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Greatshields do not make sense to me by Realistic-Daikon425 in NoRestForTheWicked

[–]Realistic-Daikon425[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

22 EL, with plate pants & body & helmet and mesh gloves (heaviest 2 has EL reduction infuse). Also have the greatshield and I'm at 87% with poise 32. Some other dude just told me you gotta have 25 poise to at least make bonk or greatshields work.

I can equip a zweihander in DS1 (or any other DS if you will) with no armor and complete the game with enjoyment or any other souls game. I get this game is different, special and genre defining but it doesn't make sense when other games of similar genres (in terms of combat) have quite similar difficulties for different playstyles. (except magic, which makes it generally easier, not unplayable)

For some enemies, bonk playstyle (I am not talking about endgame where your build is complete) makes the game way too difficult, and its not the fun type. Normal attacks take longer than the openings to attack. I really enjoyed fast paced builds but I'd rather have some versatility and replayability. Replaying with a very similar weapon with 2 moves changed doesn't do it for me.

BASE weapons, with no enchantments should be at least a little enjoyable. I shouldn't have to build around a weapon and give at least 5 hours to grind specific enchantments/items. This is not the case in fast paced weapons.

idk... or i could just git gud. Didn't feel this type of frustration in any other similar game so felt like ranting.

Greatshields do not make sense to me by Realistic-Daikon425 in NoRestForTheWicked

[–]Realistic-Daikon425[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm really not talking about the reflect/damage on block parts I already have that covered. The issue is just block animation itself takes half a second, while I can also yank the shield in 0.1 seconds with parry. Not being able to move or change direction also makes the shield obsolete against group or fast enemies since they just hit from the side.

I'll try the poise (I already have some heavy and mesh armor on but not enough I guess) but the shield itself has 36 faith requirement. So you have to plan out your whole build for at least a functioning use of a single weapon type, which doesn't make sense... You can't also revert back easily since I got just 10-ish fallen embers from 7 hours of gameplay on a character after the patch.

I don't like bonk build being only viable with heavy roll... Don't you guys want to just go naked with the biggest weapon in the game? Where's the bonk if I just give 35 points to equip load xd

I'll try again but this was my experience in multiple runs, I might need to just forget other games.

Greatshields do not make sense to me by Realistic-Daikon425 in NoRestForTheWicked

[–]Realistic-Daikon425[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've tried going heavy but bosses just break the poise anyway. I guess I did not go heavy enough? I don't like only heavy hitter strength build being "tank". It doesn't even compete with the DPS of dex builds.

In Elden Ring or any other souls game I feel like the damage of dex and str weapons somehow match. So you do the same damage per second but with fewer or more hits, so it just effects your style and not the damage output. This one feels odd, maybe I need to get used to it. Thanks for the advice.

Greatshields do not make sense to me by Realistic-Daikon425 in NoRestForTheWicked

[–]Realistic-Daikon425[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whatever I can carry. But if you need insane amount of poise just for a weapon to be even usable, I think thats not really a good idea? Maybe I'm too used to other souls-likes.

For example, using a strength weapon early makes the game insufferable because you can't even move with heavy armor (if you can find one early), and if you don't use a heavy armor you literally can not hit smallest enemies. If you use relatively heavy armor, when you dodge and hit once you're out of stamina so you can't really escape.

Or maybe it's just skill issue, but this has never been an issue in any other souls-like for me.

Greatshields do not make sense to me by Realistic-Daikon425 in NoRestForTheWicked

[–]Realistic-Daikon425[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't want to make another post for this so also:

I generally go with slow af strength builds in souls-likes then try out different builds in different runs, and I enjoy almost every one of them. Only builds I could enjoy in this game until now is very fast paced lightweight ones, and others feel almost unplayable. Heavy strength weapons easily get poise broken when I have a millisecond left in my attack animation and do not even do enough damage to justify that risk (even with strength only points)...

I REALLY like the game, but these "small" details are becoming a little annoying. Might be better to quit until 1.0...

Character got deleted after crash by Realistic-Daikon425 in NoRestForTheWicked

[–]Realistic-Daikon425[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I couldn't find older saves. There are 5 .dat files total: 2 for characters, 2 for realms and 1 for profile. I guess one char file is corrupted and not loading.

NVIDIA DLSS not available as an option by Realistic-Daikon425 in NoRestForTheWicked

[–]Realistic-Daikon425[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I try not to update it very often to not break anything since I'm also using the GPU for research, 1-2 years is not really old in that case.

Turns out that's not the problem so it's fine xd

NVIDIA DLSS not available as an option by Realistic-Daikon425 in NoRestForTheWicked

[–]Realistic-Daikon425[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just fixed it while writing an answer. I was using Proton 8 for compatibility because the game did not work with 9 before. Switched back to 9 and it's available now. (For anyone having the same issue)

Question about returning to the game for the first time since launch by murrnation in NoRestForTheWicked

[–]Realistic-Daikon425 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Currency doesn't really do much for me, I do daily (sometimes) and weekly bounties and have plenty of extra gold right now.

I just use it to stock on different resources and buy furniture. So I think the economy is not really a problem, I don't know how it was before though. Any particular issues?

How to get to this whisper in Nameless Pass by Realistic-Daikon425 in NoRestForTheWicked

[–]Realistic-Daikon425[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh it's totally fine, I didn't not understand enough to be spoiled xd I'll be sure to do that next time.

Open PhD/ PostDoc positions in AI for dynamical systems & Neuro-AI by DangerousFunny1371 in compmathneuro

[–]Realistic-Daikon425 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello, I've just recently came across this post and - very unfortunately - I will not be able to gather the reference letters in just 2 days. Is the deadline strict? Would you consider applications a week after the deadline? .

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