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[TheDarkPhantom]

Is that the poison swamp?

No, it's not accessed from the Belarut Castle area, from the plain outside.

 

[Orbital2060]

Playing on ng++ btw, bosses and greater enemies hit like a truck.

 

[Madflavor]

It's crazy that people are on the final boss already.I'm only on the 2nd boss, and will be exploring the whole map on foot

You’ll always have a handful of people who poop sock their way through a game Day 1.

 

[Bloobs]

I like exploring in souls games in terms of environments but I don't think items are worth it 98% of the time.

Yeah, you're right but its the level design that keeps amazing

 

[Pancakes and Sausage]

Rellana was a really tough fight but finally beat her.

I love her sword set and the moon bomb spell is cool.

The atmosphere in the DLC is outstanding

 

[Valt7786]

It's crazy that people are on the final boss already.I'm only on the 2nd boss, and will be exploring the whole map on foot

Yeah I can't understand this at all. This thing is massive and people are like "oh I'm near the end now". Like, what the actual fuck.

 

[22:22:22]

I bought the dlc. Spoke to malena. How do i acces said dlc?

 

[Neolombax]

Reinstalled base elden ring to try to finish it this time around, got killed by 3 birds, deleted the game again. I dont think its for me, but I'm for sure going to watch folks try to beat the dlc.

 

[Bloobs]

I bought the dlc. Spoke to malena. How do i acces said dlc?

Touch the hand

 

[Chiggs]

It's crazy that people are on the final boss already.I'm only on the 2nd boss, and will be exploring the whole map on foot

Those people are just rushing through the game because of some misguided belief that doing so makes them elite or enlightened, or they're just mindless automatons moving from one goal to the next.

Stop and smell the roses, for fuck's sake.

 

[SJRB]

I bought the dlc. Spoke to malena. How do i acces said dlc?

You have to have beaten Radahn and Mohg and you will find an NPC next to the Mogh mausoleum site of grace.

 

[22:22:22]

You have to have beaten Radahn and Mohg and you will find an NPC next to the Mogh mausoleum site of grace.

ehh i have. Been a while.

Google time i guess.

 

[22:22:22]

Those people are just rushing through the game because of some misguided belief that doing so makes them elite or enlightened, or they're just mindless automatons moving from one goal to the next.

Stop and smell the roses, for fuck's sake.

indeed. 750 hours 1st game. Love exploring.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Got a chance to briefly play this for half an hour last night, and laughed my ass off when I stumbled on Blackgaol Knight and got fucking wrecked in seconds with a 175 level character that I platinumed the base game with

Fuck you Miyazaki, you beautiful mad bastard.

Let's put this into perspective: There are people who thought they could cheat their way to max level, they found out the hard way that numbers don't mean much in these games. It's how you play. This DLC is a skill check. I love to see it.

 

[Freeman76]

This is not as fun as the base game for me. Dissapointing but they have ramped the difficulty to stupid levels now where its jist not enjoyable. That lion can fuck right off, even with 3 players ive not seen him close to being beaten and I put my sign down 20+ times to help others. I dodnt struggle too much with the base game, even on NG+, but this is beyond my level of skill

 

[Chiggs]

I'm going to have PTSD from those hippo encounters. The way they track you from a distance with that NOM NOM NOM heat-seeking missile that is their gaping mouth. Pure nightmare fuel.

 

[SJRB]

It's interesting to see people struggling regardless of their level. 100, 150, 200, makes no difference while in the base game this makes a HUGE difference.

Could the DLC have dynamic settings based on your level? Like for example enemy X does 70% damage to your vitality, regardless of your stats?

Would be a neat way to circumvent overleveling.

 

[Bartski]

Yeah I'm in the same situation except I've found more of the map. You've missed tunnels and holes in the ground etc. As for that boss. Fucking ridiculous. I did manage to get to the 2nd phase once. Very very briefly. Nice cut scene I guess.

yeah I did find some passageways and the one I mentioned you can jump down to and survive, leads to the jarburg2 and I'm heading north now to that giant building that seems like I can finally get to. Also got another map piece soth east, surprise this is not the whole area there is more land down south. Can't believe how well-hidden stuff is there, like that area next to shadow keep with two furnace golems is behind an illusory wall by the moat.

My last post was after I spent 3 hours trying to find a way to the north-western map, I'm super high up while that spot seems to be at the ground level. I have no idea how to get there, maybe it's not about descending from Rauh Ruins but I feel like I checked every corner already?

Again, the worst thing one can do is do what I did - stick to the golden path thinking it will guide you all across the land and get demolished by bosses. I beat Mesmer at Scadutree level 9, I'm guessing now optimal is 15+. I'm not coming back to the final boss before I'm done exploring.

 

[SJRB]

yeah I did find some passageways and the one I mentioned you can jump down to and survive, leads to the jarburg2 and I'm heading north now to that giant building that seems like I can finally get to. Also got another map piece soth east, surprise this is not the whole area there is more land down south. Can't believe how well-hidden stuff is there, like that area next to shadow keep with two furnace golems is behind an illusory wall by the moat.

My last post was after I spent 3 hours trying to find a way to the north-western map, I'm super high up while that spot seems to be at the ground level. I have no idea how to get there, maybe it's not about descending from Rauh Ruins but I feel like I checked every corner already?

Again, the worst thing one can do is do what I did - stick to the golden path thinking it will guide you all across the land and get demolished by bosses. I beat Mesmer at Scadutree level 9, I'm guessing now optimal is 15+. I'm not coming back to the final boss before I'm done exploring.

In fairness following the golden path is a critical mistake in the base game as well, you'll miss an insane amount of content.

I'll never understand people speedrunning to the final boss. You only get one chance to play this game for the first time, you should try to make the most of it.

 

[Bigfroth]

So far it is good. once again the star of the show is the map for me. the design and layout are fantastic.

 

[22:22:22]

Touch the hand

Man it's been hot minute
Need to look up to get there.

 

[Northeastmonk]

Yeah I can't understand this at all. This thing is massive and people are like "oh I'm near the end now". Like, what the actual fuck.

Also the people lttp, people who enjoy replaying the Souls games, and people who go their own pace. If I had no responsibilities, endless free time, and I was actually at home right now. I’d play until my eyes bled.

But

I got my NG character ready in sub 20 hours, so it’s also experience. If you know what you’re doing. Getting to end game is easy. Destroying end game is a different story. lol

 

[Celcius]

Rellana was a really tough fight but finally beat her.

I love her sword set and the moon bomb spell is cool.

The atmosphere in the DLC is outstanding

Is she as hard as Malenia?

 

[Pancakes and Sausage]

Is she as hard as Malenia?

I thought she was much harder because Malenia at least gives you time to heal and dodge.

Rellana is faster and relentless. I have 80 points in endurance and I couldn’t dodge her attacks without running out of stamina.

I beat her by constantly strafing to avoid magic attacks and by blocking every other attack. Once I stopped rolling and instead started blocking she became easy.

Thumbprint shield FTW

 

[SantaC]

Twin moon spell is super disappointing

 

[Northeastmonk]

yeah I did find some passageways and the one I mentioned you can jump down to and survive, leads to the jarburg2 and I'm heading north now to that giant building that seems like I can finally get to. Also got another map piece soth east, surprise this is not the whole area there is more land down south. Can't believe how well-hidden stuff is there, like that area next to shadow keep with two furnace golems is behind an illusory wall by the moat.

My last post was after I spent 3 hours trying to find a way to the north-western map, I'm super high up while that spot seems to be at the ground level. I have no idea how to get there, maybe it's not about descending from Rauh Ruins but I feel like I checked every corner already?

Again, the worst thing one can do is do what I did - stick to the golden path thinking it will guide you all across the land and get demolished by bosses. I beat Mesmer at Scadutree level 9, I'm guessing now optimal is 15+. I'm not coming back to the final boss before I'm done exploring.

What weapon are you using?

 

[Antwix]

Twin moon spell is super disappointing

That's why I always go with the weapon as a reward. Too many cases like this. Sucks to hear though.

 

[Antwix]

I tried milady - don't like the moveset. At all.

The Great Katana is a bizzare weapon. I don't like its moveset also, as they make me feel like its not a sword intended for combat. Or something. I dunno, evrn with 1000 sheet dmg, it doesnt feel that strong for some reason.

I need to try some other stuff. I really like this dlc so far (although I dislike the same things I did with vanilla er).

Milady is probably the smoothest moveset I've seen in the game. Super fun but I've only used it so far on basic enemies. Great katana I agree with you though.

 

[Toytown Assassin]

In fairness following the golden path is a critical mistake in the base game as well, you'll miss an insane amount of content.

I'll never understand people speedrunning to the final boss. You only get one chance to play this game for the first time, you should try to make the most of it.

In this case the main path is the easy one to find. I've still not worked out how to get into about 1/3 of the map. That I know of.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Looks like another case of "if its ur favorite game or franchise it cant do wrong or critics are right". Steam suers arent having it:

I only briefly played it with my first char and did notice the enemies were a bit ridiculous in their damage, but that was for a few minutes as Im currently playing a fresh char. Kinda sucks they spent so many years on it and not a single day on implementing an upscaling/dlss, and improving the performance. I have less stutters than most cause I disabled EAC, but its still not perfect.

 

[JohnnyFootball]

Everything I’m reading says this game is a performance clusterfuck, especially on PC. We love From and their games but their engines are hot garbage and they need to do a better job with optimization.

 

[Pancakes and Sausage]

Twin moon spell is super disappointing

That's why I always go with the weapon as a reward. Too many cases like this. Sucks to hear though.

It has a very small range unfortunately but it is absolutely devastating if you do get someone with it.

It’s a bit slow too, it takes too long for each phase and you are open to getting attacked and interrupted.

I used a mausoleum to duplicate the remembrance thankfully because the sword combo is amazing

 

[Freeman76]

Everything I’m reading says this game is a performance clusterfuck, especially on PC. We love From and their games but their engines are hot garbage and they need to do a better job with optimization.

Steam has mixed reviews, not much to rely on but to be fair its a rare case where I agree with them. Performance is one issue, but also there are numerous others commonly coming up, such as the lack of any new equipment that is any kind of upgrade, the enemies scaling with your scadutree level, recycled bosses, overinflated difficulty etc etc. ER is one of my all time favourite games but this DLC for me is not a patch on the original game so far.

 

[DryvBy]

Are these the hardest bosses or how do they compare?

 

[winjer]

Asides from the game being locked to 60 fps, the games runs very well on my PC.
Constant 60fps, with a flat line for the frame times.

 

[R6Rider]

Are these the hardest bosses or how do they compare?

I've only fought one official boss so far and then a field "boss" that was a variant from the base game. EDIT: Forgot I also fought a red named NPC and an NPC invader.

Overall for me so far most enemies hit like a truck, but also don't have too much health or stagger easily. And that's with using a scythe scaled to Dex. I'm expecting the difficulty to ramp up, but so far easier than expected.

 

[Antwix]

I've had great performance on xbox except for one single attempt on the dancing dragon where it stuttered quite bad. Every other attempt and everywhere else was smooth though. Been great overall unless I'm too retarded (thankfully?) to notice.

 

[ebevan91]

You’ll always have a handful of people who poop sock their way through a game Day 1.

I don’t understand people who do this. You only get to experience the game for the first time once.

 

[Madflavor]

Are these the hardest bosses or how do they compare?

Yes they’re harder than the base game bosses.

 

[M1987]

Are these the hardest bosses or how do they compare?

Much harder than the base game

 

[Osthyvel]

I cant Summon any Coop! I would need help with Mogh, anyone up to it? Just reply or send me a pm.

 

[skneogaf]

Absolutely amazing bosses so far in this dlc!

10/10

Any reviews that say otherwise are dead to me.

 

[Freeman76]

I never understood why so much of the equipmemt in this game is useless, I mean even in this DLC could really do with some uogrades to make it a bit less frustrating but none of the weapons or armour Ive found so far are not even as good as what I had already for the main game lol

 

[nemiroff]

Man, starting out in this game, trying to figure stuff out, doing some hard fights, having fun.. Then boom:

Spoiler

dancing lion boss

... Holy shit wtf.. no fun allowed

 

[SantaC]

It has a very small range unfortunately but it is absolutely devastating if you do get someone with it.

It’s a bit slow too, it takes too long for each phase and you are open to getting attacked and interrupted.

I used a mausoleum to duplicate the remembrance thankfully because the sword combo is amazing

no hyperarmor while casting is the deal breaker.

 

[Sgt.Asher]

Rennala is really weak to scarlet rot, got her afflicted then pelted her with discus of light, easy peasy

 

[M1987]

I cant Summon any Coop! I would need help with Mogh, anyone up to it? Just reply or send me a pm.

PC?

 

[SantaC]

too many cookbooks for crafting. Could have done with half of them

 

[struggler_guts]

Anybody on PC who can help my friend and I beat Mohg?

 

[M1987]

Anybody on PC who can help my friend and I beat Mohg?

I will