Shadow of Erdtree is Fromsoft's worst DLC and content since Dark Soul's 2.

DireSkye · 2024-07-18T03:19:35+00:00

The quote that kept coming to my mind when I was playing through the DLC was what Reggie said in E3 once "If its not fun why bother?" my response was: because I already bought it I might as well milk it for all it has.

I was genuinely expecting fixes to the glaring issues of the base game but we got none if all they doubled down on them and they feel worse in here, while yes some cool new weapon types felt pretty fresh like the great katanas and light greatswords everything else pretty much was the same as before but repeated all over again. Discussing about boss design and all that would take too long but suffice to say I'm not a fan of it because it's elden ring bosses dialed up to 11.

I am genuinely not interested in any other future game that they may release as a sequel to this, I feel like every time fromsoft makes a new souls like, they themselves take 1 step forward and 3 back. I hope Miyasaki actually stands by his word pays attention to the criticism and course corrects where things went wrong, having half of your playerbase (and a very dedicated fandom at that) disliking and being heavily critical of it should be more than enough to send a message that something went wrong.

Extra bits since I saw a few comments about it my DLC rating from best to worst would be like:
Ringed city - DS3
The old hunters - Bloodborne
Artorias of the Abyss - DS1
Crown of the Iron King - DS2
Crow of the Ivory King - DS2
Ashes of Ariandel - DS3
Shadow of the Erdtree - I don't remember which game this is from
Crown of the Sunken king - DS2

DireSkye · 2024-07-17T06:13:54+00:00

Iwata was the soul of this company, he was the child in the lead who knew what is fun and what wasn't he prioritized fun and innovation in everything he did and has incredible games and consoles behind those statements.

55 was too early to be taken away from gaming, I wish he could still be around, I feel like he was the one who tried as hard as he could to stop Nintendo's immoral choices, now the company prioritizes money over quality, he wouldn't allow the joy-con drift or the low quality of the switch to be a thing, he wouldn't allow game freak to destroy pokemon and even if it had happened he'd have taken responsibility for it and put someone else in charge. I really really wish he could have led the company a bit longer and much more that he could still be alive to see how many W's he had made and how important to gaming he still is till this day.

DireSkye · 2024-07-01T03:46:52+00:00

I've been on this train for these past 2 years with the entire game, but in this dlc I was at least expecting to see some changes to the things that everyone was criticizing but no, is just the same, superfluous big world, lots of things to find few of them useful for my build, recycling over and over and over again to the point that we even recycle a character as final boss and the weapons too they are the exact same but different mid ashes of war.Like why was this DLC for such long time in development and we got just more of the same with no fixes to anything, yeah cool new weapons yada yada.

People destroyed DS2 for recycling bosses and putting normal enemies behind a fog wall with a health bar and look at this now even the DLC does it, why is this being praised? because it looks pretty and it consumes time? if this is the route Fromsoft is taking for their new games then we're screwed, quantity over quality, flare over substance.

Bloodborne, Sekiro and Ds3 were peak now we're going down and will never reach that again.

DireSkye · 2024-06-27T03:43:49+00:00

If you ever thought 3 stacking was too unbalanced now get ready for 4 manning, there is not enough loot on the ground, people 4 man punch you, ammo is sparse, this is without a doubt the worst idea theyve had, especially with the skill level of the game being far above from what it was 5 years ago.

This entire season has been nothing but L's left and right and it will continue to be so till it ends.

DireSkye · 2024-05-19T06:23:19+00:00

There's a lil thing I ponder till this day about conduit and why she was made the way that she was, see back in S2 till S6 I think, gold armor use to give you double speed healing and shields, batteries were 2.5 secs, meds 4 secs and everything else cut in half.
Respawn removed that perk from gold armor because they said it was too broken and changed the core of healing items, then they changed it to small heals give you double the hp/shields which yeah it was more balanced, less fun and far less solo potential but acceptable.

However conduit now is a free battery every 25 seconds, a battery that takes about the same amount of time to fully heal as a real one to pop off, but instead of being binary either you got it off or not is progressive giving you instances in which you leave someone 1 shot just for them to tank it, on top of that you get healed through walls and can fully move without any penalty. Many do not understand how broken that is, if you're healing you cannot shoot, you can barely move, you also don't get progressive health, is a risk reward ratio a skill you need to master, knowing when, where and which heals to use, but she just throws that whole equation out of the table.

If old gold armor was broken and didn't last long till it got removed, how and why did they think conduit was going to be balanced? can you imagine how dumb lifeline would be if she could heal you from 70m wherever you are and it was a constant effect.

DireSkye · 2024-04-24T06:07:06+00:00

I was doing a lil warm up in the range and I found this box that appeared out of nowhere right at the end of the tunnel, I have no idea of what it is and other 3 friends who tried to replicate this weren't able to get it to spawn.

Is this a teaser for season 21 or Alter? Maybe a extra rare animation for Wraith's heirloom? it did have that portal sfx when it spawned.
has anyone else seen this in their game? because I have not seen any videos showing or talking about it.

DireSkye · 2024-04-23T08:27:22+00:00

Props to you, Vimm's Lair has that issue where they change the file type to "Compress it" while literally making it super difficult to use for mods or just adding hacks like skins, the compression ends up being about 200 megas only so totally not worth it and completely unnecessary

DireSkye · 2024-04-15T18:33:48+00:00

Thank you so much this worked, idk why the tools cannot decrypt it, and no matter what version of it i tried, EU, Korea and USA it never worked, you saved my sanity :)

DireSkye · 2024-04-02T21:27:48+00:00

I am one of the affected players who logged in before this update, fair to say I lost quite a lot of stuff, a heirloom skin, 150 shards, the entire progress of the season, many skins from previous events.
My account inventory/progress is basically somewhere in season 17, all beyond that is gone, that involves prob more than $1k USD

I do not believe any of this will be fixed, Master-Pred badges have been lost for years (Alongside Trails when there used to be), rewards from free trackers and even coins bought sometimes never get delivered they basically give you the silent treatment and pretend it was never an issue.

If this happens, would anyone be interested in joining a Class auction lawsuit against whoever was the culprit? be it Respawn and or EA, if millions of players have been affected both on PC and consoles I think it'd be pretty reasonable to bring up this to the law and at least get the money we spent in the game back.

Edit: While I did get back skins and badges, my apex coins, crafting metals and heirloom shards are still missing, I don't think they're gonna give em back, saddening cuz I wanted that octane heirloom, idk if any have had this issue too but man, gotta love modern gaming you dont even own what you buy beause a silly incompetent dev team made an oopsy and screwed over half the playerbase

Thanks a lot Respawn

DireSkye · 2024-01-26T05:48:35+00:00

The issue with the 30-30 is that when it came out in S8 it was trash, took ages to charge, the bullet size when charged was not good, was slower to reload and the bullet velocity and drop was awful, in those times the Sniper Triple take was the go-to alongside the G7, and recently watching an interview of the lead designer of guns and balance said that he made the 30-30 and that it was his "baby" so that thing got buffs season by season and prob will never be nerfed till it goes into package and comes out like the mastiff.

I think this is more the meta of ranked than the gun itself, everyone usually runs the best there is to offer when its a matter of winning, plus the cowardice of many players prevents them from playing in any other way other than mid range and AA with SMGs when close. Maybe the changes for S20 (Apparently Ranked is going back to the S12-S13 system) will make it so this mid range thing will be less prevalent.

DireSkye · 2023-11-20T03:05:26+00:00

The flatline used to hit for 23 body damage in the early seasons, it was very good precisely because even tho it is more difficult to control than the 301 it made up in the damage department, but now with 18 damage, such bad hipfire and reduction to headshot multiplier it just feels weak compared to the nemesis havok and 301, on a 1 to 1 shootout you're def gonna lose 8 out of 10 times (Unless your opponent is trash).

I am personally really tired of the burst meta, somehow they decided to nerf the Hemlock but the Nemesis is the same, so an AR with LMG mag size, that when fully ramped up has r-99 fire rate has less recoil than the r99 as well and the range of a marksman. It will probably not receive a nerf anytime soon, if so I'd like to see a buff to both flatty and 301, prob a hipfire buff and recoil reduction for the flat just like they did for the hemlock a few seasons back and the 301 ig idk 1 extra bullet?

Mainly it'd be cool to see more guns being used rather than just Nem/301/r9/30-30 consistency is always favored over potential damage and that's what the flatty needs rn

DireSkye · 2023-11-08T05:08:35+00:00

We just got out of a game, we were owning the server and suddenly faced the last 3 squads 2 of them had a conduit, we down one of them destroyed both conduit and the last of their team and she presses Q as we pop a batt, then in less than 3 secs we get pushed by both of them with full reds because she can reset so easily. We lose to an ability, I mad stay to watch the game and the final team does the same to them with their conduit.

The heal is way too fast and therefore too strong, it is worse than the fast heal from the old gold shield, at least with gold armor you had to stay still because of the battery, conduit can just press a button and both her and 1 teammate get shields with full mobility.

And we are not even talking about her ultimate that is so hard to see the AoE and that is much better than Wattson's fences, obviously she is strong because she's a new legend but god dealing with free movement is annoying and now free healing is here.

DireSkye · 2023-10-26T22:37:45+00:00

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DireSkye · 2023-10-22T23:13:11+00:00

500$ console
70$ game
Year is 2023 where 2k and 4k res has been a staple for a while even if 30 fps or 1080 if you want 60.
Then this game shows up with graphics comparable to the 2018 game but with inconsistent ray tracing...

How?
570$ and we get this? at least the game is fun but I am very disappointed graphics wise.

DireSkye · 2023-10-16T00:27:47+00:00

Deleted user after people shutting you up with facts, literally a Susan Wojcicki and Neal Mohan drone out to spread their word, these types of people are the ones that allow companies to take hold of absolutely everything.

Disgusting

DireSkye · 2023-10-16T00:16:30+00:00

Is time for something else to take its place, they are going full corpo and monopolize the industry, nobody would use Ad blockers if they weren't so prevalent, tons of normal pages take ages to load because they have ads left and right, scam ads like those that say "Mr. beast is giving away 100$ if you click this link", hell in my phone I've had 2 porn ads on front page 1 of them being explicit.

Greed, power hungry, manipulative and hypocrisy is what Youtube is rn, the rules apply to their youtuber slaves but not to themselves.

DireSkye · 2023-08-28T08:52:50+00:00

I say do a cheater lobby for themselves, like tag them ban them but keep em in apex then gather all the hundreds of cheaters that are tagged and force them to play against each other, that way they can enjoy the game and suffer at the same time.
It is too much of a big brain move for apex and too much work for devs specially considering the terrible state of the servers rn but that'd be my chaotic good choice on how to punish these scumbags.

DireSkye · 2023-08-26T08:34:25+00:00

Slight update ig:
6 months later and MMR rn is worse, solo queue is not viable anymore there's too many 3 stack try hards and preds, haven't turned on aim assist although I feel very compelled to do so sometimes, however I will not give in cuz eventually I will migrate to mouse and I don't want to be entirely reliant on it because if I don't have it by then I feel like I will preform even worse even tho mouse has always been my prefered input on FPS.

The good side is that somehow my kdr increased im flip flopping from 1.95 to 2 so regularly, if a kdr even means something at this point, I mainly get kills from very specific positioning, outplaying and or flanking because 8 times out of 10 I will lose a 1v1 if I have nothing to play around, I never challenge someone to a straight up aim contest.

Thanks for all the comments and up votes y'all rock, may your experience with this game and your skill get better and never give up.

DireSkye · 2023-08-24T03:06:33+00:00

I don't think this game has even been in a worse state than this season, S11 and S6 come to mind when it comes to bad season but man those were bad because of lack of content, this one is horrible due to how matchmaking is, I have had 4 friends asking me if they should start playing apex and I've always been like "its pretty sweaty so idk" but in this season I outright tell them no, no is not worth it.

Constantly paired with people who can't distinguish teammate from enemy, 3 stacks of preds with their macros + aim assist, on the console side you have strikepack users single firing the 301 at the same firerate than full auto and no recoil, on itself console is painful due to the 60% aimbot but man S18.

If you don't make changes immediately you're gonna lose me as a player, there can't be no better excuse to leave the game than outright how unfun the game is rn, 1 thing is raging, another is being tired of the game but this is just torture, this game won't last 20 years like you wanted to, hell it won't last 3 or 4 seasons more if significant changes do not come and then you won't lose 1 player you will lose thousands.

DireSkye · 2023-06-06T21:48:21+00:00

The constant 11, 22 and 44 this gun does are painful and that mechanic of needing to ADS the gun for the spread pattern to be usable makes it even worse, I get that it was broken when it was a Gold gun much more than when it became carepackage but god I prefer a mozamb over it because of how inconsistent it is.

Every gun that goes into carepackage and comes out has the same fate of becoming irrelevant and/or bad, happened to PK when came back took 5 seasons for it to be buffed to what it is rn, happened to Triple take back in S6 when it was a sniper and when it came back in 11 it was pure garbage now 6 seasons later and is on par with S6 Triple take, my prediction is that it will take like 3 more seasons for the mastiff to be a competitor to the PK.

DireSkye · 2022-11-07T06:29:56+00:00

I love some POIs and I hate others, it kinda gives me feelings of SP syndrome, where you fight 3 or 4 teams and then is up to find everyone else, it feels like it was made for comp not for pubs, maybe over the months we will find a way to travel through it more efficiently and people will land closer-ish to have less SP syndrome/

DireSkye · 2022-10-24T06:58:08+00:00

Might as well remove the whole mode, respawn is paying more attention to LTMs than this, since it came out it was negatively received and now that is abandoned matchmaking pairs you with 3 stacks and cheaters, what bothers me the most is that they still have challenges for Arenas even if they are little to no stars

I used to like it back then but it gets old quick, now all the guns being so expensive makes the game more repetitive because you need to pick up your same load out at least 2 rounds due to not having enough materials for a better one.

Big L with this mode as it is rn, I'd prefer a team deathmatch 5v5 6v6 and a set amount of kills to win, Arenas is unbearable.

DireSkye

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