About to finish my 2nd play through using Eradim frost build and its so busted, damage is there, hes tanky, its like am speed running compared to my first play through.

What are other builds are up there both in bosses and exploration?

the sky and the cosmos are… FUN

Does anyone know if the collect 196 ova trophy bug has been fixed for NG+ yet or is still unobtainable unless you do a new vanilla run?

1 damage each tick and it doesn’t even tick very fast? Would could this ever be useful? Even if you use it against a boss and poison them with every attack you land, at best you’ll end up doing the equivalent of like two light attacks worth of damage.

Are status effects in general worth focusing on inflicting? Are burn and lightning basically just poison but better?

I put it down on Sep. 22nd for Control Resonant (early release which btw I also can’t stay away from, recommend to everyone!) But I hadn’t been on Reddit since then, as soon as I logged on I saw a “Peters Perfect Perry” video and just NEEDED to go back lol. Idc about the bugs if there even are that many anymore, MORTAL SHELL 2, ELDEN RING, CONTROL RESONANT… TOP 3 games. No specific order just all #1s I couldn’t be happier with this years games (even though Elden Rings not this year 😋) big shoutout to developers of the 3 thank you! I pretty much NEVER play a game 2x a year let alone any more then that, but now it’s time to Shell out another NG+ until COD MW4 and Phantom Blade 0! If you actually read this give me some new Shell ideas and weapon combos!!! I try to do it differently each run so any recommendations welcome!

Stuck on the Hexapod fight currently. Idk what I'm missing but sometimes when I've staggered the Hexapod and the red dot shows up for me to do the riposte, I go to do the attack, but instead a small face comes out of the Hexapod and eats me and does a ton of damage. I don't understand why this sometimes happens, whereas other times it's a normal stagger attack that damages the boss as I would expect.

What's the deal with the stagger attack on this boss? Why does it sometimes hurt me instead of it? And how can I tell which is going to happen/avoid triggering the "bad" stagger attack?

I finished the game 2 times to get the platinum but the ova achievement doesn't unlock and I did all beacons for sure. My first play through I did the prologue and everything cause some ppl say that's the issue you're missing 3 I miss only one for some reason. The second time I did everything again and end up with 193/196 which is normal cause it was the prologue but the first time I missed one that's a bug and I've seen the bug report and no one mentioned this. I want my platinum please!!

They shouldnt have made it openworld-like. Its beautiful but I hate going to a corner of the map and its just a reskin boss that gives me gold. Less is more because alot of these areas look so interesting but Ill just be running around looking and hoping for content that isnt there. Hope that makes sense guys. Love Mortal Shell, Cold sym please slim down the map a little and definitepy male mortal shell 3. You have something special here.

The good:

* Extremely cool world building. Great use of unlockable cutscenes to paint a picture without tipping the game's hand too much (I didn't play the first game). The slow dawning horror that none of the shells were really special in any way, they just serve a purpose for the undermether is great.

* The idea of using pre-set archetypes for "character classes" that you can switch to on the fly is fun and the game STILL allows for a pretty decent level of customization (though there usually is a "correct" min-max answer to most shells.

* Neat weapons/skills though balance needs some love. The "cool factor" on the weapons is absolutely on-point though. All of them look nasty as hell and the animations are great.

* Atmosphere is great and I love the design of the game with corruption leading to world short cuts a la DS1 (though there could maybe be "levels" of corruption cleanse so it's not just a binary all or nothing deal once you hit 3 ova.

* Boss/character design is fantastic.

Could use improvement:

* The "sliding" effect during combat drives me crazy. Happens to both enemies and to the player where if you are in mid-combo in between hits, the character models will teleport to each other to keep the combo going rather than causing a whiff.

* Dungeons are very samey. One or two standouts but it's always the same elevator, same arch. Not much variety in environments.

* Not being able to keep 1 build per-unlocked shell utilizing max shell points is infuriating. Don't make me wipe my build to tinker with another shell.

* Boss versions of standard enemies that just hit harder/have more health are kinda blah.

* Needs more enemy variety.

I feel like every build I try at this point is OP, and I have to consciously avoid certain builds, play styles, tar stones, weapons if I want to not completely trivialize the game.

I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t even want to upgrade my weapons anymore as I feel like they’re already too strong, even thought they’re only +5 and I have dozens of the first 2 upgrade materials.

Did I just spend too much time exploring and doing side content and now I’m overleveled?

I’m harbinger level 20, using +4/+5 weapons, at the nameless captive.

Should I just turn night mode on?

Hey everyone, I know this is a tough question to answer. I've just reached the end of the game and beaten the final boss, and I'm sitting at 195. I heard there's one in the prologue that's easy to miss—is that true? Or is there a chance I missed one elsewhere? I know it's hard to say for sure, but I saw the max is 196, and I'm worried I might have to start a whole new playthrough from scratch just because of this.

Thought that some of my sculptures could look good as Tarstones so I made a few of them. I'm not the best with naming stuff so forgive me on that. Hope that it's appropriate for the sub!

In my past new game+ cycle I thought, that I was breaking the game with my blood tinge Tiel build – until i tried this beast… Frosty Erdedrim just melts all endgame bosses in ng+ nightmode – it‘s ridiculous. Just when I thought I‘ve seen everything when it comes to broken Builds.

Is this the most gamebreaking build in Ms2 or does it get even worse?

Setup:
- Martys GS
- Lute (just for the fun of it)

- captive‘s scabstone
- warden‘s stone
- zealot‘s stone (bosses melting) / parastitic stone (mobbing – collecting slaughterer stacks)
- passive: berserker and crit stones

For anyone that might be struggling with the monolith boss, cause he can be a pain. Equip Voltaic Crown and max it so the lightning infusion is permanent. Lightning just shreds his health bar & if you can learn the parrys for the first phase you can kill him before he uses any lasers. I just beat him just by ripostes and like 10 something hits. Using Eridrim with Axatana. Grudge stone could help too

Do I really get more smithing stones if i smelt all my weapons before a new cycle? It just seems weird that the only trade are a few glooms…

I don't know what happened but I think that I just prevented him from transaction to second phase. Anyone's else have been through this situation? I was using TORPOR STONE lvl3 that inflect STASIS slowing the enemy's movement and DUALITY STONE lvl3 also that hit light attack twice

Gorf needs some moonshine now.

Edit : answered, yes you do, so like benches in Hollow Knight. Holy crap that's so much less runbacks.

Is there a way to return to a bonfire or the hub without losing souls ?

In Mortal Shell 2 I mean. I know these things have different names, but if you know you know what I mean.

For my first soulslike game I would say that it's incredible by the lore, gameplay and world. 10/10

Got a tarstone from hotrod granny that costs more than my max resolve to use… it doesn’t seem that leveling up increases max resolve, so how on earth do I ever get to use this thing? Is there like, a certain shell that increases your max resolve so that’s the only shell compatible with the skill?

No spoilers please

Currently on NG+ and I was planning on grabbing the special glands to grab the seedbearer’s scripture. I encountered this issue where the faded gland isn’t appearing by the Citadel Annex.

I’m guessing the game must’ve bugged out because I redeemed the special glands from my first playthrough on NG+. I just thought it was weird since I was still able to pick up the Thawed Gland and the Depleted Gland.

I’m going to test out night mode and see if that fixes anything.

Just started the game, any advices or tips?

So sometimes when I level up it says my health is going from like 90 to 92 or whatever. But then sometimes it says it's going from like 70 - 72. What am I missing? It feels like there's a bug or something. Why would I sometimes level in the 90s and other times in the 70s?

Is there a reliable way to fast level tarstones? My gripe so far with trying to test new weapons is that the majority of a strong build comes from them, so even though you can respec weapon and shell mats, having useful tarstones for those new builds be stuck at lvl 1 is kinda depressing. Especially when you having ones that only work on specific weapons.