We Played Elden Ring Nightreign - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Summary of "We Played Elden Ring Nightreign" – Kinda Funny Gamescast

Podcast Information:

• Title: Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast
• Host/Authors: Tim Gettys, Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller, Blessing Adeoye Jr., and Andy Cortez
• Description: Weekly video game reviews, previews, and analysis of the biggest topics in gaming, covering the latest in PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, and more!
• Episode: We Played Elden Ring Nightreign
• Release Date: February 12, 2025

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Introduction

In this episode of Kinda Funny Gamescast, the hosts—Tim Gettys, Greg Miller, Blessing Adeoye Jr., and Andy Cortez—dive deep into their experiences with Elden Ring Nightreign, a new multiplayer roguelite version of the acclaimed Elden Ring game. The discussion centers around gameplay mechanics, class dynamics, and their overall impressions from the closed network testing phase.

Gameplay Overview

Initial Challenges and Server Issues

Greg Miller begins by recounting the frustrating initial attempts to play Elden Ring Nightreign due to server instability:

"I was there for our play session for about three and a half hours and I got to play maybe a total of 30 minutes. Just a lot of disconnections." ([05:38])

Despite these setbacks, the team remained determined to experience the game fully, eventually managing to complete significant portions of their runs.

Core Mechanics and Structure

Elden Ring Nightreign introduces a unique blend of Elden Ring’s open-world exploration with roguelite elements. The gameplay is structured around surviving "nights," each representing a level where players face increasingly difficult enemies and bosses while racing against the encroaching Wall of Rain.

Greg elaborates on the mechanics:

"It's a multiplayer roguelite. Feels like you're playing a single-player battle royale game... a race against the clock." ([09:05])

Players start by selecting from one of four initial classes (extending to eight in the full release), each with distinct abilities and playstyles. The closed network test offered a static map, but full release promises dynamic map variations, enhancing replayability.

Class Dynamics and Abilities

The Wilder

Described as the "Mario of Smash Bros," the Wilder is a versatile class equipped to handle various combat scenarios.

"The Wilder can withstand any sort of death blow... ability to grapple small enemies towards you." ([39:38])

He specializes in strength and dexterity, wielding a range of weapons from broadswords to hammers, and possesses grappling abilities akin to a grappling gun in Fortnite.

The Duchess

A swift, dagger-wielding character inspired by Bloodborne's agility, the Duchess excels in fast-paced combat and support.

"The Duchess has the bloodhound fang... her ultimate allows for res as a squad." ([45:15])

Her abilities include a Bloodhound Dash for rapid movement and a replay mechanism that reverts enemies to a previous state, allowing for strategic resurrections of teammates.

The Guardian Tank

Greg describes the Guardian Tank as a powerhouse with exceptional HP, designed to absorb and dish out substantial damage.

"He's got the most hp. Definitely a massive strength build." ([47:00])

While slower in movement, his abilities include whirlwind attacks and dive bombs, making him invaluable during intense boss fights.

Boss Battles and Strategy

The team shares their experiences battling formidable bosses, highlighting the dynamic and challenging nature of these encounters.

Greg recounts fighting a three-headed dog boss:

"This three-headed dog boss fight's awesome... it's very similar to like the Red Wolf or whatever Radagon has. But, ultimately, these are going to be three brand new bosses that have new movesets." ([54:19])

Such battles require coordinated teamwork, strategic leveling, and effective use of each class's abilities to overcome the formidable foes.

Progression and Upgrades

Elden Ring Nightreign simplifies the traditional Elden Ring progression by automating character leveling through shared runes collected from defeated enemies.

"When you want to level up at the side of Grace, you can do so with having a bunch of runes, but you're not leveling up..." ([19:36])

Additionally, the game introduces a perk system where players choose upgrades after boss fights, enhancing their characters with various abilities and stat boosts.

Multiplayer Dynamics and Community Feedback

Absence of Crossplay

A significant point of discussion is the lack of crossplay, which Greg views as a missed opportunity:

"From Software reminds me a lot of Nintendo... it's like, you take it, you accept it." ([57:42])

Despite improvements in multiplayer functionality compared to previous Souls games, the absence of cross-platform play limits the game's potential community reach.

Team Coordination and Resurrections

The hosts emphasize the importance of teamwork, especially during critical moments like resurrecting downed teammates. The Duchess class, in particular, offers unique support mechanisms that enhance team resilience.

Greg shares:

"It's so clutch to not only reposition yourself, you're invisible for a long time. But what it's really, really great for is ressing your squad if a squad mate goes down." ([45:48])

Game Aesthetics and Lore Integration

Elden Ring Nightreign maintains the rich lore and atmospheric design of the original game while introducing new elements tailored for the roguelite experience.

"Everything looks like Elden Ring... it is so much fun." ([19:36])

The structured map design, coupled with new bosses and environments, ensures that the game feels authentic yet refreshingly innovative.

Special Features and Future Expectations

Perk System and Gem Upgrades

Players collect colored gems that offer various perks, which can be slotted into their characters to customize abilities. The system is designed to provide strategic depth without overwhelming players.

Greg explains:

"There are class related perks... it's like Hades sort of thing. Do I want this perk?" ([35:56])

Permanent Upgrades and Customization

Post-run rewards include gem currencies and permanent upgrades available at the Roundtable Hold, allowing players to enhance their characters and tailor their playstyles for future runs.

"They could change what colored slots your character uses... to give the player more freedom." ([35:48])

Notable Quotes

• Greg Miller: "It feels like capitalism in full swing... like, this is the way the game is meant to be experienced or this is not the way the game actually plays." ([01:20])

• Tim Gettys: "If you have any questions about Elden Ring Night Reign, please super chat them in or if you have any questions or words of support for Bless in his first Dark Souls playthrough." ([03:56])

• Greg Miller: "This is gonna be another Hades too, for me. I can... this is gonna be another, you know, not only try to kill every of the eight bosses... but of the variables that make me want to go back and just play forever." ([62:46])

Conclusion

The Kinda Funny Gamescast episode provides an in-depth exploration of Elden Ring Nightreign, highlighting its innovative blend of Elden Ring's atmospheric design with multiplayer roguelite mechanics. The hosts' enthusiasm and detailed breakdown of gameplay elements offer valuable insights for both longtime fans and newcomers. With its robust class system, strategic depth, and intense boss battles, Elden Ring Nightreign is poised to become a standout title in the cooperative gaming landscape.

Greg summarizes his anticipation:

"There's no doubt this will be a top fiver for me at the end of the year." ([69:46])

The episode concludes with excitement for the game's official release on May 30th and a heartfelt congratulations to Andy Cortez on his upcoming birthday.

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Transcript

[Greg Miller]

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[Tim Gettys]

What's up? And welcome to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Wednesday, February 12, 2025. Of course. I'm your host, Tim Gettys. I'm joined today by Snowbike Mike.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Good morning, Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

Blessing at a. Oh, yeah, Junior.

[Snowbike Mike]

Good day, Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

And Andy Cortez.

[Greg Miller]

It's all about persistence.

[Tim Gettys]

One of these men is not like the other. Andy Cortez, you have played Elden Ring Night Rain twice. Twice this weekend. I imagine all three of you will be playing this game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I unfortunately will not be. I'll be out of town. So I get to miss out on the big weekend.

[Tim Gettys]

Damn. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Mess up well, you too, I'm sure.

[Snowbike Mike]

Well, the unfortunate thing is I do have the code, but the timing on when the servers are open are unfortunate because on February 14, Valentine's Day, from 7pm to 10pm are the hours.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's prime time.

[Greg Miller]

That's prime time. That's when you want to be on.

[Snowbike Mike]

I will be free. And so I will be.

[Greg Miller]

I will be playing this game.

[Snowbike Mike]

I will be playing this game.

[Greg Miller]

Let's go. Yes. When you guys put that together and you're like, damn. On Valentine's, I was like, well, they know their market. You know though 3am to 6am you.

[Snowbike Mike]

Want to change that? Hit me up.

[Greg Miller]

And then 700pm to 10pm so that, that'll be my first, you know, sort of going at the this little network test because 3am to 6am can't be there. That's crazy because Friday. What are we doing, Mike?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We are doing a very special stream. Blessing is ready to step up and play Dark Souls 1. For real.

[Greg Miller]

This for real, for real, for real, for real. We are kicking Kevin out of the studio. I said blessing, I will get him out of the studio. We will make it. I will be there for you. I want to be support. I want to watch you experiences.

[Tim Gettys]

Wow.

[Greg Miller]

Sure. And also like a birthday weekend for me, like from the heavens.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, wait. That is so true.

[Greg Miller]

Hanging out with Blessings to watch Blessing play Dark Souls 1, which is something I've wanted my whole life. Tonight, reign to my first playthrough ever of Dark Souls 2. It's just going to be like, you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Never played All Star Weekend?

[Greg Miller]

No, I was always holding that one up. Oh, NBA All Star weekends.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

NBA All Star weekend is in town show. They're doing a live showing of the NBA on TNT with the whole gang free to. Free to go.

[Greg Miller]

Like, think about it. We should go. And I. And I was like, oh, what are prices looking like? He's like, probably going to be like 2,000 the minimum.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

Where are the NBA players hanging out this weekend? Because how do we get there?

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, that's.

[Greg Miller]

How do we get to those clubs? How do we get to those clubs?

[Tim Gettys]

That's all the clubs downtown. Like, I mean it's, it is good. Every time this happens, they always go to the same like four clubs around 100. Yeah, exactly. I'm sure they're going to be there. But anyways, this is the kind of funny games cast each and every weekend. Weekend, weekday. I got Andy's weekend on the mic, you know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Big birthday weekend.

[Tim Gettys]

Birthday. We get together to talk about the biggest reviews, previews and topics in video games live on YouTube, Twitch and podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, you can support us with the kind of funny membership. You get the shows ad free. You can watch live as we record them and you get a daily exclusion exclusive Greg way. And when Greg's not here, someone else does the Greg Way. I don't know who's doing it today, but Greg's not here.

[Snowbike Mike]

I checked the, the calendar once I got in. It's me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, that's everybody.

[Greg Miller]

I don't know. I know I'm doing it one day this week, but I think it's tomorrow.

[Snowbike Mike]

That was a sneak attack. When I saw it on the calendar.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was like, oh, let's film our magic game.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's a good.

[Greg Miller]

Wow, that's a good.

[Tim Gettys]

These boys are addicted to magic. Any three, five minutes they have, they're just like, and I'll take my turn. Hilarious.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'll pass my turn back to you.

[Tim Gettys]

It's great for a chance to be part of this show. If you have any questions about Elden Ring Night Reign, please super chat them in or if you have any questions or, or words of support for bless in his first Dark Souls playthrough. Send them through. I'm sure he'll appreciate it. A little housekeeping for you. Today's a little bit weird. Uh, there was no Games Daily yet. We're gonna do that later in the day because after this games cast, we're going to be doing a Stream that is going to be Joey and Roger playing some of that movie trivia. Then after that at 1:30 we are going to reunite here at this desk for the of PlayStation State of Play. Then we'll react to the state of Play and then the Games Daily will be the post show of all the news that they announce at the State of Play. Real quick, are you guys excited for this PlayStation state of play?

[Greg Miller]

All about persistence, Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah.

[Snowbike Mike]

It's all about persistence.

[Greg Miller]

On my bloodborne shirt on ready to rock.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

We're going to get a bunch of Xbox announcements probably and release.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That'd be a big deal.

[Tim Gettys]

Again Indiana Jones fingers crossed for that Metal Gear release date. I'm hoping, I'm hoping that's not gonna happen. And then if you're a kind of funny member you can get the Greg way. That will be blessing. Maybe playing magic. You'll have to wait.

[Greg Miller]

Definitely.

[Tim Gettys]

Thank you to our Patreon producers Delaney Twyne and Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Karen Lindner. Today we're brought to you by Rocket Money, Shady Rays and Better Help. But we'll tell you all about that later. For now let's start with the topic of the show. Andy Cortez.

[Greg Miller]

Hey Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

You went down to sunny Los Angeles.

[Greg Miller]

Vegas first Dirty Las Vegas. Dirty Las Vegas.

[Tim Gettys]

To play some Elden Ring Night Rain. Something happened. You came home and then you went down to sunny Los Angeles.

[Greg Miller]

Sunny la. Yeah. Irvine. Went to Irvine.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, slightly sunny Irvine.

[Greg Miller]

You know we.

[Tim Gettys]

What happened?

[Greg Miller]

Well the, the first event was supposed to be in Vegas and it was you know, it was a little bit kind of close to the. The fires happening in Los Angeles. So they said let's move it to Vegas. We'll move it to Vegas. And that's where you know, kind of a last minute audible cool. No problem. Went to the mgm second time in Vegas in the last like six months or whatever from the Sonic event thing. It was like haven't been. Didn't expect to come back here ever again. You know and just a lot of network issues. The NAT types, Mike, you know what I mean? You try to have firewalls if you have a closed NAT type. There was just a lot of connection problems and they kept assuring us guys, this is not the way the game is meant to be experienced or this is not the way the game actually plays. We promise you this rocks. And we're so sorry about this. And it's like it's all good. It's unfortunate but I was there for our play session for about three and a Half hours and I got to play maybe a total of 30 minutes. Just a lot of disconnections. Or if we were deep into a run, Lucy, James or Tam would bow out and we'd be like, just keep going. Just keep going with the run. See how far you get in this Elden Ring Night Ring game. And they flew me out again on Friday, this past Friday to LA and said, let's give it another shot. And that's where I got to play. Around 4 hours of Elden Ring Night Rain, the brand new video game from. From software. And if you all remember, Tim, they showed this off. I'm just like. Feels kind of cheap. I don't love this. I don't love the idea of it. I'm sure in practice it'll work out, but you're. It feels like you're kind of. This is a bastardization of it felt.

[Snowbike Mike]

Like the Metal Gear Survive.

[Greg Miller]

Yes. This feels like, you know, capitalism in full swing. You know, like the thing that you. The thing that's so magical and amazing to you, this journey that you've gone on. You know, what if we just made it a multiplayer type of thing? I'm like, I don't love that. And when we did the fantasy critic thing, Greg picked it and I was like, I don't know. I don't think that's like a super safe pick. You know, I. I think that maybe it comes out and isn't fully well thought out and. And I was just wrong about it all. Tim was wrong about all of it.

[Tim Gettys]

How happy does that make you?

[Greg Miller]

I was so happy playing this video game. I didn't. I almost missed my flight on the way back.

[Tim Gettys]

Tell me about it. What I want to know first is how similar is it to the Elden Ring experience?

[Greg Miller]

Well, it's a different version of Limgrave. It's limb veld. It's supposed to be a alternate universe sort of thing. It just really feels like one of the best fan mods you'd ever see on Nexus mods like this feels like it is Elden Ring. It's eldering through and through. Your characters have different abilities and movements that make you feel like some like all the characters. In order to differentiate them, let's give that character class the Bloodborne Dash. Let's give every character a sort of climb and mount ability where a lot of these characters have insanely double speed sprint. Now to get around this map quicker. This is a multiplayer roguelite. Feels like you're playing a single player battle royale game. Like there's no other Teams, right? It's just you all but, but you are, you are on a race against the clock. A race against the wall of rain. The night rain, Tim. The rain will come in nothing cooler.

[Tim Gettys]

Than a night rain.

[Greg Miller]

And it is hectic, it is chaotic. It is. You are. It is split decision. I. It's the only time I've ever felt like Snow Bike Mike in a war zone match where each time, you know, this past, this most recent time I played with two other people from other outlets. But the first time was with Lamb and with Lamb and Tusi Tam and Lucy. And with Tam and Lucy. God bless their hearts. Kind British people, not loud annoying Americans like us. So quiet in this big ass auditorium where we don't have in ear comms but they're playing, we're on a larger table and they're playing like Elden Ring music above to kind of make the, the vibe feel right for this event. And, and God bless Lucy. She's just sitting there, she's like, I think we should go over here. Lucy, I need you to speak up right now. Like you guys are so quiet and calm and polite but I need you to be like let's go to Green Ping right the fuck now. It just wasn't a great environment for this first playthrough for this first play test. The second one though, quiet. Bandai Namco offices in Irvine. Lovely area to be in. Lovely. Just like we're at, we're in just a conference table and I'm. I'm Snowbike Mike on the battlefield. We go to Greenpeace right the fuck now. Because the wall's coming in. We get there, we hit that church, we can get another flash charge. Let's hit up this day. Dude. It was just like I couldn't stop. I. I wanted to play this game forever.

[Tim Gettys]

The walls coming in you said?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, let's set the stage really quick.

[Greg Miller]

Set the stage.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Cuz like I, I think we've seen you do drop in like it's fortnite like a battle royale.

[Greg Miller]

So the map pops up Mike and it's straight up like are we dropping Greasy Grove or where are we going? You know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Set the stage. It is a full on like island map we'll call it. Similar to a battle royale of course Elden Ring and you actually do kind of fly in and drop into a certain wherever you want to go also.

[Snowbike Mike]

Is this your gameplay?

[Greg Miller]

No, this is all this is provided. B roll from Bandai Namco. They didn't let us record unfortunately. And so yes you, you and your squad are flying in. And I, based on what I've heard other people mention, is that this is all predetermined drops. And what you mean by that, like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They'Re going to, they know where we're going to go automatically.

[Greg Miller]

Well, I think that all of that will change when the actual game comes out. Because what you're about to experience this weekend is the closed network test, which is a lot more structured. You're, you know, you're getting a small pool of random, randomized bosses and the world also isn't changing around you. You're not getting, you know, sort of this procedural. Now this swamp pops up here. Now this whatever, you know, like that's not happening. This map is very structured and they're mainly doing this to kind of stress test the multiplayer and Internet functions. But you drop into a world, you pick from up to four classes. In the future there will be up to eight. All these characters have different stats, different abilities. They are the tank, the mage, the, you know, quick rogue like character. And you are dropping into a space and it's like we need to immediately get into battle to get runes, to get to find all of the. Any sort of site of grace that we could go level up at. Because you need to level up as quickly as possible. You need to get as strong as possible as quickly as possible. And it is, again, it is hectic and it's gonna take some time. I, I see in the gameplay like there are, you know, sometimes I'll do the, the walking beauty shots. You can't do that. You're like running around, what do I want? What item do I like? It is almost a little overwhelming at first.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Are we sharing runes like you said? Our goal is to get kills which then give us rewards, which is runes, and then go to the side of grace. Are we sharing runes or is it kind of. Hey, Andy, share a little bit with me. Stop killing everything.

[Greg Miller]

You are sharing runes. Everything is all shared. Enemies get killed. Mini bosses will pop up on the map, all that stuff, all those runes get shared, right? The more dangerous the bosses, the mini bosses will give you a lot more runes and you could possibly level up a whole lot of times, right? You are not sharing ground loot though. If you walk up to an area, you see some boxes shout out to this game, allowing you to break crates that then drop loot. Because you, anytime, you know, from software will put a room full of 9,000 crates and none of them will ever have loot. That's just not what they do in this game, there is loot in a lot of these little crates. You break them and if you, you know, decide to pick up that item, about three or four items will pop up. And they could be anything from throwing knives to throw, you know, the, the explodable jars and like that. It's all sorts of all the consumables that you have in Elden Ring, you can pick up from a lot of these different things, including weapons or whatever. And all that ground loot is not shared. So you have to say, all right, I'm, I'm gonna take this because this is good for what I'm doing right now. Now, however, if there's a weapon on the ground that you're like, do I want this or not? Pick up every weapon you can. Because every weapon, there's no equip load. You don't got to worry about going overweight in this game. There's no over encumbrance. You pick up every weapon you can because you have six slots to do so. Because every weapon has like a passive to it. Every weapon might have, like, this gives you bleed, this gives you whatever. Regardless of whatever you're using, all of the passives and all the abilities that any weapon has, all of that is all accumulated for yourself. So like, you're still getting all of the perks from everything you have equipped. You're picking up again, you know, we're seeing right here. You could pick up a little thing that gets you more. The gold pickled foul foot. Tim, you eat one of those suckers.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm so happy.

[Greg Miller]

Eat a little chicken leg. You. You get more runes whenever you're in battle, right? And the way it's structured is it is night by night by night. The first time you drop, day one pops up. Let's go fight. Let's go do whatever we can. And then eventually the walls are closing in and the wall, the fire. Yes. Yeah, the wall, the Wall of rain starts closing in. And it will eventually, at the end of the night, close in to a randomized spot where your first boss encounter will happen. Now, in the closed network test again, small pool of bosses to choose from. Anything from Elden Ring bosses to Dark Souls bosses. You know, one of the bosses you fight in Night Rain is the Centipede demon, which is something from Dark Souls 1. And so a lot of these randomized enemies will pop up. What does that mean, lore wise? Nothing really. It's just like, let's just have a big pool of bosses to have fun with. And these bosses, once you Beat them. You complete night one, right? And then that's when you get like a bunch of loot to pick up or whatever. And then you'll have the option to choose from three perks. And these are not shared. These are like only for you. So every enemy every year, you know, squad mate has different perks you're choosing from. So it's like that Hades sort of thing. Do I want this perk? Do I want this perk or do I want this perk? Some of them might be useless. Some of them, you're like, ah, I guess I'll go with this. This is my only good option. Or some might be, oh, I get health back whenever I do a critical hit and I do the stick, you know, and that was like, oh, cool, if I can get health back. I love that. Let's kind of have that going for this run. And then you begin night two or, or day two rather. And you do the same loop. Now the enemies that you've killed are already dead on the map. You gotta go explore the rest of the map to go kind of continue to level up, rinse and repeat. Circle will close. Night two begins and the next boss will happen. And that'll be another randomized boss. So for what we experienced the night one bosses were Centipede, Demon, and it was those big sort of like rat looking creatures, Mike, you know, the queen, the wolf people. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know what the hell they are. Yeah, that was night one bosses. Night two bosses was Margit along with some other dudes. Margaret, the fellowman. And then the other option that could have popped up randomly was a bunch of the like tree sentinel people, the big guy, the dudes on the horses.

[Snowbike Mike]

A bunch of them.

[Greg Miller]

Like a dude on a horse with two homies. Oh, and it was, that was real hard. That's what I'm like. Let's balance that one. This is way too hard. Like we're getting our asses handed to us right here on this run.

[Tim Gettys]

You saying that it's too hard? I'm interested in this because a lot of what you're saying sounds like this is prioritizing the fun. Which anytime you guys have ever talked about Elden Ring or any of these souls games, to me that seems to not be the priority. The lore and the experience and the atmosphere and all of that, that seems to be the, the, the priority. How much does this actually feel like Elden Ring? Is it the right amount?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, absolutely. I mean you're, you're, you're getting all the weapons from the Elden Ring catalog because the loot that you're picking up is all rarefied. So you'll get white loot, you get blue loot, or you get the purple legend or Epic, and then you get the gold legendaries. Those are really, really rare to find. It still feels core at its core, still feels like eldering because you are getting a bunch of different enemies from the world, a bunch of different bosses from the world. And the structure and the world design and the assets that you're using that you're, you know, running by, it's all from Elden Ring. But again, this does feel like the best fan mod made ever, where you know, there's a lot of mods out there that are randomizers and you can get like randomized bosses at certain moments. Or even with me, Mike and Nick doing the seamless co op Elden Ring thing where they, you know, modders will kind of tweak the systems here and there to kind of make the experience a little bit better. This feels like the best version of all of those. It is so much fun. You're so right, Tim. It does prioritize the fun in making everything kind of less of a. Of a hassle. The whenever you want to level up at a side of Grace, you can do so with having a bunch of runes, but you're not leveling up, Mike. You'll never have a moment where you get to the level up and go, do I put this point into strength or do I put it into it does magic or do. It's whatever your class is, it makes that care, that character class stronger.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was going to ask you what does that look like? Because you've talked about four predetermined classes already that will choose from eight on the way. Right. But when I'm jumping in and leveling up. So you're telling me it already has a predetermined path it will level for me. I'm just kind of following that path.

[Greg Miller]

Yes, yes, you. Because the class you're picking, you're kind of. You're kind of picking your play style because of the character that you're selecting. Now. That doesn't mean that you are stuck to whatever that character can do. It just means that if you try to go outside of that, you know, if you pick the tank character and decide you want to go magic, you can do it, but it's probably not recommended. Your characters can pick up any weapons they want. They can use whatever the hell they want. It's just not super recommended. Because if you pick the. The recluse character or the duchess character, the Duchess is like the super fast, kind of like stabby stab. She starts with a little dagger. She has the bloodborne, sort of swift bloodhound step, almost like dodge sort of thing. And you're not going to want to. You're picking her because of her speed. You're not. You don't want to equip her with a gigantic axe or something, you know, unless it's available. And maybe that's your only option. And maybe the ax that you picked up on the ground is stronger than what you got. Then go for it. But once you go level up, you just hit level up. Bam. Your character stronger and going from level one to level two, incredibly important. We found ourselves in a death spiral in one of our runs where we saw Loretta out in the field. Loretta Tin and tell you about Loretta lady. She rides a horse. She rides a horse. We've all known a Loretta in our lives. She rides a horse. She's got magic things. And she'll like hit you with like a spectral bow and arrow. And this mini boss, Loretta popped up in the middle of the field. And we're like, oh, let's. We could take out Loretta. You know, we leveled up to level two. Let's try to take her on. And we get killed out of nowhere. I was like, ah, damn it. Dude, that sucks.

[Tim Gettys]

When you die.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, die.

[Greg Miller]

In real life, when you die. What happens when you die? You go down on a knee.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like, you kneel down and I gotta come res you.

[Greg Miller]

You are fortnite crawling around. You are fortnite crawling around and you're going, help me, help me, help me, help me. I'm down, I'm down. And the only way for your teammates to bring you back up, it's not. They're not gonna go the boring route, Tam. You're not gonna walk up and just hold the Y button and just sort of sit there. Yeah. You attack your teammate to bring them back up.

[Snowbike Mike]

I like that.

[Greg Miller]

And it makes zero sense. Lore wise, whatever. It makes zero sense. It is so much cooler than any like it. It is so much better. Like, especially in the moments where like one of my teammates was down and I'm running to it. I'm going to do a big jump heavy. And I just like completely undershot the jump and just whiffed and like, my sword landed real short. But your character can. What's really cool is your character can crawl towards an enemy. And if you attack both, you're resing your Character your homie. And you are hurting the enemy as well.

[Snowbike Mike]

Can you not have heard people do this before?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Can you build it up like a half hit blessing and then I come back a second later and keep going. What's that gauge look like?

[Greg Miller]

If you wait too long, the way it's broken up to it's. Imagine like a circle ring broken up into thirds.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Night one, the downed time is only one little bar of a third, right?

[Tim Gettys]

That's cool.

[Greg Miller]

Now if you attack them, if you wait too long, they'll either die due to time or the bar will kind of fill back up. So you have to kind of like stay on them, keep that pressure on. And every night then Night two is gonna have two bars. Night three is gonna have the full sort of circle or whatever. If you die and your teammate isn't able to res you, you come back immediately. You respawn sort of nearby, but you go down a level. So we got into the death spiral with this lady Loretta on this horse with her spectral bow and arrow. Got to a death spiral where we were all back to level one. And we were like, ah. And I was like, let's just keep going. Let's keep trying to kill her at Level one. And all the Bandai Namco employees were going around. It's like, yeah, probably not a great call. You probably want to go level up. I was like, no, we're gonna get her. Excuse me, do you know who's the.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm the nitro.

[Greg Miller]

I'm the nitrile. Okay. I beat Swords I Nation in 12 tries. Okay? So it's like, we're gonna kill. We're gonna kill Loretta. But we're all level one. And we notice it immediately. Going down from level two to level one. We're getting hit in one shot. We're barely chipping damage. So she. We got. We got her down to a third of her health. And that third lasted a long time because we'd come back, get maybe a couple more hits. In several Res's later, we were finally able to take her down. And because of how, you know, because she's a much more difficult mid sort of boss, she gave us a shitload of runes and we were able to level up to like level four or five.

[Tim Gettys]

Sick.

[Greg Miller]

And so we boosted and they're like, wow, you guys kind of. I can't. I wouldn't have recommended that. But that's awesome that you all did that, guys. And I'm like, squad, we got this. We're stubborn and that we're so stubborn. Yeah. And that run, we went really, really far and it was like man, that run was completely at the start of it. But we somehow like the smarter move would have just been let's just go back to lobby and restart. You know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Quick question from the chat. They wanted to know can you res at range? Of course. Like you know, with a magic build or even the bow and arrow. What is that like shooting your friend, I guess from far away. Is there an auto lock on where my spells will come out at my down teammate?

[Greg Miller]

Yes, you can. And maybe we can talk about character classes. Tim After a word from our sponsors.

[Tim Gettys]

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[Greg Miller]

Energy drink.

[Tim Gettys]

Exactly.

[Greg Miller]

Brand new. It's a brand new flavor, by the way. Ultra blue Hawaiian.

[Tim Gettys]

Now do we know that's a blue hole?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Are you half in this can or is this a full can?

[Greg Miller]

No, this is a full can. This does not have a dab of the dude. Also, I need Jordan Midler to chill the out with. Go coming after like the energy drink crown. Back the off.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Jordan Midler, he likes energy drinks.

[Greg Miller]

Like he, you know, I'm the energy drink guy. Okay. Chill the out. We do stuff different here in America. Okay. Andy's lifeblood is exactly.

[Snowbike Mike]

I didn't realize they had energy drinks over there.

[Greg Miller]

Me either. Like, it feels like it'd be something to be outlawed. Yeah. Yeah. That's kind of like how they outlaw like guns in Australia. Yeah. Like a very similar thing.

[Snowbike Mike]

Like what y'all need the energy for.

[Tim Gettys]

Y'all don't get sudden rails super chats in saying this is for Andy's birthday and the state of play. Congratulations. Thank you going on there? Daughter says Vy came out with the vid praising his playthrough.

[Greg Miller]

So he was watching my gameplay.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, there you go. The Uncharted Wolf says, is there any new music or is it mostly reused tracks?

[Greg Miller]

Really hard to tell because of our sort of audio situation. It was. It was one headphone on, one headphone off because we were trying to hear our squad mates. So yeah, it was really hard to tell, but I did hear a lot of just reused Elden Ring tracks.

[Tim Gettys]

Nicholas Chamber says Andy's back. Just wanted to say go Birds.

[Greg Miller]

Eagles.

[Tim Gettys]

You don't like the birds? Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But better than the Chiefs.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Better than she is. Nah.

[Tim Gettys]

To man.

[Greg Miller]

No, they don't need a 3 escape, but let's call them the Team Obliterator because he would like kill his team. To the Team Obliterator. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Wow. It's kind of a stretch, but I like it. Hooded Robin says much love to. Kind of funny. Glad to be a member for another month. Andy, are there permanent upgrades in between runs like other roguelikes?

[Greg Miller]

Yes. Yes, there are. After every run you complete, you're gonna get rewards. And the rewards are these little sort of gem currencies that you get. And when you go back to your roundtable hold, you can kind of run around. And I was telling Blessing that the. The character, the Duchess, which is the sort of rogue character really quick got the little dagger. All of the NPCs are kind of hanging out in the roundtable hold. So whatever character you're playing at as the moment or at that moment, that character isn't in the roundtable hold. But if you're just kind of running around, you'll see the Duchess there, you'll see the Guardian. And the Guardian is Big Tank dude with a. He's a bird. He is like an eagle head with like a little eagle feet. It's really funny looking. And. But I was telling Blessing that I'm pretty sure that the same voice actress for the Duchess is the voice actress for the. The doll and Melina, the Dawn Bloodborne and Melina and Elden Ring. But the. Yes. The permanent upgrades there was. There's some stuff that they're kind of not revealing yet that they're waiting for on release. And there's a lot of qu. A lot of people in the room asking the same questions that I was to these people. And the response would always be, maybe not now, but when the game comes out, there may be something like that. It's like, okay, you're. You know. So what happens is you would get these different color gems of different sizes. So Blessing Mike, whenever you pick up those rune kind of pustules that you pop, some are. They get much larger and they give you more and more runes. Right? Similar concept where these gems are the smaller sizes they are, the less perks that they offer. And they're different colors. So it's like green, red, yellow, and blue. I don't think that I couldn't tell that they were themed in any way other than colored. I like, the red wasn't fire and the green wasn't like, I don't know, health or whatever. The. It was just all. They were all just kind of like varied perks from what I could tell. But what they were is like, the better the runs you get, you'd get like tiny little runes. And each character has three slots that they could fit these colored gems into. Now the thing is, the each character class, you can't just, you know, the Wilder, for example, is kind of like the. The Mario of. He's the Jack of all trades. He's the Mario and Mario Kart of Smash Bros. You know, he's the guy that, like, if you don't know what to play, you probably play as that character. And I believe the color gems that the wilder accepted because again, they all accepted three. I think he had like two yellow slots and a red slot, I believe. And then the Duchess, who is the super fast, sort of like dagger lady, she had three green slots. So if I want to play the Duchess and I. My. My last run, I only got like red and yellows. I'm like, maybe I'll put those slots into the Wilder and I'll try out the Wilder because I have those gems that go towards his skills or whatever. And those things can be, again, the small they are. They might offer only one perk of like plus one dexterity. Or the larger ones might offer three different perks. And like, one of the perks might be if you defeat a boss in one of the Evergaol areas. Like if you defeat an enemy there, you become stronger. And that might be one of the perk. And the second perk might be extra critical damage on whatever the.

[Tim Gettys]

Like.

[Greg Miller]

It's, you know, it's all stuff that you want for your run. There are class related perks. And for example.

[Tim Gettys]

Sorry, I need to call Lemon Bendy in the chat.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I saw that.

[Tim Gettys]

Sounds like it's time to put a gem in my brown slot.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay. I mean, I don't think you need to read it.

[Tim Gettys]

I had to read it. Okay. And why did you use that about it? I read it.

[Greg Miller]

Y'all needed to hear what shape is the gem.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, my God.

[Greg Miller]

I like that one better.

[Snowbike Mike]

Have a flared base.

[Greg Miller]

I like that one. I like that one. Some of the. Some of this bear.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's what shape it is.

[Greg Miller]

Some of the gems are class based, but we noticed that, you know, the. Let's say the Duchess who only use green gems, she has three green slots for three green gems. I might. I got like a red gem at one point and it said parenthesis duchess on it. I was like, wait a second. This red gem can't be used for the Duchess. But it says it's only available for the Duchess. And they were like, well, maybe in the future you will have a way to change what. What slots you use. And you'll also. What we're assuming is there's going to be a vendor at the roundtable hold that you go back to. And you could sell gems too, because in our gameplay, in this preview that you're going to get the closed network test, you have the ability to sell these gems with all these perks, but those don't want to sell them to in the test. So you're not going to have that ability yet. But you will be able to sell some stuff back to either get runes or get whatever the hell you want. And then I assume that you'll not only be able to buy different gems on the store or whatever, but I assume that you'll be able to change what colored slots your character uses. So the Duchess, if you really like using that character and you have a sick ass red gem, maybe I'll swap out one of the green gems for the red things, you know, to kind of like give you, the player more freedom in that. In that case, a little bit more flexibility.

[Tim Gettys]

Sorry, I. I feel like you already made this clear. But there's only three people playing, right? You're not like, only three aren't coming across other threes or anything?

[Greg Miller]

No, it's not PvP.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And how does this work? So let's break it down from the beginning. It's three people. You can't play solo.

[Greg Miller]

You can play solo offline. Can play duos, cannot play duo.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So it's always three or offline, solo.

[Greg Miller]

The only way you could play duos is if you had a third log on and then disconnect at the MGM Grand Hotel. The only way you can play duos.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And then when you're in the menu, how does it look? It's like a normal. Like I Guess Fortnite, a war zone lobby where I send you an invite and you're in my, like, little party lobby. Or, you know, I think of online in Elden Ring and how stressful that is just to try to get each other with the signs.

[Greg Miller]

It's.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What does it look like at the beginning here?

[Greg Miller]

It's just like warzone, okay? It's got menus all over the goddamn place. You know, can I buy Snoop Dogg? Can I buy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You think they'll hit us with the micro transactions?

[Greg Miller]

Maybe.

[Tim Gettys]

The answer is yes. Look at everything that they show about this game. I can't believe how hyped you are about this. Every single that you start this being like this just looks like capitalism, the game. And then I saw them jump out of a Fortnite battle bus. This is crazy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm gonna be hanging out the coolest glider.

[Snowbike Mike]

Yeah, they're not gonna do that.

[Greg Miller]

You're gonna be able to customize your bird. You're gonna be able to customize what these different character archives look like for your account. You're gonna have to pay real money to change the colored gems that Andy was just talking about. I believe this is the. The com. The person leading this up is the combat director for, I think, the Dark Souls, three DLCs. And this is just something that he really wanted to make and was like, I really want this experience. And duh. Because whenever we would play multiplayer, it's like, oh, why? Why isn't this easier? So what it looks like, Mike, is the multiplayer stuff is just multiplayer password.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I love it.

[Greg Miller]

You type in the password and you say, join my lobby and bam, you're in there. And then the. I think at the beginning of the video, before our characters get out on their. On their hawk tuas in the air, you get the same sort of thing, just like in War Zone, of like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, they give you the speech, you.

[Greg Miller]

Know, just like this little walk up like this. This cutscene plays every time. And it tells you, like, what character you've selected. And you see your squad mates walking out there.

[Snowbike Mike]

Imagine this. But, like, one of us is like LeBron.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, man, can we all be Nick is Robocopy. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Can we all be the same class or do we have to be three separate classes?

[Greg Miller]

You could be all the same class. You could be whatever you want. Yeah. So the classes. Four different ones for this closed network test. And I'm not sure if there's going to be 8 available when the game comes out, but they kept saying, and there will be four extra ones. Okay, I Don't know if that's going to be immediately a launch show. Maybe it launches with two, and then they do two later. I have no idea. But the four classes, the Wilder, like I mentioned, the Mario, the Jack of all trades, this dude is still super awesome. Like, probably one of my, what, the second most favorite character I have. He has a normal sort of Elden ring, Dark Souls dodge roll. Like you would come to expect. The passive ability for the Wilder. The Wilder can withstand any sort of death blow. So if they take a hit that would have killed him or would have knocked him down, you'll see, like a little kind of thing flash. And the character does like a. Like a backflip, and they're. They're back up for, you know, their health kind of comes back. So they can withstand one sort of death hit. That's cool. But the abilities they have, the grapple, like Tim was seeing earlier, where you can grapple small enemies towards you, or you can grapple towards a larger enemy, obviously, because they weigh too much. And you can also grapple in the environment to kind of get away out of the action. So you can kind of like grapple the ground over there. Think of the grapple gun in Fortnite Mike, you know what I mean? Like, kind of grapple the ground, grapple that thing. Get.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's kind of cool.

[Greg Miller]

Get the out of. Of dodge so you don't have to withstand any more enemy pressure and maybe get out of the fight to kind of heal up a bit and get your bearings a bit better. And the ultimate is this really cool fire blast thing that does a lot of staggered damage, and it gets enemies a lot closer to kind of getting into that staggered state. But what it also does is it knocks your character back. So it's really cool to kind of get back out of the fight if, you know, I just want to go. I was using it a lot in big enemy mobs, where our teammate might be under pressure because there might be three dudes kind of circling and swarming everybody. And I would go in with my ultimate boom, and it would have a nice AOE that would take out, like, everybody. And your character flies back. Can get out of the sort of combat scenario a little bit quicker and again, heal up. Do whatever you got to do. The Wilder. A lot of fun. Very much a strength. A strength and dexterity type character. You're going to want to use either, you know, broadsword, hammer, ax, whatever the hell you really want with this character can be used. And it's always fun and it feels great. And again, pick up every weapon you can if you're care if your homies are like, I don't need that actually just leave that there. Pick it up. Because that passive is going to work for, you know, whatever that weapon has as a passive will eventually get added into your sort of abilities or whatever the other character is. The Duchess is the one I keep talking about, the fast lady. She's super cool. She's got the bloodborne dash. It feels great movement. It's awesome. All these characters are fast as when they're running and going towards the next fight or going towards the next poi. Point of interest, they all move at the same speed, but then when they're kind of in battle, they have a bit sort of like different walking speeds and things like that. So this is the Duchess. They're using the. The bloodhound fang, which you can't just find the bloodhound fang you can use. Huh?

[Tim Gettys]

Don't worry about it.

[Greg Miller]

The bloodhound thing. Bloodhound fang. Great weapon. Everybody knows this goddamn weapon. In Elden Ring, I bought it a couple times from a vendor because there's little vendors around the world. There's little map pieces that you could find in treasure boxes that are kind of hidden. And the map pieces will show more on the map. The map pieces will show little goddamn, you know, the little dung beetles that roll around. Tim knows these little dung beetles.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh yeah, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Bashing the dung deals. But they, but those dudes now, they drop talismans. So they drop like a full ass passive of like, oh, this gives me extra whatever.

[Snowbike Mike]

There's a lot of like stats passives. And did it ever feel overwhelming to keep track of all the buffs you had?

[Greg Miller]

No, because I'm just picking up. Yeah, like at first it does.

[Snowbike Mike]

I know Elden Ring is like that too.

[Greg Miller]

At first it definitely feels that way. But you get to a point you're just like, I. I don't care what that pass it does. I don't even know if it affects me. None of my squad mates are getting. I'm gonna pick it up because I'm sure I'll read it later. And that can kind of happen where it's like you're. You're so against the clock. You're like, clock is always running. You're trying to hurry up and get to the next either, you know, place that you marked on the map or you're just trying to get away from the storm, from the. The wall of storm that's coming in. And then in Addition to me mentioning how every character is fast as your sprint button is crazy fast, it's double the speed of what it usually is in Elden Ring. And everybody moves like Sekiro does. They all have. They don't have like a. They don't have all a grab, a grappling hook or whatever, but they can. If you're ever down, like in a real deep sort of part of the map where you look up, you're like, how the am I gonna get up there? All around the map there's either a spirit stream which is, you know, in the main Elden Ring game you would get on the horse and the horse would leap up this spirit stream that would get you super high and you can kind of get. You could relocate but there's no horse around. Torrent, he's not here. He said, you know, you didn't meet my terms for my contract. I'm not, I'm not going to be in this game. I'm not going to sign with my likeness. But there's these blue spirit streams that launch the character up and you can go hella high and hella far to relocate yourself.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Can I re. Redeploy my.

[Greg Miller]

My redeploy. But no fall damage, okay? Fucking no. Fall damage is amazing. You can go where the hell you want, not worry about taking any fall damage. But if there's not a spirit stream, there's also just really good level design for a lot of these large ass cliffs where there are a bunch of gravestones built into the cliffs that allow the character to just Sekiro run and mantle and jump up. Like double jump in across all these like cliffs to kind of get up to the very, very top and relocate yourself. What we're watching right now is a gameplay for the. Oh, sorry, let me, let me keep on talking about the Duchess. The Duchess again, that fast character. The. I couldn't tell what the passive ability was, but the, the first ability they have is the whatever damage has been done to an enemy in the last 90 seconds or no, in the last second and a half. So 1.5 seconds. If you're fighting a big ass boss and your squad mate and you sort of coordinate with your team and your team's like, hey, I'm gonna ultimate. I'm gonna ultimate. Let's all do this. If you see that big health bar, just chunk the fuck down. Your character can activate this ability that replays any damage and. And Bear just showed it right there and it was great for that. The dog fight that we saw you Saw the dog fight, kind of have like a double image of itself. And that is showing that the Duchess activated their ability. And it replays the damage that happened in the last second and a half. That's cool, dude. And this shit refreshes, I think, with like, every seven seconds. You have this ability back.

[Tim Gettys]

What?

[Greg Miller]

Dude?

[Tim Gettys]

It.

[Greg Miller]

It. Once I kind of got into the rhythm of remembering to use that thing because anytime I play a new game and there's perks, Chat knows. They're always like, andy, you have that ability. It's like, I know. I just. It's not in my. It's not in my sort of muscle memory yet. Yeah. But that ability is so awesome and clutch, especially when you are coordinating with your squad. And there was a lot of moments that they're like, I'm gonna all, Duchess, you got your thing. Yeah, let's go do that thing. Boom. You see the big explosion, big health hit. Or if enemies are using, bleed. And you see the beat the bleed. Take that big. Sort of immediately bust that move another dude. It is fucking awesome.

[Snowbike Mike]

That's nasty.

[Greg Miller]

And their ultimate sounds a little bit boring. It makes you and your whole squad go invisible. But it's so clutch to not only reposition yourself, you're invisible for a long time. If you attack, you don't go uninvisible. You stay invisible. But what it's really, really great for is reszing your squad if a squad mate goes down. I always tried to keep this kind of in my back pocket for if a teammate goes down. Pop the pop. The ultimate. Crawl towards me, or I'll crawl towards you. They can't see us. I'm gonna res you. Let's get back up. Let's get back into the fight. Super, super damn cool. Tim's making some faces.

[Tim Gettys]

Don't worry about it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We've awoken the chat. Yeah, I've seen it. I think it's because of the kind of funny podcast, which you should listen to right now, because it is out.

[Greg Miller]

Very horny.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think the chat has taken that because they have. They're very horny.

[Greg Miller]

Horny, Yeah. A lot of stuff being said.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's crazy, crazy behavior.

[Snowbike Mike]

We're talking about eldering. How horny can you get?

[Greg Miller]

I'm glad I'm not really looking.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Montoya woke us all up.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Yeah. From now on, there will be a before Montoya, after Montoya time.

[Tim Gettys]

I haven't had an appropriate time to bring this up, and there is no appropriate time. So I'm gonna do it right now. My timeline has been Obviously, Montoya the out.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

But there's another thing that's completely unrelated to Montoya that I'm getting served constantly. Have y'all seen this art installation of the guy covered in white paint?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, look it up for me.

[Snowbike Mike]

What do you mean, look it up for you?

[Tim Gettys]

It's one of those things where it's.

[Greg Miller]

Like, you type it up.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. You cannot watch it. It is not a reaction thing. It is.

[Greg Miller]

You look it up.

[Tim Gettys]

White. Just look. If you are interested, you can potentially just search for white paint. Naked man.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, well, I'm not.

[Snowbike Mike]

I'm not talking.

[Tim Gettys]

That's wild. It's absolutely wild.

[Greg Miller]

Speaking of wild, the wilder. Great class. You could pick. The other character you can pick is called the Guardian Tank. This dude is kind of boring. Ish for me. He looks cool, though. Not my playstyle, but he's got the coolest look. He's got a cool voice. You see him in the roundtable hold. You're like, what's up? You know, he's like, I'm ready to fight whenever you are. It's like, ah, you're sick as. You're a bird guy. You're a bird. Look at his bird legs, Tim. We're kind of covering it up right now, but look at his. He just has little chicken legs. This dude moves a lot slower in battle, but has the most hp. Definitely, like, a massive strength build. I'm trying to not look at what blessings got up.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I can't wait to see it. I'm hoping you find it.

[Tim Gettys]

I want people to know.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

That, like, it's just one of those, like, art installations where it's like, there's just a bunch of people in a room sitting down, and then somebody comes up and, like, does, like, an interpretive dance or, like, does, like, a painting or something, and people are just like, oh.

[Greg Miller]

Oh.

[Tim Gettys]

You know, like golf.

[Greg Miller]

Someone said they jerk him in the chat.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, there is an extended one. Extended version that. That I did see that I have not been able to refine.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, but what.

[Tim Gettys]

What. What's happening here?

[Greg Miller]

I can't do that. Is.

[Tim Gettys]

This man is just covered in whitening, like, head to toe, every part. And, like, specifically one part that you cannot miss because it might be the biggest version of it I've ever seen.

[Greg Miller]

Oh.

[Tim Gettys]

And he's very flexible. And in the middle of the room, all the. All these people just looking at him like, oh, like, this real art. He's, like, standing there stretching stuff. It gets down to the splits like the horizontal splits, like Van Damme type splits with that thing just out.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, just dangling.

[Tim Gettys]

And it just like it paints the floor.

[Greg Miller]

The hog is dangling, pushes it down on the floor. It's like when you would make a turkey with your hand as a kid. Exactly, exactly.

[Tim Gettys]

And then he stands up and just walks away.

[Snowbike Mike]

I've typed everything I've typed in, man. Covered in white paint. Art installation splits.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, we'll have to talk offline. Sorry.

[Greg Miller]

The Wilder Guardian, Tank, Eagle Guy, Eagle Legs, Eagle Head. His ability, he does a whirlwind move that kind of does like a little kind of tornado thing and it staggers. Large enemies or small enemies will get knocked up into the air. And it's good to kind of like help out your squad whenever they're maybe dealing with a lot of pressure. And his. His ultimate is really sick, though. He flies up into the air and then does like a dive bomb. And it's really, really damn cool. And it's even cooler whenever your squad mate gets near an enemy that maybe your squad mate is down.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, shit. Andy, it. Damn. It's really gonna paint the floor.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, this is a nice preview.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You got to dip that in the paint can.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, my God. Yeah, it's large.

[Tim Gettys]

I saw the shadow.

[Greg Miller]

There's only so much you could blur out.

[Tim Gettys]

Blurred out, but I saw the shadow.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He had to pick it up.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So he didn't smush it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's amazing.

[Greg Miller]

It's like when you sit down and you got to like pull your, like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Your jacket every time.

[Greg Miller]

Does it get wrinkled? Oh, yeah. So anyway, it's a good game. Y'all should check it out.

[Tim Gettys]

I do have some more super chats for you.

[Greg Miller]

I also have a question. Yes.

[Tim Gettys]

So we have Trevor saying if this is played among five days, how long, gameplay wise, does that come out to?

[Greg Miller]

5 days or 3? 3 days.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay, so how long?

[Greg Miller]

If you have a successful run, about 45 minutes.

[Snowbike Mike]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

@ the start of every run, you are picking from eight big ass bosses that seem to be all kind of brand new. You're not getting a selection of bosses from a pool of old sort of Elden Ring stuff or Dark Soul stuff. You're getting like brand new eight characters. The. I never got back to Mike's question about, like, can you target people because Mike is a mage.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm gonna ask you a lot of questions about the mage in a minute.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, cool. I'll ask you a lot. Yeah. A successful run, about 45 minutes. But you have to kind of level up and do well enough to even have a successful run. We got to the final boss once and we got him down to like 40 health and we died and it was awesome. Really. It's the one that you've seen in the clips, the three headed dog. There's some. It's, it's really cool because you're not just fighting in the same era, you're fighting in a brand new boss arena. And when you walk there it's like epic as hell. It's like this cool looking gate. It's like from software art direction, like to hell. You walk in that gate, big ass dog is there. And the second phase of the dog, this three headed dog turns into three different dogs and it's crazy. And this, these three different dogs are just kind of all over you. And our final run, it was so tragic because I'm down, my homie's down. And our other squad mate, his name was Garrett. I don't know where he wrote from, but shout out to Garrett. Garrett was playing like the eagle guy. I think he had a big ass two handed weapon and he was gonna.

[Snowbike Mike]

Whoa, this is crazy.

[Greg Miller]

For the whole time, the whole time, whenever he would run and jump heavy attack, he would res most of us in one hit. So this, this three headed dog boss fight's awesome. It really feels like these bosses are done really well and designed for three character for three players which is awesome. Whenever people mention like man, imagine if they, you know, you Andy or Andy, you and Mike and Nick really enjoyed the seamless cough for Elder. Imagine they did it for Sekiro. It's like, but Sekiro. So 1v1. I can't imagine that with 3 characters nor do I really want that. You need to kind of just be mono Emano versus somebody pairing and all that stuff. This very much feels awesome for that situation. So my homie Garrett the dog, second phase busts out into three different dogs and we're both down and he's the only one alive and he's running towards me and I see him and it's in slow motion. Tim, I'm seeing this guy running after me, me and he, I could tell he's gonna do a jump heavy attack to try to hit me, you know, try to get my res back up. And in midair he is doing the heavy and a dog just like Goldberg spears him off the screen. And it was awesome. We were like, no, it was just like an awesome sort of like gamer moment. Had a, had a freaking blast taking on these dudes. But again, there will be eight when the game fully launches. But for this network test, I think this is the only final boss you can choose from when you get to stage three. Very, very cool. Awesome sort of move set. Freaking blast.

[Snowbike Mike]

Are there any, like, are all the bosses from previous games or do they have original bosses like this three headed dog? Is that something from something previous?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. So I, I think all of these eight bosses are brand new things.

[Snowbike Mike]

Gotcha.

[Greg Miller]

Because that thing has not been seen before. It looks very similar to like the Red Wolf or whatever that Radagon has. But, like, ultimately these are going to be three brand new bosses that have new movesets. But the enemies that you're experiencing throughout the world are Elden Ring bosses. Or like we saw the Nameless King. We saw Centipede Demon. Go ahead.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So you said at the beginning of the run, you choose which boss you're gonna fight at the finale? Essentially, yeah. So it's like, hey, here's a screen of eight selected characters.

[Greg Miller]

No, so we don't. We only saw one thing. But you are selecting from one of eight we only see in the network test. You're only going to see. You select.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm gonna go after that on day three. That's where it's at.

[Greg Miller]

But if you make it there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, most likely we will see a selection.

[Greg Miller]

So I'm assuming. Because there's a lot of slots, for sure. Oh, cool. Yeah. I was just gonna ask, like, what does like the third day, like, all build to? So this was a great point to, to get to because I saw the B roll, so I was like, I was gonna try to. Yeah, it's definitely the, the most new feeling thing because everything else is Elden Ring assets. Everything looks like Elden Ring. Every mine you walk into, every corridor you walk into, it's all stuff you've seen in Elder Ring, all the same assets.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Other iconic locations where you're like, oh, my God, it's that. Or is it like a generic castle that could have easily been in Elden Ring?

[Greg Miller]

It's all like kind of generic Elden Ring Castles.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like, like, like, man, that spot.

[Greg Miller]

No, I was watching Vati's video this morning a bit while I was getting ready for work and he was talking how Kenneth Heights Castles is one of them. He's the blonde haired dude that like asks to get saved. He's like, hello, can someone help me? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So his cat, his castle's like in the game now. It also looks like a lot of other castles, but it's definitely Kenneth Heights because it has like this Walkway towards a. A tower that you can climb up. But yeah, it's a lot of. Now again, what we're getting with the closed network test is not going to be procedurally changing. We are kind of just getting a set thing. This is what the world is. This is what the world will always be whenever you hop in. Like when me and Tam and Lucy played, I think 90 of the time that we dropped, we were dropping in the same spot. There was only a couple times where it took us to different spots. I don't know if that was the MGM Internet. I don't know what the randomization there was, but some players may not love that. For us, it was awesome because it's like we had a cycle it. Mike. It was dropping hospital.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

In. In War Zone. It was like we have our rhythm.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

We knew we were dropping here. It's like we take out that camp, Bam. Everybody's done. Get all the items from there, get all the treasure boxes and the site of Grace is right there. We level up immediately to level two. What's next on the map? And we would kind of go out there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So you're saying the end goal, though not for what we'll see this weekend is it will be different every single time you drop the map.

[Greg Miller]

We'll kind of rearrange for the end goal. Yeah. For the release of it. Yeah. Because they mentioned. They already meant. They already mentioned. I think Miyazaki or somebody was mentioned from. From Software that there will be poison swamps in the game. There wasn't a poison swamp that I experienced on this map.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

So they also mentioned during the pre preview where they were kind of going through bullet points that you might see a volcano or you might see this and that. So there's a lot of like variety that will happen whenever the world resets itself. It just wasn't apparent there yet because we were getting a set world.

[Tim Gettys]

We got a couple more super chats I want to get to here. Dean Brown says, why do we live in the timeline where From Software refuses to have crossplay? It feels like such a fumble to not have that for a PvE game.

[Greg Miller]

A million percent. I think this is the. I mean, from Software reminds me a lot of Nintendo and the way they do things. This is how we do things. And you take it, you accept it.

[Tim Gettys]

Decisions, huh? Weird. From Software.

[Greg Miller]

Exactly. Yeah. And you know, I compare my experience with fromsoftware games to. To watching a show like Breaking Bad, Tim, of course, where I didn't start watching until season five and I was like, man, this show's incredible. And everybody's like, damn, you're barely kind of like, it's awesome. But like, man, we've been living this for a long time. So I was very late to the game with Fromsoft Games. But their online stuff, I feel like what we're getting here online wise is like, we're obviously behind the times because we're not getting Crossplay. But it's already such a massive improvement to what they've had in the past when it comes to multiplayer, where Seamless Co Op just seems like something that should be available and it's not. Seamless Co Op is a mod that has. That was made because players are like, God, I hate when I want to play with my friend. It's like, all right, go to the boss and summon me. And me and Mike and Kevin. ASX did a full playthrough of Elden Ring where it is. All right, let's. You, you, you know. All right, we're done. Do you have it? Oh, Mike, you ran out of that orange flower. Damn it, dude, we gotta go. We gotta go grind for more of those orange flowers so that he could bring us into the match more like, it's. That's how they've always done things. I don't love it. That's how they are. But they're hearing feedback and they. You know, it's funny thinking back to less than a year ago when they're talking about the Seamless mod and they're like, yeah, we're aware that it exists and we would love to do something like that in the future. And it's clear that this is obviously in development at the time. But yeah, Crossplay it not being at launch does not surprise me because it's from software. Now. I wish Bandai Namco was like, hey, we should make this crossplay. Let's, you know, come on, let's do this the right way. Yeah, but you know, from software still doesn't have built in dlss. You know, like, that's how their games are. You have to like download mods to kind of get any sort of. Of engineering, you know, feats like that.

[Tim Gettys]

Said Nuggies writes in San On a scale of E to S, how quickly does Snow Bike Mike pick up the upgrade system?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

E for excellent.

[Greg Miller]

E for excellent.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

About 300. About three, 300 hours into his game. So many hours, my going, what is E? Is E good? No, he's the worst. Yeah, he's the worst. Okay, yeah, yeah, that makes sense. But he souls like Mike, he Knows the most about him. The again, you just have to go to a side of grace and hit level up. And that's great. There's no meta gaming. There's none of that. It's just like brain off, hit the button to upgrade, get back into the fight. How much. How often do you think Mike will refuse to level up even though it's been simplified this time around? Well, no.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Can you play with Risk?

[Greg Miller]

You can. I won't be there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay. Can you play with Risk?

[Greg Miller]

I won't be in the party with you. Yeah. But yes, you can. I mean, yeah, we did it. You know, when my squad was trying to fight Loretta's ass and you're just dying non stop at level one, we kind of gone on. We could have gone on to level up or we could have just restarted the run, but we were like, no, let's persist here because we're idiots. But I think the, you know, when you're running around the world, Mike, there will be a blacksmith, and the blacksmith will work, will make your wooden weapons stronger. Not just metal weapons.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Mike don't have to go to a carpenter for that.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, Mike never. Mike never leveled up his wand because he was like, well, the blacksmith works on metal like this. My wand is wood.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Greg Miller]

It's like, well, that's still how it works.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, this. This is the game for me. Because the way that you made it sound, it's like there will be very few me staring at menu times.

[Greg Miller]

Yes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It seems like we're moving and we're always shaking and baking.

[Greg Miller]

Yes, absolutely. And in a lot of these big encampments, you will see vendors and you could either go, oh, do I want to save these runes to level up? Or this vendor selling the bloodhound fang. And that would go really, really far for this run. You can also find random smithing stones in these little boxes of treasures that you're finding. That smithy stone can level up. The standard smithy stone will take a. A, like, white rarity item to a blue. But then you would need to find a better smoothie stone to get that blue to a purple and a better one to go from purple to legendary. So there's a lot of that as well, but not now. And that's all the stuff that's like, I wish the game could pause in moments like that because that's where it's like enemies are on me. And I'm just trying to level the up with this kale guy who's like sitting there and he's like, yeah, you can Buy some. You can level up things, but it's just so hectic, and I. Those are the moments where I wish I had a little bit of moment to breathe.

[Tim Gettys]

My last big question here before we wrap up the show. Do you see yourself playing the living out of this game for like, a long time, or do you think this is gonna be kind of like, hey, that was like a fun thing that happened for a little bit?

[Greg Miller]

No, this is gonna be another Hades too, for me. I can. Yeah, this is gonna be another, you know, not only try to kill every of the eight bosses. How many times is that going to take? How. How much better can I make that run? This other class that I wasn't using a whole lot. I now have a lot of upgrades for it. I can make it better. Oh, I like this new class now, actually. Like, it has all of. It has all of the variables that make me want to go back and just play forever. Before we wrap up, though, my cat questions about. Yeah, your spellcasters.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. So for the spellcasters out there, right, I guess health potions and mana flasks. What does that look like when you first drop in? How many are you getting? And then also for the spells, right? Like, I can picture the weapons on the ground. What does a spell look like? How do I get more spells? Am I capped out of the number of them? What. What will I look like on day three as a spellcaster?

[Greg Miller]

So you start off with three health flasks and you have a mana. I don't know if you have.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Can I reset those? Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

No, you cannot. I don't know if you have mana flasks, though, because I never played this character called the Recluse. The Recluse is the character that everybody at the event, every Bandai Namco employee was like, hey, maybe don't try her first, because she's definitely one of, you know, like, you know, when you play, like, Marvel Rivals or Overwatch, Bless, it'll tell you what difficulty the character is. The Recluse is probably one of the harder ones. It probably the hardest one, actually, for this, because of what is required to kind of manage the recluse. Whenever an enemy hits. Whenever you hit an enemy, or whenever your squad mates hits an enemy, a sort of a colored ring will pop up around the enemy. And then if it's red, that means it's fire. And the recluse can, like, absorb whatever that red fire is thing that red fire is. And it goes into a little ring with, like three dots on it. So now one. One of those blips is filled, and the other two are empty, and that. That one thing is fire. And then if I have ice, and I'm doing ice stuff, ice messing this dude up, and then you see a blue thing pop up on the enemy, then you suck that blue thing, and it brings you. It gives you FP back for your magic thing. But now a second blip gets filled into that circle, and that's now blue. So there's red and blue. There's an empty one. Now, it could be another ice thing that I. That you absorb. It could be another fire thing, or it could. If you're casting faith damage, it could be yellow, and you could absorb that yellow. And now that circle is filled up. And when that circle is filled up, then you do this crazy attack that is dependent on what the three combinations of magic are. It's very, very confusing. Very hard to kind of get a hold of. But even watching, you know, some of the iron pineapples video this morning, talking about it, that. That you're talking about three different blips, and that equates to, like, 14 different combinations of spells with all of the different moves that you have. And it's like one sort of big ability that you do. Seems like very, very kind of hard to get the whole. Get a hang of. Yeah, but you are picking up spells in the battlefield. You are picking up staffs and wands and things like that. And then her ultimate is probably one of my favorite ones for support purposes, because then you talk about locking on. Mike. You can lock on. On enemies, obviously. But one. One thing we found was cool was if you're playing in a way that maybe you're not always getting FP back to fill your magic back up, it was always smart for us to go, hey, whoever's playing recluse, pick up a bow and arrow because there's unlimited ammo. You know, you'd have to worry about having arrows in your inventory. And you can always. If you're out of FP and you need to res one of us, you could shoot us with your arrows to bring us back up. And that was always a cool little fallback that we had. But, yes, you can lock on an enemies, you can lock on. On your teammates as well to bring it back up. If you're at a distance playing, you know, your range sort of mage character. And her ultimate was. I think we saw it in the thing that Barrett was showing a little bit earlier. She sort of like, does this red and black, kind of like everything gets kind of Gets wrapped around and looks like this. April. You know, I don't know. There's sort of, like, clothing that happens, and the enemy gets a marking on them. And any enemy that has this mark on them, if you or your homies hit them, you regain health. And it was so cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All of you.

[Greg Miller]

All of you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You okay?

[Greg Miller]

All of you. All of your homies on your squad. All of your homies will see this red mark on any of the enemies, not just this one. This is the only one that has the mark because they're. It's just a single boss fight. But when there's a lot of mobs around, you'll see all the enemies have that mark on them. And I know as my player that, oh, Mike did his ultimate. I see that mark. I'm gonna go get Health back and hit this enemy. And it's just really cool to kind of have that. That rhythm of. And that synergy with your squad to. All right, this. Let's get Health back for this phase. Pop that alt. Then we'll sort of rethink our. Our line of attack for this big boss that we're taking on, but definitely a lot tougher of an enemy of A class. And I hope that in the next four classes, they release that there's a. A different sort of approach to mages, maybe a more traditional. Without having to manage these three different blips that do all this stuff. All that stuff seemed very optional. You didn't have to, like, be absorbing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

But you. I guess you did. In order to get back your magic, your blue bar, you know, your FP team.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Find out this weekend.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, find out this weekend.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Any indications on where we're going? This is a separate piece of game. This isn't a DLC $40 game, so it's standalone $40. Any indication on when we might expect this?

[Greg Miller]

I think May 30th is the date. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We're so on.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. I mean, like, if I. Man, I was just so happy playing this video again. I was. I know that I'm. Bandai Namco office is very close to the John Wayne Airport, and I. I have pre. I have clear. I have tsa. You know, I'll. I'm not worried about getting all. But, yeah. At one moment, the homie John from Bandai Namco walks up to me, was like, hey, I just want to make sure you don't miss your flight. And I was like, yeah, I should be good. I was like, oof. Actually, I'm kind of cutting it close, but we're in the middle of a run right now and I felt so bad because we had just beaten the first night boss and the previous run is where we had gotten to the final boss and died.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You can't stop now, dude.

[Greg Miller]

We're in the middle of run. And I had to step away. I was like, homies, I'm sorry, I gotta leave you. I adapt them all up and I was like, somebody fill my spot now because this is the run. Like my dude is kitted out right now. I need somebody to step in here to, you know, finish out this because this is gonna be story. This is gonna be a legendary run for the squad right here. God, it was so much fun.

[Snowbike Mike]

I can't wait.

[Greg Miller]

So much fun.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, Andy, congratulations. You're about to have the weekend of a lifetime. Happy early birthday.

[Greg Miller]

Is this game a contender? As John Malloy. Come on, dog. Like it's. There's no doubt this will be a top fiver for me at the end of the year. There's no fucking doubt.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, man. Hey, awesome stuff everybody. If you are a soul sicko, prepare yourself for an amazing weekend and an amazing May 30, you know what I mean? Let's go.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wow, what a week.

[Greg Miller]

How do you know that's Memorial Day? You just know that.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, it's always Kevin's birthday is May 26. It's always around the air.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, that's the end.

[Greg Miller]

You know what? I'm shocked Whenever holidays happen. Bus.

[Snowbike Mike]

I mean, do you know we have a holiday coming? Today is coming up on Monday.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Monday, you know that.

[Greg Miller]

Still working on Monday.

[Tim Gettys]

Presidents.

[Greg Miller]

Well, we're still.

[Snowbike Mike]

But like a lot of people aren't, you know.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, that's cool.

[Snowbike Mike]

Oh, good for them.

[Greg Miller]

I didn't know that.

[Tim Gettys]

Until next time, stay tuned for sending tutorial stream and after that stay to play, baby. It's going to be fun. Bye.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

President's day.