Topic: Elden Ring Hype Thread

@lolwhatno If I get it, I will make sure to let everyone here know. If I do need to summon help, trust me I'm doing it, After I read that interview, I have a whole new mindset of what this game is.

@lolwhatno I'm sure you are going to love it when you get it. The UX could do with some improvements though 😉

I've not put a great deal of time in yet but have done a few 2 hour sessions. Loving the fact that there's lots of things out there that look doable but turn out to be my demise. I've just been wandering around and levelling up my character so far in the hope that I'll be man enough to take on the Tree Sentinel soon. He seems fun!

@Mega-Gazz I know you have been asking for this. How to pause the game.

https://metro.co.uk/2022/03/09/turns-out-you-can-pause-elden-...

@JohnnyShoulder thanks!

It really is everything I’d hoped for… and I had high hopes. Just got through Stormveil Castle and what an incredible piece of level design that was.

Difficulty-wise… I’d say on the whole I’m finding it around the ‘same’ level of difficulty that I experience in all From games… though I did find Margit difficult, his second phase was just really tricky for me to read. But by contrast I then found Godrick the Grafted fine and beat him first time. If I know souls (or ‘runes’) though, I’d imagine just as many people found the former easy and the latter more difficult.

I know it’s way to early to say… but I can’t help it… I kinda hoped (with a degree of educated understanding of what I like… and what From produce) that this would end up being my favourite game of all time (it’s currently Bloodborne).., and I’m getting more and more confident by the hour that it will be.

@velio84 i think I was 20 when I fought Margit and 30 when I fought Godrick

@colonelkilgore I can't imagine making that kind of progress in as short a time as you have. Did you spent a lot of time initially just farming runes?

@render so the only time I really farmed runes was before the Godrick fight as I fount the previous boss (Margit) so tricky. So I think I found Godrick when I was around lvl 26/27… and I thought, let’s try and get myself to around 30 for this one. Looking back, I probably should’ve just gone for it.

@Jimmer-jammer yup… the ultimate evolution of the formula

Has anyone found a good way to farm smithing stones? I can’t change weapons because I committed too many stones to them.

@Mega-Gazz The mines and tunnels are the way to do it. There’s at least one in each area.

@nessisonett yea, but its not repeatable unfortunately

@Mega-Gazz Think you’ll just have to look for the bell bearings that give you stones then, I’ve only found the first one.

@Mega-Gazz there's a guy (well, giant) in Liurnia that you can buy Somber Smithing stones from. I think he has a limited supply of the level 4 and 5, but the lower tiers you can buy as many as you want.

I can only assume that there's a vendor somewhere that would do the same with regular smithing stones too, but not come across that yet

correction: just looked it up and according to the internet, it's level 3 and 4 he has limited supply of, so it must be 1 and 2 you can buy as many as you want

@velio84 At least you don’t have to farm blood vials. That alone sets Bloodborne all the way down in my estimation.

@danlk1ng
@Mega-Gazz
After you beat the boss in a big mine North East
You get an item you give the merchant in Round table then you can buy from them

I made my way through Stormveil Castle this afternoon. That place is classic Souls, and I still don't think I've explored all of it. I missed one section in the middle because I was being chased by about twenty enemies.

Epic… frikkin EPIC! day of gaming. Just hung up the controller for the night and real happy that I managed to defeat The Red Wolf of Radagon just before I did so (as he had been absolutely kicking my *** for the previous 45 mins or so). Maybe I was a wee bit underlevelled for him or something… but was a proper challenge.

17 hours in… and won’t be able to play much now until the weekend maybe… but I know I’ll be tweaking tomorrow and Friday for sure 😅.

@colonelkilgore I am amazing you held off from it for this long, especially considering your iron-strong allegiance with all things FS-related! What build/weapon you go with?

It really is a great game, even for an 'everyman' Souls fan like myself ha.

Just hitting up the Academy, and enjoying the change-up of enemy variety... some of those magic attacks I'm receiving are punishing me.

@Gremio108 I absolutely did that too 😂 those moments of absurdity as you get chased Benny Hill style in the midst of all the stress and seriousness are golden