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Putting the blackgaol knight where he is is a frankly hilarious statement of how the DLC is gonna be. I'm good enough at the games to beat everything without cheese or summons (I do think that summoning is fine, I just don't personally enjoy it unless it's an NPC I like), but I find that some Elden Ring bosses push the edge of what I have the reaction speed for. Morgott and Maliketh were particularly troublesome for me. I haven't gotten to anyone in the DLC that has hit that mark of pace yet, but I assume someone will
I'm not super knowledgeable on racing games, but I'm happy to try to help! What have you got available and what do you like?
I had to skip that knight! I got deaded too many times and just left hahaha. I’m in my third legacy dungeon in Shadow and it’s pretty brutal.
Which one is the third? I've done Belurat and Castle Ensis (if it counts?), only just started poking around in Shadow Keep but it looks absolutely wild so far. I also made it to the putrescent knight's arena but I've not tried actually fighting it yet, just jumped in once to see what was going on at the end of a session
The knight was pretty brutal, but fortunately this run has been my "learn to parry" one, so I came basically perfectly equipped to fight any player-model enemy that isn't using colossal weapons
I think it’s Shadow Keep! I’ve found two of the bosses—one insane tree guy with three phases that has killed me 20 times so I went another way, one big fat boss guy, and there has to be more cuz I’m not done yet…
There's one with three phases? That is so absolutely going to catch me out with no flasks left whenever I first get to it, god dammit. I can't wait
Oh man… i don’t wanna spoil anything, but uhhhh I think I have to come back to it with full blessing. I can’t get close even with a buddy who’s extremely good.
Nothing wrong with that! I hit an absolute brick wall with Margit when I first played the base game because I hadn't played a Souls game in years. I explored around until I found the secret route to Liurnia and did most of that before I even got into Stormveil
Did you go into a regular, boring, nondescript building and then take the longest elevator ever? Because I did the and it brought tears to my eyes when I finally got down there (also first real souls game, I only played a bit of Demon’s Souls PS3 before Elden Ring)
Edit: also this tree is far beyond any boss in the main game, and insane compared to the other expansion bosses. I don’t even think I need to kill it to progress.
I have not seen whichever part that is, no. Although it sounds like the same experience as finding Siofra for the first time, which I think was one of my favourite moments in the entire game
Oh I might be thinking of Siofra! Sorry hahaha, it’s been a while.
I went back into the expansion after months of not playing, and I forgot how much I loved this game… but sheeiit, is the expansion brutal. The main game was hard, but I had a much easier time roaming around and having fun and exploring without dying. Shadow seems a lot more…. “Go here and do the thing to progress”.
I suppose it makes sense for it to be tough considering that it's intended as an endgame expansion and it's also replicating the new character low level experience with the scadu blessing system
I have actually found that the Land of Shadow has heaps of alternate routes to places, they're just much less obvious than before. The map is so wildly vertical and overlapping that finding a spiritspring or a tunnel or one of those cliffside staircases of protruding gravestones can take you to a whole new area
I’ll have to explore much more! I’m so curious as to how much more I haven’t explored, but I haven’t looked anything up—I played through the original game blind and I want to do the same with the expansion. But it’s soooo difficult!
Ha yeah that knight is a pretty brutal eye opener!
I got a Humble Bundle with a bunch of racers so I have a bunch but I'd even buy one if it's the right one. I'd love to relive the glory days of Gran Tourismo with the career mode and collecting cars and modifying them. I've done Horizon and that sorta scratches the itch but it's just soooo arcadey. But it's the closest I've found so far.
Oh hey, I grew up playing Gran Turismo as well! I actually dug out the old Playstation 1 when I was seeing family last Christmas and we had a splitscreen session racing each other on the 1997 one. It was a blast
That kind of in-depth career mode is oddly rare in modern sim racers. A lot of them are very online PvP-focussed. And I get that, but still, it'd be nice to have more. Things that come to mind are:
It is a pretty dim time for the single player sim racing experience, but there's fun to be had!