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Second boss (scourge lady something or another)... Was she supposed to do basically nothing? That may be one of the worst/easiest bosses in a soulslike.

MrBean wrote:

That is a mini boss. You'll fight a lot of those. Its not a full boss unless you get a memory to flay after with a remembrance item. And they start with a cutscene.

I think you can also summon an NPC at every major boss as well. And you can not at a mini.

Level 30, don't want to stop playing. Definitely better than lies of P as of now.

The occasional performance issues do suck, but they're pretty infrequent.

So I played some. I definitely like it better than Lies of P, but enemies aggro way too easily and never give up chasing you. Pretty annoying. You also can't get hit climbing ladders. Parry window is way better than Lies. Blocking mechanic is interesting. But so far the main gripe is enemy aggro. You can not get anywhere near some enemies and somehow they know where you are.

You can get hit on ladders- by spells etc. it’s fun.

Still feels like a sloggy mess imo. The areas are so convoluted and enemy placement is cheesey. I’m probably 75% through now. It’s gotten a bit tiresome and I’m considering putting it aside for a bit. Too much souls like this month and I’m not really having fun with this one so far.

I heard the checkpoint bonfire thingies are few and far between but I just watched a Fightin’ Cowboy video and it didn’t look that way at all. Looked like lots of bonfire warp points. I may get it on a Black Friday sale perhaps.

TalonJedi87 wrote:

The permanent checkpoints are pretty far apart. You can use an item- expensive to buy and uncommon to find- that’s lets you set a single temporary bonfire. It adds to the risk reward and there a ton of nodes you can place them at- but often you walk around the corner and find a shortcut to the actual safe haven. It’s a pretty cool mechanic later on.

And in NG+ the temporary one that you can only have one of at time, is all you get. I say one at time because when you place a new one, the last one you placed vanishes. And the max you can have in your inventory at one time is 5. So, that adds a whole new level of frustration and micro management to the game.

And they cost like 3500. Fun grind. Can combine it with a weapon upgrade grind I guess.

I seem to be worse at parrying in LotF than I was in P.

Man I don't want to stop playing. Having a damn good time. Hit 3 on the umbral meter, my God I got wrecked.

Reading the last few comments, I knew burning those temp bonfires was prob a bad idea. Really cool mechanic though.

Red lanterns are a great idea as well.

I do hate how the bigger swords just lunge you around. I've fallen off ledges multiple times because of it. Now I find myself doing an R2 poke more often than not.

The targeting will get you more than the mobs. Sometimes random mobs just cannot be targeted until they see you / take damage etc. it’s frustrating.

Fudge, I stayed up way too late playing this. Tomorrow is gonna suck. Got to the something or other saint. It was the headless horseman. Man do I hate gimick boss fights.

Archer wrote:

Oofff, 330? Ha, I called it at 1 and I'm already hating myself this morning. I hate that I can't stay up late and play as easily as I used to. Getting old sucks.

I messed around the save spot last night with the red eyed sword dude near a ladder.

Performance is definitely tanking during Pieta. A lot.

Kommie wrote:

It does, but I barely noticed on PS5 to be honest. Because on the X it slowed to a crawl during that fight. So the dips I was seeing now I hardly noticed, lol. Same with when I got back to the swamp. It dipped, but then I chuckeled when I noticed. Because at least it wasn't 2fps.

Yeah, I'm definitely noticing it but maybe when I go back I'll level up a bit. Got close a couple of times too. Trying to parry kill for the most part.

Also for everyone, make sure you have your consoles level HDR settings turned off. Turning this off really improves performance of the game. And most games actually, because most devs are crap at HDR. And in the game settings, make sure its on performance and that the three settings below are set to off, motion blur, film grain and chromatic. This really improves the FPS of the game.

I feel like mine is running pretty smooth. I don’t usually get too concerned about occ small FR drops though. I don’t even notice tbh. I guess mega man ruined me.

What is everyone's opinion of the jump in this game? I think its bad. Its like you hit a wall and don't go far enough. Its very odd. I died a whole bunch trying to figure out the range of it early on. I don't miss judge jumps that often now, but it still feels off to me.

It sucks because you have to use it a few times. I wish it was not a thing.

Archer wrote:

Agreed it feels off. Where you had to jump between those spinning platforms wherever the hell it is, I found myself missing the jump a few too many times but it was more than likely just me being stupid.

I haven't looked at video games at BB in ages. Mine has like 50 games total. No Steelbooks on the floor.

Asked at the counter, she seemed clueless and told me to check by the dvds.

So, yah, still looking for one!

The steelbook should have come in your CE.

Archer wrote:

It did but BB of course has an exclusive one.

New patch again today. This one resets all your settings however. Which is annoying. But I'm glad they are busting out these patches so fast.

Resuming... Used the Pilgrims Perch key by the bonfire (blind Agatha - there's an npc, elevator, dude with a nail helmet, and a holy shield guy).

Is this spot supposed to be massively more difficult than anything prior? I'm getting salty at how much I'm getting whooped here. Feels like I need to move on.

MrBean wrote:

You are not supposed to go there yet. That is a very late game area. But you can run around and grab some loot, like I did. Just run past everyone and don't fight anyone.

That’s pretty much end game area. You also don’t need to buy the key you get it from normal progression. Definitely don’t waste seeds there unless you just need the thrill.

@feeb where are you at in the game?

I’m just past the manse of hallowed brothers. I think it’s last area.

Well damn, that would make sense then, haha.

Feeb wrote:

Nice. Way farther than me. I just fought the big mouth progeny boss last night. I think I'm at the mid point.

I almost forgot about this, not sure how. I was invaded last night for the first time. This dude had a cross bow that fired 3 shots in a row. And the three bolts fired extremely fast. And they instantly killed me. I have around 600 health. Which so not even a boss can one shot me, let alone 3 tap me like that. I'm not sure if this dude was on PC and cheating, or if there really is a crossbow that strong in the game. If so, seems highly unbalanced. Either way I turned off cross play because of it. Since it is only with PC and not with other consoles. Which defeats the whole point of cross play. PC online will always just be riddled with cheaters.

I'm still trying to beat this stupid Pieta.

Kommie wrote:

Summon that NPC dude, he will soak up a lot of the early agro which will save your healing items for later in the fight. She targets him first every time. She will kill him also, because NPC summons in this game are not like DS where they tank bosses for you. He has low health. I also found blocking/parrying with her is very helpful when she goes into the chain moves. Then a few quick replies to bring the health back, and then back away and wait for her to setup again. She is a poor mans Malenia.

I think I need to finally figure out what to do with projectiles. All I can do is throw crap and it's not even worth it. I'm level 40 and pretty even balance between str, vit, end. Things are starting to ramp a bit and I don't feel like I'm doing enough damage.

Also is Radiance worth it? Feel like I should try str/fth

MrBean wrote:

I'm loving it. Figured I'd do that for the first run/ending. And its been destroying everything. Seems most everything so far is weak to radiance and strong against inferno. Umbral also seems pretty good. But you have to build specifically for it, as it requires both radiance and inferno to be equal at all times. Kind of like hexes in DS2.

There is one respec item you can get from the umbral vendor in skybridge (hub) for 8K vigor. But its the only one you can get for some time. So if you use it, make sure its what you want to respec to.

I need a catalyst yah? I haven't looked anything up yet... Trying to largely play blind

Yeah, you can buy one from the dude in the hub. From facing the vestige in the hub, turn left and go straight through the door, then take a left. That dude is the radiance vendor. He also sells a few radiance spells.