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[Discussion + Meta] Which Soulslike will you be playing this weekend and why won't you join our Elden Ring Seamless Co-op event?! (europe.pub)
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Hey guys!

For this weekend's discussion post, we have an announcement to make. Inspired by the recent post about Elden Ring's "Seamless Co-op" mod by @sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz and all the fun and interesting data they have gathered, @Skua@kbin.earth came up with an idea for an official c/Soulslike Seamless Co-op event!

He made a poll to gather some info which can be found here. Here, you can let him know what your preferred co-op experience looks like (PvP, PvE party, PvE gauntlet), what kind of communication you'd prefer (we have a Discord and a Matrix channel!), and what your general availability looks like.

The event will be taking place on 2nd May (time TBD) on PC only (at this time). The specifics of the event will be ironed out until then going off the information gathered in the poll. Another follow-up post to this one to announce the specifics will follow soon.

What you need:

  • a copy of Elden Ring (PC)
  • Steam
  • a knack for Jolly Co-operation™
  • a free Saturday

Here are the links to the Matrix channel and the Discord channel if you'd like to swing by and chat a little until then.

Huge thank you to @Skua@kbin.earth and @sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz for coming up with the idea and organising the event - we hope you come by and have a good time!

If you guys have any questions, do let them know.

Have a great weekend y'all ♥

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[–] 5 points 5 months ago (9 children)

My playthroughs got derailed a bit by Football Manager this week, so I'm still not done with Death Howl. Will hopefully be finishing it up over this weekend, depending on how much more content there is. Not any real further notes from last week, and I'm still overall enjoying the game. The battles that are at the core of it are fun, and I am enjoying the deckbuilding even though it's more puzzle-like than open ended. Each region has two play style archetypes and a certain set of enemies and encounters, and for each fight/zone it's more a case of "what does the game want me to do here" rather than "what can I do with the cards I have".

As for Elden Ring co-op, I'll leave that to those who are more enthusiastic about the game than I am I think. I had my fun with it and got my money's worth but I am not that interested in going back for seconds. Also social anxiety and all that, I'm not sure I'd be that comfortable anyway, or that good company for that matter.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Glad you're having a good time with Death Howl overall, despite your early scepticism. I gotta hop back on that sometime in the future.

    Thats unfortunate but understandable. I'm kinda in the same boat as you, but it's cool to have people enjoy themselves in these co-op sessions and get together

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Death Howl is still a good game. I think for me at first glance it looked so amazing that I was half expecting a 9-10/10 and it's more like a 7.5-8/10. The art is beautiful and never stops being fantastic and the gameplay is very solid. Once you accept that the emphasis is on the grid-based strategy part and solving encounters like puzzles instead of cooking up crazy creative deck combos the game starts to click much better.

    The big let down for me is the story, I don't hate the main conceit of it even though it's a little played out, but I think it could have been delivered in a much more subtle way so that you connect the dots much later and get a much more impactful end result that way.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    Yea it's more so Into the Breach + Inscryption than Slay the Spire.

    Maybe they could have been inspired a little more by Dark Souls in that department :D

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Finished it. Man that final stretch was brutal. You do get full unlimited deckbuilding in the final area, that's where you can use all the cards from all the zones without any extra mana costs. But fuck me, do you need it. The last stretch of 5 elite fights in a row without healing before the last boss was something.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Hey I'm just here to report that I'm playing around with the Farron Greatsword and the thing is absolutely NASTY, I cannot believe the L1 is free, ( should cost FP imo) and it parries and hits like a truck?!?! Seriously OP. These skeletons can't touch me. I'm god.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    And the combos, ԅ (♡﹃♡ԅ).

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It's amazing isn't it? Nothing more satisfying than using the first L1 attack to launch around an incoming attack and still get a hit in with the tip of the sword on the swing. And yeah being able to mix and match between L1 and R1 is also so great. So you can do L1-L1-R1 for example to skip the jumping attack. Easily the most fun weapon in the game to use for me.

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