for everything.
I mean, whatever, sure I'd rather they didn't have access to western internet at all, but if the website owner wants them on, at least make normal people not see their comments.
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the n00bs are getting filtered left and right, the fake-ass ecelebs crying about it all, it's a gift that keeps on giving.
Bamco? More like shazamtrannies seething because they lost again like the homosexuals they are.
I'm skibidi +10 but i'm still dying in 2 hits and the bosses give very little openings for you to heal with their long ass combos and and hardly any recovery afterwards. Every boss feels like I'm trying to learn an endgame secret boss on a level 1 character.
Im assuming they expected people to scour the map for these things and now that the game is out they see everyone is going straight for the bosses and doing everything at a lower scadu level than they where expecting
Someone post the stats on how many negative Steam reviews are from which region. I forgot to save it last time.
I don't want to explore. Exploring in ER fricking sucks.
And frankly, so do most of the bosses now.
Fricking Tanimura.
>Scadutree Blessing
You didn't beat the DLC.
I am 99% sure the blessings do fricking nothing. I am at 15 and i still can get 2-shot by bosses.
I'm up to about 17 and using a near-full set of Bull Goat armor.
I can tank 3 hits. I guess that's progress.
are we finally seeing fromsoft fatigue?
Yes, but also no.
There's definitely some FromSoft fatigue going around, thanks to everyone else in the industry shamelessly copying their shit - but it's also laziness on From's part too, as well as them eating their marketing words to a T and gradually ruining their games with increased difficulty bullshit, to the point where it breaks the general combat & game balance altogether.
Feels good I identified fromslop as garbage all the way back in kings field and never fell for this tripe
It sounds more like we're seeing the vax melting people's brains, because it seems like the DLC isn't that hard if you just do what the game tells you to do and get the skibidi blessings.
Don't forget the disease itself also melts people's brains. This isn't the old world anymore, most people are cognitively on the decline. I run into people now that can barely talk and when you ask them a question they can't answer or say something totally unrelated.
I got the Rona twice, and both times it was basically just a mild flu with no long lasting effects. In any case, the vax does nothing against it.
>check elden steam page
>6/10 mixed
OH NO NO NO NO NO FROMZISTERS HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN TO WE
Filter by language. Almost all of the negative reviews are chinese
I most often die from shitty janky outdated combat.
Why the frick is roll STILL ON RELEASE and STILL TIED TO THE SAME BUTTON AS RUNNING.
Seriously, what the frick.
i should have played bop-it more as a kid, i can't handle all these buttons
Okay, but seriously, why didn't they just balance the DLC around higher levels? Why introduce this shitty scadu shit does nothing outside the DLC and doesn't enhance build variety inside the DLC.
Honestly, I think the DLC was rushed out the door before it was finished, which would explain Rellana getting jack shit and Romina. Who seems like she should be an important character, but is just some random b***h you stumble onto, kill and never think about again.
>boss shifts to second phase while you're in midswing with an AoE that expects you to be fifty meters away
lol my favorite is when the dogman boss from the castle did a jump attack to a pc but midflight he zoomed into me.
I don't see why anyone would be confused by the skibidi tree fragments. Did people skip the tutorial popup? The main issue I had with the DLC was the dogshit camera. Half the bosses you can't see if you lock on and they move too fast to free cam.
>collecting 50 items randomly scattered around the gameworld instead of killing bosses is good balance actually
It barely even helps... They're acting like you can get twice as strong before fighting Relanna and the Dancing Lion, when instead, you're likely gonna end up with maybe 15-20% increase in overal power at very best unless you're literally gonna explore every nook and cranny before you face Rennala in which case you might end up being like extra 5% stronger.
Yeah, levels in the base game don't make you all that much stronger on a level to level basis, but there are spikes you can hit when you reach stat reqs for a good weapon/spell, when you clear put a whole zone and you have like extra ten levels to put into VIG, when you find a bunch of upgrade mats that let you get a couple more weapon levels...
It's a lot more gradual in the DLC, and the difficulty keep outpacing the upgrades...
Like every boss fight I either near-perfect it or I die miserably... Might as well remove the healing flasks all together because most of the bosses will never give you any space to heal back up after taking away 80% of your HP when you get caught by like two slashes of their 10 hit combos... and worry not, they're already charging the next attack that will kill you while you're drinking, and if you roll too soon you're dead nearly every single time.
As I said in another thread, some folks would defend From even if Miyazaki showed up in your room to ass-frick you before entering the fog gate because "It's a Berk reference, you stoopid!"
>It barely even helps...
Percentage is misleading. Going from two hits killing you to just barely surviving them is a huge increase in your options and decrease in the pressure an enemy can exert.
5% increased defense is bigger than it sounds. It is a significant fraction of a whole new talisman's increase. Then on top of that is gives you more damage, which reduces the attrition you have on the boss.
If one scadutree blessing was a talisman, players would take it every time.
if the developers can beat the DLC i can beat the DLC, simple as.
Just use Bloodhound Step or Golden Parry. Simple rolls just dont cut it anymore
>1) doesnt matter in the dlc
>2) destroying your build makes the gameplay linear and narrow fitting
>3) some bosses attack across the arena the second you enter the gate. so you have to find some time to summon. And even if you do, you have another leveling mechanic for spirit ashes, otherwise they just get raped to death due to the overtuned damage right now
>4) again, some people have other builds
Now tell me how you defeated radahn or dread.
I deleted my post because I didn't want to remember to come back and check for (your)s, but you got a (you) attack in too fast.
just answer the questions replied, anon, let's not make this difficult.
That requires them to give up on their build, and they can't try new weapons either from the DLC. Whats the point of the DLC if you have to use some broken mechanic but can't win with any weapon you want?
The point is that some folks will be like "I beat the game pretty easily, with my SL300 build using BB and Mimic Tear" while the others will be like "Lol, I beat the entire thing solo with a long sword and no armor at SL70 and felt like I was overleveled... Bosses only took like 20% of my HP, so I have no clue what yall are talking about" and stroke each other's egos while lying through teeth lol
Elden ring is such a dogshit game IT DESERVES to be played with the most broken builds that just fricking stunlock, annihilate and analy rape bosses. This game DESERVES to be played in seamless coop + 4 mimic tears + magic + rivers of blood + all buffs + whatever the frick. Game is SHIT. FRICK IT.
I played 1st DS back on my Xbox 360 for probably 1 thousand hours and I have over 200 on DSR on steam. It was legit a good game but ER is insufferable, I still completed it 4 times and during my first playthrough I was thinking that I just need to "git gud" again and suffered through untill I klled Elden Beast. It was just a STR build with Zwei, no weapon art.
After I saw all the shit the game has to offer (which is anal rape) I decided to do the raping myself and just run the game with pre-nerf ice stomp and other shit and oneshotted every single boss, then did the same thing in coop 2 times. It was a huge joy just not giving bosses 0.000000000000000000000001% chance at doing anything. Frick their input reading, frick the delayed attacks, frick Miyazaki he needs to kill himself.
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU CANT MAKE ME UPGRADE
>AAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIEEEEE ITS TOO HARD NERF THIS
it baffles me how many stubborn morons there are