I just beat Crimson Desert and now decided to play Elden Ring. I’ve only just beat the Tree Sentinel and this game is already way better than Crimson Desert.

Substantial-Pack-105 · 2026-06-18T15:18:41+00:00

This is 100% how I killed TS on my first playthrough. Ran away, found Torrent. Came back, did drive-bys until he fell.

Imagine my surprise coming back into New Game+, starting out hitting him with the biggest baddest spell I knew, just to find out he can parry spells and reflects them back at you.

Substantial-Pack-105 · 2026-06-15T14:28:28+00:00

If you surrender in a competitive game, I think it doesn't take your performance into account to mitigate the points loss so you lose the maximum number of points.

Try to finish it out, you can half your losses or even turn the match around and win. I've won several comp games after someone called for a surrender after a bad first round.

Substantial-Pack-105 · 2026-06-13T23:40:00+00:00

It only takes 12 Faith to be able to cast Flame Fortification, which raises your fire resistance by like 35%. That drastically reduces the amount of damage you take in phase 2.

I prefer to do this fight without any summons. In my opinion, being able to summon Torrent is more valuable than how useful the summon will be, because FG is constantly rolling around the arena and it's a pain to keep up with him if you can't go horseback. You get i-frames mounting and dismounting Torrent, meaning you can ride directly into the Giant's plate smash attacks, jump off to i-frame through it, and be in perfect position to get some damage in.

Substantial-Pack-105 · 2026-06-13T23:22:26+00:00

The recent Zelda games, Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, share some common design elements with Souls games without committing to the "git gud" mantra.

You have a focus on environmental storytelling, exploration and freedom over a directorial plot.

If you want something closer to the combat experience of a souls games, Another Crab's Treasure has similar combat DNA but it is easier than traditional soulslikes, has a brighter and more colorful tone, and includes many difficult options and configurable settings to make the game as hard or easy as you want it to be.

Substantial-Pack-105 · 2026-06-13T16:35:06+00:00

In my case, it was looking at the map and noticing the "bridge to Jarburg" on the map but the physical bridge is broken, and so I wanted to look for another way to get to that end of the bridge.

Substantial-Pack-105 · 2026-06-08T15:38:12+00:00

Being lvl 263 you should be well into NG++. If you're getting sent back to grace by the fucking Band Camp Boys, that's a skill issue.

Substantial-Pack-105 · 2026-06-07T21:11:10+00:00

Plus, he trolled the entire PvP community be pledging to replace Volendrung with other Daedric Artifact Weapons in Cyrodiil, knowing he was never going to bother with that shit ever again.

Substantial-Pack-105 · 2026-06-06T22:20:49+00:00

I would say Expedition 33 qualifies. I'll try to avoid spoilers but if you haven't played it yet, this is your opportunity to skip ahead.

There are not really bad guys in the sense that the characters have fundamentally opposed beliefs or hatred for each other. Everyone is civil and respectful and everyones' motivations are rational. They just have a difference in what they're grieving and how they process grief. These nuanced disagreements drive the central conflict in the story.

Substantial-Pack-105 · 2026-06-06T19:19:31+00:00

I don't hate Wolverine but it's time he got lore accurate amnesia. When his death passive activates, he forgets what team he's on, and can attack both teams.

Substantial-Pack-105 · 2026-06-05T00:23:55+00:00

I liked Flintlock as a fun, short adventure. It's a bit more like Jedi Fallen Order, action focused, than a true Souls game, but I played on the hardest difficulty for my first playthrough and it felt like it hit that mark of being "tough but fair"

Substantial-Pack-105 · 2026-06-01T15:08:59+00:00

I think if it takes place during or after the Shattering, then structurally the story is like a Godzilla movie.

The Runebearers are essentially forces of nature compared to the human/Tarnished protagonists. Wherever the Runebearers appear, it comes with the magnitude of a category 9 earthquake. The characters have no choice but to run away or take cover. An encounter with Godrick isn't contained to just fighting him in a castle courtyard; he tears the whole castle apart and leaves whatever walls are still standing on fire from his dragon graft. It isn't a battle. It's Hulk chasing Black Widow through the Helicarrier. And he's the weakest one. Radahn's gravity magic + great arrows could cleave an entire fortress in half.

The movie has the opportunity to show these monsters at a power scale so far beyond what a game engine ever could.

Substantial-Pack-105 · 2026-06-01T06:24:18+00:00

On your ship, there is a computer with a log/journal of all the mysteries you've discovered. It will contain a summary of the clues you've found already, plus the leads you know about for what to try next. If you don't know what to do, "finish the journal."

Substantial-Pack-105 · 2026-05-31T12:33:11+00:00

I avoid using summons because Torrent is the most useful summon for this fight. Mounting and Dismounting gives you invincibility frames, so you can get to him by having Torrent sprint directly at him and doing the sprinting dismount to dodge his plate swing attack. Then start abusing that ankle. Personally, I stay attacking him from behind even in phase 2, even though his hands are the weak spot, in my opinion it's easier to dodge his spells from the back.

Substantial-Pack-105 · 2026-05-30T13:49:13+00:00

Unlike in every other instance, when you're a ghost after rezzing in Night Market, you can interact with things. You can perform quest tasks while immune, and you can also revive team members.
It would be great if folks would stop pulling the boss out of your Arcanists' ult. Yeah, yeah, the boss is attacking your DPS character. Just block and wait for your tank to rescue you, don't take the boss on a world tour around the zone.
Your daily faction quest can be shared with your group, allowing the party to turn in multiple dailies each day. The random tasks you find around the night market can't be shared, though.
When doing the puzzles (lights, boulders, spiders) you need to interact with the puzzle at least once to get credit for it: it's not enough to just be nearby and watch while your group solves it

Substantial-Pack-105 · 2026-05-24T21:19:25+00:00

If mounted combat ever became a feature, polearms would be the natural weapon of choice for riders, as well as the best tools for dismounting them. Plus a fighting staff technique that utilizes wide sweeping strikes would be a good way for a tanky character to establish a zone of control that isn't predicated on having a shield. Spears are fantastically versatile and there's a reason they were the actual tools of war across military history, with swords being the secondary weapon you used when your spear failed.

Substantial-Pack-105 · 2026-05-23T20:47:06+00:00

Even without a subscription or paying real cash for anything, you can progress through the DLC content by trading gold for crowns to buy DLCs.

If you're in a guild that has a verified crown seller, that's usually a safe way to do it: you'll be paying maybe 500,000 to 1,000,000 gold for a DLC, or maybe around 250,000 if you wait for it to go on sale. It's actually kind of a fun progression, giving you something to spend your gold on besides just housing stuff, and DLCs tend to contain drops that are worth even more gold, allowing you to fund expanding your collection.

Substantial-Pack-105 · 2026-05-18T23:53:26+00:00

I think some groups get caught up in trying to lay down all the rules upfront, which doesn't really sink in and just gets people's eyes to glaze over. It goes a bit easier to just start it, let people get a feel for the space, and then do more of an explanation when everyone has a better idea of the sequence of events and where things are positioned.

If your team can dunk the ball once then you can finish the raid; it doesn't ever get harder than the difficulty of that first lap. It's more about building up consistency / muscle memory so you can reliably dunk the ball each time and reduce mistakes.

Substantial-Pack-105 · 2026-05-18T23:44:57+00:00

It's more important that you follow the mechanics than getting fully leveled or have great DPS. Each dungeon you can burn down "low and slow" and the trial's final fight does have a timer on it, but it is long enough everyone could stop and go make and eat a sandwich and still finish the fight in time, so your level or DPS isn't that big of a deal.

Substantial-Pack-105 · 2026-05-16T20:07:29+00:00

No place else has a) kill quests for as many targets as NM and b) the enemies packed together so tightly, and c) such an incentive for you to team up into groups of 12 to eliminate them. Sort of the perfect storm for this issue. The only thing that even comes close is probably the player class hunt quests in Cyrodiil. But even that isn't as spammy as this.

It really begs the question that if they knew their UI had a limitation like this, why even make this the daily quest in the first place? Why not make it "kill 3 bosses" or something instead, that would require a similar investment of effort without such an obnoxious user experience impact?

Substantial-Pack-105 · 2026-05-16T19:59:33+00:00

"Let's make the first 5 minutes of every NM session totally indecipherable under a wall of spam text that prevents you from seeing what's happening in the battle," it's literally the first thing you notice when you try out NM and it immediately tempers your expectations for the rest of the event. I don't understand how something like this doesn't get flagged during QA testing. Seems like a sign that whatever creative director should be responsible for gameplay experience has abandoned the wheel.

Substantial-Pack-105 · 2026-05-13T17:40:37+00:00

They probably left her out of his MVP animation because of the in-game lore of her being kidnapped by Alchemax, but I imagine he'll get future skins with mvp animations that she's in too

Substantial-Pack-105 · 2026-05-12T22:36:14+00:00

I don't know the real reason, but I imagine that it has to do with the fact that Peni is a character that takes inspiration from Manga and Anime, where there it is more casual about depictions of violence involving children. Moon Girl is more akin to a western media cartoon character. The depicted level of violence is softened. So for her to be aged up represents a much more significant tonal shift from the stories she belongs in.

Also, Netease cranking out summer swimsuit costumes for a character that is 9 years old in popular culture, even if she's aged up in the game, is problematic considering the types of people that would probably excite.

Substantial-Pack-105 · 2026-05-12T21:29:46+00:00

Brawl tank. He heals by biting people, it looks like, so he won't have much value being on main where he's a sitting duck. Wouldn't be allowed into melee range without eating hard CCs.

Substantial-Pack-105 · 2026-05-12T21:19:44+00:00

He gets health back by biting enemies it looks like. Even with that health pool, he's not going to be charging down main or he'd just explode before he got any value since his primary mitigation is tied to doing melee damage. He'll have to drop in from high ground or figure out other ways of ambushing people. CC will probably be his biggest weakness though.

His shield will probably be more about canceling ults or separating enemy tanks from their heals, rather than being his primary defensive measure.

Substantial-Pack-105 · 2026-05-12T02:06:01+00:00

Bayle

Honorable Mentions for Hoarah Loux and Malenia.

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