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Blues are simply Gankers without friends. Makes them the worst of them all. Therefore i‘ve blue on all my invasion Characters active to always help invader with: a) blocking the spot, that no gank blue can join anymore b) healing Invader with warming stones c) jumping into death to deliver Invader free estus

Lack of covenants is... disappointing.

I'm a blue myself

Lord of the rings: are uruks actually the good guys?

In fact, looking through your videos, most of what I see is you doing low level invasions with twinked characters. You can set a few arbitrary restrictions on yourself, but it seems clear to me you're engaging with low level characters with incomplete, very early builds that barely even have Crimson Flasks, or any weapons, especially the Ashes of War you have. I'm not an anti-invader. I've done thousands upon thousands of invasions in Dark Souls. I just don't really care for how the invasion or pvp works in Elden Ring, so I'm "retired", but still encounter lots of other players and do pvp through putting my summons sign down for anyone. I spent most of my time around RL 110, and don't make new characters often, but I can say without a doubt, low level Twink invaders have never been worse in any Fromsoft game like Elden Ring. You're not exactly helping change that image. Anyone could find success with invasions if they twink their characters and fight players just starting the game.

Okay, and all the footage you're showing is a somewhat twinked out low-level invader build. (You could do more to give yourself an advantage, but there's no denying it. Stormhawk Axe is a dead give away. Not going to argue, but definitely a twink invader) Probably the best example of why Blues are sometimes necessary. But the blue summoning system barely works anyway, and you're not going to get a lot of people who will stay at low-level to help as blues fighting off twink invaders. Half the time for me it's a connection error, meaning the host is dead before I arrive, or I'm summoned to the world like a mile away, and it's over win or lose before I even reach the invader.

Honestly, if they added back in solo invasions as a hunter mechanic with the sin system that would be huge step forward for multiplayer in ER

As a noob to the dark souls type games, and one that doesn't pay for online content - FU! You deserve to be ganked! I can't play very well as it is, and having level infinity A$$ wholes just be able to warp in, one shot me and gank my loot is a terrible thing to have to deal with. I don't pay for the PS online subscription so I cannot call for help. See the issue? Again - FU.

Btw, about topics: hard-swapping is nice

Blues DO have a purpose: refill my flasks

4:01 Ooooh you're an invader! I woke up watching this and was soo confused.

Nah elden ring is their best game by far mechanically, but pvp is in the gutter sure.

there's also no external incentive to be a fucking blue lol

Great video. Elden Ring is a great game, but it's just not a worthy successor to Souls.

As someone who has been since demon souls, I have invaded, i have protected, i have been invaded, I've gank, fight against ganks, invaded ganks, I've been blue, white, yellow, purple, red, host, i understand your pov. But if you want fight people go for meta level or higher level, low level invasions as u see in your own video, the whole video is u complaining about protecting hist when 2 or 3 dudes couldn't kill u in the video, if u want a *nice* pvp experience u need to go to meta level or higher and find good people to fight with U can search for communities or discord servers, u can even create one, but tbh invading low level where u find a bunch of casual and noobs, who sometimes don't even know what they are doing is just something I'm not big fan of The souls community is growing trough the years due to the people speaking of it and helping each other to overcome the challenges of the game, i remember I invaded someone low level he died and instantly went to call of duty and you never see him again playing a souls game, let's be real, as invader 95% of the time (from demons souls, ds1, ds2, ds3, bb) u been fighting against solo host and been running to mobs and environmental stuff to kill pvers with better gear and a build for pvp, not pve, the other 5% of the time was against gankers that even gankers are bad and coward most of time, is actually rare when u find a group of dedicated gankers and then the challenge starts there, so just stick to fight meta levels, become the host, go solo host, no summons, use finger remedy and turn on taunters tongue, then you can see the full picture and see what cheats and tricks invaders do, u can even meet friends like I do,

11:39 ngl I do this shit anytime I see a 3v1 gank or grace "duels". I dont even mind losing Im just not going to let them have the satisfaction of two shotting invaders and especially me but if it's honest coopers in the shittiest cave on the planet I'll play it out 20 times out of ten because that's what invasions are to me at least

Blues are just a pawns

I loved the 2 v 3 at pontiffs in ds3 the most intense pvping and the most fun ive had as a purple or orange spirit

you can invade someone who is by themselves. i purposely get invaded by myself to one on one with bloody fingers.

I've actually come to somewhat like being a blue in recent days. I'm in a hopeless cycle of making new characters but never finishing them, so putting on the blue cipher is a nice dose of PvP while I'm still getting my character up and running. That being said, you can just tell how much of an afterthought blues were in Elden Ring, considering they dont even have an item that teleports them closer to their host. Because I've personally gotten some atrocious spawns as a blue.

"Are blues the good guys" lol no

Ive never been an earnest blue above level 15.

I always felt the blues job is to fight the invader so the party could PvE, I was really disappointed in the blue experience in ER. Love your vids!

Level 1 invading is the best

I dislike how the blue experience is nowadays just a glorified bodyguard position. I liked when blues were invaders, it made sinning have weight, and added a whole new group to the invasion pool. Allowing you to target PVP players specifically as an invader was really good for activity and longevity. It also allowed for interesting co-invasions. You could either become a sinner or a hunter of sinners and by doing so you would have another avenue of PVP in yours or someone else's game. That alone made PVP seem like PVP; there was 2 main sides to pick besides being the host at the wrong place at the wrong time (which they also should bring back). Also auras were a huge reason for progressing in these factions in DS2, which I really liked. Something that distinguished a phantom from another phantom (of the same kind) that isn't tied to a ring. Getting a rank 3 aura in either blue or red felt like a real PVP reward.

Not in Elden Ring, but then again, blues don't even have covenant in this game unlike in DS where emphasis is put to either in chivalry of helping lone hosts (way of blue) or punishing the sinners (darkmoons). In Elden Ring, blues are just that final bit on insult, sandwiched between overleveled nanny phantoms and resummoning.

Blues are literally worthless they always lose

As a hunter.............. get invaded Actually i wish that recusants were the blues. They kill whomever their target is, it be the host or an invader.

I'm split on invasions ganks are not fun to recieve but fun to do and I was invasions had incentives to it

I don’t think blues are the good guys. But I know for a fact us reds are the bad guys. 😎

bro sound like he wanted something from the game, but it didn't give it to him properly and let down his expectations, this is so sad to see how beautiful the game is in some area's and not in the other's.

If blues could invade anyone who had invaded and sinned would make some sense like a taunter tongue effect

The most pathetic thing about blues is they always have a team mate. Always.

Jon could you talk about ds3?

Varre should have given us a ring to invade with fellow bloody fingers

Would’ve been cool if Blues were somehow tied into the lore of the Confessors. Tarnished hunters who sought out and killed “those who strayed from grace” i.e Volcano Manor Recusants or Mohgwyns Bloody Fingers, two factions who are as blasphemous and heretical to the golden order as you can get.

I usually just sit and watch as a blue guy in elden ring

If I'm a blue, and I notice the host and co-op phantom are not even bothering with PVE and are standing around just for a gank, I refuse to participate. I'll find the red and will drop warming stones for him just out of spite for the host.

I remember being so excited to ‘hunt invaders’ when the game wasn’t out yet 😭 it’s gonna break my heart if FromSoft hasn’t spent even a tiny fraction of these last 2 years tuning up the multiplayer systems.

Despite From demonstrating themselves to be a highly competent developer over the years, the disappointing reality is that they likely just had their hands full simply making the PvE experience of ER come together. It’s understandable considering that they were dabbling in open world design for the first time, and honestly it’s a miracle that they did as well as they did on their first attempt. That said, it still doesn’t assuage the disappointment that most souls veterans experienced regarding the multiplayer. What makes it even more disappointing is that a game of Elden Ring’s scope and design could have allowed for so much innovation and improvement with the souls multiplayer experience. A perfect example is Fia’s Champions and the Knights of the Greatjar, which is such a cool and undervalued mechanic. Being able to fight an infinite variety of difficult AI NPCs created from actual player builds is genius. It provides a way for new players to learn the fundamentals of PvP in the best way possible without fighting an actual player. It provides a way for players without online access to experience PvP, which is far better than nothing. It could provide the basis for new arena modes that let you go up against a gauntlet of NPC invaders or a type of hoard mode with leaderboards. And what did From do with this mechanic? It’s basically a footnote that appears briefly in 2 boss fights, with no way to replay it without going into NG+ or save scumming. There just seems to be so much wasted potential. Here’s to hoping that FromSoft will learn from the ER dev cycle and make a more complete souls game that fully realizes the PvP system. As crazy as it sounds, I think if FromSoft made a soulslike that was primarily multiplayer/PvP focused and actually took the time to balance the game and fix the poor net code they would have a huge hit on their hands, akin to Overwatch and other PvP focused games. It would be completely unique and could easily get a lot of interest, considering that the only things most people don’t like about souls PvP is the net code and poor balancing. The PvP system at its core is lightning in a bottle, and if they don’t realize that and bring it to its full potential someone else will eventually.

Its honestly really unfortunate. Elden Ring is my first souls like and I found it fun to invade but almost everything about Elden Ring makes it so impossibly unfun to join in on. Its way too easy to get blended and a number of other things, many you mentioned, to the point where it just feels boring as shit to have to run away and poke at coopers for 30 minutes until I eventually get breathed on by a stray spell and I explode with no reason to return other than i want to. Im not sure what fromsoft should do but they have to do something

red is the bad guys that's cannon its in the lore

This. All of your content on the topic, actually. It's just so much missed potential, man. I got into the Souls genre through Elden Ring, picked up DS3 after playing through it. The multiplayer mechanics of DS3 blew me away in comparison to ER. Even if they had just copy-pasted Covenants etc. into ER, it would have been frankly fantastic imo. My prognostication is that either a random patch in three years will make the multiplayer in ER the best in the series, or we'll never even get a player limit increase. I say let Fromsoft cook, I still got hope.

Chad Darkmoon Blades made the guilty pay the price... ER Blues want to gank but have no friends online. Calling the cops in Elden Ring is about as effective as calling the cops irl. Some incompetent dude with a weapon shows up and likely makes the entire situation worse off. I often find that the Blues are the ones more in need of the host's protection. I think most Bad Red Men are happy to see a blue summoned, it's an easy way for us to refill our flasks.

In my opinion, blues should work like a mound makers. In a sense that they can be hurt by the host and their summons at least.

Yea blues in elden ring are just cucks that show up after u kill the host ol babysitters to try and kill u when ur probably low on resources and to the host they are completely expendable so no one likes them

until you get to multiplayer, elden ring really is one of my favorite souls games. if only it had real covenants, a functional colosseum, a good invasion system.... covenants especially, there are so many groups in the lore that would make a great foundation for proper covenants...

What? No? Um. Im here to help as a blue? Wait? Aaaaaaaaaaa noooooo my own personal biases are metling away from my brain.......ill never be good enough to be a bad red man. I really hope they make some pvp changes with the newest dlc

I'm not sure why they stopped invading solo hosts, but if it's to avoid bullying the newbs, then they could have made blues invade solo invaders, that way it ensures the target has some pvp experience. Personally, don't mind blues in ER. If you invade, you should expect to be outnumbered.

My man’s got the good invasion footage, good takes on Elden Ring pvp, and now he’s dunking on cops and landlords too? Let’s fucking go