Loot and breaking stuff

[Raithe]

I am a bit disappointed with the loot in this game. You can break barrels, crates, tables, boxes, and all kinds of stuff.......not one single piece of loot falls. Not ever.

The game is kind of devoid when it comes to details of this kind and though its pretty this sort of thing makes the world feel empty.

The runes are not my favorite either....little blue things in skulls.....why are we not just finding coins in stuff we break.

<random ranting sentence here removed as it was just uneccesary>

[-RAISTLIN-]

Your complaint basically boils down to it not being the same as every other game you’ve played. Fyi souls games have never had items dropping stupidly from crates et al.

[Raithe]

Hmmmm....didnt imtend to dupe this post.

[Raithe]

And no my complaint is that there all these breakables everywhere are pointless and that the looting is poorly implemented.

[BassChamber]

Originally posted by -RAISTLIN-:

Your complaint basically boils down to it not being the same as every other game you’ve played. Fyi souls games have never had items dropping stupidly from crates et al.

Dude, items dropping from crates is not stupid. Items dropping from glowing skulls is?

[medicinezombie]

Originally posted by Raithe:

I am really disappointed with the loot in this game. You can break barrels, crates, tables, boxes, and all kinds of stuff.......not one single piece of loot falls. Not ever.

There is a lot of lot that is hidden underneath or behind breakable objects, such as underneath the barrels and wood in the tents in some of the outdoor camps.

Try looking more carefully, it sounds like you missed many, many things! Loot is the little white beam of light that shoots up, you press the Y button to pick it up, not sure if you knew that.

Originally posted by Raithe:

The runes are pretty dumb too....little blue things in skulls.....why are we not just finding coins in stuff we break.

I mean, how would "coins" be any less arbitrary than runes? What are you "buying"? Why would some magical undead troll blacksmith care about coins?

Originally posted by Raithe:

They seem to have worked very hard to break immersion at avery poosible level.

I'm not sure what you mean, I'm not familiar with the "avery poosible level" - is that where Ranni hangs out lol? I'm kidding - they are not trying to break immersion, you are just confused and lashing out. It's okay, some games are too hard for some people, maybe you can find a different game better suited to your ability to figure things out

Good luck!

[Raithe]

I will say the lack of loot in places does make it exciting when you actually find a chest.......but the lack of loot also disincentivises exploration of places like ruins and such.

[Raithe]

Originally posted by medicinezombie:

Originally posted by Raithe:

I am really disappointed with the loot in this game. You can break barrels, crates, tables, boxes, and all kinds of stuff.......not one single piece of loot falls. Not ever.

There is a lot of lot that is hidden underneath or behind breakable objects, such as underneath the barrels and wood in the tents in some of the outdoor camps.

Try looking more carefully, it sounds like you missed many, many things! Loot is the little white beam of light that shoots up, you press the Y button to pick it up, not sure if you knew that.

Originally posted by Raithe:

The runes are pretty dumb too....little blue things in skulls.....why are we not just finding coins in stuff we break.

I mean, how would "coins" be any less arbitrary than runes? What are you "buying"? Why would some magical undead troll blacksmith care about coins?

Originally posted by Raithe:

They seem to have worked very hard to break immersion at avery poosible level.

I'm not sure what you mean, I'm not familiar with the "avery poosible level" - is that where Ranni hangs out lol? I'm kidding - they are not trying to break immersion, you are just confused and lashing out. It's okay, some games are too hard for some people, maybe you can find a different game better suited to your ability to figure things out

Good luck!

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Confused by this.....i find plants i can pick up, animal parts, and then chests containimg equipment.....i have literally found nothing in or under the breakable furniture.

And yes the immersion at every level bit is me being annoyed at things like this or the white words of trolls on every surface....i can be overly dramatic.

[vamirez]

Originally posted by Raithe:

Originally posted by medicinezombie:

There is a lot of lot that is hidden underneath or behind breakable objects, such as underneath the barrels and wood in the tents in some of the outdoor camps.

Try looking more carefully, it sounds like you missed many, many things! Loot is the little white beam of light that shoots up, you press the Y button to pick it up, not sure if you knew that.






I mean, how would "coins" be any less arbitrary than runes? What are you "buying"? Why would some magical undead troll blacksmith care about coins?




I'm not sure what you mean, I'm not familiar with the "avery poosible level" - is that where Ranni hangs out lol? I'm kidding - they are not trying to break immersion, you are just confused and lashing out. It's okay, some games are too hard for some people, maybe you can find a different game better suited to your ability to figure things out

Good luck!

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Confused by this.....i find plants i can pick up, animal parts, and then chests containimg equipment.....i have literally found nothing in or under the breakable furniture.

FS makes a point to not actually hide stuff in a way under other stuff that it cannot be seen at all (there are very few exceptions). This means that yes, there are some items in the tents in the various camps, and you might overlook them because of barrels etc. in those tents. However, the items are still visible before you break anything.

On your OP: Many games have containers full of random loot. That is a common design choice. To want that is ok, but won't happen in a FS game (at least for the last 10+ years). There are only dedicated chests. So basically you don't have to worry if you didn't roll through all the clutter. You do it for fun.

[LordShoe]

I'm so freaking thankful that isnt the case.

i HATED the other dark souls game where you had to smash every single box to see if there was some item hidden under or behind it.

so glad they reduced that in here by like 95%

[Raithe]

It seems there is no reason to explore other than finding things to fight. Not much point in going to those ruins or castles its just more soldiers and and big guys with chamberpot heads.

[medicinezombie]

Originally posted by Raithe:

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Confused by this.....i find plants i can pick up, animal parts, and then chests containimg equipment.....i have literally found nothing in or under the breakable furniture.

Fast travel to the Liurnia Lake shore site of Grace. Go south from there to an encampment with some soldiers. There are several tents in this camp. The tent on the western side is covered by wood and barrels; if you smash these and go under there is a body with something like a Smoldering Butterfly

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The real "problem" is not that this loot doesn't exist - it's just never important stuff, or stuff that sounds like it's used by you, so you just don't remember those moments in such a huge game.

[vamirez]

Originally posted by Raithe:

It seems there is no reason to explore other than finding things to fight. Not much point in going to those ruins or castles its just more soldiers and and big guys with chamberpot heads.

Friend - for me it's a ton of fun to explore and clear everything, and it's not all the same.

If you ask yourself "what is the point?" - then maybe you just don't like this game.

[medicinezombie]

Originally posted by Raithe:

It seems there is no reason to explore other than finding things to fight. Not much point in going to those ruins or castles its just more soldiers and and big guys with chamberpot heads.

I'm confused by this sentiment - even if you wished that random loot popped out of barrels and chairs and stuff, you must admit that there is plenty of loot just placed in the world, such as in the ruins and castles...

Like, does Radagon's Soreseal not "count" as loot since it's found on a body, and was never contained in a treasure chest or barrel or some other wood-based container? lol

[Lividacus]

With all the other issues in this game; I'd probably put "no loot in destructibles" at the low end of the list.....

[Raithe]

Yes I have found stuff on bodies here or there. There is simpky no reward for for breaking open things. No hidden trasures to find. Even the currency is just rolling around on the ground in skulls.

I dun know how else to say it. If i see a big old broken building i want to go look and see if i find stuff. Hunt for some treasure But in this game should you actually go to a ruin and smash everything you just find nothing. If anything is there you dont have to find it as everything has a glowing blue marker and nothing is actually hidden they are right out there for you to just grab.

It just feels like a slasher fighter game in this respect. Just poking around to find things to kill.

I expected an adventure not just to aimlessly wander and kill things to no purpose.