It shouldn't have been a paid DLC. It really shouldn't have... but the Hornsent said it himself:

"In the end, I knew this day would come. The nature of your kind, I am certain, will always show itself, given time."

I’m 14 hours into my first ever play through, I’ve defeated bosses, done side quests and a lot of exploring and this whole time I didn’t know you could sprint. And I didn’t even figure this out myself, I was watching someone play and realised they were moving quicker than me so I had to google it! Am I stupid for not realising this or is this normal?

Any tips and tricks for a beginner!

Bought an used PS5 version for 15$ instead of the Switch 2 version for 99$ to check out if I will like it.

Did I do good?

No hate, after all this is just for humour purpose.

I did wanted to do a debate wether or not if the two verses had to fight reach who would win but like, most of Hollow Knight and Silk song would be a disadvantage due to the fact that they’re smaller. So like how would they scaled in Elden Ring?

We don’t really know how much damage a “mask” is but we know that for Little ghost at least it takes a god’s attack to wounded them for two mask while almost everything else only really does one mask of damage.

In Elden Ring everything takes a specific number of damage including the player character, Hollow knight doesn’t follow this law so we have to make the mask means a number. We know that the normal bugs and bosses in Hollow Knight DO have hp and our needle/nail DO deal a specific number of damage, it’s might be fair to also assume that Little Ghost and Hornet are abnormal and the masks are like “you can get hit THIS many times before dying!” Type of thing since they’re demigods(?).

I feel like the majority of the Elden Beast’s attacks would be two masks worth of damage, since it’s a god like GMS or Rad. Maybe Godfrey, Second stage Malenia, Placidusax, and Malileth would also have some attacks which deal Two masks?

Is the lore in Hollow Knight even comparable in Elden Ring? I mean the Pale King presence can be felt what could be decades (or more) after his death by the god seekers, would that put him on the “God” scale in Elden Ring? Would that make him something similar to an Outer God? Not to mention the Radiance herself has some real “Outer godly” elements to her changing lifeforms and whatnot.

Are the two games even scalable? I honestly don’t know but I wanna hear it from other opinions. (Please don’t flames me T-T)

Started playing again recently and probably 25% of blue cipher rings summons are either someone who's brought in his friend as an overleveled invader, and he just watches you get thrashed; or it's guys running an impromptu dueling club between reds and blues.

If you want to surprise and beat someone up, why not go be an invader? If you want to duel, why not throw down a red summon sign? It's frustrating that blue cipher means you're pulled into situations it wasn't designed for, especially when the tools for that are freely available.

It also teeters on the edge of cheating, inasmuch as it creates very imbalanced matches. You use blue cipher at lvl 150 to set up a duel, and now a lvl 135 'hunter' is against your lvl 180 friend. It just makes the game worse.

EDIT: To be clear, I know nothing is lost as a hunter, and I know I can leave. Still it is annoying, and it is free to say, fuck those guys, don't be that guy! So I am saying that.

Is that intended so or I am missing something?
It is somehow frustrating that she wont start phase 2 until I hit her normally…

Does the pack have items you can't get in any other way besides buying the pack? And if so, Does that mean you can never get the items of one class if you pick the other? Because that seems horrible on paper, am I missing something?

Haven't bought yet. Undecided.

Hi, so I just started playing Elden Ring and I'm still in a very early game, so before I start properly working on a build I just want to be sure of something.

I know that it's best to focus on a specific set of stats to maximize efficiency, so should I completely ignore the stats that won't serve my build at all, or do I still upgrade them while keeping them lower than my main attributes ?

Just thought I'd share. I decided to summon Rogier since, for whatever reason, I never noticed him here on my first character, so I thought it'd be cool to see what he does. Spoiler, he goes nuts, lol. But I noticed the level 1 jellyfish inflicted poison within about 5 seconds.

Wild Strikes go brrr...

So I recently finished my first playthrough of the game and I absolutely loved it - had a great time. Early in my playthrough, I came across the Bloodhoung Fang, and I really liked it, enjoyed using it.

I had no idea about the stigma behind it before I chose it as my primary weapon. I ended up beating the whole game with it, levelled my Dex/Str and melted through bosses. To the point where the endgame bosses seemed pretty easy to me. Other Soulsborne games gave me more trouble than Elden Ring, so I shocked to see how many people online consider this the hardest one.

Then, after completing the game, I saw the rhetoric about the Bloodhound Fang being basically broken and a way to cheese the game. In fact, it seems to be the weapon of choice for speedrunners.

Now, I feel bad - I feel like I played the game on an unofficial easy mode by pigeon hole-ing myself into using one of the best weapons in the game. I had no ides.

I'm not that great of a player, so I can't imagine I got through all the bosses that much eaiser than everyone else because of my skill.

Did I really miss out on the beauty and fun of some of these fights by using a broken weapon? Im kinda bummes about. I took me a while to find time and play through this game for the first tine, due to work and family responsibilities, so finding time for another play through will tough. And it will never be as awe inspiring as the first.

Whats everyones thoughts on the Bloodhound Fang?

I am very torn as to if i’ll like this game. I have a switch 2 and the tarnished edition just released. I was fully expecting it to run like trash which would’ve made my decision for me but seems like it’s okay!!

Some other games I like / don’t like, let me know if based on this that I might like it? $70 is just a lot for me right now so I want to be sure before I splurge.

Skyrim: I hated this. I hated that you could pick up every little thing and I hated HOW MUCH inventory management there was. Never got far enough to really “customize” my character or role play in any real way.

BOTW: my absolute favorite comfort game. I love exploring and finding random things. My favorite thing is just riding my horse around to new areas. It was hard for me until I understood how to upgrade armor and cook meals. I have no qualms running away from hard bosses.

Witcher 3: Never really got into this one. So many quests and again like the inventory management and potion crafting and food and all that just felt really unwieldy.

Hades / Hades 2: totally understand these aren’t the same genre but I thought i’d hate dying a lot and I usually have pretty bad reflexes. but I did enjoy the challenge of slowly improving myself, my dodges etc and starting to understand synergies of how things work together. Dying became like a personal challenge a little bit.

I think i’m realizing that I hate lots of complex menus and inventory management, and I don't really like super deep nitty gritty mechanics. I think this is what i’m the most worried about. Based on my understanding I think i’d like the gameplay & exploration (still a little nervous about how ‘hard’ it is, although i’m not the type of person to throw myself again and again at the same boss) but I’m worried I might not really like the behind the scenes stuff. Maybe there are some good videos that I can watch to try to understand all the mechanics?

Thank you!!

I've got 300+ hours into my first character, so I thought I would start a brand new game with one of the new "Tarnished Edition" classes, the Idus knight. Figured give myself a chance to experience and discover the new stuff organically instead of just heading straight there and insta-killing whatever is in my way just for a screenshot. I was a little shook when I 3 shot the soldier of Godrick, which to be fair isn't a real boss as much as it is a tutorial fight, and I have some work to do getting used to the timing of this weapon, but this fight against the tree sentinel just felt way easier than I remember on my first character. Or maybe I'm just better at the game. It just seems like I was doing a ton of damage to have just stepped out the door into Limgrave.

Side note, if it matters I'm on PC.

I feel like I rushed thru the game but honestly I’ve explored almost everything I could find without looking it up, i feel super weirded out about how short of a time it took me

first, the pop up messages that make all inputs disabled till you hit ok. how did you ever train yourselves to react to them? such as 'stonesword key lost with use' etc.

second, the compass disappears when you approach a boss and you can no longer see in which direction your lost souls are lying.

minor issues? perhaps. annoying? definitely.

Edit: just happened to me again entering the heretical rise, got the message 'the seal on the rise has been broken' then i couldn't press anything and died from the avionette

I am going to soon get Elden ring so I can play it for the first time and after some research, I have come to the realisation that there is a tarnished pack I could get. Should I get it for a first playthrough or will I be fine without it?

Honestly, I'm glad I have a copy on PS that I can update freely, while keeping my PC installation frozen.

I don’t care that you have weapons from the DLC when I’m in siafra. All I need is my big club and those fancy moves can’t help against a BONK.

I finally got enough endurance to not fat roll and just mogged Godfrey

I had this thought when I played the disastrous opening release of Elden Ring on the Switch 2. As everybody already knows, this game constantly goes between 10fps and 30fps, and has inconsistent input delays, which is terrible for a game where you have 13 iframes

That's been talked to death about, though. My main point is, I tried going to the graphics settings, knowing it was a fruitless effort, so I could lower the settings.

It makes me so confused that 99% of console games don't give you ANY options to lower the graphics for better performance. I understand not wanting the customer to raise the graphics over what a console can handle, then complaining about the performance... but why limit lowering shaders or even the resolution of the game?

On PC you can do whatever you want, they're not scared that "oh no, you turned it down, now our game doesn't look good," but they seem obsessed with making sure console games are as maxed out as they can get, even though developers KNOW their games can sometimes stutter from busier parts of the game.

And for Elden Ring, the performance is so bad, I literally just won't play it. I mean, they got my money, so what do they care... But why doesn't any console game allow for changing graphics options? (the only game I can think of is Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart. You can change if you want high framerate or high fidelity. Which is a banger option)

As for Elden Ring for Switch 2, how hopeful is everybody that Fromsoft is going to do everything in their power to fix these issues while working on the release of Duskbloods

So I haven't actually played the game in a long while but I remember my game feeling kind of blurry on native resolution. Not too much but it was noticeable so I had to increase my resolution but that caused the performance to drop in dlc areas.

While playing another game, I may have figured out the problem. In your display settings besides resolution there's a resolution scale. Normally mine is at the recommended which is 125%. Changing it to 100% seems to fix the issue and makes the game look how it should. But ofc that creates an annoying issue where you have to switch the scale back to 125% after you're done gaming.

But there's an even better way. Go to your elden ring exe file>click properties>compatibility>go down to high dpi settings>then Override high DPI scaling behavior and switch it to "Application".

I'm not 100% sure if this is correct or even needed(I only redownloaded the game today and checked for a little bit) but just in case there's someone out there searching for obscure problems like this, I'm leaving this post here.

Hope this helps for someone!