@LN78 My tip is try over and over while swearing repeatedly. Not a highlight of the game for sure. Just summon for the aggro, hit and run the legs and hope you don’t get killed in one hit by the bloody fire AOE.
@LN78 One thing I’ll say about the map to the left of the snowy area, the associated quest starts all the way back in Liurnia. If you haven’t come across it yet, you might not now.
@LN78 You know, I think that you can technically get there without the quest line but that points you to the required items to access the area. You’d be dealing with guesswork or lots of exploring otherwise.
@CJD87
Nice! Good to hear. I really enjoyed it. First attempts my daughter was watching and cheering or shouting at me because he was just behind me as I failed narrowly because I wasn’t sure what to do.
When I came back to it in the evening it all went like a piece of cake for some reason. haha
The crowd, accepting this immediately, assumed the anti-Eurasian posters and banners everywhere were the result of acts of sabotage by agents of Goldstein and ripped them from the walls.
@CJD87 Nice work! Aside from the horrible tag-team battle in Redmane Castle, it was until the final few bosses that I started really struggling. The final boss is one of the most annoying I've ever fought.
@LN78 Fire Giant's second phase is way easier if you resolve to just chip damage him to death by attacking his backside. Maintain enough distance to avoid the rolling. Stay on the horse any time you're not actively attacking.
@render - I am not really anyone who should be providing advice on Boss Battles... but I 100% agree that the Red Wolf battle is time to put down dual wielding, and instead crack out the shield!
I used a fairly low-stat shield (heater?) but it had 100% physical guard, which did me fine here. Good luck man!
@JJ2 Thanks mate... and well done for beating him with spectators (your daughter). I fear that my own daughter watching me would have just invoked severe performance anxiety! @Ralizah Thank you, any and all encouragement is appreciated ha!
Went through Siofra River today, really liked that area… maybe as much as Stormveil. Then done a bit of Caelid… not so much of a fan of this locale but I haven’t entered the legacy dungeon there yet so hopefully it’ll be awesome and elevate the location.
This was a game I was curious about but didn't think I'd really get into, I tried Bloodborne and Demon's Souls previously and bounced off them pretty quickly. Yet here I am about 40 hours in and loving every minute (well most of them 😂), I've finished off Redmane Castle and now just beat Rennala too, some of the locations you explore are so well done and I can't wait to see more
Older than I care to remember but have been gaming since owning a wooden Atari 2600 and played pretty much everything inbetween.
Siofra River was boring. Gigantic, but you constantly had to be vigilant between the electric things chasing you and minotaurs sniping you across the map. Hated the flame pillar sidequest.
Stormveil, Raya Lucaria Academy, and Leyndell were the highlights of the game, IMO.
Caelid in general represented a massive drop off in quality in terms of the level design and density of content.
Your question reminds me @velio84, I found one of those up-gusts which you can use to jump super high on torrent… I was concentrating on finding all of the braziers at the time though and didn’t use it. I meant to use it on the way back but forgot all about it… sounds like I’ll have to go back 😉
@nessisonett I do like how you can just put yourself on a waiting list and you basically know your approximate place in the queue. Allows you to budget your money and establish appropriate expectations for when you'll be able to play it.
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Am I the only one that isn't enjoying this game at all? I finished all previous From Software games multiple times but this one ain't doing it and I'm seriously considering dropping it
Exploration became a chore 30 hours in and bosses are incredibly poorly designed in my opinion what with their massive health pools and constant spamming stunlocking aoe attacks that many times one shot you despite having a vigor of 40 . And don't get me started on the copy and paste nature of the game such as facing the same side bosses over and over and over again to earn runes
I could theoretically cheese it by changing to a mage and use the busted mimic but that doesn't sound fun to me . The game is basically everything people accused Dark Souls 2 of being but somehow way worse . The late game is simply atrocious and by the mid point the game had started to become stale for me
Rant over haha
To be fair if it took 30 hours to be a chore its way ahead of most open world games. That said I’m 120 hours in and can’t stop exploring and finding time to play.
As for bosses with huge health pools, I disagree. In fact, compared to almost any other game bosses are not at all “bullet sponges”, which seems to be how other games manage difficulty. In a high damage build you can easily kill even the main bosses in less than 10 hits (that’s not a science number, just an example).
@Mega-Gazz Yeah, the only boss I’d describe as a bullet sponge is Fire Giant. Struggling to think of any others. Even the Crystalians take way more damage once you stagger them once. Maybe the dragons at a stretch.
Just finished the academy, respec. and using moonviel. What a difference from just uchi. Biggest problem now is not enough focus. Thanks to all who recommend it. Getting my int to 29 for the 3 sword spell, then focus. As long as im a bit into int anyways. Not sure where to go next only 2 bosses down. Maybe south?
@Elodin Which bosses have you done then? Assuming Godrick @ Stormveil and then Renalla @ Academy?
After Renalla I went on to Caria Manor, which is just north - good boss fight there! And then I went East over to Caelid to take on Radahn.... which would be a good test for your new build/Moonveil.
The more I read about Moonveil, the more I want to try it out. But currently I'm still enjoying my dual wield blood samurai build... so might wait until this gets stale! (+ I've invested so much time and energy into upgrading Nagakiba katana to +15... ha)
I didn't play much today, and the much I played. I lost 7K, I found this pretty purple underground area, and got jacked up LOL.
And I can't even get to the academy, because well, I got ruined. Well, Nothing looking around and killing some bosses and upgrades wont fix.
Tomorrow, I'm going to take that thing I got from godrick, find the tower and activate it.
Over all, today was me learning that I will indeed still get my ass handed to, but, im ok with that.
I'm also going to try my hand at the character creator again and hope I get something I like a lot more then what I have. I also still need to figure out my load, because I would like the use the bigger weapons without dragging across the floor LOL.
Man This game is amazing, and boy do I want to play other FS games, one thing at a time tho.
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