Why is this spell so bad? 

Knowing all this, something I'm very interested to see more about are the summons that have been mentioned for Elden Ring. Will From have overhauled their NPC generation systems to allow creating an NPC from nothing anywhere on any map? Will there be duplicate reservoirs of summonable NPCs on each map, or maybe one special set of NPCs that actually can move between maps? I imagine they'll have to have done something in order to make travel between areas seamless when you're riding the mount.

Something I'm really curious is why there's a pillar in Consumed King's Garden that spills blood when we hit it. It's just only one and is near the stairs where you fight the two cathedral knights before the fog gate.

"So it can make decisions our fireball can't" Welp that's a sentence I would have never expected to read

Zullie just Absolutely Murdering Dunnel at the beginning is so funny to me for some reason

Player version: *pew pew* Demon Cleric version: *TOUHOU*

I got the pyromancy expecting the demon ruins fireballs, but instead I got a bubble that pops after 5 seconds

it'd probably have been better if it shot more than three times. like, if it was something like a pyromancy version of homing crystal soulmass. it just stays above you for a while and fires at nearby enemies.

Why not just make it like the Homing Soul Mass spell but instead of 5 hovering bits you get 3 bits inside the ball that trigger in the same manner.

And also Cleric has one target and one target only to shoot at... so even if his fireball wasnt a specific npc with AI it would probably work better for him than player.

I absolutely love the editing of Hailfire Peaks swapping back and forth from Ice to Lava, very good touch

I love that masterfully used Banjo Tooie ost

They should have just left the orb in the air and made so that each fire arrow consumed some FPs. It would be a much better spell, an automatic turret that acts independently

Creepy how the sandworm is just waiting for you underground

It just needed faster cast time, 5 bullets and more damage, anyone remember Blinding Bolt in DS2? Thing was op for a while

0:31 "This spell is based" Best spell 10/10

I think From actually solved this issue with orbit pods in the armored core games. They are set to lock on to closet target and shoot. Leaving the player to do whatever, even hide behind structures.

Amazing how recognizable some soundfonts are. I don't even need to check the description to know what game this is from lol

I had no idea their engine was so limited when it came to spawning npcs. That's really interesting to know.

0:50 Carthus Sandworm just chillin'

This series used to be so mysterious to me, your channel is like watching "How it's made." I can't unsee these things and I'm okay with that.

I am impressed by the secret technique of screaming "WAAAaaaaaaZaugggh!" To summon a fireball.

Man I never knew these games were actually this interesting technically. Like I would have never guessed that the spell was just a fireball NPC

This spell's mechanics have always been something I've complained about, really wish they took the effort of programming something special for it Eg. aiming at enemies near the spell caster or the spell caster's current lock on target(As with how it stands, you need to be locked on at the point you cast the spell for it to remember who to shoot at). I think I got a good guess why work-around type implementations like this happen. I think its because the actual design of bullets/npcs/levels/weapons/etc. are done by those more design/art oriented, using the various tools and mechanics their actual programmers made for them. Their programmers may already have a bunch of work all over the game to do and when someone wants to design something specific like this, the designer may just prefer find a work around using the existing resources for creation in the game. Looking at the AI/action scripts, params, and other things really gives that feeling.

Pyromancyes in the souls series are my favourite because of the speed and damage but there are also very less variety of pyromancyes which just makes me sad!

imagine a pyromancy where you touch someone and you can make them explode at any time by just moving your thumb

It's meant to pressure opponents in PvP. I've found many uses for it & have worked it into a psuedo-combo with other pyromancies. It's good at forcing a few rolls & good at punishing over-aggressive opponents. Also, I'm not so sure about needing to be locked on when it comes to player-controlled targets

I wish the floating chaos was like the sorceress Hydra spell from Diablo II&III so it was automatic firing and targeting

After just watching Ray's vid on the boss secrets, it got me thinking. Is there a full skeleton underneath the Executioners chariot's horse or just the parts we can see? Also, are there any cool details on the chariot rider himself, since we can't really get a good look at him in particular?

I loved the incidental musics queues when casting the row of fireballs.

Wish it was more like Soul Shower in Dark Souls 2. Such a great spell, was such a nice setup/rope a dope. Fire off a few showers, they think they can tank the chip damage, bust out homing soul arrow followed by crystal soul spear. So much fun. Casting overall felt smoother in ds2

Man, Hailfire Peaks is such a good song.

There's something interesting to think about. DkS2 has a very similar spell, Recollection, that basically does the same thing but as a dark damage hex...but actually seems to work fairly decently.

Why can’t all youtubers be like you? Concise, clean and straight to the point=perfection

there's so many forgettable spells in ds3 that are utter dogshit lmaooo

Hopefully Elden Ring will have cooler spells and not worry so much about PvP balance, because I feel the flashiness and excitement of magic in the Souls series has generally been quite low.

As a game dev, not being able to instanciante NPC's on the go is a major problem when you try to make your game big. They'll have to make this a thing for elden ring. Edit : of course they'll do it I'm dumb, they already confirmed summonable helpers

It's slow and does weak damage. But it does stagger pretty good.

This may have been stated already, but this is supposed to be a PvP spell. It forces your opponent to either take damage or roll, and most people will roll, which sets up other moves, like roll catching. It also gives casters an opening for other casts.

Funny that this problem is basically fixed in Elden Ring due to spirit summons

honestly, give it more tracking, damage and duration and you're fine.

This video has hereby convinced me of one very important thing *That I'd love to mod the game to have fitting Banjo Kazooie/Tooie tracks for all the regions.*

so how do you think FROM would implement steed and spirit companion in Elden ring?

We really should get more spells based on what enemies do. Bosses for example should always cough up a spell. So many missed opportunities for spells based on boss attacks in DS3 alone.

I love these insights into the design and implementation of mechanics! These are some of your best vids.

The only use I had for this spell was in the arena as a celebration after a match where I would cast it while aiming the camera up, and then use the parting flame's weapon art to look as if the I was doing a tribal prayer. Godspeed to whomever I fought with.

Yet another interesting video on something I completely overlooked while playing through these games myself...multiple times. Big thanks for all the hard work!

My question is why not make it like Homing Soul Mass / Crystal Soul Mass but the projectiles fire one by one over a set period of time instead of all at once like HSM/CSM does? When we compare what we got to what even basic enemies use it feels lack luster like we got a flicked boogie when they could have brought back something from one of the previous games instead.

i actually quite like that spell- in pvp. its one of those spells like homing soulmass that, because you can line up your attacks with it, can be quite effective in landing a hit on another player

A really easy fix for this spell would have been to make the it shoot fireballs outward in a semi-circular pattern. You start up the spell, it floats upwards, then fires 3-9 fireballs in random directions around its spawn point, sort of like crystal soulmass. Make each fireball get progressively weaker, helping incorporate the actual lore of the chaos flame. You could even go a step further, and instead of getting lingering chaos (another sort of bad spell) from the demon prince you could get an improved version called greater floating chaos, which would shoot fire orbs, although instead of 3-9 you could lower it to 1-3.

All they had to do was to make homing soul masses firey (change the design/ animation to what we got) and maybe put in a script that it can only fire one fireball at once. I'm sure they thought of that, but still!

It's pretty good in PVP though. Combine it with Black Serpent to get them to roll in, and slice them up with Demon Scar's WA.

The fact that so many placeholders for spells are just... you know... 3 inches below the ground.

That was a solid intro. Not only are your fun facts getting better, so's your editing!

Ngl i won enough pvp using this pyromancy and throwing myself on the opponent in Leroy jerkins style

This video is a year old but I'm curious what they did to enable spontaneously spawning ai in Elden ring with the spirit ashes summons. What did they do differently.

A better answer in between would simply to be to have the Orb "Lock" onto a player and stagger 3 projectiles that head to where that player is, so that it be an effective tool for forcing an opponent to close or create distance, or move to a less favorable area. It doesn't have to be strong, but it does need to have some sort of use. The simpler answer comes from Miyazaki himself. "LMAO GET FUCKED CASTERS, USE A STR OR DEX BUILD."

Used this spell in PvP with the fire surge, actually makes it really good because if they roll away from the surge this one catches them so you can hit them

Imagine the technical nightmare of getting the fireball NPC attacks to sync-up online.

Hmm strange I use this spell all the time. It's helps alot in pvp and pve especially for getting them stun locked. Works great against Gael!

Really love the sound editing on this video. The music changing between locales is a great touch.

its okay though because the convergence makes it extremely good

Fun and informative Zullie, particularly the winter cut with the reveal about why the player doesn't get fire baby NPC's was good, it's nice to see some old Rare music for a change and was well cut.

For me, it doesn't come out as bad.. I think that improving it will make it possibly OP especially when combined with other spells.. I remember first time ever solo win against Nameless King, I relied solely on this spell on his 2nd phase since I spent all my Estus on the first phase. (I was that bad before) I kept the distance where he'd just walk towards you and I'll just walk away a little.. I didn't think I'd win, but I did.

It's a bit of a shame how quite a few spells seem to feel useless in the base game, and even DLCs (Way of White Corona comes to mind), at least not with very specific set ups. This one in particular feels like it could benefit from a much quicker cast time and at least a longer duration than just a few measly moments. I suppose From either didn't have time to set up the script for a more intricate lock-on system for Floating Chaos due to time constraints, or they didn't want a spell that a player could just leave behind and have it annihilate enemies for them (Yes, I know poison exists, but most poison-based weaponry requires the player to get close to apply it properly, while a long-lasting Floating Chaos could just bap incoming enemies while the player hid behind a structure). Or something like that.

But when enemies use the spell, it's like sentry guns

Zullie, you have a good taste in music!

What annoys me is that FROM already has the existing framework for these kinds of spells. DS2 had a bunch of ball casts that hit in a bunch of different directions but they just weren't implemented in DS3. Talk about bordering on negligence regarding sorcery.

This is the fate many software developers face. You put on so many systems tied to each other that you can't risk coding custom behavior without it being unstable so you limit yourself with the systems you have built similar to how a modder is limited to what modding tools provide (unless they extend it like SKSE which also doesn't have infinite coverage). In this case they can't make a spell with its own mind without making it an NPC which would sound hilarious to junior developers since it's their own code.

Yet none of that explains why it's inherently BAD in regards to minuscule damage, no ability to re-target, target by itself, and wait until a target is visible to attack, and the fact that it does only 3 shots when, clearly, it's a sentry spell. F███ kind of sentry has only 3 bullets?

That spell is bad because it only hits 3 times, deals very little damage and has long cast time. It could be good in 1 vs 1 if it could hit 5-6 times. Or if it could float for 30-40 sec and only hit when a target is locked.

what? no, this spell is absolutely disgusting when does gank city Literally just spam it and makes your opponent mental breakdown Works 200% better if you have a teammate spam it with you

Zullie I've gotta ask. Where does the Gwendolyn part of aldrich end and where does the aldrich begin? I can't ever wrap my head around how aldrich is actually supposed to look like

From can’t program reasonable game systems to save their lives. This is such a stupidly trivial thing to be able to do: spawn a new “NPC” whenever you want to eliminate all this mess.

I know this spell is considered bad, and I don't disagree with that opinion, but I still use it on my whip character for zoning and setting up roll-catches.

I wonder how difficult it would be to instead script the spell to attack the nearest living enemy to the player. I would say the spell itself but if the spell isn't an npc that would probably be more difficult and maybe not as useful.

Zullie, the only person who can make me read

Real-time NPC spawning seems an absurd thing not to support in this day and age on a technical level Git gud, From

This is interesting to think about now that we have summons in Elden Ring. Are they coded to be separate NPCs as well ?

Day 41 of simping for Zullie

Now I want a little fireball NPC companion! Like Calcifer from Howls Moving Castle.

i don't think this spell is that bad, if not for the horrendous duration mixed with high cast time this could be a very good passive way to deal damage.

Why didn't you create the same NPC like 7 times in all maps, huh Fromsoft?! Smh.

There will be an even worse spell in Elden Ring, mark my words

Now if it shot like 3 or 5 fireballs all at once in a shotgun pattern, it could be pretty scary. Especially if it shot 3 volleys.

I love the way you use the soundtracks in your videos. Keep up the good work! ♥

They could have just, you know, improved the scripting of the spell.

I mean. I feel it should do more damage or be cheaper, and it'd be lame but 'okay'. It just doesn't have a niche.

A better title to this video is "why isn't this spell as good as the enemy's version", because floating chaos is honestly a solid set-up spell. You can lock-on at the last second & still get the orb to target people, which makes it a great spell to pair with soulmasses.

I dont even play soul games (i mean i play nioh but ik that doesnt count as a souls game) i just subbed bc of the dedication to the lore and the fact and all that

I mean, they could've at least make it slightly homing so you can't straight up strafe walk it

Controversial opinion: if something you need to implement sucks without lots of effort, try not implementing it.

Unfortunately I hate all spells in this game, in ds2 everyone can be useful, even the worst

Can someone make a mod where it stays a lot lot longer

Did you ever take a look at the big dragon on the distant mountain in arch dragon peak? I'd like to see a close up look of that big boi

Brings up a thought though. Maybe have a spell npc load with each invader / phantom, one that changes model / effects depending on what spell is being used. So you could maybe create an ice sphere spell or lightning based one, just make it so only one version can be cast per player as a balance .

Zullie always with the amazing nostalgic game music I thought I completely forgot about. Love it

Zullie I love your content, actually brings the kid out in me because I love these games so much and love learning odd things about it such as this. Please never stop making these videos!

The problem is actually easily solved, but wasn't because Sekiro might be their first game not rushed out the door (yes, even DS3 is unfinished, just less obviously so, because of how the world is laid out permitted them to get further than before, which is why they want more linear in the first place).

I've actually found a great use for this spell among another "ass" fire spell and love it. Using it in arena and free casting pyro is SO good once you get used to free aim. This causes enemies to either roll or side strafe it, however when they do this you can send a free aimed chaos orb at there face to either hit them, or send it ahead of them or slightly before where they are to roll catch them. That and it hits people more often than you'd think as people underestimate the projectiles travel time or it'll cause people to roll into you. Pair this with black flame, dragon shield, a healing spell ( I use warmth) and (not shitting you) seething chaos you have not only a fun as hell build, but an actual great one too. Once you learn how/when to use all these spells together and git gud at free aim you become very hard to safely hit and I can say imo there isnt a more fun/satisfying build out there. Absolutely blowing up a gold PKCS user with seething chaos of all things and free aim pyro consistently with all these spells which you will once you learn it is the most satisfying thing I've done in my 6 years of this game.....

Yeah since no one so far mentioned that enormous worm that's underground I'm gonna mention it