Everything Wrong With Elden Ring
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0:00 Intro
0:41 The Upgrade System
3:01 Bows
4:43 Buffs
7:14 Sir Gideon Offnir, The All Knowing
9:04 Rykard, Lord of Blasphemy
10:04 Fire Giant
10:48 Elden Beast
11:33 Godskin Duo
12:08 Malenia?
14:26 PC Performance 
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I'm surprised you didn't mention that there is a BOW SORCERY which is extremely useful for ranged encounters.
That one madness incantation has better range and is faster
@@jonmann4980true, but you’ll most likely have Loretta’s Bow on an intelligence build instead of that one
@@jonmann4980better range fr?
That's a spell, not a bow.
It's a spell that takes the shape of a bow, yes, but it's not the same as the weapon archetype.
also too slow
I honestly don't mind rykard the serpent hunter is a weapon anyone can wield and you don't need a lot of stats to do good damage. I mean is just a gimmick fight, a fight to lock cool and I just like it
Agreed
Actually a good gimmick fight
@@obambagaming1467the best one that From have made to date, imo.
That's one thing I don't understand from people. Sure, if you're doing a sword only run, he would be annoying but his fight shouldn't count in the first place lol
Ngl using bleed is faster than serpent hunter... Not proud but I made a gimmick fight more.... Gimmicky
11:15 "Im sure theres some sort of precise setup to dodge it perfectly but without knowing this its incredibly hard to dodge and it moves faster than you do."
Hmm that sounds very much like a certain other move, a sort of dance, you could say...
11:40 Fun fact: you are not supposed to be able to put them to sleep. Godskin duo have a unique attack that they use to wake up each other if one of them fall asleep, but for some reason they can't do it in the farum azula arena.
It's because they're surrounded by banished knights outside of the arena. If you kill all them beforehand they actually wake eachother up.
@@Juan_WackoI think the guy discovered this also mentioned that the hidden health bar enemy underneath the stage messes up their sleep detection as well. There’s no way for them to use this mechanic without cheating
My biggest issue with the game is that you can’t pet the turtle pope.
I like how they sprinkled in 2 extra smithing stones like that solved any of our issues with the system. It’s such a chore to upgrade multiple weapons at once, and god forbid you want to play around.
I say this to everyone: If you get a new weapon, *test it out at Limgrave first.* Gatefront ruins especially is a nice testing spot. If the weapon ends up being something you like, go ahead and upgrade it accordingly. Otherwise, just leave it alone.
Bloodborne's upgrading system taught me to not waste my upgrading resources willy nilly lol
I don't get why you're complaining so much, just get the (somber)smithingstone bell bearings and farm runes at mohgwyn palace, its not that difficult
I just got all of the bell bearings, so beyond the prices, I’m fine on that front.
Problem is there are higher level smithing stones than bell bearings you get in the same area. You can get bunch of +7s in leyndell while bell bearing only sells up to +4. In next area you can buy +6 but you have enough stones in the same area to get 1 weapon to +24
@@JannJmalki-wt1ds "Lmfao, look at me guys I'm defending a game that a bunch of privileged assholes play because me and my group think nothing is actually wrong with it."
There's your response summarized :) maybe get your facts straight next time you respond to anyone.
I'm glad I went into Elden Ring completely blind on my first playthrough, not knowing about cheesing with damage buffs or using the meta bleed sorcery build or whatever. Seriously my experience vs the experience of people who looked up how to farm infinite runes and where to find the best weapons that will instakill any boss make it seem like I played a different game from everyone else.
I had a lot of fun playing Elden ring the first time, but my save data got corrupted, I was at the Altus plateau, but when this happend I made a new save file and I searched things up, one of the worst decisions of my life :(
I've played dark souls since it came to PC in 2012, you played the better version. What some of us would give to play these games blind again. Its confusing, infuriating, but your first build is always truly your own.
If you use a bleed weapon, and make the enemy bleed once, you will easily realise that bleed is pretty op (and useless on some bosses)
Because you played different games. Farming and op builds takes away all the challenge from the game and some people don't want to be challenged they just want to win. Sadly, they don't enjoy the journey.
Agreed with everything but Malenia and the funny thing is you literally described every reason why I don't like her. Her poise meter makes no sense and she can stagger cancel into undodgeable moves. (Exemple : when you punish her kick and she does that super fast double slash.)
I think that some of the other main problems are exampled by there literally being code in the game for a more dodgeable and natural waterfowl. It really just feels like they made an amazing boss then we’re told that they need more difficulty to keep up the reputation of having the hardest games and so they just smacked on heal on hit and made waterfowl bs because they didn’t have enough time to truly balance it
There's also the fact that if you stagger her during waterfowl dance or the startup, she just ignores it and keeps attacking but all the poise damage will be gone
having the option to become super strong with buffs is in no way a negative, that to me would be like saying having the option to summon allies and use spirit summons is a negative because it trivializes bosses, its not an inherent flaw its an option you have
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, they nerfed the grapple in ultrakill for the same reason that this is a downside
#1: Waterfowl dance
#2: Waterfowl dance
#3: Waterfowl dance
waterfowl dance isn't bad, you can dodge it
@@ni9274 that doesnt mean its easy lol, thats like saying oh well just dodge every attack...
Once again a great video!
Ive grown to liking Malenia a lot more in my recent runs however a problem that I somewhat discovered with her (and in fact a LOT of other Bosses) is that none (or very few of them) seem to have coding that prevents bad luck. Take for an example Astel. Almost all of his „gravity“ attacks are very slow, however thats compensated by his quick Bite attacks (aka where he tries to hit you with his Mantis claw things) that usually get weaved in between slower attacks. However in my most recent run he almost never used his Bite attacks for the entire 5 min long fight, even tho I was practically camping his head. This made the fight (that I usually enjoy) feel very slow and boring, especially since his Bite attacks are usually openings for more poise damage. Or another one, Mogh. Mogh has this really annoying „get of me“ attack where he showers himself in Blood. He can perform this attack whenever, but he can also use it at the end of a combo to deny you you’re opening. I’ve had many experiences where he would spam that over and over again, not ending a single combo and just wasting my time (my highest amount of Blood shower chains was 4. I was waiting a solid minute without making much of any progress on his Health Bar). With Malenia this problem comes in her second phase since neither her „Ghost attack“ nor her Waterfowl dance seem to have much of a cooldown to them, so I’ve had many times where she would chain her waterfowl into a Ghost attack, and would then use one of the 2 attacks again a few seconds later. So yea a lot of bosses could use a bit more polish.
I also wanted to bring up something that you didn’t talk about, that being the massive imbalance between weapon types. Take for an example Great Swords. From what I know there are 22 different ones in the entire game and in that massive group are amazing weapons like the Blasphemous Blade or the Dung eaters Weapon. Now compare that to Scythes. There are exactly 4 of them. Each are found relatively early on and from those 4 there are 2 Bleed Scythes and 2 Holy Scythes. So unless you specifically want a Bleed or Holy Scythe Build, what ever Build idea you had doesn’t exist in the game. Some weapon types are just way more explored than others and I think from soft should have had a better balance of weapons for each type (also some weapon types like flails and Whips are just ass).
But overall I love the game!
(Also I want to strangle the Guy that decided that the Hand of Malenia should have bleed and not scarlet Rot buildup. I want a Rot Katana, make it happen From soft pleas I beg you)
I ain't reading all that
I kind of like the randomness of malenias special attacks in the 2nd phase. They keep the fight interesting if you've beaten her a bunch of times. Definitely can be frustrating tho. When I started fighting malenia I hated her 2nd phase and thought it was bs. Now that I can doge her attacks even If she gets spammy, I love it.
I feel like some weapons like straight/great swords are made to be versatile across builds, the rest is supposed to be specific enough. Imo having a scythe, a whip and a ultra hammer for each possible build shouldn't be the way (aside from being too much loot ig), yet aside from the already huge pool of diverse weapons they still implemented ashes of war and whetstones to allow you to make the build of your dreams.
@@Im_going_to_get_u Too bad, the rest of us are.
@@benkai9921 I do understand that you can’t have the same amount of scythes as per say, straightswords but I still think that certain weapon types were to underbaked. I don’t want 22 Scythes in the game, that would be a Nightmare, I just want more than 4 scythes with only 2 build types.
They somehow managed to make upgrading a normal weapon and normal spirit ash more difficult, annoying and time consuming, than upgrading the often much better somber weapons and definitely better renowned spirit ashes.
The upgrade materials are usually easier to gather (also often goes for the bell bearings) than those for the normal ones.
Want to upgrade renowned spirit ashes?
Just go to fun places like Nokron and Nokstella, also collect the bell bearings along the way.
Want to upgrade the weaker normal spirit ashes? Go to some random and boring dungeons, find out which of those have the right material, and defeat some random a** boss to get the bell bearing.
And if you don't google exactly where those things are, or happen to go there anyways, you're fighting Radagon with a +4 Fanged Imp Ash
@@forbzee44 thats why youre supposed to explore... in an... open world game... shocking ik
The only change I would want with bows, is a magical quiver. But instead, it can hold as many of two arrow types as you have. With the possibility to find better magical quivers. With an enemies ability to dodge, missing a shot with a bow really hurts.
That Rykard criticism is extremely stupid. The serpent hunter has no stat requirements for a reason. It is the ONLY weapon you are supposed to use for that fight, no matter your build. It is the intended way to do it. The fight was designed around using the serpent hunter, and it's a masterpiece of a fight when you do so.
Agreed. I probably fight over 50 bosses each run, I don't see why he's complaining about not being able to use his favourite build for one.
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Gotta cram something in to get views 🤷🏾♀️
You wanna do a Dagger only run? You can kill Yhorn with daggers, Good luck killing Rykard. The fight completely shits on any fun challange build you might wanna do.
@@shade9208 again, that’s why the serpent hunter has no stat requirements. You are supposed to use it no matter what your build is.
@@cardmossdn8058 You see, the thing is, it is not a dagger. They should have made the fight realistically viable without the spear. Really fucking hard but possible like Yhorn.
Gloveworts too. The regular ones' bell bearings are mostly found in random ass dungeons guarded by some cancer boss. The fancy ones are just picked up in Nokron, Nokstella, and Farum Azula (after a bit of sneaking around wormfaces). Why upgrade a regular spirit ash?
Bows can be decent against large groups of weak enemies when you are somewhere they can't reach, like a convenient rooftop in Stormveil. But stronger enemies take forever. I cleared out the whoel inner courtyard from a roof. The exiles take 1-2 shots, the Omen took forever. The bastard gets up to investigate after being hit, no point trying to shoot him while he's moving, slowly get his arse closer but never within Rock Sling range, then slowly goes back to sit down. Even with fire arrows it took ages.
Couldn’t you shoot him while he was moving using manual aim?
The 2 major problems with ER is the easiness to create op builds and the amount of people being meta slaves in pve. A bow build isn't viable thanks to buff stacking and abuse farming greyoll to be 50 level above the "recommended minimum" but thanks to you learning to play the damn game.
Eh, you won't be making stupid op meta builds unless you specifically try to. That's not an issue with the game, that's an issue with the players who die to margit like 10 times then immediately go searching up all the best equipment and farming spots.
@@Snoodle829I think taking 2 curved swords , infusing them and spamming jump attacks is clearly not a 3000IQ move but it's overpowered (in pve) and keeps getting even more busted with every bleed/dmg related weapons, ashes of war, buffs etc you'll find during a normal playthrough not even doing the cheese strats I already mentioned
The biggest problem is that we can't have Godfrey Lion on our back after we defeat him 😭
This channel is a true W
True that
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Ive Never had problems with godskin Duo and theyre a blast everytime i fight them😊
Any tips on how to beat them I already beat the game once but on my second run they are impossible to beat over half health maybe quarter of I'm lucky maybe it's because I'm playing on ps4 and just got the new update it definitely feels like they made the game harder to be spiteful the pros and minmaxers
I'm currently running a cold lordsworn great sword with storm caller ash of war with med load armour I even have a maxed out mimic tear to help I'm level 100 and my health bar is still getting half deleted by the black flame and the godskin noble is deleting my health with his role attack
Maybe I just need to re build my character by visiting renalla I'm currently at the halig tree to do some serious level grinding is a faith fire/ lightning build still good
@@the_person_with_NoName Ok so first of all Maybe you know But there is a Grace Right next to the boss room. From the Dragontemple Grace you have to Go back and drop down onto the stairs and then to the Platform below. Theres a Grace called Dragon Temple transept down there.
@@schadowsshade7870 but how do I kill them before they kill me I've tried every trick I have short of level grinding I've defeated the godskins before but they keep overlapping their black flame attacks I Dodge the black flame bolt from the skinny one only to get crushed or stabed by the fat one even my mimic tear summon is getting deleted by the black flame I can only get them to phase 2 to which point they summon another godskin after I defeated the first
@@the_person_with_NoName Level 100 seems pretty low especially if youre ng+ and your Vigor should prob be at least 35 or 40 your Build is Fine i guess if your weapon is maxed
@@schadowsshade7870 not ng+ this is a separate save my ng+ save is over level 200 (I don't have the exact states because I'm on holiday an not with my ps4 I beat the game with a chilling mist ash of war colossal grate sword (the berserk dragon slayer inspired one) maxed out with the lional set except the helmet if I remember correctly that's the straw that will set me into heavy load this new save is to help me experiment with other builds other than cold warrior strong int tank
This is crazy after over a year ice started playing elden ring again for like 200 hours and now youre making a vid about it lol.
The fact that you said yhorm is a better fight than Rykard is a crime against humanity itself.
I love how you play terraria music during the part of the video where you’re talking about stacking an obscene amount buffs on yourself
i've just found this channel with the boshy video and it has some incredibly interesting content instantly felt like GMTK
i'll be probably checking out videos from 4 years to this day
For anyone struggling on godskin duo summon the beast champoin guy then go in the fog right away and summon an ash. One id easly distracted,either of them are fun and decent easy to dodge even woth spells
Or just summon them, and then stay behind a pillar with the Mohgwyn Spear.
Easy as that.
BuT SuMmOnS ArE FoR NoObS!!!! *Dies* ThIs GaMe IsN't BaLeNcEd!!!
Suprisingly I watched the newest video earlier this day so I’m surprised a new video dropped today
Thank you so much for mentioning the pc performance issues! I have a 4070ti and an i9 processor and it has trouble loading at startup and will sometimes just randomly crash :/. I thought it was just somehow my pc lol
What???? I have a gaming laptop and it works perfectly, never crashed once.
Me too man, I get frame drops, occasional crashes and sometimes the games takes forever to start. I mean I have a gaming laptop with a 3050 but I should atleast get stable framerate
5600x gtx 980 runs fine lmao
3060 with no drops sometimes it lags when I'm invaded tho
I’m on a 4080 and I don’t get any problems
I had no problem with the Godskin Duo, did it on my first try in my first run.
Crystalian summon and Spiral Shards.
But i understand the criticisms this fight generats. It does indeed feel.... unfinished. Like there was some sort of next phase that was cut for time.
3:00 The funny thing about bows are...most are...ok-ish AT BEST. But then you take the same archer build, Radahns Greatbow and golem greatarrows and you got yourself an AC-130 build XD
Btw everything you said was fair except the thing about poise. The invisible meter you refer to is actually called stance, and Poise is the mechanic that determines how easily something will flinch out of non-hyper-armoured attacks. It's a very easy distinction to misunderstand, especially given how intertwined the two mechanics are, but there's a difference.
6:34 why is this map explored so much yet HALF OF CAELID IS MISSING??
I'm legitimately going insane over this
I love elden ring so much. It is one of my favorite games and agree with everything you said in this video.
Your first complaint about the weapons sounds like a 1 playthrough problem. I almsot exclusively used regular weapons in my playthroughs because they actually blow most somber weapons out of the water when you take into account the ability to change the weapon art and damage. In fact, i think the most busted weapons are normal weapons that you tailor to a specific build. The balance is good.
Bows fo suck. Wish they didnt because my bow builds in DS2 were fun.
Theres nothing wrong with buffs. If you dont want to nuke a boss, dont nuke the boss with buffs. That simple. Nobody is forcing you to use them.
Gideon does suck.
Theres nothing wrong with the Rykard fight. You can blast through him without having a build made for the Serpent Hunter. Complaining about needing the spear is like wishing Storm King didnt fly. They put the lava there because they want you to use the spear. Its made for the spear, use the spear. Dont wanna use the spear, dont fight the boss. You can wish you didnt have to, but thats not a mark against the boss. They executed it perfectly.
I like Fire Giant but i can see why people dont.
Elden Beast can be a ball ache but i like him too because of the thematics of the fight God tier ost as well.
I HATE GODSKIN DUO!!! I HATE THEM I HATE THEM I HATE THEM!!!!!
You forgot about the one boss, they made his gorse too small so he looks like grandma rolling out in her mibility scooter
I honestly love Gideon's boss fight
I really like the concept for his fight and how he uses spells from bosses you've fought, but I think the execution for his fight is just horrible.
@@StanleyG23 Yeah, I agree. But Gideon boss fight felt like a way worse owl (From Sekiro) A mage who would stop at nothing to kill you, and would not fight honorably. His spammy nature just adds to that.
@@StanleyG23You just perfectly described the boss to me. They could have done so much more for a character who was being built up throughout the whole game.
Damn, the poise meter reset explains so much ! I was sometimes confused how I was not staggering her at expected times, and ended up just attacking her when she wasn't using power armor moves. Still, I think it balances her poise meter being so low (way too low in my opinion)
i play on a pretty avg pc but i haven't seen any performance problems(like crashes or major lag like in the video) in my 100+ hours of gameplay
I would like there to be markers and guidance to the main story and some important side missions.
got first phase malenia to no health, she got staggered and i did the critical hit thing as she was switching phases which cause her to have no health in second phase and i finished her off ez boss fr fr
Due to souls games, every Minecraft modpack wants the combat to be as slow as a snail instead of flashy.
Just started playing modded Minecraft today (Dawncraft) and thank God I am a programmer cause I can make a Dmc mod one day.
I hate soulslike combat, just because something is hard doesn't mean it's fun.
If you like it, I'm not hating on you, but I wish people didn't look at it as the ultimate combat system.
Dawn crafts implementation of ""Souls Like"" combat is actually just really fucking terrible tbh, feels nothing like what they're trying to mimic, and the balance is absurd, enemies don't have hitstun, stagger, or any real delay in their attacks resulting in there being no real strategy besides flailing until you die or they die. 9 times out of 10 the enemies will simply ignore the fact that you hit them with an enormous great sword, tank right through it, then hit you for 7 Hearts in full diamond armor. For Souls like combat to feel fair, enemies need to REACT to the fact that you hit them, AND provide decent counter attack windows in their attack patterns, otherwise it's just bullshit.
TL;DR Dawn craft combat is just a bit shit.
@@Landjrin I see, seems like I'll 90% drop the pack midway.
I also hate questing, why is a horrible part of gaming THE MAIN PART?
I'll either find a better modpack or have fun with a custom build.
I do sometimes say to people who suck at the game to just go play DMC lol
I don't have a very good pc (almost four years old and only 16GB of Ram) but my framerate is almost always at 60 idk why but performance was never an issue for me...
godskin duo is underrated
icl i killed rykard without the spear 3 ngs in a row before realising the serpent spear was meant to be used in his fight. I didn't find any of those fights any more difficult than any other boss, but I will admit, the staggering lava was annoying
The only thing I dislike about Malenia is her little rot afterimage / ghost / clone attack in phase 2. I can dodge Waterfowl 9/10 times but that attack always seems to hit me at least once.
Let us devouver world togethar
I like fighting the God skin duo
My daily driver is s "regula" wespon. Iron Greatsword with blood slash ash of war is stupid good.
Fun fact: the dark souls 2 is probably the fromsoftware game with the best pc port ever (can't even boot dark souls remastered and dark souls 3 goes on about 1-10 fps on my pc but dark souls 2 goes all the way up to 20-30 and sometimes even 60)
Maybe they should have the supposed 'B team' make their PC ports.
I think I might actually suck at the game, but in the wrong way. I thought the Golden Halberd was fine so I completed the entire game with it (except fire giant, I had to use Rivers of Blood for that one and to this day, when I see people on the streets point at me and laugh, I think it was because of that).
Never really used any buffs. In the early game, I used Fire Pots though.
No magic either. I didn't have any trouble at all with Giddy Sir Ofnir but Radagon was such a pain. Malenia was easy compared to that thing. I used summons though...
Nothing wrong with that and no shame with how you get things done. If you want to mid max damage, then buff. If you struggle, summon. Play how you want and achieve victory how you want
He keeps saying somber snifing stones and it reminded me of cocai-
Honestly, I still very much think that anyone who likes and actively defends Malenia's Waterfowl Dance should absolutely be considered insane.
P.S. 2:34 You can get a Weapon to +10 without killing a single boss if you do Varré's Questline to get to Mohgwyn Palace early.
You don't even need to kill the NPC you invade (Magnus the Beast Claw), just invade them 3 times (the same way you'd only need to invade 3 times online).
Bro waterfowl dance is so nice when you learn how to dodge it cause you feel like a badass. Or idk, Greatshield plus barricade shield or freezing pots or something works too
She'd be pretty easy without it tbh. It's the ONLY thing that killed me in the first phase.
@@bobertastic6541 Sure, but can we at least agree that having a boss that has one single move for which you either have to spend hours learning how to dodge and/or have to go online to learn how to dodge it is pretty stupid.
You should absolutely not be forced to go online to learn how to dodge a single move.
@@StanleyG23you don't need to go online, it's completely learnable by yourself, if by trial and error
@@shades4385 Yeah, but that completely depends from person to person if it's going to take a couple of attempts or a couple of actual hours. Not everyone will want to spend possibly multiple hours to learn to dodge one singular move. The majority of people quite rightfully get fed up with it and just decide to look up how to dodge it online. Of course most people will look up how to dodge it if they go multiple sequential attempts without being able to dodge it.
Since patch 1.03 (since my bow only run basically) I am waiting for a patch that buffs bows. For nothing until now. It is very bad in my opinon that bows have been made so bad with no significant scaling on STR and DEX to get at least somewhat more damage by leveling up. This since DS3, btw. In both DS1 and DS2 medium bows had A and even S (Black Bow!) scaling in DEX. It is a mystery to me that Fromsoft changed this in DS3. And having only 99 arrows per slot is also not helpful when you have to kill bosses with over 30K or even 40K HP (hello Fire Giant...). So in total Fromsoft made it so that a bow only run (which I enjoyed a lot in the previous Souls games) became not very exciting anymore. This all on top of the tedious crafting of arrows which is necessary now to get arrows with a certain damage type.
Otherwise the video could have been made by myself, all the points are also on my own critique list. For example, even on Xbox series X, so a well defined system that certainly should have the capabilities to run the game flawlessly, I have performance issues with FPS drops here and there. As an example, when Radagon jumps in the air and does this hammer slam the FPS goes down significantly, probably due to the many particle effects (?). Very annoying, since this is the final boss in the game.
I also wonder why they made it so that one can stack so many different buffs on top of each other? I remember that in Dark Souls 1 it was not even possible to have more than one buff at a time and one had to wait to apply a new buff until the old one weared off (like I could not use Power Within at the same time as when I buffed the stamina regeneration with a Green Blossom). I think, too, that they should have better given many weapons a better scaling and limited the possible buffs to just a few ones.
I play on Series X and only the Radagon slam slows down performance very slightly for me and only if the camera staring at the ground. I play alot of New Vegas, Pokémon Scarlet, and Ark so this issue is incredibly MINOR for me. I did a NG+3 with bows only, no buffs, and kill every boss and I was impressed with how reliable they were honestly
@@rhettbutler5397 I did not mean that bows are useless in Elden Ring. I used the short bow recently to kill Placidusax an RL1 and it was a relatively easy fight. But this was all thanks to the Rain of Arrows ash of war paired with arraws which do percentage damage (poison and bleed). The physical damage of all light and medium bows is not good enough (particularly at the end of the game) and there is no way to improve this a lot by leveling STR or DEX. Example: the Longbow +25 has an AR of 196+37 at level 20 STR+DEX and an AR of 196+101 at 60 STR+DEX, so it increases by only about 60 AR. For comparison, the Longsword +25 (uninfused) has 269+93 at 20 STR+DEX, but 269+251 at 60 STR+DEX, an increase in AR of over 150. We need bows with a better scaling in these stats!
I agree that for a game of the size of Elden Ring the framdrops here and there are only a minor issue. But it is quite annoying that it appears in one of the best boss fights at the end of the game. When it happens on my Xbox it is usually that when he does the slam move I do my input as if I have 60 fps constantly. It is then buffered due to the low framerate and when fps goes up again I execute my move in fast motion. So far I haven't lost an attempt due to this, but it is definitely something which disturbs me very much in this boss fight.
uhhh, the bell's you can find allow you to buy every smithing stone and somber smithing stone?
This is true, but even in doing this it costs a lot more to upgrade non-somber weapons. And there is a fast route through the game to get somber 1-9 without fighting any bosses
@@htwo1 I can understand that but when we have rune farms that are so easy to pull off the only thing you need is your weapon and torrent being able to get these are so much easier plus running all that distance versus clearing some dungeons to then have them through all your play throughs ill pick the second option.
Your videos are so high quality, the fact that you haven’t gotten more views is a crime
I am a malenia stan as well now. Best fromsoft boss.
I didn't had any problems with fps drops besides when i was fighting fire giant and i looked at entrance my fps dropped to 20ish.
btw... the only boss fight i hate in elden ring is Commander Niall. 😡
Yeah I hate that guy cold/lightning + two ghost at the start of the fight and if you have the bright idea to deal with the body guards he busts out his lightning ped leg that can one shot you not to mention his frost tornado that can bring you to the brink of frostbite or even full frostbite if you are unlucky not to mention that the area of effect is just way to big I hate I had to defeat him to get to the halig tree it took me two hours of bashing my head against the wall to kill him
I only have issues in Leyndell for some reason. Sadly I can't enjoy morgott as much as I'd love to because of this.
I’ve personally never had any frame drops and I’m on a first gen ps4.
i feel like the game having frame drops atp is due to your computer being set up in a ultrastandard way. i by 0 means have an amazing pc but i can still play and stream the game, albeit at low fps/rr, by just making a few tweaks.
I just agree with bow part , honestly
I love how he says bows are pretty useless but shows footage of bows being good
I did a arrows only run in NG+3, with no buffs, killing every boss and they served me well. I didn't even really utilize status and I could've thought of so many ways to improve the experience lol
"Good" literally 250 damage per hit, the hell u mean good?
Major flaws: Matchmaking system, Larvel tears for resetting a build/play style, smithing stones, having no idea wtf to do or where to go.
Other than these things that I mentioned, the game is very good. I think the matchmaking system needs a serious overhaul.
Music list plz, I need that intro piano
Botw horse theme
i absoulutly love this game but i also 100% agree with all this stuff especially fire giant, that dumpster fire known as elden beast and melania, dont get me wrong i like melania one of my favs next to midir from ds3 but those shitty poise meter resets really drags down her fight, great vid man would love to see some more elden ring vids
I never really minded her poise resets, tho I guess that’s because I don’t really like the poise system anyways lol
The amount of AoE effects in Godfrey's first phase are way too much, IMO. If they made it so the only AoE attacks that cover the whole arena are the ones he winds up, I think it would make it much more enjoyable to fight against him.
Agreed, Gideon is awful to fight normally. But fire giant isn't too bad if you stay close in front of him for second phase, because this triggers his melee attacks and he runs away less, plus he takes a lot more damage to the hands. Eden Stars is terrible, but you can completely negate the damage if you drink the crimsonwhirl bubbletear physic.
I think another thing to add on to why fire giant is bad is that his boss arena is literally the worst arena in the entire game for a major boss. It's atrocious with varying heights, tons of random rocks everywhere, trees scattered about, and all of those things can hinder your movements, cause fire giant to float, and will cause more of his ricocheting fire to bounce everywhere. This boss would not be nearly as bad if the arena was the most deplorable thing ever conceived by man
Also, godskin is pretty bad, yeah, but the gargoyle duo is so much worse. People often forget just how awful the poison ticks are, it's such an unfair, unfun, brutal, and annoying fight
The Serpent-Hunter gets around 400 AR with almost every class when you 2 hand it and the Strength tear exists. The way the fight is designed you don't want to bother with any other method to fight him. Just +9 the Serpent-Hunter and smack him around for an easy win. Why would you want to waste time casting spells when you have an even cooler lance that shoots wind as you use it against a giant snake?
Fire Giant is one of the easiest fights in the game with melee. I'm honestly impressed his roll one shot you with that HP you have in the clip. All you have to do is hug left foot in the first phase and then you hug his left leg in the second phase. All of his attacks are heavily telegraphed and fighting him at range is one of the worst things you can do.
Malenia is hated because she's very poorly designed for a Dark Souls style game. She even breaks the rules that ALL enemies follow for the entirety of the game just so she can tank through attacks during some animations. She basically GAINS infinite poise under some animations and attacks and attacking her during these even when her posture is about to be broken will not stagger her. You really have to play very well or just cheese her with spells or a colossal sword/weapon.
And I'll never understand the hate Elden Beast gets. It's one of the easier final bosses in Miyazaki's games. Other than it running away and forcing you to run around while it wastes you time with its two homing spells it's not a problem.
If you think stacking buffs is a problem to make some weapons or playstyles good that's just a you problem. I've beaten the game several times with basic weapons like the Longsword and Claymore. I never had to stack 4 buffs to make them good. Mohg is also just a terrible boss to showcase how buff stacking is bad. He can be beaten so quickly he rarely gets into phase 2 for me at this point. If you, however, want or feel the need to stack all of these than go ahead. It's your playthroughs after all. Just use whatever you want on your builds.
Rykard isn't a boss that is meant for playing the game normally. The boss is a fight for the story and the cool cutscene, you shouldn't be trying to beat him with a mega overpowered comet azur build. Just experience the fight normally and it will be really cool.
Personally, I didn't have any major issues with performance, things like crashes happened like once in my 400 hours.
I really love this game but I agree with the issues. Fire giant is one of the most tedious and annoying boss fights in the game. If it weren’t for torrent it would be the worst boss fight in the game. Also I do agree that the rykard fight should be more viable weapons other than the serpent hunter I know it’s supposed to be a gimmick fight but still we should be able to use something else.
They really gotta stop putting gimmick fights in every game
Its not fun and it just drags everyone down
The recent game of theirs that didnt do that was dark souls 2
that ring is pretty elden
Pretty accurate assumption from you
Is it me? or does dude post every Friday once in a while
I agree except elden beast at least has massive windows and can be staggered WAY easier than fire giant so I actually enjoy that fight. Elden stars is dumb and some combos of moves are near undodgable, but its way more satisfying dodging elden beast's sword waves and things rather than fire giant just exploding everything while taking zero damage. Fire giant only takes OKAY damage when you hit his eye in phase 2 (ya know, the part of him that is inaccessible the entire fight except for the one move where he lays down really quickly and youre move likely running away at this point).
I am surprised you didnt bring up online though. It is inconceivable that we still have this crappy flow/immersion breaking multiplayer. Why is seamless not the default now (Yes i know there is a mod, but the game doesnt get any bonus stars for someone making a mod to fix its problems). Also why cant I play online without invaders? I like pvp myself but if I am teaching someone new and want to help them out I dont want to deal with bullgoat rivers of blood pvp master being toxic randomly invading when I am trying to teach someone the game. If elden ring had a better pve duo multiplayer I guarantee the playtime would be like 10 times higher. Imagine planning full teams/builds to take on the world vs the crappy clunky online which barely works and hasnt changed since the first dark souls game
Fire giant takes damage when hitting his hands in phase 2, and it does a lot more damage than the rest of his body. His eye can be hit when he's on the floor only but his hands is where he should be hit.
@@lahunica2726 I still hit his hands but even with that it still feels like unsubstantial damage compared to elden beast you can hit whenever.
You think online is bad I play on ps4 I literally can't play online because it requires a psn account and I am not paying for a subscription I am not going to use just so I can beat moag I don't even have access to mods that would help me make the game better I would kill for a quest log or a map that actually shows where the NPC's are just so I could reliably complete quests where the hell is iron fist Alexander in faram azula or how do you get to plasedusax I already beat the game once though shear luck but missed literally all the quests in the game now I am on my second run and I still feel like a headless chicken
They should actually add seamless as a pve only mode and maybe even a randomizer
@@goodhoonter9882 that would be fantastic as a person who plays exclusively offline their is no excuse to attest have a pause button and i have mist most of the NPC's in the game because it's not clear where they are and the prerequisites are not clear you can't even call them quests if you have to look up a guide every five seconds to do anything
Speaking of PC Ports. Every single Souls Game on PC is guilty of not clearly showing you what Menu buttons do what. They just leave it displayed with Xbox or PlayStation inputs instead.
So I'm constantly having to press random buttons on my keyboard just to figure out what triggers what.
And this may even apply to learning Combat Movesets. I missed learning about certain attacks and actions you can do. Just because I didn't know which buttons trigger them.
You can actually set the prompts to keyboard and mouse from the settings I believe.
In Elden Ring at least
I know this is probably too late, but all you have to do is go into settings, then sound and display, then set device for on-screen prompts to mouse and keyboard.
... Oh my god.
I wish I had known about this since my first game, Sekiro. Back in 2021.
Thanks a lot!
I love Elden ring but agree with this so much lmfao
what about all the reused bosses
I dont see buffs as an issue as long as you dont (ab)use them so much. Its not fun to me to nuke the boss, so I use buffs only moderately and more selectivly. I would most probably die anyway 😂
Yes, a Malenia enjoyer. I love her fight so much. It’s challenging, but dancing around with her is so fun… unless I screw up and get comboed to death… lol
Had a friend that played Elden Ring for 2 hours and quit because there was nothing to do and it was boring. I mean really, they need to make the death screen interactive or at least speed up the death animation so shit gamers don’t need to wait to play the game.
Nothing to do? Your words or theirs? Either way whoever said it is just factually incorrect. Git gud
@@Pegarexucorn haha i was poking fun at him, since he was so bad he just died constantly, ragequit, and said it was "boring". Yeah, it was boring cuz he couldn't play the damn game half the time.
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The best part is that the loading screen during your respawn is full of tutorials you can scroll through, so the game is literally giving you refresher courses everytime you die 🤣
Elden Stars: soon as u see them above your head/just b4 they hit u run in a tight circle like yer Benny Hill being chased by Bobbies and women in their underwear. they'll fall at your ankles so keep running in 360 till they taper off. and pray EB isn't close enuff to combo u while yer running. this works for me and certainly kept me from having anymore apoplectic fits
Melania is one of my favorite boss
Elden Beast and Fire Giant are too hard but Malenia isn't? What game did you play cause it wasn't the same I did.
Altough I Like your opinion in the video the thing with yhorm that he is possible with normal weapons is not true
Edit: It obviously is but u make Like 0 damage
Elden beast was one of my favorite bosses..
I had maybe 2 crushes after ~600h. So this is new to me
Malenia has too many things in her arsenal. Even issues you have mentioned would be fine if they were 'features' in other boss fights. Like boss which has a lot of counter attacks or boss with infinite poise. Look at Godfrey - the only really special feature it has - constant AOE attacks. Look at malenia - immediate counters, infinite hyperarmor on some attacks, basically instagib move with rollcatching, phantoms, healing, blocks. As a result it's hard to remember some of her rare moves like phantoms and she overall feels unfair. For me she is 3-4 times harder than any other endgame boss which is a bad design
I had no problem with the fire giant or the elden beast, Malenia is a horrible boss though if you have slow weapons
I don’t get why people hate the godskin duo I personally love the fight and I welcome the challenge however I have only died to them one time in ng+5
It's refreshing to see someone that loves something, but isn't blind to the glaring issues it has. Elden Ring is not a perfect game to end all games, it has problems, many of them. But that does not make it any less fun. People really do need to stop assuming that if you critique something, it means that you hate it. This polarising bullshit is why comment sections beneath reviews are atrocious to read through.
My personal list of gripes on top of yours:
- Exploration feels unrewarding when the vast majority of rewards is crafting materials, seventeenth smithing stone in a row, or an emote mask. In fact, exploration rewards in Elden Ring generally suck. There are more golden seeds than you can use, arteria leaves are a groan-inducing garbage and the amount of spirit ashes you get from crypts and dungeons is ridiculous given very few of those are actually any good.
- Endgame's massive damage spike and conversely, how holy damage becomes downright worthless at the end stretch. Everything past the Fire Giant must have been chowing down on the Two Fingers' nail clippings or something, because their holy resistance is ridiculous, while they in turn deal absurd amounts of damage, sometimes downright oneshots (Astel is quite a big offender here with his oneshot grab, Maliketh with the explodey slice, not to mention Malenia in general) even at fifty vigor or above.
- Boss recycling. Yes, I know, it's an open world game (supposedly one that fixed all of the open world issues ever), but do I really have to fight eleven tree spirits?
- Some weapon scaling. Mostly a personal gripe with Godfrey's axe - WHY does a weapon worn by the chieftain of the Badlands have a fucking Quality affinity?
And a few smaller things that are beside the point.
rykard is not meant to be fought without the spear, unlike mosth of the other bosses in this game he is a gimmick boss and is meant to be fought using the gimmick
Atleast it's a somewhat fun gimmik fight.
Except for that one lava-earthquake attack in the first phase, and the unnecessary long special attack in his second phase, it's actually really fun.
I fought quite a few other gimmik bosses, like in Monster Hunter (i mean bosses that heavily rely on one gimmik to beat them, not a gimmik in general) and most of them are much worse
@@obambagaming1467 yea rykard is quite fun
I agree with pretty much everything in this video (Rykard can suck my balls) besides one thing. I adore Elden Beast. I am a massive sucker for spectacle and dear god (pun intended) does EB deliver. I really don't mind the running around and while Elden Stars is annoying it does so little damage that I can usually just ignore it. There is also a physick flask that makes any non physical damage heal you for a time which I usually pop when I see stars coming. Great video though! Keep up the good work, I would like to see some more ER/Fromsoft content on this channel.
Little damage? Elden stars kills me with like 8 hits while i also have to look out for other ranged attacks that could and most likely will one shot me if im not full hp. Just in case you're asking i have 80 vigor
@@JannJmalki-wt1ds How the FUCK can you get "8 shotted" by Elden Stars with 80 vigor, that's literally impossible even with the worst defenses and debuffs in the game, wtf
@@JannJmalki-wt1ds tf are you doing with 80 vigor and apparently like -500 in every resistance lol
@@JannJmalki-wt1ds Lmfao get ratio'd idiot.
My gane on pc isnt crashing, the frame drops though 🤦🏼 they’re bad
There's an even easier way to fix the smithing stone "problem". Miners Bell Bearings. They persist between playthroughs and allow you to buy as many as you want except for the ones you need for +25 and +10
I fail to see how that will help my blind playthrough where I never upgraded standard weapons because I couldn't find enough smithing stones for them.
I love malenia now. But even after 500 kills and dodging waterfowl thousands of time, i can tell you that: the first flurry of waterfowl (waterfowl has three flurry) is absolute bullshit.
I can perfectly and consistently do the circling strat, but said strat is a speedrun level trick that is impossible to learn by yourself if you aren't using guides and dev tools/mods to practice waterfowl only. No average player should be asked to learn that.
The worst part is, if you start circling too soon, she will just instantly 180 you. But if you start circling at the right time, you still need insanely precise timing to do it.
The first waterfowl dodge, with mods and a guide still take 2h+ of constant practice.
If I gave someone coaching and all of my tips and they listened and were willing, maybe 45 min and they'll do it once. But it still takes 10+ hour of doing waterfowl only to be anywhere near consistant at it.
The tell is the sway cloth physics animation on her cape. That's when you start. Long at her wings for phase 2.
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Seriously, if they removed the 180, people could naturaly find the circling strat.
Also, while online, with medium or alright netcode , dodging the first flurry via circling is decently hard. Something a player could learn.
(It's a joke on shit netcode, don't even need to dodge lol).
Like, either her tracking should have been nerfed to what it is as a summon, or removed the 180 and people could learn to do it.
She's a great boss, but untill you've learned that, waterfowl is gonna fuck you up.
There's other way arround it, but phase 2 will still fuck you up.
6:03 of course, this complain is absolutely erased by the simple fact that you can, ya know, just choose not to use buffs.
really did you even play the game.
My only complaint with this game is all the reskins. Otherwise? Great game. Maliketh is my favorite
u shold do a vid on botw or totk
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holy damage is absolutely god awful too
Real. I was going to do a holy build too when I first started Elden Ring. Thank god I didn't. It's hella useful against the death bird though
Rykard i enjoyed cuz it was like a yhomy that was fun.
Fire Giant i thought just hit way too hard.
Elden Beast… radagon was fun. But beast was toxic.
Malenia I thought there always needs to be a boss that is super super difficult 4 the sake of it. Im looking at you Nameless King.
7:30 try fighting the fromsoft gimmick boss the lost izaith final boss
Bed of chaos is 100% the worst in the series