The Duskbloods is going to be huge. Turns out people love the multiplayer component of Souls games.

Looks like there is a new Monster Hunter in town

>>713200459 (OP)
>Turns out people love the multiplayer component of Souls games.
Bro your Seemless Co-op that ended elden rings player count.

It's fun but I still haven't beaten the first boss because people are retarded, so I'm a bit disheartened and may jump back to the game when only good people are left.

>>713200657
ER/Nightreign vs. Wilds' reception is a very interesting example of how these two main branches of Phantasy Star Online's DNA might progress in to the future.
Needless to say, more challenging & tighter gameplay on From's side is thankfully winning out over whatever Capcom is trying to do.

>>713201106
People love PvE. Souls PvP should just stick to arenas you can queue into and skip the random invasions because 9/10 they're shit and aren't used the intended way.
>ganksquads
>twinks instantly killing new players, only countered by twinks summoned to specifically kill the invaders

I had my fun invading on Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 1 but it was never meant to last.

>>713200459 (OP)
Duskbloods is the intentional PVP component of souls games. Which nobody likes seeing as Colosseums are always empty. People just like invading people who don't want to do PVP. Which led to a bunch of people whining loudly on here about the seamless multiplayer mod for Elden Ring preventing PVP.

Duskbloods will do worse than Nightreign.

>>713201682
The Duskbloods is PvPvE. Like Tarkov. Normalfaggots will eat it up.

>>713201527
Souls PvP is fine so long as there is an incentive. Elden Ring removed the incentive thus half the game's playerbase purposely chose to avoid invasions via a mod.
If I'm going to be invaded than there at least should be a reason for it instead of the invader just getting the exact same shit they would get if they co-oped with someone to take on a boss.

>>713201860
Normal faggots don't like Extraction games. Tarkov is niche. Devs have been trying to capitalize on Extraction Shooters for like 5 years now. Nobody cares. The last time anyone was semi interested was Dark and Darker. But that was mostly for the controversy. Interest died out for that too.

>>713201262
Mh is so bloated now. There's just no coherent vision, they shove all the conflicting elements into one big messy pile. They want a big cinematic railroaded story . but they also want a living breathing immersive seamless ecosystem to freely explore and make your own hunts! but they also want a million HUD and UI elements on screen and auto tracking to every conceivable resource so you never have to explore or get immersed at all. but you can actually ignore all of that shit too because once you get to multiplayer you just teleport around from the hub and back anyway with no conceivable reasons to go wandering around. But you can ignore multiplayer too, because the hunts are to easy and fast that you'll clear every creature in 8 minutes regardless of whether you're playing with friends or not.

God what a mess. It used to be so simple. You're a hunter. Hunt for the villagers or go to the multiplayer city and hunt with your friends.

I honestly like Nightreign more than Shadow of the Erdtree. The nightlords are all more fun to fight overall compared to SOTE’s roster, with SOTE still having higher highs, but that expansion was just really disappointing in a lot of ways. The new combat options in Nightreign are really fun, I like the characters and routing. Multiplayer shenanigans can be interesting even without voice chat. Really, I liked SOTE for what it added to the base game more than what it had for itself.

>>713201527
The silent majority loves PvP, that's why all the most played games in the world are PvP games.

>>713201527
The best part of souls PvP was in DS3 when you’d have 3 different factions invading one world and sometimes the two PvP factions would team up.

>>713200459 (OP)
I wasn't interested in Duskbloods when it was revealed to be PvPvE, whatever that means. Now I am willing to give it a shot after having fun with Nightreign. For me, character skills make the game less clunky and I hope Duskbloods will expand on that.

>>713200459 (OP)
>Bouncer Cerberus
>Eyecancer Deviljho
>Seltas Queen
>Snoozy Jellyfish
>L I B R A
>Shockwave Pony
>Jobber Dragon
I love the nightlord crew, you could make a megaman game with those guys
>starving hobo lanky wobbling zombie king dude final boss nº 5019
one job

>>713200657
isn't this 100% because it is a bad port and pckeks getting uppity

>>713204476
Factual. DS3 was were Souls peaked with PVP, even if the covenants were shit compared to DS1.

>>713202054
This. I'm having a hard time seeing this type of game having as much success as Nightrein. PvP is not for everyone and much less for casuals, which are the majority of Souls players nowadays.

>>713205582
To clarify, I mean PvP in individual games like Souls, not in team based games, obviously.

>>713204707
I think the idea is like
>you find a boss
>fight it
>another player finds you and the boss
>you team up to kill it
>before the win, you backstab the other player at his weakest and eliminate him
>take the spoils all for yourself
and you’ll be a lot stronger than the other players coming out of this so you could just jump them in a dungeon more easily or something.