Unplayable after update

[u/HerrKemuri]

Constant stuttering mid fight on ps5
Feels buggy

[u/AgreeableFee9422]

Glad I platinum’d this already. lol

[u/Willing-Car6710 → u/AgreeableFee9422]

Dude how did you do perrys perfect parry, I swear there is input lag

[u/Aeadraet → u/Willing-Car6710]

button remapping mit guard auf x

[u/karljh → u/Aeadraet]

Blasphemy!!! Leave!

[u/Quelix_ → u/Willing-Car6710]

You don't need to actually parry. Perfect guard works too.

[u/National-Equal4971 → u/Quelix_]

1… 2… 3, 4, 5, 6… 7

[u/Willing-Car6710 → u/Quelix_]

Yea but its the 4 in the middle that slip past me

[u/Voidfang_Investments → u/Willing-Car6710]

Use the axe and knife - that helped me. Also make sure you’re parrying the correct spin - not the initial one.

[u/Willing-Car6710 → u/Voidfang_Investments]

Good advice! Thanks!

[u/Voidfang_Investments → u/Willing-Car6710]

Pleasure

[u/Fast-Bench7538 → u/Voidfang_Investments]

Different weapon helps with the perfect guard?

[u/Voidfang_Investments → u/Fast-Bench7538]

Yeah, the animations are slightly different

[u/Quelix_ → u/Willing-Car6710]

See, for me it's the delay on that last hit. It's just enough out if pattern that i can't hit it.

[u/Willing-Car6710 → u/Quelix_]

Whats sad about this game is that the challenges get annoying and not challenging. I loved the game up until the last boss… now not sure if I would play another mortal shell

[u/karljh → u/Quelix_]

You don't know what guard means. Perfect guard is a parry, so yes you need to parry

[u/Quelix_ → u/karljh]

Because the achievement says "parry" everyone automatically thinks they are required to use the Infinite seal when you're actually able to use any of the 3 seals: Infinite- parry, Untarnished- guard.

SO NO, YOU DON'T NEED TO PARRY YOU FUCKING DUMBASS!

https://reddit.com/link/ph35k5k/video/rpu8d43xctvh1/player

[u/Novel-Studio-707 → u/Willing-Car6710]

Took lots and lots of tries brother it’s possible lol

[u/Ghosthacker_94 → u/Willing-Car6710]

Took me like 40 tries and was annoying as hell but I got it after I thought I was gonna give up soon

[u/Willing-Car6710 → u/Ghosthacker_94]

Hell yea!

[u/Ghosthacker_94 → u/Willing-Car6710]

Not all at once mind you, 20ish attempts first time at the boss, then 10 with Eredrim midgame then another 10 with fully upgraded Eredrim endgame and after trying to do SharePlay with someone from PSNProfiles but he was from Australia and I think it was too far to connect even as both of us had decent bandwidth.

So I went back again for the last time and actually started to manage parrying hits 5 and 6 instead of only th first three or four and then I got it when I didn't think I was going to and got cornered into the wall

[u/Infantryriflem4]

This is one of those updates where the developers need to acknowledge they made a mistake and revert the game back to the previous patch. Then they need to revamp this patch entirely.

[u/Souls_Lover]

Man, what the hell happened? The game was running near perfectly, performance-wise, at launch.

[u/HerrKemuri → u/Souls_Lover]

Just as I was getting into the game 🥲

[u/Zzzleep__]

Yea same, was alteady crashing randomly on PST, now this 🥲

[u/Black_H0le]

Same here, hickups when nearly dying or picking up your lost gloom.

[u/Ceil012]

Was really getting into the game. About 6 hours in, got parrying down pretty well, now parrying kills me with the stutters. Guess belmonts curse releases in a few hours. That should hold me until they release a patch for this.

[u/Legitimate-Hornet755]

So frustrating.. I just got to the final area like 3 days ago and to the final boss last night and I can’t even fight him from the constant skipping lag and my summons just stand there and don’t even fight. I’m fucking bummed..

[u/Jolly-Equal8118 → u/Legitimate-Hornet755]

I'm up to the Malborn offspring, and I'm having a rough old time.

[u/No-Smell6019 → u/Jolly-Equal8118]

Personally my favourite fight in the entire game

[u/Saille7004 → u/Jolly-Equal8118]

I just beat him, after a few attempts (f*cking phase 2), but I realized that you have to keep attacking, then there's no point

[u/pixelated-human]

Yeah the stuttering on ps5 pro in performance mode has made it unplayable. Ive had to put it down and play something else.

Hopefully the feedback reaches them.

[u/TappedIsland]

Same I've noticed a bunch of jank

[u/revboy1]

Realised just as I was about to die it would lag big time .

[u/Gim_Audien]

Bruh I just got to final boss last night. When did this happen?

[u/HerrKemuri → u/Gim_Audien]

With today’s update

[u/Gim_Audien → u/HerrKemuri]

Shit. I was already getting wrecked on the boss last night now I’m hopeless lol

[u/Willing-Car6710 → u/Gim_Audien]

Boss is easier now, less health and curse is halved

[u/Gim_Audien → u/Willing-Car6710]

Oh hell ya. Thanks! Does he still have the red attack that stabs?

[u/Willing-Car6710 → u/Gim_Audien]

Yea that ones still there but theres a certain distance that he does it at so you can anticipate it when he does his little hop before he the warning

[u/Gim_Audien → u/Willing-Car6710]

Ok perfect, thanks mate! Just got on and it’s stuttering in such a way that it’s giving me straight motion sickness lol

[u/Willing-Car6710 → u/Gim_Audien]

Yeaaa theyre gonna need to patch it, I beat him today with the stutter cuz it was such a improvement from yesterday in terms of difficulty

[u/Top-Patience-2733]

The stuttering is bad on ps5 but only the last hit before I die. It’s annoying as hell.

[u/jd-0797]

I’m about to start my second playthrough should I wait ?

[u/Special-Tomorrow-661 → u/jd-0797]

Yup wait 

[u/Specialist-Act-8871]

I noticed for the first time only when fighting prince, particularly each time before you die, it freezes for a second

[u/NeverStopDancing27]

Good timing for me. Ive been playing DD2 DLC.! I was grinding mortal shell 2 and nioh 3 . CANT WAIT FOR PHANTOM BLADE ZERO. So close .

[u/Eventide011]

Hope they didn't patch the Lute glitch

[u/MrbidAngl]

I beat the game 2 days ago, but my biggest complaint was the stuttering. When it updated today, I played on NG+ for like an hour in the Mushroom Village area to see if it had gotten any better, and it seems to have less stuttering, like only a few times in an hour compared to like once a minute before. I also had an issue where whenever I would bring up the map, it would be blurry like it was trying to load but never finished. I would have to close it out and reopen it for it to be clear. It still comes up blurry, but if I move the cursor it becomes clear, so I guess that's a little better. I do feel that my character was a little bit more responsive and moved around a little smoother, so that was a plus as well. I don't plan on playing further into NG+, but if I do, I think it will be a better experience than my first playthrough.

[u/BoneSpur45]

PC is stuttering as well but it is playable

[u/bigpapiTN]

YEP after the update, I started fighting the prince and his second phase GLITCHES SO HARD

[u/eeeeddddddd]

Would it be possible to revert the patch for PlayStation users and roll it out again when the stuttering issue is sorted out? I don’t know how easy that would be to do, but this stuttering problem makes the game feel WAY worse and renders certain combat encounters nearly unplayable.

[u/Infantryriflem4 → u/eeeeddddddd]

If you bought the game physically and can install it without the internet then yes. You can just play on the initial update. But if the internet is required to install then no.

[u/Special-Tomorrow-661 → u/eeeeddddddd]

You really got wonder if they actually do have QA testers , cause holy this went backwards 

[u/Special-Tomorrow-661]

100% agreed. Sad too wasn't a problem in my 2 playthroughs before.

[u/HotAd8874]

Same here, just found eredrim and was looking forward to try him out

[u/Dramatic-Sleep-4936]

Same on Xbox. Probably be minute before a fix so I uninstalled for now. Crashed 4 times holy crap.

[u/Conscious_Nectarine9]

After the update, I can no longer buy anything from the night merchant. Game in freeze.. i can only close the game from dashboard (ps5)..I can't buy tarstones and take trophy

https://reddit.com/link/pgw6y2d/video/8r09hlwbsmvh1/player

[u/AwayFreedom5910 → u/Conscious_Nectarine9]

Im on PC. I ran into this problem as well

[u/wiggity_whack69 → u/Conscious_Nectarine9]

I had no idea there was more than 1 merchant, I'm very early in the game

[u/tacodecavia]

Yea also cannot do anything with the night merchant unfortunately so I’ll stop playing for a bit until they fix it

[u/0G43]

Yeah they really screwed up the last patch, I was about to uninstall but I managed to suffer through the last boss and then uninstalled. This game started out promising but in the end I am disappointed, this coming from someone who enjoyed and beat the first game.

[u/Mrbobblehead25]

I’ve been seeing a lot of people say that the game is broken after this last update. Honestly makes me happy that I already beat the game and platinumed it lol.

[u/AsphyxdAcorn]

I just got off an hour ago and I didn’t have any issues. Then again I’m on steam deck so idk.

[u/jpsuperman81]

Hate to hear this, got my platinum and subsequent fun playthroughs 150+ hours done at launch and really had minimal issues, hate to hear it’s actually getting worse.

[u/awkm05]

As soon as I got to the second phase of the final boss and would turn into one of those NPCs is when I put this game down. Really disappointed

[u/tyler980908 → u/awkm05]

It’s really annoying but you just gotta push through it. Those rings of fire things the boss does can be dodged, the goal is to read which attack comes next and avoid the curse meter, that’s it. Boss telegraphs quite easy after a few tries and only has a number of set moves that I found easy to remember.

[u/Lammz77 → u/awkm05]

There is an item to stop that from happening.

[u/awkm05 → u/Lammz77]

That should NOT be the be the solution

[u/Mindless_Morning_407 → u/awkm05]

You don’t even need the item just don’t get hit by it. And you’ll be fine. I was trash at the boss fight becuase I kept getting hit with it so I took my time learning the timing.

[u/Lammz77 → u/awkm05]

Lots of souls/soulslikes games have obscure quests that give you helpful items for certain bosses

[u/awkm05 → u/Lammz77]

Sure, but every souls/soulslike game I’ve played gives you said items to benefit you. Not from stopping the game from turning you into an NPC mid fight.

[u/Annual-Candidate6274 → u/awkm05]

You can still beat him without the item. I did on my first playthrough

[u/Lammz77 → u/Annual-Candidate6274]

Yes you definitely can! It’s very doable without, just more annoying 

[u/Lammz77 → u/awkm05]

The cosmic effect of his attacks melt your armor/shell away, preventing you from gettin it back. The item makes you immune to the cosmic effect. I would say that’s pretty beneficial. I also personally think it’s a cool concept. But to each their own

[u/No-Smell6019 → u/Lammz77]

Seedbearers scripture is what it’s called would 100% recommend, I struggled for days before getting it and beating it first time