ELDEN RING LAUNCH JOLLY CO-OPERATION THREAD

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@“fridgeboy”#p63180 OH so I can still forge and >!that was the end of her!< either way? I‘m ok with that as long as I didn’t lose any content!

@"Salloumi"#p63184 ranni recap: >!you were interested in getting to the bottom of the plot to kill the demigods, rogier, fia and D all helped you sniff out that Ranni the witch had something to do with it. When you go sniffing around you realize she is the same which who came to you at night to entrust you with the grave ash bell because she had obligations to torrents past owner. When you get nosy she offers to outright hire you, because she needs some of her lost stuff recovered anyway. That's about the halfway point. !< The item descriptions are there to tell you the significance of the stuff you've been fetching.

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@“Syzygy”#p63153 Congratulations. Which ending did you pick?

Here is a nice explanation of fall damage quirks:

https://youtu.be/Fm-QA4rZPYk

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Really annoyed just trying to do varre’s quest where you have to invade as bloody finger 3 times and win. I had been using recusants finger and winning all day not understanding why his quest wouldn’t progress. Then I used all 15 of my testing bloody fingers and only succeeded 1 time. Every other time was a 3 person gank squad or they would ALT+F4 out of there, one time I encountered the same gank squad that had teabagged me, beat 2 of their guys, then the host disconnected while running away. You still lose a finger every time. Sad.

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i really enjoyed that part of varre's quest despite not being a pvp person at all. after being summoned i would try to quickly find something high to throw myself off and die, but i tried to make sure they saw me first and i waved if i had time.

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I started turning the music VOL down for overworld / non boss/non new areas and am listening to SEGA Mega Drive chill tunes and my enjoyment of the game is back through the roof! Even when I pause my sega tunes I kind of like having no music sometimes as well! the tracks were apparently getting to me! All my NPC woes are behind me and their questlines are completed! starting to think this is a perfect game because the questlines are just the right amount of forgiving. @fridgeboy Rennala/Sellen‘s ending was really funny, Rennala is so unique for the series as a human boss who sticks around and offers no advice or help whatsoever, what happens to sellen shows what she’s still willing to do though!! :joy:

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@“Syzygy”#p63199 (“be sure to try that finger I gave you”)

yeah I was frustrated because I thought I'd been using it!

@"goonbag"#p63211 that reminds me of all the times I've been invaded then defeated and the invader put their entire being into flinging themselves off the nearest ledge as far as possible. In dark souls 2 it would often be someone wearing the moth wings.

I have been having the most fun with invasions since Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 1 were new!

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@“treefroggy”#p63216 I started turning the music VOL down for overworld / non boss/non new areas and am listening to SEGA Mega Drive chill tunes and my enjoyment of the game is back through the roof! Even when I pause my sega tunes I kind of like having no music sometimes as well! the tracks were apparently getting to me!

I've been doing this for a while now - music right down and something else streaming in the background, something upbeat & energetic or chill depending on my mood - I think the game's score is very good but after a while it can become a little oppressive and/or repetitive when you spend enough time in one area. I do NOT need any help feeling invested in what's happening and tense during challenging battles!

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@“Syzygy”#p63230 ||I love that it literally has mass effect “do long complicated quests in order to choose the color scheme of the ending” and no one seems to care this time.||

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@“treefroggy”#p63216 I’m trying to think of a single time when this game locks you out from anything mechanical - like yes you can “fail” a questline, and there are some npcs who can be perma-killed. But generally you can never lock yourself out of a mechanic or even an ending, once it’s earned. Merchants drop bells so you don’t lose their stock, almost all npcs can be revived or be forced to forgive you for transgressions, you can undo the “bad ending” after you’ve triggered it, there is no way to permanently eliminate Rennala thus cutting you off from respeccing. Am I missing anything?

I’m sure some bad butts on the internet don’t like this and want to be able to murder the Emerald Herald thus preventing leveling up again or whatever but I personally find it very friendly.

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@“Syzygy”#p63235 It might also be because there are ||two|| other, very different endings in addition to the ‘choose your color’ standard version. I‘ve been thinking about the different outcomes of the normal ending as tweaks to one choice, rather than being the entire set of options. That’s obviously different from ME3.

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i just beat >!clifford the big red dog in the academy!< in a very stupid way, but then it‘s a very stupid fight. it’s like they saw people complaining about the sekiro bull - a cool and tense fight that‘s actually very easy once you figure it out - and said "let’s give them something to really complain about!"

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No one confirm or deny the truth in this matter, but who else has played dozens of hours, has not found a Mimic in a chest, and yet, still jump attacks every single chest before opening it

Also who else is especially careful to not attack chests more than once because _Dark Souls II_ had destructible (wooden) chests, and if you broke the chest the item inside would be lost #darksouls2crew

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@“treefroggy”#p63188 thank you! My only Elden Ring regret is not keeping some kind of diary. I guess I expect games to do that for me now? My fault though.

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I agree endings are pretty meh in these games overall, but I don’t think people play Elden Ring (or other similar games) with the expectation of a tailored ending, so I would not expect much backlash until much later once people start zagging on “well it wasn’t that great of a game” like with any Internet conversation and need some specific topic to nitpick about.

The big issue about Mass Effect is that the entire trilogy was marketed around the concept of choices and consequences. So ending with a shrug felt like a betrayal of many players’ emotional investment, or so I gather.

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@“chazumaru”#p63292 I don’t think people play Elden Ring (or other similar games) with the expectation of a tailored ending

I very much liked _Sekiro's_ endings! I mean, two of them are pretty similar where you're just ||swapping who has to bear the burden of the tragedy of the ending,|| but they also kind of land with a somewhat detectable thud of ||Non-Canonical Feeling Brevity.|| In contrast, the ||Shura|| ending ||chills to the bone|| with a ||What-if Horror Scenario,|| or what I'll call ||Sicko Mode Canon.|| Last but obviously not least the ||Dragon's Homecoming|| ending ||I think bears the mark of a canonical ending moreso than any other From Soft game, and is a delicate blend of bittersweet tragedy, timeless justice, and, at least to me, megahype sequel bait. I'm hoping for _Sekiro II: Collision in Korea_ baby, wooo!!!||

That isn't so much an example of a "similar game" if you're pointing precisely at narrative similarities, though.

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@“Syzygy”#p63227 What's especially frustrating with Sekiro is it had a perfectly good JP dub, and the subs were for the crappy english dub.

Can you please do us all a huge favor and write some of the translation inconsistencies you found? I found that re watching the first two big trailers and even some of the diologue that was removed or changed from the network test added some really good context after I'd forgotten what they said. The same goes for all these games back to Dark and Demon's Souls, which is sad because those trailers are now much harder to find. From always includes entirely rendered trailers that never make their way to the final product but contain such amazing original dialogue and scenes, it's crazy if you ask me. The entire premise of bloodborne was changed halfway through.

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@“fridgeboy”#p63234 I’m sure some bad butts on the internet don’t like this and want to be able to murder the Emerald Herald thus preventing leveling up again or whatever but I personally find it very friendly.

I think you can tell Melina to go away at the start of the game and she will.

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@“Syzygy”#p63235 (the 44% majority of those 12 million sales) indicate Ranni’s ending is actually the most common

fan art would also indicate that she's become a fan favorite

@"rootfifthoctave"#p63263 One of those From Software moments where enemy animation and AI designers make an interesting thing and then the map / event planner is like "I have a room of this size, and this creature fits the lore plan so let's see how it behaves HERE!". definitely a capra demon/ruin sentinals moment #darksouls2crew

@"Gaagaagiins"#429 and @"chazumaru"#p63292 , if it's more of an ending than that of FF6 I'm satisfied. FF7 had one of the greatest endings of all time, and I didn't beat 6 for the first time or see the ending until a couple years ago, and it was lame, but I had spent 90+ hours playing so it was clear to me that the game itself is the spectacle, and the ending can be the literal closing of a book. This is going off topic but I feel like the floating continent was a classic square move, floating continent was the type of area you'd expect as the final area similar to ff1-5's final zones, but they make the game feel huge they gave you a taste of the chaos early on for one of two mid point twists instead of an end-game twist. When you do something like that, the ending can be just a picture of a book closing. LOL
But again, this is why Sekiro could be a "better "game""

in closing, @"Syzygy"#279 , this is 40% of players :

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@“treefroggy”#p63298 in closing

How did you get that footage of me

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In not-so-jolly-cooperation news, looks like network hacks/exploits are back: https://www.engadget.com/elden-ring-expliot-pc-183716315.html

short version: an invader can use an exploit to crash your game, and when you reload your character will be caught in an endless loop of falling to their death.

I sure hope From are quick on the fix here.

For any of you that have made it to the end, I don't think this is a spoiler and is potentially important safety info: are there any zones where invasions are _forced on_, similar to Bloodborne (I forget the name of the zone), the Mad Monk boss battle, etc. ?

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@“rejj”#p63335 are there any zones where invasions are forced on, similar to Bloodborne (I forget the name of the zone), the Mad Monk boss battle, etc. ?

In Elden Ring, I believe all forced invasions are NPC invasions (they would happen offline anyway). There are a couple optional subquests that require you invading other (real) people but none that require being invaded.

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Uh oh after playing 80 hours really starting to lose steam, I'm really not sure what to aim at to motivate me to keep playing. All the fun NPCs are at the festival so I should do that fight but after trying and failing it a couple times, bleh.

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Was feeling a little underleveled for the haligtree entrypoint so after clearing most of the questlines and stuff I wanted to do, I‘m going back and clearing bosses and stuff that freaked me out before, just me and tear mimic. What’s been working for me the majority of the game now is the opaline bubble tear and the leaden tear in the mixed physic. It allows me to rush right in, absorbing the first couple hits entirely and giving me poise to get off a full combo or two right off the bat for free.

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@"Syzygy"#279 yeah last year when I was going through DS2 with my bud we kept running into an extremely obnoxious (most likely AI controlled) player named "NO HEAL OR GANK" and they would become invincible if you heal or attack with more than one player.

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Also I just realized: some kind of glitch is happening where every time I've attempted to redo my cosmetics either in the mirror or with rennala, it just simply doesn't apply. I can save and load favorites but they will not apply. What really bothers me is the young female voice 1 that I want to change to something else... but even that won't apply!!

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This was a DONKYMLKR
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everybody should be GPOY'in more IMHO
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