Remnant: From the Ashes (Dark Souls with guns)

Icaras · 27-07-2019 10:54pm #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQIBtDJMwZs

Anyone following this, looks pretty good. Out next month from the guys who have done Darksiders - looks promising to me.

nix · 27-07-2019 11:37pm

Missed this at E3, looks interesting. Is it fully co-op? Videos a bit long than im willing to sit through

gimli2112 · 28-07-2019 6:27am

Looks great, it's in the comments but the community manager is great, everything is great. It's on console and I want it.

Icaras · 28-07-2019 10:28am

nix wrote: »

Missed this at E3, looks interesting. Is it fully co-op? Videos a bit long than im willing to sit through

Yea it's a long video and the guy is annoying. 3 or 4 mins towards the end is all you need to get a basic idea. I hope it's good, looks like the type of game that's right up my street

BeerWolf · 28-07-2019 8:03pm

Never heard of this game, and I am intrigued. Reminds me a lot of Hellgate London.

nix · 28-07-2019 8:08pm

BeerWolf wrote: »

Never heard of this game, and I am intrigued. Reminds me a lot of Hellgate London.

Thats what it reminded me of!! :pac:

Whatever happened to that game? I never got around to trying it

BeerWolf · 28-07-2019 10:54pm

nix wrote: »

Thats what it reminded me of!! :pac:

Whatever happened to that game? I never got around to trying it

https://kotaku.com/where-hellgate-london-and-flagship-studios-went-horrib-5185508

nix · 28-07-2019 11:29pm

BeerWolf wrote: »

https://kotaku.com/where-hellgate-london-and-flagship-studios-went-horrib-5185508

Christ, before 2009 it fell apart? Man that makes me feel old :eek::(

Venom · 30-07-2019 9:05pm

nix wrote: »

Christ, before 2009 it fell apart? Man that makes me feel old

Late to the party on this but the Death of a Game series on Youtube can really be eye-opening for some of the older MMO games.

BeerWolf · 09-08-2019 5:18am

Hmm... curious. Trying to pre-order this for the PS4, want those bonus stuff, but it ain't on PSN EU? o.O

It's on PSN US...

Only got less than two weeks.

TitianGerm · 09-08-2019 1:39pm

BeerWolf wrote: »

Hmm... curious. Trying to pre-order this for the PS4, want those bonus stuff, but it ain't on PSN EU? o.O

It's on PSN US...

Only got less than two weeks.

It's only €40 on steam. Will pick it up after I see a few reviews.

BeerWolf · 09-08-2019 11:49pm

TitianGerm wrote: »

It's only €40 on steam. Will pick it up after I see a few reviews.

I don't want these client sided saved games on PC, at all. They're incredibly prone to cheaters, like in Borderlands 1 and 2. And the same can be said for Borderlands 3 too most likely. No fun playing online with someone joining one shot'ing everything.

Cheaters are marginally fewer on console, hence me wanting it on my PS4.

TheRepentent · 14-08-2019 2:30pm

Have to admit this has my interest but will wait till reviews are out.

ZiabR · 15-08-2019 1:34pm

Looks great, the developer has released alot of 1.5 hour videos. It looks very solid and could be great fun in coop.

KilOit · 16-08-2019 3:17pm

Never heard of it but looks good. couldn't see online on brief description i saw but does it have any micro transactions?

BeerWolf · 16-08-2019 9:43pm

KilOit wrote: »

Never heard of it but looks good. couldn't see online on brief description i saw but does it have any micro transactions?

No

gimli2112 · 19-08-2019 7:57am

"Casuals will find it too hard" worries me. As I get older I'm getting worse at games. From platinuming bloodborne to getting stuck on the first DS3 boss it's a steep decline, in two years. Don't get me started on online fps' shooters. Although I got a chopper on MWR this weekend which was fantastic.

ZiabR · 19-08-2019 8:20am

@RopeDrink - I presume you played the game solo? I am playing through it via multiplayer and i'm having a blast. 2 man it gets harder and 3 man harder again. Have died ALOT more in 3 man than solo. I find solo very easy in comparison.

I am a huge Souls fan, this is certainly not as hardcore as souls but I am really enjoying it.

For the €40 price tag, I think this is a super game.

My only negative is the FPS drops and horrendous lag when you are the host. Its not there all of the time but it can be very very bad and takes away from the game. I believe the developer is aware of a few memory leaks that will be patched soon, so fingers crossed, this gets better.

All in all I would give it a 7/10. You have to factor in, the kinda fresh approach to Souls, the way the game looks and plays and the price point. Its well worth a punt.

TheRepentent · 19-08-2019 10:48am

oh still on the fence about this but I think I might add it to my wishlist

gimli2112 · 19-08-2019 11:51am

It's really true about rushing for a guide when getting stuck. I really don't know how I completed anything back in the day. I do remember having a drunken debate with friends in a pub, who thought I was mad, about this puzzle where I was flummoxed in Resident Evil.

gimli2112 · 20-08-2019 9:46am

The one review (Upper Echelon Games) I saw this morning was very positive. RopeDrink's experience too was generally positive. To be frank when I'd heard it described as Bloodborne with Guns it was over for me anyway. I'll be getting this today.

21-08-2019 8:21am

Anyone experience with PC version and performance?
Equally on the Xbox One X

gimli2112 · 21-08-2019 8:26am

I watched a video this morning that was largely positive but complained about bugs and frame-rate issues. The latter primarily on console but on PC in certain areas.
I played a little of it yesterday on PS4 it doesn't have the polish of an AAA title but plays pretty well, although I've literally just started.

BeerWolf · 21-08-2019 12:37pm

Playing on the PS4 [they seriously should've made the pre-order bonuses into Day 1 bonuses since they screwed up the availability of the game on the PS4...!!], few things I got issues with:

-- Enemies scale with you. I absolutely HATE this mechanic in any game... why devs deem it necessary is beyond me. Leave scaling to NG+ modes for God's sake!
-- Co-op; it seems to lack communication in-game, not even over the mic never mind emotes. Likewise, when someone joins they're left hanging in limbo till they are summoned at a Red Crystal.

TitianGerm · 21-08-2019 5:39pm

BeerWolf wrote: »

Playing on the PS4 [they seriously should've made the pre-order bonuses into Day 1 bonuses since they screwed up the availability of the game on the PS4...!!], few things I got issues with:

-- Enemies scale with you. I absolutely HATE this mechanic in any game... why devs deem it necessary is beyond me. Leave scaling to NG+ modes for God's sake!
-- Co-op; it seems to lack communication in-game, not even over the mic never mind emotes. Likewise, when someone joins they're left hanging in limbo till they are summoned at a Red Crystal.

Think it was a Sony issue that the early access was pulled on PS4? At least that's according to the Remnant Reddit.

gimli2112 · 23-08-2019 5:25am

playing this yesterday and really enjoying it, up early before work patch downloaded and totally broke the game on ps4. Crashed 4 times in 5 minutes, lots of people in same boat, huge performance issues elsewhere, seems fine on pc afaik, Do not install the patch.

all that goodwill gone in a flash

temp fix disable hdr and change to 1080 (PS Pro only it seems)

TheRepentent · 23-08-2019 7:06am

gimli2112 wrote: »

playing this yesterday and really enjoying it, up early before work patch downloaded and totally broke the game on ps4. Crashed 4 times in 5 minutes, lots of people in same boat, huge performance issues elsewhere, seems fine on pc afaik, Do not install the patch.

all that goodwill gone in a flash

temp fix disable hdr and change to 1080 (PS Pro only it seems)

No excuse for that..the PS4 is a closed system

23-08-2019 7:08am

Think il wait a while and go with the PC version

sticker · 23-08-2019 8:33am

Temp fix posted on games Twitter for PS4

https://twitter.com/Remnant_Game?s=03

Lone Stone · 23-08-2019 10:40am

i was enjoying it but the environments just felt dead to me was kind of sapping my enjoyment out of it, got a refund played it for 3 hours might pick it up again on sale.

nix · 23-08-2019 11:06pm

Bought it yesterday and put it in for a refund today. (my first ever steam refund, how long do they take?)

Its kinda fun in parts, but its a lot more tedious than fun.. The first two boss fights were just annoying. Lazy designing in my opinion, they have a boss and give him a basic 2-3 move set thats kinda easy to get in a groove and kill him without much trouble, but to counter that they just throw in endless adds running at your from random directions, which is just really ****ty and cheap..

A quick google and that appears to be the recipe for the whole game, bosses with swarms of adds.. Its just not fun, id say it would be a lot more fun playing with another person..

So i might get it again down the road if a friend wants to team up or if they actually flesh out the game more because it is missing a lot of things that make it feel like a complete game.

gimli2112 · 25-08-2019 6:38am

I'm loving it too, the co-op actually works pretty well, very handy for getting extra dragon thingys. Jesus wept the bridge boss battle with one or two people is cruel, I'm assuming it's tough solo with 2 it's horrid.

BeerWolf · 25-08-2019 1:25pm

Just cheesed the Undying King, exploiting the Petrified Maul's 100% Stagger on Charged attacks on him when he moved to the alter. He permanently kept his hands clasped doing nothing while I also killed the adds with its AoE.

With the damage buff on kill, along wih increased melee attack speed rings as well as scrapper set he went down quick.

gimli2112 · 25-08-2019 3:11pm

joined two randoms on the bridge died a few times, one guy left, died maybe another 10 times, another random joins, die again, next round kill the first boss, doing fair damage on the second and the host dies, can't revive, assume fell off bridge, hammering the boss and the second guy dies, went at the boss, probably the longest ten seconds of my life but it died,. The relief.

Played on for several hours with the two lads and finished the game. There's been a MASSIVE difficulty spike it seems in the boss battles since.

wayne040576 · 25-08-2019 8:13pm

I'm really struggling with this game. I got it during the pre - release weekend last week and I still haven't beaten the first boss (Shroud). I've managed to buy loads of upgrades from all the items I looted while trying to beat him but still no luck. Best I did so far was get him to 25%.

I wouldn't mind the Adds if they didn't keep spawning. He has an endless supply of adds, arrows that cause bleed damage, can also kill you in one or two hits.

gimli2112 · 25-08-2019 11:08pm

you're accuracy is insane RD, I assume that's mouse and keyboard, my accuracy is so bad I have to let the whisps hit me. Seriously nice though I don't play at that level.

I stupidly put everything at +15 and everything became so much harder, extra enemies and mobs. Got badly stuck on scald earlier came back at it later and switched to the defiler and did it first go. Now I'm stuck on the final boss.

nix · 25-08-2019 11:32pm

That boss fight above is much more like it, manageable adds and fun looking boss/mechanics. Not being chased by a two shotting boss with countless adds running at you to explode.

And yeah K/b and mouse is supreme for any games which involve aiming, consoles need aim assist built in to make it easier, of which not all games bother putting it in sadly.

Does this game have the aim assist on console/joypads?

gimli2112 · 26-08-2019 5:06am

yeah it has aim assist on console, trust me that battle is not as much fun as he makes it look

you can also manage your world by not over levelling too much. the game picks your highest ranked item in each of the 3 weapon and gear slots and then divides by 6. I started a second character and currently have 11/6, which should hold my game at a 2. If I increase an item by 1 my world will turn to 3 for each new area I go into. that's the theory anyway.

It takes the highest ranked item in each slot ignores everything else in that slot and counts anything you have even unequipped. the spike in difficulty can be extreme as I have discovered

BeerWolf · 26-08-2019 5:12pm

gimli2112 wrote: »

yeah it has aim assist on console, trust me that battle is not as much fun as he makes it look

you can also manage your world by not over levelling too much. the game picks your highest ranked item in each of the 3 weapon and gear slots and then divides by 6. I started a second character and currently have 11/6, which should hold my game at a 2. If I increase an item by 1 my world will turn to 3 for each new area I go into. that's the theory anyway.

It takes the highest ranked item in each slot ignores everything else in that slot and counts anything you have even unequipped. the spike in difficulty can be extreme as I have discovered

Stupid design, should leave the difficulty spikes to go up with Campaign difficulty... loathe scaling.

gimli2112 · 27-08-2019 5:30am

Rerolled my world yesterday to try and get the tree and the armour trait and now getting a tonne of resources, xp and scrap. I don't want to go into work.

On the boss battles I was fighting the shock ape and he spawned archers which were an absolute pain. Couldn't handle it, came back later and he spawned melee mobs which were much more manageable. Another thing is while I have fought the same bosses there does seem t be a mechanic that pits you against new ones more often than not.

gimli2112 · 27-08-2019 7:47am

spent 20 minutes tpday trying to find out if the wailing woods rolls as an alternative to mud tooth. I have mud tooth on this reroll but also have the Ent which I haven't fought before. Bark Skin seems quite a powerful trait to have as an optional one.

Quite happy min maxing for now

gimli2112 · 27-08-2019 3:51pm

The Withering Wood is a teleport location but I couldn't find it, ah man I may have re-rolled for no reason. It's actually worked out grand as the earlier levels are full of high end materials, the xp is pretty decent and the boss battles are good to practice.

gimli2112 · 28-08-2019 7:43am

All over Earth and couldn't find the Withiring Woods in my rerolled world. Rerolled it again and have Gorefist to look forward to later. Trying to get the bark skin is turning into an obsession

TitianGerm · 28-08-2019 5:17pm

RopeDrink wrote: »

That's what happened to me and the Bandit Armor (which I just got last night after about 20 re-rolls). Funny, I encountered the Tree you're after three times in a row last night. I believe I now have all traits and only lack a few alternate boss-kills, but already have preferred weapons anyway. If you wish to cheese it, people on Steam mentioned that you can check what you got in the world by opening the save in Notepad. This means you can re-roll, inspect the file, and just do it again without having to manually play, but that would suck out some of the fun for sure. If you wish to avoid that method, just keep in mind that interlinked events will happen and will make it easier to know if you've got what you want. For example, if you meet that trader with the Mask on, you definitely have the Tree later. Same with the Bandits and bosses. If you encounter that Shroud mini-event, you're going to get Shroud as the boss. If you encounter Bandits in the sewer, you're going to encounter Brabus, etc.

All that is left for me is to complete the game on Nightmare just to say I've done it. There are only a few traits I haven't maxed, so after 88hrs, it's safe to say I will finally ease off on playing. Not bad considering my initial expectation of stopping after 30hrs.

Gimli is a PS4 player so no notepad for him.

gimli2112 · 28-08-2019 6:30pm

God dammit I had the trader with the mask in the first two worlds but haven't seen him in this one. This tree is definitely on Earth right? I beat Gorefist first go but in fairness I'm much better specced than before. The boss I had the most issues with on earth is that little sprog that spawns the little minions with axes and knifes.
He's so annoying

ZiabR · 29-08-2019 8:52am

RopeDrink wrote: »

I know it's late but going to stream some Nightmare-Solo on the quiet. No commentary or anything, but might give people on the fence some idea about the late-game aspect.

Expect death. Lots of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty5m2ZHFjZ0

Very nice, watching you, it really shows how much of an advantage K&M is. Fair play though!
Keep the videos coming.

sticker · 30-08-2019 9:26am

Hi,

I'm early into the game facing Gorefist and hes kicking my ass. Is there a way to abcktravel to toher areas to farm for upgrades?! His level does not seem to drop much each time I try to beat him...

Also, is there any truth that upgarding too much makes later levels tougher?

Thanks

sticker · 30-08-2019 9:28am

Another question, if I reroll my world does my entire charachter and stats come with me?

gimli2112 · 30-08-2019 9:31am

I'll jump in before Ropedrink puts up a video demonstrating how easy he is

You can go back to Hanger 13 and reset your world it won't harm you at all and you'll get back to where you were pretty quick. There is an easier boss in that slot that can be re-rolled Gorefist can be an absolute mare early on, although I actually found him pretty easy but I had a lot of traits when fighting him. The gun plant perk can also help although I heard they were nerfing it and there was a patch this morning.

Yes the game will rank up with you. The way it works is it takes the highest item you have in each of your armour and weapon slots. You have 6 and then it divides this by 6. Whatever number is left it adds one and that's your game world for every new area you go into. I should say some of the bosses developed a really irritating quirk (Shroud/Mangle) where there's random explosions over my head now that hadn't been there before. This may simply be due to a re-roll rather than progression as I do think the boss battles can roll different mechanics.

gimli2112 · 30-08-2019 9:33am

sticker wrote: »

Another question, if I reroll my world does my entire charachter and stats come with me?

Yes rerolling should hold no fear, all it does is resets the world. It's actually a good way of getting xp, gear and loot I'm on my 5th reroll of Earth and still no fecking tree but I'm at the stage where I think I can beat all the bosses relatively easily solo. Although that mangle dork is really annoying and still gets me.

gimli2112 · 30-08-2019 9:56am

yup it's the main problem with gorefist is the random spawn of the adds. I engaged with him for one or two cycles of damage and then ignored him to clear the adds as they spawn. I got lucky here in that they were all manageable and other than his one hit kill combo Gorefist himself is not very dangerous.

Should also have bandages as he can make you bleed and the stuff that gets rid of infection mapped to quick select.

Remnant: From the Ashes (Dark Souls with guns)

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