Being told animals in this game deserve respect while a giant crab brutally fillets the player is when it hit me they might actually have a sense of humor.
I generally don't mind the bit of jank that occurs with FromSoft games, however there is soo much on display in ER that i can't help but wonder if they should have delayed the game again. This is probably the first FromSoft game that has such crazy poor balancing that I can't possibly understand how they released the game like this. From enemies being overtuned to fairly serious degrees, to weapon skills being a giant fuckfest.
What i find kind of interesting is that there's not really a justification for it anymore, much like the Fog gates. In the Souls games(as I'm sure you already know), it was justified as various worlds are overlapping with each other, each character is the chosen hero of their world but the worlds can intersect and thus you can get invasions and co-op. Solarie and Lautrec kinda introduce you to those in Dark Souls 1 and that's enough. ER it's basically there because it's a series tradition at this point.
To be fair the fog gates as really only used to block off boss arenas and the serve that purpose as good as anything else. The fog used to i think just help load times but that isnt needed anymore so it has been demoted to just boss doors.
I think From is keeping pvp around as some sort of habit or expectation. But it's clear if you look at the builds in the game, ER is not build with pvp in mind. Because nearly any decent build will one-shot a player and what's the point of pvp in that case? The duel basically boils down to who gets hit first. Which alone creates an inbalance.
I don't mind duels, thats opt in so everybody is prepped for the fight, but invading is actually starting to annoy me now that I'm helping my buddy in coop. I don't really have a good pvp build, but as you said that doesn't matter - you just need one of the way too good abilities to deal with them. So now I have a permanent slot dedicated to the madness eye-laser spell that stunlocks and kills most invaders almost instantly because protection against madness is actually kind of hard to come by and it outranges almost every weapon arte. Every invasion turns into an annoying game of hiding, waiting to see the red guy, and then stalking him until he is in a position where he won't be able to escape my eyebeams. It was kind of funny at first, but now I'm really tired of this dance. The worst part is, half the time we were just walking to another site of grace to prep for a boss or something, so its not even like there's a threat of lost progress anymore. Its just an annoying loss of time and potential need to re-set up our coop game.
It's annoying as an invader too because you know you are not going into a fair fight nor are you usually going into fight people who even want to deal with your ass right now.
Playstation 5 wins again!Looks like the online exploit wasn’t completely fixed on PC -
Elden Ring hackers are corrupting save files through invasions
Players are getting stuck under the world in an endless loopwww.polygon.com
That is true in mmo's but I don't think it has any baring on Dark Souls games since people mod them, do challenge runs, do NG+'s. Besides why would they give a shit how long you play? It's a single player game with no microtransaction economy. So long as you buy the game and don't return it, why would they care how long you played?
What game with sword and shield combat that isn't a Souls game doesn't have your movement change when you put up the shield? Whether Dragon's Dogma, Skryim, God of War, etc. I don't really get what they are talking about in the article. Soft lock to me is the game "locking" your character's attacks to the enemy you're pressing towards, not anything to do with the camera itself. If any enemy is behind me, I can just press backward and attack and my character will attack them and I can move the camera during the attack if I need to myself. That's how I play like any melee game whether Prince of Persia SOT (I think the 1st game I played without needing lock-on), Bayonetta, God of War, Batman games, etc. I've always been against the game doing anything for me that's contextual whether moving the camera trying to help or deciding if I pressed Circle to take cover or roll in Uncharted. I realize solutions were needed before dual-stick controls obviously.
