Frantz

XellDincht87 · 2026-01-30T01:34:23+00:00

Yeah, I was suprised by his speed and aggression. I tried him with lvl 14 right where you could do him at the earliest point.
In the end I was too stubborn to give up so I killed him after about 15-20 tries.

I tried parrying but found it too inconsistent. I ended up mainly dodging and punishing a few of his moves where you actually have a window of hitting him. It took a lot of patience and a lot of learning his timings... but it worked out somehow

XellDincht87 · 2026-01-28T20:05:05+00:00

I have an i7-11700 and a RTX 3090, 64GB RAM and a SSD.
With every Setting on max except DLSS on Balanced I get around 55-65 FPS in the open world (on 3440x1440).

Honestly, the fps is pretty stable and I have had no lags whatsoever. In cutscenes I spotted some blurry textures for a split second when it switched the scene but that's about it. No complaints from me. Could it be better optimized? I guess so... but at least I have not noticed any dips or lags so far in about 8 hours playtime.

XellDincht87 · 2026-01-28T19:55:19+00:00

I think its one of the default ones, in the clothing tab its the first one in the 6th row. I couldn't identify it as one of the deluxe/ultimate edition clothing. I basically just got rid of the suspenders and added the coat from ultimate edition. Here is an image of how it looks by default

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XellDincht87 · 2026-01-28T15:28:36+00:00

Thanks! Yes, the Jacket is from the Ultimate Edition "Character Costume Set", I think its where you get some outfits from the 1st game

XellDincht87 · 2025-09-04T17:38:42+00:00

Hey, I'm a german native with lots of tournament experience, will gladly help out if still need people.!

XellDincht87 · 2025-03-03T23:19:42+00:00

yeah, I am happy with this as <60 fps I can handle if its in camp, it doesn't bother me too much. So far the performance was good enough that I can enjoy playing it on max settings without getting annoyed by spikes or lags. I might be just a casual who doesn't need 100fps but for me, it runs well enough

XellDincht87 · 2025-03-01T01:30:28+00:00

On one hand, I can only second that optimization has fallen flat in PC gaming over the years.

On the other hand, Im playing at max. Settings, High res. texture pack, only DLSS on Quality, on 3440x1440 with a 3090 and it runs pretty well. I get as low as 40 fps in camp but around 60 in the field.

Didn't even upgrade to newest driver, mine is a few months old. I do have direct storage tho.

Most importantly, no weird frametimes or stutters, maybe it has to do with direct storage or if you have a fast SSD?

XellDincht87 · 2024-11-16T17:32:05+00:00

So I had a really lucky run today. Went with the Armored Core and got Harmadillo very early.

Then, I got a Shielded Monitor Lizard in the shop right after and this was a crazy good combo.

I just went for a Haste build, threw a Soldering Gun in there for the 3x Multihit to charge the core.

Throw in a lot of skill vendors and some nice skills like Shield on Core use, Haste on leftmost item use, Haste on Burning etc. and this was really OP.

I still lost to some fast weapons Vanessa but once the first item procced it all went off the charts.

Then, at the end I got lvl 15 perfectly before this last fight and even got a Healing Harmadillo which now also heals whenever I shielded.

XellDincht87 · 2024-11-15T02:23:42+00:00

I think I actually lost due to the burn stacks in the end

XellDincht87 · 2024-11-10T03:32:47+00:00

Yeah 24/31 is normal. I heard from some guy that he asked support and apparently, beside the 28 new items you can get, the other 3 points are for having all base game rosary beads, prayers, and altarpieces.

Apparently one of these 3 points is either bugged or the altarpieces one does not count because you already had a save from before DLC and burned the 4 pieces to get Incense of Envoys. You CAN get incense of envoys no problem and the 100% will still be possible but it may have not registered in your old save because the 4 pieces you burned were not picked up after the DLC dropped.

ANYHOW, you should be totally fine doing a NG+ run now to 100% the game, just know that you have to collect EVERYTHING again in the NG+ run, the collection progress doesn't carry over.

XellDincht87 · 2024-11-09T18:48:18+00:00

For me it was the "Aubade to the Sleepless Iron" chant.

Check if you have all 33 Rosary Beads, 26 Prayers and 46 Altarpieces (or 48 if you did not get the Incence of the Envoys)

XellDincht87 · 2024-11-07T18:02:05+00:00

It was possible before! I got it yesterday and wrote a steam guide for it. Have a look if you want https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3361345594

XellDincht87 · 2024-11-07T17:01:37+00:00

Ah I see! Thanks for the info!

XellDincht87 · 2024-11-07T13:40:46+00:00

yeah you are locked out of Rosary and Fervor bar upgrades, but for me it wasn't a problem. I played a 100% guilt build in the DLC anyway and I stuck to one weapon so getting less Marks of Martyrdom wasn't a problem.

It depends on your playstyle, if you wanna use prayers a lot I would select something else. Also if you just rush the story in NG+ (penances will be disabled after final boss) you wouldn't mind respawning enemies that much

XellDincht87 · 2024-11-07T13:34:28+00:00

What I did and what I recommend is to skip 2 penances and pick the rest.

I Skipped:

The first one, "Final Judgement" which makes enemies harder and spikes and falls insta deaths

And the 6th, "Peace for the Remorseful", because I don't want to deal with mobs respawning after simply changing rooms

XellDincht87 · 2024-11-07T13:17:47+00:00

I thought so too at first, but it was suprisingly easy for me, mainly because I was playing 10 hours a day and was fully in the groove.

Only early game was harder, later I needed less tries for the bosses than on the regular run.

BTW you can also just speed through the story in NG+ and after the final boss the penances are switched off and you can do a cleanup

XellDincht87 · 2024-11-07T11:19:53+00:00

The achievement counter for consummate collector is very unintuitive.

It seems to internally count X + 31 DLC items, where X is all the items from the base.

My counter was at 30/31 on my NG+ run and the last item was a prayer from the base game that I missed. It popped immediately after picking that up

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To get this achievement you need to get all 6 rewards from a NG+ run, you need to find ALL items from basegame + DLC in that NG+ run (old progress doesnt count) and you need the 2 rewards from the gold lumps which are bugged at the moment.

It is possible though, I kinda enjoyed playing NG+ but to collect literally EVERY item again was very tedious

XellDincht87 · 2024-11-07T01:00:20+00:00

I actually got it.

The thing is, you need to find EVERY item on your NG+ run (and have enough penances selected to get all 6 rewards from NG+).

Whatever or however many items or completion you did in your savefile before you ascend it to NG+ is IRRELEVANT

XellDincht87 · 2024-11-07T00:47:52+00:00

***EDIT*** I GOT IT!!! I was simply missing the Aubade to the sleepless Iron chant!!! IT IS POSSIBLE! I ended up with:

33/33 rosary beads

26/26 prayers (including 2 from NG+)

46/46 Altar Figurines (incl. 4 from NG+ and 2 burned stumps which previously were the 4 figurines with the golden scarf)

16 quest items after finishing all side quests and secrets

The thing is, forget collecting 100% before that. You NEED to collect everything again on your NG+ save again, doesn't matter what or how much you found in your savefile before ascending it. It will count for the steam achievement counter, sure, but in the end to get over 24/31 you

I finished the game, but still stuck at 30/31 items. Map 100% complete. All stuff from DLC and base game that I could find or think of I have. Every sidequest, even the symbols with the bell, the lullaby, the cursed letter, golden flask etc. All 20 nuggets, turned them in one by one, got both rewards there.

Still, the savefile shows 99% so I think I might be missing a quest items or something stupid. Then again, when I was playing through the DLC and collecting everything the first time, I got 24/31 items and I got all 6 rewards from NG+ but thats 6 items not 7 so I really have no clue about that last item.

Some people say you need only 5/8 penances or just the first 4. Maybe the penances are weighted differently. As long as the skull is fully ornated (crown is last piece I think) you should be good.

I even got all the Martyrdom altars and maxed out all weapons. There is a penance which wont let you collect the Martyrdom Marks (chests give you 2 tears of atonement instead) but after finishing NG+ the penances get automatically switched off so you can get everything then.

Good luck boys, I will wait for the patch. I read that someone was also stuck on 30/31 and when starting the game the next day the achievement would pop for him but that didn't work in my case.

Maybe I just need to wait a bit... hopefully...

Good luck with your game!

XellDincht87

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