restrict dropping items to other players

[numbers]

In all honesty players should not be able to just drop endgame weapons to their friends. It trivializes the effort people put into actually obtaining them themselves since anything you want can just be dropped by something else. You should only be able to drop a weapon or item to someone if that persons character has "discovered" it themselves. The amount of players Ive seen fully decked out in endgame gear at just stormveil castle should be criminal.

Say for example I want to drop my friend a nagakiba. Instead of just dropping it to him right off the bat when he starts playing he would have to explore the world and find it himself and THEN I could drop him a spare if he wants to dual wield them. The system we have in place right now just promotes twinking with zero effort especially on pc where its so easy to dupe and hack items into the game.

[Echo]

This would curtail a lot of cheat-engining as well...

[Jones]

But that wouldn't be a souls like experience, it's always been that way and to change anything, even if it makes the game better, would take away from how things have been.
Why do you think they still use the same net code and the same engine? They don't want to "improve" whatever that means, they want to keep everything the same.

[r]

Originally posted by Jones:

But that wouldn't be a souls like experience, it's always been that way and to change anything, even if it makes the game better, would take away from how things have been.
Why do you think they still use the same net code and the same engine? They don't want to "improve" whatever that means, they want to keep everything the same.

I think you're lying to yourself.

Jumping? Improved/completely reworked since DS1

Sprinting/Jumping interactions? Improved/reworked since Ds1.

Attacking/cancelling frames? Improved/reworked since Ds1.

Perma poise? Changed from DS1 into Ds2, changed in DS3 and changed in Elden Ring.

Honestly this list could go on for hundreds of things.

Did any of those changes remove from the game or "Improve" it? Lol

FFS we have a horse in this game and you're like "they don't change anything"

[A1 Steaksauce]

I think it should be limited to dropping common drop weapons at the very least. But they clearly intended this and encourage the co-op, which makes me wonder why invading feels so discouraged at the same time.

[Shun]

Well at least you can't drop upgraded gear or smithing stones so the advantage isn't too big.

[Zapthor]

Originally posted by Just Some Weeb:

Well at least you can't drop upgraded gear or smithing stones so the advantage isn't too big.

you can tho my friend wanted to move a sword from one char to another. the sword was +24 and we had no issues with it

[Shun]

Well that's weird. Any upgraded gear my brother would drop for his other character would be invisible. I couldn't do it with my stuff either. Maybe because they were somber smithing stone upgraded.

[Smile]

Originally posted by Just Some Weeb:

Well at least you can't drop upgraded gear or smithing stones so the advantage isn't too big.

-you can drop the dragon crest greatshield talisman which quadruples defense, you can survive up to 4 hits in the capital bossfights with that, you can only get it legitemately in the last optional area of the game
-you can drop every ash of war for other players including some really powerful ones in the last area of the game
-you can drop any weapon that is lvl1, including ones that do base 500 damage per light attack when you're at lvl1, and so is the weapon.

[cridus]

Originally posted by Just Some Weeb:

Well that's weird. Any upgraded gear my brother would drop for his other character would be invisible. I couldn't do it with my stuff either. Maybe because they were somber smithing stone upgraded.

It's because there's restrictions on the upgrade levels, of course.

Originally posted by Dante:

-you can drop the dragon crest greatshield talisman which quadruples defense, you can survive up to 4 hits in the capital bossfights with that, you can only get it legitemately in the last optional area of the game

No, it doesn't quadruple the defense, and it's nerfed in pvp. In pvp it only increases defense by 7%.

[Jibble Sandwich]

It already is. You cannot see dropped weapons that have been upgraded beyond what you've done yourself.

[Shun]

Originally posted by Dante:

-you can drop the dragon crest greatshield talisman which quadruples defense, you can survive up to 4 hits in the capital bossfights with that, you can only get it legitemately in the last optional area of the game
-you can drop every ash of war for other players including some really powerful ones in the last area of the game
-you can drop any weapon that is lvl1, including ones that do base 500 damage per light attack when you're at lvl1, and so is the weapon.

-Forgot i smuggled my bro's erdtrees favor +2 for his new char. Lol, i was only thinking about weapons and armors. Also didn't try ashes of war or any 500 dmg weapons.


All things considered. I might have made a smoll miscalculation.

I can see how broken the advantage is.

[Him]

I would still permit consumable to be dropped tough

[PaceyLionheart]

Originally posted by Cobalt:

In all honesty players should not be able to just drop endgame weapons to their friends. It trivializes the effort people put into actually obtaining them themselves since anything you want can just be dropped by something else. You should only be able to drop a weapon or item to someone if that persons character has "discovered" it themselves. The amount of players Ive seen fully decked out in endgame gear at just stormveil castle should be criminal.

Say for example I want to drop my friend a nagakiba. Instead of just dropping it to him right off the bat when he starts playing he would have to explore the world and find it himself and THEN I could drop him a spare if he wants to dual wield them. The system we have in place right now just promotes twinking with zero effort especially on pc where its so easy to dupe and hack items into the game.

You can speedrun skip to all the endgame areas in RL1. Look up wrong warp. I tried this and it works without any problems.

[numbers]

Originally posted by PaceyLionheart:

You can speedrun skip to all the endgame areas in RL1. Look up wrong warp. I tried this and it works without any problems.

Let's keep bugs and gameplay features as their own separate discussions.

[PaceyLionheart]

Originally posted by Cobalt:

Originally posted by PaceyLionheart:

You can speedrun skip to all the endgame areas in RL1. Look up wrong warp. I tried this and it works without any problems.

Let's keep bugs and gameplay features as their own separate discussions.

I mean that these guys do not get their stuff dropped. They get it their own way. Atleast I do.