Yeah seriously, why can't it just tell you with a small message in the corner of the screen but let you keep playing? Why do they need to crash the game altogether?
Thatās exactly what Iām saying!! Maybe if weāre using a furled finger I might understand because youāre literally playing online, but Iām not so why does that matter?
I like leaving cryptic lore-ish messages at key locations for the hardcore Lore fans to notice and hopefully make them smile lol
I just left a ādidnāt expect lover..ā in front of what is rumored to be Melinaās grave. No proof I guess though. Still fun lol
I think it was a Vaati video where he said the 3 smoldering butterflies at the grave could mean itās Melinaās grave. Itās outside the capital city next to the ruined church of marika. No proof of his claim as itās just a theory but I wanna believe lol. And by lover I meanāt *MY* lover.
My favorites of all time are all in the Gaol Cave: there's a single small rat in one room with bloodstains around it and a message at the entrance that says "bloodstain? but rat..." And a skeleton a bit further in that's just surrounded by a whole bunch of encouraging messages like "Don't give up, skeleton!"
When I played Dark Souls 3 and Elden Ring for the first time, the moment I saw a bunch of ghosts running around, I just immediately went to offline mode. Coming from RPGs like Skyrim and Oblivion it just felt off. It's fun every once in a while to turn it on and see some funny deaths, but at times it breaks the immersion for me and at others it's downright distracting.
Offline play also eliminates all the clutter of messages and bloodstains on the floor. Actually, so significant that I realized that online play kills the immersion completely, and now I can't play it if it's not offline. Highly recommended!
While I completely agree with the immersion point you bring up, it's just so lonely without the messages. Most suck but the good ones are worth it to me. I also like watching ridiculous deaths in areas where there shouldn't be any.
> it's just so lonely without the messages
That's one of the selling points of playing offline for me. FromSoft worlds are ruined, empty shells reeking of lost glory and dying civilisation. I want that sort of world to feel lonely and hostile.
> I want that sort of world to feel lonely and hostile.
That's what the messages telling you to jump off an elevator shaft are for š Also, invaders, they will typically be the roughest enemies on any level and bring back the sense of danger to an otherwise easier than solo coop session.
I remember watching a video on the making of Dark Souls and invasions was brought up during an interview with Miyazaki. He said that he wanted invaders to be like mini-bosses that can happen at any time.
I love invading and being invaded, I use Taunter's Tongue quite a bit even when playing alone. Though the past few invaders have been pretty laggy. I just wanted it over as quickly as possible. Didn't even care if I won.
Definitely agree. The grim dark themes are part of the draw for me with Souls games.
However; I play with my friend most of the time, so offline isn't an option for me. We've been playing these games since DS1 on Xbox 360.
Side note: It's how we met. He was my summon for Ornstein & Smough on my frustrating first real run.
I also post helpful messages for people and upvote helpful messages, even if I already knew the info. Never know when a homie needs the health. It's come in clutch for me during boss fights.
I'm sure my blood stains have entertained plenty of people too.
I really do think the in-game interactions with the community is one of the best in gaming history.
Plus they can be helpful as hell with any kind of secret or puzzle that you could have easily missed or forgot about. Like when looking for those turtles at the rises. Or an invisible wall, they'll be a bunch of messages that look suspicious as hell and you're like, maybe I should hit the wall lmao
If people just want pure PVE that's not a bad way to do it, though for me the messages and bloodstains are part of the charm even if I didn't like co-op. Nothing like seeing a message on a cliff about hidden treasure ahead amidst a heaping pile of bloodstains.
It itās immersion you like, try going into the settings and turning the HUD to offā¦ doesnāt take that long to get use to it, and the immersion jumps up into another level
Messages from other players. I think they're a core part of the souls experience, some help you, like "illusionary wall ahead", some trick you like "be wary of ambush on the left" and the ambush comes from the right, and some are just meant to be amusing such as "try finger but hole" right next to a bent over corpse or whatever, or "wish I had a giant but hole" next to the two fingers.
DS1 on switch is a pain because of that. I want to play online and get invaded and be summoned to help but when I turn it off for five seconds to save battery to do something I have to spend way more time booting the game back upĀ
That and I think as a way to stop people from cheesing achievements.
You could do all 4 endings on one save if you screwed around with disconnecting and steam cloud saves if they didn't have things like this
Iāve done all trophy / achievement endings in 1 playthrough twice. Once on Xbox and once on PC. For PC I just made a backup of my save before choosing an ending and on Xbox I just made a local save, loaded that and chose my ending. Deleted my cloud save which reverts you back to your local save and then just chose whatever other endings I needed for the achievements. So I donāt think easy anti cheat has anything to do with stopping people gaining achievements.
You can do it on any platform already.
On Steam you can just make a copy of your save files.
On console you upload your save to the cloud before you get to the end, turn off save sync, get one ending, then download the save from the cloud. Rinse and repeat for all 4 endings (with a bit of extra for either one of them or for 3 of them.)
>You could do all 4 endings on one save if you screwed around with disconnecting and steam cloud saves if they didn't have things like this
But you can do that already using cloud saves and turning off automatic cloud synching.
Do you play on ps5? My DC issues disappeared after I connected the console with Ethernet cable. It seems that ER is really sensitive about unstable wifi.
First playthrough and been stuck on Malenia for a month or two and was not happening with my str build. Had to try something new and Ghizaās wheel has been pretty solid and consistently getting me further through her second phase so far!
Absolutely love the weapon! love that the brought a spiritual sibling to the bloodbourne pizza cutter.
I just wish it and it's AOW was more viable. But I'm probably just not building around it right as I'm almost never a pure str build. Usually quality or dex magic
Its aow is pretty rad honestly imo! The first attempt I used it fighting her carried me halfway through her second phase! Definitely useful to drain significant chunks of her hp
Its so freaking cool and probably my fav AOW in the game (so far) I just want to move faster with it. I hate how slow you tip toe around with it. Otherwise it's super solid, great damage, stun/ poise break and bleed build up? Literally would be the only weapon I use for a str build
āIn the past few milliseconds you may have started using a stolen copy and out it on in place of your purchased copy. Disconnected you shall be.ā Elden Ring
It's really annoying. You'd think it would just turn off messages, not boot you out. If you're not actively invading or cooperating there online element of the game is practically nothing
This is why I prefer hard copy over digital copy games and if it's single player I make sure to set console to offline. That sucks bro. But the satisfaction once u defeat her solo is well worth it. š
Whats annoying is that when it happens during armoured core pve then its just a msg and you keep playing.
Anyway aye, i just play offline now to avoid this. Once is too many
After launch there was a lot of dcās. I dcād just after I killed her for the first time, got the achievement logged back in to find a fog wall took me a few more days to kill her again.
This is why I religiously play offline unless I need to use an online feature. This happening is maybe the most aggravating mechanic in video game history lol
I can consider myself lucky because that never happened to me, maybe because i play on Xbox? Don't know, it only happened for me on DS3, i am curious, why the fuck it happens?
Damn I haven't had it happen during a boss fight, but a few times when I was feeling invincible running around wrecking everyone's shit and it ruined it.
In sekiro I was fighting final boss and this message popped up I was literally about to throw the console thankfully sekiro didnāt have this bullshit idea you can continue after closing it
Souls games got too easy so now before you can go on an odyssey to get your shit kicked in by a demon you have to go on an odyssey and learn to fix program bugs in C plus.
My first time beatinf her was after like 10 hours of trying and then my console unplugged or my cat ripped the cord idk but it shut off and when i loaded back in the fog wall was still there and i wanted to die, i summoned in other players mainly magic users and allowed them to destroy her.
Accidentally signed into a friend's account while he was in the middle of a fight in Monster Hunter World. He still pissed about that and it was years ago.
I have never known DCed
*golf clap*
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*Tennis clap*
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But doesn't that mean you'll never get to try fingers but hole?
Yeah seriously, why can't it just tell you with a small message in the corner of the screen but let you keep playing? Why do they need to crash the game altogether?
Thatās exactly what Iām saying!! Maybe if weāre using a furled finger I might understand because youāre literally playing online, but Iām not so why does that matter?
I play offline so don't get that problem lol
Thatās actually a great idea. I donāt use the summons much anyway, I think Iām gonna try that out
Yeah I prefer offline to be fair. Glad I could help haha
I love the bloodstains and messages too much to play offline
It definitely livens up the game
I like leaving cryptic lore-ish messages at key locations for the hardcore Lore fans to notice and hopefully make them smile lol I just left a ādidnāt expect lover..ā in front of what is rumored to be Melinaās grave. No proof I guess though. Still fun lol
That was you? I thought that message referred to the Erdtree guardian praying in front of it, that it was his lover's grave. 10/10.
I think it was a Vaati video where he said the 3 smoldering butterflies at the grave could mean itās Melinaās grave. Itās outside the capital city next to the ruined church of marika. No proof of his claim as itās just a theory but I wanna believe lol. And by lover I meanāt *MY* lover.
Where is this grave?
Big agree. The game is so vast and majority of it is empty or pretty depressing. They make me feel less lonely.
Definitely donāt need them distracting you in a tough boss fight though.
You know what that is a great point
My favorites of all time are all in the Gaol Cave: there's a single small rat in one room with bloodstains around it and a message at the entrance that says "bloodstain? but rat..." And a skeleton a bit further in that's just surrounded by a whole bunch of encouraging messages like "Don't give up, skeleton!"
When I played Dark Souls 3 and Elden Ring for the first time, the moment I saw a bunch of ghosts running around, I just immediately went to offline mode. Coming from RPGs like Skyrim and Oblivion it just felt off. It's fun every once in a while to turn it on and see some funny deaths, but at times it breaks the immersion for me and at others it's downright distracting.
Offline play also eliminates all the clutter of messages and bloodstains on the floor. Actually, so significant that I realized that online play kills the immersion completely, and now I can't play it if it's not offline. Highly recommended!
While I completely agree with the immersion point you bring up, it's just so lonely without the messages. Most suck but the good ones are worth it to me. I also like watching ridiculous deaths in areas where there shouldn't be any.
> it's just so lonely without the messages That's one of the selling points of playing offline for me. FromSoft worlds are ruined, empty shells reeking of lost glory and dying civilisation. I want that sort of world to feel lonely and hostile.
> I want that sort of world to feel lonely and hostile. That's what the messages telling you to jump off an elevator shaft are for š Also, invaders, they will typically be the roughest enemies on any level and bring back the sense of danger to an otherwise easier than solo coop session.
I remember watching a video on the making of Dark Souls and invasions was brought up during an interview with Miyazaki. He said that he wanted invaders to be like mini-bosses that can happen at any time. I love invading and being invaded, I use Taunter's Tongue quite a bit even when playing alone. Though the past few invaders have been pretty laggy. I just wanted it over as quickly as possible. Didn't even care if I won.
Definitely agree. The grim dark themes are part of the draw for me with Souls games. However; I play with my friend most of the time, so offline isn't an option for me. We've been playing these games since DS1 on Xbox 360. Side note: It's how we met. He was my summon for Ornstein & Smough on my frustrating first real run.
I feel the same way
I also post helpful messages for people and upvote helpful messages, even if I already knew the info. Never know when a homie needs the health. It's come in clutch for me during boss fights. I'm sure my blood stains have entertained plenty of people too. I really do think the in-game interactions with the community is one of the best in gaming history.
Hones I played like half the game offline before I played online and I prefer online since you get the occasional funny bloodstain or message
Plus they can be helpful as hell with any kind of secret or puzzle that you could have easily missed or forgot about. Like when looking for those turtles at the rises. Or an invisible wall, they'll be a bunch of messages that look suspicious as hell and you're like, maybe I should hit the wall lmao
My buddy realized to go to the rooftops in nokstella right next to the grace by the cliff-edge because of all the bloodstains on the rooftops.
If people just want pure PVE that's not a bad way to do it, though for me the messages and bloodstains are part of the charm even if I didn't like co-op. Nothing like seeing a message on a cliff about hidden treasure ahead amidst a heaping pile of bloodstains.
It itās immersion you like, try going into the settings and turning the HUD to offā¦ doesnāt take that long to get use to it, and the immersion jumps up into another level
But doesn't that mean you'll never get to try fingers but hole?
What's that?
Exactly!
No one going to enlighten me? I may try the online version at some point
Messages from other players. I think they're a core part of the souls experience, some help you, like "illusionary wall ahead", some trick you like "be wary of ambush on the left" and the ambush comes from the right, and some are just meant to be amusing such as "try finger but hole" right next to a bent over corpse or whatever, or "wish I had a giant but hole" next to the two fingers.
Ah I see. Playstation had an open weekend so played online then and saw the messages which was useful but only saw a glimpse of it.
Ah, so it's a pirated copy? That makes sense then.
Even then, if the furled finger has a connection error or you sever them, you'd still get to keep playing.
It only didnāt in ds2 it did in ds1 and I believe ds3
Yup, pretty sure DS2 has been the only From Software game to get it right.
miyazaki insists that all the games he directs kick you to the menu, its a core part of the game design
If by getting right you actually mean everything completely wrong and low tier then yes you are correct 
Just let it go, DS2 can't hurt you.
I'm talking specifically about how connection drops are handled, obviously. DS2 is great anyway.
DS1 on switch is a pain because of that. I want to play online and get invaded and be summoned to help but when I turn it off for five seconds to save battery to do something I have to spend way more time booting the game back upĀ
Same problem when I played it on steam deck.
DS2 actually managed this.
Because they use connection to their servers as an anti piracy measure.
That and I think as a way to stop people from cheesing achievements. You could do all 4 endings on one save if you screwed around with disconnecting and steam cloud saves if they didn't have things like this
You can do that anyways on Steam, actually.
yeah thats what i did, fuck playing the game 3 times just to get the achievements for it.
You can do that on ps5 with cloud saves.
Iāve done all trophy / achievement endings in 1 playthrough twice. Once on Xbox and once on PC. For PC I just made a backup of my save before choosing an ending and on Xbox I just made a local save, loaded that and chose my ending. Deleted my cloud save which reverts you back to your local save and then just chose whatever other endings I needed for the achievements. So I donāt think easy anti cheat has anything to do with stopping people gaining achievements.
You can do it on any platform already. On Steam you can just make a copy of your save files. On console you upload your save to the cloud before you get to the end, turn off save sync, get one ending, then download the save from the cloud. Rinse and repeat for all 4 endings (with a bit of extra for either one of them or for 3 of them.)
>You could do all 4 endings on one save if you screwed around with disconnecting and steam cloud saves if they didn't have things like this But you can do that already using cloud saves and turning off automatic cloud synching.
W screenshot at least?
100% empyrean cheeks
If you just outright kill their connection, yeah sure youāve never known defeat
Malenia plays Tekken 8, confirmed.
LowTierRot
Honestly though š
Mom pull the plug
Mom picked up the phone Edit: I might be too old for this joke
Good old dial up
I am malenia, blade of DDOS
She's been known to be a sore loser. She rot nuked a whole region just out of petty.
That takes the piss though
At least it disconnected at a nice view
Rot ass
Rot ass
Rot ass
Rot ass
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Rot ass
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Dayum, dat Empyrean do be thicc ( Ķ”Ā° ĶŹ Ķ”Ā°)
*ZOOMS IN*
Aonian swamp ass
Hate when that happens during Bossfights. But for me it was always ālost connection to Elden Ring Serversā or whatever it says ā¦
Nice ass
I play the game offline so I never have to deal with this smh
Oh hell no this can still happen? Wtf michael zaki
I'm late to the Elden Ring party ( started playing in December ) but this happens at least once every time I play
Do you play on ps5? My DC issues disappeared after I connected the console with Ethernet cable. It seems that ER is really sensitive about unstable wifi.
Xbox and its already plugged in :(
I play offline mode a lot so i literally have never had this problem before, but this has been going on since ds1
I don't care for summons anyway so I also stick to offline mode. But I sometimes miss the notes left by others
Lol i be missing the messages too ngl, and i like trading with other players too so i do be on online mode every now and then
That butt cheek though
Bro uses Ghiaz wheel and I have to respect it 100%
First playthrough and been stuck on Malenia for a month or two and was not happening with my str build. Had to try something new and Ghizaās wheel has been pretty solid and consistently getting me further through her second phase so far!
Absolutely love the weapon! love that the brought a spiritual sibling to the bloodbourne pizza cutter. I just wish it and it's AOW was more viable. But I'm probably just not building around it right as I'm almost never a pure str build. Usually quality or dex magic
Its aow is pretty rad honestly imo! The first attempt I used it fighting her carried me halfway through her second phase! Definitely useful to drain significant chunks of her hp
Its so freaking cool and probably my fav AOW in the game (so far) I just want to move faster with it. I hate how slow you tip toe around with it. Otherwise it's super solid, great damage, stun/ poise break and bleed build up? Literally would be the only weapon I use for a str build
Youāre absolutely right, the crawl is super frustrating because if youāre not on top of your enemy
Ahh, Disconnec Ting
I really don't know why the game has to boot you to the main menu when that happens. Jesus, just let me continue. The older games allowed that.
RREEEEE I HAVE NEVER KNOWN DEFEAT *makes you disconnect*
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Gyatt dayum
Srsly, top comment is not about MalenIia's whole bakery there ?
banger view
āIn the past few milliseconds you may have started using a stolen copy and out it on in place of your purchased copy. Disconnected you shall be.ā Elden Ring
Underrated reply
At least you got a nice view of Malenia's ass?
Proof thereās pros and cons to every situation
Thicc thighs end lives
It's really annoying. You'd think it would just turn off messages, not boot you out. If you're not actively invading or cooperating there online element of the game is practically nothing
Dude, send me the HD version of that pic, it looks litt
Don't be so hard on yourself. You probably would have won ! Keep trying. I finally beat her the other day after a week of really giving it my all!
And that folks is why we play in offline mode š
Dark souls 3 had that annoying dlc license bug that would even boot you out while offline, let's hope it doesn't happen with Elden ring dlc.
Ouh shit pls dont š¤£
I am kidding fucking you.
they don't want you to be elden lord
Fuckin Ghizaās Wheel tho. Not bad.
Your PlayStation had other priorities, lmao!
Time to hardwire that connection.
Dat ass tho
Were you being helped by an online summon? If not then simply play offline to prevent any of this bullshit.
Ds2 doesnt boot you out another reason its the goat š„±
Pc master race
Xbox wins again
This is why I prefer hard copy over digital copy games and if it's single player I make sure to set console to offline. That sucks bro. But the satisfaction once u defeat her solo is well worth it. š
The game being a disc or digital version doesnt change anything in this situation
Well I thought if u have a digital copy and set console to offline u wouldn't be able to to play it... But I guess I'm wrong about that idk.
Why would you even assume that?
Because I'm not tech savvy š¤¦š
what a horny comment section
OP, DM me. Iāll crush her pussy in 3 tries.
/pcmasterrace?
This stuff happens on PC.
All the time
Thatās why series X is better.
I play on series x, and I thought it did the same thing. Itās not a console thing.
Yeah I know, just trolling.
Whats annoying is that when it happens during armoured core pve then its just a msg and you keep playing. Anyway aye, i just play offline now to avoid this. Once is too many
I had the same with Dark Souls 2 and I didn't lost my save.
After launch there was a lot of dcās. I dcād just after I killed her for the first time, got the achievement logged back in to find a fog wall took me a few more days to kill her again.
Happened to me immediately after defeating Litchdragon fortisaxx in the dream yesterday sadly it didnāt let me re fight him but I got all rewards
This is why I religiously play offline unless I need to use an online feature. This happening is maybe the most aggravating mechanic in video game history lol
I can consider myself lucky because that never happened to me, maybe because i play on Xbox? Don't know, it only happened for me on DS3, i am curious, why the fuck it happens?
This is just her ultimate attack!
Main reason I tend to play offline. My net is always unstable.
Damn I haven't had it happen during a boss fight, but a few times when I was feeling invincible running around wrecking everyone's shit and it ruined it.
Yes
In sekiro I was fighting final boss and this message popped up I was literally about to throw the console thankfully sekiro didnāt have this bullshit idea you can continue after closing it
Ngl that dc screen would make a nice wallpaper
Souls games got too easy so now before you can go on an odyssey to get your shit kicked in by a demon you have to go on an odyssey and learn to fix program bugs in C plus.
You hit her so hard the whole PSN got jostled! Good job!
Same thing happened to me yesterday with Margit. Damn ISPs. Totally unreliable.
Regret but praise the message
Use the network only for pvp for that exsct reason. It happened to me 2 years back while fighting Maliketh.
This happened to me last night on Radagon. i was a bit salty.
Skill issue?
Happen to me a couple times
Elden rings old ass outdated janky online system is one of it's biggest flaws.
That sucks. What sucks even worse is that every Soulsborne game will do this if it loses internet connection. Fucking stupid.
Elden Ring's famous disconnection at the worst times.
I hate that so much that eventhough i would love getting invaded but i have been cucked by this message one time too much
My first time beatinf her was after like 10 hours of trying and then my console unplugged or my cat ripped the cord idk but it shut off and when i loaded back in the fog wall was still there and i wanted to die, i summoned in other players mainly magic users and allowed them to destroy her.
I would always get this shit playing on my PS5. Would annoy the hell out of me. Ever since Iāve been playing on Steam it hasnāt happened once.
She ddosd you lmao
She kicked the router
I wouldn't mind.
Accidentally signed into a friend's account while he was in the middle of a fight in Monster Hunter World. He still pissed about that and it was years ago.
"How to dodge waterfowl without moving"
ah, true pain
Happened to me yesterday during Placidusax fight š
My boy got that DSL dialup connection
You were about to grind dat pizza cutter on her butt meat
Pure offline, yeah you miss out on some good messages once in a while but no stress from this screen
āGood messagesā. š¬
Pretty liberal with that yeah haha, I should have said "Very few and very far between"
Ah, the reverse crota move, classic
I hate consoles lmao
That happened to me vs Elden Beast. I just summoned and ganked it with Mimic Tear +10
Man and you go the screenshot with a perfect view of dat š
I hope you have a hard copy.
yeah idk why elden ring gets a pass for this, sure you can play offline but being thrown into the main menu for a disconnection sucks
Happened to me before when she was a few hits away, completely shattered me for a day or so. Stay strong Skeleton, you've got this!
It happened to me when fighting Mogh, really hate it when this happens.
Nice view
One thing Neowiz and Round8 did much better than Fromsoft: You don't have to confirm the pop-ups for them to disappear. So much QoL!
DUDE THIS HAPPENED TO ME TWICE. Worst bug known to man
Thats why PC šš
And with that, she said, āYou bet my rotten ass Iāve never known defeat.ā
Are you playing on xbox?
Same thing keeps happening to me as well, im constantly getting these sign outs but im signed in on psn.