4029

By the way, quite a few people becoming Elden Lords from the QT3 group lately (in the last week, and one today, while I was playing). Congratulations. It’s nice to see Group 1 in the notifications like that.

4030

No, I just did it today. Find a spot that works I guess. I came from the fort, maybe around the knee area. Lots of yelling and rustling around but never woke up.

4031

You definitely want this for the couch! If you go PS5 I can help with most things, just not the worst bosses quite yet. :)

4032

Uh oh, maybe I shouldn’t have leveled myself up to level 103?

4033

You can kill the smaller dragons nearby, then it just dies.

4034

I’m having a blast with the game, but a bit sad that I missed starting out with everyone. I feel like I missed the qt3 party and everyone’s moved onto the next pub, all that remains are bits of confetti, discarded party hats, and empty beer bottles.

I still get to experience lots of cool shit for the first time though, like finding a sleeping miniboss hemmed in by ruins, thinking I can plink at it from outside the window, until he wakes up and literally destroys the entire freakin’ wall and comes after me.

4035

You’re only a month behind. I am extremely far from done with the game.

4036

Maybe I was whacking the wrong dragon? After using the teleport from the church, I ran past the dragon right there and then I ran past the dragon on the bridge to the south and after that there was a dragon to the left that was either dead or sleeping. That’s the one I was hitting.

4037

They do this a little with several mini-bosses. Every now and then one doesn’t follow the norm. I ran into a giant (troll) the other day that after banging on his legs for 5 minutes I realized he had the health bar of a God. I had to do things another way.

4038

Whoa! Got a random summon to help me fight the Fallingstar Beast. It was back and forth for several minutes, as we plinked away at its mineralized legs. Never got a good set of shots at the head, but we’re making decent progress. Then to my horror, I noticed my excellent, but damaged companion was darting away more than normal, and when he got a break and some distance to heal… his health sat at a measly 10% didn’t go up. F***. He’s obviously out of potions, and we’d managed to bring this thing down to 15% health. We’re so close! So I rush in to take the pressure off him, get beat up, I back off to swig a health and… f*** I’m out too! So now to finish the final 10%, which felt like it was going to take forever as we both did so little damage, we might not make it. So we jump in run away over and over. Its on the precipice, and what I’d hoped would be my final 3 hits to kill him… I die. Just as I’m fading, BOOM! My summoned friend landed a killing blow and what’s this? Hit triangle to accept a somber stone? Could it be? But wait… and I’m gone. What about the bell this thing carried? That was the most important part, so I could have the twin husks sell me somber stones.

I think back. Did I hit triangle button before I faded? I don’t know. Is the beast really dead? I don’t know. I run back as fast as my legs will carry me, and low and behold! No more yellow mist! I can pick up my lost runes. But what about that bell?

I wrap back to roundtable and bolt to the twin husks. Is there a bell to offer? YES!!! It’s there! Yippee!

Holy cow that was wild. Most difficult enemy in the game so far. Still can’t believe we finished it in death. I’m shaking!

4039

Great storytelling as always

Sweet Loretta down

4040

Which FBeast was that? I’ve only run into the one, outside the Capitol walls. That was a hell of a fight (with just my Jelly as backup), but I took him down eventually. I’m guessing he was the easiest version, though, heh.

4041

The biggest turn off for me in this game are the cookiecutter Skyrim style dungeons. Especially after going from the enormously varied overworld, its so disheartening to go into a dungeon with the same textures, the same enemies and virtually the same layout over and over.

4042

This was the boss in the Sellia Crystal Tunnels.

4043

Yeah, there’s an awful lot of fat that could be cut off of this game without losing anything, but at least this time it doesn’t feel too much like everything is all jammed up together!

4044

What? Damn. I got teleported there a loooong time ago. Thought I went through everything before I left, but now I think about it, there was one side tunnel I couldn’t get into, and those damned centipede men were just annoying and I wanted out. Looks like I’m in for a trip back there- I want that Bell Bearing!

4045

That fight is just brutal. I’d tried it at least 10x before. Curious to hear how you do!

4046

I feel like those dungeons get better as you go, but the early ones are all very samey. Eventually you get a little more enemy variety, and the older enemies get a few tricks. From also starts to play a few tricks with the layouts. The textures, however, are there to stay.

4047

I think only a very small number of us are ‘done’ with the game for now. Glancing at this and the spoiler thread it appears that there’s a higher number of people who are now on their second run than those of us who have shelved the game after beating it (I plan to return to it myself in the future, just not right away). Plus the game is massive, so I predict this thread will be active for weeks if not months to come.

4048

Well, there’s incentive for going for the PS5. Plus it would be interesting to play a game with multiplayer elements on that, since I have never actually played anything other than local multiplayer on any PlayStation. (All those years of playing with coworkers on Xbox…) I generally still go with xbox for multi-platform stuff because the Series X is faster and I know more people on Xbox Live, but in this case sounds like most of y’all are on PlayStation, and they did a better version on that console.