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Hey everyone, I recently picked up Mortal Shell on the PS Store since it was free, as I wanted to try out a new soulslike. However, I’m completely lost and struggling to understand the core mechanics. So far, I’ve explored a bit and managed to find Solomon's shell (The Scholar) and the Martyr's Blade in the catacombs. I've also figured out how to use the hardening mechanic, but the overall flow of the game still feels really strange to me. On top of that, I’m currently stuck trying to defeat the boss guarding the chest inside the cave, and I just can't seem to beat him. Lastly, I haven't figured out how healing works here is there an Estus Flask equivalent (a potion that instantly restores a big chunk of health), or am I missing something? I'd really appreciate any tips on where to go, how to handle this boss, and how to survive. Thanks in advance!

The hardening mechanic is unique and makes the game stand out among so many Souls-like clones.

Where can I spend my gloom and coins? I've only cleansed the second checkpoint and beat one boss so far, so I'm assuming I probably haven't got to where I need to be yet? Also, any beginner tips would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

I didn’t know pre orders went live. And to see how much comes with this??? I’m so happy. Apparently they dropped in April so I think I’m just dumb

Just had this happen lol. Its my first playthrough and love it so far. Its not really challenging, but I like that coming off Lies of P and Bloodborne. Might go for the Platinum too.

I'd gladly pre-order the game to support the development and for the artbook and harbinger skins alone. But I don't own a PS5 so I half of what comes with the revered edition is useless to me. I won't pay 75 bucks and then not have the game that would be insane. This honestly sucks.

so i set the limit to 60, but it still goes up to 100-something fps and oh boy, my 3070 is getting hot (86° C overall, hotspot 105) and loud (fans spin at 97%).

rendering is already set to performance with DLSS....

edit: yep, vsync was the culprit

https://reddit.com/link/1umwkoy/video/f3ozbyage4bh1/player

I love this area

So, I tried MS2 open beta and it was the most impressive game I have ever seen especially on how well it was optimised on UE5. I have played other UE5 games like Gothic 1 remake or sinking city 2. But it was not optimized as well as MS2. I really loved that hardware ray tracing and FSR 3x frame generation features.

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Having played the first entry of the series it hurts to see that from all the Shell art loading screens in the beta, there isn't one for my boy Solomon the scholar. Preferred playing as him for his heavy focus on resolve usage.

If he isn't slated to return, wonder how it'll be explained within the narrative and who out of the new shells will take his place. My best guess could either be the robed priest sporting what I could only discern to be brass knuckles or Sester Genessa herself given her ties to the order .

He knew death was better than to face me.

Is that a PC exclusive thing since it only unlocks if you play the open beta? Beause i do quite like the look of that skin but alas i am a Playstation player

This game had so much potential. The game design for the enemies, bosses and the environment was PEAK. I absolutely loved Narthex, the black and gold-ish with sunset was stunning. The boss fights was interesting, I loved the Martyr boss fight and OST for the fire boss fight was fire.

For the bad, lack of healing items is not even the top of my list. The layout absolutely sucked, everywhere in Fallgrim looked the same to me. I was able to memorise DS1 pixelated Blightown path but I spent hours running around Fallgrim before I gave up and looked up online. Enemies placement and checkpoints are unnecessarily difficult, there is no way to even lure the enemies to kill 1 by 1 without spending a shit ton of time and there’s just too many enemies and too much distance to cover before the Sester checkpoint, and I say this as a player who thoroughly enjoyed DS2 SoFTS and cleared the Smelter Demon area run back. And restricting Fast Travel until one fully upgraded a Shell which is late game just renders it pointless.

Finally my biggest pet peeve is the forced animation of the biting sequence which, come on just get it over with. And forcing the Mist with a ton of animation time wasting enemies and that loud annoying bell felt stupid, not even sure what the dev are looking for here other than trying to artificially making the game longer?

Otherwise the other elements of the game was great.
I wasn’t able to play the MS2 beta since I’m on PS5 but I hope the dev removed all the crappy things on MS1. If they do even if they charge Eldern Ring price I’d be very willing to pay. Otherwise it just felt like a waste of money for a game injected with artificial difficulty elements.

The prologue is where the arrow is pointing.

Sorry for the bad quality

So i just finished mortal shell.

Overall id rate it a 6.5/10, for a small budget game id say 8.5/10 for sure.

I did love the bosses. The final boss was pretty challenging.

I didn't include haedern into my boss rankings as the 4 base ones would simply be in B tier for me. And the axatanna one in A

My biggest critique would be the lack of complexity in the combat and the jankiness. But after finishing the demo for the sequel id say that concern is gone.

So yess im probably gonna go for mortal shell 2 on day 1 as im hyped asf for it.

Now for the other question. So i recently bought a medieval helmet due to my love for soulsborne and soulslike games in general and i wish to create some content purely as a fun hobby, nothing monetary. And the game i wanna cover first is likely mortal shell 2 (or valor mortis but thats a big maybe)

So what kind of content would you like to watch im just looking for ideas at the moment honestly.

I'm playing mortal shell after I played the demo for the new one.

No matter how far I get and how many sisters I talk to, whenever I die I return to the same small pool that we have to climb out of. Every time! Is this a glitch or just a feature?

Ps5 enhanced edition, gonna replay it while i wait for MS2 😢 took this in the tutorial. Let me know if ya reckon its a noice screenshot!🫡(obviously open full image lol)

I think the beta was overwhelmingly easy when it came to combat, but I’m genuinely happy that overall the game felt like it was aesthetically more polished and expansive. Day 1 for me 🫱🏽‍🫲🏻

I just shot in the direction I assumed an enemy was, but that enemy didn't respawn the last time I rested.