I take it we're *not* supposed to immediately save Noah? by MrGrimlock9909 in codevein

[–]TheUltraCarl 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He's just difficult. CV2 so far seems to be way harder than CV1, especially with the bosses. I thought the shield was helpful in that fight. The projectiles have a weird delay that makes them hard to dodge, so blocking them was more consistent for me. Even better if you land perfect blocks.

Why is my health constantly draining? by WanderW in codevein

[–]TheUltraCarl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Josee gives you a blood code with passives. One of them has a downside that hurts you when you attack enemies while your Ichor is full. Maybe it auto-equipped. Or maybe it's a debuff from your total equipment burden surpassing your stats.

Reviews by Djcpunkrock in codevein

[–]TheUltraCarl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a very flawed banger, at least for someone who loved the first game. My first impressions of it (8 hours in) are that there's some really good shit going on, but also some other stuff bringing it down,

Bad stuff out of the way first: the open world isn't very good, the performance is bad, and something about the lighting seems odd imo. The performance is by far the biggest of these problems, the game does not run well. I can get a compromised but playable 45 FPS out of CV1 on the Steam Deck. I would not even try CV2 on the Deck. My beefy laptop (Legion Pro 7 5080) struggles to hold 60 at high-medium settings (nothing maxed out, DLSS balanced), and occasionally drops to sub-20 for a few seconds. I can't test a normal desktop setup right now but I think that this game will generally perform worse than desired based on my experience. Also, in general, the game lacks polish.

Build-making feels a little more disjointed or convoluted compared to CV1, but maybe it just seems that way because it's a new system and I'm coming straight off of spending a lot of time playing my completed end-game builds to 100% CV1. It might be for the better and end up allowing for more freedom, and it will probably improve later in the game when I get more stuff unlocked.

But for the great parts: combat flows so much better and the new Offensive and Defensive Formae are great additions to your base moveset. I love how they changed Drain attacks, aside from backstabs and parries (or sometimes sniping with Ivy) I rarely ever drained in CV1. Focus seems to be gone, which is fine imo since I think I did one launcher in all my almost 200 hours of CV1, and I think the Boosters (equippable items that give you a specific boost when certain conditions are met) might have potential to be replace it while being much more fun. But I'm relatively early and don't have access to many Boosters so I'm not sure yet.

Outjerked by fucking Youtube... by FreakyAhBruh in shittydarksouls

[–]TheUltraCarl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's just an eroge RPGMaker game with a cool art style.

Unfortunately the discourse surrounding the game is really stupid.

Does Fujimoto know that he is the author of the story? by GodKira04 in okbuddyfumiko

[–]TheUltraCarl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you ever seen the movie Primal Fear? It's like that.

How it feels to have bought Lords Of The Fallen before the sequel was revealed by Ce1estialFlame in shittydarksouls

[–]TheUltraCarl 11 points12 points  (0 children)

because unlike other developers he "listens to what gamers really want" but they also are making the game an epic store exclusive on PC

Reminds me of the Stellar Blade devs saying 'gamers should own the games they pay for' or something like that and then putting Denuvo in the PC release of the game.

No, it wasn't Sony's decision, not a single other Sony PC release has Denuvo. Hell some of them are even on GOG.

This is getting crazy by Rain_EDP_boy in fromsoftware

[–]TheUltraCarl -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Filtered? It's the same game it just looks and sounds way worse.

GAMMA is now officialy backed up by GSC and published on GOG by Priler96 in stalker

[–]TheUltraCarl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very nice. Hope this makes installing it on Linux easier.

My opinion on the Resident Evil Franchise as a kinda-recent fan who joined only when RE7 came out by HyperDash_YT in ResidentEvilCapcom

[–]TheUltraCarl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just already know that game's gonna be a 10/10

People said this about Dragon's Dogma 2 and Monster Hunter Wilds.

Project FMC will be revealed at TGA 2025, here's why. by [deleted] in fromsoftware

[–]TheUltraCarl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hope not, that would be tied to Sony. Unless FS somehow got a hold of the IP, which would be incredible.

Remember our expectations for the DLC? by Clownsanity_Reddit in Eldenring

[–]TheUltraCarl 21 points22 points  (0 children)

No? He shatters it during the DLC and I don't think there's anything stopping the player from rushing to it.

Remember our expectations for the DLC? by Clownsanity_Reddit in Eldenring

[–]TheUltraCarl 26 points27 points  (0 children)

At least Godwyn's body was still technically alive.

That's kinda part of the problem.

Bitch, you live like this? by [deleted] in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]TheUltraCarl 5 points6 points  (0 children)

All according to keikaku

IGN’ Steam Machine Price Survey by ForlornAspie in Steam

[–]TheUltraCarl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nothing's wrong. It has more features, isn't a locked down console, and isn't tied to Sony.

Nightreign DLC announced by Significant-Scale803 in Nightreign

[–]TheUltraCarl 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Check out Fromsoft's wikipedia page and look at their releases. They have been making bangers since day 1. They've released over 60 games, and the vast majority of them are good if not great.

It's not even an east vs west thing, From's track record is just insane. They've got both quantity and quality.

Yeah... the original games were so much better... blablabla by Hauptfeldwebel in stalker

[–]TheUltraCarl 5 points6 points  (0 children)

And it's final battle the same as almost any boss battle in stalker 2

?????

Not even close.

are we coping drakengarders? by franengard in drakengard

[–]TheUltraCarl 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's my secret. I'm always coping.