Elden Ring (PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S/One) is an incredible game that is still surprising people months after release. Here are some incredible discoveries made by fans. Subscribe for more: ru-vid.com?su...
Most useful thing I found out was that margits Shackle and mohgs shackle reveal illusory walls at long ranges. So just spamming it as you walk through a cave or catacomb is suuuuper helpful. Also puddles of water lessen fall damage.
@@Sam-xt2gz Isn't that because, in that one catacombs where you let em run into each other, you actually hit the switch/pillar that changes their spawn?
@@charlesfragoso3932 yes and no, its SUPPOSED to only hold down the bosses. But since it has a gigantic 'hitbox' that can interact with illusory walls and switches/pillars that activate by hitting them, you can use them for other purposes than locking those bosses. Definately unintended though in my opinion
People call many of the stone enemies hard when they're using bladed weapons. Most stone enemies are highly resistant to slash/pierce damage, and weak(er) to strike damage, so having a hammer or mace you like can help make many fights much easier!
one day whilst high asf i had the idea to use a mace on the rock mfs whopping my ass , soon i fell down the rabbit hole of how in-depth this game really is
The dress constantly shoots invisible projectiles to check who to heal. That lead to all the bugs involving it, including it applying status effects from weapon buffs. Works the same way the setting-yourself-on-fire spell checked to damage enemies, but for non-hostiles. The shackles also have weird hitbox interactions that reveal invisible walls and break chariots.
Yeah its the same bug as the buff banner in dark souls 3. Sadly I think its because npcs in these games may be hard coded to understand who attacked them, even if the "attack" is a simple buff projectile. At least I don't think there's a way to distinguish harmless projectiles and harmful ones.
I have spent so much time in this game I am amazed how much stuff they fit into it. By far the most intense and complete game made in the past few years indeed.
@@Dandoskyballer plus the abismal performance that still hasn’t been fixed. And major pop in constantly in addition to the presence of some unnecessary loading screens. The game is great though.
@Juan I'm halfway through Leyndell (I think; I just beat the Godfrey shade) and I have just recently been informed I might be underleveled at this point in the game. I'm like lvl 94 with 23 vigor (I also learned I should have more vigor)
@@Dandoskyballerthat is why I never buy From soft games at launch without DLCs , judging by their track record with Artorias of the abyss , Old Hunters & Ringed city , they made some of the best DLCs in all of gaming usually surpassing the base games
Deathbed Dress alerting enemies is probably due to its spell radius for healing allies is coded as a 0 Damage spell with an aoe centered on the player so "Attacking" someone with it will do no damage but they will react as if you did.
That's interesting. Kinda more evidence that it's not just a "shares sound with boss" bug and more a lore thing where it's closer to it's power source when underground.
@@Dradeeus as of today it still works. so it might actually be a lore thing rather than a bug. FS knows about this and didnt change it so its probably intended.
The only tips I have is to learn how poise works, it's one of the most important stats in the game, no matter what build you are if you have less than 51 poise you're making the game a lot harder. And use the item crafting. Bombs are super powerful in the first half of the game and item damage negation buffs, when stacked with other buffs, make it so you don't need 60 vigor, 40-42 will do for PvE. For example with 40 vigor and using boiled crab, dragoncrest greatshield talisman and the opaline hardtear in mixed physik makes it so Melania's flower bomb doesn't one shot you and turns her water fowl dance from lethal into annoying.
I didn’t understand it till way later but ya, rem people struggling with things never bothered me, but since ds2 I always prioritize poise cos paranoid always hidden stats attached to it cos…from like to be cryptic and all lol
Honestly I can’t tell who I like more between the two commentators for this channel. Both Falcon and Jake are awesome, and I’m never bothered that they interchange. I never watch one of these videos and wish one or the other was doing that and it’s really impressive. Props to you guys
here is a little known thing about Melania, She will actively try to evade most types of magics including Night comet which most NPCs won't evade. There is however one type of spell she can't evade and that is spells like gravity well and collapsing stars, The type of spells Radahn uses, Perhaps this is one of the reasons he was able to force her to use her goddess form!
I’m surprised more and more is being discovered in this game, another reason why From Software is one of my favorite game companies, can’t wait to see what more will be found
Wow are you seriously that incompetent????? There's nothing new in this video. These are not things From Software put in their game as hidden content to be found.
@@jordanbrown1595 Bloodborne did have a DLC, called The Old Hunters. For Sekiro it is hard to know, it sold well, but maybe Miyazaki was happy with the game as it was and Activision chose to not want to publish a DLC as well. Elden Ring on another hand, it's a different beast completely. It sold faster than any other game developed by From Soft ever, it completely crushed Bandai Namco's best expectations for all platforms. Considering this kind of success, Bandai will not only want, but DEMAND at least one dlc.
The crystal dart golem trick is pretty neat! Little bits of information like this keep me going back to Elden Ring. Still not finished but almost there. Idk man, it's a long game lol.
Not really :D if you go straight for the main bosses, it's a relatively short game tbh. I'm 110 hours in the first playthrough and the first 40 hours i just wandered and trolled around xD the time i spend on bosses is way under 10 hours and i'm still not good at the game. In the other 60+ hours i mainly spend my time on trying things out, annoy the sh!t out of npcs and so on 😁
The Wing of Astel sound and effect modifications might have something to do with the 20% damage bonus against Gravity enemies, other weapons have this too. Fallenstar Beast Jaw, Meteoric Blade, Alabaster Lord Sword...
Fun fact in recent days I've found out depending on ur weapon ur holding, visibly in ur hand mind u will actually affect how your character sits at each site of grace. Sound odd ik but I tested it several times katanas and straight swords will affect ur sitting pose.
another thing about the red wolf. it actually has the same model and id as the wolf of farron in ds3. the wolf was originally a boss in ds3, taking the abyss watchers arena, with the weapon of choice being a curved sword. but that idea was scrapped, and it then became a covanent. so the recolored it, added animations, and some textures. and now we have that cut boss. really cool how miyazaki finishes some cut works
Its not sneaky cut content, its a copy and paste of Sif from DS1. A lot of enemies in Elden Ring have movesets that are straight up copy and paste from previous games
@@wildcardgambler Yup. I've definitely recognized some moves from the previous game(s) as well, and I'm someone that, while I enjoy these games, only plays them once. They could have named this game "Dark Souls 4" and nobody would have second-guessed it.
Concerning the crystal darts, I discovered the trick pretty early. Since Bloodborne, anything I see written in item descriptions has implications, no matter how small/minor or disconnected (to me, at least).
@@Juantidote Honestly, I'm not sure. I tried it on an Abductor Virgin (I think that's what they're called) because it comes across as an automaton-type enemy, but nothing happened. I'm still exploring.
The deathbed dress thing has existed similarly in other DS games. Dmg buffs or some or Defense buffs (lothric banner/Oath of Sunlight DS3) trigger enemies if active while near them
One small thing I have recently discovered is if you hold the up or down on the D-Pad it'll start you back at your first Incantation/Spell or Useable item. Pretty handy when you have more than 5 to scroll through.
I was SO happy they added this feature for us no HUD players 😅 Because cycling magick in the old games was a nightmare if you had lots of spells and wanted to play with no hud and use lots of items
@@SephiMasamune Wait this feature as been available since DS1? I never ever noticed or tried it, which I like to play with no HUD so that would be amazing if this is true
I was trying to get through the sewers of leyndell with a friend and went into my inventory to check the item of armor I'd picked up a few minutes before. My friend said he was disconnected, so I thought, bummer, let's try this armor while I wait for him to get back to our meeting place. It was the deathbed dress. I spun the camera around to see what my male avatar looked like in it, and saw i was being watched by an invader. He clapped, murdered me, then did the thinking emote you get from Sellen. 😂 I was in my inventory for a while, so I have no idea how long he was standing there.
I have never heard of anyone considering the golems as intimidating. They're rather derpy and weak.. unless we are talking about that one in the Caelid painting location. That thing could be a fucking boss.
If I remember correctly, there is a scroll/paper that you can purchase from merchants that gives you this crystal darts hint..The radagon wolf, I already knew it because of watching zullie the witch videos.
I really regret selling the game (since I needed the money at the time) but when I can get my hands on it again then I'm going to try every newly discovered thing I can
in souls games, all physical rules of the game world apply both to the players and the enemies / npcs. the deathbed dress has a healing area which 'edits' the HP of nearby entities. editing the HP (adding or subtracting) triggers an event (usually by attacking), whichs leads enemies to become alerted. they forgot that adding to HP shouldn't trigger this event like subtracting does. btw. that's just my theory :D
This game still has some a lot of discoveries and secrets that players have done,and I love them for doing it. Elden Ring has the best open world map ever made.
@@khalismur i wanna say bethesda would never in a million years mess it up because skyrim set such high expectations, but ever since cyberpunk i truly don’t know what some of these companies r capable of
@@wv11989 tbh none of us have even seen the best of Elden ring as the DLCs are not out yet & judging by their track record i.e. Artorias of Abyss , Old hunters or Ringed city all of the dlcs are some of the best I have ever played , Old hunters was better than base Bloodborne
My top tip, if you come across a player in pvp hiding behind the finger print shield. Use the cipher pata, it ignores shields and hits straight through them.
The weapon at number five sound changes when you get near the boss because it's coming home to it's rightful owner so it may get more of it's original power
Number 8 made me feel kind of bad for someone. I did the FIA stuff really late... Like as late as possible. So my character was very powerful by that time... Sorry to whoever had to face my nearly level 200 faith/ strength.
Your character scales to the host of the game it’s in, so you were probably getting scaled down a considerable amount which means you were more underleveled against whoever fought your character.
ELden Ring game has actual important issues to fix, but most fans dont have the imagination to want it, or the intelligence to see that it is needed. If people demanded those fixes i am sure they would be implemented by the developers. Let's start with the major issue. 3 issues 1) *Hand of Malenia* weapon needs a rework, if we consider how hard it is to get compared to rivers of blood or any other Katana. Hand of Maleniasword is basically useless in the hand of the player. *FIRST* of all it has a B scaling with dexterity ( if i remember correctly ) . Thats absurd, it should have A or S scaling . *TWO;* Any boss or even a big enemy can simply hit you out of your attack animation. The damage is mediocre at best ( I don't consider silly videos with 10 buffs a good example ) the weapon has bad damage that's a fact. *THREE:* Its weapon skill is useless, it doesn't gap close like it does when the boss is using it and again you can be HIT OUT of the attack animation ( unlike the boss ) i was so excited when i got that weapon only to find out that *Rivers of blood* and *moonveil* katana are way better. Why make the bost badass wepon in the game with the most coolest attack skill so usless??? It needs to be ficed. If they don't want to fix the damage, then at least do something about the fact that an enemy can hit you and your weapon skill animation just stops. Make it so that you can NOT be hit out of the weapon skill animation once you have activated it. You can take damage but you keep attacking. And fix the gab closing. As it is now, you basically just dance on the same spot with some feet apart. It should travel a bigger distance if needed to get to the enemy that is focused or targeted. ________________________________________________ 2) *Melee combat over all needs more variety.* Katana weapons should have more hack and slash COMBO Ashes of Wars.... the big heavy swords should have impactful Ashes of Wars and also some unique SQUARE and TRIANGLE combos . _________________________________________________ 3) *Armor stats and LOOKs should matter more, especially heavy armor, if we consider the stamina investment you need to make to even wear it.* The protection armor gives to you should matter more. And ARMOR LOOKS ...sorry but the games best heavy armor doesn't look that cool. Same problem with the shield... the games best Shield is a STONE ...like wtf????? Who came up with this lame design and idea??? The games best shield should look BIG and EPIC... not lame and boring.
Found a dungeon last night in an area I've passed multiple times . Just got a 120hz tv so it's a whole new experience. Im in awe of this game. If this game does not win any awards I will be shocked.
@@RealMasterChief117 that awkward moment when you dont know what youre talking about... LOL youre not going to tell me theres not a difference playing in 60hz as opposed to 120hz
@@bens3767 the game literally cannot have a framerate higher than 60 due to engine limitations. so unfortunately you will not experience 120hz to it’s fullest as the game will not even achieve 120 fps. should be awesome for other games though!
@@Kekasweat You guys are right im wrong theres absolutely no difference playing in 120hz on my new tv as opposed to my older 60hz tv thanks for showing me the error of my ways.
I remember first encountering those Imps when I took the stairs underground somewhere. They rushed me and immediately slaughtered me. It was fkn exhilarating ^^ I _was_ under levelled ofc. I like to explore.
I knew the darts worked on the imps, but I had no idea they also worked on watchdogs and golems. This will make that one catacombs with the frost spewing watchdog mobs so much easier
I wish they made 3d rpgs like the second playthrough of the original zelda for NES. No hand holding at all. Pure exploration and figuring out things for yourself.
Just discovered the realisation that there will come a time when gameranx will say goodbye to the Falcon and my life will be void of his knowledge and words of wisdom. What will become of me when this happens I do not know but I think we should all be coming together to discuss how we deal with this eventuality instead of keeping quiet and pretending that it's not gonna happen.
I feel like he could easily do his own thing at this point. Gameranx vids without him don't really interest me. I'd like to see him go solo and branch out beyond top 10 videos.
Great update vid. Loved ER. Now back to my first Dragon's Dogma playthru. Still doin all the side quests and exploring. Still on lure I think haven't done come to court yet and I have about 40 hours hehe
One thing is, at night enemies don't see you until you're pretty much right in their face if you're crouching in front of them. Noticed this when in Caelid, but it only works in the open world, not dungeons or caves
The forge thing is probably just bad collision stuff. The very first time I arrived there, I thought you have to go into the cauldron, only to stand there on my horsecam, in deathcam, on the side of the rim, before ultimately walking off and dying. Maybe they just didn't have the time or didn't think they'd need to polish that area, since you're really only there for maybe 30 seconds once in the entire playthrough.
I recently found the hidden path at the Giants Forge, did some digging and it's apparently used for speed runners to do a glitch to return to the Merica(?) Boss fight, quicker. Bad with names and not there yet
I speculate the dress issue is the same as to why in DS3 bosses go for dodges/fast attacks if you have used the Lothric War Banner, and that it triggers illusory walls; It's basically a continuous AOE. Bosses take no damage-But projectiles like dung pies also don't do damage but mobs try to dodge them.
The reason the chariot has eye tracking is because those eye tracking are the telescope There is a enemy controlling the chariot .. makes sense you those eyes because it is him looking to a tune all the way up the eyes
the jar summons were hell for me when I first fought them, they all had meta builds and were spamming weapon arts with no remorse, legit a summon with infinite FP chasing you down with a rivers of blood and spamming the sweeping attack is the scariest thing ever.
there’s a ledge you can walk on outside the door to the right at Rampart Tower in Godricks Castle. you can skip a lot of the birds and explore a lot of the rooftops
@@DistantDestinyAMV i was like 11 hours in still stuck in stormveil and once i found that spot i spent another 14 or so just looking for cool jump spots i could get to
I’m so glad this video exists and that there are new things being discovered in this wonderful game. But I’m also glad that I have restraint and will not be watching this glorious video in order to preserve these discoveries for myself. Thank you, Gameranx!
I have almost 700 hours in elden ring, and i just found an area ive never discovered before... The illusionary wall down in the shunning grounds where you get the frenzy flame. Ive mostly played offline, but recently started a new game in preparation for the DLC, and i just noticed that secret path that circles back around into the deeproot depths. Crazy, i still love this game.
There's another hint about the darts in the Consecrated Snowfield area, where a statue of two imps fighting outside Albunaric's Rise pushes the player to find a way to turn them against each other and break the seal.
I knew I wasn't crazy about the Wing of Astel sound! I was thinking something sounded different when I was using it near Astel and some of the Malformed Stars, but I thought I was just hearing things
I honestly have noticed the eyes of the fire chariots after I fought my third one and frankly thought everyone knew. Though did anyone know that mist attacks from those minor Miranda flowers (or aoes attacks like mohgs trident special attack) can go though ceilings and walls. I was at the haligtree when I realized it
For those with over 200 hours like me, how do you keep from getting burn out? I can't even turn this game on without being tired of seeing it at this point lol. Not saying I dislike it, obviously, I just.... am overloaded.
You should take a break because if you keep playing while burnt out because eventually you'll stop playing and come back to the game and wonder how anyone could get burnt out playing hopefully.
I had the exact same feeling like you described after I reached the foggy snowfields. At that point, I was beginning to think maybe this game is overstaying it's welcome. I like this game a lot, don't get me wrong but I generally find myself playing more PvP these days and have put the story on hold after 170+ hours. Those catacombs and caves surely feel like meaningless filler content now. I'm definitely feeling the burn out.
Multiple builds, challenge runs, and PvP. Got the game Day 1 and decided to make an Arcane build right out of the gate, not realizing that bleed would be OP. Had fun, but it definitely made certain things easier than they needed to be. Ran through it again as an Int/Str build trying to avoid anything I know is OP. Now I'm doing a Robin Hood build just using bows (mainly), rapiers, and consumables/throwable items. The first time I ran through the game I tried to be as thorough as possible and stopped levelling at 125, so when I want to take a break from PvE I load that back up, respec to something interesting, and do PvP duals outside Raya Lucaria.
I take breaks (aka play a different game) to not get burned out. I also make new characters to try new things from the ground up. Also you can make your own rules up, set challenges for yourself. Makes things interesting.
That weapon on number five that makes different sounds the reason for that might be… if you look at the environments in the different clips you would see that the first clip the character is swinging the sword outdoors. In the second clip the character is swinging the sword in a hallway therefore the programmers might have added a compensation for the reflection of sound inside hallways! I have noticed a lot of games on Xbox series s/x and PS5 that does this
I play Elden Ring and I discovered that you can alternate between Heineken and Old Smoky as long as you chug 16 oz of water every two drinks.You'll still get a hangover vut you can totally do it.
I have absolutely no interest in playing this game (Souls games just aren’t my jam), but I LOVE watching videos like this because I like seeing what the gaming community is capable of doing/finding in this game. Cheers, lads.
For the Wing of Astel maybe its sound effect is a kind of reaction to the dark Astel in concentrated snowfields, the weapon's bottom description states "Crafted from a relic of the natural born of the void who is said to have assailed the Eternal City" maybe the relic was a dark star and when you use the weapon near Astel, Star of Darkness the weapon's sound effect changes to its Original sound, idk if the sound effect works for the normal astel at the end of Ainel Well River but if it doesn't then maybe it could mean that Naturalborns were born from positive and negative forces in the void
In case people aren't aware, the clips of the Wing of Astel use two different attacks, hence the different amount/speeds of the outgoing projectiles. In the initial clip, the player is showing the uncharged heavy attack combo, which consists of two moves: an initial heavy attack, and a followup heavy attack. When uncharged, this move only fires one projectile per attack. However, in the following clip, the player is showing a fully-charged heavy attack combo. When fully-charged, the heavy attacks in the combo will fire off two projectiles per attack, which can be seen in the clip. Although the sound does indeed appear to be different, the choice to only use fully-charged heavy attacks when talking about a "change" in attack speed, is really just a cheeky way of getting upvotes.
I forget the exact details, but the Haligtree, if you jump down the elevator shaft just right, you still die but your body lands on the button at the bottom and sends it up.
@@guillermolopez1377 yeah new game plus is refreshing, but it’ll still keep you on your toes. But I remember my struggles with the fire giant in my first play through, on ng+ beat him in only a few attempts
I think the invisible "thing" is an asset that they have for a future DLC but they just made it invisible so when they do put in the DLC they'll just be able to quickly change it instead of having to code the item back in
The thing about the wing of Astel making a different noise is that it happens when in caves that have gravity magics that are more prominent or something similar.
I think the invisible object next to the forge could be the two fingers. The shape is very similar and if you look in the forge you can see where it looks like a pair of giant fingers were scraping the side, right under the invisible object.
"The golems are one of the moat intimidating enemies in the game" you sure about that Falcon? You certain you played the same Elden ring the rest of us have? I take golems over a dozen twatty enemies personally
The Astel enemies are key. If you notice the places where they are located, it's under places like Castle Cainhurst. It's like these enemies mark places of heavy natural magic deposit. There's another of those enemies under the Raya Lucaria Academy. One under the place where you fight Radagon.
