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EldenRing, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and other FromSoftware titles are beloved for their penumbric narrative style, trademark grimdark settings, and their incredible sense of scale and opportunities for discovery. They are also infamous for being punishingly hard.

For some dedicated players, this last part is all that really matters. The difficulty, and their subsequent investment of time and energy into mastering the game's melee combat system, is what makes FromSoftware's games what they are. Many of those same players would tell you that this is just the way they play, and they don't begrudge other players their different play styles or where they find satisfaction in the game.

For some, Elden Ring's various systems like summoning Ashes to help take down difficult encounters, spamming Comet Azur from a distance to melt away a dragon's HP, or even bringing in multiplayer cooperators for boss fights is tantamount to breaking the game. If even those tactics are illegitimate, then "cheesing" is the true Cardinal Sin of Elden Ring.

Cheesing, broadly, is using unconventional tactics to advance through the game that some argue is exploitative and violates the game's spirit. If that grafted scion is too big to physically fit through a doorway and you stand on the other side, whittling down its health with arrows or Glintstone Shards while staying out of reach of its attacks, well then, you are little better than a cheater.

I'm here to tell you that not only are they wrong, but that cheesing your way to the Elden Throne is more true to the spirit of the Soulsborne genre than their precise dual-wield katana builds and dodging prowess could ever be.

The way you win in a Soulborne game is you ruthlessly exploit enemy weaknesses. For a melee build, that means getting in close, learning attack timings, and parrying and dodging your way into exposing an enemy's weak spot so you can hit it hard while you have an opening.

But FromSoftware didn't make a game just for melee builds, they made a game with a rich magic and affinity system and environmental damage that applies to enemies just as much as it does to the player.

Some enemies are immune to poison, but weak to lightning. So, you're encouraged to hit them with every lightning spear you can throw at them. Pump enough points into arcane and faith and you'll never need to worry about the Fire Giant's tankiness because it absolutely melts under a stream of Glintstone Breath.

If you figured out that some boss can't reach you in some spot or that a boss might actually roll its gargantuan ass down the side of a waterfall to its death, then exploiting that is perfectly legitimate.

FromSoftware can and has put an invisible barrier around an arena to keep an enemy from falling off a ledge, so if it forgot to put one up along the edge of the waterfall in Nokron's aqueduct for the twin gargoyle fight, and one or both of those gargoyles are stupid enough to roll over the side to their death while impossibly dodging your attacks?

Soulsborne games are not exclusively about playing in a very specific, melee-oriented fashion with perfected attack timings. You can do that, if you like, because this will get you to the real goal of any Soulsborne game: win by whatever means necessary. The point is perseverance, in enduring and overcoming the challenge. How you do that is up to you.

Anyone who tells you that using the game's built-in mechanics to win is cheap or somehow beneath the dignity of a true Soulborne player is telling on themselves. Winners beat games. Losers complain about how other people beat games.

I'm sure that the developers of Elden Ring spent a lot of time and effort to make the game's punishing combat mechanics beatable by anyone who invests the time and patience to master them. It's been a trademark of the entire Soulsborne genre since Demon's Souls was released on the PS3, and that tradition has carried on through every one of FromSoftware's games ever since.

You know what else has been there since the beginning? Enemies who were too big to follow you through a door which you could then turn it into a porcupine of poison arrows. That spot along the wall where that one spider boss's flame breath attack couldn't get to you, but you can still hit it with ranged attacks? That was in the original Demon's Souls and it was still there in the PS5 remake, unchanged. If FromSoftware considered such tactics as out of bounds, they've had several games to fix them.

Yet, I can still whittle down a punishingly difficult boss battle by raining down Rotten Breath on them from a rooftop in Lyndell and there's absolutely nothing a pair of mounted Tree Sentinels can do about it but die slowly like the computer-generated, golden-glad dogs that they are.

You'd think that experienced developers who have made arguably one of the best games ever would have thought about that possibility and done something to keep you on those steps where the twin Tree Sentinels could get to you in a fair fight. But you know what? FromSoftware did think about it, and they undoubtably approve of such innovative problem-solving to overcome a challenge.

That giant Rune Bear can't climb a cliff to hit me in Caelid as I rain down spell after spell until it's dead? Tough. Git gud, Rune Bear. It's not like I can do this to every single one of you, so I'm sure as hell going to do it when I can. If developers didn't want you to climb up cliffs to lay waste to overpowered enemies, they wouldn't let you go on the cliffs above enemies.

As your claymore bounces harmlessly off the wall, that puny little rat and the one behind you take bites out of you and wouldn't you know it, do just enough damage that your SL100 character goes down like you were a SL10 character fresh out the grave.

FromSoftware clearly knows how to program actor hit animations to interact with the level geometry. Yet one of those freaky Abductor Virgins in Volcano Manor can send their little scythe shots right through a cliff face or wall ledge and kill you even though physics should still work in the Lands Between. Unfortunately, it only really works for you. Everything else gets to live in its own personal singularity where matter is too abstract to be an obstruction.

Do we call this cheating? Sometimes we do, in especially egregious cases, but we mostly just accept that in addition to being overpowered from the get-go, our enemies will also get all the borderline calls from the ref in their favor. The deck is always stacked against the player in these kinds of games, so any advantage you can gain helps bring things closer to parity, though never completely.

Consider it justice if you'd like, but unless you are outright hacking a game, using cheat codes, or taking advantage of an obvious bug (knocking an enemy off a cliff and knocking an enemy through the floor geometry are two very different things, for example), nothing is off-limits in a Soulsborne game.

You can tie one hand behind your back and say never-shall-you-ever use a magic spell on an enemy that can't reach you, but you better believe that if the roles were reversed, that enemy would be merciless in its assault. As Tarnished in the Lands Between, we are at war with the world because the world is at war with us. There's no shame in recognizing that and being as ruthless in kind.

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After years of tireless explorations, brave Vikings have discovered a new land filled with mystery, danger and riches: Northgard. The boldest Northmen have set sail to explore and conquer these new shores, bring fame to their Clan and write history through conquest, trading, or devotion to the Gods.

You start with a handful of Clans when you buy the game (e.g. Stag, Raven), but since release, they have added new clans over time, such as Dragon and most recently the Eagle clan. At 4 each, these added DLCs can add up, but there are bundle offers from time to time, making it a lot cheaper. Still, 88% of reviews on Steam are very positive. Northgard is available on Steam, but also all other major platforms and loaders, including GOG, Epic store, Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox, and on mobile via Googleplay and the Apple App store.

Upgrading buildings and forging tools can make a substantial difference in productivity. If you are starving in winter, having up to 60% more produce per zone will help change that. If you need gold for your army, give the merchants the equipment they need first. Wiki: Improve tools.

Not the best of examples as I got owned by a Rat clan zerg attack that followed a debilitating plague of actual rats, but a real introduction all the same. It was a decent map, but lack of food was a problem. Deer or fish is better than grain, for one thing. Plus, I forget I set it as hard :D

Sailors

Ships are good, as they also give lore (0.8) or Fate (0.1) as well as gold, but they do need a beach, and the Kraken will destroy the ships, and harbour. (The lighthouse protects one harbour). However, the off-side to this is if you need extra villagers to gather wood or food because you are freezing, starving, or are being overrun and need soldiers, well, it takes time to return to shore, and it might be too late by then.

Merchants

By default, the marketplace and stalls bring in gold. The more villagers you have working on them, the more you earn. If you have trade routes with clans or factions, this can increase by varying amounts and adds to your reputation with them. It should be noted that merchant bonuses (and penalties) are additive and stack. So, if you have a 20% bonus to stalls and to merchants and they are both in the same zone you create a commerce centre each merchant now gets 40%.

Salvage

Having your scouts explore salvage will boost your gold and wood (or lore), and denies the advantage to your opponents. Particularly important for a fast release of your war chief or a head start.

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