World Tendency

[RyuKazé]

Based on the mechanic from Demon's Souls, what would World Tendency look like in Elden Ring?

Keep in mind, I've barely played DeS via emulator on PC so I've never gotten to this point.

[nfinite.recursion]

Who knows? FromSoft themselves don't fully understand the mechanics of world tendancy which is why it was never carried forward.

But I suppose this thread is more for the fun of speculating.

[Norm Macdonald's Ghost]

Originally posted by RyuKaze:

Based on the mechanic from Demon's Souls, what would World Tendency look like in Elden Ring? ...

Tendency 1: moar gold
Tendency 2: moar death blight
Tendency 3: moar dung

[RyuKazé]

Yes, speculating and probably a bit of explaining from your POV of what is it. My rudimentary knowledge of it is unexplainable at best with a lot of um's, ugh's and hmm's.

[The Fountaineer 🖋]

Garbage. Hated how much effort was needed to understand or even make it work, and in a game like Elden Ring would just be another added layer of artificial difficulty.

[Bricky strong]

Is the emulator online?
World tendency would be awesome, but they already have rng so I'm not sure how to implement it. Maybe make the merica statues go black and then they have to set the aggro on hard instead of being random.

[Bricky strong]

World tendency, if you beat 4-8 bosses or kill black phantoms without dieing and losing your souls it will go white. If you die like 5-10 times while human and without reclaiming your souls it goes black. Pretty simple.
It take longer to change world tendency from full black to full white.
Black world tendancy is harder with red phantom enemies, white tendancy is easier.
Having black or white tendency opens doors normally shut.
It punishes dying while human but also rewards opening doors to valuable loot.

[causality]

Originally posted by Bricky strong:

Is the emulator online?

It's got a global tendency which is the default but you can manually set it yourself if you're trying to get something specific.