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This is so funny to me that you and the channel Basically Homeless thought of a similar idea and released on the same day. It's cool to see the different methods you guys used to accomplish the task of a robot playing the PC.
I got to max level manually. The time is shorted in NG+ since you get more runes. I just did it 1-2 hours per day, taking my time with it. But I did it. Do you become a god? No. You get 2-hit instead of 1-hit and you deal more damage, but you're still not a god, even at max level, for anyone wondering. But the good thing about the "yes" build is that you can switch between melee and magic without any problem and you can try out different styles of gameplay with the same character, without having to restart the game. So, I'm confirming what this video is showing.
exactly lmao, the satisfaction of something finally fully working as intended, aka the automation process, is way better than just getting the thing done yourself xD
I think people who are into automation for the sake of automation switch to home automation stuff. There are so many things that can be done that's satisfying.
At 14:23 he says 212k was the maximum, so I’m inclined to say that he is using it, but you never know. Iirc there’s a number of ways to boost rune gain
@@dylankagan28 Golden Scarab is good but golden pickeled fowl's foot boosts rune gain by 30% for 3 minutes which is 56% with the golden scarab. Not worth using in this case though since it only lasts for 3 minutes and farming fowl's feet and gold fireflies for crafting them is kind of a pain.
2:18 You're literally just supposed to run away from it, lol. I actually love the attack because the way to dodge it is to remember how you dodged it the first time you fight him. So, it's a memory attack rather than a skill or reaction based attack. It's great.
I’m so happy you made this video and it’s beautifully shot- for the love of god please level Vigor. Level 183 with 37 Vigor is playing in hard mode😂 please get to atleast 50
@@funky555 no, it is not, especially considering the soft caps for offensive stats. not having at least 40-50 vigor is a difference between being one-shot and two-shot, he is making the game unnecessarily difficult this way
Mike, a way to get additional runes in that farming place in Mogwyn's palace is to use the Gold Pickled Fowl Foot item, it increases rune acquisition by 30% for 3 minutes. You can also use the Golden Scarab talisman, which increases rune acquisition by 20% and stacks with the Gold-Pickled Fowl Foot, giving you a +56% bonus to runes when you have both. Gaining the materials to make make more Gold-Pickled Fowl Foot isn't all that hard. You need the Missionary Cookbook [2], and there's a location in Weeping Peninsula where you can get 11 Golden Firefly, and you can get the Four-Toed Fowl Foot by killing birds, especially those penguin looking guys on Limgrave beach. If you use arrows to kill them, they won't fly away. If you're going to spend ages farming, might as well farm smarter, not harder. But.. I guess that's what you were doing in the video anyway...
sometimes I feel like I am not contributing to the world enough, you know? like, I am doing things that give no value? But seeing your comment made me realized I could have done worse. So, thanks man.
Those birds are easier to farm by the grace next to the bridge towards Radahn's castle, where also the teleport to the festival is. There are 3 birds there, and you can immediately reset them afterwards sitting down by the grace eliminating travel time basically.
@@Crowbars2 no no my useless man. If you can make zero contribution to the world and still act you did good then none us of should ever feel sad. My nihilistic humour aside, I am pointing out that you made a useless comment. You aren’t as smart as you think you are, you idiot. What possessed to make such a redundant comment, it’s mind boggling. Please tell me you are just a kid cause that’s excusable
@@barbariumTV But, I'm glad I could help you realize your self-worth. Maybe next time you can use your newfound enlightenment to contribute something productive instead of being bitter about someone trying to help others.
@@shattankov1991yeah, nothing is required to beat anything in the game besides some key quest items. You could theoretically beat the game without any gear and without ever rolling. For the average player on their first run though, scadutree fragments are pretty important. Can’t exactly learn radahn’s move set when you take like 40% more damage than the already huge amount he does if you have max scadu blessing.
For my first play through of then DLC At level 250 On NG+ I ran the Whole DLC without the blessings it was ok only till the final boss did I start using them
You know that base game leveling doesnt do much for the DLC? The DLC is all about scadutree blessing. Anyways amazing video, so fun watchign you build that thing! Creds for being so creative and technical :D
Good to see you Mike! I actually walked passed you at the fringe a couple months back. Didn't want to interupt you sat down with your mates outside a cafe. Double whammy for me here, Elden Ring and a Mike Boyd vid, yas!
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I want to be mean and say you need to get good but I think that's just because I struggled through and beat the game without farming. So I'll simply say, the developers want you to play how you want to play and to take advantage of everything they give you to make your experience as challenging as you like, I'm glad you found your way!
From Software needs to learn how to make good experiences that feel good for the player. They've drank Kool Aid for too long and they've gone back to Dark Souls 2 with the DLC. Farming isn't fun. Having to face numerous bugs, or the buggy camera is not fun either. Just pumping damage and health of bosses, while artificially increasing hit boxes, are also the cheapest ways of making something 'challenging'. Mike had more fun building his machine than playing the game and that says a lot about Elden Ring.
@@sujimayne Fromsoft fixed and nerfed Consort Radahn, he's no longer an insane challenge. You can beat him with a few pretty basic builds without any troubles (already before the nerf).
Here's a little tip for all soulsborne ring games where you can drop currency items to cooperators (requires a friend to help you): 1. Backup your save. 2. Get into a world with your cooperator. 3. Drop them all the currency items you have. 4. Exit the game, and reload your backed up save. You should have your items again. 5. Repeat. It's a duplication glitch. OPTIONAL: 1. To make the process faster in the long run, have your cooperator drop all the currency items you dropped for them. 2. Exit the game, and backup your save. 3. Drop your currency items to your cooperator. 4. Exit the game, and reload your backed up save. 5. Repeat. This doubles the amount you drop each time
The comet is "dodge-able". Once he goes up in the sky that high you start running for the outside of the arena. I was able to beat the dlc boss eventually (back in June or so). Took 30+ tries. And I had to switch to "shield + poke" build. Which I had never knew about before.
As I jumped in, I was kinda expecting you to code some sort of machine learning bot that actually learned to play the game. What you did is, in many aspects, far more impressive
The devs intended to give players creative ways to defeat the bosses, sometimes you get easter eggs when you discover a weakness no one knew about. In case of prime rahdan you only need a great shield and rot spells
Level up in base game yes... Shadow of the erdtree, you go get Scadutree fragments to massively level up your character within the DLC. Regular leveling barely helps
regular leveling barely help past the softcaps of base game. if someone is not yet at 80 in his main damage stats and 60 in vigor, he will make a small difference by reaching those caps. usually though, you'll be maxed out in all those around sl200. on a strength build the investment can go even lower since you're only leveling one stat and reach the soft cap at 54 (though getting 99 str is still worth it).
@@niscent_ What should be considered is that after you reach the softcaps in Vigor, your main stat and some QOL you finally have the leeway to expand your utility ... spend some in faith to use the buffs you could not use. Spend some in arcane so that you can use the Str/Arc weapons that give you bleed, spent some in int so that the weapon art of your star greatsword actually does more dmg. You still get much stronger as a character after lvl 150 but of course not if you dont use the additional stuff you get access to.
@@chidori0117 yep, right now i'm running a pure strength build that expanded towards typical faith utility. so after i had reached 99 str (which is actually not a waste because of two handing), i simply invested more into faith at first to be able to cast flame grant me strength, bestial vitality and shared order, then i put some into mind for more fp, and afterward i've been spreading around other stats like vigor and endurance to reach their highest softcaps. now i'll be increasing faith until i get a solid enough scaling to make a good use of weapon buffs, until then, it shall be cragblade and its 15% damage.
You acknowledging the diminishing returns early on in the video. You didn't realize that the difference between level 200 and level 713 is almost nothing? Amazing video though, loved watching the process!
To make it future-proof-undetecable- You could code in random time intervals between two sets of numbers you set. I did this for a more advanced auto-clicker I made for OSRS (Oldschool Runescape) and it has so far gotten me 11- 99 magic accounts, 9 of which I sold. It has random interval, as well as changes in which pixel is pressed.
"elden ring, bs no matter what you do" actually sent my sides into orbit looool. the lego was op. great vid. 8 min intro is really long but youre a good story teller so i was fully hooked
what happened with that show, I watched it like a year or two ago, remember the first season being good but the second half of the second season kinda went everywhere and got nowhere, just a bunch of cliffhangers
If you want to farm runes, dont take it out on those poor frogs, they just want to vibe. Now turn to your left and you see a crow in the distance, not only does he have an unsatable hunger for Tarnished flesh, but he also drop more runes, and will help you farm him. Just hit him with an arrow and let him do the rest.
There's an even better rune farm I found in the Rauh Ruins. Just let the Furnace Golem kill all the enemies on that big bridge, sit at the grace, stand up, sit at the grace, and then do it all over. The fire from the Furnace Golem remains for a while, so it will spawnkill all the enemies when you sit at the grace, once.
You get 11,000 from bird with one reset. with the final boss weapon you can get 40,000 from albanurics with one reset, the frog guys are way faster even if they have a sad origin
@@austinpeterson4898 its not that hard to hit that bird, once you get the timing down you get more runes pr hour with the bird, or if you are actually playing the game, the better rune farm, as pointed out by an other commenter, the furnace golem in Rahu Ruins. Personally i would just play the game, if you are struggling its not your level, its your build. Most soft caps are at 60, and 80 for attack stat if you are doing those single attribute builds. Get 60vig, enough endurance to wear the armor you want, get 61 or 101 poise to hit those brake points, less then 61 poise might just be 0 (for pve), and there is no difference between 61 and 100. Get some FP to use weapon arts, around 20 mind or so does fine, if you are a caster, any more then 40 mind is wasted points since your flask cant recover more then that. And as i said, 60/60 if you are using a weapon with two stats it require, ie. Str Faith, or Dex Arcane. And if you use a mono attribute build, unga bunga str 80 (you can get away with less if you two hand str weapons) or 5 head int caster. Then get the talismans that help you do the thing you want, Dragon great shield for more defense, use the element the opponent hit with. And the cerulean crystal talisman to get more HP then the vigor stat can give you. Then you can get some offensive talismans, but if you feel like you need to grind levels, then its the defense department you need to improve, and levels can only get you so far. 60vigor 40endurance is good enough, anything more then that would be better spent on anything else, use those runes to buy grease or something. The problem isnt that you dont have enough points, its that the once you have are in the wrong places. As Mike showed, even with his max stats, he took 4 seconds to be taken out by Lore Accurate Radhan when he went unga bunga, but when he took to the great shield and hid behind that, using the rot rapier to whittle him down, then he manage to take him down. And here is a little secret, you can do that with 60 vigor and 40 endurance. You spend your time better trying to take an other approach instead of genocide those poor frogs.
This reminds me of that Manley Reviews’s ”Dishonored, a game that spread like the plaque” video😂 I love when people photoshop themselves inside the videogame feels so immersive and high quality👏🏼
At 1:46, I keep seeing the ‘Dark prince of Persia chains’ wrapping around an arm. 😂 I think I’m hallucinating. I’ve been studying Uni work for too long today.😂
Thing is, maximum level only matters so much in Elden Ring. For starters, the DLC uses an additional, parallel level-up system (aka the Scadutree fragments) which, when maxed, halves the damage you receive while also doubling the one you deal. Secondly, levels in each stat only matter if you're using a build or a weapon that benefits from said stat: if you're committing to a non-infused giant crusher, you're not making use of your 99 points in dexterity, intelligence, faith and arcane - meaning you could've essentially spared yourself 356 level-ups (assuming you started as a wretch). Thirdly, each stat has its own softcaps delimiting very steep diminishing returns, so leveling up beyond a certain level isn't terribly beneficial even in the case of your primary stats - a level 200 character is much closer to a fully maxed out one than a RL1 wretch already. And lastly, builds and stats alone aren't everything - certain approaches to the game are straight-up more viable than others: in your fight against Radahn, you were fat rolling (which drastically reduces your i-frames while also making the recovery animation much slower) and using Malenia's great rune (which nerfs your crimson healing flasks). I also hope you remembered to equip the golden scarab talisman before putting your poor robot to work - that could've spared him 10 hours or so of farming. On one hand, I respect the fact this video exists, I'm sure you knew how pointless this would've been beforehand and we're all here because of you doing things for fun and giggles (which I thoroughly respect of course, you had me entertained for 20 minutes straight, after all! :3), but just in case anyone here looking for actual game knowledge, there are far more straightforward ways to overcome challenges in these games, lol In my case, I was insane enough to go and beat the DLC and its final boss at level 1 (with max level weapons and Scadutree blessing, although without using summons or spirit ashes), but getting his moveset down probably took me less time than programming your robot did, lol
Could've just downloaded some software to do this rune farm for you but you actually went the extra mile to build an actual robot, Mike is truly a souls player.
The amazing thing imo about Elden ring and fromsoft games in general is that every single attack is dodge able you simply just gotta get good which is why Elden ring is such an amazing game
Reachs max level Still fat rolls. Don't run away from the bad boss where 90% of his attacks need you to run away from. And even if you tried, you'd be too slow to do it. You'd need max sacretutree fragment and recreate the "let me tank him" build, or go at medium roll and get semi decent at him. Also, you'll need morgot great rune and every defense talisman and consummable max stacked. Plus a max flask for defence. And also, Rather then boiled crab, black flame protection would be stronger. (And they don't stack). Max level + Phys + Non + Magical + Holy resistance talisman (all at level 3) + black flame protection + resist flask +backstep flask + medium roll armor. + some OP weapon. That would be the closiest you can have to fighting the boss like a normal build, but one difficulty lower. ---- Level by itself does nothing. Like having maxed out int, faith and arcane will do nothing to your strength weapon.
I did a similar thing in Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2 to get the platinum. You need a couple hundred thousand opals in order to buy everything. There's a spot you can go to collect I think 9000 at a time, by swimming a short distance, jumping on some bouncy things, activating a grappling hook, then resetting them all by entering and exiting a race. I used a controller with macros to do it for me in probably double the amount of time it would've taken me to do it myself.
I would've added a random small interval for the activation of the solenoids so that each run would be slightly diferent than the last one, to avoid being detected by any scripts checking for any exactly repeated inputs
The DLC scales with your level tho. Going in there at max level means you're playing this on the highest possible difficulty. The only way to get stronger in the DLC is by collecting the Scadutree fragments which boost your stats without affecting your level when you're exploring the DLC areas. Also who in their right mind tries to fight consort Radahn while fat rolling? Edit: I was telling bullshit. The DLC doesn't scale with your level, the content is just scaled ridiculously high by default. it does scale with NG+ like the rest of the game tho.
No, Rune level still increases your stats (and does not affect enemy stats), it's just that Scadutree frags increase your stats a hell of a lot more (at least once you have a few frags). So Rune level is still important, at least to a point, and there is no Final Fantasy 8-esque enemy scaling.
Where did you get that from? The difficulty does NOT scale with your rune level. It's just that leveling your Scadu level has a bigger impact than leveling your rune level.
two things I absolutely loved in the video... one... Activate Windows on the screen (i got the same for years lol) and the lego "3D printing" ... great job mike :D
@@sykaea. right, ok, my point was vaguely insinuating that imo, the game is more fun if you beat the bosses on your own, I don’t give 2 shits if the guy used mimic tear, or even 5 mimic tears somehow. And no, for Consort Radahn I don’t remember using a bleed build, not that that would’ve been cheesy in way anyway?
Before I even saw it my solution for your mount was Lego 😂 thinking outside the box! When I got my first PSP at 12 when they came out I needed a way to mount the screen at an angle when watching my UMDs. Lego and K-nex came in a bind!
The "base" layer of the "machine" should have gone UNDER the keyboard and you should have had like some thin layer of ruber or something to make it stay put their while in use, no slipping of keys, no moving, and no extra weight needed ;)
Mike Boyd you had me physically applauding at the levels of sheer creativity on display in this video. im not hyperbolizing either, im a long time fan and truly do admire your vision.
I sympathise with his struggles with Consort Radahn. I needed to watch guides to understand how to dodge some stuff, as experimentation would have taken me hundreds of hours, since I’m not very creative yet.😂
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14:43 is this a test PC or are you a real gamer who doesn't pay for windows? :D
I have a duckypad I was going to do the same thing with . Might try it this weekend
This is so funny to me that you and the channel Basically Homeless thought of a similar idea and released on the same day. It's cool to see the different methods you guys used to accomplish the task of a robot playing the PC.
I got to max level manually. The time is shorted in NG+ since you get more runes. I just did it 1-2 hours per day, taking my time with it. But I did it. Do you become a god? No. You get 2-hit instead of 1-hit and you deal more damage, but you're still not a god, even at max level, for anyone wondering. But the good thing about the "yes" build is that you can switch between melee and magic without any problem and you can try out different styles of gameplay with the same character, without having to restart the game. So, I'm confirming what this video is showing.
This is so damm underated i felt like i was watching a 3 millions subs channel
This comment is underrated
this genuienly made me laugh. this comment is incredible.
This comment is only gonna be relevant for so long
@@AsherHalperin that makes it better
Well, this comment is going to have over ten thousand likes in the future.
This is the joy of coding. Why spend 100 hours doing something when you can spend 200 automating it, love these kinds of videos
exactly lmao, the satisfaction of something finally fully working as intended, aka the automation process, is way better than just getting the thing done yourself xD
or spend 10 minutes getting a mod menu and getting unlimited runes that way lmao
@@kopapai7138 you couldn't have missed the point more if you tried 😂😂😂
Not to be a dickhead but there was barely any code there.
Better yet. You actually spend 99/100 hours doing what you are doing. And At the end, you decide to spend another 200 more hours to automate it.
I fuckin knew you were gonna get rekt even at max level xD
Witless tarnished.
Cause that boss is doo doo
@@littlefrank90 git gud 🙃
@@Jimmy--Little Oh you can trust me, I am not getting good. I am soon to be 34 and my time with videogames is too limited now.
@@littlefrank90 then get wrecked by a piece of code in a video game for younglings
"It's completely undodgeable" spins in a circle and doesn't go anywhere. A+
I was expecting some stuff about the cross slash (which was close to actually undodgeable prepatch), the meteor took me completely offguard lmfao
Love the lego approach! Also love that you can simply dial in the timing. Would love to see more automation videos.
I think people who are into automation for the sake of automation switch to home automation stuff. There are so many things that can be done that's satisfying.
Max level and still has the health debuff from Fia lmao. Love the video
Pure Fia Simp.
20:32 Your reaction is absolutely amazing lmao, turned instantly into a drunk old-man at a pub.
Fromsoft asked do you want scadatree fragments to make the game easier? Bud went nah I'd Lego.
“Stand proud albinaurics, you’re wave of goldable”
14:38 can build a robot but can’t activate windows lmao
no real reason to activate it tbf😂
not his main rig, no reason to activate windows for a test rig
@@coreysuffieldIt's literally just a cmd line away
Try searching for MAS script
@@RafidW9 Unless you've misplaced your licence key, as I have
Please tell me you used the golden scarab talisman for this
At 14:23 he says 212k was the maximum, so I’m inclined to say that he is using it, but you never know. Iirc there’s a number of ways to boost rune gain
@@dylankagan28 Golden Scarab is good but golden pickeled fowl's foot boosts rune gain by 30% for 3 minutes which is 56% with the golden scarab.
Not worth using in this case though since it only lasts for 3 minutes and farming fowl's feet and gold fireflies for crafting them is kind of a pain.
@@Corzappyit’s like why did you bring it up
@@Haddosan "What you said would work, what wouldnt work is this, but yea wouldnt work" ass comment
@@GrubbHubbClips foe real💀
i already knew the ending before this started. you get rocked by Radahn anyway 😆
Yeah, when he asked what would happen next, my answer: "You Died"
2:18 You're literally just supposed to run away from it, lol. I actually love the attack because the way to dodge it is to remember how you dodged it the first time you fight him. So, it's a memory attack rather than a skill or reaction based attack. It's great.
My man you are a genius, it is still humbling yet inspiring the things you put your mind to, and then accomplish!!!
6:34 Laughs in Old School RuneScape
Lol was litterly looking for this comment hahaha, i dont know this game but i was like…. Welll 110 hours to become maxed level, that would be nice lol
@@lucvanleeuwen605 ooh and you'd get banned so easily trying to bot osrs. Even if you used a cool lego robot, mods would still ban you in a heartbeat
lol
I chuckled
Funny shadow of the erd treee uses a different leveling system
17:19 i was waiting for it to round robin and go back to 0 for a moment😅
Same 😂
I’m so happy you made this video and it’s beautifully shot-
for the love of god please level Vigor.
Level 183 with 37 Vigor is playing in hard mode😂 please get to atleast 50
the best defense is INSANELY high offense
@@funky555 no, it is not, especially considering the soft caps for offensive stats. not having at least 40-50 vigor is a difference between being one-shot and two-shot, he is making the game unnecessarily difficult this way
Mike playing elden ring was not on my 2024 bingo list
Mike, a way to get additional runes in that farming place in Mogwyn's palace is to use the Gold Pickled Fowl Foot item, it increases rune acquisition by 30% for 3 minutes. You can also use the Golden Scarab talisman, which increases rune acquisition by 20% and stacks with the Gold-Pickled Fowl Foot, giving you a +56% bonus to runes when you have both.
Gaining the materials to make make more Gold-Pickled Fowl Foot isn't all that hard. You need the Missionary Cookbook [2], and there's a location in Weeping Peninsula where you can get 11 Golden Firefly, and you can get the Four-Toed Fowl Foot by killing birds, especially those penguin looking guys on Limgrave beach. If you use arrows to kill them, they won't fly away. If you're going to spend ages farming, might as well farm smarter, not harder. But.. I guess that's what you were doing in the video anyway...
sometimes I feel like I am not contributing to the world enough, you know? like, I am doing things that give no value? But seeing your comment made me realized I could have done worse. So, thanks man.
Those birds are easier to farm by the grace next to the bridge towards Radahn's castle, where also the teleport to the festival is.
There are 3 birds there, and you can immediately reset them afterwards sitting down by the grace eliminating travel time basically.
@@barbariumTV I think that's something you need to keep worrying about if you felt the need to tell me...
@@Crowbars2 no no my useless man. If you can make zero contribution to the world and still act you did good then none us of should ever feel sad. My nihilistic humour aside, I am pointing out that you made a useless comment. You aren’t as smart as you think you are, you idiot. What possessed to make such a redundant comment, it’s mind boggling. Please tell me you are just a kid cause that’s excusable
@@barbariumTV But, I'm glad I could help you realize your self-worth. Maybe next time you can use your newfound enlightenment to contribute something productive instead of being bitter about someone trying to help others.
The best part of this video is that your base game stats are irrelevant in the DLC if you don’t collect scadutree blessings
Yeah, that's what I've heard too. You need to get some stuff from the DLC to make it easier, without doing that, it's impossible
@@PureRushXevus Clearly a skill issue, stats are always relevant. Skadutree fragments are not required for completing the DLC content.
@@shattankov1991yeah, nothing is required to beat anything in the game besides some key quest items. You could theoretically beat the game without any gear and without ever rolling.
For the average player on their first run though, scadutree fragments are pretty important. Can’t exactly learn radahn’s move set when you take like 40% more damage than the already huge amount he does if you have max scadu blessing.
For my first play through of then DLC At level 250 On NG+ I ran the Whole DLC without the blessings it was ok only till the final boss did I start using them
That's just false. Your stats are very much relevant, it is just that they are exponentially boosted by the shadow fragments.
I can’t get enough of the “on location reporting” 😂
What an entertaining entertaining entertaining watch that was. Going down my brain like sweet nectar.
You know that base game leveling doesnt do much for the DLC? The DLC is all about scadutree blessing. Anyways amazing video, so fun watchign you build that thing! Creds for being so creative and technical :D
Good to see you Mike!
I actually walked passed you at the fringe a couple months back. Didn't want to interupt you sat down with your mates outside a cafe.
Double whammy for me here, Elden Ring and a Mike Boyd vid, yas!
Incredible.
The southpark World Of Warcraft strategy, never thought I'd see it with my own eyes
9:26 - the inclusion of this short scene made me smile, even if the problem is now nearly 30 years old...
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The DLC came out on June 21… we are well beyond “spoiler” territory
@@a-a-ron8162What? Han Solo dies in Episode 7??
Spoilers? The dlc came out 4 months ago ffs
@@paulallen-01 You do know that people have other things to do besides being up to date with what games and DLCs come out. Try having only one hour daily of free time and we'll see then how you feel about spoilers on a 4 month old topic.
@ I have less than an hour to game each day. I have a full time job, married with 3 kids. I get about 4 hours in a week.
You sitting by the fire with the donkey right next to your face was hilarious lol
I want to be mean and say you need to get good but I think that's just because I struggled through and beat the game without farming. So I'll simply say, the developers want you to play how you want to play and to take advantage of everything they give you to make your experience as challenging as you like, I'm glad you found your way!
From Software needs to learn how to make good experiences that feel good for the player. They've drank Kool Aid for too long and they've gone back to Dark Souls 2 with the DLC.
Farming isn't fun. Having to face numerous bugs, or the buggy camera is not fun either. Just pumping damage and health of bosses, while artificially increasing hit boxes, are also the cheapest ways of making something 'challenging'.
Mike had more fun building his machine than playing the game and that says a lot about Elden Ring.
@@sujimayne Fromsoft fixed and nerfed Consort Radahn, he's no longer an insane challenge. You can beat him with a few pretty basic builds without any troubles (already before the nerf).
Here's a little tip for all soulsborne ring games where you can drop currency items to cooperators (requires a friend to help you):
1. Backup your save.
2. Get into a world with your cooperator.
3. Drop them all the currency items you have.
4. Exit the game, and reload your backed up save. You should have your items again.
5. Repeat. It's a duplication glitch.
OPTIONAL:
1. To make the process faster in the long run, have your cooperator drop all the currency items you dropped for them.
2. Exit the game, and backup your save.
3. Drop your currency items to your cooperator.
4. Exit the game, and reload your backed up save.
5. Repeat. This doubles the amount you drop each time
Isn't there a goldfish who beat Elden Ring?
Love your videos and your development in climbing, thank you for sharing you experiences!
The comet is "dodge-able". Once he goes up in the sky that high you start running for the outside of the arena. I was able to beat the dlc boss eventually (back in June or so). Took 30+ tries. And I had to switch to "shield + poke" build. Which I had never knew about before.
As I jumped in, I was kinda expecting you to code some sort of machine learning bot that actually learned to play the game. What you did is, in many aspects, far more impressive
to be honest, It's not. building a working machine learning algorithm for this is way more complex
Nah hooking up an arduino to some motors and hard coding the farm is a high school project at best. Adding ML to that would be leagues above
1:02 experts agree this was boolshet
I just accepted that I'm too old to play a skilled build and went faith mid-tank spell spammer
The simplicity of this solution is very impressive. You're an incredible problem solver.
Heavy load or fat rolling is super hard to play with it makes dodging very difficult medium or light load are the way to go
I loved the zoom into the unlicensed windows watermark to show off the hardware cheats.
Max lvl, still died, checks out 20:00
The devs intended to give players creative ways to defeat the bosses, sometimes you get easter eggs when you discover a weakness no one knew about.
In case of prime rahdan you only need a great shield and rot spells
the comet attack can be avoided by running away
That rune farm always has me feeling like a Campbell in a MacDonald camp.
I was half expecting a rollover when you go past max runes!
Mike Boyd, one of us, one of us lol. Great video, had no idea you were a gamer.
Most would have just used a keyboard macro but the engineering here is fabulous!
Level up in base game yes... Shadow of the erdtree, you go get Scadutree fragments to massively level up your character within the DLC. Regular leveling barely helps
regular leveling barely help past the softcaps of base game. if someone is not yet at 80 in his main damage stats and 60 in vigor, he will make a small difference by reaching those caps. usually though, you'll be maxed out in all those around sl200. on a strength build the investment can go even lower since you're only leveling one stat and reach the soft cap at 54 (though getting 99 str is still worth it).
@@niscent_ What should be considered is that after you reach the softcaps in Vigor, your main stat and some QOL you finally have the leeway to expand your utility ... spend some in faith to use the buffs you could not use. Spend some in arcane so that you can use the Str/Arc weapons that give you bleed, spent some in int so that the weapon art of your star greatsword actually does more dmg. You still get much stronger as a character after lvl 150 but of course not if you dont use the additional stuff you get access to.
@@chidori0117 yep, right now i'm running a pure strength build that expanded towards typical faith utility. so after i had reached 99 str (which is actually not a waste because of two handing), i simply invested more into faith at first to be able to cast flame grant me strength, bestial vitality and shared order, then i put some into mind for more fp, and afterward i've been spreading around other stats like vigor and endurance to reach their highest softcaps.
now i'll be increasing faith until i get a solid enough scaling to make a good use of weapon buffs, until then, it shall be cragblade and its 15% damage.
You acknowledging the diminishing returns early on in the video. You didn't realize that the difference between level 200 and level 713 is almost nothing?
Amazing video though, loved watching the process!
icl, if you sold a robot that did any in game farming for you, id prolly buy it lol
To make it future-proof-undetecable- You could code in random time intervals between two sets of numbers you set. I did this for a more advanced auto-clicker I made for OSRS (Oldschool Runescape) and it has so far gotten me 11- 99 magic accounts, 9 of which I sold.
It has random interval, as well as changes in which pixel is pressed.
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"elden ring, bs no matter what you do" actually sent my sides into orbit looool. the lego was op. great vid. 8 min intro is really long but youre a good story teller so i was fully hooked
Hey can you please help Boyd from the TV show called FROM. They are stuck in that area and Boyd needs help from a smart man.
what happened with that show, I watched it like a year or two ago, remember the first season being good but the second half of the second season kinda went everywhere and got nowhere, just a bunch of cliffhangers
14:32 Next idea. "Activating Windows is too hard... so I built a robot that did it for me"
It would have been so funny if it had an integer overflow and reset
Tank build with rapier and a big shield really trivialises radahn
"But who's got 100+ hours spare just to farm runes?"
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Fun fact, with shield & poke tactic you used you can beat him at level 120 with no issues.
If you want to farm runes, dont take it out on those poor frogs, they just want to vibe.
Now turn to your left and you see a crow in the distance, not only does he have an unsatable hunger for Tarnished flesh, but he also drop more runes, and will help you farm him. Just hit him with an arrow and let him do the rest.
There's an even better rune farm I found in the Rauh Ruins.
Just let the Furnace Golem kill all the enemies on that big bridge, sit at the grace, stand up, sit at the grace, and then do it all over.
The fire from the Furnace Golem remains for a while, so it will spawnkill all the enemies when you sit at the grace, once.
You get 11,000 from bird with one reset. with the final boss weapon you can get 40,000 from albanurics with one reset, the frog guys are way faster even if they have a sad origin
Porque no los dos?
@@HankFacepunchtakes too long compared to just the Albanourics. Wasting time = wasting runes
@@austinpeterson4898 its not that hard to hit that bird, once you get the timing down you get more runes pr hour with the bird, or if you are actually playing the game, the better rune farm, as pointed out by an other commenter, the furnace golem in Rahu Ruins.
Personally i would just play the game, if you are struggling its not your level, its your build.
Most soft caps are at 60, and 80 for attack stat if you are doing those single attribute builds.
Get 60vig, enough endurance to wear the armor you want, get 61 or 101 poise to hit those brake points, less then 61 poise might just be 0 (for pve), and there is no difference between 61 and 100.
Get some FP to use weapon arts, around 20 mind or so does fine, if you are a caster, any more then 40 mind is wasted points since your flask cant recover more then that.
And as i said, 60/60 if you are using a weapon with two stats it require, ie. Str Faith, or Dex Arcane.
And if you use a mono attribute build, unga bunga str 80 (you can get away with less if you two hand str weapons) or 5 head int caster.
Then get the talismans that help you do the thing you want, Dragon great shield for more defense, use the element the opponent hit with. And the cerulean crystal talisman to get more HP then the vigor stat can give you.
Then you can get some offensive talismans, but if you feel like you need to grind levels, then its the defense department you need to improve, and levels can only get you so far.
60vigor 40endurance is good enough, anything more then that would be better spent on anything else, use those runes to buy grease or something.
The problem isnt that you dont have enough points, its that the once you have are in the wrong places.
As Mike showed, even with his max stats, he took 4 seconds to be taken out by Lore Accurate Radhan when he went unga bunga, but when he took to the great shield and hid behind that, using the rot rapier to whittle him down, then he manage to take him down. And here is a little secret, you can do that with 60 vigor and 40 endurance.
You spend your time better trying to take an other approach instead of genocide those poor frogs.
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How is it not 3m subs yet?! Good luck on those last few Mike. Amazing channel by the way
This reminds me of that Manley Reviews’s ”Dishonored, a game that spread like the plaque” video😂
I love when people photoshop themselves inside the videogame feels so immersive and high quality👏🏼
Now build a robot that activates Windows
Lol...🤣🤣
I love how you've just outed yourself in the first 20 secs by still having the Fia hug debuff on lmao
endurance at 42 is wild
not really, the first stamina soft cap is at 50
At 1:46, I keep seeing the ‘Dark prince of Persia chains’ wrapping around an arm. 😂
I think I’m hallucinating. I’ve been studying Uni work for too long today.😂
Learn to fly FPV drones
6:15 This sentence immediately made me think of Dicerz's Oldschool Runescape 9 to 5 series.
Thing is, maximum level only matters so much in Elden Ring. For starters, the DLC uses an additional, parallel level-up system (aka the Scadutree fragments) which, when maxed, halves the damage you receive while also doubling the one you deal. Secondly, levels in each stat only matter if you're using a build or a weapon that benefits from said stat: if you're committing to a non-infused giant crusher, you're not making use of your 99 points in dexterity, intelligence, faith and arcane - meaning you could've essentially spared yourself 356 level-ups (assuming you started as a wretch). Thirdly, each stat has its own softcaps delimiting very steep diminishing returns, so leveling up beyond a certain level isn't terribly beneficial even in the case of your primary stats - a level 200 character is much closer to a fully maxed out one than a RL1 wretch already. And lastly, builds and stats alone aren't everything - certain approaches to the game are straight-up more viable than others: in your fight against Radahn, you were fat rolling (which drastically reduces your i-frames while also making the recovery animation much slower) and using Malenia's great rune (which nerfs your crimson healing flasks). I also hope you remembered to equip the golden scarab talisman before putting your poor robot to work - that could've spared him 10 hours or so of farming.
On one hand, I respect the fact this video exists, I'm sure you knew how pointless this would've been beforehand and we're all here because of you doing things for fun and giggles (which I thoroughly respect of course, you had me entertained for 20 minutes straight, after all! :3), but just in case anyone here looking for actual game knowledge, there are far more straightforward ways to overcome challenges in these games, lol
In my case, I was insane enough to go and beat the DLC and its final boss at level 1 (with max level weapons and Scadutree blessing, although without using summons or spirit ashes), but getting his moveset down probably took me less time than programming your robot did, lol
Great farmer robot. Congrats on finally beating final boss as well.
Doing less than 2000 damage with the giant crusher at max level... you are doing something wrong dude ( and also fat rolling).
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Could've just downloaded some software to do this rune farm for you but you actually went the extra mile to build an actual robot, Mike is truly a souls player.
That's against rule #1 😜 thanks for watching!
Love the scene at the fire place with the lama creeping at you 😂
Not going to lie, I think getting good would have been easier.
The amazing thing imo about Elden ring and fromsoft games in general is that every single attack is dodge able you simply just gotta get good which is why Elden ring is such an amazing game
Reachs max level
Still fat rolls.
Don't run away from the bad boss where 90% of his attacks need you to run away from.
And even if you tried, you'd be too slow to do it.
You'd need max sacretutree fragment and recreate the "let me tank him" build, or go at medium roll and get semi decent at him.
Also, you'll need morgot great rune and every defense talisman and consummable max stacked. Plus a max flask for defence.
And also, Rather then boiled crab, black flame protection would be stronger. (And they don't stack).
Max level
+ Phys + Non + Magical + Holy resistance talisman (all at level 3)
+ black flame protection
+ resist flask
+backstep flask
+ medium roll armor.
+ some OP weapon.
That would be the closiest you can have to fighting the boss like a normal build, but one difficulty lower.
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Level by itself does nothing.
Like having maxed out int, faith and arcane will do nothing to your strength weapon.
That little robot will make you pay when it becomes self aware 😂😂
The video might perform a little worse than expected because people don't want to get Elden Ring spoiled. I might watch it myself in like 200 hours
it's been out long enough
I love how you sit in the chain or just lean into Elir Ilim's columns!! Genius
My guy really overengineered what is essentially a macro lmao
I did a similar thing in Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2 to get the platinum. You need a couple hundred thousand opals in order to buy everything. There's a spot you can go to collect I think 9000 at a time, by swimming a short distance, jumping on some bouncy things, activating a grappling hook, then resetting them all by entering and exiting a race. I used a controller with macros to do it for me in probably double the amount of time it would've taken me to do it myself.
The same guy who decided to swim across a large frozen river refuse to git gud. Well....i guess that effort had to go somewhere i guess.
I would've added a random small interval for the activation of the solenoids so that each run would be slightly diferent than the last one, to avoid being detected by any scripts checking for any exactly repeated inputs
The DLC scales with your level tho. Going in there at max level means you're playing this on the highest possible difficulty. The only way to get stronger in the DLC is by collecting the Scadutree fragments which boost your stats without affecting your level when you're exploring the DLC areas. Also who in their right mind tries to fight consort Radahn while fat rolling?
Edit: I was telling bullshit. The DLC doesn't scale with your level, the content is just scaled ridiculously high by default. it does scale with NG+ like the rest of the game tho.
No, Rune level still increases your stats (and does not affect enemy stats), it's just that Scadutree frags increase your stats a hell of a lot more (at least once you have a few frags). So Rune level is still important, at least to a point, and there is no Final Fantasy 8-esque enemy scaling.
Where did you get that from?
The difficulty does NOT scale with your rune level.
It's just that leveling your Scadu level has a bigger impact than leveling your rune level.
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two things I absolutely loved in the video... one... Activate Windows on the screen (i got the same for years lol) and the lego "3D printing" ... great job mike :D
0:17 oh god, Mimic tear 🤦♂️
@@sykaea. Giga cheese idc
Shut the hell up. People should play in the way that they find most fun, not in the way that makes random commenters on youtube the most impressed.
@@sykaea. no one’s “crying” and abt anything here lol, I’m just giving my opinion, crazy concept ikr, you don’t have get so butthurt of it lmao
@@sykaea. right, ok, my point was vaguely insinuating that imo, the game is more fun if you beat the bosses on your own, I don’t give 2 shits if the guy used mimic tear, or even 5 mimic tears somehow. And no, for Consort Radahn I don’t remember using a bleed build, not that that would’ve been cheesy in way anyway?
Dude. The only thing I don't like about your videos is how long I have to wait for them! Love you channel and the work you do.
Crazy good idea and execution :D. I love your demonstration of problem-solving procedures. Thanks for the video.
Not levelling Vigor and not activating Windows on such a heroic video is the most incredible bait I've ever seen. Chapeau!
Before I even saw it my solution for your mount was Lego 😂 thinking outside the box! When I got my first PSP at 12 when they came out I needed a way to mount the screen at an angle when watching my UMDs. Lego and K-nex came in a bind!
The "base" layer of the "machine" should have gone UNDER the keyboard and you should have had like some thin layer of ruber or something to make it stay put their while in use, no slipping of keys, no moving, and no extra weight needed ;)
The filmmaking on this is such a step up!! Really great editing and narration
dont forget golden scarab, gold pickled foul foot/the expansion version AND joining SEEKERS (in game group thing). All of those will boost exp.
Mike Boyd you had me physically applauding at the levels of sheer creativity on display in this video. im not hyperbolizing either, im a long time fan and truly do admire your vision.
I just started learning to code. Was neat to see something being put to practical use. :)
Funnily enough the UA-camr Basically Homeless also built a robot to game for him and uploaded it on the same day
I sympathise with his struggles with Consort Radahn.
I needed to watch guides to understand how to dodge some stuff, as experimentation would have taken me hundreds of hours, since I’m not very creative yet.😂
Love the video. Great blend of cool electronics and gaming.
Miki: Walking in with billions of ruins to go fight rhdan thinking it will be like a hot knife through butter
Elden Ring: Ohhhh .... thats cute.