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I spend most of my time sprinting across the map screaming "help me someone, help me, oh god" followed by "wow this is a cool looking vie-" YOU DIED It's very fun in a very masochistic way, but I really hope I get the attribute assigning unlock thing soon so I can get more HP.
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Feb 27, 2022 08:42
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YoshiOfYellow posted:Unlocked the map for Caelid. This keeps happening. I feel like I'm running out of game space, find a new map, and discovering several more miles of stuff.
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Ytlaya posted:I've been just loving around grinding stuff (level 17 now, though not really sure what to do with stats - I've been putting a ton into endurance after getting 16 strength for my shield) and will try to actually fight other things now. I reached the point where I can pretty reliably just stroll into that first camp of soldiers on foot and kill everyone (without using any stealth attacks). There's a stat for shields in this game, "guard boost" or something to that effect (sorry, don't have the game open to check). That's the stat that determines how much stamina you lose when you block an attack, which is equivalent to Stability in previous dark souls games. If an attack depletes all of your remaining stamina, your guard is broken. In previous dark souls games, you could upgrade that stat by upgrading your shield. That doesn't appear to be the case anymore, though? At least, I'm not seeing any boosts to that stat from shield upgrades. Maybe you have to upgrade it a whole lot to see an effect. Poise is different. That is the measure of how resistant you are to having your animation interrupted when taking an unblocked attack. When blocking attacks, keep in mind that your stamina recovers more quickly when you aren't holding up your shield. That means you want to lower your shield in between attacks if possible. If a flurry of attacks is too much, then back off and create some distance between you and the enemy.
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Feb 27, 2022 08:49
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coolusername posted:I spend most of my time sprinting across the map screaming "help me someone, help me, oh god" followed by "wow this is a cool looking vie-" YOU DIED You should follow the guide line the game gave you right at the start. That will lead you to the spot that unlocks leveling up.
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Feb 27, 2022 08:51
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One of the merchants has a lantern, it's a small thing but it's nice to go into dark mini dungeons and not have to offhand the torch. You activate it like a flask, but it never seems to get used up.
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Feb 27, 2022 08:51
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I'm level 40 and I can't decide if Sorcery stinks or not. It was extremely busto strong on like the two or three shitter minibosses before I got to Margit, and then it has been somewhat more balanced in terms of raw strength. My main gripe though is that the only two spells that seem worth casting are the two you start the game with-- casting the magic missile over and over is getting pretty boring. The game's trailers kind of made it seem like they had Dragons Dogmafied the magic but it's all been a bit lame. It doesn't help that I keep finding literally three times as many incantations and faith scaling things as sorceries/int items. Also the incredible armory of huge swords and unga bunga weapons I'm finding everywhere and can't use. It took 20 hours for me to find the first real sorcery vendor and there was maybe one spell in there that ended up being situationally useful. It's nice that I can use ashes to give any weapon int-scaling, but the sorcery ashes themselves are also pretty lame(of the 3 you can buy from the vendor in Stormveil castle). The Carian Greatsword skill is cool as hell but it's so slow it's nearly impossible to use and it does not seem to hit nearly hard enough to justify the incredible risk. I've stopped pumping int at 30 points and I'm just investing in endurance and health now until the game either gives me some really cool new sorcery/int scaling toy or I find a normal weapon cool enough to make me totally abandon magic.
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Feb 27, 2022 08:55
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:You should follow the guide line the game gave you right at the start. That will lead you to the spot that unlocks leveling up. I am, I think? I went to the church, spoke to the merchant, there was a cool statue with a blue line, followed that into a catacombs and now I'm getting my rear end kicked by a really naughty dog after solving the puzzle there. Unless I missed something obvious or got waylaid in the wrong direction?
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Feb 27, 2022 08:56
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coolusername posted:I am, I think? I went to the church, spoke to the merchant, there was a cool statue with a blue line, followed that into a catacombs and now I'm getting my rear end kicked by a really naughty dog after solving the puzzle there. Unless I missed something obvious or got waylaid in the wrong direction? Ah, there's another site of grace at that church that points further north. Keep going in that direction.
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Feb 27, 2022 08:57
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I thought I had to beat the boss in there to continue things and have mostly been getting my rear end kicked at 50%. Okay I'm going to backtrack and try to find that, thanks! I am not good at this game.
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Feb 27, 2022 08:59
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Over 20+ hours and I'm level 35 and haven't beaten Godrick yet. There's so much to explore and so many types of builds I want to do, but I think I'm gonna stick with DEX + Faith. Game owns.
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Feb 27, 2022 09:03
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coolusername posted:I thought I had to beat the boss in there to continue things and have mostly been getting my rear end kicked at 50%. Okay I'm going to backtrack and try to find that, thanks! I am not good at this game. After that there's a somewhat essential thing you can immediately get by (spoiling in case you'd rather happen upon stuff blind, but this is very easy to pass up if you don't know to look for it) resting until night, then teleporting back to the church and talking to an NPC who shows up.
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Feb 27, 2022 09:04
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coolusername posted:I thought I had to beat the boss in there to continue things and have mostly been getting my rear end kicked at 50%. Okay I'm going to backtrack and try to find that, thanks! I am not good at this game. It's worthwhile to follow the proscribed grace sites at least until you get to the castle gates. Then you'll have enough tools to explore properly
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Feb 27, 2022 09:05
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sigher posted:The problem isn't quite cleaning up the inputs, not mashing is definitely a must, however my biggest issue is that the inputs are queued no matter what the situation. For instance, boss has a string of 3 hits, but the hits are all staggered between each other. Makes sense, you have to time your dodges and not just mash dodge 3 times in a row since that's too easy. However, say if you try and dodge the first attack and you're a fraction too late you're going to get hit, however now you have that dodge roll queued up for whatever direction you had input and you can't do anything about it. Now, the problem is since you're in hitstun, that roll is coming out frame 1 no matter what and more often than not it's not going to be timed with the next hit of the combo and you're going to get hit. I already timed the first hit incorrectly, don't punish me twice for the same input and move my character. I don't think the buffer is there to "teach" you anything, it's just something that made sense in 2009 for a game that didn't have any animation canceling and most attacks were repetitive, with long animations. It's dumb as hell in 2022, along with the camera and numerous other decade-old control cruft.
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Feb 27, 2022 09:06
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I feel like this game could easily be condensed to half the size. I love exploring but I hate big empty expanses and going through a copy-pasta sub-dungeons to just get like, two items you'd otherwise find in a single room in a dark souls game. It feels a little bloated? Like how instead of 4 different standard upgrade mat's they went to 8 as a consequence of such a large world. It's got that boring done-a-thousand-times crafting system to help fill it out as well. No thanks, I'll just not use it. How about ya just make the item sellable at merchants and don't have me do tedious work to make my own? The ONLY thing I use it for is firebombs, just because at the moment they can be thrown faster than my fireball cast. It wants you to explore but so often I find an area, battle through, and get rewarded 90% of the time with an item i can't use, won't use, or don't even know what it does. I've received a flower crafting item multiple times from what I was hoping would be a cool weapon or, loving anything except a crafting item to something I don't have a book for. I suppose that is what exploring is, you won't know what you'll find, but after meticulously going through Limgrave I have ZERO desire to do all that running around in the other areas. Oh and speaking of finding things, I have found a number of weapons I do want try out... but I feel like i'm stuck committing most my resources to the first greatsword I found. In this game a weapon requires 12 of one level of upgrade material before moving to the next, and I'm assuming that is true for the next 8 levels. That is 96 stones. For one weapon. I hope that either the later upgrades require less, or they start spraying you down with smithing stones later in the game. I wanted to give dual-weilding a try so I blew a lot of resources on a claymore only to find it to be kinda underwhelming, I've really only used one weapon the entirety of this time interspersed with lobbing a fireballs on occasion. From Limgrave I b-lined right for the next area's map, and then the castle in the blighted area east of limgrave. Once i got there there were enemies copy-reskinned-pasted from limgrave, the courtyard had the same blade-lion as stormviel's, oh but wait, there are two this time. The first boss were just two bosses I'd already fought thrown in the same arena.... hope this isn't a sign of things to come. ok rant over. I do like the game, I'm at 33 hours right now digging the story content, like, I'm invested when I actually know what's going on. When the game is good its good, and it's very visually impressive with great atmosphere and music. Just getting frustrated with the busywork.
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Feb 27, 2022 09:07
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Is there a "the" soulsgames streamer who's very pro at them? Wanted to check out some pros stream of their first time playing ER out of curiosity.
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Feb 27, 2022 09:07
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Scoss posted:I'm level 40 and I can't decide if Sorcery stinks or not. I've had a similar experience where around level 40 and doing a lot of co-op I never see magic users and I've stopped casting incantations myself, largely because I don't have any good ones. However it's definitely worth taking into account how many good Faith scaling special weapons there are (I'm assuming the same is true for Int), and the ability to freely swap faith/int scaling onto your weapon at any time is incredible That being said I have like... 7 incantations, out of the literally 64 in the game, so 
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Feb 27, 2022 09:08
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When looking at the map you can press TRIANGLE to see a list of all sites of grace you can travel to. I only just found this out.
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Feb 27, 2022 09:13
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Made it to a tower with a horse knight and a bunch of crossbowmen somewhere in Limegrave. Kicked their asses, climbed the tower, opened a chest and how in the gently caress am I in the Royal Capital? This game loves to throw you into places that you have NO business in at level 17. You know you're underleveled when you do 400 damage to a golem and it only registers as a tiny blip on its health bar.
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Feb 27, 2022 09:13
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So for the Godrick fight is summoning the warrior lady as a coop partner part of her quest line I need to do? Or can I just go in to try and solo him guilt free?
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Feb 27, 2022 09:16
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found a merchant selling the item needed to respec characters, and i would just like to say: god loving dammit from, stop tying that mechanic to obscure, limited(?) items. Sure, you can gate it behind mid-late game content if you want, but let people experiment!! I cant believe you've done this yet again. ...I also found a Sorcery with requirements of 0 INT / 24 FTH, which means From is doing one of their funny jokes again, making spells that no one will ever use pentyne posted:You have to then attack the bones on the ground. Doesn't matter what kind of weapon you use. only to find out that it doesn't actually seem to do any more damage to skeleton enemies than it does non-skeleton enemies. Excuse me, game? Is that not the point of Holy Magic??? Propaganda Hour posted:So I found another river well, and, uh  why!! is it always!!! giant bugs!!!!! Judge Tesla posted:I'm gonna burst people's bubbles because the wizard school in Liurnia was locked and needed a key to open, it was more that I had the entire area to explore early is how I found smithstones.
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Omi no Kami posted:Before I take the plunge and commit to upgrading a weapon for a while, are there any really obviously rad-tastic quality or STR weapons in the first area? I've already found the large club, zweihander, and greataxe, and if I don't find something pancake-ier in the next bit that's probably where I'll end up. Those are Souls classics, but if you want something new - since you've gotten the Zwei already, find the Morne tunnels on that southern island, near the end of a ravine in the middle of it. It'll reward you with a STR weapon I find hilarious just to wield, the Rusted Anchor If you want to get another absolute classic Souls STR weapon though, albeit definitely not in the first area anymore - near the beginning of Caelid to the east, there is a chest that has the Greatsword, aka the Guts cosplay weapon
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Feb 27, 2022 09:17
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I preloaded this game and I still haven't booted it :-/
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Feb 27, 2022 09:17
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Not Al-Qaeda posted:Is there a "the" soulsgames streamer who's very pro at them? Wanted to check out some pros stream of their first time playing ER out of curiosity. A bunch of the soulsborne speed runners have been playing. Here are two that I don't hate: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1406400961 https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1406405250 (this dude did a 32-hour marathon stream for some ungodly reason, one day after a 13-hour marathon stream)
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Feb 27, 2022 09:19
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I don't understand why the goats start rolling sometimes but I love it
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Feb 27, 2022 09:21
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Just in case anyone was wondering if the dodge roll always had the amount of input delay it does in Elden Ring due to sprint/dodge being on the same bind, no. Dark Souls Remaster, Prepare to Die Edition, and DS3 have more or less instant dodge roll if you press a direction input and the dodge/sprint key at the same time. In Elden Ring you need to have pressed a directional input for some amount of time (feels like a couple hundrd milliseconds) before the dodge/sprint button release will actually register and result in a dodge. You're not imagining things.The Locator posted:Definitely seeing a lot of framerate & stutter issues on my old 1080ti, even with 11gb of ram to load stuff into. i7-8700k with 32gb of ram. There are a few distinct contributors to the framerate/stuttering issues and they don't really care about hardware. It's also probably not something AMD/NVidia drivers can fix. The biggest contributor is probably going to be shader compilation. The good news is that this will eventually stop happening as you build a cache for all the shaders stutter by stutter. Unless it gets hosed up or you update/rollback GPU drivers, or there's some patch that changes things with shaders. But this is the big 500ms to seconds long stutter that happens whenever you swing a new weapon, enter a new area, get attacked by a new enemy - the bad one. The second biggest contributor is probably asset streaming. This is really obvious when you run back and forth around the area the first big golden tree sentinel horseman is in. I actually noticed fewer of these asset loading zones deeper into the game. But this never really goes away. Then there are other random drops and stutters. No idea what's causing these. But it's probably someting only Fromsoft can really fix. There are some things you can try to reduce stutters and get some more frames. Some of them don't really make any sense and might just be gamer placebo but they aren't really harmful. The first thing I'd do is try to find a GPU driver that works well. The most recent "Elden Ring Ready" drivers from Nvidia and AMD both seem to perform worse than some previous versions. Trying the most recent WHQL driver is a good start. I've had pretty similar performance with AMD drivers up to 22.2.1. The moset recent AMD driver, 22.2.3, was significantly worse and has stability issues. Also you'll need to go through shader compilation every time you change drivers. Now we can get into the potentially placebo poo poo - I'd recommend just checking the Elden Ring subreddit and searching for stutter fix or something. That seems to list most of the potentially real ones (that also apparently worked for Sekiro). The only ones I bothered trying were setting the game processor priority to high (you'll have to set it to launch this way via regedit), disabling Microsoft Device Association Root Enumerator in the Device Manager (the game might interact with this while looking for input devices or just when using an input device that uses it-- not really sure. might also be pure placebo. worth trying), and using Borderless Windowed mode in game instead of Fullscreen (although fullscreen doesnt appear to have a performance cost after the most recent patch - could also have just been shader compilation). Those were a lot of parentheticals. There's other stuff to try, though it's all going to be pretty marginal. One thing I've noticed is that the graphics settings barely change the frequency or magnitude of the framedrops/stutters. You may as well max it all out, play for a bit until the earliest shader compilation stutters are done, and then test graphics settings. Higher settings (and thus higher average gpu utilization) might counteract some of the stutters which are preceded by GPU usage plummeting, probably due to some disgustingly low level DX12 goofup. Some of the graphics settings also likely change the asset streaming/loading parameters or other behind the scenes things in ways that can lessen or exacerbate the stutter/framerate issues. poo poo's weird. I wrote way too much on this. Feels like a boss fight guide.
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beer gas canister posted:It's worthwhile to follow the proscribed grace sites at least until you get to the castle gates. Then you'll have enough tools to explore properly Absolutely, I just didn't realise I'd gotten off track from them - when I interacted with the thing near the first grace, another line popped up, so I thought it was the proscribed path when I followed the new line the wrong way. Corin Tucker's Stalker posted:Yeah, you should be able to get where you need to go from the church in like two minutes. Thanks, I shall do that too!
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Not Al-Qaeda posted:Is there a "the" soulsgames streamer who's very pro at them? Wanted to check out some pros stream of their first time playing ER out of curiosity. Distortion2 and HeyZeusHeresToast are pretty popular and really good.
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Cuttlefush posted:I wrote way too much on this. Feels like a boss fight guide. Agreed. I'm just going to go enjoy the fun game now and not care when the frame rate stutters.
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Just found out you can swing your weapon on the other side of the horse if you use the Parry/Shield button. Hell yeah.
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Feb 27, 2022 09:34
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If it’s an issue due to direction hold that gives me some hope maybe they’ll loving fix it and I can play the game
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Feb 27, 2022 09:34
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Araganzar posted:I DID IT! I got to the giant jar thingie! I'm way behind in the thread but I'm glad to see someone else so excited about the giant jar lmao. My friends and I have been hanging in discord playing, and my quest to find a way to the king of all jars became a meme. I was so elated when that wild rear end area finally led me to it. 
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I found the best way to beat the undodgeable dragon swoop attack is to get off the horse so that the iframes make you invulnerable, and don't even try to dodge. I don't think I've actually fought a worse dragon boss than the ones in this game so I don't care about how cheap that is Also it gave me like 40k souls so it probably wasn't meant to be beaten at level 18
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Are bloodstains with circles people in the group I assigned? How do I tell if a summon sign is from someone in LLJK? Also do we have a discord?
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Feb 27, 2022 09:37
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Question about paintings - do I need to go to the location that's the focus of the painting, or do I go to where the painters POV was?
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Feb 27, 2022 09:38
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Ranni questline: Hope you all like giant ants  got her set though for maximum fashion soulsringborneiro
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Aside from the map button not also canceling the map, here's a weird complaint about this game: why do half of the greatswords and colossal swords require faith to use? Like not even a tiny amount either, a lot of them require 20+
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Oh hello again, Smough. Its just so nice see you again <leaves a white mark that says get a load of this but hole>
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Frankston posted:Question about paintings - do I need to go to the location that's the focus of the painting, or do I go to where the painters POV was? Painters POV. Its really poorly explained.
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