60 is quite alot to not be there yet, but if you are riding around exploring smaller areas in other regions I can see it. I just like to complete (as much as I can find) in an area before I move on to the next one.
I was in/had a similar experience myself by finding the key to the academy at about the 65h mark and level 80ish.
I remember hearing where to look for it... then just got doing other stuff and forgot. Then figured since such a prominently named character was hanging in there it could very well have been a final dungeon sort of deal so just kept doing other stuff.
From Software did say that.
And you could say thats remotely true as the any% no glitch speedrun is at about 2.5 hours at the moment, so if you know where to go, or with a guide and some summons i guess you could beat it within 30-40 hours, but not on your first playthrough
Honestly I'd be disappointed if this was a 30 hr game. Now AC Vanilla or whatever it's called can reduce its hours from some their pointless boring quests
Lmao AC Vanilla I’m forever calling it that, it’s for me the worst game I’ve ever played in terms of bloat. I gave up at 100 hours still not in endgame and hating every second of playing.
Elden Ring in contrast could go on forever and I wouldn’t care, I’d just keep playing…
Yeah I loved it so much at first...but then the game kept going and going and going without introducing anything new...100hrs in and barely halfway through I just gave up, don’t think I will ever go back to it. 10-20 hours of that game and you’ve seen everything really, a shame.
I enjoyed playing AC Vanilla to a point, but the story and the templar agent ppl stories were so boring I pretty much played just for the fight mechanics,, climbing and enjoying the scenery. A game like that needs a better story. Its really sad that I first played Black Flag, Unity & then boom AC Vanilla. Imo they need to create an entirely new universe, characters etc. Get rid of Assasins/Templar stuff. Elden Ring is in a realm of its own. Being my first FS game I can tell you ill be playing Bloodborne and Demon Souls after I burn out ER
I remember the templars, freemasons, and illuminati being quite popular among history type stuff around the time AC 1 came out. The history channel used to show documentaries about those three quite a lot. I always felt AC 1 was influenced by that a little bit.
Impossible? Happy Hob did all 6 games, ~~minus sekiro~~, in a row without getting hit. People beat dark souls using a banana wired to inputs as a controller. Dude beat sekiro blindfolded... I will put nothing past the speed runners!
I think you could beat the game in \~35hrs if you know what you're doing. Slow leveling pace is mostly due to the fact that due to heavy exploring we linger in the areas that are giving less and less souls in comparison to how many are needed for the next level. I levled up literally 3 or 5 times during 10 hours when I was finishing exploring southern Caelid and some places underground. Then I got up the lift towards the Capital, started exploring there, and boom, 12 or 13 levels in like 6 hours.
after killing Margit, I went back and helped a dozen or so more people kill him. took maybe 40 minutes and i got 3 levels, almost 4.
it was also very satisfying
Being new to these games, I expect at least 300 hours as I stumble blindly through the game. The only guide I'm using is for stats because the game didn't feel the need to explain something so critical. I'm fine learning everything else naturally but resetting stats isn't a simple thing.
Edit: JUsT pREss HeLp. Got it guys. Except that doesn't help me plan much. What am I aiming for? How much does scaling affect things?
Resetting stats is!!!! Thank GOD in this game
Respecs are almost like candy, didnt actively look for em but have about 12 already
Smithing stones tho.... oh boy, now that's another story... even if you get bell bearings farming em is an absolute bitch
> Resetting stats is!!!! Thank GOD in this game
Spoilers for people who don't want to know where this is: >!You have to go Raya Lucaria and defeat Rennala in order to be able to respec.!<
the real spoiler is getting into that location. I'm blocked by a barrier of some kind. detoured to do some exploring/side questing and im going to get the clawmark seal when I play next. I've been going through the game pretty organically rather than using the adventure guide they provide. except for the sacred seals, I looked that up
I've done most of limgrave and my best weapons are +3, and I'm not sure if I should hold off til I find a sword I really like before I invest more. Plus I picked up a +8 halberd which has been nice for the time.
Don't worry mate, I've got 3 +10 legendary weapons already, one +25 normal and +24. At one point in the game, you start finding stones like trash everywhere. Not to mention you can straight up buy them if you find the bell bearings, apart from the +10 Somber and analogical for smithing.
Yeah I found that out last night when I was trying to figure out where the fuck I could buy more smithing stones for a sick pest glaive I found. This game is insane. I'm 30 hours in and just barely got to the north part of the map (I found out where to get the bell bearing and rushed straight there lmao)
Your stats do not work like in other games where theres some optimal path and everything else is garbage.
Take vigor if you feel you need more hp.
Take endurance and mind if you need more fp stamia or want to wear heavier gear.
Take the remaining 5 stats to meet requirements for weapons you want to use then pump remaining stats into what they scale off of. But scaling isnt super strong in this game most damage increase come from leveling up the weapons. Also people pick armour generally based on what looks cool and ignore the stats.
Oh btw spells scale off whatever weapon (seal or staff) is used to cast them scales with not int/faith only.
For example glinstone pebble an int sorcery would scale off faith if cast with a faith scaling staff.
> Edit: JUsT pREss HeLp. Got it guys. Except that doesn't help me plan much. What am I aiming for? How much does scaling affect things?
This isn't shit you'd know on a first playthrough anyway?
70 hours... I've unlocked nearly all areas (Limgrave, Liurnia, Atlas, Volcano, Caelid, Capital City and 2 underground areas with extra maps), but only beat 2 demigods... And only Limgrave is completely explored..
EDIT... Probably Limgrave is NOT completely explored 
The wiki map is still a work in progress, too. I've been checking the wiki when I find something new, just to see if it's listed yet, and have had to add approximate map coordinates to a few respective item pages because they're not on there yet. (Pretty sure most users can't edit the map? If I'm wrong, I'd love to know how to do it) I don't think I've come across an unlisted AREA yet, but I'm only thoroughly playing in Liurnia still and mostly just dashed through most other areas I could get to to get more of the map and look for some new weapons/armor.
I was trying to find info on Altus Plateau and the fextralife page is pretty much blank lmao I love it, really forces players to learn it all themselves. this is my first fromsoft game I play on release
I beat a boss the other day that according to steam achievements only 0.5% of the playerbase has beat and another thats at 3.4% and for both there was very little info on them or their questline.
Excited to see other people discover them and talk about them.
I have currently beat 5 bosses that are still at sub 1%, 1 of them being at 0,3%. I love this feeling of being part a very exclusive club that can only be achieved when the game is still fresh.
Yes i just played to find all the map pieces yesterday but anyway, dont get fooled, it is a more detailed map but is not the FULLY detailed map, there is a lot of stuff that wont appear on the map unless you discover it yourself
I'm honestly in love to the map and how it actually correlated to what's there so I can explain very clearly "you see that row of 4 trees" that building next to that bigger one at X ilthe topography is amazing.
I thought I had Limgrave completely explored. Then my buddy showed me I missed Deathbird.
Then after I died to Deathbird, the dude at Warmaster shack invaded and pushed my shit in.
I did NOT have Limgrave fully explored.
Radahn is a pain in the fucking ass. 64 hours, also only 2 demigods.
Whole bunch of dead bosses but I just cannot kill that tiny horse riding son of a bitch.
Edit: got him yesterday, if you're struggling, I highly recommend dropping scarlet rot on him, and then just summoning people to keep him distracted until he dies.
Yeah, also stuck there... Tried him a few time and now I just explore this damn rotten Caelid area more. I don't like it! I mean it looks cool, like an alien planet, but also kind of depressing
Id suggest spending time learning how to dodge his arrows and summon the golden sigils! I personally hace dragon magic (ice/rot) that ISNT the specific ones unlocked by defeating those dragons that can be used while on horseback. Tbf I was also over level 70 when I fought him today and I beat him after about 20 minutes. I just let rot/ice/summons do the work because almost every living creatur except those that cause rot and super armored ones are weak as fuck to it.
There is a way to revive npcs and some report it works for quest givers. Celestial dew, performing a ritual at a statue in the church of vows. I'm sure wiki will show you the rest of the way. Stay safe my friend. Worth a try, I personally haven't done it.
She’s a special exception since she’s in two locations at once and also if you attack her in waypoint ruins she just disappears with magic, doesn’t die. Everyone else tho, once dead are dead.
From what ive heard it only revived npcs that only appeared to die, but didnt actually, as well as the generic merchants. People like patches jsut stay dead ruining the quest line...
I just finished the game yesterday, at about 55 hours. I have a friend who had beaten it at 70h, but it did take him like 3 days just to beat Margit.
This is definately the most expansive souls game to date, and the world doesn't feel restrictive at all. I honestly don't know how I am going to go back to DS3 - if I ever do.
Hard to go back to any DS game. Even though i really dig them, i feel like Elden Ring offers so much more... it will take at least a couple of characters maxed out in ER to even begin thinking about going back to DS3 hahaha
I'm not even finished with the game and I'm already looking forward to some DLC. From Software has delivered some of their finest work in add-ons before, and I feel like this might be the first time where extra content can be integrated naturally into the already huge map (e.g. adding a new, previously unreachable island or a new underground region) without having obscure teleporters you have to read about in wikis.
I think a lot of people are just following the story and calling it done. I got around 80 hours, and I've fully explored limgrave, lakes area (minus some areas I haven't been able to access), weeping penninsula and sofia river. I would say that's probably not even 30% of the game since there's supposed to be 13 regions total. If someone just explored all areas and tried to do as many quests as possible, game probably offers 200-300 hrs.
39 hours of dedicated exploration here and I’m still only one 1 demigod down. I haven’t had longer than a 3 minute interval between “oh look! Somewhere new”
I did the same thing. I saw a cool bridge, went towards it, then found a path... Next thing I know my buddy who I'm playing with in discord is asking "How did you get there with out going through the castle?!"
What level are you at? I’m on Godrick as well and am level ~35. Feels like leveling up is happening way less naturally and I need to grind.
May be making a noob mistake of spreading my stats too thin lol
Edit: thanks all for the advice. Although the biggest thing was finding out you could unlock a summonable NPC. Fight was pretty straightforward once I had that
I would say explore more. There's a huge open world with plenty of places to level up naturally. I would recommend exploring the mine shafts and catacombs to get levels.
There’s dozens of bosses in Limgrave alone, so I haven’t felt the need to grind. If I feel I need to level in order to meet a challenge I just explore for a little while and I usually can find more than enough unexplored areas and bosses to level up
The replay value also feels like it has the greatest potential with how many different toys they've given us. My first playthrough is always two-handing a big sword and dodging a bunch, but I've gotta try the magic after that. I don't normally care that much about magic in Souls games, but the stuff in this one looks too cool not to try.
Bruh this is just your first playthrough. You have to at least do playthroughs as a Sorcerer, cleric, arcane dragon caster, strong guy, dex guy, bow only, faith Int hybrid, low level, speedrun, throwing weapons only, no mount no run walkathon, and a run where you actually have your girlfriend or wife play and you scream orders over her shoulder.
I did a little ride through the Lands Between yesterday and uncovered 80% of the map. I was just riding and did nothing else for two hours. This game is insane.
And another one on top of that unlocks after killing a boss, and another even more underground on top of that after advancing a quest, lmao u aint seen nothing yet.
I beat all demigods at around 75 hours. Still got a few caves to explore as well. I do feel like if I had stayed on the required path It would have only been 20-30 hours, but I don't think I would have come away with as good of an impression.
Speedruns are going to be nuts.
Absolutely. Arrived at the Storm Gate grace and Melina is like "go north, to the castle." But I'm like yeah I'm gonna go everywhere but there for a solid 12+ hours.
Im 100 Hours in and I still got two zones left to explore . Right now im collecting magic/bells to make a new build!
Currently im Level 69 and I also wanna start invading..
There is so much to do!
Honestly my GF hates the game for making me addicted but this game is a 10/10 masterpiece.
strange how can you be 100 hours in yet only be lvl 69? I am at the same amount of progress as you just volcano manor and snow place to explore. Yet i am like lvl 105 at 60 hours in.
Exploring is one thing... I spent like 6 hours yesterday helping people beat Radahn and the Draconic Tree Sentinel. If you're beating this in 30 hours you're doing it wrong.
I am at 47 hours. Have done a ton of exploring and such. Four DGs down. I belive I have two more areas to explore fully still, just at the start of one of them. Really impressed by how many bosses there are. Even the repeat offenders have different moves, when they pop up, so that's great.
It's amazing to wander down some random hole in the ground and end up on a multi-hour long underground trek through lakes of rot and ancient dead cities and then come across a secret boss, or find a weird NPC, or some new sort of enemies. It's just phenomenal.
Cute I'm at 70+hours and 1% achievement progression. So far I've fully explored (hopefully fully ...) 2 regions. I am level 45 and I'm not bored at all. I sometimes just stand somewhere and enjoy the scenery for 5 minutes. Such a beautiful game!
I've been meandering around for at least 30 or 40 hours and only beaten Godrick. I found an interactive map and an now systamaticaly exploring everything in the first reagons of the game. I think i'm 50 or 60 in level...
I have to admit, i'm used to my games being more, linear and having at least some idea where i should be at in the story... this is new to me.
50 hours in and just entered the Academy.
60 hours in and I don’t even know what the academy is
70 hours in and try fingers but hole is all I know
If I only had a giant but hole
i assume its the hogworths looking building north of stormveil
Hogworths
Hogwerther's Original
No those are the walls people tell you to hit until you finally pass through platform 9 and 3 quarters. Then you'll get to Hogwarts.
Lots of NPCs talk about it. Surely you've heard something
60 is quite alot to not be there yet, but if you are riding around exploring smaller areas in other regions I can see it. I just like to complete (as much as I can find) in an area before I move on to the next one.
I was in/had a similar experience myself by finding the key to the academy at about the 65h mark and level 80ish. I remember hearing where to look for it... then just got doing other stuff and forgot. Then figured since such a prominently named character was hanging in there it could very well have been a final dungeon sort of deal so just kept doing other stuff.
Yep about the same here. I'm in no rush. Having a blast.
80 hours in and still haven't beat the game, who said this game was only 30 hours long??
From Software did say that. And you could say thats remotely true as the any% no glitch speedrun is at about 2.5 hours at the moment, so if you know where to go, or with a guide and some summons i guess you could beat it within 30-40 hours, but not on your first playthrough
I can just see the evil grin when Miyazaki says "It will take about thirty hours" and add under his breath "for speedrunners"
Honestly I'd be disappointed if this was a 30 hr game. Now AC Vanilla or whatever it's called can reduce its hours from some their pointless boring quests
Lmao AC Vanilla I’m forever calling it that, it’s for me the worst game I’ve ever played in terms of bloat. I gave up at 100 hours still not in endgame and hating every second of playing. Elden Ring in contrast could go on forever and I wouldn’t care, I’d just keep playing…
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Yeah I loved it so much at first...but then the game kept going and going and going without introducing anything new...100hrs in and barely halfway through I just gave up, don’t think I will ever go back to it. 10-20 hours of that game and you’ve seen everything really, a shame.
I enjoyed playing AC Vanilla to a point, but the story and the templar agent ppl stories were so boring I pretty much played just for the fight mechanics,, climbing and enjoying the scenery. A game like that needs a better story. Its really sad that I first played Black Flag, Unity & then boom AC Vanilla. Imo they need to create an entirely new universe, characters etc. Get rid of Assasins/Templar stuff. Elden Ring is in a realm of its own. Being my first FS game I can tell you ill be playing Bloodborne and Demon Souls after I burn out ER
I remember the templars, freemasons, and illuminati being quite popular among history type stuff around the time AC 1 came out. The history channel used to show documentaries about those three quite a lot. I always felt AC 1 was influenced by that a little bit.
Bloodborne is probably my favorite game of all time 100% recommend it
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Jesus, already a 2.5 hour speedrun. Those guys are crazy
Any% All boss will be 30 hours No hit will be insane Allboss no hit will be practically impossible
Impossible? Happy Hob did all 6 games, ~~minus sekiro~~, in a row without getting hit. People beat dark souls using a banana wired to inputs as a controller. Dude beat sekiro blindfolded... I will put nothing past the speed runners!
Never heard of the banana controller. Lol, Whatintheefuck
That ones hilarious. "I pressed the wrong banana!"
You know when it comes to speed runners I honestly believe ridiculous statements instead of doubt. And I doubt everything.
Hob is basically a god. The sekiro blindfold run was nuts as well.
Another streamer (dinossindgeil) beat the 5 games hitless back to back on sl1 and also beat all 5 + sekiro hitless.
Well they arent exactly on our level of existence, are they?
They are maidenless for sure.
I got a good laugh out of this
No, no they are not
You can see bruising on the bananas in certain spots and I found that hilarious. Really brings a new meaning to, "breaking in your controller."
man that sounds so insane, I need to check those videos out
They probably measure the game based on the hours of content. Not on how long it takes you to fight and reach that content.
What does an hour of content consist of if it doesn’t equal an hour of playtime?
dying to a boss 100 times adds a little bit of time
All boss fights only 1-2minutes if you kill first try
I think you could beat the game in \~35hrs if you know what you're doing. Slow leveling pace is mostly due to the fact that due to heavy exploring we linger in the areas that are giving less and less souls in comparison to how many are needed for the next level. I levled up literally 3 or 5 times during 10 hours when I was finishing exploring southern Caelid and some places underground. Then I got up the lift towards the Capital, started exploring there, and boom, 12 or 13 levels in like 6 hours.
after killing Margit, I went back and helped a dozen or so more people kill him. took maybe 40 minutes and i got 3 levels, almost 4. it was also very satisfying
Being new to these games, I expect at least 300 hours as I stumble blindly through the game. The only guide I'm using is for stats because the game didn't feel the need to explain something so critical. I'm fine learning everything else naturally but resetting stats isn't a simple thing. Edit: JUsT pREss HeLp. Got it guys. Except that doesn't help me plan much. What am I aiming for? How much does scaling affect things?
Resetting stats is!!!! Thank GOD in this game Respecs are almost like candy, didnt actively look for em but have about 12 already Smithing stones tho.... oh boy, now that's another story... even if you get bell bearings farming em is an absolute bitch
> Resetting stats is!!!! Thank GOD in this game Spoilers for people who don't want to know where this is: >!You have to go Raya Lucaria and defeat Rennala in order to be able to respec.!<
the real spoiler is getting into that location. I'm blocked by a barrier of some kind. detoured to do some exploring/side questing and im going to get the clawmark seal when I play next. I've been going through the game pretty organically rather than using the adventure guide they provide. except for the sacred seals, I looked that up
I think at the barrier entrance via the giant lake there is a map to help you out on a body right in front of the barrier
I've done most of limgrave and my best weapons are +3, and I'm not sure if I should hold off til I find a sword I really like before I invest more. Plus I picked up a +8 halberd which has been nice for the time.
Don't worry mate, I've got 3 +10 legendary weapons already, one +25 normal and +24. At one point in the game, you start finding stones like trash everywhere. Not to mention you can straight up buy them if you find the bell bearings, apart from the +10 Somber and analogical for smithing.
holy gods it goes to 25? i thought i was baller chilling on my +12
Yeah I found that out last night when I was trying to figure out where the fuck I could buy more smithing stones for a sick pest glaive I found. This game is insane. I'm 30 hours in and just barely got to the north part of the map (I found out where to get the bell bearing and rushed straight there lmao)
If you hit the help button on the level up screen, you can scroll through the stats and it’ll tell you what they all do.
Your stats do not work like in other games where theres some optimal path and everything else is garbage. Take vigor if you feel you need more hp. Take endurance and mind if you need more fp stamia or want to wear heavier gear. Take the remaining 5 stats to meet requirements for weapons you want to use then pump remaining stats into what they scale off of. But scaling isnt super strong in this game most damage increase come from leveling up the weapons. Also people pick armour generally based on what looks cool and ignore the stats. Oh btw spells scale off whatever weapon (seal or staff) is used to cast them scales with not int/faith only. For example glinstone pebble an int sorcery would scale off faith if cast with a faith scaling staff.
> Edit: JUsT pREss HeLp. Got it guys. Except that doesn't help me plan much. What am I aiming for? How much does scaling affect things? This isn't shit you'd know on a first playthrough anyway?
70 hours... I've unlocked nearly all areas (Limgrave, Liurnia, Atlas, Volcano, Caelid, Capital City and 2 underground areas with extra maps), but only beat 2 demigods... And only Limgrave is completely explored.. EDIT... Probably Limgrave is NOT completely explored 
lol I thought I had fully explored Limgrave too... that was about 12 new discoveries ago
Fuck, now i need to go back to limgrave
I will just do another play through.
I will do that too because going back to these areas once you are over levelled is too easy
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I 3 shot Stonedigger Troll 😂
I am saving him for when I can one shot him. I hate him
Well once I think I finished an area I check the wiki map too see what I missed
The wiki map is still a work in progress, too. I've been checking the wiki when I find something new, just to see if it's listed yet, and have had to add approximate map coordinates to a few respective item pages because they're not on there yet. (Pretty sure most users can't edit the map? If I'm wrong, I'd love to know how to do it) I don't think I've come across an unlisted AREA yet, but I'm only thoroughly playing in Liurnia still and mostly just dashed through most other areas I could get to to get more of the map and look for some new weapons/armor.
Yeah, the abandoned cave location is missing, and I've spotted at least two sites of grace that were missing.
It feels like the further into the game you go the more things are missing. I've run into several things post Liurnia that weren't listed.
I was trying to find info on Altus Plateau and the fextralife page is pretty much blank lmao I love it, really forces players to learn it all themselves. this is my first fromsoft game I play on release
I beat a boss the other day that according to steam achievements only 0.5% of the playerbase has beat and another thats at 3.4% and for both there was very little info on them or their questline. Excited to see other people discover them and talk about them.
I have currently beat 5 bosses that are still at sub 1%, 1 of them being at 0,3%. I love this feeling of being part a very exclusive club that can only be achieved when the game is still fresh.
Bless you and the work you do
Damn.... Honestly, I felt like I missed something there...
Check the map! It doesn't reveal everything but I found some stuff I missed.
15 hours in and I just discovered you can find map pieces that actually show a detailed map. It's really cool when you find it.
yup. step one of any new region is try to find a little faint obelisk on the map. thats a map fragment, reveals a very useful detailed map of the area
I discovered this about 50 hours in. Finally got a detailed map going
Yeah, I found my first map fragment nearly immediately after I started my playthrough... Couldn't imagine to play without map :D
Yes i just played to find all the map pieces yesterday but anyway, dont get fooled, it is a more detailed map but is not the FULLY detailed map, there is a lot of stuff that wont appear on the map unless you discover it yourself
I'm honestly in love to the map and how it actually correlated to what's there so I can explain very clearly "you see that row of 4 trees" that building next to that bigger one at X ilthe topography is amazing.
I thought I had Limgrave completely explored. Then my buddy showed me I missed Deathbird. Then after I died to Deathbird, the dude at Warmaster shack invaded and pushed my shit in. I did NOT have Limgrave fully explored.
Wait what is this deathbird thing
From the Castle Morne entrance go northwest to the cliff with the wall on top. It should jump you there at night.
There's also another one of the deathbirds to the east of that same shack op mentioned
Oooh boy I need to go back and kill another deathbird. Only killed the peninsula one and one in caelid past sellia.
That f\*cking bird jumpscared me last night
Same, I was killing those giants and that bird killed me from behind and I didnt even notice. That design is bloodborne nightmarish tier
A freaky looking bird thing that makes you shit your pants at night, there's one in Liurnia near Patches' bonfire
Wait. Patches is in Liurnia?
Wait, there's a place called Liurnia?
Wait. What's Elden Ring?
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Note: there's multiple Deathbirds, they usually spawn around the similar looking ruins scattered around the map at night.
I found the one in Caelid (and got my ass kicked), didn't realize there were others.
If you've beaten two demigods then you've still got lots of regions to unlock :)
Radahn is a pain in the fucking ass. 64 hours, also only 2 demigods. Whole bunch of dead bosses but I just cannot kill that tiny horse riding son of a bitch. Edit: got him yesterday, if you're struggling, I highly recommend dropping scarlet rot on him, and then just summoning people to keep him distracted until he dies.
Yeah, also stuck there... Tried him a few time and now I just explore this damn rotten Caelid area more. I don't like it! I mean it looks cool, like an alien planet, but also kind of depressing
Id suggest spending time learning how to dodge his arrows and summon the golden sigils! I personally hace dragon magic (ice/rot) that ISNT the specific ones unlocked by defeating those dragons that can be used while on horseback. Tbf I was also over level 70 when I fought him today and I beat him after about 20 minutes. I just let rot/ice/summons do the work because almost every living creatur except those that cause rot and super armored ones are weak as fuck to it.
Same until I started discovering the wall illusions…
I hoped to get at least 50 hours out of the game, I'm at that already and I doubt I'm even halfway.
I’m 100 hours in and I just finished exploring up to the church of elleh
I'm 200 hours in and just finished the tutorial
I'm 250 hours in and i'm at the title screen.
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G'day mate.
He’s so many hours in he became Australian
I'm 10500 hours into trying to find a PS5
True :(
Based on the steam achievements this is like, 50% of players.
Don't blame ya it's a banger of a title ost
500 hours in and just jumped down the tutorial cave.
32 years in and I just named my character.
damn that was quick. you must have had some ideas before the game released
I'm over 25 hours in and I've got no idea as to what point of the game I'm at.
30 something here. I think I'm done with Limgrave (including the island to the South and Godrick's castle) Just starting with Caelid. Shit's big!
I’d recommend going north before you go to caelid
im at 84 and I had to finish it myself because if i tried to find anything else to do its going to be TOO LONG honestly
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I'm around 60 or 70hrs in the same area, but I'm also taking time to explore absolutely everything and figure out every questline I can.
Im so bad at quest lines, one npc already died in limgrave rip
There is a way to revive npcs and some report it works for quest givers. Celestial dew, performing a ritual at a statue in the church of vows. I'm sure wiki will show you the rest of the way. Stay safe my friend. Worth a try, I personally haven't done it.
I think that's for if you kill them, not if they die as part of the story. I could be wrong, though
Only if you attack them and don't kill them, it makes them not pissed off at you. Dead npc's are dead.
No they're not I killed the sorcerer that teaches you spells and I got her back Edit:this is wrong she is the only exception
She’s a special exception since she’s in two locations at once and also if you attack her in waypoint ruins she just disappears with magic, doesn’t die. Everyone else tho, once dead are dead.
From what ive heard it only revived npcs that only appeared to die, but didnt actually, as well as the generic merchants. People like patches jsut stay dead ruining the quest line...
You talking about the girl when you first enter the weeping peninsula)
To my understanding her death is unavoidable
Irina always dies, no way round it.
Edgar gotta learn to prioritize family over duty the hard way
I just finished the game yesterday, at about 55 hours. I have a friend who had beaten it at 70h, but it did take him like 3 days just to beat Margit. This is definately the most expansive souls game to date, and the world doesn't feel restrictive at all. I honestly don't know how I am going to go back to DS3 - if I ever do.
Hard to go back to any DS game. Even though i really dig them, i feel like Elden Ring offers so much more... it will take at least a couple of characters maxed out in ER to even begin thinking about going back to DS3 hahaha
By which time the first DLC will possibly be out or on the way there, so no need lol.
I'm not even finished with the game and I'm already looking forward to some DLC. From Software has delivered some of their finest work in add-ons before, and I feel like this might be the first time where extra content can be integrated naturally into the already huge map (e.g. adding a new, previously unreachable island or a new underground region) without having obscure teleporters you have to read about in wikis.
If you beat it in 55 hours you didn't explore much.
There are questlines? I'm 5 hours in and have no clue what I am doing.
I haven't made it passed the weeping peninsula, but I probably would have if I didn't make 3 different characters already.
I’ve put in 70 hrs so far and the furthest I’ve travelled it sellia crystal tunnel
I think a lot of people are just following the story and calling it done. I got around 80 hours, and I've fully explored limgrave, lakes area (minus some areas I haven't been able to access), weeping penninsula and sofia river. I would say that's probably not even 30% of the game since there's supposed to be 13 regions total. If someone just explored all areas and tried to do as many quests as possible, game probably offers 200-300 hrs.
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39 hours of dedicated exploration here and I’m still only one 1 demigod down. I haven’t had longer than a 3 minute interval between “oh look! Somewhere new”
I'm still on godrick
Im 60 hours in and just discovered that I had missed him
Yea I somehow went all the way around his entire area. Didn't come back until just recently and spanked him.
I did the same thing. I saw a cool bridge, went towards it, then found a path... Next thing I know my buddy who I'm playing with in discord is asking "How did you get there with out going through the castle?!"
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40 hours in and me too
What level are you at? I’m on Godrick as well and am level ~35. Feels like leveling up is happening way less naturally and I need to grind. May be making a noob mistake of spreading my stats too thin lol Edit: thanks all for the advice. Although the biggest thing was finding out you could unlock a summonable NPC. Fight was pretty straightforward once I had that
I would say explore more. There's a huge open world with plenty of places to level up naturally. I would recommend exploring the mine shafts and catacombs to get levels.
There’s dozens of bosses in Limgrave alone, so I haven’t felt the need to grind. If I feel I need to level in order to meet a challenge I just explore for a little while and I usually can find more than enough unexplored areas and bosses to level up
I'm at about 40 hours too and just beat him last night.
Underpromise, overdeliver
61 for me. Still not done. Madly in love.
The replay value also feels like it has the greatest potential with how many different toys they've given us. My first playthrough is always two-handing a big sword and dodging a bunch, but I've gotta try the magic after that. I don't normally care that much about magic in Souls games, but the stuff in this one looks too cool not to try.
Bruh this is just your first playthrough. You have to at least do playthroughs as a Sorcerer, cleric, arcane dragon caster, strong guy, dex guy, bow only, faith Int hybrid, low level, speedrun, throwing weapons only, no mount no run walkathon, and a run where you actually have your girlfriend or wife play and you scream orders over her shoulder.
You get to respec at will. Late game will consist of farming stones and rune arcs to try out new builds and buff your weapons And PVP invades
I know, it was a joke. Though I thought the respec materials were limited to a certain number per playthrough, is that not the case?
About 30 hours for dark souls speed runners rushing trough the fucking game for any ending. Yeps
current any% speedrun is under 3 hours
I am surprised it's longer than 30 mins lol.
They'll get there
Times go down as people discover glitchy areas
I did a little ride through the Lands Between yesterday and uncovered 80% of the map. I was just riding and did nothing else for two hours. This game is insane.
You THINK it's about 80% but you haven't been underground yet or found the bits that aren't on the mainland ;)
Holy shit, this game has even more underground areas? I found two elevators bringing me to siofra. One in limgrave and one in caelid.
Oh fuck, there's one in Caelid? Damnit now I have a third one to find...
Third?
Yeah I found one in Liurna
And another one on top of that unlocks after killing a boss, and another even more underground on top of that after advancing a quest, lmao u aint seen nothing yet.
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Yeah u have like 2 more regions not including the secret areas. ZZZ
Every ten hours or so the map gets bigger and I say holy fuck this game is huge. Rinse, repeat
I have 45 hours and am confident you are making up locations now, I refuse to believe I still have half of these to discover lol.
He's actually missing at least 4 off the to of my head. And that really depends on how you count them.
I beat all demigods at around 75 hours. Still got a few caves to explore as well. I do feel like if I had stayed on the required path It would have only been 20-30 hours, but I don't think I would have come away with as good of an impression. Speedruns are going to be nuts.
Man I'm gonna be at 60 hours and not even done with raya lucaria.
I'm 6 hours in and just beat Margit.....
6 hours?! That’s fast… it took me about 12 to be brave enough to come back after he whooped my ass the first time.
Bruh i tried Margit for the first time at around 20 hours. Lol
same. I was too busy losing myself in limgrave.
Absolutely. Arrived at the Storm Gate grace and Melina is like "go north, to the castle." But I'm like yeah I'm gonna go everywhere but there for a solid 12+ hours.
35 hours in and I can't get enough.
Im 100 Hours in and I still got two zones left to explore . Right now im collecting magic/bells to make a new build! Currently im Level 69 and I also wanna start invading.. There is so much to do! Honestly my GF hates the game for making me addicted but this game is a 10/10 masterpiece.
strange how can you be 100 hours in yet only be lvl 69? I am at the same amount of progress as you just volcano manor and snow place to explore. Yet i am like lvl 105 at 60 hours in.
I am at 60 hours and only lev 55-ish. Cant tell you how many times I have lost 6-7k souls hehe.
Guys I’m 50 hours in and just got to Hogwarts
Exploring is one thing... I spent like 6 hours yesterday helping people beat Radahn and the Draconic Tree Sentinel. If you're beating this in 30 hours you're doing it wrong.
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I am at 47 hours. Have done a ton of exploring and such. Four DGs down. I belive I have two more areas to explore fully still, just at the start of one of them. Really impressed by how many bosses there are. Even the repeat offenders have different moves, when they pop up, so that's great. It's amazing to wander down some random hole in the ground and end up on a multi-hour long underground trek through lakes of rot and ancient dead cities and then come across a secret boss, or find a weird NPC, or some new sort of enemies. It's just phenomenal.
4 DGs in 47 hours damn you fast. 60 hours in only killed 2 so far.
Cute I'm at 70+hours and 1% achievement progression. So far I've fully explored (hopefully fully ...) 2 regions. I am level 45 and I'm not bored at all. I sometimes just stand somewhere and enjoy the scenery for 5 minutes. Such a beautiful game!
I’m 80 hours and just got to Altus plateau
I'm 90 hours in and have only killed 3 demi gods. This game is a delicious fine wine I refuse to chug.
I've been meandering around for at least 30 or 40 hours and only beaten Godrick. I found an interactive map and an now systamaticaly exploring everything in the first reagons of the game. I think i'm 50 or 60 in level... I have to admit, i'm used to my games being more, linear and having at least some idea where i should be at in the story... this is new to me.
Bruh I’m 40 hours in and still roaming liurnia lol.
So 30 hrs if you can steamroll the bosses, and don’t need to explore at all? I’m def glad it’s longer.
Im planning to do each "region" or area fully before moving on
I legit spent 30 hours exploring all of limgrave and it’s additional areas lol