Topic: Elden Ring Hype Thread

@Jimmer-jammer That is true. So far I've cleared out Limgrave, Liurnia of the Lakes, Ainsel River, Siofra River and most of Caelid (but not Dragonbarrow). I've also explored most of Altus Plateau, but only done a few caves and catacombs, and been through Mt. Gelmir only to get a map fragment. I'm currently in Nokron, Eternal City. It is crazy there is a massive underground area under the 'normal' map.

I finally made it to Ranni's Rise after 70 hours

@Royalblues There’s been rumours to that effect for ages now. Personally I’d not be happy, the games have a huge following on PC and Sony’s strategy for that platform is spotty at best. Besides, they’re doing well for themselves at the moment, I can’t really see any feasible benefits from Sony buying them up.

I'm not sure I'll ever finish this game, even though I think its bloody brilliant! Everywhere I prod, just reveals huge new areas! I just found that volcano Manor has a huge dungeon you can access by getting in one of the rooms. Along with making my way in the capital and finding a whole underground area underneath the capital and a copy of the round table hold . I'm level 80, 46 hrs in and still feel like I'm figuring things out! I am changing things up a bit though, I've been putting more into intelligence since I've been rocking the moonveil katana and I'm going to respect a bit and check out some more magic.

I progressed Fia's (the hug-a-lot lady) quest line a bit. Yeesh, that did not end well for D. But, wait he has a twin brother?! Got a cool armour set out of it though.

@JohnnyShoulder I just had the same happen too, as well as meeting a new character in Roundtable by the Twin Maidens.

@Thrillho The grumpy so and so who tells you to bugger off? It is probably the one character in the game I can most relate to!

@JohnnyShoulder Aye, I think he’s officially called Dung Eater.

@Jimmer-jammer Ha, my classic one is summoning the wolves in a boss fight and forgetting to change my quick item back to health.

So when I hit square, instead of getting a health boost I get a message if I really want to get rid of my summon which you need to get rid of before you can do anything else.

I’ve done this far too many times. I really ought to map them to triangle and a direction instead..

@Thrillho That's what I found way more effective as it was a pain cycling through items on the quick menu when in the middle of a fight. I had Crimson Tears and Wondrous Physick on the quick menu but Cerulean Tears and the summons on triangle + direction. It was confusing at first but worked loads better in the long run.

Found the Valiant Gargoyle's fight in Siofra Aqueduct definitely the hardest so far. Even when one of them fell off to its doom I still mucked things up with the second one. 😂

Anyhow, managed to beat them in the end, but boy did that feel like some hard graft to there.

So when is the Radhan fight best to do?

I’ve spoken to Blaidd and done the mini quest for him and he’s now spoken about heading to Redmane but instead I’ve been up into the Altus Plateau and got even more sidetracked on Mt Gelmir.

I’m around lvl80 now I think.

@Thrillho I would say so as I was about that level when I faced him. I think just by going to Altus Plateau you unlock the festival to fight Radhan. Good luck!

@Jimmer-jammer @JohnnyShoulder Thanks both. I decided to go for it this evening and got past him pretty quickly. On about my third or fourth go I managed to get big frost damage and then stagger him so he went into stage two with only about 25% health which was quickly whittled down.

A damn sight easier than the Full-Grown Fallingstar Beast that I'd been attempting (unsuccessfully) for quite a while up on Mt Gelmir beforehand!

@Thrillho Well done! Same here with the Fallingstar Beast. I just rode past him on Torrent to get a tear and a map fragment on the other side of the mountain.

It sounds like Radahn has been nerfed since the initial release/earlier patches and it did feel kind of underwhelming for what should be a major battle.

@Thrillho from what I see, I think level 60 is the best sort of time to fight him. I walked it easily at 90.

@kyleforrester87 Yeah, I did it a lvl80 and breezed through really.

Anyone else checked out how things run after the VRR mode can be enabled? Im lucky to have a compatible oled and holy shiz, its night and day on performance mode!! I haven't noticed any dips or the weird frame pacing stuff from before when riding round liurna of the lakes.

@R1spam urgh, I don’t even mind the hitches in Elden Ring but that makes me jealous. Honestly my TV is fine, paid £1200 for it in 2016, ok it’s getting on a bit now but it is still one of the early HDR10 sets. I’m afraid to look at a 2022 television in real life as I know I’ll go straight out and buy one 😂