games

yeah I mean I don't think it's strictly necessary either, I just personally think it would have made fights feel more consistent without putting in tons of effort to learn exactly what will stagger and when

moonveil and sword of night and flame deserved the nerfs

I hate how much of an influence pvp metagaming has had on pve

yeah I can agree with that

though some stuff definitely deserved nerfs, like adulla's moonblade and sword of night and flame

adulla's was basically oneshotting people from full at times, really dumb

I've been saying since DkS2, when they did the huge nerfs in the patch SotFS came with, that they should have a "PvP power" stat, visible or invisible, where they can tweak numbers for PvP without killing it for PvE

on top of necessary bugfixes like carian retaliation and hopefully in the future the roof camping bullshit

I would also like that, but I guess they want to keep it consistent

Luckily those weren't nerfed to the point of feeling useless. I'm talking things like Barricade Shield, which had its FP cost doubled and duration halved, effectively being 4x as much FP for the same duration, or Bloody Slash taking a massively higher chunk of HP, to the point where you can almost kill yourself at low levels(which it only really seems useful early game in the first place), and still increased cast time and recovery time.

bloody slash nerf was definitely unnecessary

If you were dueling in Limgrave(and not overleveled for Limgrave), it was OP. Other than that, it was fine.

also unrelated note, but I would love to just have rolls be on-press rather than on-release, I'm not really sure how you would handle it but it's bothered me a lot more in this game than in souls/bb

simply because the game keeps fucking stuttering during big visual effects

and before they fixed the worst stuttering I was having my button releases eaten fairly often, so my character would just pivot and try to run away instead of rolling away

I'm not sure what you mean with rolls being on-press rather than on-release. Do you mean rolling as soon as you tap, rather than waiting a few ms to check to see if it's a roll or the beginning of a sprint?

as it is right now, rolls come out when you actually release the button

because if you just press and hold it triggers the sprint command

I think they should have changed that multiple games ago, but other people disagree and it's fine I guess

So you're experiencing times where you tap the button with the intent to roll, but it reads it as you're trying to start sprinting instead?

especially before the first lag patch I was having that issue yeah

you know the pivot animation when you try to sprint the opposite direction of where you're facing, I've died a lot to that activating instead of the game letting me roll away

I don't think I've really experienced that. It may be that I have, and I've just subconsciously blocked out any inkling of blaming the controller or blaming the game if I fuck up.

yeah I do too, but my game still stutters really badly at times even after the patches they've done

(Except jumping in Souls games prior to ER. Fuck that shit.)

I literally see no difference in performance between lowest and medium/high settings btw lol

regardless of graphics settings and even resolution I still stutter when the game loads new visual effects

Does elden ring have gyro control support

why do you care

Its the only way to play a souls game

please end yourself

I tried out some lod mods and they made no difference either, so it's most likely not a cpu issue(+ my cpu is literally never above 70-80% usage at max while playing anyways)

the game just stutters no matter what I do

it's infuriating

it may just be a problem specific to my pc, but I have no idea how to fix or even diagnose that so I guess I'm stuck with it

I actually did some more testing and yeah, literally the only thing that changes for me when I go from 720p to 1440p in-game is that my gpu usage goes from 50 to 80, there is 0 performance change

I hate it here

They "fixed" some of the DirectX issues, but yeah some areas are just fucked with stutters/hitching

doesn't matter what hardware you use

Speaking of Souls games: I'm not advocating for implementing an "easy mode," as in an actual difficulty you can select right from the options, either before hitting "New Game" or before picking a class after hitting "New Game." That having been said: Is there really a good argument against different difficulties, other than development time that could be used elsewhere than balancing numbers around different difficulties?

Makes interacting with the community easier too

Some games can easily scale with difficulty so it does not matter if there is options

Difficulty in this sort of rpg comes down to what your build is and if you exploit weaknesses, which is the best way to do it

For action rpgs I don’t really see a point for difficulty settings

all difficulty does in most games is "enemies do more damage and have more health"

I can't find really a good argument for difficulty settings. Likewise, I can't really find a good argument against difficulty settings.

which is lame anyways

Besides if it takes up development time that could be placed elsewhere.

For Fire Emblem Fates pika, the harder difficulties are very fine tuned and well made based around characters

I mean, features are features. If you want to make some feature, it cannot devalue the game, only be neutral

I mean I agree pika should be forced to play on lunatic no phoenix for all fire emblem games

For most games though

If there is no thought put in

fire emblem difficulty is retarded

lunatic fates is a real game

*lunatic fates conquest

In WoW & FFXIV, different levels of difficulty in raids aren't just numerically different, they're also mechanically different, but an MMO is a bit different than a primarily single-player game.

MMO difficulties actually make sense imo

you don't want to have to do hard tier mechanics with absolute spergs

True, they also tell you which things to avoid if you play games properly and avoid powergaming

I agree with bopit

And yet LFR in WoW is actually harder to clear than with a raid finder group on normal, sometimes even heroic, because you have to have SOME type of communication to put together even a normal mode raid.

in all the FromSoft games, if you really need an easy mode, just load up cheat engine

not true

Just use guides

LFR is literally made for people who want to go AFK

This is all deviating from my original question, though

Just play with gyro like they intended

you get a buff every time you wipe

and there are 0 mechanics that are

one person fucked up now the whole raid dies

like in tiers above

The question was, is there really a good argument for or against difficulty settings, permitting it's not eating up dev time that could be spent elsewhere?

In a primarily single player game?

yes

I think there should be an option for me to spend 3000000000 hours playing conquest on lunatic

There is no problem with having difficulty options

A good difficulty adds player retention and potential more thoughtfulness required from the player

An easy mode would absolutely ruin fromsoft games

strategy games especially should have a difficulty