You now remember the first days when Elden Ring came out. Pic rel, my first screenshot.
>>728979698Nah I fucking don'tThe last fromsoft game I played was DS3
>>728979698>everyone finding out about the underground
>>728979698Elden Ring is so ugly in places, sad because the artists are clearly pretty good at creating striking places but textures are like 2013-tier
fuckin' bullshit
hated it. still kind of do, but the tight areas like the sewers or some of the underground were nice.fuck open world slop.
>>728979698I remember being ignorant as to how the teleporting worked (I thought you'd have to unlock it like how you'd unlock the Roundtable) and getting warped to that Leyndell bridge and being totally confused as to how to get out. Good times. It took me forever to kill that golem because I did like 1/10th of its HP per crit.
>>728979698I never forgot. I could drop my sign literally anywhere and within thirty seconds someone would pull me into their world. That was wonderful. It was the dream if you were a coopfag like me. My favorite part was coming to the internet and reading all the players annoyed at grinding up runes meanwhile I was constantly rich as fuck thanks to that.
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>>728979698>monday when I was supposed to head to work>but someone I lived with got covid>and I was flooded in>got to just play Elden Ring with no spoilers for a week straight with no one bothering me at all>not even cars driving pastComfy times.The game isn't my favourite from game though.
>>728979698all the fromsoft games look the same to me
>>728980994>cool looking level>ends when you think you're halfway throughHated that shit.
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>>728981464It did feel a little too short. I know splitting it in half, so you do the first part at the start and the second part at the end was cool, but Belurat and Enir Ilim should have just been one full size dungeon instead of two half-size ones.
>>728979698>Got tricked and sent to Sellia Crystal Tunnel>Ask my friend how to get out>"Just keep going up bro">Agonize for an hour to get to the top of the area only to run into the then-bugged Fallingstar Beast>Agonize for 3 hours to try and beat him only to give up when I hit phase 2 for the first time>"oh my bad bro you were actually supposed to go down"i hate you ross
>>728981083i got norovirus the day ER came out and those were the worst 3 days of my life. then i got spoiled because i was 3 days behind everyone
>>728981464The secret lower third made up for it for me, it was so unexpected
>>728981464wrong pic
>>728982018Not nearly as bad, but I didn't realize that fast travel was in the game when I got teleported there, and I also assumed that Torrent couldn't go through the swamp of rot, so I went the long way around and got raped by dogs and birds for about an hour.Only realized that I could fast travel when I needed to do it to get out of the sneak peek of Leyndell. No, it didn't register that I fast traveled out of the Roundtable Hold after it triggered for the first time, I thought it was an exception or something.
>>728982018I got there on launch day what was bugged about it? The only big bug I remember was all the arcane scaling weapons were fucked which sucked for me cause I dumped HARD into Arcane on my first playthrough thinking I would find some cool weapon like that luck sword in DS3. Also it raised item discovery so you know I had all the enemies armors and weapons by the end game.
>the first time patches send you to the rapebearkek what lad
>>728982151Yes going there was really cool.I wish we got more moments of "well actually you can go there with some platforming".
>>728982523he had the moveset and model of fully grown fallingstar beast, so he had more attacks in phase 2 and a larger gravity slam which was almost unavoidable in his small arena. a few updates in they made him a non-fully-grown fallingstar beast like the other fallingstar beasts in the game
>friend gets sent to the caelid mines at level 12
>>728982075lol
/v/ fucking sucks and the only reason why I don't go somewhere else is because everywhere else is somehow worse.
>>728982576Those are the most miserable enemies in the game. Super tanky, wide aggro range, they eat the camera, do lots of damage, and drop fucking nothing for runes or loot. Whenever I have to fight one, I always leave feeling like I wasted all my time.
I imagined it would be way more dense than it was, like in the souls games where there's shinies hidden in every nook and cranny. Was disappointed when it was way more open and every small corner of the map I checked was empty.Also was somehow led to believe by hearing a friend talk about them that the underground areas were seamlessly interwoven into the map. I guess he just meant there's no loading screen, but I thought he meant there would be like a series of tunnels running underground that would let you skip ahead to other areas or whatever. You can do this a grand total of one time by warping to the capital but it's all practically hallways leading there, not the same as I envisioned where it was a fully enmeshed tunnel system with lots of entry and exit points more like a metroidvania.
>>728983724I feel the exact opposite way. I fight them for fun whenever I start a new character. I think they give a cheeky 1.2k runes minimum, which is a nice little boon in the early game when runes are so scarce. I don't cheese Greyoll, that's gay.
>>728983724Revenant is the worst enemy in the game, rape monsters with infinite stamina
>>728979698I didn't fall for the Elden goyslop astroturfing
>>728979698Having ER be my first soulslike and my first experience with a From game that isn't Sekiro or AC6 was a mistake. The 30 hours I spent in Limgrave and the southern peninsula were rather unmemorable, and I didn't get the hype at the time. Part of that could be chalked up to my unfamiliarity with traditional soulslike combat, not knowing how to formulate a build, and my distaste towards open-world design.I'm working my way up From's library now, though. On DS2 currently.
>>728986621This
This board was posting leaks and I already knew where the greatsword was before the game even came out.
>>728979698This was mine
>>728979698Of course I do, it wasn't that long ago.
>>728979698Literally in the first room you spawn in I immediately noticed how many animations were reused lol
>>728979698Spent hours trying to kill the Sentinel in the first area and didn't proceed until i killed him
>>728984183I found out within a week of play that they get folded hard by healing incantations my dude
>>728989795>incantationsYou didn't beat the game
I still haven't bought it because they're charging $599 US after almost 4 years
>>728990342it's $39 right now
>>728979698For me, it's exploring Caelid at level 1 for 3 hours
>>728987579>The 30 hours I spent in Limgrave and the southern peninsula were rather unmemorable, and I didn't get the hype at the time.Limgrave is way overhyped just because it's the first area so it's when everyone gets their formative oohs and aahs at open world Dark Souls. In reality it's actually a very dull region, substantially less interesting than everything else pre-snow areas.
>>728979698>get sent to the caelid slave mines at like level 10>spend the next 2 hours desperately trying to fight through the cave killing bugfags and dying repeatedly>reach the exit->it wasn't an exit it was a fucking boss harder than anything I was capable of>realize the exit and bonfire was RIGHT behind where I kept spawning in the opposite directionFucking christ
>>728990970kek are you me
>>728979698>pray game>have fun just adventuring, fighting huge demons, sneaking and running and struggling through weird cursed looking lands>keep surviving by the skin of my teeth to the next bonfire>have a jolly little adventure for a solid week before I decide to go back to the start of the game and eventually to that starting castle>start following the story whilst also doing my own wanderings>at some point feel like the end is coming, im in a golden city with weird enemies>my character has very high stats in my target proficiencies>uncountable hours later I'm still playing thr game and discovering new areas and things>character no longet has a niche, every stat is high, even stsrted levelling into hp like a bitch>utterly tired of this game and wish it would end>discover yet another areaFuck me this game overstayed its welcome. The linear segments really suffered so that the ipen world could ... exist.
>>728979698the first few days were magical, one of my peak gaming moments especially with this boardthen the disappointment with open slop grew more and more obvious, i dropped it for a couple of weeks after reaching liurna swamp
>>728990970sounds like a kino timereminds me of when i was a newfag to dark souls and tried to bruteforce my way through catacombs at the very start
I fell for the transporter trap in dragonburnt ruins. Man that was an adventure to recover from.
>>728980031>enter area through different, not highly curated route>looks like total shit because the game hasn't loaded in its super special zone-related skybox yet
>>728991951lol are you playing on medium settings?
>>728992297That's maxed out.If you take the route around Stormveil the game still has the environmental effects of that area loaded in and takes some time to realize that it has to switch them with the Liurnia ones.
>>728992458That's exactly what I always do and it's never looked like that for me. Are you using 566.36?
>>728992531581.57It's basically the same shit as the awkward skybox change you get from Limgrave to Caelid.
>>728979698Yeah, it was a pretty awesome time. I remember going a caster for the first time in a Souls game and laughing as everyone complained about the difficulty and I just comet azur'd my way to victory. That cheapened it a bit, but it was still a ton of fun. I really only became a god in like the last 25% of the game, most if it was a decent challenge as we were all still new.
>>728992735it gradually gets darker and more red as you approach caelid.
>>728980012Shame it wasn't as extensive or connected as it could have been and there were clear cuts (that one little cave tucked away across the lift down from the Liurnia topside entrance)Hell there was a connection and probably a whole missing area of it from mountaintops that was dataminedAnd another from an unused crater map change from Radahn's arenaI hope the sequel has a better fleshed out/utilized underground
>>728980239up, dog
>>728979698I remember stripping naked for my fight against the mimic with the intent of putting my equipment back on to cheese it, only to decide that was dishonorable and spending a solid 5 minutes in a fistfight
The only thing I remember from Elden Ring's launch was the AWFUL fucking game-crashing performance issues. From chunks of map not loading in, to the pop-in that made the game unplayable, to the crashes. I think I've never seethed more to my friends than the first few weeks this game released.Now? I love the game, but holy fuck if the launch experience didn't sour me on it hardcore.
>>728992912There's no proper gradual transition - it's a trigger line somewhere around the church with the invasion.Step over it and the whole skybox changes in like two seconds.Someone even made a webm of it.
>>728991951>pic rel
>>728979698The last time /v/ was a good board.
>>728979698Was amazed at first. Then wondered why it was so empty.
>>728994886Literally me.
I remember the DESPERATE campaign from the usual group of brown thirdie discorders to shitpost and doompost as hard as possible any way they could, and it's still ongoing today and every day
>Sunset found him dying to Margit The Fell, groaning. Every attempt was worse than the one before, and ended more quickly. By the time the moon came up he was still picking up his 380 lost runes. The more he drank the Flask of Crimson Tears, the more he got hit, but the more he got hit, the more he drank the Flask of Crimson Tears, and this wasting of flasks sent him back to the Site of Grace to try again once more. When he approached the entrance to the boss for the 127th time, he did not know whether he would be strong enough to enter the mist again.
>>728994947Game's pace is too fast and the PC is too brittle, which leads to all these cool weapons and spells feeling fucking worthless because you get interrupted or don't have the time to use it.
>>728994925Desperate. Your turn.
I hadn't done that in a long time, but when I first played Elden Ring, I made a notepad file where I'd write down all the NPCs and their quests as well as any potential routes/puzzles I wanted to come back to later. It was fun.Also I remember how I laughed when I entered the first dungeon with the imps and saw that 90% of their moveset was the same as the DS3 hollow thieves - some of the most frustrating enemies in the entire game.webm somewhat related, it's my first ER webm
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>>728995145>The House of the Dead.jpg
>>728995145You are meant to go and do things in other areas and then return.
This one was the same day the game came out. I wanted to mimic the bullshot from the promo materialedited out discord interface
the first screenshot in MY folder
>>728979698Yea I remember fighting this dogshit boss for hours because he can read your inputs and can choose to suddenly attack you with a slash so fast it's impossible to react to, and only uses it if it reads your attack input at a range where you can't dodge it.
>>728995574>giant tornados> flying/levitating rocks>it's all background stuff, none of it matters gameplay-wise and it's the same mindless hacking and slashing you've done for the past 40-50 hours
>>728995695Just the way I like it!
>>728995006Way to prove me right
>>728987579>On DS2 currently.you better savor every second of it, it's unironically Fromsoft's most sovlful game
>no solo invasions>game is now dead in 2026
>>728996203Solo invasions are boring, the host has 0 chance to defeat you due to both gear & experience disparity
>>728996203Seamless Coop killed bad red manAnd I say good fucking riddance
>>728996091Majula and Heide's Tower of Flame are gorgeous and arguably better than anything in DS1 save for Ash Lake. I'm not sure if DS2 is going to top these two areas, but I'm only up to Huntsman's Copse with Lost Sinner defeated. I can say /v/'s bitching about ADP, ganks, sluggish combat and "artificial difficulty" has been unfounded thus far, though.
>>728979698Elden Ring for me was a long slow descent of consecutive disappointments.I miss Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3.
>>728993429Kek
>>728979698I didn't get around to it until this summer because I was so busy getting my shit together I was either asleep or working, but reading about at launch it was pretty cool, lol.
>>728996332>>728996338The purpose of solo invasions is for the wider playerbase to engage with the mechanic and not have to be some minmaxed hyper pro to even try. Removing solo invasions just removes a gameplay feature for everyone and makes people interact less with each other and the maps.
Imagine looking back fondly at this dogshit lmao
>>728996592>not have to be some minmaxed hyper pro to even tryI've only done roleplay themed builds (and even invaded at appropriate locations when the game was more alive) and I don't think you ever needed to hyperminmax.All you need to be a successful invader is literally1) hyperarmour option2) chasedown option3) maybe some long range optionI concur that invading in the open world fucking sucks thoughAlso most people would minmax even with solo invasions, its just in nature for most gamers to be brainless metachasers addicted to BECOME OP EARLY youtube thumbnailsHonestly a game with streamlined/no leveling would be better for invasions
>>728979698I miss the COVID era
>>728997021true dark souls 3 was fucking garbage
>>728980012Yup. I got down an elevator in the woods expecting another generic dungeon and I got a Ash Lake 2.0. When you open the Map and see it has an Underground for the first time it's a holy shit moment.
>>728980516>open world badyou're just trying too hard to fit in.
I remember being disappointed at no covenants, a copy paste open world and the worst multiplayer experience in their endeavors so far.
>>728997071Most players who aren't minmaxed tend to have to fight three summons at a time, with blues almost immediately appearing if they defeat a summon. They has a discouraging effect and pushes people toward the minmaxing. Solo invasions give the possibility of not fighting hordes per invasion, thus letting far more players experiment with and dabble in invasions since they're not fighting some twinked gank. The open world is great for various terrains, environmental traps, etc.,
>>728982576Runebears, Sniper Lobsters and Royal Revenants are the biggest nopes of Elden Ring. They give no runes, are absurdly aggressive and they don't drop shit.
>>728979698That first playthrough where the world kept expanding was pretty kino. Back before we knew that the latter 50% of the game was entirely copy paste sloppa.
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tiche best girl
>>728995205Kek. Saving it for filename threads
>>728996338Was playing co-op unmodded with my friend. we switched to seamless co-op after a hacker invaded and bricked my friend's save file.
>>728979698My honeymoon phase only lasted like 10 hours before I couldn't cope anymore with how empty and soulless it was
>>728979698I remember...>Be hyped for months>Bought new parts for my computer and got everything just before launch>Spent the whole evening assembling the computer properly. Everything worked smoothly>Installed the game>During character creation I suddenly started to feel bored>Whatever, maybe I'm just tired>Get into the game, and yep. I'm bored. I don't want to play this game. >Die to the first boss, feel nothing>Start to question myself. I've played every game since I bought Demon's Souls back in 2010 and I've loved every single one of them>Is this just Souls fatigue? Or have I've just grown out of the games?>Maybe I've grown out of gaming in general. Why do I even play games? Especially shit games like Elden Ring>Whatever, turn of the game, not interested to play it in the slightest. Upgraded my computer for nothing. Spent my money for nothing.>Extremely disappointed>Go to bed>Try again next day>Nope, game sucks. >It's even worse now>Also my stomach hurts>Turns out I have appendicitis>Everything I've felt, all negative emotions and opinions were just appendicitis>Spend two weeks recovering from surgery and play Elden Ring all day, and I love every signle moment.
>>728990970Kek I did this on release day. Still hate those fucking cum spear bugs with a passion.
>>728979698>Your Dumbass Brain On Roll Slop Gas For Over 20 Years: ERMAGERD LERK AT DER ERL GOTY GOTY GOTY
>>728998282>incoherent seething tranny babble
>>728995119>>728997887Some things just never change
As long as you don’t get spoiled on like 50% of the game, I think playing it blind now would be a much better experience.Back then there was a lot of jank and unbalanced shit that’s been patched out. Most incantations, spells, and aows were pretty bad until From decided to buff them
>>728996619The main reason why no one likes DS2 fags is that you cherry pick a few fresh cherries from a completely rotten tree
>>728996619Why was this deleted and on what grounds?
>>728996084What. No.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuN7RvX7R78
>>728979698Elden Ring was only good on the first playthrough.All the magic evaporated when I started my 2nd character and realized "oh for this build I want to do now I have to go through all the garbage copy paste tileset looking ass filler content as well"Great first playthrough, after that the game is only good for like 15% of it.
>>728998570It contained pro DS2 propaganda
I remember /v/ losing its shit over mini Ranni and all the dung eater memesgood times
>>728979698first screenshot bird enjoyer
>>728998660that is finethe base game and the dlc together will take you around 200 hours to finish anywayMost games can’t even deliver a good first playthrough
>>728979698I think my first screenshot was Liurnia, you know the place.
>>728991951>>728992458That's just fog, retard.>>728993429No shit.
>>728981464What? You're literally at the top.
>>728987579Did you play Demon's Souls PS3? It's essential.
>>728999127>fog that vanishes and appears in second once you step over an invisible line
>>728999247No. I've been putting it off. Just didn't want to bother setting up RPCS3 for KB&M controls and Archthrones for multiplayer. I'll get to it eventually, though.
>>728991951>>728992458>>728999319Liurnia is foggy or not foggy independent of that. The area has its own weather cycle where sometimes its just extremely foggy. Rest at the first bonfire and run the day-night cycle and you can see how it changes.
>>728979698yes i remember atrocious shader stutters, did they ever fix it?
The game was magical that first playthrough. But only that first one.>>728999428Speak of the devil. For instance, ever time you die, the game just resets to daytime. As a result, the average playthrough is spent very little time at night.
>>728995646That was reactable if you hadn't chosen to run.
>>728979698>Bought it on steam>Saw type A/B>Refunded>Pirated instead>Didn't like the open world formula and forced myself to slog through one playthrough>Decided to never touch anything fromsoft again
>>728979698When was the last time a game was such a massive phenomenon with *everyone* playing? I remember for a month or two, literally every single thread on /v/ was about Elden Ring. To me, that was honestly one of the most fun parts about it--everybody playing it at the same time (figuring shit out together, seething about bullshit bosses, havin' a good time), the relentless shittalking ("u didn't beat the game"), the memes. Great time.
>Elden Ring was 5 years ago...bros
GamesuxDark Souls series was betterNow it's just rollslop
>>728999906There was kind of a fuckton of people playing silksong, 2/3 as much as elden ring on steam, so much shitposting came out. specially with how assrapey it was, specially on release before some things were nerfed>anons warning people to not go to sinners path>one guy says hes gonna do it and show them theyre pussies>he ends up being completely raped in the worst area in the game being immediatelly after sinners pathbut it didnt have as much lasting power, the later stages of the game really dropped the ball
This game is >Souless the game>Corpoheads giving shitty directives the game>Slop the game>Bad design: the gameIt's like they decided to make the most bland, souless, normie catering game of all time, and the gameplay and mechanics is dogshit.If you know a bit about game design and you care a bit about games and you aren't a fromsoft drone, then you know what I'm talking about.
>>729000538stay mad
>>729000968See? They don't care about good game design, they are cultists
>>728979698This was my first screenshot. Elden Ring has so many cool locations that are screenshot worthy. It also features my future wife.
I was shocked when I learned these things can climb ladders.
>>728995119Hah
>>729000538There's no corpos at From, retard.
one of my firstsgod elden ring was such a magical first playthrough, playing it, experiencing it and talking on it on /v/ with you guys, being amazed at all we discoveredwhat a great month that was
>>728998238That's a neat little story.
>>729000538>0 minutes since someone on /v/ hate a schizo melty about elden ring
>>728995695what do you mean, you go there and platform on the rocks
>>728996203>>game is now deadtwo more weeks
>>728983421oh boy that was funi was playing with my friends and noticed the twinblade>"it's on those ruins by the lake, near the dragon anon"yeah thanks for not warning me about the trap too, you dicki mean it, it's shit like that that makes a run special
I remember realizing really early on how much of the game was copy pasted bullshit and how much the open world design ruined the game. I fell for the Siofra meme and thought WOW, then I went through the actual zone.So many people actually scammed themselves into enjoying this shit kek. DLC was a step up, but level design and world design overall was a huge step down. Stormveil included btw fags.
>>729003420>I fell for the Siofra meme and thought WOW, then I went through the actual zone.This but Ash Lake
>>729001170will from ever top her?
>>728994925I haven't seen shazzam trannies in ages.
>>728999412>RPCS3 for KB&M controlsWhy the fuck would you do that?
>>728999412why the fuck are you playing fromsoftware games with kb+mhow badly are you inbred
>>728979698>Woke up early to play the game as soon as it dropped>Xbox so I could into new zealand and play a day early>Saw that Russia invaded Ukraine>Read some of the news while texting my friend about both it and the game (we were both excited for the game to drop)>Play through the beginning of the gameAbsolute ludokino. No game release since then has done it for me.
I have never finished Elden RingI started playing it on PS5 when it come outPlayed it for like a week I think, I reached the boss that like a huge guy and gets half naked and wants to hug meI was stuck on him all day I gave up then I just forget about the gameI dont even remember how long ago that was
>>729003420>scammed themselvesER threads really went to show how much of /v/ are easily impressed brown monkeys.
>>728991951I don't know why this post reminded me, but there's a camera mod for Elden Ring that allows the game to load higher quality LODs as one of its features.This is before.
>>729005474This is after. Nothing mind-bending, but it is actually very noticeable during regular gameplay. You can most easily tell with the rocks and trees on the right.https://opm.fransbouma.com/Cameras/eldenring.htm
>>729005196It works perfectly fine. I beat Sekiro up to NG+4 with KB+M. I've never had any issues with this control scheme.
my first screenshot is pretty amazing
>>729005559>>729005474There are a lot of mods i'd love to use, especially uncapped framerate and disablin cghromatic abberation, but unfortunately i have to play offline then. I understand not letting us do pvp with mods, but i wish fromsoft allowed us to at least have player messages and player ghosts enabled while usng mods. Or finally move past 2010 and give us uncapped fps and options to disabe ca/better pc settings
>>728995281This is an lazy excuse and you know that.>We have a map>We have crafting documentsBut suddenly, a notebook or a journal is too much. Not having a journal worked on the previous titles, but it doesn't work on ER.
>>729005756>Or finally move past 2010 and give us uncapped fps and options to disabe ca/better pc settingsthe engine they use has mechanics tied to FPS
>>729006138Sekiro and ac6 plays no problem at 120 fps though
>>729005756I personally switched to playing Seamless, rather than vanilla. Seamless allows you to use most mods and has very active invasions. If you care about random co-op it's obviously not an option, but for invasions it's better than vanilla.As an added bonus, you can invade areas that you normally can't, like the inverted tower in Liurnia or the back halls of Volcano Manor.
>>729003420This but anor londo
>>729004791They don't just shitpost elden ring, they go after basically every capcom game tooI still see their elden ring shitpost threads often enough
>>729003420The problem with the open world is that you can't interact with it, at all. There isn't any meaningful stuff to do.
>>728997129>dead ringer
>>729006254Yeah true i guess i'll do that next time
>>728979698hideous blurry shit
>>729006254Are there actual numbers for Seamless players?
>>728979698Elden Ring fucking sucks and I’m tired of pretending like it doesn’t
>>728979698Elden Ring will probably be the last big soulful game made by competent devs that we get especially now that AI is here to stay. Without FromSoft around vidya would be completely soulless unengaging slop for women and søyboys.
>>728999165The dungeon ends when you reach that rectangular platform under the compass.The rest is just boss rooms or out of bounds decoration.
I have absolutely no idea where I'm going or what I'm doing and I'm getting my arse kicked regularly, but I'm enjoying myself. My teeth hurt.
>>728996592holy kek outplayed
>>728997175bvilt to sumata torrent
the DLC was so bad, so fucking badcool weapons thoshit tier armor drip
>>729011657The DLC was great
>>729006254>Seamless allows you to use most mods how does seamless work, someone host some matchmaking servers or something?I mean being able to use mods, you can't do that on vanilla because antimemeat
Finally a good thread
>>729011657>Being this objectively wrong!Kek!Get good!>>729011674Indeed!
>>729011657The DLC is great, it's just not as polished as The Old Hunters. The volume and quality of content BTFOs every other DLC in FromSoft's catalogue, even if you do things like combine the 3 DS2 DLCs into one super-DLC. The issue with SotE is how all of that content is arranged. The open world design is better than the base game's, but it's still open world and I don't think that plays to FromSoft's strengths. Many of the DLC areas are conceptual experiments, but half of them are failed ones. The generic dungeons' designs are some of the best in the game, arguably better-designed than some DS1 and DS2 areas, but they're still generic dungeons. And then there's the progression of the DLC story, which is awkward and halting. And so on. My point is that the DLC's failings are inherently related to Elden Ring's broader design as an open world game, but their quality is still very high regardless.>>729011802I can't recall, but I think it uses its own matchmaking services, whether they're P2P or server-based. Many other FromSoft overhaul mods do something similar. EAC is disabled with Seamless, which is a net positive.
>>729011937embarrassingly low quality false flag
>>728979698that was my first video save from the game after getting torrent
I didn't take many screenshots when the game first came out, but I just realized I have lots of old multiplayer clips from the first month of the game. I'll post a handful.
Carian retaliation did absurd amounts of damage for the first few patches, even more if you upgraded your shield. I almost miss it.
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>>728982523There was no bug in that fight. That guy's just a retarded nigger.
Back when briar spells could be chain cast into one another
this was my first screenshot...
why did they make nightreign bros?
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>>728991208Stfu faggot.
>>728992458>>728991951This retarded faggot is playing on ultra low with integrated graphics and then blaming the game about it.
>accidentally go through the madness door without doing the questline and getting warned what would happen>melina hates me now>"punished tarnished" arc>eventually do the whole questline to get the needle and cure it>end up saving melina and getting the good end
>>728996592Nah, kys. If you want to invade with your faggot ass minmax PVP build, have fun running around for 40 minutes while my friend and I are mimic veiled as a random flower. Faggot.
>>728979698>You now remember the first days when Elden Ring came outA dark day, when one of my favourite genres (action RPGs) got normiefied
>>728979698https://youtu.be/1B11I83rflo?si=gcWBeoF0W-ONWn9t
Reminder that if you used anything besides faith based magic, you're going to wizard hell
>>729014368>That small pause as you look at it
the DLC was fun
>>729014673i don't think sothose gravity spells were quite powerful even back thenand moonveil
>>728996338I always wanted to get invaded more. It's fun to wear that ring that summons the blue guys to defend you, and using the items that make you get invaded more. Sometimes you can have like 6 people on 2-4 different teams going at it, it's a lot of fun
>>728997452>holy shit, more empty space to sprint throughDo ERbabies really? was this your first open world game or something?
>>729012154Nah there's also poor directorial decisions like Metyr being revealed via a black screen transition, or how the "puzzle" to get to Metyr makes no sense to the greater themes of Elden Ring, or how Midra gets one fucking healthbar, or how someone as important as the first person to make contact with Scarlot Rot doesn't get a cutscene, or the stupid fucking Abyssal Woods, etc.
>>729015016Yeah the underground reveal is cool on paper, but it's just another area of no real consequence. Definitely some sort of victim of content shuffling. Plus, the Siofra River elevator is stupid. Why isn't there a lock on the door that leads to the cities of the people Marika personally banished? I know I'm old because I remember we used to mock this sort of game design, the idea that a super important landmark is within an easily traversable mile of the starting area.
mehI dont know what I expected but certainly not dark souls 3 + tacked on open world. I don't know why but for some reason I thought Miyazaki was cooking something special. Lesson learned
>>729015174>mileAmerican detected, opinion fucking IGNOREDmonkey brain fuckstick be quiet
>>729015286I was going to say 200m but it's daytime in America so I used the word mile, friendo.
>he invaded with a DEX weaponyou didn't beat the game
>>729015360But a mile is like 1150 meters so you're lying.
>>728979698>that first night nobody knew what the fuck they were doing>Seeing Siofra river for the first timeIt was magical
played on base xbox one like a boss. here's my first screenshot.
>>729015437within a mile includes 200 meters btw
>>729015437I used to run 200m in athletics so it's my go-to for distance stuff. What's your favorite thing about Elden Ring? >>729015273Me.
>>729015174>but it's just another area of no real consequenceWhat the fuck does that even mean considering you also NEED to go there to kill Radahn and get to the DLC?>Why isn't there a lock on the door that leads to the cities of the people Marika personally banished?Probably because literal thousands of years have passed and the elevator is placed in a forest populated by wolves and gigantic fuckoff runebears that would scare away 99% of the populace in Limgrave.Fucking retard.
>>728979698Sure do. Everyone was calling it the best video game of all time, and they were correct.My first ss after dressing my wretch up
based webm dumper, some of these are pretty good
>>729015584I cannot be seen conversing with people with no taste, anon. Sorry. Going to play Nightreign. Maybe I'll see you there.
>>729015580>What's your favorite thing about Elden Ring?jumping. jumping in previous games was always a pain in the ass, especially in tight areas
>>729015729>I got BTFO so bad I will explicitly run away like a coward>Plays Nightreign and claims to have good taste
I 'member and I didn't like it much
If you "point down" after killing someone, you get the rope
>>729016457it's fun though
>>729016519so is the rope (for you)I'll see you dangle and dance
>>729016457I backstab when you bow and I point down after killing you
>>729016457in DS1 I used to point up because it looks like a hooray
>>729011657The DLC was great except for Consort Radahn.People that bitch about it are just looking to be contrarian.
Carried this character through over 200 hours, eventually ended making him a level 200 invader who murdered a shitload of hosts back when the DLC was fresh since shitters can't help themselves but overcommit and become an easy prey for comets.Now it's nearly impossible to find people on vanilla in this level range
>>729016925And here he is now.
>>729016829Even Radahn is fine. I still don't get the complaints for him, if you want some actual hard bullshit then try the Leda fight when you're fighting everyone with no fragments.
>>729016829>The DLC was great except for Consort Radahn.The entire southern portion of the map is barren. Not gimmicky or anything, just completely devoid of content. Abyssal woods are embarrassing and their sole gimmick is too easy to break. Level design was generally disappointing. The levels are mostly small and featureless. Ensis in particular was pathetic. Shadowkeep and Rauh are the only exceptions but Rauh is empty as fuck and Shadowkeep still bites more than it can chew.Boss weapons were all extremely underwhelming compared to boss arsenal from previous From DLCs.
>>729013619That is probably the future of Elden Ring boss design. The DLC was already heading in on the Raid Boss style of boss design, where you were basically intended to go at it with teammates.Nightreign is basically just confirmation.
>>729017250Consort Radahn is ugly and underanimated compared to the likes of Gael and Orphan, reuses animations from Pontiff and acts like a collection of all the worst boss tropes from modern Fromsoft in the sense it's a relentlessly attacking blob of aoe attacks, something that became stale by the time DS3 came out.He feels like a fanmade boss.
>>729017301>spinoff game determines what the future main games will be like>The DLC was already heading in on the Raid Boss style of boss design, where you were basically intended to go at it with teammatesturbo retard
>>728979698Fellow owl enthusiast
>>729017436Every major boss in the DLC has at least one summon. The DLC doubled down on the Spirit Ash system with more summons and buffs related to them. The DLC bosses are clearly extremely mechanically intense and aggressive, and are markedly easier with someone to pull aggro.
>>729014185Me and my friend do this shit every chance we get and its never not fun watching the invaders run around clueless.
>>729017301Yeah, i still did all the bosses solo in SotE but it was clearly focused a lot more on bringing npc's into battle with you with it having unique dialogue and such for it as well. I also like Nightreign a lot, but i don't want the main games to be balanced on co-op this much. Best thing would be if playing co-op makes the bosses have extra moves that are balanced around co-op or somethign like that
>>729015378Dex weapons suck in this game. Poise breaking is so strong and enemies are fast at turning so you can't really circle strafe them if they have a shield.
>>729017686Every single boss in every souls game is easier with summons and like every single boss lets you summon another player. You're acting like it's insanely difficult unless you take advantage of those features. The ONLY boss that is even close to being clearly designed for summons is Leda which makes sense with the story but even if you don't summon the AI is very generous with letting you attack and leaving themselves open.
>>729018074dex weapons have access to unsheathe, one of the most retarded stance breakers in the gamethey also have more scaling on bullet ashes of war which are ridiculously broken in pve, you can storm blade your way through entire game brainlessly
>>728997589Most players are not gonna be invaders. Most invaders are not gonna be fresh players engaging with the gimmick but rather opt-in bloodthirsty madmen like myself. This could partially be a game design issue, but invading is simply is/has never been really all that profitable. People invade for the joy of ruining the day of your fellow man, not for the sake of survival.Ergo there will be a large gap in terms of preparation/tools available and experience for invading players.
>>729018742Katanas are better on Strength builds.Heavy Nagakiba > Keen Nagakiba.
>>729015016The most happy person on /v/.
>>729019013Pure damage difference between str and dex on katanas is completely negligible and STR doesn't have access to lighting infusion which gives DEX a unique advantage since almost nothing resists lighting and getting wet boosts it. Dex gets better pve options like a fucking railgun of gransax, it gets the RETARDED rakshasa's which is easily on top 3 weapons in the entire game and in DLC it also gets ansbach's bow which is possibly the only way of playing bows without cheating golem arrows that doesn't make you wan to kill yourself
>>729018846>but invading is simply is/has never been really all that profitableBellfagging in DS2 gave you MAD profits and should've been the baseline for invasion systems
>>729019272Sounds great, until you fight a Crucible Knight or any other shield user and are forced to play extremely defensively or learn parry timings the hard way instead of just pressing R1 a few times to break their guard. Or you're fighting the DLC Hornsent dudes that have crazy high poise and will combo through any Dex attack and eat 75% of your HP. Lightning damage is good, but you're better off chasing it through Faith casting than Dex weapons.
>>729019682ashes of war retard, use themdex gets better scaling on bullet ashes in particular which can be used to completely shut down foes in melee too like storm blade where hitting enemy with both the bullet and the weapon deals double damage and a shit ton of stance damage>he actually unironically advises fai weapon buffsjesus fucking christ
>>729014792i hate it, the lore got ruined for me also i really respected radahn and that got lost when he turned to be a faggot
>>729019873>>he actually unironically advises fai weapon buffs>jesus fucking christYou are already going to be leveling Faith for all the buff incants. The damage boost is stronger than the Greases.
>>729020620there's literally no reason to level faith on a pure dex build beyond maybe bloodflame blade on keen weaponsoffensive weapon buffs in ER are mostly dogshit, it's not DS1 or DS2 anymore, you get more from self buffing weapon ashes stacked on top of elemental damage
>>728979698I remember being disappointed that you cannot swim or dive. You could in Sekiro but I guess that game was a happy accident.
>>728979698I don't play games made for homosexuals
>>728979698On my first playthrough I stuck to the basic mace almost the whole game because I was afraid all the cool weapons I found were "noob traps" like the Drakesword and also because I was afraid of committing to a single build. So lately I've been doing playthroughs where I use one of the weapons I wanted to use on my first playthrough but didn't. Finished a Grafted Greatsword run, and I remember people were calling it shit back then but it's fucking OP as hell, maybe it just got buffed idk. Now I'm doing a Winged Scythe run.Also I still have screencaps of this guy in Twitch chat when the game was first being leaked trying to get it shut down lmao
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>>729021171You're not getting swimming mechanics in a game with heavy armor
>>728991208Yeah.
>>729021279The only thing I regret about ER is that I was in the leak threads where we discussed the map so I already knew what shape it had. Meaning I was never surprised like my friend playing it blind whenever the map expanded
i just started the game, where the fuck do i go?
>>729011925Radahn actually shoves his horse into the sand before doing the meteor attack
>>729021687Wherever the fuck you want. The "main" path is hinted at by the graces on the map showing you a little arrow towards the next grace
>>729021686I've long since come to terms with the fact that seeing and discussing leaks on 4chan is way more fun and exciting than just playing a game blind. I always end up missing a bunch of stuff and have to look it up later anyway.
>>729021686That's on you for being a retard looking at leaks, why would you ever do that?
>>729021687Go to the little church with the merchant and then go east to the soldier encampment. Then explore the two caves to the northwest of the church. Then go to the lake. Then explore the rest of Limgrave. Then go south to the next area and do all of it. Then go back to Limgrave and do the big castle. Congrats you've now finished the tutorial after 40 hours and still have 90% of the game left.
>>729021687where the golden light guides you, the first NPC you meet literally tells you thatalso go south to weeping peninsula it's an extension of limgrave
>>729022115>eastBased and misremembering the map pilled
>>728979698Soulsgames would be good if they actually had a world to care about instead of >ARISE FADING SCAB>EVERYONE IS DEAD OR DYING AND SCABBY>THERE IS A NASTY FIRE (achully good) THAT WANTS TO RID SCABWORLD OF SCABS, PLS STOP IT!
>>729022291Well it's to the right of the church and right is east!
>>729022384kek that's fair, I often get east/west confused on callouts in vidya when I'm facing south
>>729022384NSWENasty Slimes Wiggle Eagerly
>>728997021>cherrypicked jank>game is garbageAre you really that lonely?
>>729021027Thee is no reason to go with a full dex build and not a STR/FTH build that gets lightning damage from incants.
>>729023251hybrid builds get absolutely dogshit damage on incants and spells, may as well not bother at all and supplement it with ashes the main reason to go str fai is to use str fai weapons at full potencyyou're completely clueless about er buildcrafting
