ShredSkins

2 hours ago, Mufumonk said:

 

What class did you start as?  Is this your first "Souls" game?

Confessor doing Dex/Faith build.  Definitely my first in the Souls series

Man I am not finding anything cool. I still haven't beat Godrick yet. I got the next area but I get killed quickly. I'm level 40, but I think I need better...everything. My Katana is +4. For some reason my Dragonbreath incantation  is useless. It was really strong against everything and now barely hurts any boss. Even in the beginner area. 

Haven't had much time to play this week. Hopefully i can end Godrick after work. I've come really close. 

1 hour ago, purbeast said:

I don't "get" the ashes of war.  I don't even have them on because I'm primarily using the uginata the unsheathe attack was way better than any of the crap added by the ashes of war I had.  My other primary weapon is a +7 spear I found that I upgraded to +8.  Then I am using some magic staff as well in my left hand.

 

And yes, **** those birds with knives.  In general, air enemies in this game are kind of a pain in the ass just because of how the mechanics work.

Im using Blood Slash with my Katana (the Uchiganata or whatever). It's really good but I keep forgetting I have it. I just throw fire balls at the birds. I killed Margit yesterday in 2 tries(level 35 though), but I'm getting killed constantly in this stupid Castle. 

If you have decent Faith and Arcane you can use the dragon hearts to get some killer dragon magic! I finally found a crossbow. I think I prefer fire magic. I might upgrade it to +3 and try it again. Seems like it would be useful at times. So far I've only upgraded my Katana so I've got alot of smithing stones. I'm level 29 atm 

19 hours ago, Llevron said:

Been fighting a dragon on this bridge for an hour now and my wife is doing the thing where she is asking me why I play a game that makes me so mad. 
 

She doesn’t understand we are one more wipe from divorce…..

I beat it last night in a few tries. Use the horse and attack the wings and run lol. Got the Cat thing in the first try thanks to my wolves.

4 minutes ago, purbeast said:

That ****er was pretty easy for me cause I had the wolf summon unlocked by the time i got to that boss.  They did most of the damage and I stood back shooting it with crossbow bolts.

I haven't found the cat yet. I think after work I'm going after that dragon. 

59 minutes ago, purbeast said:

 

Is it anything more than just a good spot to farm a bunch of ruins?

For the most part it is farming ruins. But also a lot of smithing stones and the things needed to upgrade flasks. I also looked up how to find the katana and upgraded it rather than that tiny Confessor sword. It does get you to the Round Table too. I bought a fire incantation there that makes me glad I picked Confessor. I guess I'm doing a dex/faith build. 

I've been playing Elden Ring since Thursday morning. My first souls game. After 3 hours I tried to get a re-fund from Microsoft because I couldn't do anything but die (they won't refund a Digital purchase with more than 2 hours gameplay btw). I probably played 6-7 hours total on Thursday. Tried a Confessor for a few and started over with the Vagabond. Literally couldn't kill anything but the foot soldiers. I finally killed a giant after 20-30 tries. 

Anyways, yesterday morning I sorta "cheated" and followed a YT videos on how to level up flasks, weapons, and character level quickly. That mixed with just getting better at combat really helped. I'm really enjoying the game now. Still die a lot but I can at least stand a chance. Stuck with the original Confessor build. 

fwiw I am playing XSX with a 4k HRR (or whatever) I've had no issues with frame rate...or even glitches or anything. Incredible for a new game on day one these days.

2 hours ago, purbeast said:

I've only ever played Demon's Souls at PS5 launch and loved it.

 

I will most likely get it on PS5 unless I hear XSX just has better performance or something.

I've got it pre-ordered on XSX. Already have it downloaded. I'll be going to New Zealand on the 24th 🙃 Gotta love Xbox

16 minutes ago, purbeast said:

Same.  I tried to play it like 3 separate times and just couldn't get into it.  I was thinking about getting the new one just because graphics looked incredible but with Elden Ring in 4 days I decided not to.  

 

Good to hear about the voice acting because it was terrible in the first one.

 

EDIT:

 

I also heard there are some graphical issues with the new Horizon with certain resolutions/displays and stuff where there is a really bad shimmering effect.  And according to one of the Digital Foundry guys, it is not easily fixable in a patch.

I wondered if anyone was waiting on Elden Ring. Never played a Souls game before. So this should be fun

3 minutes ago, Stone Cold said:

If all QBs are on the board when we pick…who ya got?  Cast your lot.

Whoever @Skinsinparadise picks. 

1 minute ago, Rufus T Firefly said:

Michael Buffer? FFS. 

yeah. Buffer and Nita Straus. Little over the top

Damn, I turned off the game before Half-time to watch Yellowstone. Come back here and find more violence than Yellowstone. 

Happy Yule! The gods demand an animal sacrifice. Bring on the Eagle and let the mead flow!

303 MPH wind. an EF5 starts at 200. This is insane.

A possible F4 that went 220+ miles?

This is awful. 

Haven't played a Halo game since the 2nd one.

Just started downloading Infinite. Still haven't finished Far Cry 6 since Forza Horizon 5 came out. All i need is another game to start.  

Need some Logan Thomas owning someone. 

Guys I'm an OU fan. I need some football light in my life right now. 

I wasn't going to watch this game. After my Sooners yesterday, I didn't want football misery again. I even missed kickoff to go get cat litter.

I turned the game on my phone and saw we were 3-0. Did some other things around the house. Saw 6-0. Went ahead and put it on the big TV. Got beer at halftime. Now I am celebrating this. That was awesome. 

I wasn't going to watch this game. After my Sooners yesterday, I didn't want football misery again. I even missed kickoff to go get cat litter.

I turned the game on my phone and saw we were 3-0. Did some other things around the house. Saw 6-0. Went ahead and put it on the big TV. Got beer at halftime. Now I am celebrating this. That was awesome. 

Marvin Mims looking like our #17 today

5 minutes ago, bakedtater1 said:

Well that sucks about matt i...kinda getting used to not having him at this point 

Let's get this prediction thread to 10 pages folks lol hehe..is it to early to start the insomniac thread?..ice cold coors light..in the bottle is going down smoothly..big fat t bones on the grill to follow!!

Coors light? I thought we were Bud Light crew now

I got about half way thru a season in offline Franchise in Madden 22. I was having a small glitch with stats. I went to the subreddit and saw everyone complaining about Franchise having a glitch that erases game wins.

Now I'm getting that glitch every game. Stupid Reddit. 

is Ivermectin purple? I swear when I grew up my dad treated every injury I had with some purple horse medicine. (rural Oklahoma)

4 minutes ago, Koolblue13 said:

Hope he uses that "infectious" energy to distribute many "saccines". 😬

Yup. Will be using this in Gameday threads.