How the frick does this shit have so many players 2 years after release? Are they botting the numbers? Fromshitware is playing Gaben???
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How the frick does this shit have so many players 2 years after release? Are they botting the numbers?
might be good
fippybippy
snoys will never understand
>snoys
The frick? I play on PS5+Switch and Elden Ring is one of my top 3 favorite games of all time.
*tendies
they are the only ones who don't get elden ring on their shitty toy "console"
>what are challenge runs?
>what is online play?
>what do you mean people are playing through again to get a character ready for the DLC which is out in just over a month?
did NONE of this occur to you?
There's a schizo cult here that genuinely believes that all video game enjoyment is fabricated and that every single positive thread here is a marketing thread lmao
It's one of the most moronic things that I've ever seen, comparable to flat earth society. What company in the world would pay some homosexual to shitpost on Ganker?
Nintendies are having an awful year so they just pit games they cant play against each other
>>what is online play?
I didn't even notice this game had online since they removed random invasions.
>they removed random invasions.
What??
I meant as in the previous souls games had it but ER doesn't.
ER does have random invasions anon
Try playing the game before talking about it
>ER does have random invasions anon
players cant invade you unless use a taunters tongue, which isnt random anymore, or if you have coop. which also isnt random.
>Turn on random invasions w/ taunter's tongue
>People can now randomly invade you at any time
>WTF THAT'S NOT RANDOM
ok
nta but taunter's tongue completely removes times on invasions and instead of having 0 invaders you now have all of them, not to mention that you need to reactivate it every time you teleport or move from one location to another which also requires a consumable. It's massive pain in the ass and benefits nobody.
You only get invaded if ur co-op. Its stupid
Taunter’s tongue is a thing
>Removed random invasions
I always laugh when people here try to act like experts on games but don't even know the games basic functions.
Why are you laughing at yourself?
>how does a pretty lengthy game built around replayability have a high and stable playercount
you're right op it's gotta be bots
The game is awful and all the original Dark Souls fans hate it, so it's dead. Fromshitware is botting the playercount of this input reading shitfest
>all the original Dark Souls fans hate it,
You don't decide that
Original Demon's souls fan here, I fricking love it.
I played the whole dark souls trilogy and loved elden ring. Go back to your trooncord server.
I've been playing since Demons Souls in 2009 and you're full of shit
stop blaming the game for your inability to adapt
Besides open world I think ER was pretty neat.
It's just good, homie
I've been playing FROM games since the PS1 and this is way better than Souls games, cope
have a nice day
>Implying any company would bot the numbers for a single player game
Go back to beating your gf Quantam.
>Implying any company would bot the numbers for a single player game
starfield was rather obviously this. and then "friend planet" which I refuse to even type due to the 30+ SHILL THREADS and my ban. frick you janitors.
humiliation ritual?
>Input readng shitfest
So true sister
Wow, you're upset.
They made small shields overpowered again? Well, I guess it's a necessity when enemies are spastics who don't stop wailing for a second.
>people who never beat the tutorial boss post in these threads
Someone made this webm, already knew themselves just how bad the input reading was from playing the game, and still decided to publish it online anyway.
No matter how many times you use things out of context, you'll never be a woman
We all know you had that moment when you were fighting a Crucible Knight and having a stand off, you've got up your shield, they've got up their shield.
Then the instant, the INSTANT you press the button to flask, his lunge animation starts. Then you test it again to make sure you're not crazy. You wait... wait... wait... then flask surely enough... yep, his animation starts again at exactly the same time.
That's when you learned the truth just like the rest of us.
And its not like the knight is just reacting normally to seeing its opponent lower its guard. The fricking NANOSECOND your thumb touches the button, before your own animation even starts, the enemy's attack animation starts. It goes beyond the realm of plausibility and becomes obvious its just input reading.
Anyway, keep seething. Cope, dilate, yadda yadda, all that stuff.
>More projecting
hmmm yeah, look at how enemies react THE INSTANT I PRESS BUTTONS...except when they don't because the game is coded to use animation states and frames instead of inputs
Again, you'll never, ever be a woman
Towards the end Elden Ring stops being a skill-based game and just becomes a numbers game.
Bullshit input reading play a big part of it.
hmmm yeah, all that input reading bro, can't get enough of it, whatever I write in webms is true by the way
>THE AI ISN'T CHEATING! LOOK AT THESE WEBMS OF THE ENEMIES WALKING STRAIGHT INTO CLEARLY TELEGRAPHED ATTACKS
This isn't the "gotcha" you think it is. It's like saying "its not dog shit! it's CAT shit!" yeah they're both shit, moron.
>LOOK AT THIS THE ENEMY IS INPUT READING, IT'S SHIT!
>LOOK AT THIS, THE ENEMY ISN'T INPUT READING, IT'S SHIT!
I look forward to your next major mental breakdown in two months
>enemy is either moronic or cheating, no inbetween
>"this is a good thing ackshually!"
fromdrones when they play no other games
>fromdrones when they play no other games
Your "other game" is Genshin
Enemies don't cheat, they're not moronic either, the only one moronic here is (You), and you're also seething and lying through your teeth
>using spells that do not have the flag set for enemies to dodge them means extremely obvious cases of input reading that have been proven time and time again don’t exist
she gets hyperarmor here yes she does for a lot of moves, but you can pressure the bar with throwing knives and bonk her with a jump r2.
now post her canceling out of a riposte into waterfowl
If that's true then why do people say "skill issue" to me when I tell them I didn't finish it?
you tried to fight her like a normal enemy that plays by Elden Ring's rules instead of looking up cheese strats on youtube
I beat her with the winged scythe alone, you're just making excuses.
>I beat her with the winged scythe alone, you're just making excuses.
Yeah so did I anon 🙂
so did I
because it isn't true
So it IS a skill issue? 🙁
Enemies dont react to input but to animations. You can heal with miracles in front of godskin but if you use flask they gonna throw fireball at you, same with bosses like margit or malenia.
have you tried not healing when he's in neutral
>Enemies punishing you for randomly healing with no opening is bad because...IT JUST IS OK!!??
>my first fromsoft game is elden ring
even sekiro had input reading for heal lmao
>We all know you had that moment when you were fighting a Crucible Knight and having a stand off, you've got up your shield, they've got up their shield.
No actually, because I don't use a shield unless its to parry. Also have you tried not healing in sword swinging range like a dullard?
>using a spell that has an animation enemies don't react to
what is this trying to prove exactly?
just spam night sorcery and pebbles?
if the enemy consistently and reliably reacts to inputs like that, then they can be abused, and the appropriate windows/opportunities for taking actions should be obvious. only somebody completely braindead would complain about input reading being unfair to the player.
There are spells that projectile dodging enemy ai can't react to (Night sorceries), non-projectile sorceries that can counter this scenario, and projectile based sorceries that still mostly if not fully circumvent this interaction like Stars of Ruin.
This shit webm almost made me decide to not play Elden Ring. I'm glad I decided to play it because this interaction is a non-issue if you're not a moron
>the game is awful
I fricking love Elden Ring, so eat shit you limp-dicked twink prostitute.
Bait used to be believable
>and all the original Dark Souls fans hate it
You don't speak for me.
Let me guess. You’re the bikini schzio on the stellar blade threads. You’re the dude always comparing FF15 to everything. You’re the person that brings up Nioh 2 in every action game thread. You’re the one that says DS2 is the best one. You’re the one that…..
bump
Is it really that replayable?
Yeah. As long as you're not making autistic meta builds every time and doing fun things.
do I have all ten slots filled and my main alone has 900+ hours? (yes)
It has the single greatest and most valid build diversity, while simultaneously having the most amount of optional content in any FromSoft game, so yes. It's extremely replayable. The fact that item + fog gate randomizers can turn it into a roguelike only adds to that
>Inb4 "ROGUELITE" gays
>Dragon's Dogshitter still seething at FromGODware
>26k shitters still playing this turd
Fricking embarrassment
I unironically stopped playing DD2 after a few hours because the performance is so unbelievably dogshit. Even for crapcom it is by far one of their worst PC ports to date.
I was almost excited to hear an upcoming patch is going to address some performance issues and then it turns out it's only going to be fixing some bugs and crashes, fricking morons man.
it's all me
i kneel
Fun pvp
>Fun pvp
If you're invading at meta level you're going to deal with this shit constantly.
Low to mid-level invasions are the best.
That's rl 60 you stupid motherfrickers
>RL 60 mage shooting Dark Moon
Is that even possible?
It's a host in limgrave with his overleveled phantoms ganking invaders
>"Low to mid-level invasions are the best."
This was only true in DS3 where low lvl pvp was insanely amazing.
Elden Ring had gank groups using meta weapons literally on day fricking ONE
t. tried to recreate my lowbie experience in a million different days on elden shit
elden ring by far has the worse multiplayer out of all fromslop games mainly due to how fricking easy it is for even shitters to torrent sprint to the most powerful equipment in the game at the very start
Ignore him anon, he hasn't been blessed with the knowledge that the best and most organic invasions start at rl 200 and stop at around 250.
how was I supposed to know that when everywhere tells me 125 is the max soul level? people have insulted me for asking about 150 instead
Your first mistake was asking rather than just having characters at different levels to test which ones were the most fun. Your second was not getting the hell out of dodge the second the word "meta" was uttered.
>having characters at different levels
I didn't want to overlevel and not be able to get back down to them, because then I'd have to make a whole new character. At the time, PvP was the only reason for me to play the game. Now, I don't play it at all.
>"meta" was utered.
I had to stay. How else can I better fight against a metagay other than becoming a metagay?
Overleveling is a meme when it comes to pvp.
>How else can I better fight against a metagay other than becoming a metagay?
Learn how meta shit works by using it until you understand it, learn its weaknesses, abuse said weaknesses viciously with weapons you feel most comfortable doing it with. If a complete moron like me can learn to kill sweatlord dual nagi or lance users with a bastard sword then I have faith that you'll turn out just fine.
appreciate the advice, but thats literally what I meant in my post, fren
My fault bruv, you've got the right idea then.
God I miss low lvl highwall invasions so fricking much...
Low level invasion shitters like you have no idea how kino meta level Ringed City invasions were.
level vigor
Just invade during bossfights.
Skill issue. The pvp is bullshit but any invader can run prelate PSGS or death ritual spear if they care that much about winning every invasion.
Why would you ever play one of these games online?
drought of good games + DLC recently announced
>zoomers are so mindbroken by FOTM games that get abandoned within weeks that they just can't understand a game being so good that people replay it
this is sad
Because it's the best game of the 21st century so far
That's not Sekiro....
Exactly, is not shitkiro.
Sekiro shits on this game in almost every way. Elden Ring was made for brain damaged wage slave normies like (You).
I still haven't played it cause no multiplayer, and I played tenchu.
if it had multiplayer or if elden ring had sekiro gameplay sure. but if not, you miss the point of why I play souls games
>but its single player
for you.
Go play a real fighting game.
Wait, what’s that? You won’t because you’re not actually good at vidya?
Yeah, pretty much how every FromSoft pvp autist feels deep down.
>Go play a real fighting game.
>Wait, what’s that? You won’t because you’re not actually good at vidya?
I don't like juggling and most fighting games include juggling, you're not skilled frick off. fight me irl if you want to try this hard.
You’ve already lost.
I would kill you with a single strike.
Yeah, but you’ve already lost by being this moronic.
>fight me irl
kek
wtf is wrong with you, dude?
if I remember right, enemies cant dodge frenzied blast
>Sekiro shits on this game in almost every way.
Sekiro becomes trivial once parrying is mastered
Yeah, something most Elden Ring shills simply can’t achieve.
Regardless, still a better game.
There needs to be a Sekiro-like game with 6 more bosses on the mechanical tier of Isshin the Sword Saint. Sekiro's style has tons of space for expansion once it clicks for the player.
Sekiro is also braindead zomzoom game, real men with high T plays nioh 2 instead
I've been playing for a bit over 20 hours. Just downed Godrick and I think I'm done with the Limgrave area. I've been using the same lord greatsword for the past ~40 levels. Am I ever going to get an upgrade to this weapon or am I just supposed to marry this one and upgrade it with smithing stones?
are you waiting for another greatsword that's better in some way?
Yes? Is that not how it's supposed to work in videogames? You get better weapon and armor as you progress? Enemies are definitely starting to take more hits to kill so why am I not finding weapons with higher stats/damage?
That's not how it works in Elden Ring. Some of the best weapons in the game from start to finish can be found in Limgrave and the surrounding areas. If you're dropping off damage-wise you just need to upgrade your weapon more.
I find that a little strange in terms of game design but thanks. Definitely kills my motivation to explore every little hole and cave as I look for better equipment.
There is some good stuff to be found out there, but Elden Ring is very feast or famine in that regard. You'd think being open world would mean there's more room to find cool loot by exploring, but in practice you just find a lot of crafting materials.
I'll continue to explore every nook and cranny with tempered expectations since I still want to fully explore the world. I just found it a little odd to get "1x Arteria Leaf" or "1x Exalted Meat" out of purple glow points guarded by multiple enemies.
Is there anything in vidya more Reddit than crafting? It's a goyslop feature.
It's arguably one of the worst parts of Elden Ring. Completely pointless mechanic, I think the only consumables I ever used were volcano pots on a Strength build because they're piss easy to make. Anyone that uses consumables for shit like PvP just cheats them in anyway.
you don't know shit. Elden Ring crafting system is great
Why do you think it's great? It's just like every other goyslop crafting system. Muh turn items into other items :DDD
What is "great" about it?
Instead of getting objects you might not use you get ingredients that can craft specifically what you need
Oh, opposed to getting an ingredient that is only useful for this specific item that I wont know how to make until I stumble on the list to give me the knowledge to make it to make that same object I might not use? The fact so many people outright ignore the crafting system tells you how shit it is
imagine not making golden raisins for Torrent
>Oh, opposed to getting an ingredient that is only useful for this specific item
All ingredients are used for more items
>that I wont know how to make until I stumble on the list to give me the knowledge to make it to make that same object I might not use?
The biggest advantage is that you can choose the type of projectile, buffs, consumable or throwable according to your needs and get a larger sum of it in early-mid game.
It means that if I won't use a bow I won't get hundreds of arrows I don't need because I can get darts or pots instead and vice versa
>The fact so many people outright [HEADCANON]
>But I never need any of that shit.
yeah you are too moronic to use basic tools, doesn't mean others won't
>used for more items
Doesn't matter. Even then, you're wrong, because I know of one crafting item, Miquella's lily, this is only used for one single item. There's probably more. It's still shit.
>choose
so why cant i just buy the arrows, firebombs, whatever from the dozens of merchants scattered around the map?
>headcannon
It isnt, you can literally look it up and see so many posts talking about how they ignore it.
Most of the crafting items aren't valuable, because you clearly dont' need them. The fact you do shows how shit at the game you are you have to rely upon gimmicks like that. They tossed it in the game because the open world was empty, and didn't know how else to make the player engage with this big empty open world. There's literally nothing to it, even Skyrim had more engagement with crafting for fricks sake.
>because I know of one crafting item, Miquella's lily, this is only used for one single item.
Bewitching branch is a general tool and one of the strongest and most rare in game.
It's not shit design exactly for this reason, it makes perfect sense but you are just desperate for any reason to shit on the game
>so why cant i just buy the arrows, firebombs, whatever from the dozens of merchants scattered around the map?
You can when you get to unlock the merchant for it. Before you had no choice but rely on drops fitting for you. Instead in Elden Ring you can get much more instead of having to wait for unlocking stuff in the shop
>It isnt, you can literally look it up and see so many posts talking about how they ignore it.
headcanon
>Most of the crafting items aren't valuable, because you clearly dont' need them.
You don't need anything in game
>They tossed it in the game because the open world was empty, and didn't know how else to make the player engage with this big empty open world.
yeah sure, they introduced firebombs and daggers because it's open world, moronic Black person
actual moron
>desperate for any reason to shit on the game
There are so many issues I have with the game, I don't have to create one. Are you seriously trying to tell me this game is perfect?
>but rely on drops fitting for you
And how is that any different relying on drops in a wide open empty field waiting for you to pick up? It's even worse, because now the merchants have even less value.
>much more instead of having to wait
You still have to wait. You still have to go out and find the little spot that has what you need specifically for the item you want to craft, and you still need the list to craft it. So theres even more waiting.
>headcanon
google it.
>don't need anything in the game
Yeah, so why waste your time using a finite consumable as opposed to infinite, like swinging your melee weapon? Your weapon shows you wasting two items as if you accomplished anything.
>introduced fireboms and daggers
Not my point, fromdrone, and you know it.
>no effort and is powerful
and that's a problem right there. If its strong, it shouldnt require no effort. Its akin to spirit ashes, a gimmick to help shitty players like you and the other one.
In Skyrim, you get the ingredients, each with four affects, have an entire skill tree dedicated to it, meaning it can become an entire playthrough either by using poison on your weapons/arrows, by slipping it into someones pocket, or used as a supporting skill.
>no reason/advantage
if it holds no advantage, then what the frick is it in Elden Ring?
>pointless annoyances
right, like running back and forth from the bonfire to pick up an item again and again. You can buy ores, gems, and ingredients from merchants to skip that anyway. Or loot the enemies that have it, or enter areas that already have it picked for you. You can even plant ingredients to grow them at your homes.
>physick done right
It's a shitty buff from a menu. Do you actually need all that to play the game?
no one is reading that.
you forgot to reset your dilation alert btw
I read it.
Because I’m not a Black person (people who are allergic to more than a paragraph of written text).
Crafting in Elden Ring requires no effort and is powerful
Crafting in Skyrim is dogshit, there's no reason/advantage to do it, just pointless annoyances including literlaly watching cutscenes of your dude using pickaxes
The Physick is also Alchemy but done right
>The fact so many people outright ignore the crafting system
Then those same morons like you whine that the rot lake is sooo hard while chads like me pop one of 500 rot boluses I can craft on the spot because I actually played the game. Or use a sleeping pot on godskin duo, or fire pots on the hand creatures. Kys sperg
Watching morons die in the rotlake because they never have the materials on hand will never not be funny. In a game that heavily stresses exploration no one ever wants to explore. I can count on one hand how many people i've seen pop a bolus or use spiralhorn/ant head at the rot lake.
nice fanfiction
I have never complained about the difficulty in this game. there isnt even anything in rot lake, just fricking run to the end, bro it aint hard.
But I never need any of that shit. I would rather get a weapon or piece of armor that I might use, or even some runes to buy what I want to use, than get crafting materials that I will never use.
Everything. I can craft anti-rot items, arrows, weapon enhancements etc from items I previously looted in the world while exploring. And I dont have to constantly travel to a vendor. Keep seething.
>Is that not how it's supposed to work in videogames?
Not necessarily. Most weapons are side-grades unless they are specifically well suited to your build or somber weapons that you can't just infuse to match your stats.
If you haven't done weeping peninsula yet, there's a claymore in castle morne . Also, pay attention to the orange marks on your map that look like cigarette burns.
>Enemies are definitely starting to take more hits to kill so why am I not finding weapons with higher stats/damage?
is this your first souls game? You don't constantly get a series of improving weapons that cause you to throw away the previous one, the weapons are roughly even in terms of stats with some variability in base damage and stat scaling, and it comes down to preference of moveset and aesthetics for which one you upgrade
there are 21 greatswords in the game, you could have found a claymore and bastard sword in weeping peninsula, along with the knight's greatsword being dropped from enemies in limgrave
tl;dr version: yes, you're expected to upgrade your weapon, there isn't a linear progression of ever-increasingly potent weapons, and upgrade materials can not only be farmed or found in the world, but you can get items that allow you to buy them
The world of warcraft brain on this moron.
>dude where's my purple colored +5% damage to insect type enemies but only during a full moon BiS? Where's my crit and haste?
Being fair, ER would be a lot better if weapons you found later in the game were partially upgraded. Would certainly make swapping before fricking farum azula less of an annoyance.
people who are big into soulslikes are the biggest autists of all gamer types
I know a guy who did like 17 NGs on ds3
>I know a guy who did like 17 NGs on ds3
Hi that's me ama
How do I increase my field of view in that game?
That's what good video games do
Maybe because it`s a fun game with replayability? People are also preparing their characters for the upcoming DLC
i'm still playing it and i hardly ever replay games
It's a good game with tons of replay value. This might be hard for you to understand if you haven't played much beyond fotm slop.
All me.
one of these pics i can actually chuckle at
Isn't it one of the only genuinely good games of this decade? That might have something to do with it.
1) its a good game
2) you might not explore everything on your first run
3) you may wish to play it from the start with a new build
Does NG+... add anything to the game? Does it even make it harder?
It's your typical FROM game NG+. Enemies and resource gains scale, you get another chance to pursue quests you fricked up due to jank progression systems and also collect the artificially quantity-gated upgrade materials in an open world game with hundreds of weapons.
The DLC is just around the corner.
idk I started playing it again recently to get an new non-overleveled character for the dlc and multiplayer stuff
Pretty average player count for Soulsshit, a far cry from Bald Gays where 6 million were simultaneously heads over heels over it yet you didn't know a single person who was playing it.
>yet you didn't know a single person who was playing it.
Maybe you should start by knowing a single person then.
How do you have fun in elden ring again? I feel like the open world really hurts its replayability since riding around on your horse for the majority of the run is a chore
yeah for real. why can't the game just have like a map that you choose where you go and then it drops you into the area for you to explore. in fact, frick exploring, it should just play a cutscene that shows the area and auto collects any items, and then sends you straight to fight the boss. and frick actually fighting the boss, it should just have some quick time prompts to make me have to play the game even less.
why do you even play games, you homosexual?
I agree with this HOWEVER at least you can skip all the filler catacombs and caves that you don't want to do so it's not so bad
>skip all that is optional
>game is a 10 hour long boss rush
That's what I did, and my enjoyment kinda plummeted. Altus Plateau is the peak, Weeping Peninsula was what the areas should've been. Smaller, more compact areas and a legacy dungeon at the end.
For me the game peaks at Farum Azula and the Haligtree
>Haligtree
Shit, i forgot to do that area. I dont think I have the grit to play the game again, i dont have my saves anymore either. redpill me on it.
>Farum Azula
It was alright. I liked Maliketh, but I still think he's a bit over tuned. And Plasticdick gave me a headache fighting him, glad I killed him on the first try since he didnt have any health at all. Or maybe I was OP, because I had to come back after Elden Beast. Cool boss fight, though, one of the best dragons bosses in the series I'd say.
>one of the best dragons bosses in the series I'd say.
absolutely fricking agree
There are 8 billion people on earth. Does 65,000 of them playing Elden Ring really seem like that many?
>Pretty average player count for Soulsshit, a far cry from Bald Gays where 6 million were simultaneously heads over heels over it yet you didn't know a single person who was playing it.
>bro how the frick does not dark souls 4 have so many players?
silly shills with no concept of current year good games.
>panic roll away from the roll catch impale move
terminally obsessed. the japanese are just better than you.
Ywnbj.
You should trying playing video games sometime.
If you think ER is doing numbers you should peek Starfield bro fr fr
I don't get it. Why is is becoming worse?
base damage down, strength scaling up
I should avoid messing around with the ashes of war because it lowers base damage then?
At some point you can have the infusion type separate from from whatever ash you choose, but IIRC you need some kind of item first.
When it comes to the pic - Heavy will overtake Standard once you pump more points into Strength, the base damage is lower but the scaling gets a lot better.
It gets better when your stats are higher so you actually get more damage out of it
just use standard (or status effects) until, what other people said.
yes thats what scaling with strength means. as your strength goes up the weapon damage goes up
At some point it increases while leveling it up, mine is at... +15 or so.
You changed the prefix to Heavy, reducing the base damage but increasing the STR scaling
>see this
wdyd?
cast heal twice
Jump heavy into R1 with my Greatsword.
FRICK THIS THING
>FRICK THIS THING
FRICK THIS THING
>FRICK THIS THING
FRICK THIS THING
>FRICK THIS THING
I dodge to the side and hit him twice, once if my weapon is slow.
HEAL homie!
It might be a good game or something idk
Have you considered the DLC coming out in two months may have prompted people to jump back in?
Should I go DEX/FTH or DEX/ARC for my 5th character?
I'm tempted to do a dual daggers build.
dex/arc is actually busted because of Morgott's sword and bloody helice.
Daggers are great but you need buffs, a multi-hit talisman, and status.
Yeah, there are some neat looking weapons for DEX/ARC.
>Should I go DEX/FTH or DEX/ARC for my 5th character?
How many unique weapons do you usually use or plan to use that fit your requirements? I know you mentioned dagger but obviously you’ll probably dab in more than 1 weapon. That’s how I think about making builds.
Well I usually plan it around using some of the somber weapons that scale with both stats and a specific category for normal weapons, but most of the time I end up settling with something else altogether.
Wanted to use Meteoric Ore Blade and Onyx Curved Greatsword on my last playthrough, ended up maining GUGS basically the entire game. Same with the STR/ARC playthough - wanted to do Marais, ended up using Grave Scythe and the Great Stars.
I think FTH is probably one of the worst types but I have a heavy bias because arcane because of the cooler weapons. Besides, when you look at the unique fairh stuff, they lean more towards strength scaling.
I don't know how people can default to guts sword on str int when blaidds exists honestly.
I haven't yet done a radahn str int onxy sword playthrough though, but I have "quality" tax int which is baller.
Well I did dex/int playthough previously role playing as a Carian knight. This time I wanted to go all gravity related and blaidds doesn't really mesh with that.
Go full FTH with min str and dex for weapon requirements to use any weapon you want, it's fun as frick and FTH has so many cool spells to use
Another butthurt Dragon’s Floppa 2 fan. Try making more than 2 zones after 12 years.
Why did Dragons Dogma 2 flop?
It was just the first game but worse
Seethe tendie
It's a pretty fun game. I'm about to go play some rn
>DS3 player can no longer spam roll his way through the game
loving every laugh
Tencent and chink bots
It's the japanese Skyrim with normalBlack folk.
They hated him because he told them the truth
Don't you dare compare that filthy troony game to Skyrim.
It's a bullshit comparison, but the Elder Scrolls world, skill and magic system, and roleplay elements with Dark Souls combat would pretty much make the coolest game ever.
brutally mogged by Fallout 4
>monkey masher is getting fricked
Oh no, how did it happen?
it's just a good game
Why is it so hard to invade or do pvp when I'm in SL 70? I don't want to be too OP so I capping myself at 70
Terrible, unfair game
I literally did nothing wrong here, the game just decided to kill me
The boss fights are the least interesting part of every souls game.
>time to lock on and press the dodge button at the right time
Yawn.
that grab is entirely dodgable (stop panic rolling and learn to use FRICKING sprint!! (and jumping ground slams) as a method of avoiding damage people its been two years.)
if this was the webm where the guy gets oneshot in the phase transition from a third foot stomp from before the phase transition you'd have a point. I don't like that attack I still don't know how to actually dodge it, I just out DPS'ed him.
stop panic rolling
>recovery to big build up frickhuge area attack immediately cancelled into leap grab
Oh right, that's why I dropped these kusoge.
>panic roll in a straight line away from the telegraphed long distance straight thrust
>frick this game is shit
Morgott filters panic rollers hard and it’s delightful. Margitt does it too
>spam panic roll
>post a webm as if doing that is an epic dunk
so embarrassing
>How the frick does this shit have so many players 2 years after release?
I just looked at my Steam account, my brother just got the "found all Talismans" achievement.
I'm doing everything in my power not to play until the DLC, but I'm twitching.
They're definitely botting the numbers. Fromshits want to deny this but the souls formula is getting old.
whatever helps you sleep at night
autists, people that like pvp, and people that want to play/replay it before the DLC drops.
Main audience are women and "women". Real men play Nioh or Rise of Ronin
you must be new here
literally chink and indian bot shills
I didn't do anything wrong here
>using a greatsword
that was your mistake
exploring the game and fighting the common enemies with all the equipment you find is so fun, but once I get to bosses, it feels like shit. they attack so often and i really dislike how their punish window is literally during their attacks. My second playthrough I decided to use Spirit Ashes and it effectively turns their AI off.
there's no middle ground for me
If you didn't do anything wrong then why did you die?
It's not shit you filtered pleb
>appeals to trannies
>makes the quick buck from chinks and pajeets since they worked on their games
>the game about how women and degenerates ruin everything appeals to trannies
???
>body type a and b
>girlboss ranni did nothing wrong and transitioned out of her body
>all female characters look repulsive like most soulsborne ones
>girlboss ranni did nothing wrong and transitioned out of her body
She plunged the world into a horrific civil war and was tricked into accidentally serving the evil god of a defunct civilization. Ranni's crew consists of a pervert who wants to rape her, a schizophrenic dumbass who wears a tinfoil hat, a literal dog, and herself, a literal puppet. Did you think the choice to make her a puppet was arbitrary? That it didn't have very obvious implications?
>all female characters look repulsive
No they did a very good job with them. The only one that looks a bit off is Rya, and that one is pretty well justified.
>Ranni's crew consists of a pervert who wants to rape her
what’s wrong with that?
It's evidence that she's a dumbass, and the game knows she's a dumbass.
Rya is the best girl in the game you prostitute
She's easily top 5, maybe even top 3, but I was talking about her model, not her personality
>>all female characters look repulsive like most soulsborne ones
Frick, you are so bad. STOP GETTING HIT
FAILURE IS A CHOICE
Look at this bullshit, I even rolled at the correct time
roll to the side fool
The eternal classic
occam's razor: its a good game people want to play
Im having fun
I like miners
Reminder that anyone who likes this particular FromSlopware is a cooked wagie who has never completed Bloodborne or Sekiro.
picture a white male
he is in his room, depressed
he has never developed a personality
he jerk offs out of habit but feels nothing
he hasn't kept in touch with a single high school friend
he tries to socialize in multiplayer games but he's boring
has no job, no prospects in life
too emotionally frail to land a girlfriend
posts on Ganker hourly but doesn't get any attention either
suddenly he notices a video game has become mainstream for being difficult
he has all the time in the world so he plays it 16h a day
he has mastered the tough video game
but he receives no adulation
he discovers he can forcefully invade others to show how cool he is
so he continues playing it
and he invades
and invades
and invades
and invades
[...]
growing ever bitter
making the game offline consumes less time than writing all that
That Pajeet didn't even write it.
He just used a fricking GPT prompt.
kek do you assume that because I used [...]?
what an illiterate idiot
It's a good game.
Look, I don't know how this is possible.
People tell me this is the tutorial boss and I have been stuck on him for 9 hours now. I pretty much learned his entire moveset and still get hit by undodgeable bullshit combo with perfect dodging on my part.
thats some shitty dodging tho, this boss is easier but you sure make it look hard
you can leave, get some better weapons, materials, all that and then come back. Weapon level matters more than your actual stats, and also dump as many points into vigor as possible. use Spirit ashes as well. he isnt the tutorial boss, and you can skip him as well
>you can skip him as well
How do you enter the lake area without fighting him?
Yeah, you can just go around. I don't have a map, but there's an icon of a person next to a bridge to the right of the stormviel castle. Go past her on the bridge and follow the path, should be pretty obvious.
If you still can't find it, I guess I can make a quick doodle
You mean the finger reading crone? The bridge is completely busted.
Yeah, her. At the end of the bridge, just look around to your left, should be an item down below to tell you it's safe.
Try blocking with your shield.
you have to let go of the fear of death, then you can calmly wait until the right moment to dodge. but try using a shield with 100% physical block, and put Barricade Shield on it, then you can block anything, and block counter freely
>HURR DURR WE MADE LE HARD GAME WHERE YOU GET HIT WHEN YOU DODGE, YOU DIED :*~~*~~)
homosexual wienersuckers that buy and shill this crap deserve to die
>Kevin armor
>That vigor
>Probably got that weapon dropped by his boyfriend
The jokes write themselves
why the frick do you dodge so much?
Haha, I've seen this happen since DeS
But damn, the player is a complete sperg, no wonder he got killed
>Dodges too early and gets hit when invincibility frames end
skill issue
>fromtrannies will defend this
Defend what, the obvious frickoff aoe shockwave shown in the webm? You got splattered. Pick yourself up, wipe the blood off your nose, and be more careful when you try again.
>aoe shockwave
Lol. Lmao.
Skip to eight seconds on the webm. See that big ass conical puff of air? That's what people with functioning eyes would call a shockwave. Those tend to hurt when you're in their range.
>shockwaves
lmfao the ds2 troon strikes again
Yes yes I know the idea of an attack having a damaging effect even when you aren't getting hit with the main attack must be shocking. Wait until you find out that grenades don't have to hit you with the explosion or shrapnel to cause you harm too.
your rotten axewound reeks, troon
>implying I would lower myself to the status of a female, let alone a fake one
You got any actual arguments or are you just gonna keep trying to stir the pot? Only one of those things is going to get you that next (you) that you're craving.
>wait
>roll
>attack
>repeat ad infinitum
>that's the entire game
What a trash series.
post some funny webm
>Skyrim Black person arguining that alchemy or crafting is done better in its Stealth archer simulator
lol
lmao even
>awful pvp webm
I accept your concession.
People preparing for the DLC, probably.
I'm just doing my build in anticipation of the DLC
Just clearing out the Atleus Plateau right now
stellar blade will will put er on life support in a week
Huh I wonder. It's almost like they just announced an upcoming DLC that's only going ton be accessible in a bonus optional area behind an optional boss that a lot of people didn't do so folks are currently getting ready for the DLC / getting their builds and characters ready for it or something...
Tis a good game.
>Schizos now pass their time looking at charts for games they hate
>Become mad at it
>Come here and makes thread about it
What leads a person to this?
The funny thing about this webm is the fact that this actually shows why roll spam isn’t an issue. Black person makes the game look even better hahahaa
are morons still unironically pretending elden ring doesn't have input reading? like, it's one thing to say input reading isn't bad game design and not a valid critique, that's whatever. but people are still pretending is just doesn't exist at all? fromdrones really are something else.
>uhmm ackshually it's animation reading
what is causing the animation to occur? does the game decide to run animation at a random interval without player input?
I don't deny it exists at all, I just don't get why people cope so hard about it
enemies dodging spells effectively was long overdue
Nobody denies that its there, its effects on gameplay are completely overblown. If you want to fault ER for having input reading, you have to fault Demons Souls and DS1 as well. Tell me how many times you can savely heal against Gwyn.
>elden ring doesn't have input reading?
Malenia doesn't have hyperarmor, block and dodge because of input reading, it's a reaction to the second hitstun in a very short window to avoid stunlocks since she's easy to stun
anyone whining about her having input reading can just be straight up ignored
all she does is read range which is easily testable. If you constantly run really far away she just starts spamming waterfowl, if you stay right next to her she will spam normal swings, if you keep a bit of a gap she will spam the gap closer attack where she swings her sword really fast
Yeah there is a difference between animation reading an input reading, idiot. Every input triggers the reaction, not every animation does. Fromsoftslop was always a knowledge check more than anything and this is just a part of it.
55k isn't even that many. What are you mad about?
I replayed with some friends recently using the seamless coop mod. I cant believe I replayed a game that long, but it was just as fun as I remembered, and a new experience doing it with friends.
Good game and DLC hype. Rent free Shazamtron
I don't know how people are invested in these type of autism games. I bought this garbage for 60 dollars. I still don't know where to go and what to do on this fricking garbage. Also frick those tanky ass boss fights. Tell me to gitgud I don't give a shit.
50k+ player yet only 10 people playing vanilla game so no coop no invasion
Seamlesstrannies was a mistake
You will find more invasion in ds3 than er
Anyone complaining about input reading is fricking braindead. It took the godskin apostle fireballing as I drank twice and I realized I had to adapt my playstyle to heal at a greater distance. You're whining about being bad at the game, it's pathetic.
and then you learn that any time he does that attack it's free damage
it's such a moronic thing to cry about
>I realized I had to adapt my playstyle to heal at a greater distance.
The funny thing about this whining is, you dont even need to create distance to heal. You can simply heal when the boss gives you an opening to attack. Every boss has enough downtime to let you sip during an opening. What is even funnier is that I tested this on Margit, the one shitters cry about the most, and some of the openings he gives you allowed me to use the healing flask 4 times in a row LMAO.
>Fromshitware is playing Gaben?
do you really think from is using bot to bloat steam player numbers or you think that the numbers are given by from software from their servers? either way you are a complete moron
A reminder that fromsoft game are not challenging
Masculine men plays nioh2
Magara whopped my ass harder and longer than any boss in the Souls series
God forbid people might enjoy playing an extremely well made game with a lot of replay value
>Extremely well made game
That's your autism talking.
>extremely well made
Tell me you’re a normie without telling me you’re a normie.
pvp
It's the newest generic action slop with multiplayer
The fact that I'll be using the same shitty Claymore from now until I finish the game because apparently there are no direct upgrades in this game is kinda killing my will to keep going honestly. I just reached Liurnia.
>Big ass game
>Lots of character builds=replayability
>Missable quests/items/bosses
>Online mode
>Revisiting it for its aesthetics
I didnt really like Elden Ring, but I get why is still popular. It has so many shit to do in there.
it's fake replayability only asians could invent
>that panic roll
>"The GAME IS SHIT!"
I don't see how people can make these webm and not feel embarrassed.
these have to be baits just to get (you)s, right?
I think Elden Ring is overrated.
>do a FTH playthrough for the DLC
>decide to give the Godslayer a try
>that unique moveset
>sexy as frick
>WA murders everything
bros.. I'm falling in love...
Godslayer is god tier when you actually spec for it properly. The stats try to tell you it's dex leaning but it's actually closer to quality.
dogshit ash of war = dogshit weapon
The frick are you on
The AOW is what makes the weapon so incredible
so which is it
didn't read, the game is poorly made and that's there is to it
homie two people can have different opinions on the weapon. I barely use ashes so to me they mean nothing. I simply like the weapon's moveset.
>didn't read, the game is poorly made and that's there is to it
Then you'll continue to die because you have the observational skills of a moronic mole.
>using weapons for their ash
Pathetic. It's a weapon to hit things with first, any other special shit tacked on amounts to little more than an afterthought.
I really want to do a godslayer run for the DLC
Unsure how to start it tho
>completely removed hyper armor from the weapon art
0 reason to use over any weapon that can equip black flame tornado
kinoring..
Fromsoft games (or at least their souls/souls related games) always have a longevity beyond what most would expect. That aside they're two months away from the DLC release. A lot of people are likely either just getting into it because of the hype or revisiting it to tie up loose ends or prepare for when SoE drops.
I liked dark souls 1 and 3 but this game is an absolute below mid for me
I hated the way area was spaced out and was basically a giant corridor
castles were also pretty bland and copy pasted everywhere
area like cealid could've been a lot better overall this game felt pretty cheap in it's execution
people only care about Fromsoft's soulslop
Mecha shit is incredibly niche. Hitting a monster with a sword is something anyone can enjoy.
genuinely upset fromsoft will be stuck making soulslop forever
You really don’t want me to post the top 50 builds of this game and embarrass you. It’s fromsoft’s worst balanced game to date.
Now you've got me curious, post that shit son.
>roll spammer getting filtered
you love to see it
playing through Elden Ring right now and here are my thoughts
>open world was a bad decision. the only interesting parts of the game are the legacy dungeons.
>copy paste ruins, catacombs and so on have nothing interesting going for them
>copy paste bosses galore that give little thematic reason for being where they are without some major leaps in patching story issues
>some bosses are designed to make you want to cheese them rather than learn them
>most of the exploration areas within the legacy dungeons such as Stormveil/Raya Lucaria are worse than previous games. Very little narrative or mechanical reward overall
>change to attunement was stupid
>camera for giant bosses is still bad for no reason even though sekiro fixed it
>certain bosses or enemies are put in totally inappropriate locations where they phase through nearby walls and otherwise encourage uninteresting tactics to fight them because of the restrictions
>game was gasping for a morrowind style journal system for quests because of the increased map size
>the insane dragon copy and paste and the fact their movesets are very plain jane to deal with aside from that one fire breath attack that forces you to use the horse
>badly paced upgrade materials that mean you don't want to experiment with all the cool ashes of war you get
>all those random ass enemy mobs on the map that give zero incentive to engage with them
>special mention to the flower mobs that will never ever give you interesting loot and take too long kill and there's a bunch of them for some reason
If they make a sequel to this game, they should at least give the open world a lot more intractability to make you not want to speed through it on a horse.
AI generated opinions
>i'm having a blast
but running past all the content to the boss door is a time honored tradition
Anyone else waiting for the new bonefist? Only reason I am getting the dlc
I want the kung fu kicks and the crucible incants/ashes.
I know they probably won't do this, but I'd fricking love to see a judgement cut ash of war.
>1w
dlc hype