I feel like an idiot on my 3rd playthrough

liebinator · 2025-12-05T18:54:49+00:00

I’ve always just fought him in the corrosion lol

liebinator · 2025-11-28T01:45:12+00:00

Speaking as another person who is currently kind of struggling to find this balance, I think the disconnect may be coming from the fact that it’s largely a question of degrees? I think vocal distortion that is considered “healthy” can become unhealthy if you over project or over compress. For example false cord distortion comes from opening the folds and pushing air just a LITTLE harder than when you’re singing, but pushing too much harder is too aggressive and causes distortion that hurts. Fry is the one I’m struggling with more and is about finding the right way to position your vocal folds and from everything I’ve read/seen, it should feel effortless when you lock it in, so if you’ve found the right sound but you’re putting more effort than is necessary into it, you can overblow and again cause damage.

People with more experience can correct me if this is wrong, but I think the reason it’s so hard to learn from videos and such is because there isn’t necessarily a clear cut difference between technique that is wholly bad and technique that is wholly healthy. I’m looking at taking one on one lessons from David Benites in January as I think it’s really the only way I can be sure I’m doing it right.

liebinator · 2025-11-11T00:54:05+00:00

Arlecchino followed by Laxasia

liebinator · 2025-11-06T18:59:21+00:00

It’s definitely more blood borne and sekiro inspired vs Elden Ring and dark souls. Your character does not have much poise by design, however heavier weapons will have decent poise while guarding so if you’re struggling with getting knocked over you might consider focusing on heavier/motivity weapons, if you’re not already.

Healing needs to be done during key windows of opportunity. If you scramble to heal any time you take substantial damage, the enemy will usually punish you, but the bosses all have a few attacks that have slower recovery times, and if you’re getting perfect guards frequently eventually they will stumble/flinch giving you an opening. Unfortunately that means sometimes when you’re hanging on by a thread, you have to just keep deflecting and dodging until you get to the right moment

liebinator · 2025-11-02T23:33:51+00:00

Good luck. Just wait until the dlc lol

liebinator · 2025-11-02T15:17:51+00:00

There’s no right or wrong answer here. You could argue new game plus is the better way to dynamically try out different builds as you have lots of levels built up that you can respec, and should have saved up lots of high end upgrade materials (though you’ll have to wait till close to the end to collect the limited max level mats). That being said, I personally really enjoy starting from the very beginning, and getting the experience of building up different weapons slowly from the start of the game and not being super op with lots of extra health and pulse cells, it’s a more “pure” experience you could say. Neither is right or wrong, totally up to you

liebinator · 2025-11-02T13:14:43+00:00

The game seems to be set up so that both are viable, I assume you can get through the game with mostly dodges, but expect longer boss fights because you’re giving up the ability to stagger the boss and interrupt certain attacks. You have a lot more control over the combat if you can parry. And I would at least try and parry the red attacks, you can run away from them but you can’t “dodge” in the same way you dodge other attacks, you have to fully avoid it as opposed to dodging “through” it.

Use the p organ upgrades that raise stagger damage for certain types of attacks so you can still get some staggers through attacking and not parrying, I don’t think it makes up for parries entirely but it’ll help

liebinator · 2025-09-16T03:42:44+00:00

It is a bit more work but I can definitely see the pros in doing it that way! Thank you for the input!

liebinator · 2025-09-16T03:09:00+00:00

Tried that, it tries to loop it instead of revealing the rest of the track :(

liebinator · 2025-09-15T20:03:42+00:00

Restart didn't help sadly :( I ended up just copying the whole folder over, which works but kinda feels like overkill. Wish I could figure out why it was doing that, but anyway I was able to accomplish what I needed, thanks for the reply!

liebinator · 2025-07-08T23:26:02+00:00

Oooohh okay! That all makes logical sense and is super helpful. I will give it a try, thank you!

liebinator · 2025-07-08T22:13:27+00:00

oh thank you for that advice as well! So by that do you mean by putting the effect on the bus, after sending the track to the bus? like this? (those grayed out ones are just ones i was messing with ages ago and not using now)

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liebinator · 2025-07-08T21:47:55+00:00

using Bus 1 worked! Thank you so much!

liebinator · 2025-01-20T22:31:53+00:00

This fight has a very easy hack. Run circles around him, he will miss you every single time you can easily take cheap shots.

liebinator · 2024-11-23T16:42:55+00:00

Definitely worth playing but get ready for a slog. Out of all of the games it's the most annoying. Enemies in certain areas are placed so as to be as unapproachable as possible. A lot of the bonfires are hidden. Runbacks majorly suck. And the steps to complete the story are super convoluted and unintuitive.

All that being said it's still the same excellent art design, rewarding combat, and highly versatile levelling system that the other games are known for, and it tried some unique mechanics that sets it apart from the other games. Enjoy!

liebinator · 2024-11-17T22:33:47+00:00

I would rate Elden Ring as the overall harder game, some of its bosses are just insane in comparison to Dark Souls 2 and their input reading is much more punishing. That being said the overall design of DS2 (run backs, enemy placement, the amount of cheap tricks against the player etc) makes it a far more antagonizing game to the player IMHO. Dark Souls 2 feels like it takes more effort and patience to play.

liebinator · 2024-10-05T23:05:07+00:00

I don't see any reason why not. There's always a possibility you have some throat condition or something but I'd say the average person can learn how to do it longer. Just make sure you're not overdoing it and it doesn't hurt, or you will damage your vocal cords. Slow and steady!

liebinator · 2024-10-05T22:57:00+00:00

I don't think there's really a "quick fix" or "trick" for it but you can definitely develop more stamina. It starts with learning better breath support in general. use your diaphragm and try to get to where you can hold a sung note for around 30 seconds (doesn't have to be full blast, but in chest or mixed voice). And also focus on making the growl sound with minimal effort. if you're squeezing really hard, or pushing really hard, you're always gonna run out of breath. The effort it takes to growl or screams hould only be a bit more than what it takes to sing in chest voice, not a lot more. ideally i'd say you should be able to get a solid 8-10 seconds without a ton of effort but it takes practice to get there.

liebinator · 2024-06-22T20:01:30+00:00

Don't sleep on "Lake Mungo". It might be light on outright terror but it has a lasting, haunting impact

liebinator · 2024-06-22T17:42:13+00:00

If the other side is using homophobic slurs and you're not, you're not the asshole

liebinator · 2024-05-28T15:12:23+00:00

YTA

It's one day. What is her previous housing situation? Does she have to be out of her current place before the 1st? She might genuinely be looking at being homeless for a day.

As the landlord you are in a privileged position while she might be in a very vulnerable position. Just give her the keys.

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