Elden Ring

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I tried it for a few hours. As a pure INT mage and another as a pure STR warrior. It's been a few years since I've played a souls game so the combat felt a bit clunky, especially on mouse+keyboard. Have been playing too much Genshin for the last few months so it's quite a large change in combat responsiveness/smoothness when switching to a souls game. Not sure if I will continue much further.

Also got the stuttering issues on PC that many have when new assets load up.
 
prOd said:
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Can confirm. 35hours clocked from Friday morning to Sunday evening according to my save game. Granted about 2 hours of which is probably idle time where I took a quick break without exiting.

That's a lot for someone who usually doesn't even do that in 2 weeks usually :D
 
Played whole weekend. For whatever reason I am not experiencing any performance issues.
None of the stutter. Just solid 60fps. Got the game installed on a NVME SSD, dunno if that helps.
Reached level 40 defeated a few bosses & so far 5/5 defending against invaders.

Only issue I am having has to do with co-op. At certain high peak times the game loses connection.
 
:ROFL:

20 times? Rookie numbers,
Crucible Knight
has wiped the floor with me 40 times so far and he's not even a main boss :D

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Currently playing a Samurai level 33, not too sure about attributes, just trying not to die(not going well).
hope we can reassign attributes at some point.

Playing PC with 5700XT and getting loads of stuttering,
dropped quality to medium didn't help, and also tried other suggested work arounds.
edit - just saw now theres an optional radeon driver update for elden ring, will try tonight.

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A quick question... all the reviews talks about a very long gameplay. Fifty, sixty hours and much more for other reviewers. So tell me, how many of those hours are unique first time experiences and how much of it (per percentage) would you say is due to repeatedly dying and continuously fighting the same bosses over and over and over etc?
 
I see the game has 0 stuttering when my SO is playing. It's installed on her nvme pcie 4.0 (7000/6000), but she has a rather strong pc, well I suppose its strong in what we paid for it. Basically 32 gig 3600 ddr 4, 12700k i7 and for now 3070 gtx. My guess it is the nvme helps along their loading on demand.
 
SeRpEnT said:
A quick question... all the reviews talks about a very long gameplay. Fifty, sixty hours and much more for other reviewers. So tell me, how many of those hours are unique first time experiences and how much of it (per percentage) would you say is due to repeatedly dying and continuously fighting the same bosses over and over and over etc?
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Well, the game is exactly the same game you play each time where as nothing is randomized but driven by your approach. Which normally is dictated by your playstyle and class.
 
SeRpEnT said:
A quick question... all the reviews talks about a very long gameplay. Fifty, sixty hours and much more for other reviewers. So tell me, how many of those hours are unique first time experiences and how much of it (per percentage) would you say is due to repeatedly dying and continuously fighting the same bosses over and over and over etc?
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I took leave on Friday and Monday to play Elden Ring, and I have only been experiencing new and unique encounters, NPCs, areas, quest lines, and items. This is probably the best game I have ever played. It's potentially ruined Soulsborne replayability for me due to how good Elden Ring is.

This is what I've done from Friday - Monday:
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Exploring all the various zones and trying to find all the hidden areas and dungeons. Reading item descriptions and paying attention to NPC dialogue in order to progress quest chains. I have killed so many bosses and I'm still not done with the game.

Personally, this is GOTY.

Also, if anyone wants summons for bosses, just let me know and we can use the password matchmaking system.
 
SeRpEnT said:
A quick question... all the reviews talks about a very long gameplay. Fifty, sixty hours and much more for other reviewers. So tell me, how many of those hours are unique first time experiences and how much of it (per percentage) would you say is due to repeatedly dying and continuously fighting the same bosses over and over and over etc?
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The game sense of scale is massive. There is so much to explore & do. Much bigger than any souls game before it. It's also very beautiful. The bosses are challenging.

It's running fine on my system i7 11th gen 32gb ram rtx 3070 laptop. Some stutters & crashes but mostly silky smooth. Not using Nvidia 511.79 drivers they are **** but the ones before 511.65.
 
SeRpEnT said:
A quick question... all the reviews talks about a very long gameplay. Fifty, sixty hours and much more for other reviewers. So tell me, how many of those hours are unique first time experiences and how much of it (per percentage) would you say is due to repeatedly dying and continuously fighting the same bosses over and over and over etc?
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I get your concern, but even if you were to breeze through all areas and bosses the game is still massive in scope and varied enough to keep you entertained without resulting to crap like fetch quests. Then there's the replayability due to varied builds and paths that one can take...
 
prOd said:
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20 times? Rookie numbers,
Crucible Knight
has wiped the floor with me 40 times so far and he's not even a main boss :D

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I found that focusing on de-horsing him (attacking the horse purposely with a charged R2) made life easier.

Stick with it. His drops are worth getting if you're playing a melee build.
 
Iwojima said:
I found that focusing on de-horsing him (attacking the horse purposely with a charged R2) made life easier.

Stick with it. His drops are worth getting if you're playing a melee build.
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Are you talking about the Tree Sentinel? He was easy'ish (4 deaths)
once you fight him on horseback

I'm talking about one of the mini bosses in the Evergaols
 
prOd said:
Are you talking about the Tree Sentinel? He was easy'ish (4 deaths)
once you fight him on horseback

I'm talking about one of the mini bosses in the Evergaols
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Sorry, yes. Somehow confused myself with the Night's Cavalry when I saw "not a main boss" and "the boss on horseback" :D

The one you're referring to is a ridiculously tough. I think I got him down to half way over a few attempts, but I won't go back there for a while! Found parrying to be the most effective strategy, but when you get it wrong he punishes you HARD.
 
Colsuldel said:
Currently playing a Samurai level 33, not too sure about attributes, just trying not to die(not going well).
hope we can reassign attributes at some point.

Playing PC with 5700XT and getting loads of stuttering,
dropped quality to medium didn't help, and also tried other suggested work arounds.
edit - just saw now theres an optional radeon driver update for elden ring, will try tonight.

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Any feedback on the radeon driver?
 
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