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Yeah ER is a catastrophe on my pc. Regular short freezes, bosses are hard mode with it.
Speaking about hard I tried to beat Margrit, failed at it, and did exactly what you shouldn’t do, tried too many times and raged hard instead of going elsewhere.
When I finally regained my senses I discovered that one of the neighboring regions is not that hard and confirmed I am stupid.
That being said I’m now stuck at a boss there, but fuck that, I’m gonna explore. It is nowhere near as hard as Margrit, but he packs a punch nonetheless.
Speaking about hard I tried to beat Margrit, failed at it, and did exactly what you shouldn’t do, tried too many times and raged hard instead of going elsewhere.
When I finally regained my senses I discovered that one of the neighboring regions is not that hard and confirmed I am stupid.
That being said I’m now stuck at a boss there, but fuck that, I’m gonna explore. It is nowhere near as hard as Margrit, but he packs a punch nonetheless.
try fingerThe truest of Souls experiences.
Amazing chest ahead.
but hole
Get it on PC, install WeMod, cheat by increasing runes and increase your strength.
The beauty of PC gaming, you can cheat youself over obstacles.
My favourite so far was "edge,lord ahead" in front of a particular NPC.
I also like the ones which point out something obvious but really transport the astonishment of the speaker. Like "Tree, but underground!".
I also like the ones which point out something obvious but really transport the astonishment of the speaker. Like "Tree, but underground!".
also, just in case people didn't see, here's totally related pc news
THERE IS A NEW POKEMON GAME AND BASICALLY, I DON'T REALLY CARE BUT THE WATER POKEMON IS A FUCKING DUCK AND I JUST LOVE HIM
Phew, I thought I was bad with 20. I wasn't super excited for this game due to the open-worldness, but I can't put it down. What an achievement. They've completely outdone themselves. I've been waiting for this game my entire life!
It might be time to take a break.
Rollback netcode confirmed! Coming Summer for Steam and PS4
Adventures in living room PC land are annoying me. Something about this setup that my boyfriend was using for a while is completely borked. Having MSI Afterburner on with hardware monitoring, or even just opening the task managers performance tab, brings the entire thing to an absolutely unusable crawl. Even when it's working right, it still stutters constantly and struggles when doing pretty basic stuff. Apparently the slowdown with the hardware monitoring might have to do with chipset drivers, but trying to install new ones causes the system to black out the screen. Ugh.
I just stopped playing for tonight...28 hours since Friday and can't get enough
It might be time to take a break.
edit: i lied.. I'm at 31 hours
Playing as a boring tank and 2 handed greatsword build, his attacks is a learning curve that's for sure. Godrick was much easier for me compared to him.
I know I'm gonna miss an illusionary wall because of all the bait messages on walls that's for sure.
I'm not sure if you've explored the castle, but you'll find two important things there. One upgrade found there allows you to change what stat your weapon scales from. That's how you basically get better DEX weapons. I'm playing as a Samurai with DEX build and managed to change two weapons from D -> B DEX in the castle alone.
JFC, about time
Aye, picked up Hitman 3 in the Sale that just ran and intend to do a full series re-playthrough in it before making my way to Hitman 3 content.
After I had failed miserably on my first attempt at Dubai upon launching the game. Other games over the past few years since Hitman 2 have tarnished my perception of, well, AI perception in Stealth games. Yeah so it turns out the AI in Hitman aren't Numbnuts who can't notice you choking-out someone behind them.
It's super nice that everyone is enjoying Elden Ring but maybe an OT is really needed - read some things here that I would've liked to discover on my own already
I've been planning to start Dark Souls (Prepare to Die Edition) on PC (to be my first souls game) and I have a question regarding the safety of playing it. I recall learning about an exploit that could allow people to run code on your PC through the game that would then make it possible for them to control your PC, steal logins, brick the computer, etc:
www.videogameschronicle.com
Apparently From Software took down the game servers out of precaution and plan to fix things in the future... Anyway I was wondering, is there any way to play it safely on PC? I just want to play it single player. Is the game even playable? Do you have to connect to servers to play single player? Or is the PVP stuff different? I haven't downloaded it yet, but I was wondering if someone can clear that up?
Btw, is this where DSfix is officially available: DSfix
Or is there a safer site to get it from? I'm not familiar with the modding scene, and I'm obviously late to DS in general.
Dark Souls servers taken down due to an exploit ‘that could let someone take over your PC’ | VGC
PvP servers for Dark Souls 1, 2 and 3 have all been temporarily turned off…
www.videogameschronicle.com
Apparently From Software took down the game servers out of precaution and plan to fix things in the future... Anyway I was wondering, is there any way to play it safely on PC? I just want to play it single player. Is the game even playable? Do you have to connect to servers to play single player? Or is the PVP stuff different? I haven't downloaded it yet, but I was wondering if someone can clear that up?
Btw, is this where DSfix is officially available: DSfix
Or is there a safer site to get it from? I'm not familiar with the modding scene, and I'm obviously late to DS in general.
Would be nice in the future to map gaming stuff to real work stuff. Actually while you play the tasks in the game would be translated to work tasks that some robot will perform.
Big brain mode: Working AND Playing games at the same time.
Yeah we need a ER OT!
Because oh shit!
Because I thought the game took place in hell, until I got transported to what I actually think is hell! With red skies and all!
Because oh shit!
Because I thought the game took place in hell, until I got transported to what I actually think is hell! With red skies and all!
Nexusmod is largest(?) site for mods to download from.I've been planning to start Dark Souls (Prepare to Die Edition) on PC (to be my first souls game) and I have a question regarding the safety of playing it. I recall learning about an exploit that could allow people to run code on your PC through the game that would then make it possible for them to control your PC, steal logins, brick the computer, etc:
Dark Souls servers taken down due to an exploit ‘that could let someone take over your PC’ | VGC
PvP servers for Dark Souls 1, 2 and 3 have all been temporarily turned off…
Apparently From Software took down the game servers out of precaution and plan to fix things in the future... Anyway I was wondering, is there any way to play it safely on PC? I just want to play it single player. Is the game even playable? Do you have to connect to servers to play single player? Or is the PVP stuff different? I haven't downloaded it yet, but I was wondering if someone can clear that up?
Btw, is this where DSfix is officially available: DSfix
Or is there a safer site to get it from? I'm not familiar with the modding scene, and I'm obviously late to DS in general.
I believe DSfix is for the original version of Dark Souls. If you have Remastered version then it's not needed to use that mod. At least I didn't use it, didn't see any problems playing the game without any mods.
As for playing online or not, since they have taken down the servers, then you don't need to worry for any external users taking control of your computer. I haven't tried to play it myself since the servers were taken offline, so I might be wrong that you can't play the game
pretending to be knowledgeable in or playing Elden Ring to be cool
Super glad you just went and showed your whole ass by updating your post with links to an opinion piece by a Kremlin apologist and a site that echoes Putin's insane ramblings as a means of better explaining your point of view.
Perhaps this is my own naivety showing, but I couldn't help but feel a deep pang of disappointment that this went completely uncontested and even got liked, alongside other unsympathetic commentary, to put it mildly. Good-bye.
beep boop I would rather you stayed and kept us in check incase people get things wrong. I admit I had to learn a lot of the situation that I had no idea about. But I'm pretty sure most in here acknowledge that Putin is a fucking lunatic and that Ukraine deserves all the help it is getting.
If it's any consolation to you, I missed that posting, and very much disagree with all of it.
It's Russia that's the aggressor here, any line about Ukraine's 2014 revolt being a neo nazi coup is nonsense, the actions in the Donbas region were always just Russian puppets that created an artificial conflict and any talk that it's the West or Ukraine that failed at de-escalation is just victim blaming at this point. Russia has been the aggressor in Ukraine from the day they took Crimea, to the last few days where they killed hundreds of innocent civilians as part of this war of aggression.
What is the most revealing part of this conflict to me is how many on the left are completely unable to think critically about geopolitical things, blame the US for every problem in the world and think that Putin's regime, just by virtue of being opposed to the US, must therefore be the good guys on every issue.
agreed, this thread is becoming a minefield
I thought the Elex II release date would be a really bad idea, given the proximity to ER -- and globally it very well might still be -- but it looks like you can at least rely on Austrians to pick up their dose of Pianha Bytes regardless of circumstances.
Yeah, Elden Ring spoilers suck.
I wouldn't want to learn that you die at the end. And in the middle. And in the beginning. Many times.
I wouldn't want to learn that you die at the end. And in the middle. And in the beginning. Many times.
I chuckled when I opened a chest and there was a message inside "Didn't expect message!"
Here's an american veteran of the army and air force, prior to his degrees in foreign relations, etc. and one of the most influential realists of our time that might be more to your liking since you find fault with the sources rather than deny what they're saying. He's calling the usa the "benign hegemon" of the world (no bias there), and still manages to find some faults. I guess he's a putin apologist like all the people who have been against every war rather than the closest one.
There's nothing apologetic about condemning war, all wars, putin, but also everyone else responsible for this one and others, ie, beloved west trying to have the moral high ground because the eastern capitalists and imperialists also use their own tactics and because the refugees this time are blonde with blue eyes as Sakvarelidze put it nicely the other day. Pretty hypocritical to call anyone who happens to see more to a situation as a pro-war pro-putin nut.
Several expatriots were already killed by Russia (of course, 2 more of them were also killed by Ukranian soldiers for no reason at all on 14/02 if you care to look that up as possible propaganda alongside other incidents in previous years) and my poor country still has just sent Ukraine provisions in 2 planes.
Ps: I don't know the person in that first tweet, I just looked for that report and that came up, maybe he's a putin apologist, maybe not, the given thread is legit
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I just managed to clear Marg yesterday (after much wailing and despair, over 20 attempts for sure), and I'm level 30 (I've cleared out most of the first "map"). I'd say its definitely doable at 27, but if you're a melee build it takes a strong knowledge of his attack animations and your own roll's iframes.
If you need some inspiration, have some from beloved GIF purveyor SunhiLegend (playing as what looks like a buff Daenerys Targaryen) :
Dude, Russia is the one that instigated this war, Russia is the one that made this conflict up. There's no legitimate security concerns that Russia is acting on here, unless you believe they deserve to control all of Eastern Europe. They created this humanitarian crisis out of fucking nothing. Whatever issues the West has, in this situation it's absolutely clear that Russia has the sole blame here, and could stop this war at a moment's notice. All of these dumb takes went from being misinformed to being outright disgusting the moment Russian soldiers started killing Ukrainian civilians in their own country.
Trying to split the difference and blaming both sides on this is just the dumbest thing.
I'm not splitting any difference nor say anything that excuses putin, he's a fascist swine that deserves the worst, again, very hypocritical to imply otherwise. I was still disappointed to see the west do little to de-escalate the situation and then do little to help Ukraine when putin pushed the button, it seems things haven't changed at all since, for example, 1974 with what happened with Cyprus and between two NATO "allies", Turkey & Greece with no intervention. The west might be doing things like have facebook allow the praise of azov battalion for as long as they're killing russians but I won't partake, two wrongs don't make a right. Of course what comes as a first priority (to people at least) is for putin's killings to stop, I never implied otherwise in anything I've said, nor excused even one.
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I made a thread for Elden Ring, since I can see myself and others doing quite a bit of posting about it in the coming weeks, and that might become annoying for people not interested in the game:
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|OT| - Elden Ring - Foul Tarnished, in search of the Elden Ring
This is a thread to talk about Elden Ring. It's like Dark Souls, except in a large open world, without importing the vast majority of bullshit that makes open world games suck. And with co-op. A pretty amazing achievement really. Please mark spoilers (even just minor ones, like anything other...
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The war in Ukraine should probably have its own thread too. That conflict has been going on for a long time and will probably go on for another 20 years. People get emotional over it now and it will only get much worse over time. Talking about that stuff will only turn this thread into a hot mess.
I mean I'm interested in Elden ring, I just can't afford it so that leaves the option of just assuming everything is about it and scrolling really fast and not reading unless I see something that looks interesting
So what I normally do
So what I normally do
The February Persona announcement was for a hotel collaboration and merchandise.
Wow. Just wow.
Biggest gaming news of 2022. E3 comes early. Absolutely groundbreaking.
Dat aggressiveness. I can feel it inside me.
Sorry if I misread your position on Russia then. I still believe it is misguided to put blame here on the West as well, given how truly one-sided this entire affair has been from the very start.
The West has started very extensive sanctions against Russia, cutting it off from much of Western financing. These will hit much harder than anything that happened in 2014 after the annexation of Crimea. On top of which they are supporting the legitimate Ukrainian government with arms and financial support, against a foreign invasion that was entirely unprovoked, unless you are completely brain washed by Russian lies
Saying the West had no intervention in the Cyprus conflict is nonsense. It was NATO intervention (an embargo) that lead to Turkey quickly stopping their attack, and leading to a truce. Without it, who knows how many people could have died there. There is still peace on the island, and at least the chance for a future reunification if Turkish and Greek Cypriots can come to some agreement. That's not saying that this will be easy, but the whole thing doesn't strike me as the West having failed.
I got banned from chat of a (relatively) famous streamer when I typed this (they were playing Dark Souls)
It was 4-5 years ago.
Just got a mail from Valve that my Steam Deck is being packed and will be sent to GLS for delivery. Where's my happening bunker gif? 
Aren't you supposed to work on ErFix?
Nah, Valve is doing that this time. for SteamOS / ProtonAren't you supposed to work on ErFix?
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