Is Online Experience Worth It?

[StreamWhenGuy]

Hi. Have finally recently bought ER. Been avoiding spoilers for all this time since it came out. All the Dark Souls games I pretty much finished in offline mode since I got tired of invaders and distracting bloodstains and messages on the ground.
I'm playing with a DualSense controller and since this game only has Xbox button prompts for w/e reason (seriously Capcom?) I have to use a mod to change the icons, thus I have to play in offline mode as well as disable the anti-cheat. That's pretty much the reason for me to play offline. Yes, having proper controller button prompts is the big deal
So my question is, will I miss out the fun? Is the online mode the same as in Dark Souls games? Invaders, bloodstains, messages, ghosts, signs, summoning and such?

[xpootx1]

I played ER offline for the same reasons you played the Souls games offline, and feel like I had more fun with the game than if I played all the way through online.

[Sabaithal]

You're not missing much. Its mostly just the following:
- Messages in front of ladders, just to piss of M+KB users
- Messages next to cliffs telling you to jump
- "Comedy genius" messages saying "finger, but hole"
- Single-celled organism messages "Fort night"
- Absurd amount of bloodstains in a room with just an elevator. No enemies, no traps, just the elevator.
- The corridor in weeping peninsula filled with messages that are enthusiastic about messages.
- Catacomb messages where its clear something went down, but you don't know what.
- Lamenting messages when approaching the region east of Limgrave
- "Behold! Dog!"

[StreamWhenGuy]

ok ty all I'm playing offline then

[Darth Invader]

X is A, Circle is B, Square is X, and Triangle is Y.

Seriously man, people don't even have to think about this stuff at this point, it's just muscle memory.

I mean, it's not like X is the right bumper or anything.

It's been the same for both controllers for 25 years now.

I dunno. It just seems like a trivial thing to risk a ban over. But. if you're playing offline anyways, what does it matter.

You do you. I don't know why I worry about this stuff anyways. Maybe because it's just one less host I can invade...

[StreamWhenGuy]

Ever heard about OCD? Yes, I need the button prompts to match my controller. I also don't like colourful Xbox buttons. I prefer pale DualSense ones. Maybe I'll get a mod to disable Chromatic Aberration as well since it strains my eyes and there's no way to disable it.
I'd rather play offline than get bothered with hardcore no-life invaders (no offense, I'm like that too) who need to touch grass, "finger but hole haha" jokers and countless bloodstains and other messages that create a feeling that I'm playing some Korean MMO.

I also confused Capcom and FromSoftware. Capcom started to include both Xbox and PlayStation UI buttons in their PC games, don't know why FromSoft can't do the same.

[Sadistic Puppy]

I've never went offline in a Fromsoft game in my life until this one. Started playing Day 1, and by the end of my first NG cycle it had gotten so clogged with BS messages I went offline, got some cool armor mods, made a couple of my own, and never looked back.

It's like walking through an airplane hangar filled almost completely with wannabe comedians that are all practicing the same five lame jokes... Simultaneously... Forever... The rest are the sweaty twinked invaders all equipped the exact same as they desperately try to follow the Rivers of Meta.

There are exceptions to the above, but it's not worth wading through waist-high dung to get there; You'd be missing nothing.