Lords of the Fallen

You had one job. One.

Wish I'd never mentioned it now

Haha don't be a twat, it's fun

I'm resorting to looking up where to find saintly quintessence to upgrade my healing jobby. All the upgrades are hidden away in secret or hard to reach areas in Umbral, which - to be honest - means it's a fucking mission trying to find them when you're trying to get through an area in the first place, let alone explore in Umbral. I don't even feel bad. I do love the Umbral stuff though, just wish important upgrades like that were a bit more obvious in their placement

In other news there is a new PC patch out and consoles should be brought up to parity around Thursday. Notably enemy numbers are being twaeked, as well as how long they follow you through levels. Some interesting NG+ changes too and some performance tweaks.

I still love it.

You may want to wait till later in the week? See if one of those patches drops? Xbox is worst in terms of performance just now still I think.

Just remember on the Series X and S and you can download the game before you get the disc. If you’ve got the App on your phone just search for it and it will give you the option to pre install it, so when you get the disc it’s ready to okay with no install needed.

Don't know what they did wth that last patch, but enemies in some areas seem to have lost 3/4 of their frames. It's like fighting a flipbook. Very odd.

Despite that, still loving it. Three beacons down and my sword is maxed out at +10 now. En route to beacon number four. My assassin's bow seems a bit OP as well, it's +9 and with wither arrows absolutely destroys most things, including bosses.

I had hoped to finish it before AW2 drops on Friday but it's not looking likely. It's too big, and I don't actually want to stop playing it, despite the performance sometimes taking the piss.

Do we have an online password for this one like in Elden Ring? Just in case?

Wasn’t feeling it, so started again with the Dark Crusader class - feels a lot better and even managed to kill that fire arrow spam knight wankchops near the starting area.
Still not pulling off the soul flay ledge throws, but the axiom/umbral stuff is really starting to click and this class seems a lot less squishy.

Enjoying it

Think I'm approaching the end. At Bramis Castle now. The only complaint I have with this game is the performance. Even then it's better than it was. My main gripe is assets keep appearing and disappearing, like bits of walls, or pots. Did the whole Fief of the Chill Curse the other day which is a fucking amazing area except half the trees flickering about. I hope they sort all this. Regardless though, I genuinely think it's going to be one of my GOATs. I know others are less keen on it but I feel like it was made for me. The level design is amazing, the boss battles epic, tough but fair. The combat feels fantastic. My enthusiasm hasn't diminished even a little from when I started it and my PS tells me I'm 45 hours in now.

Yeah, finished it last night, went into NG+ just for a bit

I'm tempted to roll an archer and just snipe everything, some of the projectiles are hilarious. Ehanced poison javelin, followed by the enhanced lump hammer is just amazing.

Finished this morning. Staying in this current game cycle so I can mooch about and see what I've missed. I've fucked up most questlines though, but that's for a re-roll. Or I'll do them with my current char by either doing NG+ or NG0 (nice it gives you that option). 55 hours or thereabouts for this initial playthrough.

I've gushed about this game a lot. My enthusiasm and love for it didn't diminish once and I enjoyed the last few hours as much as I did the first. It's a fucking brilliant game imo and the world they created is stunning and interconnected in a way I haven't seen since Dark Souls 1. Genuinely my only gripes are performance and graphical issues. Everything else just hit the spot for me. I've said before it's like they made a game specifically for me. Damn. I really didn't expect it to be this good. Bonus points for a reprisal of the original game's opening theme over the end credits (say what you like about the original, but the theme was great).

For what it's worth, your ammunition capacity goes up every 2-3 levels that you put into vitality / endurance. You can also find ammo pouches all over the place, in the world, as drops and in shops.

Some of the thrown weapons also have insane range - the javelins in particular can be thrown from absolutely miles away. There is also a headshot bonus if you're a good enough shot (I'm not).

Cheers gents, that’s good to know.
Think I need to be a bit more patient then.