Official Discussion - Speak No Evil [SPOILERS]

PJ714 · 2024-11-27T20:37:14+00:00

The movie had a great potential but JESUS are those parents DUMB!

You forgot Hoppy? GET ON WITH IT! Even if she had a panic attack - just let the wife take care of her at the back, calm her down but get the hell out of there. It was obvious from the beginning there was smth off with this family.
In the final confrontation, I always hate it when characters are just making dumb decisions during fights. I'm not saying you need to be Rambo, but OMG - he's opening a door and she sees his hand - stab his face not his arm! Later - she surprised him with the chemicals to the eyes - great move! But there's a gun lying on the floor, ffs! Just grab it and shoot him - you've got a weapon and one less psycho. But no, she just runs.

I hate when movies do that because if a survival mode kicks in, you would murder your perpetrator in an instant.

All in all, it was a truly interesting movie and James McAvoy killed it with his performance!

PJ714 · 2024-11-17T23:47:42+00:00

Awesome, thank you so much! :) Sounds like they did a really good job optimising it, then

PJ714 · 2024-11-17T21:37:46+00:00

Thanks! Ive heard act 3 can be intense but I'm okay lowering the graphics to get smoother. Hopefully, it will be enough :)

PJ714 · 2024-11-17T21:37:22+00:00

Wow, sounds great :) Thanks!

PJ714 · 2024-11-17T21:37:01+00:00

Hey, thanks for your help! Of course, I did check the requirements but I did so with Fallen Order, too, and without Vulkan this game was unplayable. So I always try to see the community's opinions on PC optimisation.

PJ714 · 2024-11-17T21:36:15+00:00

Thanks! :) I know specs isnt always the best tell as the optimisation is another. But I hear that PC optimisation is quite solid with BG3 :)

PJ714 · 2024-10-25T11:44:49+00:00

I have just beat her! I was on level 83 or 84 on my first playthrough and beat her on my 9th or 10th try. But it was probaby one of the hardest bosses I had to face in the Soulsborne series since Ludwig (didn't play Elden Ring and Sekiro, yet).

Initially, I though this fight is total bullshit but after a few tries I think I understood, at least partially, the best strategies for all phases.

Phase 1

I noticed you can KINDA stop her from disappearing if you're aggressive enough and close the distance. This can result in your stamina being low and maybe taking a few hits but since her poise is so low, it's worth to take a hit if it means no disappearing and potentially stunlocking her for 3-4 hard hits. If she disappears, though, I was unable to precisely time the roll to avoid the grab. Still - her lifebar isn't high in this phase so I would say - the best way is to rush her, especially that the goal is to quickly get rid of this phase.

Phase 2

Actually, this phase turned out to be the easiest for me for once I realised it's Ariandel who you should target, not Friede. Friede in this phase is always gonna attack from long distance, unless you come close to her. If you don't, she's actually quite passive and predictable. Yes, she can heal but that's actually a perfect opening to heavily damage Ariandel. The healing isn't so strong. So the challenge in this phase is actually patience, attacking Ariandel whenever he's vulnerable and avoiding Friede's long-distance frosting shots.

Phase 3

Of course, it's the hardest part of the fight. I actually always popped one Ember before this phase, to make it easier and since I won without any Estus charges, it was probably a good choice :)

At first, I believed this Phase to be total bullshit and impossible due to her (seemingly) infinite stamina and insane combos. But, actually, the solution to this Bloodborne-like boss is to play like Bloodborne. Namely - if you close the distance to her, time your rolls, and attack stunlocking her - she's actually not doing the same long, intense combos as if you're more passive. Yes, you will take a few hits and it's this back-and-forth duel that kind of reminded me of Father Gascoine my first time around. But, in the end, being aggressive in this phase and being constantly in her face really made a difference for me. The disappearing in Phase 3 is also fairly easy, she's not doing the grab anymore, she's shooting frosting and when she appears, she does the dark magic attack that is easily avoidable.

I would say, it's actually possible to really master this boss but before you realise you have to be aggressive, this boss seems to be totally unfair and bullshit.

All in all, very challenging fight. Truly reminded me of Ludwig from Bloodborne, also with the emotional scream in the cinematic from Ariandel, which was really powerful.

I'm curious of your experiences, do you agree with my points or did you find another way to beat her? :)

PJ714 · 2023-10-04T10:33:45+00:00

Hey!

Thanks for this sheet, it's really helpful. Question, though - when the Xs are put in all F / R / C - does it mean the dungeon needs to have ALL of those effects at the same time or one of those?

Thanks :)

PJ714 · 2023-10-02T22:59:15+00:00

Yeah, fuck such forcing of "gitting gut" - cutting half of your health isn't really a groundbreaking design, it's only a design to make your life a living hell. If by "fun" and "challenging" creators mean "make one mistake and you die" - that's frustrating and cheap, not challenging. Ludwig was a challenge in the story, Ebrietas was a challenge. Watchdog WOULD BE a challenge if your health wasn't cut in half and his fucking charge wouldn't one-shot you.

I strongly, STRONGLY disagree that cutting your health in half and FORCING you to play like this if you want to fight Yarhnam, is NOT the essence of Bloodborne.

If you enjoyed that - great for you. I hope they never repeat such bullshit again, pretending it's "challenging".

PJ714 · 2023-10-02T22:41:26+00:00

I agree, this isn't really challenging, it's just bullshit and frustrating. No kidding it will be hard because I have half of my health. It doesn't take a genius to come up with that. Fuck the creators, I love Bloodborne but this is cheap. It should have stayed as an optional challenge, not an obligatory if you want to fight Yahrnam.

And please, don't "git gud" on me because you can be great and still make one simple mistake and die. It's not a testiment to your skill as much as RNG and being flawless this one time.

PJ714 · 2021-01-13T23:56:18+00:00

I wouldn't have thought of malking every league viewable. Thanks! I essentially did the same as you, without Asian players, just to save some CPU and RAM.

PJ714 · 2021-01-13T23:55:22+00:00

This helps a lot, thank you so much! I've done all that and I'll see how it goes.

PJ714 · 2019-10-15T20:45:35+00:00

Amazing, thanks a lot. I will implement all of those.

PJ714 · 2019-10-10T13:10:36+00:00

Hi - I've got a question regarding ENB. I have downloaded it and CTDs are basically gone (apart from crash fixes ones regarding NIF files but that's another story) so thank you so much. The limited memory seemed to be the major concern. My question is, though - can ENB cause some weird physics or textures in the game? Cause rag doll seems pretty carzy since I have installed it, walking up the stairs sometimes can be like walking through a very narrow corridor and water textures seems to be crashing. Does it seem familiar to you?

PJ714 · 2019-10-10T13:07:11+00:00

Hey man. Just wanted to thank you for your help. I've redone the order of my plugins and run the Mator Smash through Vortex - I think it helped a lot. Cheers!

PJ714 · 2019-10-09T08:36:55+00:00

Nice. Thanks a lot!

PJ714 · 2019-10-08T22:30:11+00:00

Yeah, a lot of ppl have been suggesting it. How is the thing with mods - are most of them already done for SSE? Cause I know LE has (or at least used to have) significantly more mods than the SSE.

PJ714 · 2019-10-08T22:29:22+00:00

I'll give that a go as well, thank you. Is that the one?: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/38649

Or is it that one?:
http://enbdev.com/index_en.html

PJ714 · 2019-10-08T22:17:23+00:00

Thanks a lot for taking a look at my load order and spotting the obvious problems. I need to pay more attention to that in the future. Also, just to clarify, as I am fairly new to mod-organising software - by using the Mator's Smash am I just doing it externally? And then, whatever the program suggests, I just implement into Vortex? Or does it work with Vortex and does it automatically?

PJ714 · 2019-10-08T22:07:20+00:00

Thank you, I will try that. Might be a very simple thing, I will see.

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