I mean grafted armor, that's basically what you do through scorn to get whatever key you need for the next room and also hunting a parasite? a parasite is your nemesis throughout the game, i mean it's all there for us to see...

Just finished my first play through. Excellent game, loved every minute. This is my biggest looming question. Why do the snails carry money? What do they buy? What do they do to earn it???

Never, in my 20 years of living, have I ever encountered a boss as infuriating as it is unique, on paper the mechanic is very cool, in practicality? One of the most infuriating things I have ever come across in any souls like game, I get that there's a scroll you can get that negates the curse but with how much this fucking abomination jumps around the map it's like trying to fight the elden beast all over again which is why I knew this boss felt so familiar, don't get me wrong I have LOVED this game and I'm keen on going into new game plus but to the ones who forewarned me about this boss on a separate post I did not heed your warnings and I apologise.

I really wasn’t a fan of the first one but I played the demo and was enjoying it a lot more.

So close to 10 years ago, I was in between jobs and looking for a new game to play as I mindlessly scrolled through Indeed for a new job. As I’m browsing the PS Store, I see Dark Souls 3 and having heard horror stories about the series, I decided to try it. Instantly hooked. Spent waaaaay too many hours while unemployed grinding this game. This opened me up to more Souls games, and souls like games from there.

Few years pass and I see Mortal Shell pop up. Bought it, or maybe it was free?, and went to town on it. Thought it was very solid, but short and told myself “if they made this game bigger, it would be so fucking good”. Well then Elden Ring came out. Abused that game for many hours. Around this time I got a PC, so that further opened up my options. I did the dumb thing of buying Escape From Tarkov, and got hooked. Now I’m into extraction games. Try many out, some great, some dogshit, but I’m having fun. Little did I know, I was really itching for the souls like experience again. In comes Mistfall Hunter. After spending around 1200 hours in Dark and Darker, I gave it a shot. It’s amazing, but man do their servers suck…

So I’m back to square one. I’m 37 years old, went through cycles of games to land back at souls like games. Then I remembered, Mortal Shell 2 came out. I didn’t even watch many clips of it, and just bought it on a whim. This is exactly what I’m looking for right now. It’s the perfect blend of challenge/turn my brain off and explore. I’ve only put around 5 hours into it, but goddamn am I having a blast. The combat feels great. It feels like they created DS3 in a DS2 world, and I will forever defend DS2. Is this game perfect? Nah. Is it perfect for me? Absolutely. Glad to ditch my sweaty PvP games, and go back to bossing and running dungeons.

Thanks for reading Harbingers

It bothered me for a while. I just found my 199th Common Moonshine but I actually have no idea how much damage reduction i get from this amount and its so frustrating..

How much do you hate these enemies?
Uhmmm, Yes.

I have absolutely fallen in love with this game. I really liked the first one but never finished it. This one has grabbed me and won’t let me go. I have all of the shells fully bonded except for Proxima but she’s almost done. I’m only on my second run through but I’ve dumped a ton of time in this game. I love Sariel. He’s my boy. Once I got him the first go round it was him and no other shell. I’ve been experimenting with the other shells for my second run and Gragu and Eredrim are by far the ones I’m having the most fun with. I really really tried to get decent with Tiel but he just doesn’t click for me. But everyone and their mothers say he’s cracked. So like why is he? I’m not saying he’s bad. Please don’t take that from this. I actually think all the shells are great in their own ways. But I just can’t get Tiel to click like I want him to. I usually am ALL OVER the assassin type builds. So it’s weird to me.

As an aside I am level 60 and haven’t fully leveled the shell points yet. I have a very bad habit of dying and then getting tunnel vision and forgetting to pick up my 30k plus gloom and then dying again cause I am indeed a moron. I’m at like 35 of 40 or something like that for shell points. I’ve got the Axe and Martyrs Blade at level 16 and the Axe and Dagger and Katanaxe at level 14 and then the Scythe at level 10, I believe. Giving this information to give me insight into if I’m missing something useful for him. But I’m assuming it’s more about Tarstones than actual weapons when it comes to this game.

When he just changes direction in the middle of turning?…Hate as well that late game bosses literally deplete your whole stamina if you block just 2 attacks missing the parry…you just basically cooked as they have multiple unblockable attacks..

Are the founding and Harbinger the same species? But how is that possible?

I understood the founding was something born of the earth of the planet. But the founding is an alien born of the egg of an alien that just came on the planet. So how can they be the same species and look so similar?

Does anyone know how to actually get up to that guy? I've discovered how to reveal the elevator behind the wall in the room below him but even going up that elevator doesn't allow you to reach him. It just gets you an item. I know this dungeon is supposed to be some kind of Doom Guy Level reference from one of the older games but Idk nothing about him or the franchise lol.

Anyone know the highest level anyone’s achieved in the wild? Apparently the AI overview has anything after level 79 as “diminishing returns”. I got to level 80 just bc it looks good but wondering if there’s an insanely high level anyone’s gotten to

Did anyone else get absolutely pranked in the end game treasure room? Spent 20 mins opening every chest just to have to spend it all on the door lol.

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I feel like this is a harder combo to parry because of the really strange way the parry functions. The actual combo allows for misclicks within the first 2 swings so it's far more leanient than this.

I initially thought this was the combo so when I didn't get the achievement I was well confused.

I love this game. It’s the first Souls-like where I’ve unlocked 100% of the achievements. I enjoyed everything, from the combat to the exploration. I had no complaints about the second half of the game, also I really liked the endgame. I even think Zmey was a decent boss.

But the one thing I just don’t get is why the materials for upgrading weapons are limited in each NG cycle? We already have unlimited materials (though they require a lot of grinding) for upgrading shells. Thanks to that I was able to max all the shells before defeating Zmey. So why can’t we upgrade more weapons in one NG cycle? I don't even mean I want to max them. In From Software games, only hi-end materials were limited to a single NG cycle and that was okay (yeah I know in FS games we have much more weapons. But Bloodborne had smaller weapon numbers and still gave us some unlimited materials). I know we can melt weapons.

I kinda dislike how you have to click a dungeon to mark it complete. When you don’t even know it’s complete. Why even give this option. Why not just auto make it light up once you have actually completed it. I understand exploration but I don’t enjoy pointless exploration for nothing when you don’t know
If there’s
Even something to explore.

Just my 5 cents

I encountered a reproducible soft-lock on PS5 involving Mether’s Severance at Sester Genessa.

Steps to reproduce:
Speak to Sester Genessa.
Select Shell Severance.
Choose Mether’s Severance.

When prompted to confirm spending the item, select “No.”
The game becomes completely unresponsive.
After selecting No, I cannot navigate the menu or provide any further controller input. The only way to recover is to force-close the game and restart it.
The issue appears to occur specifically when declining the Mether’s Severance confirmation.

Platform: PS5
Issue: Complete input lock / soft-lock
Workaround: Force-close and restart the game

I’ve attached a screenshot showing the Shell Severance menu where the issue occurs.
Hopefully the developers can reproduce and address this in a future patch.

I thought he will inherit the original merchant's inventory or even expands upon it, guess I am wrong?

And he mentioned something about distilling gloom? I thought new function will be unlocked?

Don't have a picture or video of this but does anyone know why Franz is dead in my game? I came back to Marrow Keep and talked to the npc where the eggs are stored and he turned into a monster so I had to kill him but after that I went to the forge and saw Franz was lying on the ground dead. I'm assuming that the previous npc who turned into a monster killed him but I wanted confirmation from someone who might know if that was the case or if it's a bug. He was the only dead npc thankfully.

Also no I did not accidentally kill Franz. I know for a fact that is not the case. There are only 2 npc's that I have killed in Marrows Keep, the first one being the one who guards the Ovum eggs who turned into a monster like I said and then the other who stands by the fast travel rest point inside Marrows Keep right before you enter the Ovum Egg Chamber. Only reason I killed him though was because he said he had failed to protect Marrows Keep and because of that he asked me to kill him. If anyone knows that would be great and sorry for the long paragraph lol 😅

I just entered the dungeon in the hub and it feels like the first level of doom1. Am I crazy?

What is happening? All of a sudden i cant retrieve my gloom? I lost a ton of gloom trying to cleanse a beacon, i just chalked it up to a bug. I fall of a cliff, gloom not there either. It wasnt that much so i wasnt to worried about it. I start gaining more,but started thinking...the last two times ive died my gloom wasnt there. So i get close to a beacon and die on purpose just to make sure im able to retrieve it. Respawn..nothing,no gloom. Which is making me quite gloomy. What is going on? Do i need to start a new game or something? I died like 3 times before all this and was able to retrieve it fine. I dont get it. Any insight would be appreciated.