Alternative to fextralife?

[Zachshock]

Whenever I try to look up stuff on fextralife it tends to lag out my game and I can't close out the window in shift tab.

[Richard]

https://eldenring.fandom.com/wiki/Elden_Ring_Wiki

I don't use fextalife most of there stuff it out of date or just wrong

[Zachshock]

Originally posted by Richard:

https://eldenring.fandom.com/wiki/Elden_Ring_Wiki

I don't use fextalife most of there stuff it out of date or just wrong

I also learned about that recently too.

[Dr. Professor Commander]

Originally posted by Richard:

https://eldenring.fandom.com/wiki/Elden_Ring_Wiki

I don't use fextalife most of there stuff it out of date or just wrong

Originally posted by Zachshock:

I also learned about that recently too.

What is this I'm hearing about? I've been using the site for five years now and probably a solid 97% of the info I've acquired from there got me exactly what I was looking for, so I feel somewhat inclined to believe it might've just been some s***head adding bunk info (in the event that it doesn't require a site admin's verification). I mean, sites of Fextra's caliber deal with this exact problem all the time, it's not exclusive to them... People do the exact same thing with Wikipedia, and info that can't be verified generally gets removed because someone reports it to the admin team.

Anyway, Fextra is really only useful for researching the specific details of an item, enemy, or boss. If I discover an item I'm interested in, I usually have this Interactive map[mapgenie.io] open in the steam overlay. It's got the best UI I've used for any interactive map sites, a search feature to find specific things, and filters to hide crowded/unnecessary map markers.

EDIT: The downside to leaving it open in the overlay is that occasionally you'll have an ad start to play sound when it's closed, so just be aware that at some point you may hear a Febreeze ad while you're dueling a Crucible Knight or something lmao.

[Zachshock]

Yeah I only used it for stat requirements and stat scaling.

[Darth Invader]

If you have a cell phone, you can check websites out on that while in game.

[CourtesyFlush09]

Originally posted by Richard:

https://eldenring.fandom.com/wiki/Elden_Ring_Wiki

I don't use fextalife most of there stuff it out of date or just wrong

Nearly all of the stuff I read on Fextra is correct.

[☬ Crow ☬]

Originally posted by Richard:

https://eldenring.fandom.com/wiki/Elden_Ring_Wiki

I don't use fextalife most of there stuff it out of date or just wrong

Ya, that guy makes videos about the game and you can tell he has no idea what he's talking about half the time.

[Buldor]

Originally posted by Gigachad Freeman:

Originally posted by Richard:

https://eldenring.fandom.com/wiki/Elden_Ring_Wiki

I don't use fextalife most of there stuff it out of date or just wrong

Originally posted by Zachshock:

I also learned about that recently too.

What is this I'm hearing about? I've been using the site for five years now and probably a solid 97% of the info I've acquired from there got me exactly what I was looking for, so I feel somewhat inclined to believe it might've just been some s***head adding bunk info (in the event that it doesn't require a site admin's verification). I mean, sites of Fextra's caliber deal with this exact problem all the time, it's not exclusive to them... People do the exact same thing with Wikipedia, and info that can't be verified generally gets removed because someone reports it to the admin team.

Anyway, Fextra is really only useful for researching the specific details of an item, enemy, or boss. If I discover an item I'm interested in, I usually have this Interactive map[mapgenie.io] open in the steam overlay. It's got the best UI I've used for any interactive map sites, a search feature to find specific things, and filters to hide crowded/unnecessary map markers.

EDIT: The downside to leaving it open in the overlay is that occasionally you'll have an ad start to play sound when it's closed, so just be aware that at some point you may hear a Febreeze ad while you're dueling a Crucible Knight or something lmao.

Fextralife benefits from early access, but they post early, which means it is often outdated. Many of their current guides, walkthroughs, questline info, triggers, drops etc. are outdated or incorrect. This doesn't mean you can't follow them to get your desired outcome. Just they are missing the full story. Like following a map, but instead of going in a straight line, it takes many unnecessary detours. You still get there, but it wasn't the best route.

For terms of lag, it is due to their embedding. Whenever you load their website, each tab will actively stream their twitch stream. Some pages will do this twice. On top of adds. On top of being a wiki. So if you're tight on resources for running the game, the website will bring you over.

[Complaintdesk]

I find as long as I close the video add that opens in the lower right hand corner, when one scrolls down the page, I do not have a problem with lag. For me that video popup is what causes lag if I leave Fextralife open while playing Elden Ring.

[5chneemensch]

Just use your adblock.

If you're on the phone, use Firefox.

[vamirez]

I hear that Fextralife has issues, and you may not want to use it, but not so much in the quality of information department. I can only speak to their Souls games wikis, including Elden Ring, and my experience was that the information on those is good/correct.

[Lord Bob]

Fextra was especially bad shortly after release, as lots of articles were filled by users who had the need to tell the world about their weird headcanon nonsense which also happened to cross reference their favourite anime/video game/movie/series for some reason.
Also absolutely egregious were the 'best weapon' lists made for their respective weapon category pages, some of wich were solely based on the opinion of a single person who happened to enjoy one greatsword more than the other.

Luckily all of this got deleted by now and most information fextra provides is up to date.

Oh also, should you want to stop fextra entirely from tanking your pc while you're playing here's what you can do:
In your web browser of choice get any adblock, go to settings, go to expanded settings, go to filter, click add and type in the following

embed.twitch.tv/?channel=fextralife

This will just stop their embedded twitch player from autoplaying their stream each time you visit any of their sites.
I'm not sure if this even prevents fextra from actificially inflating their twitch view count, but if it does it would be all the better.

[Zachshock]

Originally posted by 5chneemensch:

Just use your adblock.

If you're on the phone, use Firefox.

In shift tab mod's web browser mode? Is that possible?

[nfinite.recursion]

Originally posted by Zachshock:

Originally posted by 5chneemensch:

Just use your adblock.

If you're on the phone, use Firefox.

In shift tab mod's web browser mode? Is that possible?

There was an adblocker that included a filter for the Twitch crap on github that I found with Google some months ago. I don't know if it was updated for the new Steam UI and ingame browser though. I'll have to check it out later.

[alumlovescake]

I doubt thing Fextralife is the issue there