u/ToveloGodFan

Bloodborne will probably be my last FS game until a new title comes out. Got in the club when Sekiro first came out, then DS3 and DS1. Of course ER when it came out, too. Skipped on Nightreign tho.

Combined together I'd put about 2k hours into those game before finally getting the chance to play Bloodborne for the first time, 11 years since it came out! Such a fantastic game. I felt really lucky because you get to experience a title for the first time only for once in your life. Think about that! And nothing else comes close, which explains my 2k hours of playtime. But eventually you run out of things to do.

Back to the title. The 3 DLC bosses took me exactly 9 tries combined, with 4 on Ludwig, 2 on Lady Maria, and 3 on Kos. Honestly, I feel like flexing a little. For one, I absolutely did not expect this. To this day I still remember how Nameless King, Sister Friede & Gael wrecked my ass for god knows how many times, and knowing that the Old Hunters offers some of the coolest/hardest bosses, I really anticipated some serious decimation.

I guess it worked out so well partly because the combat in BB feels so fluid and fast-paced, which is to my liking. I'm never a fan of OP, one-shot builds or excessive buffing. I just like going in, dancing, and dying a lot before eventually destroying bosses. On my 3rd attempt on Kos he got me to like 1 HP with that laser attack or whatever I didn't even understand, but I didn't care and stayed focused on the fight, then freaking parried his next attack, visceral'd, and finished him off with a running attack.

It was so satisfying. Not because of a fight won, but because the novice me would've panicked, rolled, chugged orange juice before getting killed anyway. But after 2k hours on these games, on my first blind BB run, in the heat of the moment during one of the hardest boss fights, I feel like I had the mind of a proper hunter, and it makes me proud.

I'm not an expert on DnD rules, but in BG3, it seems that if you fall and get revived, you lose an action. At least it's been my experience so far.

In this case, keeping a party member above zero seems much more important/efficient than reviving them using Healing Word (I mean there are other ways but they cost an action so) because you still end up losing an action. On the flip side, the spell heals 1d4+X which is a joke amount of healing.

I get it that it's a bonus action with long range so a much better revival than alternatives, but maybe it's better off carrying another useful spell and focusing on keeping everyone above 0?

Again if you don't lose an action upon revival Healing Word would be OP. You basically trade a bonus action with an action from enemy, and because you always heal from 0, not below 0, the 1d4 suddenly doesn't look that bad. But BG3 is not like this?

Early on I wandered off to Old Yharnam before dying 50 times (not exaggerating) to BSB. About the 5th or 6th attempt my summon hunter did very well surviving his 3rd phase while I got hits in here and there. BSB was literally one hit away when summon died. I threw molotov. Freaking BSB jumped at me, dodging the cocktail mid-air, and killed me on landing.

I ran out of cocktails and insights so started taking him melee seriously. Ended up draining my antidote supply. Accidentally discovered that he could be parried, and drained QS bullets from parry attempts. Eventually used up all blood vials as well.

So I got really good at reading his moves throughout. Consistently getting to phase 3 without using any consumables (didn't have any tbh) but always died from one mis step or poison. Then my dumb brain cell realized if you dodged right into his combo he's useless for the next few seconds.

About halfway through the game rn after beating the spider boss. I have died less than 3 times since BSB. Should've fought the Vicar and explored around before BSB in hindsight, but alas.

By that I mean >!Blood-Starved Beast!<. This is the mainline progression I suppose.

But before that I have cleared the first chalice dungeon (beating the watchdog in level 3) and got another chalice, so could keep going that route.

Or, they grabbed me to this gaol in a mad place with something to do with moon rituals, where I've done some exploration before teleporting back cuz that zip-zappy dragon thing-y looks out of my league.

Is it too early chasing the side quests at this point? Is there a sweet-spot level or progression point where it makes more sense exploring the dungeons or the secret city?

I'm a noob and this is my first blind run. Thanks everyone!

I'm just so excited to be playing Bloodborne PC for the first time after about 2k hours sunk into DS series, Sekiro and ER. I keep drinking blood vials when I want to transform weapon lol.

Man, nothing beats these games. BB is more than 10 years old and still, 10 minutes into the game I was already forgetting time. I've done LoP, GoW (not exactly a souls game), BMW and all those modern-er games but they are just not.. right. Amazing games, but not the same.

The Father. Well. First encounter he looked like a normal hunter so I tried to trade blows with him, only to find out that he doesn't get staggered much. A failed parry sent me home.

2nd try I ran circles around those tombstones, mixing in safe hits and parries here and there. Got to his beast phase when he destroyed the tombs to my surprised, so I panic rolled once, got roll-caught and died.

Got him the 3rd try. And now my blood boils with a pounding heart. I love the deaths and how I would actually learn the boss from those before beating him. I love the tension, the atmosphere, the parry, the everything. I love how 10 years later I'm finally able to experience another masterpiece for the first time in my life, and it's no less exciting than anything else ever.

Had to download source files of the legacy 580. version and build/install locally.

My understanding of the issue is that the official arch repo and AUR have both moved toward OpenRM, so anything you can get from pacman will not support Pascal or older Nvidia cards. Nvidia-dkms has the same issue where all referenced modules point to nvidia-open-dkms.

If you know of a method of installing 580. drivers via package manager kindly educate me.

I feel like an old man lol. Yesterday I made a post about RDP w/ x11 where I realized we have been moving away from that toward Wayland. Now I'm again running into compatibility issues cuz 8 yo GPU hehe.

https://archlinux.org/news/plasma-640-will-need-manual-intervention-if-you-are-on-x11/

Greetings. So I just came back to Linux after many years, and decided to try out Arch Linux out of curiosity (it wasn't there when I was still active).

While quite rusty at it, I managed to install arch and set up remote session via RDP, when I noticed that my windows were not managed and they just all got dumped to top left corner on the desktop.

It took me a couple hours of searching and talking to AI before I could pin-point and resolve the issue. Sadly I found the link only afterwards. Anyway, the entire problem-solving process was rewarding and I don't hate it, but honestly, I'm having doubts about venturing further into Arch Linux.

Specifically, I was planning on game development work and wanted to avoid Windows, yet this setup experience makes me feel it's not very stable either (apparently Arch adopts the continuous rolling update model so it's not a surprise). It could be that I'm just noob. It could be that Windows RDP into Arch Linux has never been a common scenario among Arch users. I don't know, but I certainly want to be able to focus on game development rather than having to tinker about the OS.

So, for those of you who have been using Arch for a while - does it offer flexibility and continuous update as a bonus (compared to alternative distros), or as a feature that comes at a cost? How would you have fared in situations like the kwin split?