u/Formal_Condition2691

Sorry if there's a megathread for this sort of question.

I've got enough platinum trophies in From Software games that I think I can say I don't mind the occasional spot of difficulty in a game, but I'm having trouble adapting to this one. Most of my survival horror background is with the Fatal Frame series, where even if you are really bad about managing resources you always have the unlimited Type 14 film to fall back on.

I put about two hours in on Normal, got frustrated by always feeling like I had about two bullets less than I needed at any given time, decided to suck it up and start over on easy for a first playthrough... I'm about five hours in and I'm still starved for ammo. Like, stuff dies easier but I also seem to get fewer drops.

Before I completely bin the idea of completing it I wanted to ask some questions of more experienced players.

I think the biggest thing is, how often should I be retrying encounters and how often should I be retracing my steps?

For example: I had a room fairly early on where three enemies came out of the room at me. It took me 7 or 8 bullets - yes, I'm using charged shots as much as I can - to kill them. Then I walked into the room and saw that there were three gas tanks in the room. Is that something where you'd normally reload the game and run through the section again?

How often should I be going back to get burner fuel? Like, I see bodies on the ground but I don't want to be walking back to the last fuel dispenser and I want to save a charge in case I run into an obstruction that needs burned. Should I really just be burning bodies as I go and backtracking to the dispenser over and over, or is this a case where I should go play through the game reloading every time I figure out which bodies need to be burned?

Do things respawn or dynamically spawn? Like the first time I went through the park outside the building where you get the bolt cutters, I thought I'd killed everything. Later I went back to it and got chased by at least three things. This also makes me hesitant to backtrack to all the places I saw chains prior to getting the bolt cutters, but if they are empty of enemies that were killed earlier I guess it's just a matter of taking time since I won't need to spend resources. Or will I go back through those areas organically?

Come to think of it I'm not sure how far I can backtrack.

Thanks and sorry if these are really basic questions. I feel like I'm missing Survival Horror 101.

I know! Dumb question, right?

Back when Zibai and Illuga released, I remember a lot of conversation around how he was only good for Zibai because only she did direct lunar crystallize damage, or something, meaning that he offered a lot less for other (Columbia + Geo) teams.

Now he’s in Navia’s best team, along with Columbia and Linnea. No horse to be seen.

So am I misremembering things about the chatter back then or is it just that he may not be being offering ALL the buffs he would with Zibai, but he’s still pretty good?

Hello,

Sorry to make a top level thread for this, but I didn’t see a megathread for questions.

I’ve been running unraid for a little over a year now. When I initially set it up, I first installed proxmox on bare metal, then created a VM for unraid. I’m passing the USB boot device and the hard drives through to the unraid VM, so proxmox isn’t managing them and as far as I understand it unraid thinks it owns them.

The reason I put proxmox on first was that I had grandiose plans for what I was going to do involving all sorts of VMs, and a year later these grandiose plans have yet to emerge and frankly I’m admitting that understanding proxmox is a little over my head and it’s one more thing to worry about keeping updated. The only VM running on this server at this point is unraid.

I was trying to work out how to move to just running unraid at the bare metal level, and I think I accidentally made it less painful with some of the early decisions.

Like, the only storage proxmox is really managing is the cache drive. It’s got system data and docker data on it and is a volume that lives on the system’s boot nvme drive.

At a high level, could I copy the information off that cache drive somewhere else, shut the PC down, swap the nvme drive for a smaller one (I have a 256GB one spare that seems like plenty of space), change the PC boot order to USB first, reboot the thing, tell unraid it has a new cache drive, and copy everything back?

It seems a little too easy. So I am almost certainly missing something. Before I destroy anything, can anyone tell me what I’m missing?