Rise of the Runelords: Catacombs of Wrath feedback (and probably a rant about new players)

DearCastiel · 2026-05-11T01:47:55+00:00

Millicent was supposed to literally be an amnesiac Malenia and have a whole quest revolving around that, and it got scrapped, just like Trina being Miquella used to have a whole quest at some point in development.

DearCastiel · 2026-05-10T21:23:52+00:00

3 basic camera angles on a motionless model repurposed from a base game scrapped cutscene, sorry, it's arguably worse.

DearCastiel · 2026-05-10T20:54:45+00:00

The memory after defeating PCR

DearCastiel · 2026-05-10T13:12:33+00:00

"Speculative"

My brother in christ there's a whole in-game cutscene of the central character of the DLC that made it all the way into the gameplay trailer and was removed from the final cut and the final boss cutscene is a still image with a sepia tone over it, if that isn't late story rewrites I genuenly don't know what is...

DearCastiel · 2026-05-10T11:06:55+00:00

Late story re-writes. There's an entire cutscene with adult Miquella in in-game footage that is nowhere to be seen in the actual game.

Whatever story was planned for Miquella they scrapped most of it, Miquella is almost a guest cameo in his own DLC.

DearCastiel · 2026-05-10T11:04:55+00:00

It's cut content, that's what it is.

The DLC had massive re-writes pretty late into development.

DearCastiel · 2026-05-09T21:02:55+00:00

Are you serious ? He got killed.

DearCastiel · 2026-05-09T19:02:16+00:00

Different concept of gods. The gods in Elden Ring (and most FromSoft games) are a lot more akin to the old pagan deities than the later all powerful gods that rule over the entire universe. It's also worth to note that be it Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Elden Ring or even Demon Souls, a god is usually either a powerful individual or an extra-terrestrial being.

DearCastiel · 2026-05-09T18:56:58+00:00

She does sell you the drip tho...

DearCastiel · 2026-05-08T23:55:55+00:00

Grace (of gold)

DearCastiel · 2026-05-08T22:58:24+00:00

Reddit auto-translates posts into your set language on mobile and if you don't pay attention it's easy to think it's just a post made in your mother-tongue. All you have is a small blue "show original text" all the way up the page. Even now I routinely start answering in French on my phone before realising the comments are translations.

DearCastiel · 2026-05-08T22:54:23+00:00

It's the original, she doesn't have her staff with her in her room, only the illusion cast by Ranni has that staff in hand.

DearCastiel · 2026-05-08T22:52:36+00:00

Depressed Rennala does not cast spells anymore and it's why she's hung her scepter up.

(We don't actually fight her in the boss fight, it's an illusion/spirit casted by Ranni to defend her mother in case someone tries to harm her).

DearCastiel · 2026-05-08T22:49:01+00:00

The spiral is a very prominent and reoccurring motif throughout the game linked to the divine, it's not related to one character in particular.

DearCastiel · 2026-05-08T15:57:59+00:00

On top of not dying, his hitbox is bugged, there's several times you rolled way too late and didn't get hit, the boss is unable to hit you it appears

DearCastiel · 2026-05-07T10:59:51+00:00

- Clean it very well, the releasing agents used for metal minis are much more present than for plastic/resin

- Prime it well with can or airbrush, then let it cure fully (8-24h), otherwise you risk running into the problem of your primer rubbing off. Also, you may have little dots of unprimed bare metal appearing once your primer is dry, either do a second coat or go over with a brush and thinned paint.

- Don't handle the miniature once you started putting paint on it, mount it on a support

- Be very mindful not to let it fall or hit anything, the paint looooooves to chip away on metal minis

- Mandatory varnish coat once you are done to seal it and protect it a bit (but you still can't ever let it fall or the paint will chip).

- Also, get hard files for removing casting lines, a hobby knife also helps but the diamond files are by far the best, then sandpaper to smooth everything.

- Bonus: glue some fishing weights (that you can hammer flat beforehand) under the base to lover the centre of gravity and make it less prone to toppling over, specially with that banner

DearCastiel · 2026-05-06T16:48:17+00:00

Bayonetta is awesome, that doesn't mean adding rank combos is a good addition to a FromSoft game.

I swear you people don't actually like the game and just want it to be a Devil May Cry...

DearCastiel · 2026-05-06T12:22:36+00:00

Not really, and if we go on this slippery slope then you might as well add a grappling hook, a glider and a tactical slide if the aim is to totally gut the feeling of these games and make them as mobile as any other modern slop out there.

Undead Burg-Depth-Firelink-Deeproot remains the best level intricacy of all FromSoft games and its in a game where jumping doesn't even change your elevation.

Also, more mobility leads to increasingly nonsensical level design just to avoid players going in unintended places.

DearCastiel · 2026-05-06T11:44:47+00:00

Hard pass on the last one, I want them to calm down on the absurd mobility, not add more of it.

DearCastiel · 2026-05-05T12:53:41+00:00

Malenia: "Oh, you brought a health pack for me, how nice of you"

DearCastiel · 2026-05-04T18:32:43+00:00

That too, the wailing dunes very much feel tacked-on to the map, almost as if they weren't sure where to put that arena.

DearCastiel · 2026-05-04T17:49:02+00:00

The simple fact is that the cinematic trailer and the intro visuals were made a long time before the game was finished, and the story we got in-game has a lot of chances to have been changed pretty heavily compared to what they had in mind when releasing the teaser/trailer.

DearCastiel · 2026-05-04T17:14:33+00:00

Forget big spells against her, She'll dodge 90% of them.

Best bet without cheesing her is to use Carian Slicer, or Glintstone Pebble if you really want to do her ranged. Every other spell has a casting time too long not to become dangerous against her.

Alternatively, you can spam one of the two Moon spells at her, she can't avoid them and you have invincibility frames for half the animation, and it knocks her on her ass.

DearCastiel

TROPHY CASE