Remnant: From the Ashes (Dark Souls with guns)

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Something I don't understand. I have 4 15s, a 20 and a 9 (melee slot) Divide this by 6 and this should mean my game world is 15 (maybe 16). When I look at my stats I have the little white diamond for offence but my armour is showing a red down arrow.


This indicates the stuff I'm wearing is under levelled but everything in those slots are +15. It's really bugging me.

Patch out today.

I started this last week as a Hunter since accuracy builds are what I prefer (as I get older that's harder to live with so it's becoming more of a bar to reach than boon at this stage ) . I fk'd around with equipment and upgrades and the open world was easy enough until I reached what I thought was the first boss, Shroud, and died repeatedly. I decided to go back to it today after a bit more researching the mechanics and restarted with ex-occultist and treating the Gear focussed levelling mechanic as an opportunity. bar 2 points in Spirit (mod speed) I've put everything into Elder Knowledge (xp boost), all gear is just +1 to reduce a levelling race-condition later. On this playthrough I realised why all those videos on beating Shroud were in a totally different spot. The first time you meet him in a sewer dungeon you do not have to engage. Just destroy the 2 altars, leave him in the dust and move on. When you do face him proper it is MUCH easier. With the early build above, relatively low equipment score and no real buffs beyond experience (running fire ammo and regen mods) I killed him on try 4. Not great but so much easier. So after that hurdle I'm about 6 hours in, 3 on this char, and it really is fun. More forgiving in ways but thankfully Less predictable than Souls (which imho is less 'git gud' and more 'learn through repetition and bore yourself ****tless') .
Audio is great, while the music is sparse what there is is wonderful, spatially it's a bit mixed in that for 360 on the same plane it's great and usable tactically depth tends to fail. Enemy and weapon sound effects are meaty and the voice acting is spot-on (one of the biggest immersion breakers for me normally).
Graphically it's really a polished 4yr old. But it works, the aesthetic suits the story and gameplay perfectly. Visually to me this is Stalker meets Souls.

Overall I don't think it will be a AAA classic but I'm really enjoying a breath of B-movie fresh air.

P.S. some brilliantly informative posts here from a lot of folks I know from the looter-shooter threads. Rope, I'm not a game spectator and don't generally do twitch et al outside of special events but great posts here, sub'd on Youtube because of it.

also dumped another +5 into the armour and it's still underlevelled, I'm missing something here

Granted I've only just reached Rhom but the levelling strategy that has worked well for me is only upgrade gear when the Offense/Defense marker under advanced stats shows below for the current zone (red down arrow), and once met enter any level/dungeon portals off the current main area to lock them into that level state (currently all at +3). The big problem with early over-levelling is not having that leeway for later imho.
Traitwise I've maxed Elder Knowledge and have a Sage ring so XP is at +50%, now nearing completing spirit, all other traits are default. With low health and little other bonuses I take my time but with careful play this is working out fine for me so far.