Me and the girls went to Florida on vacation and bumped into Sam! Such a great guy. Hung out with us the whole day! We played checkers on his forehead, poured out a pouch of schneeberg at Bryan's grave & met some of the folks staying in his basement. Super lovely people! They couldn't speak through their funny outfits but Sam assured me the restraints were consensual. Thanks again Sam!
In 1998 I met GeneralSam at a gaming convention in Frezno. I thought he was chill but he sedated me and took me to his motel and gave me experimental shin-lengthening surgery, as well as installed a pacemaker to my lungs. I cannot express how hard it is to run for me. Great video Sam 👍
@@GeneralSam The death height on fall is 100% consistent area to area. Some areas have death planes but that was not one. The fall just killed you, I think the health bar did an oopsie.
@@Slynch25no. It is more complicated than that. Spirit springs apply a buff to you that prevents all fall damage regardless of height. You can fall from that cliff and not die as long as you are within range of the buff. Sam was right on the edge, but his horse made a slight movement before the falling animation was complete and put him outside of the buff range. Hence the delayed kill.
Fun fact, the sword shield you drew does exist somewhat. It was a lot smaller though, its called a spiked targe. The scots used them in like the 1600-1700s. They had one in Skyrim called the targe of the blooded too.
The problems with them in real combat is you can push down on the spike forceing someones are and sheild down with the force of a lever. Also they weighed a lot. Cool that he came up with something that did exist though!
Fun fact: Dueling shields are a historical thing. Extra fun fact: They were deliberately designed to be awkward and unintuitive because they were invented for judicial duels. Judicial duels were supposed to represent a form of divine judgement rather than being decided by how good of a fighter they were, therefore they often used odd weapons that neither combattant would be experienced with, sometimes even going so far as giving one of the belligerents a handycap when it was determined that he was at too much of an advantage otherwise (as an example, they had specific formats for duels between men and women, where the men had to stand inside a hole for the fight).
Bottom half of Sam is all like "I'm considering changing back into a human from my werewolf form" Top half of Sam is all "So who here wants to scissor Caitlin Clark but will settle for tearing her ACL?"
i dont normally comment on videos but 24:26 with the music and the timing is beautiful, idk if sam edited that or one of his goons, but hats off to you.
love the editing lately dude, i mean you've been cookin for years but the last few have slapped especially hard. i know bryans down there smiling up at you. he would've loved bayle RIP .
Insane gameplay sam, you improved so much compared to the last video. I can really see the willingness to get better at the game instead of simply looking up broken gear and summons, keep uo the great work!
tbf it's not just "items from the dlc", thorns are extremely overpowered at the moment. The stabby shield was also busted on release, but once they fixed a glitch with them it's more reasonable now. And by reasonable i mean it's just the greatshield poke cheese combined into one weapon, so not reasonable at all lol
@@lred1383what items from the DLC are not "OP"? I was absolutely destroying everything with the pest spears, Bayle's flame lighting and the twin blades light greatswords, MA, perfumes and all the new sleep weapons are certainly "OP".
@@GangsterFrankensteinComputer pest spears are slightly stronger pest threads, good but not quite up to op level. That Bayle spell is a downgrade from dragonmaw, backhand blades are only op because of the two AOWs unique to their weapon class, light greatswords are just modestly good, i'm not sure what MA is, perfumes are dogshit after they fixed the rolling sparks glitch, and there's nothing the new sleep weapons can do that normal st. Trina sword dual wielding couldn't before. The new trina swords are a small upgrade for pve purposes, and i have yet to see anyone unironically using Tiollier's needle for pve or pvp The weapons are pretty hit and miss, spells are almost exclusively miss (impenetrable thorns, pest spears and knight lightning spear are the only spells that don't get directly outperformed by something from the base game). The DLC gear is very far from being op across the board, it's just outliers
You can sneak past the madness guys by staying in the tall grass and throwing knives or rocks for them to be attracted to. You can literally walk right by them if they follow whatever they throw.
Sam trying to parry the insanely hard Madness enemies with a medium shield at first AND not even bothering to slowly walk past through the grass is Big Forehead energy.
idk what it is, but i've been watching Sam for almost 5 years now, since the OG tarkov days, since I was FOURTEEN, and everytime sam uploads I get excited lol
I'm pretty sure that every time fromsoft releases anything, half of the community shits themselves and starts bitching that it's "too hard". Then like 2 weeks later when people actually learn the bosses' moves it's like "nvm lol"
I love the haircut, reminds me of my favorite austrian painter! The only thing you're missing is a charlie chaplin mustache and a sick coat with a cape. Wrap it up Sam, complete the look!
love the editing lately dude, i mean you've been cookin for years but the last few have slapped especially hard. i know bryans down there smiling up at you. he would've loved bayle 😔 RIP ❤❤
It is insane just how much buildcraft changes the difficulty of this game. My first encounter with Bayle was with an impenetrable thorns build, a spirit summon, and Igon, literally no-hit first try. My second playthrough with nothing but spiky balls and no armor? Way harder. I had to actually bob and weave his insane moves and get right up in there to actually do damage which made the fight 100x harder but way more fun IMO. I think this game, although requiring some knowledge of its build synergies, is very good at discreet difficulty tuning for people who want different experiences. You can either make that fight a big fun brawl with buddies of different classes and summoning Igon, or you can make it a harrowing 1v1 with Placidusax's rival.
@zecaptainpegleg8820 maybe we are talking about two different similar looking shields. What i know for sure is that what i mentioned is real, and we even have some historical art depicting its use in a duel. I kinda doubt they would just use a bigass shield like that offensively, maybe a small shield with a spike but not something as big as depicted ingame (it would be very heavy for a weapon)
@@mekniwassime2098 if you look up "dueling shield history", first couple of images that pop up are exactly what the game is depicting: A massive shield used like a weird, clumsy polearm. Idk where you got the anchoring thing from, you can't really duel with something that's stuck in the ground lol
It's not too hard. I SUCKED at base game. Like genuine ass player. But I've been breezing through the DLC; it made me so much better at the game that I was able to tap Malenia for the first time ever.
Game is so easy to break manipulate and exploit It's still a mess Nobody should get stuck on anything, heck you can even play 1 handed with a few builds and the DLC made this more true than ever with how awful and shoddily it's balanced Almost like they didn't bother testing a damn thang bobbeh! A damn cumjar is one of the best dlc items...... sorry, was one of the best
@@noonyabeezniss4911 no they need op items or scrubs could never beat the game. It's intentional, Miyazaki himself said he's bad at elden ring and uses everything at his disposal to beat the game. The items are purposely made unbalanced so everyone can clear the game.
-summon 3 people -let them aggro the boss -spam impenetrable thorns -repeat Congratz, you beat the dlc! Might aswell play a point and click adventure at this point 😂
This conversation will never end. The freedom Souls games give you is cool but it also kinda ruins what the games are about. Difficult challenge that requires wits and reflexes turned into mindless spam due to a handful of broken mechanics
@@famulanrevengeance3044 I get this is basically about whining how to play the game, but Impenetrable thorns is a bit overtuned. Also I will not lie on the fact that if he was able to first try Radahn I would've been malding lol 😭
@@famulanrevengeance3044 I feel like they should turn summons and spirit ashes into a "help mechanic", meaning that you do 10/15 tries on a boss ALONE then it unlocks the possibility to use them if you want to use them. In this way you'll appreciate the movesets etc... and you might keep trying alone if you feel like you have a chance, if you can't be bothered just use summons and ashes and you're good to go. When it comes to stuff like impenetrable thorns, I feel like it's just a bugged Incantation tbh, still, they haven't fixed it so I guess they either didn't notice or they don't care enough to tweak it, who knows
@@famulanrevengeance3044also, at the end of the day, people can play however they want, but still, I find it funny to spend 40 bucks on a dlc just to click 2 buttons and go from a boss to another. Like, there's no skill, no improving, no brain usage, it's just, as you said, mindless spam. I don't understand how this can be fun when you know you are not doing anything impressive while, at the same time, the fights don't even look or feel cool. There is nothing that I would define as "fun" in this way of playing. Maybe people just do it so that they can say that "they beat the dlc/this very hard boss", I really don't know. In the end, I'm complaining way too much, let them play however they want (but I'll never stop being pissed when I see people screaming "LOOK HOW EASY THIS WAS", after they killed a boss by using stuff that is borderline cheating/insane broken builds).
@@aletir6111 I think it's because of the community outlook on Dark Souls. It has been touted as 'super duper hard game no handholding' for decades now. And because of that, people want to beat it and will do anything in their power to beat it. And the excuse is 'game hard, therefore I use everything in the game'
I’m impressed that Sam of all people actually completed almost all those npc storylines, seen so many people reach the gank fight and just have some random sanguine noble as their only help.
17:23 The worst about the pointy lake is that I literally 100%'ed the top left area, which is supposed to be the 2nd to last area of the DLC, like 5 optional areas before I'm supposed to, getting dunked on by every enemy, searching for that god awful map, just to learn not only is the map NOT there it's like below it in some sewage water soaked ruins, it's also not accessible from ANYWHERE near that area. They coulda made the map ALOT wider to avoid this vertical land 2D map confusion but NUH UH, I GUESS!
Fun fact: the duelling shields in Elden Ring are real weapons from the medieval era, though I’m not sure what part of it since it’s such a large portion of time (I’m thinking mid to late maybe?). As the name implies they where mainly used in duels either by themselves or paired with other weapons, you can find a few drawings/paintings from the time depicting them in use😃
What's hillarious is that there is actually Curtain lore that Vaddi and other loretubers have covered it. It's related to the Hornsent's obsession with Spirals and how they incorporated the design into everything they built, including curtains across Belaraut Tower Settlement and Enir-Ilim
"man you shouldn't shit if you ain't even farting yet" is the realest thing i have ever heard
Reminded me of one officer in my unit, who once said: "If you can't shit, don't torture your butt"
This shit goes hard feel free to screenshot
Reading this as I’m farting and shitting my pants
That’s goes unbelievably hard
“U think u the shit? 💩 …u not even the fart! 💨 ”
Me and the girls went to Florida on vacation and bumped into Sam! Such a great guy. Hung out with us the whole day! We played checkers on his forehead, poured out a pouch of schneeberg at Bryan's grave & met some of the folks staying in his basement. Super lovely people! They couldn't speak through their funny outfits but Sam assured me the restraints were consensual. Thanks again Sam!
That sounds great!
🤤
😮
did he smell
girls?
Full foreheadmaxxing with that haircut holy
Right, you could land airplanes on that thing
Bro definitely hit the hard cap for INT
Bros hairline crosses the 50 states😂
damn beat me to it
It gets bigger with each new scheme he plots, soon he will be unstoppable
Fromsoft removed the flash bang logo from their intro just so Sam could add it in later with his forehead
He literally had to cover it
In 1998 I met GeneralSam at a gaming convention in Frezno. I thought he was chill but he sedated me and took me to his motel and gave me experimental shin-lengthening surgery, as well as installed a pacemaker to my lungs. I cannot express how hard it is to run for me. Great video Sam 👍
Yeah, we're trying to start a class action lawsuit, he's done it to many people. You can sign up at httpwww.carmeltreats.gov
11:00
Sam's death counter jumping up by nearly 200 after Radahn is funny af
Hehe you didn't watch the stream and it shows
@@josephmitchell6077that was gay
@@josephmitchell6077 As a gay man I agree with Lachlan, that was gay af for you to say
@@josephmitchell6077 As a homophonic man I agree with the gay man, that was hella gay
@@josephmitchell6077 like everyone else said, gay. But is that how many times he actually died?
At 28:49, Sam has half health, but the game kills him anyway because he's not supposed to take shortcuts like that
when that happened i knew they feared what i had become.
Wtf was that actually though? 😂
he hit a kill switch michael zaki placed somewhere, just because
@@GeneralSam The death height on fall is 100% consistent area to area. Some areas have death planes but that was not one. The fall just killed you, I think the health bar did an oopsie.
@@Slynch25no. It is more complicated than that. Spirit springs apply a buff to you that prevents all fall damage regardless of height. You can fall from that cliff and not die as long as you are within range of the buff. Sam was right on the edge, but his horse made a slight movement before the falling animation was complete and put him outside of the buff range. Hence the delayed kill.
Fun fact, the sword shield you drew does exist somewhat. It was a lot smaller though, its called a spiked targe. The scots used them in like the 1600-1700s. They had one in Skyrim called the targe of the blooded too.
Not sure but i think either any of the dark souls games or elden ring also has such a shield
Dueling shield also exists, though it was specifically designed to be terrible in fighting. Funny how they made it OP in ER.
Spiked Palisade Shield has entered the chat.
NERD ALERT ‼️‼️
The problems with them in real combat is you can push down on the spike forceing someones are and sheild down with the force of a lever. Also they weighed a lot. Cool that he came up with something that did exist though!
4:45 Sam pog facing at his favorite word.
lmao
of course, that's how he managed to snatch Abby.
Underrated comment
Clicked on the timestamp and that hit me hard 10/10 comment
Fun fact: Dueling shields are a historical thing.
Extra fun fact: They were deliberately designed to be awkward and unintuitive because they were invented for judicial duels. Judicial duels were supposed to represent a form of divine judgement rather than being decided by how good of a fighter they were, therefore they often used odd weapons that neither combattant would be experienced with, sometimes even going so far as giving one of the belligerents a handycap when it was determined that he was at too much of an advantage otherwise (as an example, they had specific formats for duels between men and women, where the men had to stand inside a hole for the fight).
Weird you as an established rat didn't gobble on one shot builds earlier. You're growing a backbone, Eldenring just had to break you back into shape
Don’t think he one shot a single enemy in this video…
i think he meant that it’s surprising that he didn’t but idk
@@cainanrabalais8536 I made a prediction when Sam explained he turned it around. I was wrong but he still went back to his rat ways.
@@seeknprotect6179 ahhh my mistake i hadn’t watched much of the video at all at that point. oh well brother be safe
Bro smack your barber. He got you lookin like George Constanza discovered hair plugs.
Somebody is envious of forehead maxxing
46 minutes of pure bliss to numb the pain of my office job
peak office Monday hours
Cheer up pal. Search for sassy sasquatch. Not even stoner and its unlike anything ive ever seen. Visual morphine
Fr
Same
Less go Monday shift wahoo 🤪
3:58 Damn, I didn't know you only had to parry the Winter Lanterns once to deal damage. I've been doing it twice like an absolute fool.
YOU FOOOOOL
THE DEPTHS OF YOUR FOOLISHNESS!!!
It's about sending a message
"Last-hookup-before-deployment" absolutely killed me holy shit lmao
Bottom half of Sam is all like "I'm considering changing back into a human from my werewolf form"
Top half of Sam is all "So who here wants to scissor Caitlin Clark but will settle for tearing her ACL?"
Ayooo what the fork gaymer
It looks like somebody slapped a toupee on a brick
I like how every Souls game had NPCs either mute or sleepy voices and then you meet Igon
Igon's VA had rent due, bro went crazy mode
Someone made the blue jay crow meme with Igon.
Was not expecting to get flashbanged with that haircut when i clicked on this video
i dont normally comment on videos but 24:26 with the music and the timing is beautiful, idk if sam edited that or one of his goons, but hats off to you.
Yup, I need that music
Track id?
Sam is slowly turning to senator Armstrong day by day, I like it.
"Dueling shield, son! It hardens in response to dogpile trauma!"
I'm South African and that Oscar Pistorius comment made me piss and shit myself 😂
His favourite band is bullet for my Valentine
love the editing lately dude, i mean you've been cookin for years but the last few have slapped especially hard. i know bryans down there smiling up at you. he would've loved bayle RIP .
We need more edits of you girl 👀
Are you saying Bryan is in hell? 😂😂😂
@@jorgerodriguez1636 that's a bot you dork
Dude is horrendously down bad
That headband is actually a bath towel, two and a half feet wide.
The Elden Ring DLC isn’t hard, I am
That outro makes me feel like the baddest detective in all of mid-century New York City, what is that song called?
35:16 John Wilkes Booth upon seeing Abe Lincoln
Sam establishing dominance on second 1 with the moose knuckle
😂😂😂
12:39
🤭🤭
18:19 that shoe squeak killed me for some reason
10:00 is wild these glasses got sam on that unc energy
Insane gameplay sam, you improved so much compared to the last video. I can really see the willingness to get better at the game instead of simply looking up broken gear and summons, keep uo the great work!
6:23
Still can't believe they actually did "Forgive me, Zanzibart"
Idk how you managed it but you look like a middle aged middle management marine in that chair perspective shot. And I’m here for it.
36:08 that determined ass sprint up the stairs gets me every time lmao
"This DLC is too hard!"
*Uses items from the DLC in the DLC*
"This is so easy!"
yeah
tbf it's not just "items from the dlc", thorns are extremely overpowered at the moment. The stabby shield was also busted on release, but once they fixed a glitch with them it's more reasonable now. And by reasonable i mean it's just the greatshield poke cheese combined into one weapon, so not reasonable at all lol
@@lred1383what items from the DLC are not "OP"?
I was absolutely destroying everything with the pest spears, Bayle's flame lighting and the twin blades light greatswords, MA, perfumes and all the new sleep weapons are certainly "OP".
@@lred1383
also subbed for you rainworld speedruns/because you said not tot.
@@GangsterFrankensteinComputer pest spears are slightly stronger pest threads, good but not quite up to op level. That Bayle spell is a downgrade from dragonmaw, backhand blades are only op because of the two AOWs unique to their weapon class, light greatswords are just modestly good, i'm not sure what MA is, perfumes are dogshit after they fixed the rolling sparks glitch, and there's nothing the new sleep weapons can do that normal st. Trina sword dual wielding couldn't before. The new trina swords are a small upgrade for pve purposes, and i have yet to see anyone unironically using Tiollier's needle for pve or pvp
The weapons are pretty hit and miss, spells are almost exclusively miss (impenetrable thorns, pest spears and knight lightning spear are the only spells that don't get directly outperformed by something from the base game). The DLC gear is very far from being op across the board, it's just outliers
18:19 mans got them freshly waxed n polished floors that shoe squeak was gnarly
Oh Sam, you just know how to spread me open and fill me with joy.
Yo, release your playlist. Your backing tracks you choose are great.
You can sneak past the madness guys by staying in the tall grass and throwing knives or rocks for them to be attracted to. You can literally walk right by them if they follow whatever they throw.
18:13 me sitting at my computer excitedly kicking my feet watching this video
Sam trying to parry the insanely hard Madness enemies with a medium shield at first AND not even bothering to slowly walk past through the grass is Big Forehead energy.
idk what it is, but i've been watching Sam for almost 5 years now, since the OG tarkov days, since I was FOURTEEN, and everytime sam uploads I get excited lol
what do you say to your barber? "Make its as small as you can!"
Dude i gotta have a track list of that music.
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35:58 I'd be shaking in my boots if I saw a guy that big clear 150 stairs with minimal effort B lining towards me
Sam you need that Frankenstein haircut with a bigass scarline across your forehead
"I am like an Elden Ring god."
*Me looking up from gently caressing my greatsword greatsword*
"Yanowawedotogodsrou'dhere, boy?"
@GeneralSam Can I ask what track is used in the background at 25:00? It's purdy and I like it.
5:39 Ah yes, my favorite internet personality. General Julio
Hey big head, what songs are those?
He can’t hear you over his big forehead squeaking
@@ImNotFine44 Yeah i mean, this haircut made him look like he try to blow something too hard and the air went straight to his head
Holy shit, it's the first Sam video RUclips has actually recommended without waiting three months first.
Good Christ now we need that hat with the window for the forehead.
ofcourse the old skyrim loremaster made a reference to it in the end:D
Sam's forehead should be considered a full body shield
Nothing i love more than poppin a blue and freezing in a crazy pose while listening to sam videos on the corner
What's the songs that start at 24:10 and 27:14?
I'm pretty sure that every time fromsoft releases anything, half of the community shits themselves and starts bitching that it's "too hard". Then like 2 weeks later when people actually learn the bosses' moves it's like "nvm lol"
Thorns nerfed right after this video lmfao
I associate General Sam with two things: gaming and cooking... sometimes the cooking is stank ass reddit recipes, but still cooking
Skyrim intro would've been 10x better than the actual dlc ending, all that just for a 5 second long cutscene that 90% of players won't understand
Ehh no
This isn't a debate club nerd
Can't name 1 souls borne DLC that didn't have a weak ending.
@@ultradeath2u210 I don't easily get disappointed on fictional characters that have no importance sorry...
Reading comprehension is hard, i know 😢
Lore about Leda: Miquella enchants people to love and die for him. Leda got hypnotized.
This vid was so damn funny, takes me back to your old souls vids XD “is it the hat?”
How am I just not finding General Sam? Man's editing alone is enough to watch, but his personality kicks ass!
edit: Oscar Pristorius bit got me dead
bro they nerfed the thorns...
The moment you realize Igon dragged his ass all the way up that mountain with no legs. :O
I love the haircut, reminds me of my favorite austrian painter! The only thing you're missing is a charlie chaplin mustache and a sick coat with a cape. Wrap it up Sam, complete the look!
love the editing lately dude, i mean you've been cookin for years but the last few have slapped especially hard. i know bryans down there smiling up at you. he would've loved bayle 😔 RIP ❤❤
Radahn became the horse, and he's got that femboy riding him
'it isn't hard, i just had to change my build to beat it!'
that's the problem
It is insane just how much buildcraft changes the difficulty of this game. My first encounter with Bayle was with an impenetrable thorns build, a spirit summon, and Igon, literally no-hit first try. My second playthrough with nothing but spiky balls and no armor? Way harder. I had to actually bob and weave his insane moves and get right up in there to actually do damage which made the fight 100x harder but way more fun IMO. I think this game, although requiring some knowledge of its build synergies, is very good at discreet difficulty tuning for people who want different experiences. You can either make that fight a big fun brawl with buddies of different classes and summoning Igon, or you can make it a harrowing 1v1 with Placidusax's rival.
It's a NEED to know the name of the song that starts at 24:00. Please help
Sam's kitchen looks like it costs more than my whole house. Don't forget those skyrim videos got you there sammy.
The dueling shield has spikes at the bottom (and sometimes top) so that you can anchor it to the ground and use it in a duel.
What, it's literally used as a jabbing weapon.
@zecaptainpegleg8820 maybe we are talking about two different similar looking shields. What i know for sure is that what i mentioned is real, and we even have some historical art depicting its use in a duel. I kinda doubt they would just use a bigass shield like that offensively, maybe a small shield with a spike but not something as big as depicted ingame (it would be very heavy for a weapon)
@@mekniwassime2098 if you look up "dueling shield history", first couple of images that pop up are exactly what the game is depicting: A massive shield used like a weird, clumsy polearm. Idk where you got the anchoring thing from, you can't really duel with something that's stuck in the ground lol
31:32 i always love when that dude comes running up like he's late for a job interview 😂
It's not too hard. I SUCKED at base game. Like genuine ass player. But I've been breezing through the DLC; it made me so much better at the game that I was able to tap Malenia for the first time ever.
A lot of people have trouble as they failed to grasp the game's mechanics and only passed the main game through memorising every move the bosses do.
Game is so easy to break manipulate and exploit
It's still a mess
Nobody should get stuck on anything, heck you can even play 1 handed with a few builds and the DLC made this more true than ever with how awful and shoddily it's balanced
Almost like they didn't bother testing a damn thang bobbeh!
A damn cumjar is one of the best dlc items...... sorry, was one of the best
@@noonyabeezniss4911 no they need op items or scrubs could never beat the game. It's intentional, Miyazaki himself said he's bad at elden ring and uses everything at his disposal to beat the game. The items are purposely made unbalanced so everyone can clear the game.
Tfw everything is OP, and that's completely the point as you are a God fighting other Gods.
If you used spirit ashes then you can enjoy the game but you can have zero opinion on the difficulty
your music choices are always top notch. Could you include song names and artists?
the DLC has always been EZ if you don't play it like your unemployed trying to buy a Lamborghini with a welfare check...
So real
Facts
True.
you're
Wait until the unemployed classic souls come find you and say you aren't playing the game by yourself
I can watch you play anything and I know I'll be ugly laughing the whole way through. Comedy gold.
The fact that this spell got nerfed to were it now functions normal proves how beta this video is.
Stay malding basement dweller
1:30 hes gonna freak out when he sees the palisade
-summon 3 people
-let them aggro the boss
-spam impenetrable thorns
-repeat
Congratz, you beat the dlc!
Might aswell play a point and click adventure at this point 😂
This conversation will never end. The freedom Souls games give you is cool but it also kinda ruins what the games are about. Difficult challenge that requires wits and reflexes turned into mindless spam due to a handful of broken mechanics
@@famulanrevengeance3044 I get this is basically about whining how to play the game, but Impenetrable thorns is a bit overtuned. Also I will not lie on the fact that if he was able to first try Radahn I would've been malding lol 😭
@@famulanrevengeance3044 I feel like they should turn summons and spirit ashes into a "help mechanic", meaning that you do 10/15 tries on a boss ALONE then it unlocks the possibility to use them if you want to use them. In this way you'll appreciate the movesets etc... and you might keep trying alone if you feel like you have a chance, if you can't be bothered just use summons and ashes and you're good to go. When it comes to stuff like impenetrable thorns, I feel like it's just a bugged Incantation tbh, still, they haven't fixed it so I guess they either didn't notice or they don't care enough to tweak it, who knows
@@famulanrevengeance3044also, at the end of the day, people can play however they want, but still, I find it funny to spend 40 bucks on a dlc just to click 2 buttons and go from a boss to another. Like, there's no skill, no improving, no brain usage, it's just, as you said, mindless spam. I don't understand how this can be fun when you know you are not doing anything impressive while, at the same time, the fights don't even look or feel cool. There is nothing that I would define as "fun" in this way of playing. Maybe people just do it so that they can say that "they beat the dlc/this very hard boss", I really don't know. In the end, I'm complaining way too much, let them play however they want (but I'll never stop being pissed when I see people screaming "LOOK HOW EASY THIS WAS", after they killed a boss by using stuff that is borderline cheating/insane broken builds).
@@aletir6111 I think it's because of the community outlook on Dark Souls. It has been touted as 'super duper hard game no handholding' for decades now. And because of that, people want to beat it and will do anything in their power to beat it. And the excuse is 'game hard, therefore I use everything in the game'
the fenthead callout was so fucking funny and idk why
I’m impressed that Sam of all people actually completed almost all those npc storylines, seen so many people reach the gank fight and just have some random sanguine noble as their only help.
First he mentioned my construction job now he mentions my Saturday night pizza delivery job is this a personal attack
Im convinced bro eats cookies with water 😂
>"hold on dude I got some new spells"
>Spells out the vines
Bro named his Hello fresh Ad as Hell Fresh lmao. Based
You can avoid those creepyguys in swampland, but I love that your chat told you that you HAVE to parry them
17:23 The worst about the pointy lake is that I literally 100%'ed the top left area, which is supposed to be the 2nd to last area of the DLC, like 5 optional areas before I'm supposed to, getting dunked on by every enemy, searching for that god awful map, just to learn not only is the map NOT there it's like below it in some sewage water soaked ruins, it's also not accessible from ANYWHERE near that area. They coulda made the map ALOT wider to avoid this vertical land 2D map confusion but NUH UH, I GUESS!
Sam showing off his forehead for big brain moments has the same energy as Denji and Power putting on glasses.
Sometimes sam is smarter than the average 5th grader and sometimes hes a deer in headlights 29:03
elden ring dlc so hard it pushed sams hairline back 2 levels on the norwood chart and made him respec
The DLC is actually really hard on NG++, kinda nuts actually. Well portions of it at least. You can still fold a lot of things in it.
Lmao i love how chat didn't tell him to try the parry dagger or buckler, and then just watched him suffer😅
That's brutal man.
Lieutenant Armstrong takes on the Elden Ring DLC
Watching a demigod and a living god get manhandled by a golem blacksmith who is late for work is peak Elden Dong.
normally I skip HelloFresh ads but that burger looks like it just hit different
Fun fact: the duelling shields in Elden Ring are real weapons from the medieval era, though I’m not sure what part of it since it’s such a large portion of time (I’m thinking mid to late maybe?). As the name implies they where mainly used in duels either by themselves or paired with other weapons, you can find a few drawings/paintings from the time depicting them in use😃
43:48 well Sam, you see he simply became the horse. Which is what you see happening here.
What's hillarious is that there is actually Curtain lore that Vaddi and other loretubers have covered it. It's related to the Hornsent's obsession with Spirals and how they incorporated the design into everything they built, including curtains across Belaraut Tower Settlement and Enir-Ilim