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Elden Ring Nightreign |OT| Praise the Rain

I'd be interested to know exactly how much a charged Wylder ultimate knocks off a full 3 bar downed person as I don't believe it's the full 3 bars. It probably should be really or at least 2 full bars.

I'm on steam, I'm not as bad as I say but I'm definitely good enough to carry people that keep getting downed.

I do struggle with how fast everyone is on this game, the last game I played I arrived just as the other 2 players had killed the big enemy of the icon, literally every time.
It's one bar. Really sad and lame, but it's one bar.
 
Team mates being absolutely amazing on day 1 and 2 giving me loads of hope for killing a day 3 boss..... Both getting 1 shot deaths within 30 seconds of the fight, then again instantly after I use an ultimate to revive them and now having 3 full bars of purple shite to remove... 🙃

I'm not good enough for solo and I'm not good enough to revive players and stay alive...

I was hoping to beat these bosses before nerfs will happen which I think they'll do for the regular when they bring in the more difficult versions.

Anyone done all of the game solo?
 
Wtf at the final boss. Even with an ok team lvl 12-13 its over in the second phase. Delayed attacks, AOE nukes…. I'll get there eventually
 
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It seems I'm way more likely to win if I have two Ironeye players with me, they stay their distance and the day 3 boss doesn't just kill them instantly and I have to try to survive whilst I hit the dead bodies for 5 minutes.
 
It seems I'm way more likely to win if I have two Ironeye players with me, they stay their distance and the day 3 boss doesn't just kill them instantly and I have to try to survive whilst I hit the dead bodies for 5 minutes.
Yeah I tend to win like 66% of the time if I'm Ironeye or melee with 2 Ironeyes. Otherwise it feels like anything could happen.
 
"Fixed a bug where players would lose a battle after being revived from near death against a Nightlord or other Night bosses."

Finally. Felt like the biggest "fuck you" when that happened. A bug that causes your run to just end.

Here's the patch notes btw:
 
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Does madness even work against any enemies ? I know Libra has a weakness for it but what else what it even be good for? I suppose just the nightfarer clones event you sometimes find?
 
Where the fuck are the Shifting Earth events? Haven't seen Shrouded City in 20 hours, they need to patch this so that if you've beaten all the Nightlords you can *choose* a Shifting Earth. Also, still seeking Oldest Gaol trophy, keep doing them on night 2 level 10+ but to no avail.
 
Where the fuck are the Shifting Earth events? Haven't seen Shrouded City in 20 hours, they need to patch this so that if you've beaten all the Nightlords you can *choose* a Shifting Earth. Also, still seeking Oldest Gaol trophy, keep doing them on night 2 level 10+ but to no avail.
Force them. Set solo play, start expedition, if no event, quit and redo over and over until one shows up (and it's the one you want). When you get one don't quit, but die to the 1st night boss and the event will stay for 4 expeditions (don't forget to switch back to multiplayer).
 
Force them. Set solo play, start expedition, if no event, quit and redo over and over until one shows up (and it's the one you want). When you get one don't quit, but die to the 1st night boss and the event will stay for 4 expeditions (don't forget to switch back to multiplayer).

Good tip but my point still stands, if you've beaten every Nightlord you should be able to freely pick them.
 
First enhanced boss is live

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On my 1st attempt we got him down to 50% health as a duo, Ironeye kept dying though. Some pretty cool new attacks, won't spoil it, tough fight as expected!
 
I'm sorry for all the haters but after the surprise enhanced boss drop tonight this game is now my GOTY. I hope they keep updating the game with new stuff for the foreseeable future. Who knew a live service coop Souls would be this good heh?
 
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Where the fuck are the Shifting Earth events? Haven't seen Shrouded City in 20 hours, they need to patch this so that if you've beaten all the Nightlords you can *choose* a Shifting Earth. Also, still seeking Oldest Gaol trophy, keep doing them on night 2 level 10+ but to no avail.
The whole random stuff
First enhanced boss is live

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On my 1st attempt we got him down to 50% health as a duo, Ironeye kept dying though. Some pretty cool new attacks, won't spoil it, tough fight as expected!
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I got an annoying bug yesterday.
The run was going great, I managed to get a Rotten Battle axe and a Rotten Avatar Staff for my Raider and on the day 2 night boss, the Tree Sentinel and 2 cavalry men, one of the Cavalry man just stood like a statue when its HP reached zero instead of vanishing and nothing would fix it. We had to quit.
😡😠😡😠
 
Yea this boss is insane. Just had a run as Wylder with two Executor's. Fully flasked, all 3 of us with poison and blood loss weapons etc, I even had a revive, got it down to 50% HP and that's when it gets bananas, no idea how you even survive the bullshit it throws at you lol.
 
Yea this boss is insane. Just had a run as Wylder with two Executor's. Fully flasked, all 3 of us with poison and blood loss weapons etc, I even had a revive, got it down to 50% HP and that's when it gets bananas, no idea how you even survive the bullshit it throws at you lol.
Worse thing is the insane fps drops are back for me again so i have to deal with the drops and stuttering aswell. From never gonna fix this im afraid...
 
Haven't had the chance to try the new Adel yet, but I just discovered (while listening to the soundtrack on YouTube) that there are extra sections of each bosses music for the hard versions (already in the game files). Was very confused at hearing parts of Gladius' song I didn't recognize, then same thing happened for Adel with an incredibly noticeable and intense new part (and just to be clear, it sounds incredible).

Had to stop the video so I don't get spoiled. What a goddamn treat man.
 
I've played 40 hours with randoms, never had a bad experience, but suddenly i get awful teammates now and leavers in this hard mode boss and you have to beat the game to do this so these are not new players... if you leave, because you die once or twice and lose a level, fuck you. Go play alone
 
Now that I have finished the hardest boss, getting my internet to NAT type 2, next milestone is to finish a match without all my team quitting. Four matches in a row everyone but I have quit. Doing the second boss.
 
I hate it when a world boss grace spawns miles away from it because it moved around; fumbled a run because of this because my teammates went down several times and now we had to face the day 2 boss with barely any flasks and 3 bars revive...
 
Really? It's on a weekly rotation or something? But I'm playing Death Stranding right now, don't wanna go back yet ;(
 
And last Nightlord defeated, less than 50 Hours as well, seeing how much I've improved since struggling on the first boss has been kinda cool

Still have the Crater Secret, 3 NL in a row and defeat the last boss with every Character to go for the plat, plus that new boss dropped as well....
 
Finally beat the final boss with wylder for his secret cutscene; it's really cool how there's still a lot of nifty story things in here even though it's multiplayer, reminds me of cod zombies a way.
Now to get stomped by tempered adel.
 
Finally beat the final boss with wylder for his secret cutscene; it's really cool how there's still a lot of nifty story things in here even though it's multiplayer, reminds me of cod zombies a way.
Now to get stomped by tempered adel.

This game really has replaced MH for me now and I like the dynamics much better than Wilds at least. 2 days to prepare for the hunt and 3rd day hunt the monster.
 
This game really has replaced MH for me now and I like the dynamics much better than Wilds at least. 2 days to prepare for the hunt and 3rd day hunt the monster.

Same. Wilds wasn't it :(

Although the randomness of being paired with someone who's played 10 minutes vs. 100 hours is pretty game-breaking. I've done ~80 hours of runs with friends and randoms—mixed results. I love Nightreign and it's probably GOTY for me, but far from perfect. I hope FromSoft uses it as a model. Imagine a game like this built from the ground up, fully focused on that strange roguelike loop.

Nightreign needs a boss-only mode for solo practice, modifiers to boost gear type chances, and a complete rework of the relic system. Some bosses are broken, and the game feels too much like an asset flip at times. The recycled building types and enemy placements could use more variety too.

Also wonder if a "one night" mode for shorter runs, or a separate singleplayer mode (as mentioned before) to grind relics/practice bosses, would help.

Just some ideas—there's huge potential here.
 
Finally took down enhanced Adel. I got lucky and got frost and poison bows which I used to poison and freeze the boss while duchess hit him with great spells and wylder did wylder stuff. The rng on weapons and abilities during the first 2 days decides how easy or difficult the final fight will be.
 
Had my first few tries on the new Adel, with one particularly good group we got it to about 10%. Really digging the fight, even though I only managed to properly handle the big tornado move on my last run.

Been maining Revenant and struggling a bit because my usual damage dealers are lightning miracles. But I think I'll try a tankier build next, focusing more on survivability and quick casting fire miracles.
 
I don't understand the RNG system sometimes or it just bugs out sometimes.
I've had 3 runs (not in a row) with Raider where I didn't get a single colossal weapon as loot/reward, it was like the character weapon preference was disabled, I got everything from staves to daggers, bows, katanas, etc.
 
Enhanced Adel down baby!



Funny thing about this run. When I entered character select and saw 2 of them go with with Ironeye I changed my selection last couple of seconds from Wylder to Duchess, something told me it was the way to go. Five minutes into the game I get disconnected, I manage to reconnect, grab my lost souls and spend the next few minutes hitting up the 3 locations they already cleared for the bonuses. At some point I picked up a rapier that had both poison and scarlet rot in it, I took this as a good sign.

First half of the fight we were pretty much steamrolling him, constant poison (1 archer had poison arrows too) and scarlet rot did wonders. Of course it's the second phase where things always go off the rails lol. We came so close to failure when we were so close to victory, I would have loved to see their reactions when I revived and then managed to revive them both to emerge triumphant, what a battle.
 
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Just found out the new enhanced boss is FOMO coded.... Makes me very worried for the future. I hate that everything good in art spoils.
 
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Just found out the new enhanced boss is FOMO coded.... Makes me very worried for the future. I hate that everything good in art spoils.
It will come back later. Tbh its a good way too keep player engagement up. Im definitely gonna check back weekly to see the new bosses, altho im still playing it daily
 
Just started playing recluse after 40+ hours. Goddamn she is good. I random qued so got first boss. Damn it was a cakewalk after the hard boss tries lol. Recluse is really powerful
 
Just found out the new enhanced boss is FOMO coded.... Makes me very worried for the future. I hate that everything good in art spoils.
quote from notes : "When this time is up, the Sovereign will disappear from the available Expeditions... for now." It will come back probably once they've cycled through the nightlords. Plus I did see that you'll be able to buy the new relic from him anytime (likely) since it's just in the new shop and not actually dropped by the boss.
 
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Just started playing recluse after 40+ hours. Goddamn she is good. I random qued so got first boss. Damn it was a cakewalk after the hard boss tries lol. Recluse is really powerful
That's why this is the real pro tip:
buy star shards for your casters at the final boss, it's game changing for them and they will be grateful.
 
After beating roided rock dino yesterday I also finally got the Shrouded City trophy solo to complete that set, only missing the Oldest Gaol trophy now to plat

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Crazy thing about this run was I had 4 revives and could have had FIVE had I bought the extra item pouch at the merchant lol

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Two of those graces were found on a corpse in the Shrouded City boss room, I've never seen that before (using FEXTRA group password fyi). Beat the Darkdrift Knight solo too with Ironeye to progress that remembrance finally, yesterday was a productive day 💯
 
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