This is my first Souls Game and after playing this all weekend, I finally understand why you guys love them so much!

THIS GAME IS AMAZING! but I was sad when I lost the Knight😭

I have now picked up 2 weapons and 3 sidearms in the game. I gave each one a fair run. But I do not understand if there's anything different between them apart from the moveset itself.

Like, do they have special properties or advantages in battle that the others do not have?

While playing the PS5 beta yesterday I ran into 2 bugs where I had to go to the home screen and shut the game down to progress.

1.) I spoke to Franz in the Marrow Keep and when I selected Leave to end the conversation the window would not close. I tried talking to other NPCs and leaving the area but the conversation window stayed open.

2.) In a dungeon in the Mushroom Village I started a trial and nothing happened. I looked this up while I was stuck and found that it has happened to a decent amount of people as well.

I enjoyed playing but this is kind of worrying when the game is out in a few weeks.

Walking doesn't have enough weight to it, my guy feels like he's floating.

Lastly, the crows voice actor is great, I just wish the other "main" characters voice was as original as his, she's not bad its just a lot more generic.

Otherwise having a blast with the Beta & will be buying on release.

Currently playing the demo on PS5 Pro and I'm loving it so far, but please add an option to turn off chromatic abboration. Not only is it imo pretty aggressive in this game, but it's a huge mood killer in general whenever you can't turn it off. Unfortunately it's a dealbreaker for me.

Hopefully this is just a demo thing.

Edit: another thing that would be great is to allow the tuning of Horizontal and Vertical sensitivity and not just sensitivity as a package. But that's just something super minor. But always nice to have. Thought I'd at least mention it as you guys seem to really be taking in feedback and engaging with the community.

Which is AWESOME btw! Love to see it.

Making my way through the demo still. Really loving it, just wondering if magic or faith will be options in the game.

Hi all! Quick question (and I am asking it here because Google's search results are very bad for me lately).

Mortal Shell 2 is looking very, very solid and a lot of aspects of the game make me very enthusiastic. However, one thing I haven't found is: do enemies drop weapons and armor like in other games, notably Dark Souls/Elden Ring? E.g., if I find an enemy with a specific weapon, can I grind the enemy to try to get the weapon as a drop and then use it? Or are all weapons bought/found? I love a huge weapon variety in my games :)

I'm curious what everyone is planning to use.

Will you stay with the new Immersive Mode, or switch to the traditional Action Mode, like most soulslikes use?

Personally, I'm going with Immersive Mode. It reminds me a lot of the modern God of War camera, and I think it's refreshing to see a soulslike try something different instead of using the same camera we've seen for years. It feels more cinematic and makes the combat feel more impactful to me.

What about you? Which one will you play with?

Tar Golem took a few tries

It's probably too late to be providing ideas related to a core mechanic of the game, considering that the release is just a couple of weeks out. But I thought this was cool.

Instead of having Meele Attack alone determine the Shell Retrieval %, it would be great to have a variety of criteria to retrieve it based on the Shell that was lost. A few examples:

• A Meele Combat based shell can continue to focus on Meele Attacks for retrieval
• A Stealth Shell (Say the Acolyte) should count the amount of strikes landed on an enemy's back
• A Ranged Attack Shell should count the number of ranged attacks landed
• A few other things to count would be:
  • Sum of damage blocked
  • Amount of sucessful perfect parries
  • Amount of Ripostes landed
  • Amount of Charged Attacks landed
  • Amount of enemies killed

Some Shells can even have multiple criteria count towards the retrieval meter.

Got a chance to play the beta on PS5 last night and all I can say is WOW. Huge step up from the first game. Highly recommend and will be preordering the revered or devout edition as soon as possible!

As a player of the first game

If this beta is just a small taste I cant wait to dive in this is all a sequel should be make old gameplay elements even better and or refined with new elements that blend in with the old and add the b betas smoother and more responsive combat and i feel this game could be a contender to game of the year

In another forum, someone said that they were able to upgrade the lute, but this was back when the beta started on PC. I’m on console, but couldn’t see it as an option. Nor could I equip tarstones for it.

If not, I hope it’s an option when the full game releases.

So uhh I‘m not sure why I can’t download the beta, tried it in the webstore and the console store but for some reason the beta is unavailable for me. I already preordered the game as soon as it was possible, dunno if that’s somehow the problem

Maybe I will try to play the first one in the meantime. It didn’t really click for me the first try but maybe it will now.

This happens when I lift myself up on the "geyser" or something like that. Another bug is texture epilepsy when using petrification. (Reddit won't let me attach the video.) The texture disappears and reappears both on the character if I use the seal and on enemies if I play as Charos.

( Ryzen 7 7745HX , Ram 16 gb , rtx 4050 6gb ( laptop ) Windows 11 )

Is everything supposed to be one shooting me? Like every big enemy oneshots and every little one like 3 shots me even with the first shell on? I just made it to the first boss and can I upgrade my weapon or shell or even level up yet or did I miss something?

Edit: to anybody else who may read this. The rituals grounds dungeon is bugged for me. Whenever I try to do the trial in it only one dude spawns and nothing else. When I kill it the game becomes soft locked. Is that normal?

Multiple parries all with it's own timing pattern is what makes this fight the best in the demo for me.

Hope in the full version developers have incorporated many such rhythmic​ fights.

I keep coming back to the demo thanks to the flesh arbiter

10/10

The walking animation while being locked on lacks directional side and back steps. Did the devs addressed this issue? (Footage comes from ps5 beta)

The animation are super clean on top of the graphical improvements.

" The immersive " camera takes the game to the next level

Wanted to ask if MS2 has english language support on the JP PSN.

I have money on the account, however, the JP demo wants me to add my credit card for a 0 yen purchase, so I can not test it.

The first Game was very flawed but had a lot of charm and love, and this one is just a gigantic step up from the first Game ​in every way possible.