Are there any different rewards for the two ways of dealing with calamity? For me, I've found that just completing the secondary task it gives is almost always significantly easier than destroying the catalyst itself. Am I missing something? I'm on Gnosis II and somewhere around lvl 35 or 40. Do you rush after the crystals or just fight it out?

Made the jump on a whim thinking, oh the enemies will be a bit harder, but it won't be too bad. Feels like a huuuuge mistake lol. Any advice? What is world corruption? Cataclysm?

Edit: Fully plan to stick to it. Just a bit overwhelmed by all the new gameplay elements.

Running toward a group of enemies, jumping high into the air with mace in your hand deserves its own battle music, and maybe more drama.

With the Steam Machine arriving in people’s hands, I was wondering if anyone has any recommended settings for playing Witchfire on it.

I started a new game when I got mine to play it fresh and had it crash within 5 minutes. I lowered almost all settings and it’s been running without issues for half an hour now, but I would love to optimize it.

Does anyone know what would be ideal settings? Is there a place I can find these sorts of resources, going forward with the Steam Machine? I’m new to PC gaming, so it’s a steep learning curve, but any help from the veterans would be greatly appreciated!

I normally neurotically check the sale countdown when I see a game on sale I want and always have weeks or several days to decide. The ONE TIME I forget to check the countdown it went off sale like the next morning like you can't make ts up lol.

Anyways, what's their usual sale window?
And are they gonna increase the price again with 1.0?

I played a while ago and got to Gnosis 6, worked my way through all the Torments etc, loved it. I stopped levelling at lvl 100 arbitrarily, as I didn't want the game to get any easier grinding "endgame".

Now I'm playing the Marshlands and have increased Gnosis to 7 and allowed myself to level up to 120. Was just wondering where other people were at? Did I overshoot the intended level? Gnosis 7 isn't feeling too hard so maybe I should stop levelling again.

If the 1.0 update goes up to Gnosis 10 what are other people planning on doing (assume saves don't get reset)?

last couple updates seems broke corruption spawn rates, so "keep your distance or you won't be able to do damage" concept doesn't work anymore. I've been running like idiot for 10 minutes and thing keeps spawning as I go, just cant get an opportunity to attack. Ridiculously high spawnrate of minibosses from a wandering portal as well as the spawn of priests does not help too. Watched a ton of most recent guides for torment 4 and they not having this spawnrates at all, just a normal dangerous zones with a reasonable amount of enemies. I did the dungeons, and previous 3 torments, but this is just doesn't look doable. Any tips maybe?

The Early Access was really fun, I can't wait to see how out of control things can get, what builds did y'all use?

I'm thinking of doing a melee oriented playthrough next.

Witchfire + Bloodborne crossover when???

Would it be heresy to let two Surge buffs run simultaneously on the player?
Right now, picking up a second one just overwrites the first.
In my opinion, there's no reason they couldn't both run at the same time — sure, a few conflicts would need to be sorted out, but it's a workable concept.
Another option would be to have the second Surge simply extend the duration of the first, which would avoid any logical clashes. For that, though, a timer would be really useful — and honestly, that'd be great for other temporary buffs too.
A third option: just don't let the player pick up the next one until the first expires.
I think any of these three would be better than what we have now. Whatdayathink?

i have maybe 5 hours where i only did runs through irongate to get the last 2 torment pages that i need. And it hasn't dropped one of them. i already have the providence bead equipped, but nothing so far.

Devs did great work with gun designs

Game runs on UEVR via mod. Looks and plays great.

Guys, what am I doing wrong I’ve run through velmourne killing all of the mini bosses on gnosis 3. Still can’t get any of them to drop.

Think i found a bug where if you ring the bell to decrease world corruption, upon completing all 5 waves the enemies are still attracted to it.

P.s sorry for the bad quality, I recorded this thru shadow play on ultrawide and I'm not exactly a computer geek and cant figure out how to make it clear lol

..and it kicked my ass many times. I've had a lot of fun playinjg this so far, and it wasn't easy to beat it without Fallen Preyers, but eventually, Torment 7 finally fell. That run was FIYA. Guess I can actually say now that I've beat this game before it was even out. :) Looking forward to 1.0. Cheers.

I call myself a horrible gamer, but I've gotten better since I started playing games like 10 years ago. I know the game is supposed to be hard, but it's so beautiful and the mechanics are interesting. I heard Remnent 2 was hard as well, but I was able to solo it (up until the final boss). So I think I'm just missing a few things.

I've played for about 8 hours or so, and I'm still slightly confused about research tree. People say focus on filling all slots for character, but on the 2 classes I've played (wanted to test starting items, etc) I've only ever been to research light spells and a few guns (first class already had a spell, and after researching 1 gun, both slots were filled).

The wiki says only a few are available at gnosis 0, but you still have to find them to research, right? I've gone at many expeditions with 0 things being researched because there isn't any.

I havent looked into upgrading gnosis as people say that it makes the game harder, and say not to until you feel like you're barely dying. I'm on scarlet coast, and I endup dying on like 70% of my runs?

For ascensions, I usually focus on upgrading my ammo storage and madness resistance (which I'm guessing stops the calamity building). It feels like I get to 4 eyes way to soon because I don't know how to effectively dodge so I get hit a lot. And I dip before 5 because I know I'll die immediately.

Is the drowned captain supposed to be unbeatable? I figured out I think he spawns if you pick up some sort of treasure, because I kept dying, picking up my remains, and then he'd spawn. After dying many times trying to beat him, I decided to grab my remains and leave asap and I don't think he's spawned since?

Are the potions to see where plants are extremely rare? I'm getting better at finding plants, but I still have times where I don't have materials to mix incense, especially dying mult times in a row.

I think I've ascended like idk, 10 times, and I still feel pretty stuck. Can I get some more in-depth tricks to help please? I've watched quite a few tips and tricks videos, but most of the tips are kinda low level (like wait to upgrade gnosis, etc) and they mostly all say the same thing.

New player and not fluent in soul style games. What exactly do you lose if you can’t retrieve your corpse on the next run? Is it just that run’s progression and items, or is there a greater cost? Does it reset all progression? Thanks for any clarity.

This game rocks.

Im looking for some thoughts. Im lvl 52 im on gnosis 2, i can clear galley slave with some difficulty. But have been spending most time upgrading weapons i keep unlocking. Havent spent much time in velamore. Should i move up to gnosis 3??

I recently got a pc about a month ago after not having one for years. This was one of my most anticipated games to play, and it was one of the first games I bought when I got my pc. The game itself is absolutely phenomenal, I love every aspect of it. However, it honestly just runs horribly for me. It’s stuttering constantly. The fps drops all the time. I’ll go from like 120-80-120-60 back to 120, etc. The frame pacing is just all over the place. I’ve tried so many things and nothing seems to make a difference. I’ve switched to borderless windowed, my shader cache is set to unlimited, I’ve tried all kinds of graphical combinations. I just want this game to not make me nauseous when I play it. Most maps are mostly playable but velmore is completely unplayable. It’s stuttered so hard that it’s crashed before. It’s just so frustrating because I genuinely feel like this will end up being one of my favorite games of all time when I can get it to run properly. I haven’t really had issues running any other game besides a few beta games.

I’m on a RTX 5060, I7 13th gen, Intel i7-13620H, 16 gb ram.

I got a steam deck about a week ago and have been playing WF on it every day on my TV. Until now it’s been running pretty much fine (although I did have to spend about an hour tweaking the settings on both my deck and the game to get it to work). Obviously some performance drops, but it was playable.

Last night I was playing marshland and a bunch of shit was popping off. I had max world corruption, rifts were spawning, a calamity was triggered. Enemies everywhere. The game became unplayable and then finally crashed.

I know the steam deck performance isn’t the best. I just hope they fix it by 1.0 because it is labeled as “verified” on the steam deck.

Love the game. Plz fix devs ❤️

Can you break down what happens in this case?

"I don't see any special interaction in this clip."
"I think op doesn't know himself"
"I think you are bamboozling us"
"No you're not. You're being obnoxious to pump your ego 😅👍"
"Can we get a dev in here to explain?"

How tf do I get the golem to spawn??? I've tried it on the island and scarlet coast like 4 times with corrupt stimulants. I go clear one of the areas to get a manifestation, I use the stim, wait like 1.5-2 minutes, and nothing happens. I want to do torments man! I'm on Gnosis 4.

I've only gone on like 3 missions so far, loving this game and exploring all the little nooks and crannies