Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree DLC Podcast ft. FightinCowboy & Gene Park [SPOILERS!] [Khan's Kast]

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  • In today's Khan's Kast we sit down with ‪@FightinCowboy‬ and Gene Park to talk about the Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree. Is it too hard? Is it worth it? All that and more!
    Check out FightinCowboy:
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    #eldenring #eldenringdlc #shadowoftheerdtree
    Chapters:
    0:00 Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree Podcast
    2:26 Who is Gene Park?
    9:30 Shadow of the Erdtree Review
    17:02 Shadow of the Erdtree Length, Is it Worth It?
    26:13 From Software Gatekeeps DLC
    31:58 Is Shadow of the Erdtree Too Hard?
    45:11 Scadutree Blessings
    57:02 Kai Cenat & Elden Ring
    1:08:06 Stop Spoiling!
    1:12:56 Shadow of the Erdtree Cool Bosses
    1:21:50 Cool Voice Acting & Soundtrack
    1:26:40 Visuals and Artstyle
    1:29:25 Abyssal Woods
    1:36:21 Better Quests?
    1:47:35 Cool Weapons, Ashes of War & Spells
    2:05:14 Shadow of the Erdtree Best Zones
    2:10:00 Furnace Golems
    2:16:38 Asmongold Quits and Rallies
    2:18:52 Worst Thing about Shadow of the Erdtree
    2:22:08 Shadow of the Erdtree Performance
    2:29:56 Elden Ring Banter
    2:40:12 Special Moments
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  • @biggums5
    @biggums5 2 дні тому +38

    Igon was fantastic. After hearing him shout about Bayle all the way from that first area, I'd have felt bad NOT summoning him.

    • @varrusironfist4335
      @varrusironfist4335 2 дні тому +4

      HAIL OF HARPOONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @figuures6098
      @figuures6098 2 дні тому +3

      CURSE YOU, BAAAYLEEE!!!

    • @smokey0111
      @smokey0111 2 дні тому +1

      I forget when Cowboy said it, but soon after he mentioned that the dragon hunter katana just shreds Bayle I tried it myself. This is my second run through the game, but I'm still surprised I one shot it.

    • @MattR8605
      @MattR8605 22 години тому

      @@smokey0111 that katana is perfect for smacking dragons right in their faces. That’s essentially how I beat Bayle. Patiently waiting for a good L2 right to his face with Igon screaming his battle cries off to the side.

  • @Brendangotgudgaming
    @Brendangotgudgaming 2 дні тому +19

    Who the hell would ever play a game like this that doesn't like exploration that's literally insane exploration is probably the best time I have with the game it's awesome

    • @jellydamgood
      @jellydamgood День тому +1

      Five minutes off the beaten path to get that shard is too tedious for those so called souls fans.

    • @JoeNeutrino
      @JoeNeutrino День тому

      Why would someone buy an open world game in the first place if they don't like exploring?

  • @ryankeith2712
    @ryankeith2712 2 дні тому +37

    It’s crazy to me that I think the Peak of the DLC was the Leda fight with all the allies. Easily the most emotional part of all of Elden ring

    • @amysteriousviewer3772
      @amysteriousviewer3772 2 дні тому +17

      Finding Shaman Village and reading the lore of the items was the most emotional part for me. Paints Marika and the events of the Shattering and Elden Ring in a completely new light.

    • @andrewbowen2837
      @andrewbowen2837 2 дні тому +4

      Even though the fight itself is cancer

    • @ryankeith2712
      @ryankeith2712 2 дні тому +11

      @@andrewbowen2837 nah your crazy, the moshpit is awesome

    • @hododod246
      @hododod246 2 дні тому +1

      @@amysteriousviewer3772 what is that new light? Genuine question

    • @amysteriousviewer3772
      @amysteriousviewer3772 2 дні тому

      @@hododod246 The way I understand it: After the Hornsent massacred Marika’s people and stuffed them into jars she had the goal of creating a world without suffering where these kinds of things could not happen to anyone else.
      Instructed by the Greater Will (though we now learned that it was just Metyr posing as an emissary of the Greater Will but who had not received true guidance for quite some time) she ascended to Godhood and tried to create a new world with perfect Order and Grace by sealing away the concept of death and dying itself and purging the Shadow Lands of the Hornsent and all things related to the Crucible before sealing it all away.
      When Mohg and Morgott were birthed with the horns indicative of the Crucible she realised that she could not deny her “rotten” roots and she herself was “impure” as well but she hid them away and proclaimed it a curse. But when Godwyn was assassinated she finally understood that even after everything she had done and all her good intentions could not prevent bad things from happening and felt betrayed by the Greater Will which lead to her shattering the Elden Ring and plunging the world she had created into chaos because of her grief.

  • @samthompson261
    @samthompson261 2 дні тому +26

    that boar charge hitbox is messed up I agree with cowboy

    • @BasketCase-rr7tx
      @BasketCase-rr7tx 2 дні тому +5

      I don’t think I’ve avoided it once. Looks like I’m in the clear and then will suddenly get hit.

    • @enman009
      @enman009 2 дні тому +2

      For real. The fight is fine but hitboxes need some tweaking.

    • @captainjimmy5571
      @captainjimmy5571 2 дні тому

      It’s just a bit unfair you can roll it even mid rolling but I’m pretty sure it’s frame perfect or close to it. It feels like rolling through godskin when he does his roll attack

    • @enman009
      @enman009 2 дні тому

      ​@@captainjimmy5571Godskin is very consistent since it's all about position based responses, which you can read and bait. Gaius is a bit janky but just needs a hitbox tweak, even if the fight is consistent and moderately easy.

    • @sPaCe_NiNjA187
      @sPaCe_NiNjA187 День тому +1

      You have to roll into the boar. You can’t roll to sides or back.

  • @kingsgrave_
    @kingsgrave_ 2 дні тому +8

    I wasn't trying to speedrun it and thought I was taking my time but ended up beating the DLC in 20 hours. I beat all the remembrances and found all the areas myself without guides or help. Had a blast. My build was double colossal sword jump attack the enemy to death and my trusty Mimic Tear, gotta summon the homie.
    on the topic of Igon, its cool that Igon and Bayle the Dread is a GRRM reference to his character Aegon the Conqueror and Balerion the Black Dread.

  • @shutuppabs323
    @shutuppabs323 День тому +3

    FightinCowboy is literally that dude. Thanks for all your walkthroughs.

  • @jt_no_money2381
    @jt_no_money2381 2 дні тому +18

    Congrats to Gene for one shotting cancer! Always nice to hear someone beating it and good luck keeping it gone for good!

  • @benjaminsimmons4077
    @benjaminsimmons4077 3 дні тому +39

    Gene with Cowboy and Ruri?!?! Praise the sun

  • @sakuranohana1014
    @sakuranohana1014 2 дні тому +4

    In a world full of magics and zombies.
    Thou fight with shield and sorceries.
    Ignore those dare say its cheese.
    Feel happy feel no worries.

  • @LordlyWeeb
    @LordlyWeeb 2 дні тому +36

    I have no problem with people using summons, but it's absolutely valid for people to feel like they make the game too easy, and thus not want to use them. It's not necessarily an elitism thing, it's just how they find their fun in the game. They're playing how they want to.
    The problem with some (only some) of the dlc fights is that they're in a strange place where they're too hard solo, and too easy with spirit summons. There's no middle ground.
    And while Fromsoft may want you to use summons, most bosses don't actually feel designed for them. I've been helping people fight dlc bosses and they change targets on a whim in a very unnatural way. They don't feel like they're designed for multiple targets, regardless of developer intention.

    • @dusttodust915
      @dusttodust915 2 дні тому

      They don't make the dlc easier, they're almost required in the dlc as far as the bosses go.

    • @NicolaCoinMel
      @NicolaCoinMel 2 дні тому +4

      I've found this problem too. I don't use summons if I can, and I took down Messmer without tear or any cheese tactic, but I had to use the mimic on some bosses because how stupidly hard and not fun they were (commander gains I am pointing at you).

    • @8megabytes0
      @8megabytes0 2 дні тому +1

      ​@@NicolaCoinMel "commander gains" got me 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @jellydamgood
      @jellydamgood День тому +1

      Miyazaki uses summons, so all the no summoning screeching crowd can just go join dung eater with his dung eating.

    • @prasurjyasarma7505
      @prasurjyasarma7505 День тому +1

      I am in ng+ completed base game without summons going through the dlc, I had to use summons coz the bosses are in somewhat in the middle ground of difficulty for me. If I solo them I get their health down to almost 50 to 70% most of the time but I cant really kill them (maybe if I try like 200 time prob could but no patience) but when I use summons I could get like 2 to 3 extra hits that is required to kill them, so I dont know bosses are kindof in a wired spot. But the love the dlc.

  • @biggums5
    @biggums5 2 дні тому +6

    Gaius does have wonkey hit boxes. There were times I swear his charge would double clip me both his charge.

  • @lordthruxawe504
    @lordthruxawe504 День тому +2

    Regarding the discourse on summons, it doesn't bother me if people want to use them. They wouldn't have been put in the game if they weren't intended for use. That being said, a lot of the time it almost doesn't feel like the AI of the bosses was intended for fighting multiple opponents. I sometimes hop in to my friends' games to help them out with certain bosses and often the fights devolve into the boss switching aggro between players. One player will grab the attention of the boss whilst the other heals and in turn does damage to the boss whilst it is preoccupied with another player.
    My own personal self-imposed rule is that I don't use summons unless there's more than one boss beyond the fog wall. If there's two bosses, I have no problem dropping a mimic tear because I usually hate duo bosses but having something to divert the attention of one of the bosses makes those fights more bearable. That being said, I think everyone should play the way they wish to and not care about judgement from elitists on the internet. I only impose the aforementioned rule on myself because I want to know that I am capable of killing hard bosses on my own with no aid, but others should just play the way that is the most fun to them personally. That can be doing a level one run with a base level weapon to having a full summon build with buffs and magic.

  • @ChiefThanos
    @ChiefThanos 2 дні тому +3

    "When our Shadows are suppressed or repressed in the unconscious long enough, they can even overtake our entire lives and cause psychosis or extreme forms of behavior, like cheating on one's partner or physically harming others."
    Carl Jung

  • @ZPotCat
    @ZPotCat 2 дні тому +2

    you can kill Gaius on horse, you have to attack on opposite side of his sword

  • @aayushdasgupta9754
    @aayushdasgupta9754 2 дні тому +10

    So for the Bayle and Ancient Dragons lore,
    1. Placidusax did not lose his heads in the battle. He defeated Bayle, after which Bayle tried to fuck off. Placi bit him with 2 of his heads, but Bayle ran with such force, that he tore of the two heads that bit him trying to stop him. So, basically Bayle challenged Placidusax, probably to death, lost tried to run away, and injured Placidusax doing it.
    2. Regarding the Ancient Dragon before Bayle, I think the ancient dragon reached the highest point before the flame lightning started falling randomly. That sort of scared Senessax. We are small, so the Flame Lightning doesn't really matter to us, but if you are the size of Senessax, you are getting bombarded. So, he may have been looking for reinforcements from the Ancient Dragons or just biding his time, not wanting to go up due to the flame lightning, and down due to the other drakes in the way.
    What would have been fun, would be to drop him in the abyssal woods. He tried to escape from Bayle, was injured, crash landed in the abyssal woods to the north west of the Jagged peak, and now, is infected by Madness, due to the despair of losing his battle. Then his lightning would become another form of frenzied flame lightning, which we could get as an incantation that does Lightning damage and Madness buildup. Would be really cool.
    Great podcast man!

    • @Rincatt
      @Rincatt День тому

      what are you smoking bro

  • @richardjamesIII
    @richardjamesIII 2 дні тому +1

    I agree about the furnace golems, although almost all of them can be trivialized by finding a route to get above them and throw hefty fire pots (doesn't even have to be the furnace pots) into their basket. It takes around 5 pots to do it. I believe all but two golems can be killed in this manner.
    Also, doing Farum Azula is VERY helpful, because those last few bell-bearings make weapon upgrades (which you WILL need) much more feasible.

  • @SomeUnkindledAsh
    @SomeUnkindledAsh 2 дні тому +6

    Yooooo. Furnace Golem slander! Those things are so satisfying to no-hit. Also throwing pots into them and blowing them up is dope. They look amazing, too. They dont take long if you use the Lance Talisman and a bonk weapon

    • @amysteriousviewer3772
      @amysteriousviewer3772 2 дні тому +2

      2 viscerals is still to much. Maybe 1 that takes a bit longer to proc. It takes like 3-5 minutes of mindless slashing ans occasionally jumping.

  • @Xayalan
    @Xayalan День тому +1

    Entering hinterlands was so emotional for me for some reason. Goosebumps.
    Same for when I killed Leda and crew. It felt so somber and I just beat the sh*t out of them in quiet despair…like damn, I didn’t plan on betraying you guys but it’s what must be done.
    Also fighting BAYLE I had a huge swelling of emotions but locked tf in with Igon’s blood curling yells and first-try finished him. Fu*k. What a game man

  • @joemurray
    @joemurray 3 дні тому +10

    Everyone smash the like button, awesome we have this type of content with amazing people

  • @noahmcclellan4372
    @noahmcclellan4372 2 дні тому

    Awesome combo and convo!

  • @nemesisundead83
    @nemesisundead83 2 дні тому +5

    You know while I was playing the DLC I must have missed the part where Radahn was mentioned and hear or read something about restoring a lost soul.....I thought the final boss was going to be Godwyn, Radahns soul shouldn't have lost, his soul wasn't destroyed, his mind might have been destroyed by the rot, but I'm pretty sure that when he died his soul would have been fine, well my thoughts, which is why I was super shocked seeing Radahn at the end, didn't make me mad or anything, my favorite fight in Elden Ring was Radahns, and I've always wanted to fight him in his prime, job well done in my eyes

    • @nemesisundead83
      @nemesisundead83 2 дні тому

      But it would have been nice to fight Godwyn, maybe in Elden Ring 2 lol

    • @figuures6098
      @figuures6098 2 дні тому +4

      Exactly how I fought, biggest takeaway after first base game playthrough was that Radahn should’ve been a more endgame boss, and SotE gave me that.
      Godwyn could never be a boss in the series, his soul was killed with Destined Death, and it would kill the purpose he serves now as an unending essentially cosmic horror, “a dead god still dreams” territory

    • @YetiCoolBrother
      @YetiCoolBrother День тому +1

      The final boss is Mohg's body with Radahn's soul in it.

    • @UnAlliedGaming
      @UnAlliedGaming День тому +1

      you must have missed the side quest, because the whole side quest of sir ansbach and redmane freya talks about radahn and mohg a lot, and ansbach mentions how mohgs body has been stolen and how he served lord mohg as leader of the pureblood knights.

  • @mintparfait
    @mintparfait 3 дні тому +6

    Thanks for the content! I haven't beat the last boss because I'm stuck. But at least I don't have to worry about spoilers anymore lmao.

    • @dusttodust915
      @dusttodust915 2 дні тому

      same here, radahn is way too over powered. Once he gets into the second phase it's basically game over, the window for hitting him without trading hits is way to damn small.

  • @PhantomPlaymaker25
    @PhantomPlaymaker25 3 дні тому

    Thank you for the great content guys! Always keep looking forward to these kinds of podcasts 😄

  • @biggums5
    @biggums5 3 дні тому +6

    I went through Shadow Keep backwards. Found the church district and Scardurtree aclvatar before the keep proper

  • @notimportant8643
    @notimportant8643 День тому

    So crazy to see Gene in the only two gaming podcasts I watch. This and defining duke

  • @moonvioletkel
    @moonvioletkel 2 дні тому

    This is so awesome!! 👏🏼

  • @xactly8211
    @xactly8211 2 дні тому +2

    100% agree with Cowboy, anyone complaining about difficulty in this game is having skill issues. with magic, ash, summons, and no LvL Cap, it's not harder than any casual hack and slash game.

  • @mathewhayes3343
    @mathewhayes3343 2 дні тому +1

    finally a podcast with Ruri and Cowboy in tank top builds plus an awesome guest!

  • @persies4397
    @persies4397 День тому

    I had a similar experience to Gene where I hit Radahn pretty fast around Skibididoo lvl 8 or so. I actually toughed it out to his second phase at which point I just started laughing and left for a while until I explored more. What a crazy final boss.

  • @biggums5
    @biggums5 3 дні тому +2

    Just beat last boss with the big bonk, podcast is just in time!

  • @Jsobone
    @Jsobone День тому

    In the abyssal woods I actually ran into a winter lantern before I saw any messages. I was exploring the outside skimming the walls and climbing around. Shot one with a bow and it teleported. After not being able to do damage other than when it was lunging at me...I tried a bunch of things and landed on the parry that eventually worked. Then I killed all of them.

  • @xXxHUNG0VERxXx
    @xXxHUNG0VERxXx День тому +2

    Miyazaki uses summons confirmed

  • @mattmcconnell7212
    @mattmcconnell7212 2 дні тому

    Just would love to say how awesome y'all are and keep the fantastic content!!🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @danielmegow966
    @danielmegow966 3 дні тому +4

    Oh man the hype is real

  • @dusttodust915
    @dusttodust915 2 дні тому

    The leda fight is required, cause the door to progress to redahn is blocked off by a smoke wall.

  • @NerdHerdForLife
    @NerdHerdForLife 2 дні тому +5

    Upon first playrhough, SoTET is AT LEAST on par with Old Hunters, which was my previous favorite DLC. Now that I'm playing through on two other characters, it's MAYBE better than Old Hunters.

    • @enman009
      @enman009 День тому

      I need to do a replay eventually. But what made you enjoy SoTE more than TOH?

  • @Bobby_Muggs
    @Bobby_Muggs 4 дні тому +2

    Lets go!

  • @NerdHerdForLife
    @NerdHerdForLife 2 дні тому +1

    I was REALLY surprised by where Messmer was. Felt really not obvious.

  • @zackarybell369
    @zackarybell369 3 дні тому

    Reverse quickstep on a shield crash feels real good lol

  • @captainjimmy5571
    @captainjimmy5571 2 дні тому +1

    Gaius was low for me on first playthrough but I really enjoyed him on my second playthrough once i learned his moveset

  • @HiroThatDude
    @HiroThatDude 3 дні тому +3

    I'm still on my first play thru at 55hours and I still have 3 bosses left . I saved about three dungeons /caves throughout the map to come back to. The entire top left. I got the map now, but haven't explored it which is the ruah region. Honestly, when I heard everyone's playtime, I was like bro that's impossible. I spent 20 hours just in Grey Plains, and that was literally the surface and when I found the way down underneath the castle and around the water which took me like 2 to 3 different locations.

    • @scottdrew327
      @scottdrew327 3 дні тому

      Bro, 100% the whole map, every dungeon, every piece of loot, all map areas, all weapons, all bosses and all NPC quests in sub 10 hours.
      Oh and Rurikhan missed about 30% of the content even with 2 playthroughs

    • @HossBullys
      @HossBullys 3 дні тому +1

      @@scottdrew327that’s crazy. My blind playthrew was right around 30 hours and I explored and missed stuff. Now if I watched a guide or something probably quick as hell or like just didn’t explore and went threw dungeons and straight were I thought I’d beat game. But getting lost looking for things checking for walls and figuring things out is what takes awhile for me.

  • @DeadSoulsMN
    @DeadSoulsMN 16 годин тому

    Radahn has blood flame in phase 2 as well which is interesting. He also gains holy resistance

  • @kenpachi1989
    @kenpachi1989 2 дні тому +1

    The scadutree blessing criticism is somewhat fair I think, not so much for the first playthrough but for subsequent ones it can be mildly annoying to keep track of them, mostly because there are too many.

  • @pamafa3147
    @pamafa3147 2 дні тому +1

    Actually, the frenzy Winter Lanterns are called "Aging Untouchables"

  • @animeproblem1070
    @animeproblem1070 2 дні тому +2

    I beat Gaius mounted if you want to do it you basically have to hug his boars midsection it actually is a little fun i do think they should drop the damage he does to torrent down otherwise torrent is so mobile it becomes a really fun back and forth chase around the arena where you run after him when he runs back for a charge and you're dancing around with double jumps when it works it works so well

  • @soysauceboss75
    @soysauceboss75 3 дні тому

    I love this!

  • @dusttodust915
    @dusttodust915 2 дні тому

    The fingerprint shield makes that big of a difference over other shields in the same category? Cause I was using the great shield you get from the blacknights with the big ass hammers and Radahn was constantly breaking my stance.

  • @brentontariocanada7935
    @brentontariocanada7935 2 дні тому +2

    Sekiro has the best combat ! Lies of p also had great combat! Sword play should be a dance! A true sword battle between two enemies.

  • @figuures6098
    @figuures6098 2 дні тому +3

    Idk how people were beating the game in 10-30 hours with high exploration and completion.
    I got to the final boss after about 40 hours and looked at my map, and saw that I missed like the whole right side and bottom left of the map lol.
    I personally loved the Radahn twist at the end, he’s the biggest chad in Elden ring, and he deserves to be more than just an early-mid game boss like in base game

  • @haruhidaso
    @haruhidaso День тому

    This is my favorite content that From ever created, and DS1 was never topped for me due to the Lordran exploration. I think Land of the Shadow’s exploration finally topped DS1 in my opinion.

  • @stephenmclemore7614
    @stephenmclemore7614 2 дні тому +1

    Half way through the dlc made me start a new game. I wanna use some of the dlc stuff in the base game. That FP talisman and a few of the easy to get weapons. I just wish the dancer blades were better. They look so frigging cool..

  • @Xsetsu
    @Xsetsu День тому +1

    DLC is already at 5 million sold. I believe From Soft has proven there point once again. Make a great game with no BS and players will line up.
    It is just frustrating the rest of the industry looks at BG3 or Elden Ring as some anomaly or something. No, make good games, it really is that simple.

  • @BumpGames757
    @BumpGames757 20 годин тому

    i love the cheat table its a big time saver

  • @bakes7678
    @bakes7678 3 дні тому +1

    Boy this is gonna be good beat the dlc 2 nights ago and yeah it’s amazing

  • @HamburgExpress
    @HamburgExpress 2 дні тому +1

    The base game has a largly unknowable fantasy "mythology" that is intentionally confusing. But lacks the humanity that other Fromsoft games are known for. The dlc humanizes the base game/dlc that ties everything that we know in a general neat bow.
    Which makes the game as a whole a more complete story. But much like real life, the massive amount of mysterious historical lore is still largly unanswered.
    So the final boss makes sense logically. But would hit harder in the feels, if players were more attatched to the boss characters.

  • @DeadSoulsMN
    @DeadSoulsMN 17 годин тому

    I do bosses without summons or co-op because I like the challenge. I found the dlc very similarly tuned to base game in terms of difficulty if you use the scardutree fragments. Even without using status

  • @OGvCINDER
    @OGvCINDER День тому

    Fighting Cowboy is the best !!!!! His walk throughs are hands down the best . He is the goat 🐐

  • @daveyjoneslocker4703
    @daveyjoneslocker4703 2 дні тому

    I really enjoyed following Ratatoskr and Quelagg’s streams once i was done. I’m a trucker and i mostly listened to their reactions on the VODs

  • @NerdHerdForLife
    @NerdHerdForLife 2 дні тому

    This was probably the first time I went in 100% blind and it was for sure worth it.

  • @xxdemestrosxx
    @xxdemestrosxx 2 дні тому +8

    rurikhan saying he hopes they won't nerf radahn is kinda funny. he nerfed him himself. using fingerprint shield.

    • @rurikhan
      @rurikhan  2 дні тому +10

      I didn’t use fingerprint shield on radahn.
      I used Moore’s shield which is more powerful.

    • @xxdemestrosxx
      @xxdemestrosxx 2 дні тому +3

      @@rurikhan my bad, i did not want to spread misinformation. still, i feel like you are dodging the overarching point with that answer.

    • @shreshthyadav6686
      @shreshthyadav6686 День тому +3

      @@xxdemestrosxx i don't think using shields is the same as nerfing the boss

    • @SubiKinubi
      @SubiKinubi День тому

      No it’s just cheesing

    • @xxdemestrosxx
      @xxdemestrosxx День тому +2

      @@shreshthyadav6686 i don't mind using the shields actually. Though i find it hard to understand why you would pretend that the dlc isn't artificially difficult and at the same time pivot into such a build. Because it is the equivalent of changing difficulty to easy in the menu.

  • @DelphieNEhuntah
    @DelphieNEhuntah 3 дні тому

    Door is fogged in that invasion fight

  • @FreddeLibre
    @FreddeLibre 11 годин тому

    the essence of souls games used to be 1v1 boss fights.
    they release elden ring and want to make it have broader appeal and introduce summons.
    keeping the spirit of souls games alive and not using summons is the "correct" way. its not a self imposed challenge. its literally just not trivializing boss fights.

  • @blackybohead1313
    @blackybohead1313 День тому

    Bruh my boy Gene park and Ruri together?! 😊

  • @trashcangoblin420
    @trashcangoblin420 2 дні тому +1

    I love gene park!

  • @epsilon1275
    @epsilon1275 2 дні тому +4

    Gaius charge gets invalidated by light roll, just pointing that out for anyone still struggling

    • @captainjimmy5571
      @captainjimmy5571 2 дні тому +1

      You can roll it at mid weight too

    • @epsilon1275
      @epsilon1275 2 дні тому +1

      @captainjimmy5571 well yeah but a lot of people have trouble doing that with the longer hitbox. And most people underestimate how much light roll actually changes things.

    • @behemothking6081
      @behemothking6081 2 дні тому +1

      Yeah doing this helped me out to be able to learn his moves so that I could switch back to medium roll for better armor

    • @AndrewH9999
      @AndrewH9999 2 дні тому

      @@epsilon1275 this is not true

    • @epsilon1275
      @epsilon1275 2 дні тому

      @AndrewH9999 you can just try it yourself, fully go left or right on his charge while light and it'll only hit you If you don't time it right.

  • @alexwest3293
    @alexwest3293 День тому

    I was hoping you would be able to ride torrent in the Abyssal Woods after you kill the boss.

  • @markcatlow1
    @markcatlow1 День тому

    Don't understand people complaining about the DLC being too hard, as with all souls games if you take your time to prepare and use everything at your disposal the game is the same as the main game. I used my character I played through the main game 3x times to get all the endings, so started DLC on New Game ++, really enjoyed my playthrough and found the difficulty perfect !!!

  • @Luxuriouswhite
    @Luxuriouswhite День тому

    My only complaint with the DLC has to do with some of the more open areas. They felt quite empty. I would comb through them like a mad man for items and secrets and there just wasn't much there. The world design is incredible and like nothing I have played, but damn there was some missed opportunities in the open sections.

  • @ezanella
    @ezanella 2 дні тому

    landmark episode for you.

  • @ixximixxi
    @ixximixxi 2 дні тому

    hi i need help for last boss for the dlc . i am on ps5 in eu . pls help

  • @TheQoogle
    @TheQoogle 2 дні тому

    Rurikhan out here making more longsword players xD

  • @barsham7881
    @barsham7881 14 годин тому

    14:33 it no other way around it, its a big world, once you discover its secretd the magic fells off, and we know it long its hard to want to go back in it

  • @Anonomobot
    @Anonomobot День тому

    I think the furnace golem would have been great if it was a single boss and not a bunch of them.

  • @andypina4478
    @andypina4478 2 дні тому

    25:04 my first malenia kill was also with mimic. I used maliketh black blade and full veteran set. You can imagine what happend to her health bar once I and the mimic started spamming r1's and the ash of war. On Ng+ 8 tho, I had to get good and kill her by myself, the mimic was underwhelming, and a healing package for malenia at best.

  • @thepointlessstruggle7194
    @thepointlessstruggle7194 2 дні тому +1

    Yeah, I played the last boss for 3 hours & that's it for me. I'm too old & too busy to spend my few free hours after work on one boss. His attacks aren't even killing me. It's all the extra bullshit. The particle effects, the copies, the 2 hit grab kill, the targeting me & not my 3 summons & if he targets them he turns around mid attack to hit me, the ground flying around when he rakes it, the burst of holy damage you have to run from & it takes up most of the arena. Blood magic, gravity attacks to pull me in... It's just too much. He went too far IMO. & I've beat every fromsoft game since demon souls. But this is the first boss I've seem as just too much. I have 19 scadu blessings & 9 summon blessings. I just want a fair fight like Mallenia, who was very hard but doable. Maliketh gave me the most trouble, but I never saw him as unfair

    • @myles5276
      @myles5276 2 дні тому

      As a guy with a 12 hour a day job I gotcha. But I would proffer this. Keep him in mind and conquer him at some point. Doesn't hurt to try.💪🏼

    • @Sarsaparillamann
      @Sarsaparillamann 21 годину тому

      I tried a few times before switching to bleed spear and take shield with lots of defensive buffs
      The grabs got me a couple times but I just learned the miquella broken rune you get after killing the scadutree avatar cleanses the charm off you get grabbed 1 time. I think it can be reused infinitely so the grabs never kill you

  • @graygordon1683
    @graygordon1683 2 дні тому

    Hell yeah Ruri linking LSM with FCB

  • @josipjuric93
    @josipjuric93 23 години тому

    i agree with dlc being easier if you explore then main game

  • @Salacious_T
    @Salacious_T 2 дні тому

    Glad I beat it in time lol.

  • @endub6551
    @endub6551 2 дні тому

    Dude yes after the first gameplay trailer the weapon I wanted most was what turned out to be Gaius’ sword lance. But its not a sword lance at all! Just a lame heavy thrusting moveset. I was expecting something like Nameless King’s weapon.
    At least the other new weapons are amazing so I didnt really care all that much.

  • @Famsworth
    @Famsworth 3 дні тому +1

    Shadow of the tanktops I see

  • @AntiSocialismo50
    @AntiSocialismo50 2 дні тому

    Is there any item in the base game that miquella mentions radhan in any game?

    • @enman009
      @enman009 День тому

      Base game? I don't remember.
      In the DLC? There are two questlines (Mogh's servant and the Redmane lady) that heavily foreshadow Mogh and Radahn being ingredients for Miquella. And St. Trina explicitly tells you that Miquella wants to ascend to godhood, but should be stopped at all costs.
      The ending fully contextualized why Malenia and her army fought Radahn and why Mogh took Miquella's body to do... Stuff with it.

  • @lordglaesgaroth596
    @lordglaesgaroth596 3 дні тому

    Yeah you still do meet him the battlefield

  • @Grubkiller35
    @Grubkiller35 2 дні тому +4

    How has NO ONE criticized the dlc/main games only problem. Big sections of map that sre emtpy (finger ruins for example) one thing/item to grab in a HUGE empty land section. Sure it looks amazing but there was literally one quest thing to do there an thats it. For some who likes to explore as much as i do, it bummer me out everytime that happened an it happened often in the dlc. That all being said i think this was one of the best dlcs of all time. I just dont want devs thinking big empty spaces is fun in games

    • @SchroederMH
      @SchroederMH 2 дні тому

      @@Grubkiller35 I’m torn on it. I think in the DLC it works well about half the time. When you have such dense legacy dungeons with constant encounters, it’s a cool vibe shift / change of pace to have a surprisingly open area. The first finger ruins I found, the Shaman Ruins and the first visit to the Abyssal Woods come to mind.
      The downside is it really kills the replay experience though, no matter how cool the spaces are. It’s a trick that works once in my opinion.

    • @exposingpowerfullieslivest5082
      @exposingpowerfullieslivest5082 День тому

      Agreed. I loved the DLC but it bummed me out as well

    • @Mohgenstein
      @Mohgenstein День тому

      This isn’t a problem in the base game though? Even the emptiest areas like consecrated snowfields still had a couple dungeons, a town, walking mausoleum, an NPC, trolls dragging a carriage along, and a couple mini boss fights.

    • @exposingpowerfullieslivest5082
      @exposingpowerfullieslivest5082 День тому +1

      @@Mohgenstein it's not as bad of a problem, as you said at least they had a few things, some of the areas in the DLC are straight up barren even tho they're a massive size. I love this DLC but that was a rough spot for me.

  • @nfwlpw
    @nfwlpw День тому +1

    The game isn't too hard, it's just some enemy designs are obnoxious.

  • @apharys8921
    @apharys8921 День тому

    You could argue that any build or item that allows you to ignore what bosses are doing is cheating. At the same time it's a game, as long as you're having fun you're doing it right. If you feel you're not having fun by using summons or magic then don't use them but that doesn't make people who do enjoy them wrong.
    On the difficulty I felt the Scadutree blessings didn't do enough for the first couple bosses but after that they were fine. I had +4 on the first bosses and was dying in 2-3 hits while dealing no damage, it just felt bad. With +11 on Messmer it felt challenging but doable, same with +8 on the Putrescent Knight. I also changed by build around that time so that could have made the difference as well.
    Collecting the fragments your first time through is perfectly fine and they carry over to NG+ which is great. Running a new character through the dlc has the same problems as going through the base game again, there's a lot to collect from a massive world and much of it can get repetitive. But making a new character also isn't necessary since larval tears exist.

  • @ezanella
    @ezanella 2 дні тому

    1st time tank top appearance by ruri? This was like watching the film Twins, Schwarzenegger and DeVito.

  • @jellydamgood
    @jellydamgood День тому

    Actually managed to horse combat vs gaius till phase 2, but im not too sure how to deal with the gravity plus charges yet. At +8 torrent gets like 1 or 2 shot. Statistically speaking, the only thing weaker than the tarnished we play is torrent lol.

    • @enman009
      @enman009 День тому

      For me it was running away as far from it, or dodge just the right time.

    • @jellydamgood
      @jellydamgood День тому

      @@enman009 circling and getting behind him, on his left side, I can get like 2 to 3 swings with a greatsword, and then he will either try to u turn and smack me, where I'll dodge, as it's pretty well telegraphed, or charge off to reset. That was the safest way I've found. Gonna try again to science it out fully on my next playthrough.

  • @RedLegend1988
    @RedLegend1988 2 дні тому

    Lmao. Not even kidding. Some fights in the DLC I found easier NOT summoning because when something isn't targetting me I have no idea where I should be positioned and get hit by all these surprise 360 attacks. Messmer and Bayle were easier without the summons for me.

  • @PotatoRankEX
    @PotatoRankEX 9 годин тому

    2:23:00 Fyi the lads at Digital Foundry dislike the overabundance of UE games, so its fine. (Mostly cause UE has the stutter issue for compilation).

  • @arbernardo7554
    @arbernardo7554 2 дні тому +4

    We got to a point where people relying on spirit ashes to defeat bosses are telling others to "git gud" 🤣.

  • @nickm413
    @nickm413 День тому

    Igon can definitely die also is he actually getting summoned at lvl 700? Has to be with a password right?

  • @narutohuga1458
    @narutohuga1458 2 дні тому

    Isn't Charo the Tibia Mareneer

  • @NerdHerdForLife
    @NerdHerdForLife 2 дні тому

    I know that I was able to get my blessing up to level 11 without killing a single boss.

  • @bhokailarbpaiboonpong1624
    @bhokailarbpaiboonpong1624 День тому

    real question boys, should I buy Elden Ring DLC or Granblue fantasy relink? apparently they're both $40 right now on steam

    • @rurikhan
      @rurikhan  День тому

      They’re both great depending on what you’re in the mood for, having played both, if I could only choose one, it’d be Elden ring dlc.

  • @xxdemestrosxx
    @xxdemestrosxx 2 дні тому

    said thing there is no replay dlc only in elden ring.

  • @BasketCase-rr7tx
    @BasketCase-rr7tx 3 дні тому +12

    There is nothing wrong with using summons. However from reading what people have said, I think the issue with the DLC is that the people who dont enjoy using summons are finding the bosses too hard to beat solo, so its literally impossible for them to enjoy the game becuase using summons isnt fun for them.

    • @jwollheim
      @jwollheim 3 дні тому +9

      Sounds like they need to git gudder then. I always try bosses solo first but inevitably end up using summons if it’s too tough or I get too frustrated and/or don’t wanna respec. To do otherwise and complain it’s too hard is just absurd

    • @HossBullys
      @HossBullys 3 дні тому

      Bayle is my favorite boss fight.
      I’m with cowboy mounted combat seems strange for me. Maybe cause I’m a bonk guy to

    • @BasketCase-rr7tx
      @BasketCase-rr7tx 3 дні тому +7

      @@jwollheim well I think people are in their right to want a game balanced around solo play when the series was always like that before Elden Ring. I get what Cowboy is saying by it being a different game, but it’s not really. We all know Elden Ring is basically just Dark Souls 4. It has all the same themes of the Dark Souls series, things just have different names.

    • @endub6551
      @endub6551 3 дні тому +5

      Every boss felt balanced well without a summon to me just using a great katana, nothing special.
      Using the right defensive talismans for the bosses are also very helpful. You often find the best one in the area that boss is in. The most important one is very hidden though lol

    • @NerdHerdForLife
      @NerdHerdForLife 2 дні тому +4

      @@BasketCase-rr7tx The game is balanced just fine for solo players if you collect the stuff they put in there to balance the DLC like they mentioned well before the DLC released.

  • @-Sparagmos-
    @-Sparagmos- 3 дні тому

    Is it even prime Radhan? He didn’t have his great rune at that point. Second phase is different though. That’s the most powerful he’s ever been.

  • @dartheastman1599
    @dartheastman1599 День тому

    My favourite bosses were bayle and messmer. The last area and final boss wasn’t as fun phase 2 was bullshit. The scudutree avatar was sick totally unexpected when it had 3

  • @AnotherSyouz
    @AnotherSyouz 2 дні тому

    how much you guys think Ubisoft, EA, WB will charge for this DLC?

  • @themurdock619
    @themurdock619 22 години тому

    The difficulty is I think right on track. It should be hard and fair and the type of hard people talk about these days isn't hard. Honestly if you could take a little more damage and the bosses have more health I think that play style would be even better. A longer fight
    Honest all main boss should be very hard even at the beginning ans your forced to come back later. Because like what God gets kill be a lvl 12. Really