people who put messages on levers , ladders or anything interactable

[Grimm]

STOP IT, it is annoying.

[Cuddle_Rat]

I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment, as well as the hidden path ahead messages every five feet along every wall in the game.

[Witch]

Tips : put the game offline.

It's the first thing i did when i saw MESSAGES EVERYWHERE.

[Crowtein]

Originally posted by Cuddle_Rat:

I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment, as well as the hidden path ahead messages every five feet along every wall in the game.

You're not wrong messages used to be creative, now it's just facebook-level ♥♥♥♥ spam.

[Vara]

I think if you rate a message poorly, it should damage whoever placed it since rating a message helpfully heals whoever placed it.

[Cuddle_Rat]

Originally posted by Vara:

I think if you rate a message poorly, it should damage whoever placed it since rating a message helpfully heals whoever placed it.

Or better yet, remove one flask of crimson tears lol! That sure would make boss fights spicy!

[Malarraenaepcaleac'h]

I dont understand why the hidden path baits are always the most upvoted ones.

[Cuddle_Rat]

Originally posted by orthostatic:

The messages will seem creative when someone buys Elden Ring two years from now and starts playing it. That was my experience being a very, very late player to Dark Souls 3. I can only imagine the saturation on release day though.

Glad I play offline.

To be fair, the further you get out from the starting area it isn't to horrible. Still a couple of spammers around but I've been saved from more than one ambush due to a well placed message from another player. I always make sure to up rate those.

[Eltarimus]

i agree. so unnecessary and childish.

[Grimm]

Originally posted by Malaneth:

I dont understand why the hidden path baits are always the most upvoted ones.

It is not they sum up the downvotes and upvotes together

[SmallGespenst]

being fair, the game puts interacting with messages at a low priority, so if you try to interact with a lever with a message on it, you'll just pull the lever. you need to actively switch to the message to read it

[Anzaman]

Originally posted by SmallGespenst:

being fair, the game puts interacting with messages at a low priority, so if you try to interact with a lever with a message on it, you'll just pull the lever. you need to actively switch to the message to read it

Somebody had put message next to ladder. And it prioritized reading the message over climbing the ladder.

I had to find some cheeky angle in hopes of getting onto the ladder, since coming directly straight for it always wanted me to read the same trolly message.

[Muse Snooze]

There's so few actual hidden doors for most of the game, I pretty much disregard messages at this point that are near walls and only slap a wall on instinct, which has proven correct so far due to playing the bulk of the Fromsoft library, and frankly boomer shooters. I have placed very few messages, if you find the ancient sleeping dragon's blindspot and see a message saying "do it!!!" that was likely me.

[Lime]

No.

[Greb]

There's a mine I think in the Capital area, South spot, with a ladder climb in a room with one of those Virgin Abductor things. The ladder is slightly bugged so the interact prompt is to the left of the ladder and not right in front of it, but when I went through there it was plastered in messages, and it was literally impossible to grab the ladder and climb it quickly. I killed the Abductor, but the ground was littered in bloodstains and all of them showed players trying to use the ladder in a hurry and then dying from something, probably the Abductor itself.

The messages themselves were all chiding useless ones, like "Death!" and such, so it's obviously a spot people know to chuck messages down to cause someone else problems. All highly rated, probably 99% poor votes.

Wish the system was better. Messages you vote poor should remove a rating and not grant the messenger any bonus HP or even a notification, and if a message drops into the negatives it will be deleted after X amount of time passes or something, the time shortening the higher the negative number becomes, if it reaches like -10 rating it should just instantly be deleted.

Or at the very least all your poor ratings to banish the message from your game world forever. Messages are useless 99% of the time, and the remaining 1% of the time they're just there to hold your hand which I don't want either, plus in this game they're so damn bright and the same colour as item pick ups...who thought that was a good idea?

Honestly I wish I could turn messages off entirely, except for FromSoft placed ones, while keeping ghosts and bloodstains.

[DAWN OF THE DEAD]

Originally posted by Grimm:

STOP IT, it is annoying.

i didn't do this before but now i will start doing just for you bud