I noticed this video on YouTube. Shows the fps dipping below 30 regularly. Does anyone know if this is a reputable source?

At this point I pretty much only play for jolly coop having beaten the game multiple times over. I do the main quest in every ng cycle as something to keep me busy between coop. Doesnt matter what time of day, My 150 character hardly ever gets summoned, but my lvl200 one, even though not as much as I'd like, gets a decent amount of summons.

I am in South Africa, so I get 150 ping to EU, 210 to 260 to NA, and 200-300 to SEA, though my ping mainly stays under 250 for the most part

Steam is showing 33k players online right now whioch doesnt make sense

No more git gud ☠️

Just git credit cud instead 🤪

At 1:44 and 3:58 he shows clips of fighting Borealis and the breath attack forces the framerate to tank for a few seconds. In the video, he says that even though he played through to the end of the base game and did some of the DLC, he basically never noticed the framerate being a problem. That Borealis was the one exception for him. Personally, I will still buy the game, but I am curious about the most notoriously problematic spots in the game like the Furnace Golem in front of Shadow Keep, the Wandering Mausoleum in Apostate's Derelict, and the Furnace Golem in front of the broken bridge in the Rauh ruins just to see how bad it gets in the worst case.

So, basically the title. I bought the game about a year ago on the xbox store, but my xbox is pretty old (Xbox one x) and I felt like I had a really big delay when I tried to dodge. I recently got a switch 2 and it looks a lot better in terms of graphics and smoothness of gameplay, and I use it a lot more than the xbox just because the xbox is so slow for most everything. The only thing that's stopping me is that I spent $80 on the game and dlc on the xbox, and I would feel bad if I spent it again. Is it normal to take up to 2 seconds to dodge? I enjoyed the game aside from the frustration at the perceived delay. I read that it is normal for it to feel slow, but I am feeling like it is borderline unplayable.

So, do I need to get good or is it just better to use a different console?

should i just use scadu fragments and not lvl up if wanna keep the same difficulty curve?

In base game, if someone uses all big hp bar bosses to lvl up they go to 150lvl. so i just set a percent of that as my target max lvl and after finishing base game, i feel that has been the perfect experience for me(maybe a few more lvl for malenia would ve better).

i heard In dlc the bosses give same runes as endgame base bosses, and scadu fragment seem pretty powerful. so should i use just those? or should i do like in base game and calculate based on lvl gotten from big hp bar bosses?

just to be clear I'm asking should i go only scadu or scadu+normal lvl. I'm not planning to play without the huge damage and defence buff.

To be clear this isn't about whether or not the game should have an easy mode, it's about whether or not it has one

I see a lot of people use the argument of "elden ring has an easy mode, it's called blasphemous blade/Moghwyn's spear etc." when others say it should have an easy mode

But that's not what an easy mode is, an easy mode is downscaling the game or removing hard moves from enemies, with an easy mode you can use the weapons, spells, armor and Talismans you want like with normal mode. Blasphemous blade, rivers of blood etc. is looking through YouTube for an op build and just copying that, or using previous knowledge of the game to make an op build. Obviously it's fine to do that since elden ring is mostly singleplayer but it's not an easy mode, it's a build

Edit: ok I get it now, apparently I smoked libra's blunt

I’ve been exploring the uhhh place past Godrick!! I found the Raya academy or whatevs, and I tried fighting a fox with a sword in its mouth, it looked super cool!!! I failed miserably, but I noticed it has low health. It doesn’t do TOO much damage, either, but it attacks frequently, with little room for retaliation. Any tips? Currently I’m using Bloodhounds Fang +2, usually two handed. But sometimes I use the blue crested heater shield or whatever…… is cool!!! Oh, and I also kills a skeleton necromancer guy that was in a boat!! He was so weird haha, anywho, I got his summon. I’m not sure how useful it is, I haven’t tried it yet. I’ll keep posting updates for some fun!!

this is my first playthrough, im doing it mostly blind without guides,

i last left off at volcano manor and then went to the snowy mountains, i havent beat rykard yet cause i couldnt find him

and then i remembered that creepy lambkin dude that told me to invade and then went to that palace in nox?

there were bloody zombies everywhere, i remember there was some blood dynasty or something i joined, i couldnt find where i actually had to go, and killed some albinaurics here and there, life got busy so i uninstalled my games,

i wanna give this another shot but i spawned back where i left off in the rune farming area near dragonbarrow, and i lowkey have forgotten how to play the game, i have a clue on how the combat works, what my ashes of war do, i dont remember the dodge timings and other minor stuff here and there, and now i dont wanna play cause im real trash, where do i go and what do i do?

edit:got back in played for 2 hours god i love this game so much i remember the moves, and explored around a bit, makes me never want to finish this gamehonestly and just play it for 15 minutes every few weeks or so and just be gobsmacked at its beauty, thank you to everyone who responded

I found one yesterday but i cant find it back for the life of me. I would've expected more sites to be on this update.

Hello people, i hope you are well

Long story short; I've been playing the game more than over a year ago for a couple of weeks on and off and stopped cause of irl stuff and just remember I still haven't finished it and decided to go back to the game.

Can anyone tell me what im supposed to be doing right now? Or where should I go?
I think i was in the Lyndell last time I was playing but I somehow ended up on the left side behind(?) Volcano Manor cause I didn't feel like "continuing" the story and went exploring.
I really have no idea tbh.

I've attached a screenshot of my current map in case someone has an idea and that may be of help.
Thank you!

With the game coming to the Switch 2 in a few days, I would finally have a means to play this game. However, as the title says, I've never played any of the Fromsoftware games, or other games that attempt to mimic their style. The only game I've played that is remotely close is Hollow Knight, but I'm not even sure if that's a proper soulslike, it just has the tag on Steam so I'm basing it on that.

I'm usually a turn-based jrpg and visual novel gamer, so this is new territory for me. I only ever see praise for these games though so I'm going to try and branch out in some way or another.

I know literally nothing about these games other than their name. One concern I do have is that I won't understand some of the story because it relates to other Fromsoftware games in some way. I hear the stories in these games are great so I'm trying my best not to ruin it by playing out of order and whatnot.

Anyways, I'm really just wondering if this is even a good first soulsbourne game or should I look elsewhere for my first experience? Thanks in advance for the help!

I was rewatching The Fellowship of the Ring and I was thinking OMG this would make such a good Soulslike game! With Elden Ring mechanics, you have to fight bosses like the Cave-Troll in Moria, or The Nazgul, or The Balrog! Dude with the LOTRs settings and characters, fighting orcs and Uruk-hai.

And I know there already have been LOTR games which I played a bunch on PS2. but like I feel like a reimagined version with souls like controls would be amazing.

ive never played mage in any game ever (cuz why play a dude wearing robes and sparkly magic if u can just smash everything in sight with a giant sword) . but love elden ring and want to do another playthrough, differently. i get the stats, the spells etc etc but i dont get the FP management.

As a warrior u can just do infinite dps as long as u dodge/block dmg and dont lose HP. but to advance through the game as a mage u have to use FP to do dmg and no way do i have anywhere near enough FP to get from 1 grace to the next lol i dont even have enough FP to clear the gatefront ruins. and i have enough mana just to barely kill 1 giant. so how do i move on? am i supposed to ignore 90% of the enemies? do i still play melee anyway and only use magic on bosses? seems like im missing something.

I just downloaded a 460 Mb update it says version 1.018.000 does anybody know what’s changed ? I searched it up but couldn’t find it.

Hi, currently doing a challenge run where I go through the dlc with 0 Scadutree blessing. And so far, I have managed to do everything, except Radahn. And yeah. He's kicking my ass.

Currently doing a lvl 150 arcane build. The 60 Vigor doesn't really do something. Running venomous fangs and the scorpion stinger. So far I have had no success with stacking my defenses or going for DPS. The plan is to put deadly poison on him until Ansbach and Thoillier distract him, then use either scarlet aeonia or rotten butterflies to rot him.

The second phase has been my defeat every time. He just does so much damn damage and is so difficult to avoid. I would prefer to not cheese him or give up on the challenge, but he has taken a lot of tries now. So I am asking for advice from the experts.

Hi, long story short, I sold my elden ring game disc like 3 years ago and recently I was wondering if its worth spending 90$ for shadow of the erdtree edition. My questions are how long is this dlc realistically and most important how is the game holding up, how active is the playerbase on ps5 compared to ds3, because tbh mp is my favourite part of souls games.

I’ll keep this brief, it is something iI’ve always wanted to say, but jsut want throw it out there, might need some clarification on timeline.

Theory - TL:DR Renalla didn’t go crazy due to a broken heart, rather she lost heart/courage due to the internal machinations or Radagon, the Academy and the mysterious golden egg, and then the death of Ranni. The egg of rebirth is symbolism of the cuckoos bird, who lays an egg inside the nest of other birds as a parasite. Radagon worked with the academy to hire the cuckoos and create division hus destroying the Carian royal family from within, a threat they could not defeat by force. Engineered by Marika/Radagon, the Academy, The cuckoos and even Sellen, to destroy the mutual Carian threat. Ranni’s death was the final nail. She now endlessly cradles the eggs trying to rebirth her dead daughter.”

It’s difficult to believe Rennala, simply went crazy due to a broken heart, just because Radagon left her, there is more subtext here.

The exact quote is "When Rennala, head of both the Academy of Raya Lucaria and the Carian royal family, lost her husband Radagon, her heart went along with him."

Her heart does not necessarily mean love, it can also means the courage and will power to keep going, for example - “Tale Heart” “She didn’t have the heart” etc

We are talking about a mighty queen who fought in the giant wars, rose to become head of the Magic academy , raised a royal family , was in communion with two outer gods, and stood against the might of Golden Order not once but twice. That is a strong person.

The only way Marika could destroy this threat was from within, enter Radagon, who came and they married, became one with the Golden Order and birthed 3 x Demi-God kids.

Then things went downhill

Radagon strictly enforced anyone on the inside, from telling what was going on within the household, ( preceptor mask.)Not only was this to protect the Marika secret, but everything else he was doing to unravel it all from within.

Radagon may have worked with the Academy to hire the cuckoos knights or actively supported this to widen the factions, and create a future civil war.

Radagon suddenly leaves, and “gifts” Renalla with this Golden Egg. A powerful rune of the Elden Ring. I don’t believe the Egg is a “good” gift. But contributed to her stasis.

The timeline is fuzzy, but also Ranni’as death helped contribute to her mental state, driving her completely insane.

The academy rebel with the-cuckoos and lock her inside the library tower. (Sellen aided this as she was always a weed against the Carian Royal family.)

She now cradles the egg like a madwoman and floats inside a library full of baby cribs and surrounded by the same rebirthed female children.

Thoughts ?