Posts by AlexM

  • Elden Ring

    Quote from FMPONE

    On 3/4/2022 at 9:45 PM, FMPONE said: I managed to beat Godrick tonight, I think part of it was psychologically not even bothering to try him again after getting pwned a few times, it actually wasn't bad, beat him on my 3rd try I think (but my level is obviously crazy high, so it makes sense).

    Also, wtf I had no idea you could reverse the item upgrades? I have the samurai sword. it's pretty cool but I've upgraded it to +10 and although bloody slash is awesome, it's a rock bottom low starting point type of item

    Upgrading spirits makes a difference, for sure, but it's not as crazy as I would have hoped. The upgraded wolfs have won me a few fights for sure.

    I'm also instituting strict limits on how much I can play this game, because holy shit it's too amazingly addictive. It's all consuming for me this week.

    I'm still using the starting estoc although I JUST switched to a blood type katana and it's doing about double the damage at +4 that the estoc does at +10 (although it's somber upgrades so not directly comparable). I need to shop around and try some more stuff.

    Spoiler One weird thing that happend last night. I've been stuck on a certain boss for about 3-4 nights now, every time after a few tries I go elsewhere to level up etc. Well something I did must have affected the world state because after beating some bosses elsewhere the boss I was stuck on disappeared and was replaced with... some kind of festival. wat? :D

  • Elden Ring

    Interesting, I beat him around level 25-30 with few upgrades but took maybe 25 tries. I wore the fire charm for his second mode and had my physik set to gradual HP + shield. Are you trying to do it alone?

    Also I didn't realize you could upgrade spirits! I don't think I've found that yet. Will have to look into that tonight.

    As for upgrading the weapon, the good thing with Elden ring is you aren't locked in. If you have the whetstone you can change the specialty at a lost whateveritscalled. What is the starting weapon you have?

  • Unreal Engine 5

    Quote from -HP-

    9 hours ago, -HP- said: Anyone know why that is? Feels kinda arbitrary

    Some UE features are built around the console gen 9 minspec (nanite) so they probably wanted to show they could actually hit the minspec and put all their effort there.

  • Deathloop - New Arkane Lyon's game

    One thing I will say about this game. I've never seen so many UI bugs in a console game before. Whenever I hit pause there's a chance I can get the game in a non-progression state and have to shut it down then relaunch (losing my progress along the way).

    I've got about 10 videos/screenshots of wackiness saved up now.

    I know UI bugs are the worst, especially if your foundation no longer represents the final design spec but still... this is pretty rough.

  • Deathloop - New Arkane Lyon's game

    I got it a couple weeks back on ps5 and I've been having a blast! Really cool game!

    I bought it on a day when I was bored and I remember someone telling me it was a good game. It was pretty great because I went in knowing nothing about this game. It took a good 4 hours before I even realized I was playing a hybrid roguelike. I love that feeling of being overwhelmed in a world initially.

    Anyways it's been about 2-3 weeks since I got it and now I think I'm getting close to the end and I know my way around the 4 levels pretty good now but it's been super fun getting there.

    This game does something I love. They reduce the overall breadth of the game to have a more nuanced and detailed small area. I remember Mr Warren DeusEx (forget his last name) saying something to the effect that he would love to take the effort of a massive game and compress it down to a city block. I feel like this game does that to some degree and I love it. I'm a huge fan of smaller, more detailed, ever-changing worlds.

    Also I never thought I'd see the day I play an FPS with a console controller but it's a single player game and I'm a lazy old man who likes sitting on the couch and playing a game on the big TV without a lot of fiddling.

  • What are you playing now?

    Quote from Radu

    On 9/4/2021 at 1:23 PM, Radu said: I was surprised to find a place like Majula so early in the game. In the previous game, Firelink had a pretty small safe area. Definitely enjoying the environments so far, especially the forests!

    Now that I think about it. Dark souls 1 is the exception. Demons souls, Dark souls 2/3 and Bloodborne all have HUB's.

  • Games Soundtracks Thread

    I realized a long time ago that the real reason GTAV is so amazing is because of the pause music. I can't believe the music is a selection of stems from a rejected Tangerine Dream song :X


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  • Unreal Engine 5

    Sorry for the delay on the Lumen analysis but next week my work is sending me to attend SIGGRAPH and Brian Karis + the Lumen developers will be giving a talk! Hopefully that will be enough of a kick in the butt to gather my notes and see what comes up.

  • Corona Virus

    Quote from Radu

    9 hours ago, Radu said: Waldo laying down the facts, especially that last one. I don't think a lot of people would put the collective first before themselves.

    That's one of the most interesting things for me from this whole covid thing. The differences between individualist and collectivist societies and how it played out in regards to the virus.