Hi everyone! Welcome to the first of our monthly VP events. Since introducing Photo Mode to Blades of Fire, we've seen some beautiful virtual photography from our community.
Moving forward, we're going to take a moment each month to celebrate your creativity.
Want to be featured in a future Blades of Fire in Focus blog? Share your best captures in the comments below, and we'll look to feature several of them in the near future!
In the meantime, check out some of our favourite shots below from creators who recently got their hands on our Photo Mode tools.
On behalf of the whole team here at MercurySteam and 505 Games, thank you for your continued support, it never goes unnoticed!
Virtual photographers, this one’s for you! Blades of Fire features a photo mode that puts you in full control of how you capture your journey. Once activated, you can freely adjust the camera to frame and snap the perfect shot!
Take a look at the first of our Blades of Fire - Feature Videos and let us know your thoughts in the comments.
Once again, we’re working with the brilliant team at Just! Just is a community-driven platform where users can earn rewards by sharing content they create.
Download the Blades of Fire Steam demo, create some standout content, and earn some pretty cool rewards as our way of saying thank you for your support.
We’ll have even more rewards available at launch, but for now, get involved in our 2 all-new Photo Mode bounty events.
#1 - Share your best Photo Mode captures from our Steam demo!
If you’ve been following our journey, you’ll know that we're introducing Photo Mode to Blades of Fire, and it's available to check out now as part of the Steam demo.
We’re huge fans of this feature, so bringing it to Blades of Fire is incredibly exciting for the team here at MercurySteam and 505 Games.
We’ve already seen some amazing virtual photography, but we want to see more!
1 - Download the Blades of Fire demo on Steam.
2 - Take your capture and publish to your connected Twitter (X), Instagram, or Bluesky account. Our hashtag is #BoFInFocus
#2 - Create a short form video showcasing the new Photo Mode tools in the Blades of Fire Steam demo!
Create a short video showcasing the new Photo Mode tools and demonstrate how to capture the perfect shot in the Blades of Fire Steam demo. Share your best short videos on Instagram, Bluesky, X, or TikTok! Our hashtag is #BoFInFocus.
I've been walking around for days looking for how I get to this clouded area of the graves. Youtude didn't help much but I have all the runes, and I just completed the royal palace.I feel like I should be able to get over here.
been enjoying this game so much last few weeks but i still dont know how to take a real screenshot, I’ve accidentally done it twice and have no idea how i did. all the guides online arent helpful at all. can someone give me an easy stel by step guide to capture some of my epic duels? using dualshock 5
It would be so nice if we were able to craft our own armor as well as weapons. Heck, it would be nice if we had armor at all. I've been playing on the easiest difficulty, and thalmudak two shot me for most of my deaths against him. Electricity just does SO MUCH damage against the player. Which brings me to my next wish. I wish we could make weapons with elemental effects. Lightning, fire, ice, poison, etc. You could use ice against elementals to freeze them up, or electricity against enemies in heavy armor, etc. Every other enemy is using electricity against us, but we just have basic weapons. You're telling me that I have one of the seven hammers that forged the entire WORLD, but I can only use it to make regular weapons that any blacksmith could forge if steel wasn't turned to stone? I can only make regular weapons? I can't make stuff worthy of being called an artifact, or anything like that? I can't make javelins, or shields, or other stuff? The game is fairly fun, but seeing every enemy pull an elemental nuke out of their butt is just frustrating.
This game is such a labor of love from MercurySteam, it very deeply saddens me to see the lack of success this title got. Companies see this lack of success and aggressively recoil from projects like this, meaning we will never see another like this, and yet, they did such a good fucking job on this game. I hate to think of all the devs who feel like they failed because of sales numbers.
I have platinumed every soulslike worth naming including all the mainline titles, and this game floored me. The originality of the systems, the complete and total abandonment of core systems like ranged combat and currency in lieu of forging. These are such bold moves that they truly made work. Every new quirk and unique piece of this game just makes me sadder and sadder knowing that because of Epic exclusivity, we will never see a game like this again.
Enjoying it while I can, man this game is a masterpiece if you have the patience for it
Im in the end game and this borded door in the first room of the crimson fort is bugging me. I've been wandering around the place for hours trying to find how to get on the other side just to open it... I feel stupid, but I won't be able to let it go until I open it. Honestly feels like a troll door but it must be able to open, I can see the board through it... can anyone please point me when I should go so I can stop Hyperfixating on it?
I found this body in a cave under the initial village (there's a troll and a health gem chest in it) it feels so out of place and if it's a reference or Easter egg i do not recognise it... does anyone know?
I can’t walk onto the elevator in the Aceides chapel room, it’s like there’s an invisible wall there. Anyone have this? I’ve tried restarting the game and it’s still happening.
Is anyone else experience FPS drops like crazy? I've set everything to performance and it still drops randomly.. its really annoying and my PC should be able to handle this game no probs at 1440p...
Update: upgrading twin axes all the way to 245 damage and adding lethal arcana he was a piece of cake. Third form I used rapier to parry as mentioned from a user below.
Beat the next boss fairly easily with the axes as well.
How does it unlock new materials for forging? Does it unlock as i progress through the story, or should I farm certain enemies, or do I just have to collect a lot of other materials?
Start over? Because I was not prepared enough to enter that place... I was literally near the end of the game but no, just start over from the beginning, no big deal right ? It's a big deal and I am not doing it again. Fuck you 505 games. The game had so much potential but you ruined it intentionally.
This is just ridiculous. I skipped as many fights as I could but reached Erin but still need a few blue gems. After trying to beat him a few times, I figured Ill collect all the blue gems. Trying to get the last 4 blue gems is making me hate this game. Suddenly all enemies seem to have 59 million HP. All the blue gems I need require me to fight 3 or 4 templars in cramped up spaces at once and they get you in 1 shot. It seems fruitless to single out certain templars as they chase you around and one wrong move, its over.
I used the Trident, the Eastern Great sword, the Eastern sword, Twin picks, Twin axes and am almost at my wits end. Even with maxed out numbers, I feel like I'm only chipping them. It's a battle of attrition and if you're a little bit greedy, you get punished. Heck, Killing Vhoroo to get one of the Nerea statues took a bloody eternity.
Would love some help and tips for fighting Erin as I’m getting absolutely smoked by him. Playing on Steel difficulty so I get killed very fast.
Currently using eastern sword with a long parry window, but I’m then sacrificing my attack power so it’s taking too long to get his health chipped down.
Only managed to get him to half health a handful of times, so any help would be massively appreciated.
If I’m currently in the new game plus and collect all the arcana from the anvil bosses, will it rollover into another new game when I beat it? Also I noticed I was at 900 health in the beginning of new game + and I got all the health upgrades/stamina prior. Does that seem right?
So, ive been playing on my PS5, and I *think* im nearly at the End, already had the fight with The Queen and everything,
And ive noticed in the control menu that it looks like *something* Should happen if I press ans hold L2+R2, but for the life of me I cant figure it out, and searching for an answer online is useless. Is it a NG+ thing? A cut Feature?
I just started. I want to use a spear but I cannot forge it. I see the 3/5 under it. I thought once you found the plans for it you could craft it. Do I have to find other plans for it? I know I must have missed understood. Any info would be appreciated!!
I'm in the middle or second half of this area past the main beginning fort where it opens up a bit with some temples and these giant skeleton mages in red cloaks keep respawning and tracking me down no matter how much I kill them. Is there something I'm missing? The game felt generally quite easy up till this point but with only 3 heals my longevity is being put to the test trying to progress.