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Thank you Fromsoftware, for not releasing any more time-limited bosses or rewards while my mother is visiting me.

To everyone who is disappointed about not getting new content for a while: I'm sorry, it's my fault, I'm sure Fromsoft saw my post about me being worried I might miss something and decided that it would be best to make sure I spend as much time as possible with my mom.

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Does anyone know if the Sovereign Relics are automatically unlocked or do you need to beat the boss first? I forgot to check before I defeated Fulghor.

My mother is coming to visit me for about two weeks and I don't want to explain to her that I have to spend a few hours every day grinding a time-limited video game boss to get a video game reward when she comes to my country once per year.

(And I also want to spend as much time as possible with her (even if she can be annoying sometimes (but she will cook all my favorite dishes so she can criticize me, my life and my appartment as much as she wants)))

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I finally defeated Heolstor with the Recluse. It was more luck than skill to be honest.

Found some really good wands and ended up mostly spamming rancorcall. I didn't pay much attention to my magic cocktails, I didn't even learn the combinations. It was always random bullshit go.

But I had this insane lucky moment, where I just wanted to siphon FP from Heolstor when he got up in the air to do his big AOE, and as always I had no idea what was going on with my cocktail, and then I went into a casting animation and thought oh shit this will take so long I won't have time to evade, but it turned out that it was the popsicle spell, so I just stood right below him, immune to damage. Probably looked super cool, planned and skilled.

But now I am one step closer to having to do the Raider remembrance. I have no idea how to defeat this fucking lion. He is so agile and my attacks take forever. This is the only remembrance where I seriously consider to just watch a video to see what happens.

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Had my first Recluse win today and am slowly getting better.

She definitely won't become my new main, but I hope I will reach a level of competency that I can switch to her, if it would fit the team/boss best.

Now I just need to beat heolstor and then I can finally watch all the "Nightreign endings explained" videos.

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Why are the new items being sold by an inanimate shield in the backyard? Give them to the cute jar, it's so sad that there is no reason to visit him anymore, once you got the few good items and gestures you need :/

He deserves to earn more currency

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Great Nightreign experience:

> agreesively keeps spamming pings, even if others have already agreed to go and are on their way to the location

> doesn't accept anyone else's suggestion

> makes bad calls so we are a bit underleveled, but still no problem

> runs into the rain to grab something that's obviously too far away. Dies.

> runs into the rain again to get runes back. Dies again

> leaves

I feel like there are more and more expeditions like this, like, it's getting worse. Some people die and respawn once and immediately leave. Usually the remaining other player leaves immediately after too. Do I have to start looking for people to play with? I don't wanna give up on randoms, I had so many great experiences. I don't mind losing a run at all. Failing can even be funny sometimes, if we all wipe to the same stupid attack. Plus with randoms I can take a break and lie down for a few minutes if the run was stressful (I'm getting old and fragile, I guess).

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I am a Recluse main because I love wizards, sadly no phd, only a suffering law student. Her movement is also very smooth and lends to my terrible fear of going too close to bosses.

If you want to try her again I recommend playing a bit with staffs/spells on the training ground and running wild with the magic cocktails unril they feel more natural.

Whats your main in game?

If you got accepted into a law program, you HAVE to be smart! Maybe you get a doctor in law (not sure how they are called in English) some day! :)

I'd say my main is Duchess.

I'm also very comfortable using Ironeye and kind of okay with wylder. I alternate between those three, depending on the boss and whoever the other 2 randoms choose. But Duchess is definitely my first choice.

I'm a bit ashamed, because I was so vocal about becoming a Guardian main before the game was released, and then I abandoned him after like 1 day and now I even procrastinate doing his remembrance quests.

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I can't even put into words how much respect I have for Recluse mains. You guys must have giga-brains, are you all scientists IRL?! If not, please enroll in your closest PhD program as soon as possible, the world needs you.

You can remember the spells you have on your almost identical-looking staffs that show only the icon of one of the two spells it has.

You manage to pull useful elements from the environment while everything is chaos and constantly changing

You remember how many and which elements you already have in your cocktail

And you still evade incoming attacks

I tried playing her once, and I was constantly casting random bullshit, I had no idea what was in my cocktail, I couldn't even keep track of how many cocktail slots I had already filled, so I was often casting the cocktail-spell after the fight was already over, because I just tried to gain back FP and didn't notice my cocktail was ready. I was so useless, I was so ashamed of my performance, I never had the courage to try her again because I don't want to fail my rando-team.

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Not sure how I feel about gimmick bosses/ bosses who have some gimmick mechanics.

On one hand, it feels a bit cheap because, unless you consume external content, there is a high chance you will fail at least one attempt because you can't instantly figure out the gimmick mechanic.

On the other hand, bosses who are super fast, delay their attacks in unintuitive ways, hit hard, have long attack chains, have good melee AND ranged attacks, can close distance fast, can read read button inputs the first frame of your actions and can do AoE damage are also getting a bit stale.

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It's so weird seeing things you owned in your childhood being sold to collectors for sometimes surprising amounts of money. Like trading cards or game cartridges. We even had a lot of the boxes for warranty reasons.

I'm a bit mad at my parents for regularly going through my stuff and throwing or giving things away, because I no longer used/needed them and they were just a waste of space.

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Even tho runs with randoms can sometimes be frustrating, if they insist on fighting a boss they are too underleveled for, no matter how often they die, or if they insist on running across the entire map, just to get one more flask, I also know, that right now will be "the good old times".

It won't take long, until the casual gamers will move on to another game, after they have cleared all the Nightlords.

And the remaining players will have all figured out optimal pathing and the attack patterns of all new bosses. Builds will be optimized. Every run will be efficient. Bosses will go down fast. Even if some players are bad or inefficient, there will often be at least one player who could solo the boss and just continously res those who die in the process.

Enjoy the chaos while it lasts.

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These two probably have the deepest conversations

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When you change the Duchess' skin to the "Darkness" version, the sound of her footsteps changes, you can hear the "tak tak tak" from her heels, such a cute detail

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You want Duo-Mode because you want to play with your friend

I want Duo-Mode because I don't want to play with obvious Duos who don't give a shit about their 3rd teammate

I will be so happy when they can finally filter themselves out of the matchmaking pool.

One time we were running from the enclosing circle, I was in front of them, barely any health because we were fighting a boss and I had used up all of my health flasks and I got hit by a mob shooting an arrow and died. And even though they still had a lot of HP, I only had one blue bar and the circle was far enough behind us so there was no risk for them, they just ran past me and let me die and lose my runes to the rain.

I exclusively play with randoms and the obvious Duos were the only bad experiences I had. Ignoring me, ignoring my pins and sometimes even ignoring their own pins

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If anyone was wondering, one full run of Nightreign uses about 75 MB of data. (That's about 13 runs per GB)

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In my opinion solo mode should have been an unlockable hard-mode and not be presented as an equal alternative.

So much of the negativity and criticism comes from solo mode. The game is obviously not made for solo play. And now they have to invest resources into balancing this mode to make it equal in difficulty, so players can play the multiplayer game solo.

If it wasn't accessible from the very beginning, everyone would be forced to at least try playing with randos. From what I've read, a lot of people just assume playing with randos is bad. But it isn't. Sure, sometimes you have a round with people who suck, but usually these rounds end in night one, so you have only wasted like 20 minutes. And you still earn currency and relics. And after the first filter Nightlord you will fight the other Nightlords only with people who have at least some skill.

And since there is no voice chat, there is no toxicity. No reason to be afraid of playing with others. If you absolutely don't want to play multi-player, it would be better to just skip this game.

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Nightreign definitely needs a "I need to pee before we fight the Nightlord" gesture