Nerf DLC weapons.

[Daniel]

Too strong. They have no disadvantages practically. They just excel in everything... Make it more noticeable it's disadvantages in certain scenarios.

I'm just expressing my opinion to the devs. If you disagree feel free to discuss but be serious If you want to be taken seriously.

[Fineous🔥]

Another poor dude turned into kebab by some scallywag armed with a sword of damnation ( Midra sword).

Originally posted by Daniel:

TMake it more noticeable

Nah! Remember people you can use

https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Unseen+Blade

To actually make your weapon invisible!

[Mechanical]

No one is forcing you to use them.

[An Irate Walrus]

The devs have never shown any evidence of reading this forum, ever (UW people know), but enjoy screaming into the void.

[Kitsunegari]

You're goofy.

[MISO4EVER]

Git gud

[LuckyCheshire]

Nah. There are definitely a few very powerful DLC weapons, but they aren't any more OP than usual. Remember that the base game has gems like the Blasphemous Blade, Moonveil, Cleanrot Knight's Sword, Greatsword, Star Fist, etc. etc.

[Daniel]

Originally posted by An Irate Walrus:

The devs have never shown any evidence of reading this forum, ever (UW people know), but enjoy screaming into the void.

The devs have their own means to get to know player's opinion. Of course they can't know the opinion of each player but If a significant amount of players express that their opinion, that they this or that, they'll probably know. For example, players complained about Radahn being too strong in the dlc and then he got nerfed. And you're not being honest. As you said "The devs have never shown any evidence of reading this forum, ever" and I don't know If this is true or not but if it is you can't say I'm "screaming into the void." because you don't know If they read this forum. You could say I'm possibily screaming into the void, more or less, but it's not entirely in vain. If a significant amount of players, not just me, express their opinion in many places, somehow they'll get to know what the players want and might change something in the game. So it's surely not in vain because they might read this forum. If let's say 100% of the discussions here are asking for a certain thing and they ask for a long time, there's no way they wouldn't know about that. Someone in charge of this forum might read. In that case that information would soon or later reach them.

[An Irate Walrus]

Originally posted by Daniel:

Originally posted by An Irate Walrus:

The devs have never shown any evidence of reading this forum, ever (UW people know), but enjoy screaming into the void.

The devs have their own means to get to know player's opinion. Of course they can't know the opinion of each player but If a significant amount of players express that their opinion, that they this or that, they'll probably know. For example, players complained about Radahn being too strong in the dlc and then he got nerfed. And you're not being honest. As you said "The devs have never shown any evidence of reading this forum, ever" and I don't know If this is true or not but if it is you can't say I'm "screaming into the void." because you don't know If they read this forum. You could say I'm possibily screaming into the void, more or less, but it's not entirely in vain. If a significant amount of players, not just me, express their opinion in many places, somehow they'll get to know what the players want and might change something in the game. So it's surely not in vain because they might read this forum. If let's say 100% of the discussions here are asking for a certain thing and they ask for a long time, there's no way they wouldn't know about that. Someone in charge of this forum might read. In that case that information would soon or later reach them.

That's an awful lot of wishful thinking.

This forum has been the site of repeated, frequent demands for native UW support since the game launched. Guess what we still don't have?

Folks report cheaters/hackers here; guess what doesn't cause any action on From's part?

Folks have demanded native PS button prompt support; guess what we don't have?

From and Bandai-Namco both have dedicated consumer feedback channels, and social media accounts they monitor, so you're right: if enough people express an opinion via a channel that might actually reach the developers, there's a chance they'll respond to those opinions.

There has *never* been a direct interaction with or response from anyone at From on this forum, nor have many of the things Folks have made multiple threads on here been addressed in-game. The most logical inference to draw from this? This ain't a communication channel From is engaged with.

Thus, shouting into the void.

[Don Lobo]

Originally posted by Daniel:

The devs have their own means to get to know player's opinion. Of course they can't know the opinion of each player but If a significant amount of players express that their opinion, that they this or that, they'll probably know. For example, players complained about Radahn being too strong in the dlc and then he got nerfed.

Is called telemetry. While playing online, the game collects information. "Where are people dying the most?", "What attacks are people having trouble with?", or something that might even make the devs go "check recorded data from 'ghosts' to see what they're doing wrong", etc.

With that data, they can make adjustments and send them to testers with specific instructions: "Is this attack more visible?", "Is this level of enemy aggression too easy now?", etc. And from that comes most of the changes we see.

There's also feedback submitted through official channels. Some of that gets sift through and is taken into consideration when reviewing telemetry, but that's about it. No community manager would go through the pains of recollecting individual opinions from forums without tools to do so, and no dev team would take cherry picked suggestions to adjust anything in their game. Even indie devs are more careful than that with feedback and suggestions.

[Kitsunegari]

You can literally mindlessly spam Lion's Claw on Brick Hammer/Giant Crusher to beat the DLC bosses.

What DLC weapons are broken?

[[BEANBAG]]

Originally posted by Daniel:

Too strong. They have no disadvantages practically. They just excel in everything... Make it more noticeable it's disadvantages in certain scenarios.

I'm just expressing my opinion to the devs. If you disagree feel free to discuss but be serious If you want to be taken seriously.

The DLC weapons use should be confined to the DLC area, and banned from the base game. This would fix the imbalance between the two.

[[BEANBAG]]

Originally posted by Don Lobo:

Originally posted by Daniel:

The devs have their own means to get to know player's opinion. Of course they can't know the opinion of each player but If a significant amount of players express that their opinion, that they this or that, they'll probably know. For example, players complained about Radahn being too strong in the dlc and then he got nerfed.

Is called telemetry. While playing online, the game collects information. "Where are people dying the most?", "What attacks are people having trouble with?", or something that might even make the devs go "check recorded data from 'ghosts' to see what they're doing wrong", etc.

With that data, they can make adjustments and send them to testers with specific instructions: "Is this attack more visible?", "Is this level of enemy aggression too easy now?", etc. And from that comes most of the changes we see.

There's also feedback submitted through official channels. Some of that gets sift through and is taken into consideration when reviewing telemetry, but that's about it. No community manager would go through the pains of recollecting individual opinions from forums without tools to do so, and no dev team would take cherry picked suggestions to adjust anything in their game. Even indie devs are more careful than that with feedback and suggestions.

Developers read and listen to forum posts. This is a bad idea. Why? you may ask? Because there are two groups that tend to live on the forums: the fanbois who believe developers can do no wrong and the lazy players who refuse to learn how to play the game that cry it's too hard... These players make up 10% of the actual player base, so the skilled casuals who factually discuss the pros and cons of the game are usually never represented.