It worked!
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Also Godrickās down for me too as of last night. hell yeah.
I love how if you travel back to his arena after killing him the weird heh-heh-heh guy who tells you how to get into the castle is grinding whatās left of him into the mud and laughing. Also without all his bonus limbs Godrick is just like a little guy! What a great boss concept
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the NPCs are something else this time
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I didnāt notice that, but an NPC later dunked on Godrick for being the ārunt of the litter.ā
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Thereās that fledgling type NPC you can meet directly after killing him that is stomping over and over on what remains of his little little head, spitting mad. I was shocked by the size! He really was smol.
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The Capital City is really cool yāall. It feels like a hybrid of greatest hits Souls areas. Itās ridiculously dense and multilayered, a no-horse zone in its entirety, and the bonfires are well-hidden. I spent a long time scurrying around alleys and rooftops in increasing desperation, dodging lightning strikes and Avelyn fire arrows with zero flask charges and 20000 runes
Also the first midboss (!) is named Godfrey, First Elden Lord
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if it helps even a single poor wretched soul to know, I spent ~25 hours playing in windows 10 (which I installed dual boot for this damned game), was experiencing heavy framedrops and benny hilling all over the place (getting worse longer game was open),
heard the anti-cheat actually works in bleeding-edge proton,
installed it in my daily driver arch linux steam (you have to opt into the ābleeding-edgeā beta for proton experimental, search for āproton experimentalā in your games library, right-click > āpropertiesā ābetasā from memory), performance is now nearly perfect using same graphics settings (1080p, maximum quality settings), hitches are minor (like a handful of frames dropped instead of a wheelbarrow full of them) and only seemingly on area transitions instead of intermittently/randomly anywhere regardless of scenario like before.
this experience does not seem to be universal according to protondb but more than a few others have reported seeing similar. may be down to hardware/drivers (iām running 8700k/rx6700xt, nightly mesa drivers in linux.) if I had a gun to my head Iād probably guess something about the EAC implementation being cleaner in linux for reasons of necessity, but who knows.
again, my condolences to anyone living a similar life to where this information is useful.
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I got there and decided to finish up Ranniās questline first, which weaves a number of areas and plot threads together very elegantly in a way Iām unaccustomed to in these games, is surprisingly easy to follow without any kind of guide for how obscure it simultaneously manages to feel, and also features bug manus ā which is also why I decided to throw myself at radahn before spending more time in the capital, because it turns out he gates one thing but not the other
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I got summoned as a helper into two Rennala fights where the special mobs that you need to kill to get her to drop just didnāt spawn into the arena at all, couldnāt progress.
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this is āgame of the year,ā because I will have to play it every single day for the rest of the entire year to finish it. I never made it to the red area. messed around the lake area instead. found my first actual illusory wall in a catacomb that had a boss behind it that dropped a knife that rogier wanted to look at and he told me to go search for the witch gal who gave me the spirit bell in her mansion, so Iām there now. Iām still supposed to go to the magic academy place in the middle of the lake too. this is like ffxiv I log in thinking about what Iām going to accomplish and end up on some some completely other track and get absolutely nothing I planned on done
when do you get to respec and is it free or does it take some rare item
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You get to respec after beating the magic academy boss. It does take a rare item
oh I also tried invading for first time in any of these games, and what can I say, I killed some folks. now the mask guy wants to anoint me as a knight of the lord of blood or whatever, but I felt pretty terrible about messing up those peoples games. I just figured now was the time to try it with the game being fromās biggest game and being brand new (meaning, a bunch of easy targets out there)
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IMO invading is like putting on the mask of a villain in a stageplay so that everyone can enjoy your scenery-chewing evil. Good drama needs good villains, and you performed a service by volunteering for the role
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ya id honestly encourage anyone whoās on the fence about invading to do it before all the meta builds (and hacked characters) show up, itās closest to the ideal experience when nobody knows whatās going on
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I really cherish the paranoia of being invaded by someone and never seeing them. The hijinks you can get up to without actually killing a player or disrupting their progression is high in these games. Just being a red thing moving right into a hallway out of sight is harrowing, and fun.
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I couldnāt quite make it past Godrick the Grafted so I spent some time in the rotten swamp getting repeatedly owned by ghostly sorcerers. I did find the map of Caedia - I didnāt even know there were maps to find. the arc spell is very good for taking on groups of enemies - very satisfying to kill 3 or 4 guys with one spell.
eventually I took the portal to Dragon world and found I could stealthily dispatch the little sentries there for 1000 runes a pop, so I spent some time sneaking around farming them while avoiding any and all direct hits (one shot would kill me). got enough runes to level my INT up enough to go back and dispatch Godrick (with only the help of the NPC summon). had a good laugh at the guy grinding Godrickās lifeless head into the ground.
15 hours or so in, I get the āthe real Elden RIng starts hereā vibes. feels like Iāve barely scratched the surface.
I have had to learn how to āplayā the open-world aspectā¦ sometimes it feels like Iām just wandering around a mostly empty space, but then I realize this is Fromsoft and there are secrets literally everywhere (or so it seems). no game hides stuff from the player like these games do. I have to look harder and deeper, contemplate the environment. the other night I decided to do this, to interact directly with my surroundings rather than thinking about where exactly I am on a āmapā and where I need to āget toāāand thatās when I found myself just wandering around a very atmospheric forest in the middle of the night and stumbling upon a giant snoozing bear!
starting to play this game in my sleep
So far, I have only ever been invaded by non-player entities. Did it end up being true that no one can invade you unless you already have another player summoned?
It happened to me all the time in the Souls games (though rarely in Bloodborne), and I like that added tension.
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I donāt know, one guy was alone but I think the rest had buddies
never has the veil between parallel dimensions monster hunter and souls been thinner than magma wyrm makar, almost felt like a poorly timed crossover of the fire variant royal ludroth from the coming rise dlc
when I dropped his ass I almost alt+f4ed so I could fight him again
10/10
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youāll be thrilled to hear that there are 2 versions of this boss in the game, one in the back route between liurnia and the plateau, and one in a cave between the starting area and caelid
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