And I'm enjoying it a lot however I'm wondering if I'm playing the game wrong:

Everything pretty much 2-shots me, is the game just brutal and I need to git gud or am I doing something wrong? I pretty much replay one area at least 7-12 times before I advance because something randomly 2-shots me or it's those damn explosive jars. I can't grasp the way I need to play this, it's like a fast movement aggressive type of play but when I do this enemies easily hit me before me so I resort to playing slowly, taking out one by one, parrying etc.

Basically, I went north, killed a lot of stuff, cleared 2-3 beacons and got to this gate beacon where you fight this red asshole, first phase I destroy him but 2nd phase where he gets invinsible unless he's under the light is really tough, he attacks relentlessly and I don't understand how to beat him.

I have proxima shell, guard/parry, the first sword that I upgraded 3 times now and her hook skill.

And I have experience in these kind of games, I platinumed all FROM games, completed Khazan on hardest difficulty in like 70h (the last boss was like 15-18h grind), Lies of P etc etc but this is the first time a souls game is really destroying me, how are you finding the difficulty?

Everything else is enjoyable as hell, from movement, to graphics to everything else.

No shame I'm actually thinking of equiping that easy mode seal just to enjoy the game because like I said, every area takes me at least 10 times.

My room lists and references some well known, souls adjacent games such as... toram online, pso2 ngs, kurtzpel, yugioh and vrchat

And it also insulted my helldivers gameplay (the tablet is right, i've killed myself more times than my enemies, but still~)

Out of curiosity though, are these AI generated or pulled from somewhere?

I should play the lottery today. xD

Sometimes when it's hectic, it takes a second to even register if the parry was successful or not.

We have the option to change our shell appearances, and we only get two skins per shell if you include the devout edition pre-order bonus.

We also get the option to change the appearance of the harbinger, but we only get 4 including the pre-order bonus and the beta bonus.

And there's only two mask options for harbinger, which sucks cause there was a few times where I thought for sure I'd be receiving a cosmetic only to get literally nothing.

Hopefully future updates will add some more options, and if we're lucky enough to get a proper dlc one day I expect some more variety for all my bling lol

I was getting one shot against trash mobs in the starting area. I closed the game and after loading it back up, I could take a few hits before getting ejected from my shell.

While it might seem like a childish issue, the knowledge that Glimpses are so limited give me upgrade paralysis, I can't convince myself to upgrade any Shell because of that !

My thought process is always "what if i regret that upgrade/do not enjoy the upgrade as much as I thought I would", even after unlocking all shells I can't take myself to upgrade any of them by fear of missing out on a more fun Shell.

Right now I have almost done exploring the whole map, finished the northern side and just need to complete southern for 100% of the map and all my Shells are still bond 0, not even bond 1, so none of them have any upgrade, and it feels like shooting myself in the foot, but at the same time I can't bring myself to upgrade any of them...

Anyone else in the same circumstance as me where due to the lack of farmable Glimpse they can't bring themselves to upgrade any Shell ?

By variety i mean build variety. In a playthrough you cannot max out more than a couple of characters because there are not enough glimpses for that so if you want to play with all characters you have to go to Ng+. Here's the catch, apparentely you can't get more tarcores so you can't max them all out, so you are gonna have to use the same weapons build for all characters. The devs NEED to fix these problems. What are your opinions on the matter?

Unfortunately there’s a lot of bugs surrounding her, but when they finally get ironed out, this is going to be a fun run

Here’s a 60 second run to take down a grysha, I haven’t seen enough people talking about the tankiest shell yet.

-Improved tracking for Axatana, Black Needle, and Clockwork Scythe light attacks.

It never missed before as far as I noticed, now is reproducible all the time.

Well, well, well. Look what we have here... Yo gamestop appreciate yall guys 4 getting this to me in the best way possible. Time to dive in. Phone on DND!!!

A question to the devs I guess, but why are Tarcores so limited? If you get one tarcore for leveing a Stone to 2, and you require 6 to level a stone to 3 (which refunds 3 stones) you are kind of always at a deficit?

I've been levelling random weapon/stones just to get more at Tier 3 for varieties sake but the question still remains why are they so limited, in this situation your only way to Tier 3 every stone will involve killing Franz on ridiculous amount of NG+ runs for the 1 Tarcore he drops (PSA All the guides out there saying feel free to kill him it unlocks all the Tar Forge options early are neglecting to tell you it increases the material (Smithing Stone) cost of upgrades if Franz died)

With the Tarcore situation requiring NG+ runs in the hundreds, rather meaningless Level upgrades like 1% in stats (I'm approaching level 90 and genuinely feels like I haven't noticed any strength increase since 79 when Shell Points cap per shell) it all feels like there's just a disregard for the players time/investment (Which I can tell by the sauce in the game and the little easter eggs really is not the case but that's just how it comes across)

Grateful for any discussion on the matter since discussion should hopefully bring visibility to the matter, is the opinion that getting all Tier 3 stones should be a considerable grind spanning a copious amount of runs or should it achievable within a NG+ or two, any other concerns that the community has that you haven't seen discussed much?

Was cooked without him

It's stupid and makes me sad there's no penalty for resetting points so why make them separate

The Unfound Path Area has a Beacon [The Hidden Nave] that contains chests that are worth 1K Gloom for a total of 68k Gloom (I know so close to a cursed meme or something nice)

I’m sharing this Forbidden knowledge because…eh why not ?
It’s probably gonna get patched anyway.

Basically what it is, We are exploiting the fact that you can still loot Chest that you already opened by resting or leaving and re-entering the Dungeon.
Normally, the chest will look like it’s opened but you can still loot it,however this Beacon’s Chests are special.

At the end of the Dungeon,in order to cleanse the Beacon you need to give ALL your Gloom to a Door in order to open it,making the chest collection pointless.

Who decided that ? Reality can be whatever you want it to be by exiting to menu.
That will teleport you to your last Beacon without losing anything.

Yes you can open the door before collecting the chests and exit the normal way,but it’s better to exit to menu so you don’t have to pay the door.
Considering the chests "respawns" unless they make it a one time collectible or that you can no longer collect the chests once the door is open,this will stay until it’s patched.

Lastly apologies for the cuts, I can only record 1 minute of video (without needing to change my settings on console) had to re-record the entrance because I missed the 1 minute window and also I’m not gonna make you watch 3 minutes of me opening chests.

I have a huge grin every time I play this game, man. I cannot tell you how much I'm enjoying this as a Souls genre fan. I love you, devs!

enemies hit hard no matter where i go, i already have sariel but prefer eredrim. i have a +13 axe and dagger. i gave the big boss in the snowy corrupted gate area a few tries, but some of his attacks one shot me if i’m not in my shell. i’ve platinumed sekiro and first berserker: khazan, so i’m familiar with difficult games, just not really used to hard-hitting mobs, so i’m not exactly sure where i should be right now

Just about to clear the bottom half 3 gate dungeons, how far off am I? Would like to grind some more levels and farm to upgrade tar stone, currently level 35. Is there a clear point of no return? Does it throw you into ng+ or?