>add optional mode designed to be hard
>casuals who played ER with easy mode weapons and get carried in base NR and Everdarks suddenly get mad

Depth of Night is lazy design but it's optional, you can even downgrade your rank if you only want to play Rank 1 or 2 instead of the meme ones where you get oneshot
fromsoft will have to cater to casual players more than ever in their next game

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