do you have to have one equipped when you die for it to work? I haven't bothered with them before but seems helpful if you're toting a shit-load of runes
I think the proper use to equip one after you’ve died while carrying a shitload of runes. That way if you die trying to retrieve them they won’t vanish.
I keep using rune arcs to get the stat boost from Margit but then I die and it goes away. Now I’m out. Should I be conserving these?
yeah but I’m in catch 22 in that I don’t want to use them if I might die. But if I go into a tough battle, learn the pattern, I get comfortable and don’t need them. I mostly like them because it boosts my carry stat and can use the jellyfish shield. Guess it’s time to start pumping that stat. I’ve mostly been pumping vigor and Dex.
I think I used all my Rune Arcs on the final 2x boss fight and went to NG+ with at least 10-15 left. Legitimately just never remembered to use them. About the same as the Lies of P "special cube" powers. I'm too simple I guess. Dodge, Parry, Slash, and Throwables.
older brother is the biggest Souls-whore I know. Made walkthrough videos for the DS games, will respond to a text question about BB with 4 paragraphs, etc. He's pretty high on Lord of the Fallen after ~7 hours of gameplay. "Lots of cool mechanics twists to the typical souls formula" Probably give it a shot after wrapping up Lies of P
Ended up DLing and playing LOTF for about an hour. It's got a cool concept. Game is real dark and has an upside down that's even more dark. Def a DS feel, but apparently the magic is decent. Has the same Lies of P concept on blocking = gives you recoverable health for hitting back. Not sure if the lantern stuff is gonna become tedious or not. Game also seems like it's big on status effects
I just killed the mage lady at the Academy. Pretty easy. I’m finding some subbosses to be tougher than the actual bosses. Especially those spinning wooden fuckers on wheels with the arms that can grab you. Also those crystal bastards.
That was my experience as well. I was expecting that fight to be hard and I absolutely smoked her. I guess my build was set up well against her
I've beat her first form twice now and gotten smoked both times by her second phase. Gotta keep trying, probably need the huge shield so i can get close
Only threat is the giant blue beam that can kill you pretty quick. I just hauled ass left whenever I saw her about to summon that. Try to get in close and just smash her. If she summons a troll or dragon just run.
yeah she killed my spirit wolves pretty quick and being up close to smack her I wasn't able to avoid the beam. Good to know it's not more complicated than that, I'll keep at it.
Most of the early game bosses up until the post-fire giant area I ran as co-op in my first playthrough. Only areas I legit played by myself were Limgrave and Caelid. I'm a sucker for co-op though. #meatshieldsmatter
also Guns it may be worth reading up on the Volcano Manor secret quests in the near future. Think you've still gotta do the underground and Caelid before making it there, but they're some pretty cool quests that are absurdly hard to find organically and give you some really cool armor/weapons. I had no idea they existed until I was well past the Manor and kinda pissed because I heard about some cool Simon Belmont role play out there and one of the quests gives you a dope whip and dual-weilding whips sounded badass. Played the secret quests in my NG+ game and they're definitely worth doing Still got a ways before you get there but I know the secret quests start (I think) by giving some blind chick magic beans or rocks or some shit in the Luneria area.
Interesting, I felt the Red Wolf was pretty easy... i gotta give it another run before I go back to Spidey
Finally realized what I was doing wrong against her, I just ran around randomly killing the kids in the first stage of her fight instead of going after the gold ones (duh, I know). Then in the second stage I was trying to dodge the magic blast instead of closing the distance so it missed. Beat her first try once I fixed myself. So yes, easier than the Wolf
Finished Lies of P (except for optional end boss nameless puppet who I may never beat) Really had a lot of fun in the game. Good length @ 40-45 hours. Only complaint would be that I think they kinda plan the game around NG+. Unless I missed a LOT of stuff in the game which I don't think I did, you don't even get your level 4 Quartz ability until the final boss area. Besides that - great boss variety and level/enemy variety. Never felt the need to farm for XP to beat someone. Pretty damn good story that was easy to follow if you read the story items you pick up.
It's probably the best non From Souls-like I've ever tried, where most end up feeling like cheap knockoffs that scratch the itch between releases.
I'm not done with this or LotF (currently have LotF a step below this) but I agree with this. Also agree with the NG+ complaint. Too many games still have you unlocking abilities at the very end of a game. 50-60% of the way through a game should be the cutoff for this, with a few exceptions. It's fine to strengthen those abilities after that, but there is no point in giving me new ones with 5-10% of the game remaining.
I feel like they tried to make LoTF "look like" DS1-2 and in doing so they made it look old and unpolished. it feels a little on the clunky side but I'm still gonna give it some time. 1st boss chick Pietra is laughably hard IMO. Like they want to introduce the summon/ash boss system to you and make it almost mandatory unless you farm the area for a very long time
Oh I'm 100% in on a sequel that's wizard of oz themed. the dark Pinocchio story was very well done and I could see a twisted WoO story also being great. Lollipop kids that fuck your shit up
Wow I think I just had my most intense battle so far. The boss at Selia Crystal Tunnel. My summons were dead, my fp drained, no more health flasks. Dude had like 1/4 left of hp and so did I. Somehow won the battle. Big bastard was flying around and shit.
The most intense moments in gaming are FromSoftware boss fights where you both are at < 25% HP and you have no heals. I have let out some really fuckin loud celebration yells and an overwhelming more amount of raging obscenities from that situation.
I decided to put Lords of the Fallen on hold and go back and play Sekiro. Think I only played about ~4 hours worth when I first downloaded it and it never clicked with me and I just got wrecked enough that I stopped playing (older brother said he couldn't get into it either so my quitting felt justified). After playing Lies of P, it clicks. It's just harder/faster but I'm loving it now - currently on the Lady Butterfly fight. This game really really REALLY tests your patience for playing defensively and may be the most anti-button mash game I've played.
Screenshots of the Lies of P DLC areas look pretty awesome too if the ones on Reddit were real. Very excited for that and for the Elden Ring DLC whenever the hell that shows up
Finished Lies of P, still need to save scum and beat the optional boss for the other ending but I enjoyed it. I was a little frustrated with it early on as I tend to lean more towards dodging than parrying in these types of games but LoP pretty much makes you use the perfect guard and I felt like it had a super tight window.
Might be slight OP right now. Level 100 and getting into the north region. I have 8+ bloodhound fang and just pumping dex. Having a blast though and I’ll take being slightly OP now as retribution for getting my ass kicked the first 15 hours. This is def a top 5 game of all time for me.
I fell off of it when Spidey 2 and Cyberpunk came out, then I caught a game for review at one of my publications, looking forward to going back to it.
the snow mountain and floating island areas should fix that feeling of being OP iirc. Once you get through Volcano Manor and the giant snake boss the difficulty gets turned up a notch. Felt that way for me at least. But by that point I was only leveling up organically and wasn’t farming XP anymore.
I’ve only farmed runes for like 20 mins at the beginning of the game. But I have been exploring every nook and cranny. So I felt like I’ve leveled organically 95% of the time
Depending on the build you could go the whole game without needing to farm. BH Fang probably helping with that. I know at one point I respec'd and went half samurai - half intelligence caster so I had to do a bit of blood swamp farming to have mana + intelligence up to where I could use the good spells. Kinda curious what level I entered NG+ I know it was in the high 100s
Don’t look stuff up. Just enjoy it organically. You’ll never have a chance to experience the game this way again and it is worth it.
I'm doing my first playthrough myself. It can be overwhelming and frustrating at times but once it clicks you'll love it (at least I did/do). I think TLAU mentioned this earlier but if you do the first 5-10 videos of this walkthrough you'll get your character beefed up so you're not getting absolutely slaughtered. plus you'll get a few essentials like the lantern. Plus he talks about weapon scaling and other weapon upgrade stuff that the game doesn't explain.There's no major spoilers and you'll probably only touch 2% of the game.
fightingcowboy basically helped me complete every from soft game i've played. he's good at what he does.