I'm getting a lot of crashes on PC using a 5700 XT, anyone else?
Gaming Elden Ring - Fromsoftware
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The Greatsword is a fantastic weapon that you can get pretty much right away. So is the Grafted Greatsword. Latter one needs 40 strenght though I think, but incidentally that's a good target to aim for mid game anyway.
I got str and vigor up to 40 first, than endurance to 30. Than I upgrade strength to 66 (so it's 99 when 2handing) vigor to 50 and endurance to 45. That's the build I beat the game with I think.
Some later great strength weapons: Ruins Greatsword (needs 16 int) , Prelates Inferno Crozier, Great Stars.
Best shields in my opinion; brass shield for a medium variant and Golden great shield for a big'un.
Finished it and I never want to play it again...brutal slog towards the end and I'm glad to move on.
How would you rate the overall experience? Glad you played it? Best game ever?
You'll be back.
Yeah, hes imo one of the harder bosses in the game, but not much talked about. First getting bumrushed by his knights and his second phase is not much better with all that AoE bullshit
Honestly, i would not reccomend that weapon class for someone new to the series as those weapons needs a very fine tuned build to really shine
Greatsword class (Bastard sword, Claymore etc) have much more forgiving requirements, but can still stagger all small enemies, have about the same reach, but also a much faster swing speed.
Fair enough, though jumping R2 made these things a lot more accessible. And why would ypu swing a puny greatsword if you can dual wield colossal swords
The Great Stars isn't that big by the way and is really excellent to 1hand since it both staggers and has bleed.
Wow I think the end was my favourite. No open world, just legacy dungeon after dungeon with loads of tough bosses. As it should be.
I play on PS5 and not sure that’s possible? Could be wrong though, anyway slapping through is pretty simple and enjoyable with different classes/weapons anyway.
Bloodhound Step is broken.
Its annoying as hell yes, but at least it does not oneshot anyone and things like beastial sling, charged R2 attacks and quite a few Ashes of war counters it pretty had.
I've played and finished all the From games and a lot of Soulsborne titles...I have a love/hate relationship with them - at their best, they provide some of gaming's best moments, Elden Ring Included but are littered with some really poor design choices and bad game design that just isn't tolerated in other games but ignored when it's From Software. BUT the good bits are incredible and make them amongst my favourite games, despite my issues.
As for Elden Ring, again it's pretty much the same - overall I really enjoyed it but there a loads of issues I had. I'd put it below Dark Souls 1, probably even 3 and Bloodborne for sure...it's certainly not close to being their best game IMO.
Ha, I know this will be the case!
What build did you use? I generally play as a strength/dex build with a Claymore (I'm stuck in my ways) but then every video I watched used weapons requiring intelligence/faith/arcane that wrecked bosses, whilst I'm doing chip damage.
The fire giant is an absolute nonce to fight with a magic build. Piece of fecking shit.
I was using the bloodhound's fang for most of the game. Very reliable weapon. Switched to rivers of blood dual wield then when I got that just to get myself to stop using shields and play a bit differently, it was a lot of fun!
I had this too. Im only chipping away at them with my giant doom hammer while some nancy in a dress takes of 30% of their health with a single poof.
Killed the cnut.
The thing I didn't like about sorcery builds was it feels like the early game spells were the best - glintstone pebble and rock sling seemed to be the strongest, whereas the late game spells looked pretty but were just utterly impractical and underwhelming. Its the same with faith incantations, they look cool as feck but it takes 2 business days to cast them, meanwhile enemies are munching your cheeks. I pretty much only used stone of gurranq in my faith build and just spammed the blasphemous blade WA 90% of the time 
I get the impression you guys play the game too straight.
Surely I'm not the only one calling in two people to help with every boss then sneaking in the odd cheeky backstab whilst the other two take the brunt of the aggro.....?
The thing I didn't like about sorcery builds was it feels like the early game spells were the best - glintstone pebble and rock sling seemed to be the strongest, whereas the late game spells looked pretty but were just utterly impractical and underwhelming. Its the same with faith incantations, they look cool as feck but it takes 2 business days to cast them, meanwhile enemies are munching your cheeks. I pretty much only used stone of gurranq in my faith build and just spammed the blasphemous blade WA 90% of the time
I've gone Str-Faith so i can mainly melee with the occasional incantation. Not sure faith is really adding much right now.
I'd argue a split build is the worst of both world as you lose melee power but also ypur incantations aren't deadly.
It's kept it nice and challenging though. Magic or bleed focus sounds too easy.
Yeah I started out equally levelling faith and str, and then just decided to max out faith. It depends on the weapon scaling tbh.
The thing I didn't like about sorcery builds was it feels like the early game spells were the best - glintstone pebble and rock sling seemed to be the strongest, whereas the late game spells looked pretty but were just utterly impractical and underwhelming. Its the same with faith incantations, they look cool as feck but it takes 2 business days to cast them, meanwhile enemies are munching your cheeks. I pretty much only used stone of gurranq in my faith build and just spammed the blasphemous blade WA 90% of the time
This. No point in having a cool looking animation when it takes ages to cast and some scrub with a rusty dagger can knock you out of it.
Finished it a second time. Got the Lord of Frenzied Flame ending. Think that’s me done now. Great game!
I get the impression you guys play the game too straight.
Surely I'm not the only one calling in two people to help with every boss then sneaking in the odd cheeky backstab whilst the other two take the brunt of the aggro.....?
This is me. My mates all want to do it 'without help'
This is me. My mates all want to do it 'without help'
I usually have a go at them myself first. I beat Godrick and Margit on my own but sometimes it's just fun to mix it up as well. People get too stuck telling you how the game should be played. Play it however you enjoy it, everything was put in there for a reason. I think the devs want you to mix it up, try different armour, weapons, builds, playstyles etc... as you go along.
Get Latenna to +10, she'll finish every boss for you.
I want to do a Castlevania Sypha mage build but then when I think what it'll actually be like I go off it. Me winding up spells, some cnut with a sword smashing me...
Yeah the game fecks you over more than once so it’s fine to feck it over back. I’ve used summons and cheeses and do not feel bad at all. I got one shotted about 7 times against Elden Beast just now so I summoned Tiche and she helped massively.
https://www.pcgamer.com/its-hard-to-say-goodbye-to-elden-ring/
This is so true. I can't remember the last game I played that I was so disappointed to be finished. Maybe The Witcher 3 or BOTW? Which is some achievement considering it took me 100+ hours to beat it. There's just something so insanely addictive about it.
This is so true. I can't remember the last game I played that I was so disappointed to be finished. Maybe The Witcher 3 or BOTW? Which is some achievement considering it took me 100+ hours to beat it. There's just something so insanely addictive about it.
I always string games out I'm loving for that reason (perhaps not ER though
), I just don't click with those who have to rush and be the first to finish. But more often than not it leads to stupid decisions like the first time playing BOTW I deleted a 120hr file just because I hadn't played for 2 weeks, I have ocd when it comes to restarting games I'm sure of it. I just have to start from scratch after anything more than a few days break.Yeah it’s been great to fully experience it in the height of the zeitgeist. Everyone went on the journey together.
I try to completely blitz through them initially for fear of my similarly obsessed friends overtaking me and no longer being able to talk about it with them, but once I realise I'm getting towards the latter part of the game I tend to drop my playtime down a fair bit to draw it out more. I think with ER I had 60 hours in a week and a half and then 50 in the next 3 weeksI always string games out I'm loving for that reason (perhaps not ER though
You're a whole other level. I was like half way through when you started and you finished it the same day as me
I try to completely blitz through them initially for fear of my similarly obsessed friends overtaking me and no longer being able to talk about it with them, but once I realise I'm getting towards the latter part of the game I tend to drop my playtime down a fair bit to draw it out more. I think with ER I had 60 hours in a week and a half and then 50 in the next 3 weeks
You're a whole other level. I was like half way through when you started and you finished it the same day as me
Yeah I became a little bit obsessed
felt like I searched every nook and cranny of the map too. It’s ruined other games for me now.Finally got back into playing it properly. Had a 2-3 week period of barely playing due to the house move. Beat Leyndell Capital last night, absolutely massive area and I definitely missed spots but loved it. Possibly my favourite area so far. feck that underground area, though I didn't have any trouble with Mohg.
I want to respec my character again. Want to dual wield Lordsword Straight swords, have bloodhound step on one sword, not sure what ash of war on the other. Really trying to avoid using intelligence or faith and just allocate into pure strength or dex, but not sure which of the 2 to go with.
I want to respec my character again. Want to dual wield Lordsword Straight swords, have bloodhound step on one sword, not sure what ash of war on the other. Really trying to avoid using intelligence or faith and just allocate into pure strength or dex, but not sure which of the 2 to go with.
I did the delete my save thing with Monster Hunter World when Iceborne came out. Kind of forgot how many gazillion hours it took to get back to where I was.I always string games out I'm loving for that reason (perhaps not ER though
Funny you mention this. I haven't played it in about 2 years (think I got around 30 hours clocked in?), and itching to get back in. But deliberating whether to start again fresh or just jump in and quickly try to acclimatise? Did you regret restarting?I always string games out I'm loving for that reason (perhaps not ER though
No, I think doing it over was even better.
But if you can, play it on emulator. Brings the game even more to life and takes it to the level it deserves.
So I caved and finished NG+1. I’m not happy about it and I’m trying my best to be a better person from here on out.
I’m 99% sure I’m done with the game now.
I have that GPU. No crashes but constant stuttering. Haven't played this in a few days because of the performance, shame.
This is so true, really has felt like lots of us moved through around the same time
So what's next?
Feck those cnuting chariot dungeons. Auriza is a pain in the fecking ass.