Elden Ring

[FourWheelDrift]

Just had a 3GB update on Steam.

Info Adding additional elements

Added a function to record an icon and the name of an NPC on the map when you encounter that NPC
Added NPC Jar-Bairn
Added new quest phases for the following NPCs: Diallos/ Nepheli Loux/ Kenneth Haight/ Gatekeeper Gostoc
Added some summonable NPCs in multiple situation
Increased the number of patterns of objects player can imitate when using Mimic’s Veil
Added night background music for some open field area


Bug Fixed

Fixed a bug that prevented summoned NPCs from taking damage in some boss battles
Fixed a bug that sometime prevented the player from obtaining item after boss battle.
Fixed a bug that causes dialogue to be skipped when talking to NPCs and using custom key configurations.
Fixed a bug that causes the player to freeze when riding.
Fixed a bug that causes arcane to scale incorrectly for some weapons
In situation where the player cannot obtain more than 2 talisman pouches, added talisman pouch to Twin Maiden Husks shop line up
Fixed a bug that prevented the user from warping to sites of grace from the map at the end of the game.
Fixed a bug that prevented the player from moving to the next area after the battle with the Fire Giant.
Fixed a bug which causes some weapons to have incorrect scaling after strengthening
Fixed a bug which causes some weapons to not use stat scaling
Fixed hang-ups in certain occasions
Fixed a bug which incorrectly displays multiplayer area boundary when playing online
Fixed a bug that allows player to activate Erdtree Greatshield’s weapon skill without absorbing an attack using a special combination of item and incantation.
Fixed a bug which causes Fire’s Deadly Sin incantation to have different effect
Fixed a bug with the Ash of War, Determination and Royal Knight's Resolve, where the damage buff will also apply to other weapons without that skill
Adjusted the visual effect of Unseen Form spell
Deleted the Ragged armor set from the game which was mistakenly obtainable in previous patch
Fixed a bug that causes some hostile NPCs to drop Furlcalling Finger Remedy.
Fixed a bug that causes incorrect sound effect to play in some situations
Fixed a bug which causes visual animation and hitboxes to not be displayed correctly on some maps
Fixed bugs which causes incorrect visual and behavior for some enemies
Fixed a bug that causes incorrect stat parameter for some armor
Text fixes
Other performance improvement and bug fixes.


Balance Changes
Increased the drop rate of Smithing Stone for some enemies
Added Smithing Stone to some early game shop line up.
Increased shield’s effectiveness
Increased the damage for all offensive cracked pot items
Increased the damage for the following items : Spark Aromatic/Poison Spraymist
Increased the effect duration for the following items : Uplifting Aromatic/ Ironjar Aromatic
Increased HP healing for Torrent when using the following items : Rowa Raisin/ Sweet Raisin/ Frozen Raisin
Reduced FP consumption and increased the damage of the following sorceries : Glintstone Cometshard/ Comet/ Night Comet
ncreased the damage of the following sorceries : Gravity Well/ Collapsing Stars/ Crystal Barrage
Decreased FP consumption of the following sorceries : Star Shower/ Rock Blaster/ Gavel of Haima/ Founding Rain of Stars/ Stars of Ruin/Greatblade Phalanx/Magic Downpour/ Loretta’s Greatbow/ Loretta’s Mastery/ Carian Greatsword/ Carian Piercer/ Shard Spiral
Raised projectile speed and range of Great Glintstone Shard
Decreased Ash of War, Hoarfrost Stomp's damage and increase cast time
Increased Ash of War, Bloody Slash's self-inflict damage while slightly lowering the damage and increasing the cast time
Decreased weapon skill, Sword of Night and Flame’s damage
Increased FP consumption and lower duration of Ash of War, Barricade Shield
Changed FP consumption timing of Ash of War, Prelate’s Charge
Decreased the damage of spirit summoned when using the item Mimic Tear Ash and changed the spirit’s behavior pattern
Other enemy and weapon balance changes

[FourWheelDrift]

Realised I had missed something at Caria Manor and had the ability to use it now, so popped back



I'm also spending too much time chest storing because I end up overweight. So gone back to lighter Royal Remains armour for it's anti-poison properties. Other than boosting strength and endurance stats is there something else non-stat I'm missing as it doesn't take much to go over.

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Thursday 17th March 21:10

[Stevil]

FourWheelDrift said:

Realised I had missed something at Caria Manor and had the ability to use it now, so popped back



I'm also spending too much time chest storing because I end up overweight. So gone back to lighter Royal Remains armour for it's anti-poison properties. Other than boosting strength and endurance stats is there something else non-stat I'm missing as it doesn't take much to go over.

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Thursday 17th March 21:10

Endurance should be the only stat that will increase your equip load (may well be talismans and the like out there to do it too), but you shouldn't need to store everything in the chest as it's only your equipped gear that counts towards the weight, not all the other tat in your bag. Double check you've not got three swords equipped or something like that, but you do pay a heavy price for the heavy armour, so need to sink plenty of points into endurance if you want to use it effectively, unless you're happy fat rolling everywhere.

[Steven_RW]

Stevil is spot on. Check you don't have multiple weapons or shields, including bows and so on, equipped. I tend to run pretty crap armour as I dont like to run anything beyond Medium in total weight. Keeps movement rapid enough.

For info I haven't put anything in storage and am level 93 and 53 hours in. So you can carry the entire world with you, but just dont have it equipped in any of the three slots for each of your left and right arm.

[Durzel]

Stevil said:

I'm about 14 hours in myself, just bested Godrick, though I'm playing a spellsword. It's fantastic and one of those games I find myself thinking of when I'm not playing, deciding what I'm going to do next.

Unlike the likes of Horizon: Forbidden West that I'm also playing through, this feels like each location and secret has been hand placed with care and there's a genuine reward for searching the environments thoroughly, whereas in Horizon all the placements could have been generated by an algorithm.

I can certainly understand the comparisons to Breath of the Wild in that respect and I can already see it being lauded as one of the games of the generation.

As someone who is enjoying HFW I think you're bang on with that criticism. I find myself lusting after Elden Ring, hearing about people playing it.

HFW is very algorithmic and in story terms isn't as weighty as I was hoping it would be. I think I've been spoiled by the likes of Ghost of Tsushima where the's actually transformational character development. I imagine Elden Ring takes that further and rewards you for as much effort as you're willing to put in.

I must admit also I found it amusing that one of the HFW UX designers (and several others) were moaning about Elden Ring's Metacritic scores being so high, when it has such a shonky UX (a UX that I'm sure is comforting to any Souls aficionado). If the story and immersion is decent I'd rather a shonky UX than a painting by numbers one you often see in other games, where everything is spoon fed to you.

In the case of HFW specifically I'd go as far as to say that the hand holding intrusion is a bit excessive, as the main character in that game tells you "maybe I should check XYZ" within about 5 seconds of entering any room with a puzzle in. Elden Ring sounds like a breath of fresh air in that regard.

[Rojibo]

anonymous said:

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Now they’ve fixed the arcane scaling, rivers of blood is hilarious. Just spamming bleed on pvp, can see that getting nerfed soon.

[FourWheelDrift]

Thanks for above. Granted I was using heavy armour anyway, and will sort out carry weights but I'll put a bit more into endurance too.

FYI. Elden Ring now appears on GeForce Experience so you can see if you have all the settings you need. I never use it to optimise my games as it keeps trying to push 4k on my 1440p monitor but it sometimes shows up graphic settings that don't appear in the game menu like Reflex, but Elden Ring seems to be covered.

[Rojibo]

anonymous said:

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https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Rivers+of+Blood

Enjoy. Bleed builds OP. https://youtu.be/uSdSGAb-qbU (The katana with the corpse piler weapon art)

[Rojibo]

This was also recorded before they “fixed” it, by making it more powerful.

https://youtu.be/aVoc32PNTbI

[FourWheelDrift]

I can't even begin to count the number of times I fell to my death trying to jump down these steps by foot or by horse.



Sometimes it's the seemingly simple things that kill, well for me that is.

[Steven_RW]

60 hours in. Level 99. Found a scarlett rot single handed sword. Having fun with that. The rot, when inflicted, just keeps eating away at their health bar relentlessly. When not using that weapon, I have Axe if Godrick.

Impressed by the sheer scale of the game. It is quite mind blowing really.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

no ive upgraded my swords etc ive finally managed to get the Erdtree's Favour Talisman right at the beginning didnt fight the big bady thing down there just ran past grabbed it and ran back out (i say that i ran in grabbed it then fell to my death )

[Trustmeimadoctor]

Killed my first boss the boat one at summonwater village

[Steven_RW]

Nice - did you speak to the guy at the round table hold? He mentioned something about an enemy that was a mariner.

I bumped into the boss you are talking about but having gone west and north first, I bumped into your boss when I was already quite a high level so it wasn't too hard a fight for me.

How was it for you?

[Steven_RW]

anonymous said:

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The exploration and feeling of making your own choices for next location to head to and what character build/weapon choice to go for are amazing. Im 66 hours in and level 108. When you get to a location called Leyndell Royal Capital , it blows me away how detailed and multi layered that place is. Many hours of exploring and a whole host of boss fights. The original Dark Souls and Dark Souls 3 had some impressive locations and castles but these locations are just the next level IMO.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

Steven_RW said:

Nice - did you speak to the guy at the round table hold? He mentioned something about an enemy that was a mariner.

I bumped into the boss you are talking about but having gone west and north first, I bumped into your boss when I was already quite a high level so it wasn't too hard a fight for me.

How was it for you?

i think so honestly it would have been 3 weeks ago so i dont remember

he was easy enough i was level 22 at the time it was just slash slash walk away repeat. im level 30 now just picked up the sword of night and flame from caria manor not that i can use it was im too low on the required stats


This is as far as I have explored so far

Edited by Trustmeimadoctor on Tuesday 22 March 08:56

[Rojibo]

anonymous said:

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Dodge towards her, not away. For the most part you want to be dodging towards her, there’s also a spell she casts that you need to roll into, not away from or it will roll catch you, and just ignore the summons. You can poison her too for free damage while you’re spacing the summons.


On another note I can’t believe they nerfed Radahn

[FourWheelDrift]

anonymous said:

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I've got this to come then, I did the Red Fox last night.

Wiki info on your trouble is great - Parriable: Yes / No

So that's clear then.

[Rojibo]

Parrying? What’s that?

[FourWheelDrift]

Rojibo said:

Parrying? What’s that?

Proper fighting

https://youtu.be/qDQzrDd6cA0?t=67