u/Astronomy_Candle

I'll try not to drag this out too long, but I need to give a quick preface: I love Souls games for their multiplayer, and my favorite thing to do is to be a Sunbro. Which is why I have a couple of semi-optimized characters.

First off, I wanted to ask if the "mpql" calculator (the one with the white page) is accurate. Otherwise, I've based all my reasoning on the wrong calculator.

That being said... I have a level 32 build (a summoning range of 10–64 according to that calculator) and another character at bl80 (with 50 Arcane and 20 Strength) with a 50–125 range. What do you think? Are these two ranges covering the whole game well, or am I cutting myself off from anything?

The BL32 is an Arcane student running around with the Choir Bell and pretty basic weapons, and she's doing fine as is. But I really like the bl80 one because it’s higher and unlock me all the game.. He uses Fire and Bolt Saws, Tonitrus, Logarius Wheel, various sprayers, and my favorite, the Holy Moonlight Sword. He's a sort of lunar knight.

Here's my big concern, though: in hardcore chalices, with 31 Vitality he gets blasted, and in co-op I feel useless unless I'm using ranged tools. I'd like to understand if I can increase my level (and therefore my Vitality) while having a broader range of available players at the same time. What do you think?

Plus, I wanted to ask if the extra health I'd get scales down poorly with co-op downscaling (I'm not really sure how it works). I wouldn't want to do all this just to end up with low health for other reasons.

Finally, a quick extra question: does a poison weapon make sense on this build? I really like poison Blade of Mercy, but obviously with minimum Skill, the direct damage is very low.

I’m searching a good build to go until end of dlc but I really don’t like to think about buffs and that things. I want a simple play style

It’s been 25 years but it’s time for the revenge.

Precisely -> Dreamcast 2: the revenge

(And “the revenge” needs to be in the real title on the box ahah)

Think about how many exclusives in every genre Sega can have. Jet set, sega gt, crazy taxi, virtua fighter, virtua tennis, virtua everything (like Wii sport maybe), yakuzas, sonic , sonic kart, sega rally, atlus, alien. And I probably missing tons of games. They can continue shenmue pushing with real money making it their top tier open world. Then add some acquisition from xbox and Sony refugee or collaboration (From Software for Otogi). Probably tons of other arcadey IPs,rpg I don’t know and jap IPs

Sega is covered for everything. Obviously add physical cardridges. And maybe sell SOME of these on other consoles

Now xbox isn’t feeling good and Sony doing things. Authors like kojima or Ueda are multiplatform.

Sega it’s the moment!

Edit: I know no corporate would call it Dreamcast 2 because of bad luck but I said it because it’s hilarious)

For a moment I was almost disappointed because I was expecting something more visually epic (since I know they’re capable of it), but then the whole credits sequence and that online stuff hit me hard, and I found myself getting emotional, especially while writing the final message. I’m going through a difficult period, and I ended up writing a message that didn’t really have much to do with the minigame itself, but that I hope might give someone a bit of hope. It felt good

Going back to what I expected, I later realized that the big highs were definitely there, and there were quite a lot of them throughout the game. Endings C and D were right there around the corner. Then, thinking about it more, I believe the final scene is meant to suggest that those androids will now have free will and will have to choose a meaning for their own existence. It’s silent and very open , but it’s incredibly powerful. Just like the image of A2 sitting on the window. They will love each other? They will fight? Or they will just exist watching at a window forever?

But the thing this game did better than almost any other game, in my opinion, was making me care about its characters. I don’t know if it’s the premise of them being androids that amplifies the moments when emotions finally kicks in, but it’s rare for me to become attached to characters so quickly. They’re simply “credible”, and I felt every scream of pain from 9S

And I was surprised by how wrong your perception of 2B can be before you really play the game. She might seem like nothing more than a sexy mascotte, but she’s actually a character with enormous depth despite speaking very little. The burden of having to kill 9S over and over again, of trying to not become attached to him, and the way she endures all of it (whether consciously or not) makes her an incredible character. Then there’s the virus sequence where she dies — I absolutely did not see that coming, and it hit me like a train

In the end, I’m not sure whether I preferred this or Replicant. Automata probably has a more satisfying combat system, but it shares many of the first game’s flaws. Maybe I still prefer the first one, but it’s very close. I have the impression that Replicant reaches even higher peaks in some scene and music, and it has more interesting characters simply because they’re not YoRHa units, so they aren’t all visually similar.

Now I genuinely don’t know what to play next. I know Drakengard exists, but I can’t really play it right now because I can’t emulate it and I don’t have a ps3, but I also feel like it would either feel too dated or disappoint me if it wasn’t equally emotionally powerful.
I’ve already played everything from FromSoftware, Kojima, and Ueda… I’m genuinely having a hard time finding other serious games now.

Thanks everyone for the help with the title screen fight!

I’m in a very strange moment where I’m a bit down in my life and I can’t play just for wasting time. I am a big From/Souls fan but I want to explore other things (I also played every souls and souls-like discovering I only like From’s because of their deepness and art direction)

I need serious mature stories and I noticed that now they touch me much more then before. My favourites directors are surely Kojima, Yoko Taro (now I’m in nier mood), Miyazaki, Ueda. I also played remedy’s games, life is strange (only liked first) , red dead, dragons dogma, ALL horrors (SH2 favourite)

I don’t like super long rpgs, and fantasy games with low effort in art direction (My usuals are Fromsoft so…). Only FF I liked is X.

The problem is not the length but that I don’t know if I have the patience to be in a corridor for 50 hours

If I have to give a preference i like games where I can get lost, maybe with a character creation and some fallout76 style online (so not based on competition). But I know this is not easy to have when you search a game with very strong and emotional story.

So if I need to sat it easy, I’m probably asking you a Japanese author style game where story is heartbreaking and cathartic

I know I have to play all ending in automata.

Edit: I finished replicant, I said I “ can’t keep playing” for doing all endings (watched them on YouTube)

I can’t upload a photo but it’s for a sunbro low level build (I can send it in pm)

Basically I Need this loadout:

Talismans:
Erdtree favour +2
Great jar’s arsenal
Millicent Protesis

Weapons (no upgrade):
Flamberge (optional)
Fire spark perfume bottle (optional)
Lance sword (gaius one)
Rabbath cannon
Albinauric shield
Frenzied flame seal

Armors:
Omensmirk mask
Drake knight armor
Fingerprint greaves

if you have many greatbolts or other consumable stock, it would be super nice

Extra: I don’t know if I will use these or a more focused character but I want to do a character themed as an invader hunter. What (very low) level do you think is better to intercept invasions (and I guess doing coop)?

11? 21? More?

ELDEN RING

For context: I’ve already done an RL1/WL0, but I cheesed anything because it was way beyond my ability to do it legit… it was more of a puzzle exercise with an alchemist character. Generally I platinumed all souls and I know them but I’m not super skilled with the pad.

I could go for a squier girl build that focuses a lot on shield poking. I like it because it would let me play a bit safer. I’m not really capable of doing almost no-hit stuff right now. However, I’m not sure if this tactic is actually viable in RL1. I’m guessing the Brass Shield is the only real option?

Or I could face my fears and go for a cold, blood-infused greatsword. I’m open to suggestions here too. I was thinking about the Flamberge, but maybe there’s something better.

Or maybe it’s even possible to do it with magic?

For each approach, I can find videos of some bosses, but I don’t know if these are consistent strategies for the whole run.

As for not getting instantly killed… Ritual Shield? The tear that auto-heals you when HP hits 0? Is it worth aiming for 51 poise?

I surely don’t like to rely on stats boosted by tears or runic arc so I don’t want to use weapons with strange stats. I prefer just talisman and maybe a mask when itms possible

Ps: I like coop. Obviously I want to make my run alone but you think there is a community of coop onebros?

As the title

I always had fashion builds and never used super broken stuff. And most of all, I never used strong ashes of war. So I probably always been a low damage character.

I normally have 500/600 damage when shield poking (my favourite style because I love to NOT die while helping peoples) or 800/900 with colossal swords

I see these numbers when I have my build completed. It came be a mage with a frozen zweihander or a 66 strenght 2Handing character.

I think these numbers are all I can do but I always feel like I’m low with my damage vs dlc or bosses. I see 500 damage with my poke build are literally nothing.

Are bosses supposed to be super sponges or I’m playing wrong and I have to use only broken ashes of war? I never know when a build is ok

Do you think it makes sense to invest in two weapons (in addition to the physical stats on the left side)? Or does that waste too many points?

I’m asking because I noticed a “magic” one-handed sword, that peach wood Sword. Can I unlock a parry for this weapon type? I noticed a move where she deflects a lot of attacks, but I wanted to know whether there’s anything else. Maybe a more traditional parry or deflect because it’s the only thing that keep me using the katana

Do all weapon classes have at least one parry? I’ve found conflicting opinions online.

I don’t understand if Feathering and Magic are two different things.

Are there different types of magic, like Intelligence, Faith, and Arcane in Souls games, or do they all level together?

Thanks in advance to anyone who replies!

EDIT:

Thanks for all responses! You’ve been super kind and helpful ! 🙏🏻☺️

I wanna try a single platinum run: what is missable? There is a clear point of no return where to do some save? (I have experience with From’s souls)

There is a way to track quest lines?

Some other missable or trick to know?

Madness have some bad cons as sekiro dragon’s desease? (I already know about damage)

I’m trying do make a isometric horror and I have a pair of doubts.

I have a MacBook m1 and mv is going…strange. Anyone have experience with MZ and maybe MZ3D?

Anyone can tell me if with mv3d or mz3d you can do good torchlight? And I mean, not lights on the ground but at the right height. I only found bad examples for that.

And someone know if it’s possible to freely map buttons on a pad now (maybe with plugins)?