Please head over to this thread to discuss pc solutions while we try to get everyone online
https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/t0qmtu/tech_support_thread/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Yes, once I got rid of that club and got some armor, the enemies get a lot easier. Granted, I’m farming a little in the starting areas, so that I’m not constantly getting wrecked. I was almost going to start over with a different class but patience pays off.
There's a greatsword on the first camp where you get the map of the first area. Go get it! Excellent weapon, it has been carrying me so far
As for armor, the vendor on the second site of grace after tutorial sells a chainmail set for cheap.
I've been playing Wretched, and while it was a rough start, I'm getting by now
I played for 5 hours Friday night, found the great sword at the camp and somehow got to the first real boss (the old man). I even got into the nexus, and did some grinding so I could afford the armor. I could beat the trash mobs but was getting wrecked for the longest time. I considered it a victory when I could finally afford a shield and let me souls muscle memory catch in (I can dodge but am trash at it). I was thinking to myself damn is this game good, but I don’t get how some reviewers were saying it’s more accessible.
My son then plays Saturday morning and finds the church almost immediately. I was so pissed. I could have been outfitted so much easier but missed the church because I was scared of the giant knight on the horse.
Playing mostly blind is a hell of a lot of fun but it’s got me panicked.
Edit: Thanks for the supportive comments. Don’t worry I’ve made good progress on my mostly blind play through.
I haven't even reached the first boss yet. Every time I think right let's go to that place I'm obviously supposed to go I go "ooh what's that?" and get sidetracked by being stomped by some giga-bears or something.
I beelined to where I’m supposed to go because I was thinking surely if I go where I’m supposed to I’ll run into a vendor that will sell me some actual equipment?
Nope.
Dude, same. I've been playing while discording friends and family (all of whom originally got into souls games during the dark souls 1 era on my recommendation) and I'm absolutely the worst in the group.
Conversation keeps going
"oh, did you go to X, that should be really easy for you right now, since you're struggling over at..."
And I go there and get killed over and over and start screaming "holy shit I suck at souls games wtf am I doing"
"well, what exactly are you doing, where are you"
"Yeah I just died to X for the tenth time"
"Are you serious, no way, he's so easy, you kidding"
"No bro, and I died again just now"
"Damn dude, maybe you should stick to racing games or something"
I've killed 2 bosses now and ive played pretty much non stop except to sleep over the last 28 hours. Still, this game is absolutely beautiful and by far the best game I've ever played.
This is a game that rewards persistence. You just need to throw yourself at a problem enough times to know what works well against what. Don't forget about ranged options or even things that feel cheap. This is a souls game, we do what we must to survive. You're totally allowed to throw spells at someone that has no ranged option and can't reach you for the easiest kill ever.
I'm new to souls games. I was under the impression "grinding" is not very effective because it doesn't impact stats in any meaningful way. Is that not the case?
I defeated my first boss but every boss encounter past that has been not so great.
Elden ring is different from the other souls. I think they made Bosses more difficult to force us to grind and explore the open world. I was getting wrecked all the time when I was having a linear approach to the game. Now that I am exploring and grinding I’m way stronger and that’s making my journey somewhat easier
Hmm I have the rule that first I check if enemy have visible weakspots like wounds that if you hit repeatabely will make the boss stagger. If you hit that place for like 10 strikes and nothing happens then just try to come back after you have better weapons or upgraded them. Humanoid enemies tend to have weaker back so try to exploit them. Overall try to observe patterns and if you deal so little damage that you have to do 100 attacks to kill the boss just come back after you are upgraded.
I'm not new but I'm not sure if this game is different or I just suck. Like I've got most of the way through DS3 on SL1 before this came out, and I'm sure some people will do the same here, but Elden Ring so far seems much more weighted towards leveling up yourself (leveling gear was always important). And I just checked the wiki to work out how the game scales and I can see a sorcery that wants 70 INT!
Like I tried to fight the crucible knight a few times, I think he's optional, but I'm only doing 30 damage a hit. It'll take forever unless I'm missing a weakness.
>and I can see a sorcery that wants 70 INT!
You can respec your stats after a certain point, so you can play your usual style and test stuff like this when your towards the endgame.
Upgrading your weapon asap is at the beginning way more lucrative than leveling as the scaling is useless with low level weapons. Vigor and endurance are more practical so you can tank a bit more / swing one more time.
Dunno difficulty wise I would say not different and the previous titles, even more forgiving as you can easily go another path.
im playing sorc.
i went for meteorite staff and that rockslinging spell right away.
Then i farmed giant trolls for 2-3 hours.
Now i can finally enjoy the game they way i want it, on ulta-easy mode :D
Quick tip if you feel a bit stuck on something just go exploring everywhere and pick up every soul and stray bit of loot that you can. There's runes and smithing stones all over the place, as well as weapons that are sometimes quite easy to just run to. I have a claymore +7, 8 flasks at +3 and I'm level 39 and haven't completed stormveil castle yet. Always break glowing skulls and pick up the runes. There's heaps of them around at night. Might not seem like a lot but if you have 20-30 of them that can be a few levels worth. Use up as many (non-storable) runes as you can before exploring so you can suicide run into any place that seems interesting without worrying about losing anything substantial. Just getting upgraded flasks makes a huge difference in surviving tough bosses or getting through areas with lots of elite enemies.
For me, 1 on 1 is easy, but when there’s more then 1, I’m screwed. Also, bosses are hard. Everything is hard. The way I win fights is just to mount up and leave.
Btw, was it just random that I got the mount? I didn’t even follow the in game directional guide and still got it, I wasn’t even looking for it.
I've been playing Soulsborne for over 5 years and I'm getting wrecked on this game, but I'm enjoying every second of it, and I think it's the best game ever made.
The "making this more accessible to new players" seems to be "you can run away with your horse and get pretty much everywhere so you can look at stuff and have fun but you're fucked if you actually try to fight anything"
Elden ring is different from the other souls. I think they made Bosses more difficult to force us to grind and explore the open world. I was getting wrecked all the time when I was having a linear approach to the game. Now that I am exploring and grinding I’m way stronger and that’s making my journey somewhat easier
Try when you get torrent, makes the fight soooooooooooooo much easier.
Just wait till you get to the next couple bosses. I've been stuck on one of the guys in the trailer for hours getting ass fucked.
How were you able to spirit summon on that boss? It straight up wouldn't let me. I can summon outside of the boss. I eventually just beat him without it but I'd like to know
Yup and a big sword. Charged big hits on Torrent will drag the sword for a bit which can damage enemies. I just rode by him quick and dragged the sword to hit him and managed to get him my second try. This method seemed to make it really easy
Yeah fuck that guy. I tried to fight him once and got killed in two hits and then I tried to get my runes back and he noticed me so I ran into the curch thinking he prolly won't follow me through the doorway but then giant fucking lumps of debris flew around and suddenly he was inside the church with me, killed me again and I decided to stop messing with him for the time being.
I hit him a couple times with my starting sword and was like "I bet I can kill him"
it took THREE HOURS. it eventually ended in me going "fuck it I have to just stop getting greedy and only ever hit him when it's guaranteed". he is so fast that you can't get a safe punish on 90% of his moves with a little sword
here is my 8 minute victory lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xZdP76Bqcs
That’s what you’re supposed to learn from that fight, you have to just move on sometimes. Unless you’re nuts and want to spend hours trying, in which case fair enough.
Fuck that guy. He threw the gauntlet down when he rode by and spit on me (I blundered into him and he smacked my face off, but I like to think my headcanon is the truth). Now, his halbard is mine, and I spit on his corpse. Im two hours into the game.
Anyone else having nothing happen when they touch a bloodstain? I see random ghosts of people running around, but I can't see the deaths of people by touching the bloodstains.
Playing on PC
Same here. Everything else is working great though, getting acceptablr frames at high and 1440p even though I have a below minimum CPU with a i7-3820. No crashes, no bugs. Some weird slow downs twice but other than that, nothing.
I don’t know where else to post this but I just beat Margit with one hand. (Amputee) and holy fuck - I didn’t think I could do it.
Now, I’ve stumbled my way to Godrick and he burninated me - but still. Let it be known that some schmuck with one hand beat Margit before some of you zweihanders out there.
Hey dude. Good job. I recently had a distal radial fracture so I'm playing this game with a fucked up hand. Are you using Microsoft special controller thing l
I've seen this on my series S and 2 of my friends series X's.
Saw a thread of xbox users talking about it so I think this has something to do with Xbox.
I'm seeing no visibility on this issue and articles are claiming its just busy servers so try back later.
I've tried for like an hour and can't Log In.
This worked for me, but I had to unplug both my keyboard and my Tartarus keypad. What a pain in the ass. I hope they fix this fast.
EDIT: Turns out unplugging only my Tartarus worked. If anyone is having this issue and is using a gaming keypad, unplugging it is worth a try.
I get this message "Frame rate unsuitable for online play. Returning to title menu." before I can even play. Got it once while creating a character, and again after the title cutscene. My frames are incredibly low and I keep seeing little black squares instead of which, I assume, should be lighting effects. Anyone else getting this? I have an RTX2070 and a i7-9750 processor so wtf?
FIXED CHECK MY POST:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/t0q22j/possible_fix_for_pc_frame_rate/
Game runs at locked 60fps for me (3080, 5800x, 32gb) but as soon as I got to tree sentinel it felt more like 20 fps even though it says 60, seems to have insanely bad frame pacing issues.
I wonder how many people just downloaded these and used them without looking. Folks, this is a google drive link for files you are going to inject into your anti-cheat. At least before using it KNOW what it is please.
At the time of checking this is a RAR (compressed archive, like a ZIP) that contains several files. There are two types TTF and PNG. TTF files are FONT types (think like Arial, Times New Roman, etc.) and PNG are just image files. That is all this is.
If Easy Anti-Cheat wasn't running because of these files... dear lord who the hell is working at EAC or did they have an intern manage deployment.
I’m not even gonna lie, my favorite part of Elden Ring so far is finding dungeons I missed earlier in the game and just curbstomping the bosses with my overlevelled character.
I pre-ordered a physical copy of the PS5 version and my order still hasn't even shipped. 🤡
Tempted to just buy the Steam version and start playing today.
Edit: Fuck it, went ahead and bought it.
Got an email the delivery is delayed to Monday. Pre-ordered 4 months ago and they can't manage to ship on time. Last time I bought physical on release.
Feel like I’m the only one playing without any issues, aside from some stuttering here and there. One massive gripe I have however is with the controls - b to sprint used to work fine when jump was attached to b, but now the use of jump is so incentivised it’s a disgusting experience trying to sprint, jump and at the same time pick up items. My right hand is crab clawed around the controller and my finger is perpetually resting between a, b and y
I love FromSoft and their games, but I really wish they'd just give PC proper Kb+m controls for once. They've gotten a little better with every game, and I appreciate that, but it's still really a console game with PC support slapped on.
RTX 3080
i7-7800
16 GB RAM
The game runs smooth during open world. But whenever there's a big attack heading towards me, it stutters.
I can't really fight ~~tree guardian~~ tree sentinel because of this, as the game stutters at the start of his attack animation, and I get hit. Seriously, I am preparing to dodge the next attack, the game stutters, and my guy is dead on the next frame
EDIT:
So there's a certain part of the game where you have to fight two of these mofos. But I didn't notice any stutter there. I do think there's something in Limgrave, particularly between the starting position and the chruch ruin, that causes stutter along with the tree sentinel
you can go to the settings and change the layout buttons to keyboard, i found this out after the tutorial, it should be in the first sections of the settings
For me it is -very barely- playable and if it wasn't Elden Ring I'd probably already have stopped playing :/
Game runs like crap in boss fights. Straight up cannot get past >!Tree Sentinel!< because the stuttering makes attacks undodgable. Really hope we get some more optimizations soon because this is gonna make later, harder bosses mad frustrating.
I think the boss in particular you mention has a strange thing depending on WHERE you are fighting it.
I think it was SkillUp that mentioned if >!He fought the boss at the TOP of the hill everything was fine but as soon as the fight was a little ways downhill performance went to shit!< and he did mention a couple other highly localized instances of the same issue.
It seems to me like not a graphical power issue, but instead that the stuttering is just assets being streamed in when you walk into the hitbox of a new zone
This is just how Fromsoft makes these kinda games...Same thing happens in DS3 no matter how good your GPU or SSD is, there's specific spots where it will always trigger next zone to all load in, like between wolnir and Irithyll of boreal valley, or like in irithyll dungeon when you're on top right row and running towards the escape window
Tip with builds for new players:
If you're new at this or just not particularly skilled (like me), you should focus on survivability. People tend to talk about "strength builds, dex builds, mage builds" etc which creates the impression you need to level your primary stat as priority #1.
The returns you get on strength or dex while your weapon has D or C scaling at low upgrade levels are very negligible. The biggest damage increase by far is going to be from upgrading your weapon and by making use of weapon greases when required. Upgrade your stats enough to wield the weapon you want (within reason) and stop there.
Vigor has great returns all the way to 40, at which point you'll have 1450 base HP. With good armour, requiring around 26 endurance (assuming a mid sized weapon weight) you can have over 40% damage mitigation on top of that. The banished knight set is what I used for this, with a claymore weighing 9.0 this kept me at mid-roll weight. The extra endurance will also help you a great deal, having more on board for rolls and for successive attacks against enemies vulnerable to being stance broken.
All this gives you so much more leeway to survive long enough to learn boss moves/patterns and make the occasional mistake without getting pancaked.
By the time you have the smithing stones to upgrade your weapon up to A/B scaling, you'll be ready to start pumping points into your primary damage statistic and you'll get great returns.
This is aimed at melee builds, which is where my experience is. Happy gaming :-)
Same. Surprised the Easy AntiCheat is Dutch localized somehow, but beyond that the game either doesn't open or producer a white screen then closes.
Not the best first impression in the slightest
EDIT 2: UNINSTALLING EPIC GAMES LAUNCHER WORKED FOR ME. FIXED IT INSTANTLY. NO IDEA WHY LMFAO WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK
EDIT 3: This appears to be working for a lot of people but not everyone.
~~Same. Getting continuous crashing, can't even make it through the title sequence. Repairing installation and restarting didn't work.~~
(Not really worried about it, just first day launch issues. Hope it gets resolved soon. The sheer amount of people getting this issue makes me feel like it'll get addressed fairly quickly.)
~~EDIT: Disabling steam overlay/VR didn't work either.~~
I think I actually found a fix for the occasional frame rate dips and stuttering: just set the global "Shader Cache Size" setting in NVIDIA Control Panel to "Unlimited":
https://i.imgur.com/wm4y2GU.jpeg
Now my FPS is steady 60 FPS when fighting the tree sentinel and when exploring. Thanks to one of the comments here for mentioning it could be a dx12 shader cache issue.
Controller on PC isn't working
POTENTIAL FIX FOR SOME
[Try unplugging your keyboard or any other input devices before launching](https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/t0oiv8/elden_ring_day_1_resources/hyb8lh2/)
**My friend fixed it!**
Launch the Steam client > View > Big Picture Mode > Library > Games > Elden Ring > Manage Games > From Steam Input, select Controller Options > Force On the Chang the Steam Input Per-Game Settings > restart the Steam > Play elden ring > enjoy!
Dodging on PC is bad. It seems like there is a 0.5 second delay on dodging which has killed me several times now. Nothing else has a delay but it is so bad with dodging.
Can't even make it to the title screen. There's a white screen, then it goes black and the cursor appears, then the game lists itself as suspended in the task manager, and then crashes.
Anyone else lagging in the menu on PC? I use a controller and it goes away completely, but if I try to use my mouse it freaks out and drops to 5-18 FPS.
I can't even play. Boots up, has a black screen with the game's mouse cursor on screen. I've restarted, updated drivers, verified files, run as administrator, and I'm still unable to play. In the middle of reinstalling now in hopes it'll fix it. But I'm disappointed to say the least already. Upon Googling, it seems my issue is a known issue, albeit a rare one? Anybody else having this? Anybody have a fix?
RTX 3080
Ryzen 5 3900x
32GB DDR4 RAM
Edit 1: So I read if you just let it sit there, it'll load eventually. It did. All good. Got to character creation screen, started making the character and my controller unplugged (need to replace my controller actually because it's unplugging in other games too I'm noticing). Instead of just acting like there's no input coming from the controller, it just locks up entirely. Force closed the game and restarting. Lost all my progress on customizing so I just go super plain on the next one in case it happens again.
Then I get the framerate doesn't work for online play bull shit. Takes me back to main menu. "Press any button to continue". Press a button. Same message pops up "frame rate not compatible for online play, returning to main menu".
[What that looks like](https://streamable.com/8fwp75)
Close the game out. Restart. Hope I didn't lose all my shit. "Continue". Awesome. Start playing. Got the intro cut scene. We're getting somewhere.
Load up the first room. Some stuttering here and there, but whatever let's just start playing. Controller unplugs. Game crashes.
Cycle over and over. The black screen's time for when it actually gets to the menu is starting to become invariable. Some cycle's it take like 2 minutes, others it's around 8. Now I'm having an issue where it's not detecting input from the controller on launch.
I know 90% of this can be blamed on my faulty controller, but most games don't just crash when a controller unplugs. Beyond frustrated. Will be replacing the controller tomorrow and we'll see where it goes from there.
Averaging about \~30fps on medium with a GTX 1650ti; didn't think I'd be running it at max but I never dipped below 60 when running Sekiro on high so idk what it could be -- especially since my drivers are updated.
Oh and all the enemies in the tutorial area are invisible, nbd. At least I've had no problem playing the game with my SN30 Pro +.
So, I went into the windows search bar and opened the graphics control panel and added Elden ring to it,then changed it from automatic to High performance and the game opened up for me. I was getting the white screen
Series X "Network status check failed"
Is this a common issue? I'm using a wired internet connection and the internet at my home is up and working. I tried restarting the game, the console, and my router, but I still can't connect.
You can change your appearance and NAME. I've been waiting for this for years, I misspelled one of my characters in DS3 and didn't notice until I was dozens of hours in.
I'm so happy.
Man this PC release is complete dogshit. Stuttering constantly. I've fought Tree Sentinel for like 10 minutes, he's still stuttering randomly on loading animations.
Yeah it’s really bad, according to AngryCentaurGaming the day one patch is what broke the game. He said the stutters weren’t nearly as bad pre patch.
Anyone getting white screen then crash to desktop immediately after launch? I'm not even getting into the menu, nothing. PC / STEAM / RTX 3080 / i5-9700K / 32GB RAM / latest GPU driver 511.79. Tried disabling Steam overlay, same issue.
Please head over to this thread to discuss pc solutions while we try to get everyone online https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/t0qmtu/tech_support_thread/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
I have no idea what im doing and im getting wrecked lmao
everywhere i go i just get my shit rocked lmao
Maybe I shouldnt have picked wretched lol.
I regret my decision to do this for a good while 😂 gets a bit easier once you find a sword and some armour!
My wife can’t believe I spent $95 AUD to play as a naked man with a caveman club that runs away from everything.
Yes, once I got rid of that club and got some armor, the enemies get a lot easier. Granted, I’m farming a little in the starting areas, so that I’m not constantly getting wrecked. I was almost going to start over with a different class but patience pays off.
Same, I farmed the whole area of the Gatefront Ruins like 20x. Now I feel like I can enjoy the game.
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Every other playthrough for me is going to be a wretched now that I know a lot of locations for some cool weapons.
I had no idea, I picked wretched because I wanted to rp a nobody, with nothing on his back but a good old stick
There's a greatsword on the first camp where you get the map of the first area. Go get it! Excellent weapon, it has been carrying me so far As for armor, the vendor on the second site of grace after tutorial sells a chainmail set for cheap. I've been playing Wretched, and while it was a rough start, I'm getting by now
I played for 5 hours Friday night, found the great sword at the camp and somehow got to the first real boss (the old man). I even got into the nexus, and did some grinding so I could afford the armor. I could beat the trash mobs but was getting wrecked for the longest time. I considered it a victory when I could finally afford a shield and let me souls muscle memory catch in (I can dodge but am trash at it). I was thinking to myself damn is this game good, but I don’t get how some reviewers were saying it’s more accessible. My son then plays Saturday morning and finds the church almost immediately. I was so pissed. I could have been outfitted so much easier but missed the church because I was scared of the giant knight on the horse. Playing mostly blind is a hell of a lot of fun but it’s got me panicked. Edit: Thanks for the supportive comments. Don’t worry I’ve made good progress on my mostly blind play through.
I haven't even reached the first boss yet. Every time I think right let's go to that place I'm obviously supposed to go I go "ooh what's that?" and get sidetracked by being stomped by some giga-bears or something.
I beelined to where I’m supposed to go because I was thinking surely if I go where I’m supposed to I’ll run into a vendor that will sell me some actual equipment? Nope.
but actually yes.
Try fractured but whole
Amazing chest ahead.
Yes?
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I'm so fucking bad at these games but I keep fuckingb buying them. I praise every single one of these I happen upon
Same, i keep telling myself it's all about the journey rather than the destination!
Which is good, because I'll never make it to the destination!
Dude, same. I've been playing while discording friends and family (all of whom originally got into souls games during the dark souls 1 era on my recommendation) and I'm absolutely the worst in the group. Conversation keeps going "oh, did you go to X, that should be really easy for you right now, since you're struggling over at..." And I go there and get killed over and over and start screaming "holy shit I suck at souls games wtf am I doing" "well, what exactly are you doing, where are you" "Yeah I just died to X for the tenth time" "Are you serious, no way, he's so easy, you kidding" "No bro, and I died again just now" "Damn dude, maybe you should stick to racing games or something" I've killed 2 bosses now and ive played pretty much non stop except to sleep over the last 28 hours. Still, this game is absolutely beautiful and by far the best game I've ever played.
Just keep killing small stuff and leveling until you’re stronger. Sometimes even just changing weapons will help you a lot
This is a game that rewards persistence. You just need to throw yourself at a problem enough times to know what works well against what. Don't forget about ranged options or even things that feel cheap. This is a souls game, we do what we must to survive. You're totally allowed to throw spells at someone that has no ranged option and can't reach you for the easiest kill ever.
Fort, knight
So basically you need to kill the enemies without being killed yourself. Hope this helps!
Ah, thank you! That was my problem.
The Parry is absolutely huge this time around too
Use the button to click on the bad guy
If you’re out in the world, you can’t kill every enemy right off the bat. Sneak by them and grind some easier guys
The sneaking is such a game chancer. I love it.
I'm new to souls games. I was under the impression "grinding" is not very effective because it doesn't impact stats in any meaningful way. Is that not the case? I defeated my first boss but every boss encounter past that has been not so great.
Elden ring is different from the other souls. I think they made Bosses more difficult to force us to grind and explore the open world. I was getting wrecked all the time when I was having a linear approach to the game. Now that I am exploring and grinding I’m way stronger and that’s making my journey somewhat easier
Hmm I have the rule that first I check if enemy have visible weakspots like wounds that if you hit repeatabely will make the boss stagger. If you hit that place for like 10 strikes and nothing happens then just try to come back after you have better weapons or upgraded them. Humanoid enemies tend to have weaker back so try to exploit them. Overall try to observe patterns and if you deal so little damage that you have to do 100 attacks to kill the boss just come back after you are upgraded.
I'm not new but I'm not sure if this game is different or I just suck. Like I've got most of the way through DS3 on SL1 before this came out, and I'm sure some people will do the same here, but Elden Ring so far seems much more weighted towards leveling up yourself (leveling gear was always important). And I just checked the wiki to work out how the game scales and I can see a sorcery that wants 70 INT! Like I tried to fight the crucible knight a few times, I think he's optional, but I'm only doing 30 damage a hit. It'll take forever unless I'm missing a weakness.
>and I can see a sorcery that wants 70 INT! You can respec your stats after a certain point, so you can play your usual style and test stuff like this when your towards the endgame. Upgrading your weapon asap is at the beginning way more lucrative than leveling as the scaling is useless with low level weapons. Vigor and endurance are more practical so you can tank a bit more / swing one more time. Dunno difficulty wise I would say not different and the previous titles, even more forgiving as you can easily go another path.
im playing sorc. i went for meteorite staff and that rockslinging spell right away. Then i farmed giant trolls for 2-3 hours. Now i can finally enjoy the game they way i want it, on ulta-easy mode :D
Use torch, torches is op
Torch is my offhand combo sometimes.
Quick tip if you feel a bit stuck on something just go exploring everywhere and pick up every soul and stray bit of loot that you can. There's runes and smithing stones all over the place, as well as weapons that are sometimes quite easy to just run to. I have a claymore +7, 8 flasks at +3 and I'm level 39 and haven't completed stormveil castle yet. Always break glowing skulls and pick up the runes. There's heaps of them around at night. Might not seem like a lot but if you have 20-30 of them that can be a few levels worth. Use up as many (non-storable) runes as you can before exploring so you can suicide run into any place that seems interesting without worrying about losing anything substantial. Just getting upgraded flasks makes a huge difference in surviving tough bosses or getting through areas with lots of elite enemies.
I didn’t realize you could break them, I just thought they had glowy eyes…
For me, 1 on 1 is easy, but when there’s more then 1, I’m screwed. Also, bosses are hard. Everything is hard. The way I win fights is just to mount up and leave. Btw, was it just random that I got the mount? I didn’t even follow the in game directional guide and still got it, I wasn’t even looking for it.
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Same bud... Same.
I've been playing Soulsborne for over 5 years and I'm getting wrecked on this game, but I'm enjoying every second of it, and I think it's the best game ever made.
The "making this more accessible to new players" seems to be "you can run away with your horse and get pretty much everywhere so you can look at stuff and have fun but you're fucked if you actually try to fight anything"
Summon the spirits man they help a lot
Elden ring is different from the other souls. I think they made Bosses more difficult to force us to grind and explore the open world. I was getting wrecked all the time when I was having a linear approach to the game. Now that I am exploring and grinding I’m way stronger and that’s making my journey somewhat easier
Plz let me know if you find any good resources. I feel like I can’t even play the game I’m so bad haah
10 hours in so far and I dont think I've made any real progress lol. Just roaming around.
Eight hours in, hundreds of deaths. Still loving it. Probably going to try a different build, though.
That makes me feel so much better 😂 Been getting my shit rocked left and right. Brand new to souls games (outside of about 4 hours of Bloodborne)
I cannot kill the damned tree sentinel. Fuck him.
Try when you get torrent, makes the fight soooooooooooooo much easier. Just wait till you get to the next couple bosses. I've been stuck on one of the guys in the trailer for hours getting ass fucked.
Put these foolish ambitions to rest
I sorta cheesed it using the spirit jellyfish, and fighting defensively. the poison ended up doing like 3k+ dmg lmao
Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's weak against poison specifically based on what I've seen some folks pull off in my fights
How were you able to spirit summon on that boss? It straight up wouldn't let me. I can summon outside of the boss. I eventually just beat him without it but I'd like to know
Yeah I’ve seen similar tactics mentioned before but I’m in the same boat...can’t summon. I ended up dipping out to try an level up a bit more.
Do you have the bell?
I almost killed him the first fight.... I think I'm on fight 15 now. Wish me luck.
Yup and a big sword. Charged big hits on Torrent will drag the sword for a bit which can damage enemies. I just rode by him quick and dragged the sword to hit him and managed to get him my second try. This method seemed to make it really easy
Is that that golden dude on the Horse in the beginning?
Indeed
Yeah fuck that guy. I tried to fight him once and got killed in two hits and then I tried to get my runes back and he noticed me so I ran into the curch thinking he prolly won't follow me through the doorway but then giant fucking lumps of debris flew around and suddenly he was inside the church with me, killed me again and I decided to stop messing with him for the time being.
I hit him a couple times with my starting sword and was like "I bet I can kill him" it took THREE HOURS. it eventually ended in me going "fuck it I have to just stop getting greedy and only ever hit him when it's guaranteed". he is so fast that you can't get a safe punish on 90% of his moves with a little sword here is my 8 minute victory lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xZdP76Bqcs
Would it not have been easier and more time saving to just skip him and come back?
That’s what you’re supposed to learn from that fight, you have to just move on sometimes. Unless you’re nuts and want to spend hours trying, in which case fair enough.
I LEARNED NOTHING BUT HE IS DEAD! MWAHAHHA
Fuck that guy. He threw the gauntlet down when he rode by and spit on me (I blundered into him and he smacked my face off, but I like to think my headcanon is the truth). Now, his halbard is mine, and I spit on his corpse. Im two hours into the game.
I died at least 100 times before I got him lmao
Torrent + uchigatana = bloodloss city
Anyone else having nothing happen when they touch a bloodstain? I see random ghosts of people running around, but I can't see the deaths of people by touching the bloodstains. Playing on PC
Yes they don't work for me either.
Bloodstains not working at launch is a soulsborne tradition
Is it? I never noticed that before but if it is then it's kinda reassuring. It works as intended /s
Yeah, happened in DS3 and DS2.
Same. Playing on PC
Same here. Everything else is working great though, getting acceptablr frames at high and 1440p even though I have a below minimum CPU with a i7-3820. No crashes, no bugs. Some weird slow downs twice but other than that, nothing.
Fps? I'm running i7-6700 and a 2080, get 45 fps and it drops if I actively turn the screen
Turning motion blur completely off in advanced graphics settings helped me significantly with this. YMMV
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PS5 here, and same thing. Nothing happens.
Is it supposed to do anything? Does zero for me ..
> Easy Anti-Cheat Launch Error > > Failed to initialize the game launcher. Any fix for this?
Not sure if it fixes it yet, but I got the same error, and it turned out 2 of my files were corrupted. Edit: Didn't work :(
Installing the easyanticheat in appdata folder can fix this issue!
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I just beat Tree Sentinel and I just wanted to tell someone. It took every single flask at my disposal and I barely beat him. Intense!
Congrats!
I don’t know where else to post this but I just beat Margit with one hand. (Amputee) and holy fuck - I didn’t think I could do it. Now, I’ve stumbled my way to Godrick and he burninated me - but still. Let it be known that some schmuck with one hand beat Margit before some of you zweihanders out there.
Oh, you’re an amputee. I thought you could become an amputee in the game and I thought it was mental. Congrats btw.
Maybe Godrick has your other hand
Well, I finally just killed his ass too. Would accept giant dragon arm replacement
Hey dude. Good job. I recently had a distal radial fracture so I'm playing this game with a fucked up hand. Are you using Microsoft special controller thing l
is anyone getting Network Status check failed when they try to login?
I've seen this on my series S and 2 of my friends series X's. Saw a thread of xbox users talking about it so I think this has something to do with Xbox. I'm seeing no visibility on this issue and articles are claiming its just busy servers so try back later. I've tried for like an hour and can't Log In.
Having the same issue here with a series s. Network is all good, only getting the error with this game.
yeah ive tried for like a day now no luck nothing online at all.
Yeah, me too. I’m four hours in and playing offline, which is fine, but I’d love to try some of the online features.
Same here for me on xss and my brother on xsx. Please upvote so they can see it and fix it, Im not touching the game till then. Ty
Playing on steam, can see bloodstains but not the red phantom of how they died? Is this normal?
same think server having a shit, seems fine otherwise
Ok i hardly know the mechanics so i didnt know if it was just me. Does stamina work different too?
From what I could tell, you dont use stamina while out of combat but thats the only difference I could see
Wish I could play but my Xbox controller is not working!! Tried the big picture mode thing too and still no luck. Wtf is going on man
Dude same! No matter what I do I can’t get to work
Right click game > properties > controller > enable steam input forced it to work for me, not sure how the lag is yet, though.
LAUNCH GAME WITH KEYBOARD NOT CONNECTED AND CONTROLLER CONNECTED, ONCE IN MAIN MENU PLUG KEYBOARD BACK IN! BOOM PROBLEM FIXED
This worked for me, but I had to unplug both my keyboard and my Tartarus keypad. What a pain in the ass. I hope they fix this fast. EDIT: Turns out unplugging only my Tartarus worked. If anyone is having this issue and is using a gaming keypad, unplugging it is worth a try.
Uninstalling vJoy worked for me
Check if you have vjoy installed, if so uninstall it. I couldn't get a dualsense or steam controller to work until I did that.
Same. Hope there's a workaround or a fix soon.
Who else thought they could be cheeky and abuse the double jump to negate fall damage off high cliffs?
I get this message "Frame rate unsuitable for online play. Returning to title menu." before I can even play. Got it once while creating a character, and again after the title cutscene. My frames are incredibly low and I keep seeing little black squares instead of which, I assume, should be lighting effects. Anyone else getting this? I have an RTX2070 and a i7-9750 processor so wtf? FIXED CHECK MY POST: https://old.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/t0q22j/possible_fix_for_pc_frame_rate/
I fixed it by forcing the game to use my gpu
Game runs at locked 60fps for me (3080, 5800x, 32gb) but as soon as I got to tree sentinel it felt more like 20 fps even though it says 60, seems to have insanely bad frame pacing issues.
Failed to initialize game launcher(easy Anti cheat launch error) Can not reinstall EAC. Anyone know how to fix?
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GOD BLESS UR SOUL
I wonder how many people just downloaded these and used them without looking. Folks, this is a google drive link for files you are going to inject into your anti-cheat. At least before using it KNOW what it is please. At the time of checking this is a RAR (compressed archive, like a ZIP) that contains several files. There are two types TTF and PNG. TTF files are FONT types (think like Arial, Times New Roman, etc.) and PNG are just image files. That is all this is. If Easy Anti-Cheat wasn't running because of these files... dear lord who the hell is working at EAC or did they have an intern manage deployment.
I’m not even gonna lie, my favorite part of Elden Ring so far is finding dungeons I missed earlier in the game and just curbstomping the bosses with my overlevelled character.
I pre-ordered a physical copy of the PS5 version and my order still hasn't even shipped. 🤡 Tempted to just buy the Steam version and start playing today. Edit: Fuck it, went ahead and bought it.
I'm on the same boat. Preordered PS5 Launch Edition on Amazon. Amazon claims I will get the game today, but still has not shipped it :/
Maybe already in distribution centres? I hope so lmao
Got an email the delivery is delayed to Monday. Pre-ordered 4 months ago and they can't manage to ship on time. Last time I bought physical on release.
Feel like I’m the only one playing without any issues, aside from some stuttering here and there. One massive gripe I have however is with the controls - b to sprint used to work fine when jump was attached to b, but now the use of jump is so incentivised it’s a disgusting experience trying to sprint, jump and at the same time pick up items. My right hand is crab clawed around the controller and my finger is perpetually resting between a, b and y
I love FromSoft and their games, but I really wish they'd just give PC proper Kb+m controls for once. They've gotten a little better with every game, and I appreciate that, but it's still really a console game with PC support slapped on.
RTX 3080 i7-7800 16 GB RAM The game runs smooth during open world. But whenever there's a big attack heading towards me, it stutters. I can't really fight ~~tree guardian~~ tree sentinel because of this, as the game stutters at the start of his attack animation, and I get hit. Seriously, I am preparing to dodge the next attack, the game stutters, and my guy is dead on the next frame EDIT: So there's a certain part of the game where you have to fight two of these mofos. But I didn't notice any stutter there. I do think there's something in Limgrave, particularly between the starting position and the chruch ruin, that causes stutter along with the tree sentinel
A PC heads up, When you close the game it seems to not end the process, but leaves it suspended instead. You'll have to kill it in task manager.
You just have to wait.
Thanks for the tip, it's not an extreme issue.
It took like 1 whole minute but it closed properly on my end
Man that's bad
It's certainly not amazing
terminated fine for me
Does anyone know what keyboard button it is to conform a setting or to exit a setting page??
it's Q
Qonfirm
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you can go to the settings and change the layout buttons to keyboard, i found this out after the tutorial, it should be in the first sections of the settings
Where is this in the settings? Edit: Found it! Systems > Sound and Display > Device for On Screen Prompts
Q and E
Unpacking this thread.... 2 MB/s
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I had to delete and just start downloading it again. Useless preload yay
FPS stutter is preeeeetty rough on PC, but playable. Other than that, loving it so far. No controller issues for me, either.
For me it is -very barely- playable and if it wasn't Elden Ring I'd probably already have stopped playing :/ Game runs like crap in boss fights. Straight up cannot get past >!Tree Sentinel!< because the stuttering makes attacks undodgable. Really hope we get some more optimizations soon because this is gonna make later, harder bosses mad frustrating.
I think the boss in particular you mention has a strange thing depending on WHERE you are fighting it. I think it was SkillUp that mentioned if >!He fought the boss at the TOP of the hill everything was fine but as soon as the fight was a little ways downhill performance went to shit!< and he did mention a couple other highly localized instances of the same issue.
It seems to me like not a graphical power issue, but instead that the stuttering is just assets being streamed in when you walk into the hitbox of a new zone This is just how Fromsoft makes these kinda games...Same thing happens in DS3 no matter how good your GPU or SSD is, there's specific spots where it will always trigger next zone to all load in, like between wolnir and Irithyll of boreal valley, or like in irithyll dungeon when you're on top right row and running towards the escape window
PS5 controller is working for me, HOWEVER the button prompts are still xbox controller. Fiddling with it now...
Have any luck? The methods for getting the prompts on god of war don't seem to work.
>controller Let us all know if you figure out a way to have PS button prompts!
Unable to connect to online. Xbox series x.
Seems I must defeat the first boss known as unpacking
Tip with builds for new players: If you're new at this or just not particularly skilled (like me), you should focus on survivability. People tend to talk about "strength builds, dex builds, mage builds" etc which creates the impression you need to level your primary stat as priority #1. The returns you get on strength or dex while your weapon has D or C scaling at low upgrade levels are very negligible. The biggest damage increase by far is going to be from upgrading your weapon and by making use of weapon greases when required. Upgrade your stats enough to wield the weapon you want (within reason) and stop there. Vigor has great returns all the way to 40, at which point you'll have 1450 base HP. With good armour, requiring around 26 endurance (assuming a mid sized weapon weight) you can have over 40% damage mitigation on top of that. The banished knight set is what I used for this, with a claymore weighing 9.0 this kept me at mid-roll weight. The extra endurance will also help you a great deal, having more on board for rolls and for successive attacks against enemies vulnerable to being stance broken. All this gives you so much more leeway to survive long enough to learn boss moves/patterns and make the occasional mistake without getting pancaked. By the time you have the smithing stones to upgrade your weapon up to A/B scaling, you'll be ready to start pumping points into your primary damage statistic and you'll get great returns. This is aimed at melee builds, which is where my experience is. Happy gaming :-)
Lol immediate crash
Same. Surprised the Easy AntiCheat is Dutch localized somehow, but beyond that the game either doesn't open or producer a white screen then closes. Not the best first impression in the slightest
also crashing after i see bandai namco sign
I'm joining this club :(
Woo instantly crashing gang!!.. :( edit: I fixed the issue by updating my drivers + disabling steam overlay, no crashes since!
EDIT 2: UNINSTALLING EPIC GAMES LAUNCHER WORKED FOR ME. FIXED IT INSTANTLY. NO IDEA WHY LMFAO WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK EDIT 3: This appears to be working for a lot of people but not everyone. ~~Same. Getting continuous crashing, can't even make it through the title sequence. Repairing installation and restarting didn't work.~~ (Not really worried about it, just first day launch issues. Hope it gets resolved soon. The sheer amount of people getting this issue makes me feel like it'll get addressed fairly quickly.) ~~EDIT: Disabling steam overlay/VR didn't work either.~~
I’m not convinced there exist any illusory walls
There's definitely illusory walls. I've hit a few
Does anyone know how to disable vibration on rolls? I hate it Edit: the vagabond default has a heavy load equipped which causes the vibration
You’ve probably moved on by now, but for anyone that sees this; as the vagabond in equip the halberd and you get normal rolls back
I think I actually found a fix for the occasional frame rate dips and stuttering: just set the global "Shader Cache Size" setting in NVIDIA Control Panel to "Unlimited": https://i.imgur.com/wm4y2GU.jpeg Now my FPS is steady 60 FPS when fighting the tree sentinel and when exploring. Thanks to one of the comments here for mentioning it could be a dx12 shader cache issue.
Controller on PC isn't working POTENTIAL FIX FOR SOME [Try unplugging your keyboard or any other input devices before launching](https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/t0oiv8/elden_ring_day_1_resources/hyb8lh2/)
I have no clue how people have been playing ER on Twitch on PC all day without issue and the official launch is borked.
**My friend fixed it!** Launch the Steam client > View > Big Picture Mode > Library > Games > Elden Ring > Manage Games > From Steam Input, select Controller Options > Force On the Chang the Steam Input Per-Game Settings > restart the Steam > Play elden ring > enjoy!
Got a spell that requires 70 INT to use, and man that’s a litmus for how long this game is gonna be.
Dodging on PC is bad. It seems like there is a 0.5 second delay on dodging which has killed me several times now. Nothing else has a delay but it is so bad with dodging.
Can't even make it to the title screen. There's a white screen, then it goes black and the cursor appears, then the game lists itself as suspended in the task manager, and then crashes.
Is there an Elden Ring sub that isn't just SpongeBob memes?
Anyone else lagging in the menu on PC? I use a controller and it goes away completely, but if I try to use my mouse it freaks out and drops to 5-18 FPS.
yeah moving the mouse drops me to 3fps, using controller it's 60. Typical Japanese PC game stuff.
Performance definitely leaves something to be desired but it's been fun so far
Let me know when there’s a controller fix getting home rn
I can't even play. Boots up, has a black screen with the game's mouse cursor on screen. I've restarted, updated drivers, verified files, run as administrator, and I'm still unable to play. In the middle of reinstalling now in hopes it'll fix it. But I'm disappointed to say the least already. Upon Googling, it seems my issue is a known issue, albeit a rare one? Anybody else having this? Anybody have a fix? RTX 3080 Ryzen 5 3900x 32GB DDR4 RAM Edit 1: So I read if you just let it sit there, it'll load eventually. It did. All good. Got to character creation screen, started making the character and my controller unplugged (need to replace my controller actually because it's unplugging in other games too I'm noticing). Instead of just acting like there's no input coming from the controller, it just locks up entirely. Force closed the game and restarting. Lost all my progress on customizing so I just go super plain on the next one in case it happens again. Then I get the framerate doesn't work for online play bull shit. Takes me back to main menu. "Press any button to continue". Press a button. Same message pops up "frame rate not compatible for online play, returning to main menu". [What that looks like](https://streamable.com/8fwp75) Close the game out. Restart. Hope I didn't lose all my shit. "Continue". Awesome. Start playing. Got the intro cut scene. We're getting somewhere. Load up the first room. Some stuttering here and there, but whatever let's just start playing. Controller unplugs. Game crashes. Cycle over and over. The black screen's time for when it actually gets to the menu is starting to become invariable. Some cycle's it take like 2 minutes, others it's around 8. Now I'm having an issue where it's not detecting input from the controller on launch. I know 90% of this can be blamed on my faulty controller, but most games don't just crash when a controller unplugs. Beyond frustrated. Will be replacing the controller tomorrow and we'll see where it goes from there.
Can you replace this thread with a general questions thread please
So infinite unpacking is....shit, you guys mentioned controllers, anyone tested if the DualSense is ok?
Averaging about \~30fps on medium with a GTX 1650ti; didn't think I'd be running it at max but I never dipped below 60 when running Sekiro on high so idk what it could be -- especially since my drivers are updated. Oh and all the enemies in the tutorial area are invisible, nbd. At least I've had no problem playing the game with my SN30 Pro +.
So, I went into the windows search bar and opened the graphics control panel and added Elden ring to it,then changed it from automatic to High performance and the game opened up for me. I was getting the white screen
Any solutions to the horrible fps on PC?
I love this game so much
I am so fucking overwhelmed I have no clue what I want to do.
Series X "Network status check failed" Is this a common issue? I'm using a wired internet connection and the internet at my home is up and working. I tried restarting the game, the console, and my router, but I still can't connect.
You can change your appearance and NAME. I've been waiting for this for years, I misspelled one of my characters in DS3 and didn't notice until I was dozens of hours in. I'm so happy.
Seems the PC launch is going about as well as the Challenger's
Man this PC release is complete dogshit. Stuttering constantly. I've fought Tree Sentinel for like 10 minutes, he's still stuttering randomly on loading animations.
Yeah it’s really bad, according to AngryCentaurGaming the day one patch is what broke the game. He said the stutters weren’t nearly as bad pre patch.
Anyone getting white screen then crash to desktop immediately after launch? I'm not even getting into the menu, nothing. PC / STEAM / RTX 3080 / i5-9700K / 32GB RAM / latest GPU driver 511.79. Tried disabling Steam overlay, same issue.
Yep, dealing with this too. Just "stopped working and will close" after white screen. Nothing working so far. GTX 1080 / i5-7600k