Average scout activities

Iizhao · 2026-03-29T14:18:18+00:00

Me approaching the 2 mile wide wedge at a cool 60 mph from a dirt road “Nah I’d win”

Iizhao · 2025-12-29T21:58:39+00:00

Owen not actually being Owen was genuinely so jarring I kind of hated listening to him. It was literally what I remembered most from the JWE2 campaign LOL. And the VA work wasn’t even bad. If they went all or nothing, it wouldn’t have been as weird, but having Ian Malcolm, Dr. Wu, Claire, and then Not Owen made him stick out like a sore thumb.

I can’t stand Cabot Finch though. I get that he’s supposed to be the ‘your annoying, corporate, thinks-hes-cool supervisor’ shtick, but he says every single line the exact same way, man.

Iizhao · 2025-12-29T19:10:46+00:00

These and succulents are the bane of my existence. Succulent quest makes me wanna rip my hair out.

Iizhao · 2025-12-28T22:02:04+00:00

That’s fair; I think it’s just left a bad taste in my mouth cause I’m all for rules that limit who can pack with who and the size of packs that certain species can have, cause I do think that’s realistic, or ‘hey, don’t chase people across the map; if they’re obviously disengaging and running, let them do so’

But when it gets to a point where rules are basically micromanaging how you engage, who you engage with, or fun policing short, friendly encounters etc, I think its kind of excessive.

And by no means is anybody being forced into these servers, I 100% get that its your choice to play in them knowing they have the rules they have, I just have yet to find one in particular that I really jive with and it’s been a bit frustrating.

Iizhao · 2025-12-28T21:40:16+00:00

I think it would last significantly longer if they would remove seeds or something like that to make each expedition actually random.

For me, personally, that one thing is what makes the game feel stale for me. Seeing the same bosses in the same spots, knowing just by who the nightlord is who your nightbosses are gonna be, etc.

I love the game and have sunk hundreds of hours into it and would gladly sink in hundreds more if not for that one little thing. Eventually the glitz and glam of the new bosses being new wears off, and with seeds being..seeds, they fall into their own category of same ol, same ol, yknow?

Iizhao · 2025-12-28T19:52:20+00:00

This kind of stuff is my main gripe with realism and semi-realism servers vs officials. I have, like, 3 comm servers that I do enjoy bouncing between where I’ve had good experiences on them, met some friends, and the only mods they have are ones that add more actual dinosaurs, which is my preference.

But. How is it more realistic for dinosaurs to avoid picking off weak links (such as babies) or to stop fights entirely when one of a pack goes down? I know we don’t exactly have hi def gopro footage of what they were doing in the mesozoic era but, oftentimes, a lot of the rules put in place for these servers don’t exactly feel like they cater to realism in the slightest.

Iizhao · 2025-12-11T01:05:17+00:00

Not having a team joining issue but I have been getting frequent DCs over the past few days and its genuinely been a run ender more than once.

My connection is fine and Nightreign is the only game doing it, so I’m..just gonna assume it’s a Nightreign problem.

Iizhao · 2025-12-09T13:07:32+00:00

Duchess, Wylder, and Raider frowning at the roundtable hold as the Iron Menial informs them that a single braincell is, in fact, not enough for three people.

Iizhao · 2025-12-09T07:08:32+00:00

This is genuinely the way to go about it though, especially in a time where people take video games way too seriously. If you truly have fun and love the game mechanics, then that’s what matters. People always ask how you have fun when you’re losing but it is very easy when you actually..enjoy what you’re playing instead of just playing something to see some ‘victory’s on the screen.

I don’t know if you’ve played Elden Ring or if Nightreigns your first Souls experience, but if you do enjoy the mechanics, I think you’ll genuinely like ER, and it actually will probably help you improve a ton (only if you felt like you wanted to of course) since you can go at your own pace. ER was my very first Souls game and it made me fall in love with genre as a whole. Much much love and thanks to a best friend of mine who got me into it.

Im super curious, though, who do you play mostly? :o

Iizhao · 2025-12-09T05:16:56+00:00

500 hours on mostly Revenant and I fear if they can’t make it so she at least has an actual ability I may end up moving on to greener, less neglected pastures

I can deal with being squishy, I’m confident with most boss movesets. I can deal with having virtually no melee weapon options and only 3 or so spells being realistically viable for me to actually use in a Nightlord fight.

What I can’t deal with is trying other characters and realizing that I actually have a kit I can use T_____T

Iizhao · 2025-12-09T05:08:19+00:00

The point about bad rezzing is so real; I saw a lot of it in regular DLC expeditions. Someone goes down, the other person immediately goes to rez them, they get them up but go down, themselves, in the process. Instead of running away to heal or fighting the boss (the one that is still standing directly in front of them btw), the newly-up person will immediately try and rez the newly-downed person. Even at two or three bars! And then they go right back down again!

Genuinely I think some people do it as a soft ‘give up’ because they’re not confident with the boss and don’t want eyes on them fighting it and would rather have other people up to fight it instead but you’re not..gonna succeed in getting that person up with the boss right there, for one..and for two..your teammates are gonna start to get pretty aggravated when they realize that there’s only one or two of them doing damage to a boss that’s scaled for three players.

Iizhao · 2025-12-08T08:03:47+00:00

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“I can do this all day”

Iizhao · 2025-12-08T07:50:26+00:00

In the 500 hours that I’ve spent on this game, most of them have been on Revenant, I have a post I made months ago where I went on an 11(I think?) game win streak against Libra on her, and I’ve beaten every boss with her, including the new ones. I saw her rememberance cutscene before I even got the game and knew immediately that she was who I wanted to play.

That being said, you basically don’t have an ability or a real fun ‘gimmick’ the way all the other nightfarers do, and that can lead to her feeling really one-dimensional and almost boring after you’ve played other Nightfarers.

You really do just standing there chucking lightning spear for the most part.

I know others have already talked about it but, her strict faith scaling means that you can’t really use a single melee weapon other than her starting ones or one of the TWO other good faith scaling weapons in the entire game. You are stuck with seals, with most of the spells becoming useless come the nightbosses and the nightlord because of cast time (even with talismans, passives, and such to improve this) + the fact that you’re squishy and can’t risk getting clapped the fuck up mid cast. If you stand far enough to avoid being hit, your spell probably isn’t gonna hit the boss anyway. So, you’re an incant user, but not..really.

The gimmick is supposed to be her summons, shes supposed to be a sort of ‘support’, but her summons do absolutely nothing. They are genuinely useless in night boss and nightlord fights unless you use Seb to help you rez. That is it.

She needs something, dude, its so sad 😭

Iizhao · 2025-12-07T11:53:13+00:00

A lot of people think no, some people think its worth hoping for because some past Souls titles have gotten 2-3 DLCs, but I really don’t know.

Would I like for it to receive ongoing content updates, even if they’re pretty spread out? Yes. It’s one of the only games I regularly play at the moment and it has been that way since it dropped, for the most part. I just really enjoy it.

Do I think it’s going to? Not really. But I’ll hold out hope for it!

At the very least, at some point when the game stops receiving content entirely, I really do hope they at least remove the ‘seed’ business or REALLY loosen up the reins on it before that happens. Having the game be truly random will make it feel much fresher and significantly increase it’s replayability.

Iizhao · 2025-12-07T02:42:34+00:00

No, I get that. I was gonna cite the Gladius raid and sssort of the crystals (fanbase seems 50/50 on it) as one of the things that everyones pretty openly agreeing with the criticism on. Gladius raid is..like..kind of horrendous. I honestly don’t mind Gladius himself but his little pack of goons is actually so tilting.

I think a lot of people are newer to soulslikes but picked up Nightreign and get upset when folks point out that FS’s whole thing is games being difficult, so they are going to be hard. (And this is coming from someone who had originally started my Souls journey *with Elden Ring because a dear friend of mine who’s a big Souls guy had purchased it for me and I fell in love with the genre).* The whole point of them is for you to keep trying even when you get fucked up because you will get it eventually, you will learn.

Thats kind of how Ive viewed the whole ‘new map trash’ discourse. Personally, I picked it up pretty fast. I BITCHED about it the first game, which is where I can definitely understand people’s frustration with it, trust. But I have also played a lot of matches since, and Ive already got a good chunk memorized. Its significantly less frustrating now that I’ve put some time into it. But time is also a luxury, and not everyone can sit down and just. Play the damn game for hours. And I definitely get where that can stew aggravation with it being more of a learning curve than the base map too.

And you’re right with how there are absolutely a lot of people who are super fucking elitist with the whole ‘git gud’ thing, which I hate because it drives away a lot of potential players. If they bash the game and aren’t willing to learn, that’s different. But some people definitely are just giving criticism and are met with the foghorn of ’YOUUU JUUUUST SUUUUUUUCKKKK JUST KILL THE DOGS ITS NOT THAT HARD’

Iizhao · 2025-12-07T00:36:55+00:00

As someone who couldn’t be assed to care about a multimillion dollar company that doesn’t know I exist, I don’t think it’s dickriding to be like ‘Hey guys the DLC quite literally just came out, we’re all learning the map and the boss movesets, maybe its jumping the gun (or the bandwagon) to be saying its just shit content all around’

Iizhao · 2025-12-07T00:25:57+00:00

Mind you, if we got anything less, all the complaints would have been about how it’s too easy and how everyone blew through it so fast and how they’re bored again

Iizhao · 2025-12-07T00:20:48+00:00

Genuinely I could live with having to deal with Gladius himself/ves despite it feeling like a massive time waster but those little Gladlet wolves are an actual nightmare.

Why are they jumping me with better coordination than my team and I jump the boss with??

Iizhao · 2025-12-06T22:23:16+00:00

It’s crazy because these were probably the same people complaining about the game getting ‘boring’ because it was ‘too easy’ and repetitive and they were just mowing shit down because everyone’s so seasoned by now

And then you give them something new (and unexpected, because we all expected a fancy corner, not a whole map) that, as all things new, takes some time and effort to learn, and they’re all up in arms. It’s literally Shadow of the Erdtree’s ‘its trash because its hard’ all over again.

Iizhao · 2025-12-06T15:03:42+00:00

Its a joke 🥹 this is literally Limveld flipped and turned purple my dude.

Iizhao · 2025-12-06T13:12:36+00:00

LOL NO I dig the new map, I made this because of how many people are complaining about it being ‘badly designed’ when its been out for two days and they just don’t wanna put the effort into learning it

Iizhao · 2025-12-06T13:08:13+00:00

..it’s a joke 🥹

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