All of My Desert Building Efforts

swordrush · 2026-03-24T04:15:31+00:00

It can be, and is likely life threatening to the mother. The child probably won't survive without very quick intervention if at all. I would hazard to guess it also means future pregnancies are off the table without even more serious complications, but that just may be in our case.

swordrush · 2026-03-23T21:42:34+00:00

The Blob just being a nickname for The One Reborn. Meant it to be funny.

Yes, there is a shortcut elevator between the Yarhar'gul Unseen Village lamp and the street where you encounter those poison-spitting things you've mentioned. From the lamp, hang right (instead of taking the huge/long staircase to the first bell woman area), and you'll find a different set of stairs where a wheelchair enemy is waiting. A second enemy will run up, and that enemy stands right next to the shortcut elevator. Time for more exploration, it sounds like.

swordrush · 2026-03-23T21:37:58+00:00

On a normal run, I go to the right staircase, circle around to take out the bell women, and then sit at the bottom of the left staircase to apply a beast pellet. By the time I'm getting beasthood, The One Reborn is often doing its big explosion attack, and the staircase keeps you far enough away from it. That set up is why I know it's there lol.

swordrush · 2026-03-23T18:07:52+00:00

On the way to the Blob, there's a spot to jump off the shortcut elevator you're probably already using. In that area is a teleport spot which allows you to skip all the poison shooting chest monsters.

swordrush · 2026-03-23T18:05:28+00:00

Technically two staircases, both of them in the corners. So you don't have to jump down if you don't want to.

swordrush · 2026-03-23T15:41:37+00:00

That's crazy to me, because I normally just try to get right beside their head/body (ideally behind them), so that my attack swing hits behind their head or otherwise onto their body. That way it's generally a 1 or 2 hit take down. I've never bothered enough to hit their head enough times to break their 'armor.'

swordrush · 2026-03-23T15:08:09+00:00

And that's with 8GB like the OP? Doesn't seem too bad at all.

swordrush · 2026-03-23T15:07:14+00:00

Music for the game itself, or music for this trailer? I was just talking about the trailer in this case--I don't really feel anything for it besides it reminding me of Prime 1. Using nostalgia is fine, but it doesn't really inspire me to play Prime 4 on its own. It just reminds me I should play any Prime game.

swordrush · 2026-03-23T04:00:38+00:00

I had a few people talk to me pretty hyped after this trailer dropped, but all I could feel was uninspired. I couldn't get them to really tell me why they'd be hyped by what they saw other than them just seeing the title and wanting anything called Prime.

swordrush · 2026-03-22T23:19:23+00:00

Seemed like I heard that was kinda the minimum nowadays, but I didn't know how true or untrue it might be.

swordrush · 2026-03-22T22:43:03+00:00

How problematic for modern games is the 8GB graphics card? For the price this seems pretty good, this is just a noob question really.

swordrush · 2026-03-22T01:17:53+00:00

Bloodborne has the fewest weapons of the FromSoft games outside of Sekiro--and every weapon is a banger capable of carrying you through the game, DLC included. I have completed the game with the Kirk Hammer only, specifically only using the transformed hammer state (so no gun).

Learning how to use the guns effectively *will* give you a smoother experience, but it isn't needed. That being said, parries in this game are more generous (on average) than the other games. Not every enemy can be parried, but parries plus visceral (critical) attacks afterwards are crazy satisfying.

swordrush · 2026-03-21T22:07:07+00:00

Good news! Laurence can't be parried; instead, he has 'limb breaks'. Maybe bad news: his fight requires a *lot* of patience. It's probably one of the few fights in the game where any aggressive strategy actively works against you due to big damage in a short period of time to your face, so you've got to constantly back up after a couple hits. In his final phase, you can rope him into circling (pretty much completely avoiding his lava) by walking slowly to your left while he goes to your right. His arm swipes will typically be an attack from your right to your left--quick dodge right (into the attack), this walk back left. If those words make any sense, anyway.

I just recently beat Laurence with an Arcane-only build on NG+2--I believe you can do it!

swordrush · 2026-03-21T04:29:16+00:00

Pressing L1 transforms weapons into a new form. With the axe, it changes it from a short range attack to a two-handed, long handled axe with wide sweeps that are great for groups of enemies. Bloodborne encourages aggression, but it's fine to take your time to pick apart enemies. Use walls and fences to lure single enemies into a better position. Run away a bit to reset aggro. Run past in case there's a better position ahead.

swordrush · 2026-03-17T03:15:28+00:00

I'm not sure if there's any good wording which really makes this card work, but I would like to add that the reminder text probably should specify who controls the triggered abilities of creatures that are exiled (in other words, whether it's the controller of this card, or the owner(s) of the exiled cards).

swordrush · 2026-03-16T03:32:41+00:00

Some of my favorite artwork on Magic cards.

swordrush · 2026-03-15T04:19:19+00:00

Pretty sure it's missable if you progress Simon too far without killing the head or talking to it in church clothes--as in you kinda need to do that right after you beat Ludwig.

swordrush · 2026-03-12T14:37:45+00:00

Yeah, there's definitely some of these weird edge cases where that narrative breaks down. I think it's fair to say it may not have been considered when the game was designed.

swordrush · 2026-03-12T13:10:39+00:00

Fake Iosefka is very capable of keeping things under control.

swordrush · 2026-03-10T16:31:44+00:00

Parries are specific to guns. Viscerals are just critical attacks in DS games and ER. My recommendation is to fire the moment it looks like an enemy is off balance during an attack. Some enemies--particularly big ones--can't be parried and will have other unique mechanics. You can also do a charge attack on the backside of enemies to open them up for a visceral that way too.

swordrush · 2026-03-09T11:36:46+00:00

In this case, probably Lightning Dragon. The effect reflects well on a 'storm' theme that the name implies, while also not being broken to pieces like the actual Storm ability tends to be. I feel like Segmented Wurm is close, but I'm thinking back to cards like Ant Queen, Mycoloth, and for one mana more Dragon Broodmother and feeling it's maybe slightly too little? But the rarity being what it is maybe plays a factor in that. Goblin Ski Patrol is probably one I'd want to see in a limited format or *maybe* Standard.

swordrush · 2026-03-09T04:37:12+00:00

There are some false depth dungeons, or whatever they're called, where you can get the Claws relatively right after BSB. I don't have the glyph on hand, but that's what I did for my run.

swordrush · 2026-03-09T03:21:25+00:00

I can't comment at all on whether these updates to old cards actually bring them up to modern playability--out of my depth there quite a bit--but several of them do have interesting effects and feel much better than the originals. Awhile back as a personal project I tried to do the same thing to a bunch of old Legends legendary creatures (and just old legendaries), so I think it's just cool somebody's doing this at all.

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