#Hollow Knight

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brittle glade
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"wait where did the platform go"

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also I need to get back to all bindings pantheons once my left foot stops hurting

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or after I can get a day off from work

thorny belfry
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i wanna put it in the art gallery and @ him to give him credit but i dont think the link will work

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also

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nkg

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"certified bastard"

azure citrus
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woah

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i only touched hall of gods once

brittle glade
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hall of gods is hell

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all radiant is a nightmare to achieve, which is basically "kill every boss without getting hit once"

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but I recommend doing it because you'll then be going after all bindings

steel ember
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man I don’t wanna do the two moths

hoary basalt
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:))))))))))

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it is your rite of passage.

brittle glade
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rngmoth bad

vestal crag
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can't even get to phase 2 on ascended markoth

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kmn

brittle glade
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markoth is the most kekw inducing boss in the whole of hollow knight

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especially on radiant

steel ember
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markoth is pain

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at least in radiance

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I can feel sort of in control of the fight

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markoth your movement is so limited I never feel like it’s going right

vestal crag
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does anyone have tips for markoth

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unironically cannot get past him

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and im pretty sure gpz is after him

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the fact i roll my eyes after every hit

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is probably a sign of bad boss design

vestal crag
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i empty 6 VS directly into his face

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he does nothing

hoary basalt
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mossbag's server 😔

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beyond redemption

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the art is really nice though

vestal crag
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(markoth)

steel ember
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dumbass moth

vestal crag
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died to gpz in p5

steel ember
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@brittle glade what charm loadout for radiant markoth btw

vestal crag
vestal crag
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mmh double damage bosses with shell bound are kinda irritating

brittle glade
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soul eater, soul catcher, shaman stone, any one of those three: mark of pride, spell twister, grubberfly's elegy

brittle glade
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take a wild guess about whatever the fuck this is

brittle glade
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also for those curious ||you can redo the fragile flower quest from traitor child's grave||

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||which allows you to get the godseeker's alt ending with the flower and offer the flower to several ppl||

brittle glade
short gate
vestal crag
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also why is pantheon 2 easy except for nosk who is harder than most of p4

brittle glade
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all bindings marmu is even worse

vestal crag
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marmu pecks head

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everyone's like

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MaRmU iS eAsY

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then why do the reeeebound physics always get me

hoary basalt
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have you tried standing in a corner

steel ember
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markoths shield is the absolute worst thing

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ever invented

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it would not be a hard fight

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even given the terrible arena on ascended+

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if not for the shield

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let alone TWO

steel ember
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oh my god

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i got markoth to like what i swear was just one or two shade souls left

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and a sword spawns IN ME

steel ember
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hour and a half of attempts

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cant do this anymore today

steel ember
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phase 2 is just absolute horseshit

steel ember
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@brittle glade

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LETS GOOOOOOOOO

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like 5 minutes of attempts

brittle glade
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gg

steel ember
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had a ton of soul saved up for phase 2

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and had 2 abyss shrieks hit 3 times

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and finished him with shade souls

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now for the other moth...

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although i might put off trying it in ascended for now because as is it two shots me with my current masks

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so i think ill actually go for my final mask now

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also

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what is this?

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holy its been how long since ive left the godhome

brittle glade
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lifeblood door

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get bindings to open it

steel ember
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from doing the pantheons?

brittle glade
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yes

vestal crag
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Sock's daily routine:

  • Wake up
  • Make p5 attempt
  • Fail p5 attempt
  • cry
steel ember
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where am i

pearl whale
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my backyard

vestal crag
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I FUCKING HATE GPZ

brittle glade
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that place is rare

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shame that you can only enter there once

steel ember
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oh my GOD

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two p5 attempts today

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first died to absrad on the what is it fourth phase?

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where the floor is gone like markoth

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and then again

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and i died to the final fucking phase

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this boss is trash

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like actually terrible

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ugh why is p5 so long

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fucking marathon

brittle glade
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pogo absrad in final phase, I find that it helps dramatically with odds of survival (especially since abyss shriek is unreliable)

vestal crag
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phase 1 is just normal, 2 is one half spikes, 3 is nail rain thing, 4 is platform, 5 is ascent, 6 is final

steel ember
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argh

vestal crag
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i have been doing absrad attempts today

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can consistently get to p4

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at full hp

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but then i just die

vestal crag
steel ember
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yo sick what the hell

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literally first try today

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as i boot up the game

vestal crag
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gg

steel ember
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nearly there...

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just one more

vestal crag
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markoth boss design

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cringe given form

steel ember
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fax

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so close

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let the radiant grind begin...

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or should i just try p5 again

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what do i do

vestal crag
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gpz always kills me in p5 attempts smallweed

steel ember
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the back to back markoth and zote combo is brutal

brittle glade
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idk why did I torture myself doing ||eternal ordeal|| but I finally got the ||gold zote statue||

steel ember
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died to absrad in p5 for 8th time now

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im about to give up

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it takes too long to actually get to it

steel ember
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9th time now

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ok im done for the day

brittle glade
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I could probably stream P2/3 all bindings attempts

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could be interesting

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idk about P4 sadly

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and P5 is right out unless I get enough bindings to unlock 3 lifeblood masks/bench

vestal crag
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should i be nailing or abyss shrieking absrad

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paging @steel ember @brittle glade since you're both better at this game than me

steel ember
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oh definitely not me

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ive died to it how many times now

vestal crag
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i haven't beaten her once

steel ember
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but uh

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from my personal experience

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abyss shrieking you should only really go for when you know its safe to

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because her light attack is so fast it can get you mid animation

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but for the most part its like your best form of damage output for burst during like phase 4

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since its kinda risky to always constantly be moving platform to platform and nailing

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im bad though ask dazz

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or shots

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@pearl whale

brittle glade
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imo you should only attack when you're sure you can connect a good few hits

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without eating a 2-masker to the face

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also the beams will almost never be on the same position consecutively

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that was my radiant radiance strategy

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and it still holds up

steel ember
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im still trying to get a hang of the fight but yea you dont wanna be too aggressive with shriek or else youll just eat damage

brittle glade
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if you're under her and the attack is a laser sweep or blade sweep from a side not close to you when another screenwide attack is not occuring, abyss shriek

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if not, nail

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descending dark is your best friend in this fight

steel ember
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really? i barely use it

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maybe thats why im losing

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i only use it in like phase 4 when shes on a platform near me and close

brittle glade
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DD buys you valuable iframes and is the other way of dodging laser wall

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use it liberally imo, if you think you can't dodge an attack, more often than not a well timed DD will buy you enough iframes to completely annul it (not counting certain attack patterns)

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VGF statue when @steel ember

steel ember
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AAA

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trying

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im getting to phase 4 way more consistently now

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but its

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really hard

brittle glade
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I somehow surprisingly KO'd radiant absrad after 10-12 attempts

steel ember
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god i wish that were me

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the way i feel about absrad

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none of her attacks in specific are hard to dodge

brittle glade
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and that was early into the all radiant romp

steel ember
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but the overlapping of multiple varying attacks at once is whats so hard

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and makes it feel very rng at times

brittle glade
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the primary difficulty of the fight is how radiance strings the attacks together

steel ember
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yep

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especially how certain attacks and combinations can you put you in uh

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not so favorable positions

brittle glade
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also get the last mask shard

steel ember
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one day

brittle glade
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and remember that you can give fragile flower to godseeker after doing grey mourner's quest from the traitor child's grave

steel ember
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i did her on ascended easy peasy so i dont have to worry about health yet while grinding radiant BUT it will be helpful for p5 and future bindings runs

brittle glade
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that is, if you wish to do that

steel ember
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mmm yea ill do it

brittle glade
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as I said I need to get into focus for P2 all bindings

steel ember
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theyre mean though :( i dont think they deserve it

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they call us little speck

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not worthy of being a god

brittle glade
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godseeker in godhome is different in personality compared to godseeker in hallownest

steel ember
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i dont know the lore stuff about godseeker yet

vestal crag
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woe

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thou speck!

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thou cringer

steel ember
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lmao

steel ember
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i hate this

hoary basalt
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practice against rng moth in the hall of gods first

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really get good at him

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then take the pantheon again

steel ember
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i have it on ascended

hoary basalt
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keep practicing

vestal crag
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markoth straight into gpz is brutal

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especially since i have to spell spam markoth phase 2 so no soul for healing

brittle glade
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@idle raven I see your status and raise you... this thread

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jokes aside nobody knows when, team cherry unfortunately has lips stitched tight for some reason

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but ye this is the thread where we talk about hollow knight, though not its sequel (until it's released)

steel ember
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i suck

vestal crag
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i still don't see how thy can possibly make silksong a sequel while keeping other endings canon

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hornet literally dies in sealed siblings

steel ember
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isnt there also a theory that silksong is a prequel

vestal crag
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website says sequel

steel ember
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i see

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i imagine the "true" ending will probably be "canon" then

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where you defeat radiance

vestal crag
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ye

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they did say they wanted to keep all endings canon in a reddit thread tho so its weird

steel ember
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yea idk how thatll work out then

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ayo void given focus ending???

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or what is it called

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embrace the void

vestal crag
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embrace the meme

steel ember
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true

vestal crag
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i still think silksong could be a prequel

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i just don't think it's likely

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imagine they pull a sneaky one on us and at the end of silksong hornet stumbles into the howling cliffs

steel ember
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who knows

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i can kinda understand their silence tho even though id like some transparency

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when you work hard on something all you want to do is focus

vestal crag
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ye true

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like ct are really focused on lari dating sim atm

steel ember
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omg leak

vestal crag
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no mods in thread catJAM

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WAIT

steel ember
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also indirectly confirming dern???

vestal crag
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bloomi confirmed 1.21

steel ember
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me when bloomi is actually the dark realm and where lari went

vestal crag
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we should do some wild lore speculation because i think it would be funny

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what if pale king evacuated hallownest and migrated to pharloom

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and is now the holy Thing™️ at the top of the citadel

steel ember
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i had to google what pharloom was

vestal crag
steel ember
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i just struggle against hall of gods bosses i got the game this year im not fully caught up yet

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i think what i like most about the new game is that its not a dead kingdom!!! and very colorful and full of life

vestal crag
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ye super vibrant

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i mean hollow knight was very colourful as well

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but had a lot of muted tones in its area palettes

steel ember
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this was an ACTUAL line

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i thought you just made that up to be funny

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holy shit

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thats hilarious

brittle glade
hoary basalt
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yeah the godseekers are almost comic relief in the way they talk

brittle glade
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the wiki

hoary basalt
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also the devs

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they have confirmed hornet doesn't die in any of the endings

steel ember
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AAAAAAA

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i got to final phase absrad radiant

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died

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so close

vestal crag
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in p5? ignore me

vestal crag
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you probably right though

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would make sense ig

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altho hornet becomes a dreamer? wat

tame hawk
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I quite enjoy Hollow Knight

hoary basalt
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the dreamers entered an eternal sleep which trapped them in the dream realm

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somehow this allows them to become a physical seal upon the hollow knight's temple

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hornet is basically a dreamer here in context because she is also used to seal the new black egg entrance insealed siblings

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maybe it works because she's physically trapped in the egg while the dreamers are spiritually trapped or smth like that all I know is she closed da door like da big triple

vestal crag
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team cherry magic lore™️

brittle glade
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"it's there, don't worry about it"

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P2AB STRIM INBOUND

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@steel ember P2AB stream live

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because I'm bored and because I want to get the lifeblood notches done

brittle glade
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P2AB done, up next is P3AB

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I'm growing stronker

chilly igloo
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hollow knight

steel ember
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I’m busy atm

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gl tho

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all bindings is a pain in the ass

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also so that’s how you unlock the lifeblood door?

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bindings for all previous 4 pantheons?

brittle glade
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8 bindings total

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obtaining 12 and 16 bindings upgrades the amount of lifeblood masks you get

steel ember
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ah I see

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maybe I’ll try doing that for p5 but feels a bit cheaty

brittle glade
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@steel ember P3AB streams soon

steel ember
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okie

brittle glade
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at this point I'll probably have all golden bindings (aka "all bindings mode" completions for every pantheon)

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except P5

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I'm not confident enough to tackle P5AB

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but then that's why the game gives you lifeblood masks at benches while doing pantheons

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aight it's stream time

steel ember
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wait wtf i never knew you could attack the spike balls hive knight spawns

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wack

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the hardest part of all bindings is the piss poor damage you deal so bosses become an endurance test of how long you can go without fucking up

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damn collector is brutal

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cant one shot the minions

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that nail art better than i thought

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also fuck i gotta brb real quick

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ok back

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close call on zote

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brutal

brittle glade
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P3AB is evil

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the collector is already annoying as it is, but when a single nail strike fails to KO a spawn, it becomes even worse

steel ember
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and then they just build up

brittle glade
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zote is even worse in all bindings

steel ember
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also weird i thought zote was in p4

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guess i remembered wrong

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i think this is the last attempt i can watch before i gotta go

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good attempts

brittle glade
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P3AB is hell

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I feel like P4AB will be easier than P3AB

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not counting rngmoth

brittle glade
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so far P3AB's biggest difficulty spikes are the collector and GPZ

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GPZ for obvious reasons, the collector because you don't deal enough damage outside of shade soul and tornado slash to clean up the summons

vestal crag
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p4 nail binding is really easy except for pv

brittle glade
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I'm talking all bindings though

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most of the bosses in P4 deal 2 masks of damage

vestal crag
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ehhh

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enraged guardian is free, traitor lord is free, failed champ is free

idle raven
brittle glade
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PV in P4AB is more of an endurance round than anything, which is radiant mode on steroids

vestal crag
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zote's minions are so annoying argh

vestal crag
brittle glade
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you can definitely chip it down

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13 damage at a time (nail arts help)

vestal crag
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gpz: because who needs telegraphs

tired echo
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just don't ever fight gpz outside of pantheons and you can skip him :sunglaso:

vestal crag
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c h e a t i n g

brittle glade
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@idle raven seeing as you didn't post as much here despite asking "silksong when", how far into the game did you get, and what endgame challenges did you finish or in progress of doing

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just curious

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because I pretty much created this channel to talk about hollow knight which ended up being a couple of folks here chronicling their growth as they improved at the game

idle raven
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I've finished the game ages ago and been waiting for a sequel for a while now, I went as far as this:

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then I tried the pantheon and

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wayy too hard for me blobsweat

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they announced silksong a long time ago, about 3 years now? or more... it's funny cause it was supposed to be a dlc and then turned out to be an entire new sequel! and yet here we are still waiting

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feeling like it's another overwatch 2 takes long to develop and takes long to release lmao
even though the trailer they showcased a while ago looked amazing and really complete already

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like they literally stopped releasing news after 2019 relating to the game, shortly after announcing it, it is so weird, anyone knows why?

brittle glade
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probably post-production phase

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also currently very late into P4AB, if anyone wants to see it I'll be streaming in a sec

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yep, P4AB done

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proof that P4AB is easier than P3AB

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ate only one hit to the face during PV, but that was very late into the fight

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the rest was methodically destroyed

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12 bindings down, 4 more to go (before maxed out lifeblood door)

idle raven
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lol good luck man

brittle glade
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I also did:
112%
100% ~10hr
all Hall of Gods bosses, radiant difficulty
all pantheons, no bindings
P1, P2 and P4, all bindings (hence, P4AB)

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hall of gods all radiant (aka no-hit) is at times stupidly hard

steel ember
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i scuk at this game

brittle glade
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P3 is an abomination, at least P4 went somewhat well in AB

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as in, "took me, like, only one attempt LUL" well

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markoth again went surprisingly well despite being one of the most annoying bosses (then again I had ground), and PV I almost went no-hit before I ate a 2-masker in phase 3

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same with failed champion, ate 2 hits in the face thus losing all of my lifeblood masks

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at least for P3AB I'll have lifeblood masks for GPZ if I don't choke at galien

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once I max out the lifeblood door I might do P5AB, but it will be absolute hell

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with the pathetic damage output of the 13 dmg nail, no charms, and only 4 masks

steel ember
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thats what i do

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but then u realize u end up hating half the bosses in the game

vestal crag
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leth has said he hasnt even started playtesting it to give tc feedback yet

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i think that now they have the big team cherry bucks they're letting the game grow to an absolutely huge size

idle raven
idle raven
brittle glade
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that you need to endure for upwards of 10 minutes (not counting all bindings challenges)

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at some point you end up realizing you have no self restraint from sheer frustration of dying ad nauseam to several of the bosses in game

tired echo
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i never even ran p5

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didn't have the patience to try again and again since each run lasts 30-40 mins

brittle glade
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P5 is hard, but it's not impossible

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took me like 4-5 attempts to complete it

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and now I feel like I'm consistent enough to defeat everything in it barring challenge runs like all bindings

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this comes from someone who has completed P1, 2 and 4 with all bindings enabled

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currently grinding P3AB, also lifeblood masks help a ton after getting 8 total bindings complete

tired echo
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i ran it once until abs rad to unlock the fight (took like 5-8 tries total to get that far), but i stopped after that. i haven't ran any pantheons with all bindings, though at the very least i totally could do P1AB

steel ember
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godhome is pain

vestal crag
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I always die to gpz in p5

brittle glade
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smh you guys make me look like a pro in comparison when I'm probably not

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also progress report on P3AB: I finally managed to get past GPZ

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then choked on hornet 2 like an idiot

brittle glade
tired echo
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also steel soul is pretty easy if you know what you're doing

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after i beat p4 once i started my first steel soul save file, won it with 100% completion and also got the completion speedrun achievement

tired echo
vestal crag
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i hate him so much

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he's so unpredictable

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if i could beat him i could probably get to absrad relatively easily

brittle glade
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NKG and PV require consistency so you probably could

tired echo
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i'm good at nkg but pretty bad at pv

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you just need to learn the patterns and that's it

steel ember
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i find nkg to be harder than vessel

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vessel's attacks are always consistently dodgable but grimm's uppercut attack can be super deadly if youre forced to the edge of the arena from a previous attack

vestal crag
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shadow dash through him

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its also possible to jump over him if your dash isnt recharged

brittle glade
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for TMG/NKG you can sneak an abyss shriek just as his pufferfish attack starts, which is a luxury you can afford for both fights in P5 since between them and the next boss are benches

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obviously not recommended for radiant difficulty

steel ember
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lol

vestal crag
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PROGRESS

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my first clear

brittle glade
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hall of gods clear?

steel ember
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sheeeeeeesh

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i still need to beat that dumbass moth in the pantheon

vestal crag
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got lucky with some patterns

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but also i think i'm getting better at dodging

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i started playing a lot more aggressive instead of waiting for her to come to middle platform

vestal crag
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died during ascension

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i cri every tim

steel ember
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@brittle glade

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fuck this stupid moth

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void given focus

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all radiant done

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without using dumb grubberfly

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now to actually beat p5

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maybe ill make a list of what i felt was hardest

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but my top 3 is identical to shots

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radiance > markoth > oblobble

steel ember
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oh my god i just did another p5 run and died to absrad again

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its literally pure rng where some of the attack patterns are straight up impossible to dodg

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e

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i hate this boss so much

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i can do it on radiant but not even in p5

brittle glade
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oblobble wasn't even that hard for me

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even in P2AB I was able to get past it no problem

steel ember
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i mean in non radiant its not a problem lol

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radiant it is

brittle glade
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in radiant as well

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2 attempts, done

steel ember
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idk

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i dont think its that consistent

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im not exactly what one would call a good player either so

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shrug

brittle glade
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it's not some disgustingly hard boss if you keep your distance, especially on ascended and radiant both obblobles have 0 healing if the other one dies

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so you can try and chunk them out both at the same time

steel ember
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at least im done with the hall of gods so im happy

brittle glade
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now get ready for the suffering that is all bindings pantheons

vestal crag
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are you guys spell gang or nail gang

brittle glade
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hybrid

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you will need it for all bindings pantheons

steel ember
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hybrid as well yea

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main setup is strength / shaman / quick slash / longnail

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beeg damage

steel ember
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although when I did markoth on radiant I used spell build

steel ember
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NOOOOO

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dude again

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died to absrad

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last phase

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mustve been weak

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seriously how do people be consistent as this

brittle glade
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magik

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since it's on attuned difficulty (there's no difference between attuned/ascended+ absrad), I suggest you get consistent at attuned absrad

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I'll run absrad on attuned if you want to see how I do it @steel ember

steel ember
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im in another attempt right now

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maybe i can stream if you wanna watch

brittle glade
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and of course I choke at final phase

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on all bindings elder hu isn't hard, he's just annoying

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the collector on the other hand

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@steel ember you need to be more aggressive with uumuu, if you see an ooma close to uumuu even if it's not within nail range, shade soul it to oblivion

vestal crag
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died to sly waaah

steel ember
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bad zote rng

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dumb minions

tired echo
vestal crag
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nice nice nice ava

brittle glade
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use abyss shriek against the crimson jet attack

vestal crag
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two more to go

brittle glade
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shreds 120 HP for all 4 hits

steel ember
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oh my god

vestal crag
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phew

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that was close

steel ember
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why did i do so bad

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against vessel

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so many viewers

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the pressure

vestal crag
#

when i saw you cancel his stagger

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i was like NOOOO

brittle glade
#

use descending dark when he's staggered

#

does more damage than your nail

vestal crag
#

solid run so far

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good luckkk

brittle glade
#

don't choke

vestal crag
#

you got this

steel ember
#

i

#

i hate this boss

tired echo
#

f

vestal crag
#

noooooooo

brittle glade
#

oof

vestal crag
#

idk why everyone tries to nail bounce on her

steel ember
#

thats exactly how it went down last attempt

brittle glade
#

my turn to stream now

steel ember
#

btw

tired echo
#

the last phase is the hardest

vestal crag
#

i never found it particularly easy

steel ember
#

i died to that phase too

#

ugh

#

maybe next time

#

well nail bouncing on her is easy with quick slash

#

but sometimes as seen it’s hard for me to consistently dodge the balls

#

it’s even harder when I’m not nail bouncing

#

because when you try to dodge on the two platforms

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they usually home back in

#

multiple times over

vestal crag
#

we don't talk about that damage from gruz mother

brittle glade
#

massacred

steel ember
#

Gruz mother ascended pain in the ass

#

but you can abuse descending dark

tired echo
#

yep

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gruz mother suddenly gets a lot harder

steel ember
#

ill load up the game again ima see if i can do it on attuned

#

in hall of gods

#

radiance

brittle glade
#

completely and utterly destroyed absrad, as you saw

tired echo
#

btw i play the game on a switch, idk how much that affects gameplay difficulty

brittle glade
#

not much, really

tired echo
#

yea

steel ember
#

wait whyd i pick radiant

#

force of habit

brittle glade
#

LOL

vestal crag
#

gorb would you mind ascending to directly above me

steel ember
#

too aggressive

#

i think i can do it attuned

brittle glade
#

if you can survive P1-3 radiant, you'll definitely survive P4 attuned

vestal crag
#

dude where the fuck is he

#

oh he's back

steel ember
#

man

brittle glade
#

there you go

steel ember
#

why cant i actually do it in p5

brittle glade
#

now to do it again in P5 without choking

steel ember
#

like attuned in hall of gods has never been bad

#

i just get so nervous

#

smh

brittle glade
#

speaking of which, I'll stream P5 as well to compare runs

steel ember
#

maybe i can do one more attempt if anyone wants to watch

#

p5 marathon though

#

so long

tired echo
#

yea

steel ember
#

it was always phase 4

vestal crag
#

am doing p5 now

#

if anyone wants to tell me what i'm doing wrong

brittle glade
#

P4 is "don't get hit LUL"

#

I did P4AB and it was easier than P3AB

#

mainly because of zote doing zote things

#

and me being an idiot at galien

steel ember
#

attuned radiance twice in a row

#

now i just need to do it in this dumb pantheon

tired echo
#

nice though why didn't you heal before p5/p6

steel ember
#

idk didnt think i had enough time

#

before void reached me

tired echo
#

the void moves with you i think

#

you can just camp at the bottom

vestal crag
#

before p5 you have enough time for at least 3 heals

#

i dont think you had soul tho

tired echo
#

they had soul for 2? more heals

steel ember
#

attempt like number

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18 i think

#

idk how many times ive died to absrad

tired echo
#

i used to hate ascended markoth but after wasting way too much time on it the battle is kinda fun

#

i always use a nail arts build for it

steel ember
#

yea burst damage is good for markoth

#

since little openings

#

its why i used spell build for radiant

#

not efficient to always go for normal nails

vestal crag
#

is everyone just in vc streaming their own shit and not watching anyone else lol

steel ember
#

lmao

#

think so

#

ill let u know when i get to the final bosses

vestal crag
#

fuck

#

i bet im gonna die to winged nosk again

steel ember
#

winged nosk actually super annoying

#

its not like his attack patterns are hard

#

but his hitbox is so weird lol

#

i cant always consistently bounce on him when he charges

vestal crag
#

dude his hitbox is so TALL

#

ok doing wn now if anyone wants to watch

#

guess we're doing sly on 6hp

#

bruh since when was hornet hard wtf

steel ember
#

hornet 2 definitely isnt easy

#

shes super jumpy

#

and when she puts the spiked balls up it limits your movement

#

i just beat her

#

getting there

#

to die to moth again

vestal crag
#

fun fact

#

it only takes about 10 hits with strength to bring markoth to phase 2

#

feels like a lot more

steel ember
#

fucking zote

vestal crag
#

nice

#

ok free heals now

steel ember
#

moth time

vestal crag
#

gl

#

you can do it!!

steel ember
#

much better vessel

vestal crag
#

was that hitless?

steel ember
#

ya

#

ok

vestal crag
#

gg

steel ember
#

aa

vestal crag
#

ok focus

steel ember
#

iuehrn32h45uyg23h451

vestal crag
#

rip

steel ember
#

i thought i had soul for a descending dark

#

i didnt.

vestal crag
#

you really should get your last mask

#

would allow you to tank one more hit in ar

steel ember
#

wont help against double damage

#

doing normal radiance on attuned in p5 is infinitely harder than doing it on radiant

#

i swear

vestal crag
#

with no heals you go from 4 hits to 5

brittle glade
#

@steel ember did you win or not?

steel ember
#

died p4

brittle glade
#

oof

#

meanwhile me: ANNIHILATION

#

lifeblood masks help a ton

#

assuming you don't choke at PV

steel ember
#

hey man i did it twice on attuned easy peasy

#

but actually doing it in pantheon

#

impossible

brittle glade
#

I think it's the stress of doing it during P5

vestal crag
#

don't you get a heal anyway after PV

steel ember
#

ya

brittle glade
#

you do

steel ember
#

it gives u full hp after vessel

vestal crag
#

i'm likely to tank at least 5 masks during pv lol

brittle glade
#

the issue is keeping the lifeblood masks

#

which means: hitless PV

#

so you can do absrad with 13-14 masks of health

vestal crag
#

16 masks like

#

i run heart

#

i'd have to actually unlock the lifeblood stuff first tho lol

brittle glade
#

either way, you missed the P5 ending with the flower

#

ate 6 hits in PV, still lived, because LIFEBLOOD OP

steel ember
#

when i finally beat p5 im taking a long break from godhome

vestal crag
#

same g

#

then i am finally done with the game once i beat p5

brittle glade
#

not quite done, there's the completely optional all bindings runs

#

for all 5 pantheons

vestal crag
#

yea get real

#

as if

#

i don't have like 300 hours to sink in lol

brittle glade
#

P3AB is pure suffering

#

P4AB surprisingly took 1 try

#

I dread to think how will P5AB go despite having maxed out lifeblood

vestal crag
#

tips for winged nosk?

steel ember
#

i only struggle sometimes with winged nosk because im greedy and go for two nail hits when he charges

#

otherwise its easy to just double jump and hit him once

#

his spit attack can be annoying i guess

#

but you can see where they fall

vestal crag
#

in awe at the size of this lad's hitbox

brittle glade
#

nosk hitbox is wonky

#

also for those curious a full jump is enough to dodge a thicc shockwave coming out from GPZ, failed champion and soul tyrant

#

not a double jump, a well timed single jump

vestal crag
#

yea indeed

brittle glade
#

the apex of the jump is high enough to dodge the shockwave

vestal crag
#

winged nosk spit attack is irritating

chilly igloo
vestal crag
#

died to gpz again

#

fuck sake

tulip flume
#

sadnes

brittle glade
#

if in doubt that you'll live, use the almighty safety net of fragile heart

#

planning to get one once I manage to KO dung defender for his defender's crest

brittle glade
tulip flume
#

uhhhh

#

flukewarm

#

spawned too many enemies then I got r@ped

brittle glade
#

don't fight flukemarm on a steelsoul run

#

not worth it if going for 100%

tulip flume
#

yeah

#

I tried to do the cyclone to kill them all

#

little did I know my nail was weak

brittle glade
#

what nail did you have

tulip flume
#

sharpned nail

#

first nail upgrade

#

when I fought him the first time I had my nail upgraded twice so killing those flukes that flew out of it died instantly to my cyclone so that boss was super easy to deal with

brittle glade
#

well, here's your problem

#

you need nail upgrades to oneshot flukefeys

#

2 upgrades in (channeled nail), you will be able to OHKO the flukefeys flukemarm spawns, which makes the boss trivial as long as you remember to deal damage

#

then again I'm going to skip flukemarm either way so no big deal

#

also, (at)husband of ava sent this in DMs:

#

apologies for the ghost ping

tulip flume
vestal crag
#

excellent

#

good job

short gate
brittle glade
#

my plan is to fight hollow knight, not radiance, on steel soul

#

so I can get the comp achievements

#

then go for godhome since deaths in godhome are null and void in terms of steel soul save existence

#

the problem, however, is that white palace deaths are not safe in steel soul

#

so I'll have to abstain from doing path of pain in SS

brittle glade
#

I'm aware

short gate
#

Life saver

brittle glade
#

hiveblood + grubsoul + any nail range upgrade = 🧀

short gate
#

Very indeed

brittle glade
#

also if anyone has done all bindings runs in godhome, these skills do carry over to steel soul so if you happen to go after steel soul, at low HP and poor nail damage, you'll eventually learn to fight bosses effectively

#

I did P1, P2 and P4 with all bindings, and barring radiance (hence why I'm going for the hollow knight ending instead of the radiance ending) I can maybe do all of them low%

vestal crag
#

i use fury of the fallen in my steel soul run

tired echo
#

i finished steel soul once and now i'm trying to do it without mask upgrades

#

also no fragile heart/lifeblood ofc

#

but this time i won't go for 100% completion, just trying to beat radiance probs

#

but if one plans out and plays steel soul carefully, it's not hard

#

i was never in one-hit range during my first run

steel ember
#

I think I’ll try steel soul after I finish doing most of the things there are for me to do on one save file

#

ok yea I got embrace the void earlier as said

#

gonna try and get 112% next

#

I’m at 110

vestal crag
#

another run lost to markoth

#

i fucking hate that guy

azure citrus
brittle glade
#

get enough to obtain the 6th pale ore, job done, back to getting shafted by rngmoth

#

you don't even need void heart for 100%, since the max completion % is 112% you can finish the game w/o void heart by killing hollow knight

short gate
#

Imagine not killing radiance on your steel soul run, smh

vestal crag
#

pretty cringe

vestal crag
#

working on a mod called

#

absolute gorb

azure citrus
#

gorb gaming

steel ember
#

i am gorb

brittle glade
#

I'll be sticking more attempts at P3AB later, no idea when

azure citrus
#

deltarune ch 2 stream when

steel maple
#

Ascend With Gorb!!!

thorny belfry
vestal crag
#

yet another p5 run lost to markoth

#

5 of my 6 attempts have lost to him

azure citrus
#

how close are you to finishing absolute gorb

tulip flume
#

damnit I died again aaaaa

tired echo
#

i've nearly finished a steel soul run where i'm not allowed to increase my max mask amount, including lifeblood

vestal crag
#

p5 died to PV

#

progress, progress

vestal crag
#

another run lost to markoth

#

:(

steel ember
#

practice both zote and markoth in hall of gods

#

when I do markoth in p5 I honestly just play it super aggressively

#

to kill him as fast as possible

steel maple
#

Well if loosing a steel soul to a tiktik is nothing idk what is

short gate
#

i lost my first one by an unfortunate chain of events

vestal crag
#

but i can't be botheredddd

#

markoth is such a pain to practice

steel ember
#

absrad and markoth make me cry yep

#

me when i did the entirety of hall of gods in radiant before beating p5

vestal crag
#

wtf

#

how

#

what_how

#

I took octuple damage in a no-eyes ascended run today

#

got hit once by a spirit, and also into thorns

#

then as soon as i respawned got hit by another spirit and into more thorns

#

for some reason spawn iframes didnt kick in

steel ember
#

i documented my entire journey here

#

yea i uhhh

#

im pretty sure ive lost a p5 run to no eyes before

#

it was embarassing

#

although ive gotten way more consistent at it

#

literally just take your time and stand in the middle platform

#

and abyss shriek when it goes to a position above you

vestal crag
#

no eyes i find very easy

#

no eyes more like no challenge lmao

#

too far into p5 for its difficulty imo

#

i think ive only lost p5 runs to pv, gpz, markoth(!), and uumuu

#

yeah i lost to uumuu

#

how embarassing

steel ember
#

no ive complained about uumuu a ton before here

#

rng boss

#

i think ive gotten pretty consistent at most bosses now but its still a pain in the ass

vestal crag
#

uumuu is pretty easy for me

#

tbqh the first 35 minutes of p5 is just busywork

#

there is a very low chance of death

steel ember
#

p5 really do just be a whole marathon

vestal crag
#

damn fury of fallen kinda busted tho

brittle glade
#

p5 is hell if you don't know how to approach it

#

ascended changes make it annoying, and in all bindings it becomes even more difficult

tired echo
#

wtf i didnt know you could lose steel soul in white palace

#

i thought it was just radiance

#

well, there goes my nearly finished run

steel ember
#

damn

#

brutal

tired echo
#

i had already opened the black egg

#

sad

#

i just needed void heart for radiance

#

the point of the run was to beat the game with zero mask upgrades, including lifeblood and charms

#

i'll try it again some other time

steel ember
#

oh yea you guys hear about that supposed silksong release date leak

#

from the nvidia thing

tired echo
#

what is it

#

havent heard

steel ember
#

February next year but who knows how credible that is

#

hold on let me find the video

#

I’m speculative because with something so close and how far it is in the year you’d think they’d say something

#

ok well apparently since I watched this video the release date in the database was changed to June?

#

wild

vestal crag
#

crazy

chilly igloo
#

just come out already please

hoary basalt
#

team cherry when the only thing people ever say about silksong is "when is silksong coming out"

short gate
#

People always say "when silksong" but never "how silksong"

vestal crag
#

do you guys think the godseeker will be in silksong?

#

I mean I know she ||kinda. like dies.||

#

but also team cherry lore isn't exactly consistent

tulip flume
#

wait the god seeker's female

hoary basalt
#

yeah

#

team cherry has said all endings are canonical

#

which

#

isn't good for speculation

pearl whale
#

all the endings are canonical at the same time

#

which means that in hallownest the knight is sealed inside the egg while at the same time godseeker is bursting with void which is now going to invade the entire kingdom

tulip flume
mighty dragon
#

He’s perfect for that role

chilly igloo
steel ember
#

i havent played in a hot minute i need to do pantheon bindings

vestal crag
#

does anyone have tips for absrad climb

#

for some reason i find it literally impossible

chilly igloo
#

just don’t be bad

tired echo
#

redirect lasers by jumping off the platforms for a sec

#

thats all

vestal crag
#

absrad phase 4 light wall into swords kinda bs

tired echo
#

pure vessel hitbox leaning forward when staggered to hit you bs

tulip flume
#

LMFAO

thorny belfry
#

seen it everywhere in their memes

vestal crag
#

i saw it on r/hollowknight

#

still grinding absrad btw

#

for some reason it's always her sword wheel that gets me

#

i used to think that attack was easy to dodge

#

maybe it's because i'm sticking to middle platform more these days

thorny belfry
#

ah

short gate
thorny belfry
short gate
#

otherwise you would see the icon on my profile in shared servers

thorny belfry
#

someone drew their interpretation of the wyrms from hollow knight

#

and holy hell

steel ember
#

well

#

they ARE gods

thorny belfry
#

true

#

but like

#

look at that thing

mighty dragon
#

Damn that looks amazing

thorny belfry
#

ifkr

vestal crag
#

FUCK YEA

mighty dragon
#

LETS GOOOO

vestal crag
mighty dragon
#

:)

tulip flume
#

:)

tired echo
#

m i ran p5 until abs rad yesterday and died in the climbing part

#

gg

vestal crag
#

nice nice

tulip flume
#

what the

vestal crag
#

what_how

tulip flume
#

gotta go fast

vestal crag
#

i wonder if silksong will have a boss rush style mode

mighty dragon
#

I feel like there’s a good chance it’ll have one, considering how well it seemed to work as final endgame content in hk

tulip flume
#

it will probably have that in a DLC as well

#

maybe

tired echo
#

yeah silksong will definitely have one imo

left osprey
#

I did steel soul before p5

#

Practice bosses a shitton before attempting them

#

Watcher knights in particular is spooky

#

I also steel soul 100%ed it

#

Not 112 tho because fuck colo 3

brittle glade
#

colo 3 can be made consistent

left osprey
#

Yeah but I’m bad at it

vestal crag
#

i wonder what the silksong boss rush lore will be

#

because they can't really use godseeker again (right?)

chilly igloo
#

why not

tulip flume
#

another dream nail :)

vestal crag
#

dream needle

left osprey
#

I mean they very much could

#

We’d also need to know more about the game to know what it could be

tired echo
left osprey
#

Well I had a plane flight and got it to 110

#

Just have to do flower quest and colo 3

tired echo
#

welp i finally beat p5

#

took me 5 attempts after i started trying it again

#

first one dead to GPZ, second to NKG, third to abs rad climb, fourth to abs rad phase 6

mighty dragon
tulip flume
thorny belfry
steel ember
#

i dont understand the flower

#

oh

#

delicate flower quest

thorny belfry
#

mhm

tulip flume
#

I don't understand the jelly

left osprey
#

But the moth is a challenge not a threat

mighty dragon
#

Did anyone else think the radiance was a bird when they first played the game

brittle glade
brittle glade
pearl whale
#

its the hive

#

i think

brittle glade
#

while hive does associate with the above jelly, I don't think that's the answer

pearl whale
#

hm

#

its the most likely one imo

tired echo
#

hive isn't even an annoying area or anything

#

the only issue i see in it are the big fat bees which deal two masks of damage and charge around

brittle glade
#

well, the area needs a threat of sorts

tired echo
#

anyway when i see that jelly picture i feel like it referring to the infection is far far more likely than it referring to the hive

brittle glade
#

same

#

besides, the only reason hive is relevant is because for steel soul it gives the mother of all cheeses

tired echo
#

hiveblood?

brittle glade
#

yes

tired echo
#

hm

brittle glade
#

makes white palace laughably easy

tired echo
#

that would've stopped my second steel soul run from ending in white palace

#

white palace is pretty easy anyway but since i had only 5 masks it was a bit e

#

i considered doing a steel soul run where instead of mask upgrades/lifeblood, using focus is not allowed

#

hiveblood would be even more valuable in a run like that

left osprey
left osprey
#

Its kinda tough at times but not too bad

#

Jonis op

tired echo
left osprey
#

But 5 masks-

tired echo
#

thats the entire point of the challenge i was doing

left osprey
#

Oh

#

I misread

tired echo
#

btw i didnt know that steel soul can be lost in white palace so yea

#

i couldve just quit when i was at 1 mask

brittle glade
#

🧀

left osprey
#

Yeah it can, I googled whether it could whenever I went into a offmap area

#

It is also lost in the radiance fight so yeah that’s fun

vestal crag
#

it can only be lost in wpalace + (vanilla) radiance

left osprey
#

Yeah I have a 111% steel soul

#

Kinda freaked out by colo 3 ngl

tired echo
#

yeah i knew that it can be lost in radiance but i didn't expect white palace to count too

brittle glade
pearl whale
#

but can it be lost in path of pain

vestal crag
#

yes

brittle glade
#

PoP is in white palace so yes

left osprey
#

Ayyy 112ed steel soul

mighty dragon
#

Awesome!!

left osprey
brittle glade
# left osprey

it's much less "child murder" than it is "mass sacrifice of offspring"

#

it's an atrocity, but without it the knight & the hollow knight wouldn't have been born

left osprey
#

Yeaah

vestal crag
#

randomiser luck insane

left osprey
#

well that was easy

vestal crag
#

just finished my first rando run like

#

didnt end up collecting ddark, wings, or vs lol

azure citrus
#

you should try split randomizer

#

it is more infuriating

vestal crag
#

i had randomized swim on

#

didnt end up collecting it tho

azure citrus
#

nail randomizer is also pretty pog

#

but getting any nail art besides dash cheeses nail rando

vestal crag
#

perhaps at some point i'll do cursed split + room + nail + enemy rando

azure citrus
#

based moth

tired echo
#

i just beat brooding mawlek on a steel soul file and then died to the gruzzers outside the cave in the tall room :agony:

left osprey
#

skill issue?

tired echo
#

mainly just me being careless in many things at the same time

vestal crag
#

dead thread xd

mighty dragon
#

Guys guys they’ll announce silksong release tomorrow then it’ll be alive

left osprey
#

silksong coming soon[tm]

brittle glade
#

P3AB still annoying as ever

#

if I can get a run past GPZ I'll probably be able to get a clear, with the only roadblocks being the collector in the first half of the run and hornet in the second half

tulip flume
#

when the silk ain't singing

mighty dragon
#

The silk song previously sounded upbeat… now it’s just sad 😢

steel maple
#

Me and the Bois fighting mõth

left osprey
#

Radens

mighty dragon
azure citrus
short gate
#

isnt the beta out for the new update ?

left osprey
#

Metroid fans before dread:

mighty dragon
#

Is… is there hope?

left osprey
#

This would be the perfect time

mighty dragon
#

“Alright, congratulations to last of us part 2 for being 2021’s game of the year!”
“But we have one final announcement to make”
Lights dim
String music starts playing
The screen brightens to reveal a hollow knight background
Hornet appears on screen
The crowd goes wild
Text slowly appears:
“We are pleased to announce that silksong is still in development”