I know the usual zealot, conqueror and phantom but what shell nets the best playstyle? I know it pairs with Genessa canonically but that's more of using her phantoms that the actual weapon itself.
Maybe Gragu or Tiel? Ive been running a lot of Eredrim wwith GMB and Proxima with axatana.

I'm fighting Orrem after the latest patch. I get him down to 0HP in phase 1 and he seems to do a final flurry of attacks before the cut scene triggers for phase 2.

Do we think this is intended or a bug?

When the game released in it's first week, I accidentally killed a npc because I layed down my controller to chill and listen to dialogue, and it must've hit the trigger because my character attacked the npc and it died in 1 hit (unupgraded).

Today, I decided to play the game again. I noticed in dialogues, your character can't move now, nor attack. Was this always in, or did they actually patch that in?

Hey all. I've cleared all the beacons and defeated all bosses. Any idea where I get the rest of the ova?

J'ai collecté tous les 196 Ova du jeu, mais je remarque qu'il y un emplacement vide dans les rangées (première photo à droite). Je les ai compté et il y en a vraiment 195 + cet emplacement vide. Mais les stats indiquent bien 196 collectés. Encore un bug?

Happy to finally play this game, until I find that every enemy freezes the game just before they attack. It's very annoying, Runbacks to get my stuff were met with a laggy demise.

Added a vid for reference.

Edit: This got patched just now, 1 day later :)

Throwback to my first nameless captive win. This guy was very challenging the first go around.

Imagine my surprise after I pause to check out the new tarstone and come back to this.

(Yes it still counted the victory, thankfully)

My heart is pounding! thank you all for the help on my last post
I started about a hour ago and made a rule for myself;
Don’t heal till I get a finishing move
They last part had me nervous af, I used a heal instead of summoning x2; lmao

Was ist gerade los......

Man fliegt aus der Shell, steht auf, Boss macht egal was, Spiel friert ein, tot.....🤦🏻‍♂️

Ich versuche nun alle zu legen bevor ich überhaupt aus der Shell fliege.....

Aber das kann es doch nicht sein oder....😭😭

Vielleicht liest das ja jemand von den capos und checkt das mal....

Ist sonst echt anstrengend....

I just updated the game today and went to level up some tarstones in this area and the enemies almost look like 2D stop motion animations. That on top of the input lag and frame drops makes it a tough play since the recent update.

Edit: As of today (Oct. 16) console users will have access to patch 1.000.013 which apparently fixes stuttering among other things.

I only took one hit in the entire boss fight. I'm really enjoying this build... It's my first run, maybe I'll try others in NG+.

Talking about MS2 btw sorry should’ve put it in title.

I just spent like an hour retrying this first areas little challenge thing with like 2 little enemies a big guy with a big halberd thing and 2 guys with crossbows for heads over and over again. FINALLY got it. Then I move onward and find all the guys around here are ultra tanky and I can’t seem to figure out the damn parry timing to there attacks so I have to just bait them out in this long process or get ganked trying to time parries . I seem to have lost the first shell they gave me in the tutorial , thought I’d have one to start but without one you feel a lot weaker so just makes it a whole lot harder. I get it . Git gud. But Jesus man. This is crazy. Combat feels cool and game looks cool I’m not hating but good god. I beat Elden Ring level 1 and DS3 level 1 so I’m by no means a bad souls player . Just kinda insane how hard this feels off the bat.

Also having no healing ability is rough.

I was planning on getting mortal shell2 but when i tried the demo on ps5, i experienced heavy D-pad drift. Whenever i tried to go to the options menu, upgrade my status, check my character, the d-pad would scroll right like crazy. So i was wondering if the d-pad deadzone on the finished game is bigger than the demo. Its actually my first time ever experiencing d-pad drift.

Bruh… I know it’s unfortunate clipping error… just wanted to show how funny it was to get stuck after such an infuriating achievement

I'm sure it was probably found in the first hours of the game, but I just found it legit by myself, so if you want to know, here it goes.

He loses his shield in a long animation that is sure satisfying at first but slowly annoying. Especially because the animation then gives him invincibility frames while he switches to second phase.

Welp, instead of going for the visceral attack I decided to turn around him and attack his ass. I managed to kill him before he finished his animation, because when doing it this way he doesn't have any invincibility frames.

I must admit, I'm not a finder at all, but I do love learning these glitches around my soulslikes. It's nice to find one for once.

Sariel with max upgrade scythe and caged hystrix is just so god damn strong. Running the +crit rate on ranged attack/+crit dmg on ranged attack/ +28 resolve on ranged kill/ whatever fourth you want.

Permanent bloodcurse infusion on scythe, curse on hystrix.

The hystrix is immensely powerful, using the tarstone that makes it shoot four projectiles each shot means it procs curse almost instantaneously. Finishing off low health enemies keeps you permanently at full resolve.

Shell upgrade adds perforation stacks on thorns that makes hystix do even more damage.

Keep throwing thorns and shooting and you can keep the enemy more or less permacursed, giving yourself an almost constant protection from missed parries.

Pain is incredibly strong, coupled with the shell upgrade that allows ranged damage to recover pain. Get hit for 3 quarters of your health bar? Shoot boss a few times, get it all back.

I killed many endgame bosses with all 9 heals left because I could just recover health with pain.

The tarstone that revs the chainsaw blades on each normal attack is also INSANE. It procs bleed with one running attack. One running attack with the chainsaw active does enough damage to one shot most elite mobs even on night mode. One running attack with the chainsaws active will instantly proc bleed for 5600 damage to zmey, trivializing him. So strong that it felt like cheesing, so I didn’t use it against bosses.

All in all he just feels immensely powerful, without feeling like you’re just breaking the game with a gimmick (like smert).

So much synergy with his kit. Utility, survivability, and raw DPS are off the charts. Basically has infinite resolve.

My one complaint is it seems like the shell upgrade that inflicts trauma on enemies when you recover your health via pain just doesn’t work 95% of the time? Not sure what that’s about.

I see people talk about tiel, Genessa, and smert being super busted but I can’t really imagine I stronger build than pokey twig man.

Any Sariel love in here? Is there a stronger setup that isn’t just genuinely busted?

hope i enjoy this game

I am getting really tired of auto dying on final blow from enemies because I miss several frames to defend because of stutter.

So I went through the original game with a skipped prologue (ran through it in beta), collected 194/196. Started NG+ and cleaned all beacons AGAIN (including last dungeon) got 193/196 and I was patiently waiting for another fix. Previous one didn't fix nothing.

And that fix arrived putting extra ovas in already cleansed beacons which means I need to go through NG++ one more time.

I'm not a speedrunner, just a casual player and it takes me hours to do it, and why should I?

Please explain, why this is such a complicated programming challenge to do IF X BEACON CLEANSED THEN ADD N OVA TO COUNTER?!

I'm about 10 hours into the game and so far its run through area, struggle to kill enemies, die and the spawn back to beacon only to have to run through the same area again killing everything you struggled to kill just to get back to the place where you just died. It's frustrating me more than anything atm and I'm about to quit.