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ELDEN RING |OT| One Ring To Rule Them All

TGO

Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
Nice work Black Chamber Black Chamber
But OT stands for Official Thread, You must of thought it ment going OT šŸ˜‚
Either way.
awesome jensen ackles GIF
 

Buggy Loop

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Iā€™m like 11 ish hours in Elden ring as wretch and my exploration luck to find a decent armour so far has not been good šŸ¤£

Still in the starting area Godrick soldier rags.. fuck me

Can anyone tell me if ashes of war are 1 time applicable? If I apply to a weapon, itā€™s forever locked to it? Or I can recover?
 

near

Gold Member
Can anyone tell me if ashes of war are 1 time applicable? If I apply to a weapon, itā€™s forever locked to it? Or I can recover?

You can reapply them to other weapons as many times as you want with no cost as far as I can tell. You can also duplicate them but I haven't experimented with that yet.
 
Playing this game is rough after playing HFW for over a week now.

From, please make a brand new engine from scratch when you make your first next gen only game.

Also you canā€™t pause in this game? I went to take a shit and I was dead when I came back.

If this is some bullshit for ā€œdifficultyā€ Iā€™m going to laugh.
 

Solarstrike

Gold Member
Playing it on PC with relatively no issues. Occasional speed up of the framerate which is weird as if the game gets fast forwarded now and then for a second. That said, game is stunning. Have to take your time, explore every single corner. Don't Leroy it into a fight until you've delt with surroundings, twisted things lurk everywhere. There's stuff hidden everywhere, people to find, vendors, etc. Utilize coop/multiplayer. You'll get other items to summon others for extended coop whereas they wont disappear. Also, you'll get item(s) in which people can summon you to help defend them against invaders; much like other From games. I get how the creators didn't release an Official guide yet. They want people to converse with each other. Share experiences, tips, findings, questions. This game is probably in my top 5 games of all time. Stunning.
 
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Punished Miku

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a lot of the tropes found in these games are starting to feel really long in the tooth.
The old English cast muttering vague dialogue. The maiden. The intro cutscene listing off bosses. The hub area with shifty npcs. The list just keeps going for me.

I love their art design but some of the identical presentation sucks me out of it sometimes. But I guess lots of series do that.
 

RafterXL

Member
Different build than I have (quality but using STR weapons rn). Rolling so often like that to get away wasnā€™t an option for me as Iā€™m currently fatrolling. Fair enough, I guess I can take off all my armor and just do this, but I still think thatā€™s kind of lame. Canā€™t use guard counter, parries, guard break, jumping attack, etc. Just fight him like every boss in DkSIII.

Itā€™s weird that Tree Sentinel was right at the beginning and seems like the only boss where using the new mechanics was actually helpful.

Anyways thanks for finding me a path forward that doesnā€™t feel like cheating lol.
You don't have to roll that often. I used block, parry, jump attack and guard counter when we fought. SunhiLegend does a double parry that just wrecks him.

 

Cyberpunkd

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What is the difference between two Co-op items? Seems like both of them do the same thing, and in order to summon someone (and not be summoned yourself) you need to use a consumable item.

Decided to hang around at Margit, got two people helping, beat him after approx. 25 minutes. Now to explore the castleā€¦
 

JokerMM

Gay porn is where it's at.
Cosplaying guts and my +5 ultra greatsword is slicing through fodder like butter
No good armor tho, still using common cloths
 
Playing this game is rough after playing HFW for over a week now.

From, please make a brand new engine from scratch when you make your first next gen only game.

Also you canā€™t pause in this game? I went to take a shit and I was dead when I came back.

If this is some bullshit for ā€œdifficultyā€ Iā€™m going to laugh.
Why is everyone comparing this to HFW? Theyā€™re not even close to similar. There have also been plenty of trailers showing how the game looks so this shouldnā€™t come as a surprise.

Regardless, I must need glasses because I think the game is beautiful to look at. The art in this game is stunning, especially in some areas.

Also, no pause has been the thing since Demons Souls. You want to pause? Find somewhere to rest, or hide.
 
Well, I *thought* I was going to finally venture North today but I realized I still hadn't explored the Eastern part of Limgrave and oh, what a miraculous discovery I made! FROM, you truly are the Kings. Miyazaki, you truly are the *God*! 30h in, still in the starting region, still haven't found everything here, still have a bunch of optional boss battles, still need to solve some mysteries I stumbled upon. Epic really is too weak a word, the glory of the Erdtree and the kingdom of the Ring need a new vocabulary.
 

imsosleepy

Member
started liking the game, then started hating the game as I Was not really progressing.. Then suddenly beat a main boss and got stuck in the castle. Then went on to just explore and ride along and find random things and a random boss that I beat and now I'm loving it again lol
and when im not playing I think about exploring the world haha this is amazing.
And its so different then a ubisoft world because its a open world to but.. Not much to discover or adventures u can have when u just ride around..
Here you can ride along and find a random dungeon and u have no idea if u can make it out alive or how many times u gonna die in it.. Should u try it now or wait till u higher level, its so great

I did learn that I do not enjoy these games if i had no acces to forums or youtube videos with guides that is not for me lol
 
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Why is everyone comparing this to HFW? Theyā€™re not even close to similar. There have also been plenty of trailers showing how the game looks so this shouldnā€™t come as a surprise.

Regardless, I must need glasses because I think the game is beautiful to look at. The art in this game is stunning, especially in some areas.

Also, no pause has been the thing since Demons Souls. You want to pause? Find somewhere to rest, or hide.

Iā€™m talking graphics and engines. All games use them and can be compared.

This game looked dated and old as sin. So yeah after playing HFW on PS5 in resolution mode for a week then going to this on PS5 itā€™s like going back in time.

And I donā€™t care if itā€™s been there since whenever. Let me pause my fucking game. This is so dumb.
 

Black Chamber

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Nice work Black Chamber Black Chamber
But OT stands for Official Thread, You must of thought it ment going OT šŸ˜‚
Either way.
awesome jensen ackles GIF
Lol!

A crazy amount of effort & passion was put into this OT, which resulted in a ton of data. In my initial planning, I figured I would attempt to "up the bar" on what an OT could be in terms of raw gif quality. The title banner is usually the part that draws the most attention and as such, has the most work put into it. My thinking started to evolve into "What if I made every gif in every section of the OT at least banner quality?"

My mantra then became "If we have huge day-one patches and have to wait for those to experience the fun of a game; then why can't an OT have a wait time to load up high quality gifs to have fun experiencing that as well?"

From there, the focus was 'above the norm' banner quality for every gif...and you saw the results. The difficulty is, when hosting large gifs like these - they can't be over 99.98 megabytes or it just displays a static image when shared and doesn't move. All the gifs were done in either 4K or 1080P and then downscaled to 720P or sometimes slightly lower to keep the file size under 99.98 megabytes. It was frustrating at times, but I got it donešŸ˜…
Holy crap this OP.

Great work!
šŸ™šŸ»Thank you!!šŸ™šŸ»
 

Chiggs

Gold Member
I wonder if the people in charge of Lenne's Rise ever suspected their site of grace would be home to the two greatest Elden Ring exploits known to man thus far?

Regardless, God Bless them!
 
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TGO

Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
Lol!

A crazy amount of effort & passion was put into this OT, which resulted in a ton of data. In my initial planning, I figured I would attempt to "up the bar" on what an OT could be in terms of raw gif quality. The title banner is usually the part that draws the most attention and as such, has the most work put into it. My thinking started to evolve into "What if I made every gif in every section of the OT at least banner quality?"

My mantra then became "If we have huge day-one patches and have to wait for those to experience the fun of a game; then why can't an OT have a wait time to load up high quality gifs to have fun experiencing that as well?"

From there, the focus was 'above the norm' banner quality for every gif...and you saw the results. The difficulty is, when hosting large gifs like these - they can't be over 99.98 megabytes or it just displays a static image when shared and doesn't move. All the gifs were done in either 4K or 1080P and then downscaled to 720P or sometimes slightly lower to keep the file size under 99.98 megabytes. It was frustrating at times, but I got it donešŸ˜…

šŸ™šŸ»Thank you!!šŸ™šŸ»
It's great work, I always wanted to something like this but didn't have clue how to make the gifs.
Surprisingly my Xperia 1II didn't have no problems loading it šŸ˜³
with a WiFi connection šŸ¤Ŗ
 
I wonder if the people in charge of Lenne's Rise ever suspected their site of grace would be home to the two greatest Elden Ring exploits known to man thus far?

Regardless, God Bless them!
ooooh, I must try this now

ps...most From games like this has a farming spot but that seems a bit too easy
 
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I'm getting beaten to a pulp in the castle and my weapons seem useless.

I'm past Margit, most enemies after this are ultra spongy against my +4 Estoc. We're talking 15+ hits to kill. Am I on the intended progression here? These knights seem to have boss tier health pools
 

Auto_aim1

MeisaMcCaffrey
I'm getting beaten to a pulp in the castle and my weapons seem useless.

I'm past Margit, most enemies after this are ultra spongy against my +4 Estoc. We're talking 15+ hits to kill. Am I on the intended progression here? These knights seem to have boss tier health pools
Improve your stats.
 

Dr. Claus

Vincit qui se vincit
I'm getting beaten to a pulp in the castle and my weapons seem useless.

I'm past Margit, most enemies after this are ultra spongy against my +4 Estoc. We're talking 15+ hits to kill. Am I on the intended progression here? These knights seem to have boss tier health pools

Treat Stormveil castle as the ā€œend gameā€ of the starting Zone. I pretty much ignored everything in Stormveil until I made myself strong enough to wield Tree Sentinelā€™s Golden Halberd.
 
I'm getting beaten to a pulp in the castle and my weapons seem useless.

I'm past Margit, most enemies after this are ultra spongy against my +4 Estoc. We're talking 15+ hits to kill. Am I on the intended progression here? These knights seem to have boss tier health pools
I honestly just ignored most of them, you don't have to fight everyone, that's why sneaking exists now.
 

Buggy Loop

Member
This is one of the best games ever. The world is utterly terrifying and fascinating. It's such a strange place to be.

It really feels like the ultimate Dungeons & Dragons - type fantasy.

Exactly. Iā€™ve never seen such a well made dark fantasy world with all the inspirations of a D&D game in a video game before Elden Ring. This is the game of my dreams. The world they created is above everything else.
 

Dr. Claus

Vincit qui se vincit
I honestly just ignored most of them, you don't have to fight everyone, that's why sneaking exists now.

Also this. You can actively find pathways to avoid many of the harder combat encounters in Stormveil if you just canā€™t defeat them or just want to run past them to get to the boss for speed running purposes. But honestly, if you canā€™t defeat them I would suggest not going to that area. You wonā€™t have much of a chance against the boss.
 
Treat Stormveil castle as the ā€œend gameā€ of the starting Zone. I pretty much ignored everything in Stormveil until I made myself strong enough to wield Tree Sentinelā€™s Golden Halberd.
What is considered the starting zone? Just the first map? I have the northern and eastern maps unlocked. Iā€™m level 30 and have scoured the first map pretty well
 

Batiman

Banned
dude, 5 fucking hours on stormveil castle alone LMAO
it just keeps on and on and on
this game is a masterpiece in every way
I didnā€™t even get into the castle yetā€¦
Been messing around in the world. I made to it to like a back entrance throne room but from what I can tell I canā€™t go anywhere from here yet. All doors are closed
 

Matchew

Member
This is my first time I have played a decent amount of a souls game. Is it worth dumping points into a stat you normal don't level up to be able to use a weapon? Or is that wasting level ups? I am going for a dex build but I keep getting weapons that need 4 to 5 points in strength to use.
 
This is my first time I have played a decent amount of a souls game. Is it worth dumping points into a stat you normal don't level up to be able to use a weapon? Or is that wasting level ups? I am going for a dex build but I keep getting weapons that need 4 to 5 points in strength to use.


If the weapon primarily has advantage in dex then it is worth it. There's a lot of dex weapons that rely on having a minimum strength Stat. Same goes for some strength weapons that need a certain amount of dex points.
 

Punished Miku

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The mounted combat is pretty fun with the flail. I like that you have to pick attacking to the right or left.

Mounted vs mounted doesn't ever really seem worth it. You have no ability to block. Basically just a contest of who has the longest weapon. I wish they just gave up on equip weight since they seem to have so many situations where you want multiple weapons equipped to switch for different situations. Hard to even equip 2 weapons and a crossbow without getting fat roll.
 

Black Chamber

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It's great work, I always wanted to something like this but didn't have clue how to make the gifs.
Surprisingly my Xperia 1II didn't have no problems loading it šŸ˜³
with a WiFi connection šŸ¤Ŗ
That's great to hear!! One day, internet technology will catch up to my OT and it will load completely in mere secondsšŸ˜…
Exactly. Iā€™ve never seen such a well made dark fantasy world with all the inspirations of a D&D game in a video game before Elden Ring. This is the game of my dreams. The world they created is above everything else.
Very well saidšŸ’Æ
This truly is the mother of all OT's.
šŸ™šŸ»Thank you for enjoying it!!
 
But honestly, if you canā€™t defeat them I would suggest not going to that area. You wonā€™t have much of a chance against the boss.
Fighting a bunch of strong enemies before finding a site of grace, isn't the same as being able to fight the boss over and over. With the former you die and have to run all the way back to get where you were, with the latter you can just figure out the attack patterns without any real consequences; I ran around stormveil naked with just an axe at level 20, ignored a lot of enemies and still beat the boss; did the same for margit, winded up beating him similarly naked but at level 10.

Mounted vs mounted doesn't ever really seem worth it. You have no ability to block. Basically just a contest of who has the longest weapon.
Not really, if you know your wind-up timing for the heavy attack, and theirs, you can charge at a mounted enemy without them hitting you 100% of the time; saying that as someone who uses a shorter weapon.
 

Punished Miku

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Fighting a bunch of strong enemies before finding a site of grace, isn't the same as being able to fight the boss over and over. With the former you die and have to run all the way back to get where you were, with the latter you can just figure out the attack patterns without any real consequences; I ran around stormveil naked with just an axe at level 20, ignored a lot of enemies and still beat the boss; did the same for margit, winded up beating him similarly naked but at level 10.


Not really, if you know your wind-up timing for the heavy attack, and theirs, you can charge at a mounted enemy without them hitting you 100% of the time; saying that as someone who uses a shorter weapon.
Youre better than me then. I have a flail and a dagger and its just not really worth it against those mounted guys with the large swords. Far easier to just get off the horse and do the shield counter.
 
This is my first time I have played a decent amount of a souls game. Is it worth dumping points into a stat you normal don't level up to be able to use a weapon? Or is that wasting level ups? I am going for a dex build but I keep getting weapons that need 4 to 5 points in strength to use.
I haven't tried it yet in Elden Ring, but in other souls games you could still two-hand a weapon that you have picked up where you don't meet the strength requirement. By two handling, you essentially reduce the strength requirement by half (I think). Great for those that don't use a shield or if you just want to try out the weapon.
 
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