Lords of the Fallen

DrDamn

Brave Ok went for the ranger box/axe combo. Got to the first boss and had by ass handed to me. Had just popped my head round the door to guage the size of the problem 🙂. Haven’t been using parry at all and I probably ought to get the hang of that - not traditionally my strong point in these games to be fair 😃

One thing I don’t like so much is the samey pallete in each area. It makes everything smooge into one grey-mess. Took me three circuits of the first little mini boss arena (Otto?) before I found the way back up to the rest point! It’s got loads of detail but if all of that is in very similar shades of grey then it’s all a bit pointless. 😦

One thing I like - the ability to level up without resting and resetting all the mobs/progress. Allows you to spend your hard earned souls/embers/whatever and continue round a couple more corners looking for the next rest point.

One confusion point. When to soul flay? L2 lamp, R2 flay. Save it for the harder regular mobs?

Brave

DrDamn One thing I don’t like so much is the samey pallete in each area

I mean… you’ve just been to the first boss. 😉 It’s a big game. It does change things up quite a bit.

DrDamn

Brave good to hear the colour variety gets better.

Brave

Soul flay is very good in boss fights. I can’t remember what it looks like but it becomes relatively obvious when to hit them with it. Flay them, wail on their soul for massive damage, hopefully win.

Edit: also I started to use it to great effect when a large mob was near a drop. You can pull them off a cliff using it.

Gordon

I keep forgetting soul flay exists. Experimented a bit with a long sword and shield combo and it works fairly well, despite the annoying withered health mechanic. Tried parrying a bit but as usual my timing is bad enough that it’s just not worth it.

I’m two bosses down and onto a third now. The second was much easier than the first, and the third I only tried once but got it down to 5% before her pet dogs got me.

Agreed about the colour palette, I’d prefer a bit more variation just to help me tell one part of a level from another, but I can get lost in my own house so that’s probably a me problem rather than the game.

Brave

I dunno. I see the withered health as no different than bloodborne really and I loved that game. Just promotes a bit of aggression.

I can’t remember properly but I think you can mitigate it a bit further down the line with various accessories.

Gordon

Brave Bloodborne doesn’t have shields though. I don’t like that blocking an attack with a shield means you take a hit to your stamina and also to your health as withered. Feels to me like it should be one or the other. It’s not a big deal, just not a fan of the way it works.

I really need to rememeber soul flay. I was having a hard time fighting the guys with the cages on their heads in an area with lots of narrow elevated walkways. Presumably I could just push them off the edge if I remembered soul flay was an option.

DrDamn

Brave RE: withered damage - I think you can use it as a somewhat risky healing mechanic too. I was on half health with no more healing, went into Umbral and that gave me full health half of which was withered, came out of Umbral and hit some things without getting hit. Tada Full life. Least that’s how I think it happened 😁

Brave

Gordon Presumably I could just push them off the edge if I remembered soul flay was an option.

Yup. They’re prime candidates. Soul flay and flick them to the side.

DrDamn

A couple of interesting observations. Multiplayer you stick with people even if they fail, so you can go again. Not so helpful for the poor souls I just “helped”. When you die as a helper you can stick around for the end of the battle and get the goodies if they do it. They can also res you - maybe only if you have a heal left?

Was getting a little better at judging timings for dodge and able to get through first phase ok, second phase not so much.

I also played around with graphics settings after getting pulled in to someone’s game post the first boss - not sure if this was a networking error or something which can happen anyway? I.e. I haven’t done the boss yet but I was summoned into a game past that point. This was run up to boss with dogs. I could see not a lot in tunnels. Hence playing with brightness/contrast etc. Upping contrast has helped visibility quite a bit, I do still find it generally a bit flat tone wise.

Gordon

DrDamn Yeah I had to push the brightness and contrast a bit, it was a bit gloomy and flat otherwise.

Brave

Yeah this has massive Monday night coop potential. It’s pretty unrestricted. It was ideal when Rachel and I were playing through it as we could just help each other out. It’s also cross platform so I just used the laptop while she was on the ps5.

DrDamn

Sister Delyth now down. Little bit of help from ol’ Bucket head 😊. Got to the next Vestige too. I’ve swung wildly back to quite liking and enjoying it as a game.

The “happier” place I found in the graphics settings for me was a little contrary to what helped others. I have HDR nits set to ₇₀₀ - which matches my OLED TV. Contrast set to about 70 and brightness (which a lot of people suggest should be reduced) whacked right up to 90 odd. It still shifts oddly as you move about for no apparent reason, but I can see indoors and it doesn’t look washed out by the brightness. I think the root of the issue is Unreal 5 and them implementing the funky lumen stuff but then having to scale it back and remove parts to hit performance targets.

Brave

DrDamn I have HDR nits set to 700 - which matches my OLED TV.

I actually was going to ask if you’d done that the other night. It’s becoming more common to see that in the interface of games at least ones I’ve been playing.

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