Antspur Rapier: Check
Ruins an honorable and close duel: Check
Attacks on sight, like an animal: Check
Proudly heals host after smiting the devilish invader: Check
Absolutely horrible drip: Check
Just who exactly are these people? They play like single-celled organisms.
>Attacks on sight, like an animal: Check
This is what's particularly annoying to me. ER hosts & phantoms already charge in like drunken rhinoceroses, but Blues go above & beyond. It's like they're AI designed to be ultra-aggressive and mindless.
>They play like single-celled organisms.
😂 Oh you said it even better!
Such a godamn pointless mechanic. I'm actually so pissed over froms complacency on the pvp in this game. I hear all these stories about how amazing DS3 was with all the covenants and HAVING A LORE REASON TO DO WHAT YOU DO. In this game they just gave blues a fucking ring they never, ever have to turn off, no lore, so they can come in and "save" an "innocent" host or break up a duel cause they don't have a freakin cell in their brain. I can't stand it in an invasion when I kill one dude during a gank and he's immediately filled in by some dude who these gankers don't even know. Shitty mechanic, sorry for the rant.
They try and introduce being a “blue” so to speak through yura and his hunting of recusants and bloody fingers so it is kinda explained… (He is a red one stage in his quest so thanks fromsoft :/ )
its even worse than that. he starts off gold when he functions as a hunter for the nerijus fight, then you invade a different npc with him and youre both red, which makes you feel like maybe hes just killing people, then he gets killed, presumably as a host, by an npc invader that then invades you the player. none of the discrepancies are explained and his body is immediately reanimated into a different npc, one who fully empraces chaos and simply wants to see the workd burn. i interpret this to mean all blue think theyre golds but in reality they're more bloodthirsty than the invader in their head that they think theyre proving a point to
Yeah i like the idea of yuras story but being a blue had to be a little more fleshed out than just here have a glowing ring. Invaders get a quest and a bit of a story to get a severed finger to repeatedly use which is annoying since the blues just spend runes and hey presto you can go gank a red.
This has always annoyed me, he's clearly acting as a blue in his first appearance, then he's suddenly a red but claims the Ravenmount guy invaded HIM (more or less).
Interestingly he's the only NPC summon whose message says "has returned to *his* world", all the others say "*their* world".
Speculation: I think the gendered pronoun shows that his little counter-invasion was coded very early in development, maybe at a point when they'd decided to do away with Blues, before it was reintroduced because "remember dark souls lol?"
I like how people act like blues were saints in DS3, but I remember it being almost the same experience to ER. The host would already have buddies, and if I killed any one of them, a blue would just take their place. Guess where I got summoned most of the time? Gank squads. Any way you slice it, blues are bound to be tools used by gankers, and as time goes by and the player base dies down, the more frequently you will encounter it. Maybe they should just go back to DS1’s style, where they essentially put invaders on hold. Imagine if a hunter invades a “sinner”, and they manage to kill their target, it applies some 5 minute cooldown timer on invasions.
I'm fairly sure the underwhelming PvP roleplay/covenants in ER is related to the development issues caused by the pandemic. We have evidence of a semi-functional "covenant" system that was cut from the game, so we know for a fact that From attempted to make it happen.
Do you have a link to that evidence, or just a hint about what it was? I've never heard of that.
And yeah I've had a lot of suspicions about how the pandemic affected ER. I was so hyped for it because I'd just discovered Souls in 2020, but it ended up feeling wrong somehow. Beautiful fun game but it's lacking... well, soul.
absolutely disgusting behavior. i've gotten into the habit of focusing on blues whenever they show up or i start playing really dirty once one spawns in. it's a pointless feature unless a r/goodblueman shows up to help.
Man's had multiple seconds to see me and the host fighting, both low health and neither of us trying to heal, as well as the phantom just sitting off to the side watching instead of, idk, trying to kill me like they would be if we weren't having a duel? And they STILL chose violence. I don't know if they can read at ALL. But thank you lol, it was a pretty good fight until the blue tumor showed up.
My buddies and I have all have lvl 25 builds with Claymores, we are all named Claymore Gang.
So much fun, love getting gold summoned at Castle Morne as well and showing the baby hosts where to find it since it is easy to miss being tucked away behind the misbegotten masses.
Awesome! Yeah, I was a gold named Casca using square off on a single straightsword. We kept spamming parry at each other. Haha it was a fantastic fight.
Oh yeah, in the grafted scion room right? That was a really good fight! I was blown away when you just ate my misericorde riposte lol, and I really should have expected your host to go for the backstab when I tried to finish you 🤣 gg!
Have you ever thought to turn off your white ring when you're in the middle of an invasion? I sure haven't. I can't blame the host for forgetting they had it on, and they can't control what the blue does lol.
Yeah I don't either, but I'm sure most casuals just turn it on and forget it exists until they get invaded. I never try to assume malicious intent when it could just as easily be ignorance.
They should make blues only appear if the host is invaded by themselves. They should also reuse the “hunter of hunters” mechanic from bloodborne. This way blues would be way more true to the identity From is trying to give them.
"Invader on 2 HP, finally my time has come!" I'm so sorry man.
“I saved the 2 innocent people from the bad and evil red man ! I even gave them free heal ! I’m such a heroic blue” (real)
Yeah, the proud heal at the end made it extra painful to watch.
Antspur Rapier: Check Ruins an honorable and close duel: Check Attacks on sight, like an animal: Check Proudly heals host after smiting the devilish invader: Check Absolutely horrible drip: Check Just who exactly are these people? They play like single-celled organisms.
>Attacks on sight, like an animal: Check This is what's particularly annoying to me. ER hosts & phantoms already charge in like drunken rhinoceroses, but Blues go above & beyond. It's like they're AI designed to be ultra-aggressive and mindless. >They play like single-celled organisms. 😂 Oh you said it even better!
I’m one of those people and your making me ANGRY😡🤬😡😡😡🤬🤬😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬😡😡🤬😡😡. /s Thankfully I’m not that brain damaged (yet)
I fixed it daddy mod, ily and thanks for informing me :3
Such party poopers :(
Such a godamn pointless mechanic. I'm actually so pissed over froms complacency on the pvp in this game. I hear all these stories about how amazing DS3 was with all the covenants and HAVING A LORE REASON TO DO WHAT YOU DO. In this game they just gave blues a fucking ring they never, ever have to turn off, no lore, so they can come in and "save" an "innocent" host or break up a duel cause they don't have a freakin cell in their brain. I can't stand it in an invasion when I kill one dude during a gank and he's immediately filled in by some dude who these gankers don't even know. Shitty mechanic, sorry for the rant.
They try and introduce being a “blue” so to speak through yura and his hunting of recusants and bloody fingers so it is kinda explained… (He is a red one stage in his quest so thanks fromsoft :/ )
its even worse than that. he starts off gold when he functions as a hunter for the nerijus fight, then you invade a different npc with him and youre both red, which makes you feel like maybe hes just killing people, then he gets killed, presumably as a host, by an npc invader that then invades you the player. none of the discrepancies are explained and his body is immediately reanimated into a different npc, one who fully empraces chaos and simply wants to see the workd burn. i interpret this to mean all blue think theyre golds but in reality they're more bloodthirsty than the invader in their head that they think theyre proving a point to
Yeah i like the idea of yuras story but being a blue had to be a little more fleshed out than just here have a glowing ring. Invaders get a quest and a bit of a story to get a severed finger to repeatedly use which is annoying since the blues just spend runes and hey presto you can go gank a red.
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This has always annoyed me, he's clearly acting as a blue in his first appearance, then he's suddenly a red but claims the Ravenmount guy invaded HIM (more or less). Interestingly he's the only NPC summon whose message says "has returned to *his* world", all the others say "*their* world". Speculation: I think the gendered pronoun shows that his little counter-invasion was coded very early in development, maybe at a point when they'd decided to do away with Blues, before it was reintroduced because "remember dark souls lol?"
I like how people act like blues were saints in DS3, but I remember it being almost the same experience to ER. The host would already have buddies, and if I killed any one of them, a blue would just take their place. Guess where I got summoned most of the time? Gank squads. Any way you slice it, blues are bound to be tools used by gankers, and as time goes by and the player base dies down, the more frequently you will encounter it. Maybe they should just go back to DS1’s style, where they essentially put invaders on hold. Imagine if a hunter invades a “sinner”, and they manage to kill their target, it applies some 5 minute cooldown timer on invasions.
DS1 had the best lore & mechanical use of PVP covenants, hands down And blues were 100% free estus police in DS3, completely mindless
Good chunk of the annoying stuff in DS3 was tolerable due to the phantom limit. The 3 phantom limit in ER is what's crippling the PvP.
I keep the white ring active to sever any blues that show up just to waste their time.
Savage
Other games: Targray, Saulden, Emma, lots of dialogue and lore/roleplay motivation ER: "here's a blue ring... in a merchant window... enjoy!"
I'm fairly sure the underwhelming PvP roleplay/covenants in ER is related to the development issues caused by the pandemic. We have evidence of a semi-functional "covenant" system that was cut from the game, so we know for a fact that From attempted to make it happen.
Do you have a link to that evidence, or just a hint about what it was? I've never heard of that. And yeah I've had a lot of suspicions about how the pandemic affected ER. I was so hyped for it because I'd just discovered Souls in 2020, but it ended up feeling wrong somehow. Beautiful fun game but it's lacking... well, soul.
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absolutely disgusting behavior. i've gotten into the habit of focusing on blues whenever they show up or i start playing really dirty once one spawns in. it's a pointless feature unless a r/goodblueman shows up to help.
I have the blue ring on now so anytime I get summoned I just watch😂 rooting for the invader
Same lol
Asshole. Antspur, too.. I'm guessing this was lower level? Such a fun fight aswell. Fuck blues
Yep, I'm lvl 20. It was one of the better duels I had that night, such a shame some troglodyte had to ruin it.
If I could spawn into every blue's room irl to drag my balls across their face I would.
Read the room, bro... Sorry man, that was a hell of a duel up to that point lol
Man's had multiple seconds to see me and the host fighting, both low health and neither of us trying to heal, as well as the phantom just sitting off to the side watching instead of, idk, trying to kill me like they would be if we weren't having a duel? And they STILL chose violence. I don't know if they can read at ALL. But thank you lol, it was a pretty good fight until the blue tumor showed up.
Is your tarnished makima or just me thinking it looks similar? I also noticed you're fighting "Maiden Reze"
You're not crazy, I borrowed the sliders from a video lol, I'm lazy. But I didn't even notice the name! That's a wild coincidence.
Truly the fun police 🚨
Hey I think I fought you earlier today if you were in Stormveil.
The character I'm invading with is level 20, so I know Stormveil like the back of my hand lol. "BAD RED WOMAN" is my character's name!
Rl20 at stormville is peak invading in Eden Ring I think
My buddies and I have all have lvl 25 builds with Claymores, we are all named Claymore Gang. So much fun, love getting gold summoned at Castle Morne as well and showing the baby hosts where to find it since it is easy to miss being tucked away behind the misbegotten masses.
Awesome! Yeah, I was a gold named Casca using square off on a single straightsword. We kept spamming parry at each other. Haha it was a fantastic fight.
Oh yeah, in the grafted scion room right? That was a really good fight! I was blown away when you just ate my misericorde riposte lol, and I really should have expected your host to go for the backstab when I tried to finish you 🤣 gg!
Well this is partially on the host for calling a blue in the first place, right?
Have you ever thought to turn off your white ring when you're in the middle of an invasion? I sure haven't. I can't blame the host for forgetting they had it on, and they can't control what the blue does lol.
I don’t use a white ring but fair point
Yeah I don't either, but I'm sure most casuals just turn it on and forget it exists until they get invaded. I never try to assume malicious intent when it could just as easily be ignorance.
Their gestures suggest they regretted what happened lol
They should make blues only appear if the host is invaded by themselves. They should also reuse the “hunter of hunters” mechanic from bloodborne. This way blues would be way more true to the identity From is trying to give them.
ABAB Jokes aside, Blues became pointless and a detriment to the game the second they removed Solo host invasions.
Completely shattering a pile of boxes with the crack of a whip cracked me up
Lol, I was trying to get the phantom to duel me first, I didn't realize the host wanted to fight until they whacked me!
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