Ode to Castlevania

[tribal wren]

It has not

(Source: I have the Switch version)

[topaz sinew]

Another day of questions and answers on how to unlock character X

[topaz sinew]

||How do I do "acquire all the books" secret? I thought they were all the spells but it didn't work.||

[fathom orchid]

||buy everything from the master librarian||

[topaz sinew]

But I already did it

[fathom orchid]

do it again

[topaz sinew]

Ok

Now yes, and what is this that was released?

[fathom orchid]

as in what it unlocked? ||everything in the librarians shop can now appear in levelup||

[topaz sinew]

||But it already appeared before||

[fathom orchid]

that's the unlock

[topaz sinew]

||Furthermore, the image contains items that he does not sell.||

[topaz sinew]

Lol

[fathom orchid]

just old sprites

[topaz sinew]

It was more interesting before

||Now how do I get Joachim?||

[fathom orchid]

||kill him as sara||

probably best to move to #💀survivors-spoilers or #1301999183368163442 if we're gonna continue

[topaz sinew]

Sorry, in the super spoiler I can talk without spoiler?

[fathom orchid]

yeah

[topaz sinew]

Better

[smoky musk]

I'm so conflicted. Is the Parm Aegis supposed to be a shield or an oven baked ham

[tiny flame]

what if its a shield made out of oven baked ham

[tribal wren]

Parm Aegis = Meat Shield

[fathom orchid]

Yes

[tribal wren]

Quite literally yes

[smoky musk]

🤯

I don't understand the "Parm" though

[fathom orchid]

Its for parma, city in italy famous for parma ham and parmigiano

[tribal wren]

Therefore, a shield made of parma ham

[quaint shuttle]

Someone know if is posible to replay the final battle? It was epic, I need to record it

[fathom orchid]

yes

just do the same thing again

[quaint shuttle]

🎉

Thank you

[unkempt jay]

i cannot believe that ||the true Vampire is the friends we made along the way||

they took the joke too seriously 😭

[tired cosmos]

@fathom orchid So ive unlocked all of these, but only Morning Star, Belnade's Spellbook, and Ebony Diabologue appears in my collection and in runs. The other two just are not there. I looked it up and they said you have to enter a run with an eligible character and choose it for it to show up, but when i choose an eligible character it just doesn't show up at all.

[fathom orchid]

try changing the skin / starting weapon

[next totem]

You have to change to a skin that has the weapon selector so you actually obtain it in a run

[fathom orchid]

they can appear on anyone, they're just rare, but changing the skin can let you start with a selector, depending on the character

[tired cosmos]

Ohhhh

Alright I see now

Thank you both, saved me an even bigger headache!

[mossy hinge]

the Svarog Statue is classified as fire?

oh yeah it leaves the fire trails

[tribal wren]

Yeah, it's fire

Always has been

[devout spruce]

Oops meant to post that in the spoilers channel

[mossy hinge]

oh

[tribal wren]

Welp

[devout spruce]

Here is the link: #1301999183368163442 message

Regarding Dario's passive.

[wheat ravine]

having a hard time getting those "choose one of these powers" upgrades to spawn even though I supposedly unlocked them when I unlocked all the evolved whips and tools etc, do i just spam reroll with sigma until I get them?

[tribal wren]

Some characters can start with them

Any character with a whip can start with the Morningstar, for example

[wheat ravine]

a so like If I want to get the vampire killer tools id just choose a hector or something

someone who has one of the weapons of that set

[fathom orchid]

95% of the time that's the case

a few exceptions

[tribal wren]

Jonathan can start with a Coat of Arms, Charlotte can start with Belnades Spellbook, Shanoa can start with Ebony Diabologue

[wheat ravine]

So I should use shanoa ?

or what else do I need

[torpid matrix]

leon can start with morning star for example
check character skins

[tribal wren]

As long as you do a run with Shanoa starting with the Diabologue, you'll unlock it as a level-up option

Same for the other selectors and the skins that have those 'weapon pickers'

[wheat ravine]

the alt skin is what im trying to unlock

[torpid matrix]

the morning star unlock already unlocks alt skins for some characters

[wheat ravine]

Ah so it does

[torpid matrix]

same as other selectors

[wheat ravine]

thanks!

now to begin the secret completion in earnest

[tired cosmos]

Im lost. Trying to do this and it just wont work. Im using Julia, im getting the familiar forge off the ground, but then no matter how many items i banish, no matter how many times i reroll, familiar forge will NOT show up on level up.

[gritty ibex]

u cant get it unless ur hector i think

what youre meant to do is use a candybox then get the pickup on the map

[tired cosmos]

Bruh the guide i used told me to use Julia

[tired cosmos]

omg

[gritty ibex]

you need to use julia

but just use hail from the future darkana

get like 20 levels, if you get a candybox then great

then hightail it to the static map pickup from the nearest teleporter

[gritty ibex]

i spent like 30 mins doing this too dw

[tired cosmos]

What is future darkana

[gritty ibex]

but im on switch so even after confirming what I just said is the correct way, nothing happened 🫠 its bugged for switch players

[gritty ibex]

'hail from the future' is one of the unlockable darkanas

if you havent unlocked the darkanas yet theyre a pain in the ass so id suggest just using the spell forit

what it does is it spawns a special item on each level up, small chance to be a candybox

[tired cosmos]

When did darkanas even become a thing

[gritty ibex]

idk im new but theyre recent

like last year or so???

use the spell 'atoural' to get hail from the future

[fathom orchid]

just under 3 months ago

[tired cosmos]

Yeah i used one of the spells

Omg

I missed a lot

[gritty ibex]

theyre very very broken

[tired cosmos]

At least there are spells for it

[wheat ravine]

so I did the contra dlc in like 10 hours...this dlc im like...30 hours in and just got to the final part (secret clean up)

its just so much content for 3.5 bucks

[gritty ibex]

contra dlc felt very lame in comparison but like

i think cv is just that insanely big

[wheat ravine]

im just amazed they manage to basically continually power creep the game each time

[gritty ibex]

i dont love the formula of just play as guy, evolve his weapon, survive 15 min repeat for the whole thing

so cv actually having incentives to explore and do sidequests is so fun

[wheat ravine]

like apart from among us dlc they all basically break the game in a new more busted way than the last dlc

well to be fair the among us dlc has the game's best weapon

but its just one item

[gritty ibex]

which

[wheat ravine]

the buffing one

[next totem]

I think Ophion is a pretty good contender for that title though

[gritty ibex]

idk didnt 100% the amogus stuff

[tribal wren]

Lifesign Scan

And then its upgrade, Paranormal Scan

That's the real good one

[wheat ravine]

its the evolved healing item, when it heals you you get a random buff that lasts forever and it stacks

[gritty ibex]

i thought it upgraded to the meteor shooter thing

[wheat ravine]

nah this one is basically just temporary eggs

[gritty ibex]

ah

[wheat ravine]

but constantly at a decent clip

[gritty ibex]

the dlc weapons sure do know how to be fun

i wish the framerate wasnt so ass though

like even the samurai dlc after minute 10ish its 10fps for me

[wheat ravine]

I have friends who stream who wish they could stream VS but you cant the bitrate turns to dust

[gritty ibex]

so its not just a switch issue

[wheat ravine]

ah i play on pc

well the birate thing is a function of twitch, too much movement on the screen at once eats bit rate

[gritty ibex]

i see

[wheat ravine]

and VS is just...a clusterfuck in an endgame run

[gritty ibex]

for me it genuinely runs like shit from halfway through a run

at the end of one its a powerpoint presentation

[wheat ravine]

like my infinite runs end when I cant physically see what im doing anymore

im playing on a 4080

[next totem]

Please do not beg for free things.

[unkempt jay]

https://tenor.com/view/antman-what-the-hell-happened-here-avengers-gif-18240147

[torpid matrix]

yet another beggar

[tired cosmos]

How do i unlock the ferryman, like i got the evolved sonic dash or whatever but i do not go nearly fast enough to clip through the walls

[tired cosmos]

Do i did get onto the water and it didnt give me the unlock

Amazing

[next totem]

Did you check your character list? It's not an unlock so there's no popup for it

[tired cosmos]

I checked the secret menu and it wasnt checked off

Its not in the character list either

[next totem]

In that case there's a guide in #1301999183368163442

[tired cosmos]

I think it just doesnt work

I did it again

Walked on more water than before

Nothing

[next totem]

What platform are you on?

[tired cosmos]

Android

This last time i was able to get on the water without the evolved sonic dash but i guess it might have to be with the evolved one. Idk ill try it again

Yeah that was it. Alright then, nvm

Does the "survive with a fully armed coat one" only apply to the castlevania items? Or can i use any of these?

[tribal wren]

It has to be the Castlevania items

[tired cosmos]

Oh mkay

[wheat ravine]

any tips on getting a 2nd familiar to spawn in the same run ?

[next totem]

Get Familar Forge from levelups/candybox before picking it up from the stage

[wheat ravine]

ok so just play the run normally ignore mad groove memes and then get it and then get the one on the level

[gritty ibex]

do we know if the final achievement for 'alt skins on soma, shanoa, alucard' achieved by evolving everything is bugged

on switch

[next totem]

Shouldn't be

[gritty ibex]

:( my game hella buggey

i cant even get unlocks in the contra dlc for some things

like prims sword

[next totem]

Do you have them unlocked? In that case you just need to get them in a run, characters will have alternate skins that allow you to use one of the weapon selectors

[gritty ibex]

I mean, there's an achievement for 'prism sword evolve' right

and ive done that

[tribal wren]

It is not bugged (source: I'm playing the Switch version)

[gritty ibex]

like twice

and the achievement doesnt pop

[gritty ibex]

I have evolved everything and it's ticked off in secrets but not acheivements lol

[next totem]

Prism sword?

[gritty ibex]

ok for clarity there's two issues

ive A: evolved prism sword (contra) and it doesnt gave the achievement (in UNLOCKS)
ive B: evolved every weapon and not got the weapon master picker thing, and therefore no alucard/soma/shanoa picker

[tribal wren]

Do you have the 'weapon pickers' registered in your collection? (Morningstar, Coat of Arms, Spectral Sword, Belnades Spellbook, Ebony Diabologue)

If not, do that first

[gritty ibex]

no, missing coat of arms and spectral sword
which I think is a bug
given ive evolved every weapon

[tribal wren]

Check your character select - does Jonathan have any extra starting weapon options?

[tired cosmos]

oh my god Brauner is terrible to get

What character do i use

because i just dont do enough damage with these horrible blood astronomia weapons to kill enough paintings

[next totem]

You just need to use them to get them added to the collection, check some character's alt skins to see what weapon selector they start with.

[next totem]

I believe there was talk of a few builds that work in #1301999183368163442

[tired cosmos]

i hate discord mobile

[gritty ibex]

no

[tribal wren]

Hmm. That's honestly a bit odd

Everything worked fine for my own save file - maybe there's something being overlooked

[gritty ibex]

zamn

[tired cosmos]

Where in the chat? I cant search anything in thread chats on mobile and like theres a lot of nessages to go through

[torpid matrix]

#1301999183368163442 message

[next totem]

If you can't search, check pins

[tired cosmos]

Tyty

[steel acorn]

Yesterday I was playing and had the familiar that throws the curved knives. I had a full bracer, but not curved knife weapon myself. Then, on an evolution chest I received the curved knife evolution as an extra weapon. Is this a bug or a feature with familiars?

[next totem]

Known bug

[gritty ibex]

restarted the game and it worked nvm

[tribal wren]

Huh.

The old 'turn it off and then back on again'

[gritty ibex]

now the only cv achievement im missing is ||ebony & crimson stones but i already killed legion and got them it just didnt register?||

[tribal wren]

That one I know is bugged on Switch

[gritty ibex]

damn

[tribal wren]

And we don't even have a good portion of the DLC content

So we have to wait for an update patch

[gritty ibex]

now ||familiar, innocent, cavetroll, carmilla, galamoth, and chaos|| are sitting there taunting me

and I know about the rest that exist i jnust cant get them

[tribal wren]

You can get ||Galamoth|| at least

[gritty ibex]

how exactly?

lemme find the pins

[tribal wren]

...actually, we probably shouldn't be talking about those in the main DLC chat. I'll move it over to #💀survivors-spoilers

[gritty ibex]

whats the collection entry after speculo hex

nvm its gemini + globus

[supple atlas]

Konami: Which of our characters do you want to be featured in your DLC?
Poncle: ||yes||

[unkempt jay]

20+ characters

How the fuck do you REVERSE scam someone

[next totem]

Emphasis on the plus :)

[unkempt jay]

They scammed themselves

[torpid matrix]

how much content do you actually have?
poncle: ||yes||

[unkempt jay]

"At least one song"

[supple atlas]

Buddy, wait until you beat the boss of the DLC, ||20 ain't even half of the actual number||

[torpid matrix]

no they know the number
we're just joking about how much we got

[twin kayak]

It is, in fact, 20+ and that sure was a preposterous question.

[wheat ravine]

for the one guy its get at least 6 of the coat of arms items upgraded and survive a half hour right?

[torpid matrix]

6 dlc coat of arms weapons, but yea

[wheat ravine]

it can be done on endless right?

[torpid matrix]

yea

[wheat ravine]

Can I have additional weapons on top of those 6? which are non coat of arms?

[torpid matrix]

any 6 of these 8 counts for ||hammer||

[wheat ravine]

got him.

[strange vigil]

where do i find him? trigger boss or timer boss?

[fathom orchid]

trigger boss

19 in the pinned map

[strange vigil]

thnks

[brazen sorrel]

so ive ran 4 times on 3 diff chars with raging fire as only weapon (forced 1 weapon slot) and no other weapons still havent been able to unlock secret.

do i have to leave all weapons slots open and literally reject all other weapons?

[fathom orchid]

||are you using the selector perchance||

[brazen sorrel]

selector? the spell book which allows me to pick which book?

[fathom orchid]

yes

candybox, arma dio, and the belnades spellbook (spellbook selector) all invalidate it

[brazen sorrel]

oh damn thats why

😬

didnt use candybox but arma every run 😬

[mossy hinge]

just choose Charlotte with Raging Fire and go to Il Molise

[ebon gazelle]

What exactly is ||Master Librarian's|| unlock? Was it just to buy the six weapons?

[mossy hinge]

you can legit stand there.

[fathom orchid]

||buy everything from him at least once||

[ebon gazelle]

I've done this in both OTC and Il Molise and nothing seems to be happening

[fathom orchid]

he sells more than 6 weapons

it takes multiple runs to unlock

[mossy hinge]

ye

[ebon gazelle]

Oh

No, wait.. What the hell? He unlocked after the last time I did it

wtf?

[mossy hinge]

you probably bought the last of his wares already and didnt realize it.

[ebon gazelle]

Huh. Well, thanks guys.

[mossy hinge]

np

[brazen sorrel]

metaglio left on OtC map is out of bounds?

i cant run up to it

[mossy hinge]

bug

idk if its fixed in latest version which consoles dont have yet

[brazen sorrel]

im on mobile

[mossy hinge]

oh

[mossy hinge]

then yeah that means it probably isnt.

[brazen sorrel]

weird placement😅

mad grove i guess it is then 😬

[loud field]

anyone has an issue with doppelganger not spawning and you being stuck in the boss room?

[fathom orchid]

https://discord.com/channels/904353235006017556/1303963550653485156 known issue

[brazen sorrel]

i just did a run without using any selection item and forced 1 weapon and no bueno

¯_(''-)_/¯

i used charlotte, lasted 30mins (with no selection items) and it not unlocked🥲

[fathom orchid]

And what was your full setup

[tribal wren]

Yeah, what Arcanas did you use?

Stuff like BA and Sarabande invalidate the unlock too

Since your only damage has to come from fire-based weapons

[brazen sorrel]

heart of fire and gemini

[brazen sorrel]

ill do another run and do some screen grabs

[fathom orchid]

||easy way to do it is :

• start as charlotte WITH RAGING FIRE AS HER STARTING WEAPON
• sit in hurry il molise until 15:00
  -profit||

[brazen sorrel]

i have hurry unlocked already

thats why i keep doing them

[compact trellis]

how do i evolve guardian's targe

[fathom orchid]

Pummarola

[lunar gull]

i have both vol umbra and vol luminatio, but i didnt get this "gift"

[brazen sorrel]

is it possibpe the faerie familiar i get is doing it?

[fathom orchid]

Yes

[brazen sorrel]

otherwise thats what ive been doing. ill try it without

alright it was definitely the fairy

thanks for ypur help

[unkempt jay]

can someone ping me when the bugfix launches on switch

[tribal wren]

I second this

[grave trail]

Me too please

[gritty ibex]

i literally have been checking here every day mostly for that reason lol

if it's exactly 2 weeks on the dot it should b next thursday

[austere zodiac]

help guys?

[fathom orchid]

||universitas, gift of max vol umbra and max vol luminatio||
||gemini refectio (pick it + gemini arcana)||

[austere zodiac]

Thanks 😊

[tired cosmos]

So when you get alucard shield all of the weapon spaces get freed up but all of the weapons you had stay there right?

[mossy hinge]

ye

[tired cosmos]

Oh okay cool

[flint gale]

is it known that buying the familiar forge in the adventure bazaar softlocks the game

[next totem]

Not that I've seen, you should definitely report it

[vocal light]

so like, do i need to uninstall the beta version and download the public to duy the dlc? it's always saying no internet connection 🙄

[cyan vortex]

I have a question

what are those 2 missing collectables

[torpid matrix]

+ globus, + raging fire

[cyan vortex]

thanks a lot 😊

[smoky copper]

I was running out of cash to buy characters, so I took the general advice I've heard here and brought Sammy into Abyss Foscari. Within three minutes, I had $2M gold! 😅 😅 😅

Anyway, I should be all set for gold for a while!! 👍

[lost narwhal]

how do I get ||Raging Fire||? I got it once before but didn't get the chance to evolve it, and now I went through every boss in the Ode to Castlevania stage without finding it

[limpid gust]

to switch player
we can't unlock almost of secret characters because a bug, right ?

[smoky copper]

Hi, check the Character Select screen - one of them starts with Raging Fire. I played her and evolved it, then had it available for everyone.

[twin kayak]

Stella, Loretta and Galamoth are possible to unlock on the switch version, every other secret character either doesn't appear or just isn't possible due to a bug.

[limpid gust]

i have killed stella and loretta but only stella unlock

[twin kayak]

You have to deal the finishing blow with the instakill from the reflectio evolution, not the main attack from reflectio.

[limpid gust]

i have try around 10 runs for loretta but doesn't works

i can unlock stella first run

[twin kayak]

Start damaging Loretta for about 5 seconds with reflectio, then evolve it while she isn't getting damaged by reflectio.

[limpid gust]

do you play on switch? can i have personal chat with you

[twin kayak]

I do play on the switch version, but what do you mean by personal chat?

[limpid gust]

messenger

[twin kayak]

you mean dm, right?

[limpid gust]

yes

[twin kayak]

I don't mind it.

[trim matrix]

okay anyone else here is genuinely scared of the design of ||chaos||? like, its design is so good, but also honestly kinda horrifying

[grave trail]

That's how most bosses in the later Castlevania games are tbh

[unkempt jay]

i think minutes 13-15 are probably the hardest

[unkempt jay]

switch is bugged

unfortunately

i would know, im playing on switch

[last phoenix]

Which characters from the new DLC you think are the most unique/powerful?

||Dracula|| and ||Megalo Dracula|| are probably the best of the bunch, but there are a few that have interesting gimmicks

[tiny flame]

the most unique, for me personally it has to be ||charlotte/jonathan and stella/loretta||

[last phoenix]

I really like those, specially the former, such a nice reference to PoR

[tiny flame]

i really hope they add a base game character that works similarly to them cause i find them so cool

[last phoenix]

What I miss from ||both tag team characters|| is having unique effects

I mean, they have their solo-version gimmicks, but I don't know if that's enough to stand out

It feels like playing multiplayer alone, which is funny enough

[tiny flame]

yeah thats fair, i think they are personally fine without any cool new unique effects

[last phoenix]

I find ||Vincent|| interesting

[tiny flame]

however im not against it, it would be cool to see if they could make another tag-team character where they can actually interact with eachother

[last phoenix]

Technically speaking, at least

[tiny flame]

vincent is neat

dude im ngl whenever somebody mentions a character/weapon from the dlc, my mind just goes blank cause theres so many new things i need to memorize 😭

[last phoenix]

XDD

I was going to try using him with Disco of Gold, Hail of the future and Wicked Season, maybe

[tiny flame]

genuinely feels like im taking a biology test

[last phoenix]

But I don't know if he'd perform better than other gold farmers

[tiny flame]

honestly ||sammy|| will probably stay king

[last phoenix]

Yeah, too bad I don't have his DLC

I think Vincent might be able to scale gold gain through greed using Disco of Gold

[tiny flame]

i mean the steam autumn sale is coming up

november 27th - december 4th

the dlc's will probably get discounted

[last phoenix]

I should've waited for that instead of buying both the game and the DLC for a 10% off, but oh well

[tiny flame]

i find it so strange that the autumn sale is in november and then the next month after theres also the winter sale

[tiny flame]

also i looked at it: its actually november 27th-december 4th (apparently)

[last phoenix]

Is there a gold cap per run?

[fathom orchid]

3.4e38

[last phoenix]

Oh, so you're realistically not going to reach that

[fathom orchid]

with eggs its pretty easy

[last phoenix]

I know these will be rookie numbers, but it seems like Vincent might reach actual nice greed

[tribal wren]

I was thinking that, but my Trousers is already egged up so pivoting to Vincent kinda feels like a waste when I can just continue going with Trousers

(no Foscari, so no )

[wheat ravine]

||how do I unlock Brauner, I followed the guide but no dice, blood astronomia and basically all weapons but a shield using it||

[fathom orchid]

heres a strat #1301999183368163442 message

[last phoenix]

Since I started playing after I got the dlc, I thought Vincent might be a good investment, but I don't know if it's better than the others (definitely not better than )

[tribal wren]

Sammy will forever be the gold farming king

[last phoenix]

I got Hail from the Future, Moonlight Bolero and Wicked Season, plus Vincent already has Disco of Gold as a passive

Are there other dark/anas I should farm before starting?

[tribal wren]

For gold farming?

[last phoenix]

Yeah

[tribal wren]

Sarabande of Healing since it combos with Disco of Gold

[last phoenix]

Well, I do have that one too

[tribal wren]

Oh, cool

[last phoenix]

Is the max capped at 5?

Or you can have as many as you unlocked?

[tribal wren]

Without Moonlight Bolero, max is 5

At least, I think it's 5. I never got any more than that normally

[fathom orchid]

Normally you can get 4 in a run

1 starting + 1 inverse + 2 chests

Sigma, characters that start with arcana, and bolero all let you get more

[tribal wren]

Right

With Bolero, there's no arcana cap

[last phoenix]

That's really neat

[tribal wren]

My ol' reliable is Wicked+Disco to start, Sarabande at 11 minutes and Bolero at 21

[fathom orchid]

kinda, bolero is weird

[tribal wren]

Really? So how's it work?

[fathom orchid]

you're not supposed to get the 11:00 and 21:00 arcana if youre at the limit ofc, and bolero does let you go above the limit, but sometimes this exclusion applies to bolero's chest

that specifically i havent tested, it's super weird

[tribal wren]

Huh.

Well, either way, optimal gold farming says you leave after 30 minutes to egg up anyways, so it shouldn't matter too much

[last phoenix]

How can you get 2 at start?

[tribal wren]

Start + endless

[last phoenix]

Oh, I see

[fathom orchid]

Inverse*

sells arcana in inverse

[tribal wren]

Inverse, my bad

My mind just always goes to endless since I have both it and inverse checked at all times when farming

I actually just use the OtC map and head over to the area where the archers spawn. I'm able to clip through walls easily, so I can get nothing but archers spawning

It's more efficient than Capella Magna. It's more efficient than The Bone Zone, funnily enough

[manic portal]

Anyone know which minute or location frozenshades spawn at in OTC?

[fathom orchid]

first pin has some 24/7 spawns

[manic portal]

Thanks

Took me a minute to figure out discord's UI to get pins to show for this forum

I can't seem to get ||ferryman|| to unlock even though I've ||run over the water near the front bridge|| several places, any suggestions?

[fathom orchid]

do you have ||evolved sonic dash, you need it for the unlock. a bit of extra speed, so get some cd and duration||

[manic portal]

Yeah I have that and managed to ||cross the water|| several times

[fathom orchid]

also try ||crossing the southmost bit of water||

[nimble coyote]

I didn't hear the unlock sound before ||I had 700% speed||, FYI

[manic portal]

Will try that, thanks

||South of the entrance|| with ||610% movement speed|| worked

[manic portal]

Sorry if I just can't find it but I don't see axe armor spawn location on the pin, does anyone know?

[fathom orchid]

sw of 29

[manic portal]

Thanks!

[brazen sorrel]

is it new that the grimoire is very faded with all 6 weapon slots filled?

and some weapons ive previously evolved dont show up (silver revolver) when i get it

[fathom orchid]

the grimoire is just transparent period, even moreso on older versions, same goes for some items not appearing iirc

[tulip knoll]

can someone help me with something? i cant open Reinhart's coffin?

like im walking over it and its not opening

[fathom orchid]

Theres an enemy left alive then

[unkempt jay]

WHAAA

YOU CAN UNLOCK ||GALAMOTH|| ON SWITCH???

I JUST DID IT ON ACCIDENT AEGYUUYRFGRUHUEGUHEGW

[tulip knoll]

no enemies spawned?

[fathom orchid]

[manic portal]

Does anyone know the cooldown on ||Erica Lacarde's low-health-based|| ability activation?

[fathom orchid]

Healing to full hp

[manic portal]

Oh good to know, ty

[unkempt jay]

I'm at 368/370

one weapon away from "100%"

[tribal wren]

And it's probably Gemini Globus

[unkempt jay]

the shuriken evolution and the Coat of Arms

[tribal wren]

Oh, that's a surprise. Got that one early

[unkempt jay]

i only got shuriken 10 minutes ago lmao

[tribal wren]

At least there's a Shuriken on the OtC map so you don't have to worry about grabbing it from levelup

[unkempt jay]

to check the description to get a hint on how to evo

[unkempt jay]

i swear i've picked it up before but i must be crazy

i'm doing a Quincy run to get the last thing and then another ||Dracula|| run

just for fun

I'm proud of getting most of these on my own

[north shard]

Anyone else have trouble unlocking the platinum whip? Survived well past 18 mins but just wont unlock

[unkempt jay]

getting Universitas without any hints was REALLY fun

[unkempt jay]

i think the names are switched

[north shard]

Oh?

[tribal wren]

What character are you using?

[north shard]

Richter, that's what it says in the unlocks

[fathom orchid]

iirc that was for simon and christopher

[unkempt jay]

oh

[tribal wren]

Right, that's what it should be. Which means there's something else wrong about this... did you do it on the Castlevania map?

[fathom orchid]

the map doesn't matter

[north shard]

Yeah

Done it twice once in a normal run and then for 108 mins in endless

Weird

[tribal wren]

I know it does for some things, which is why I'm covering all of my bases

Just try doing a normal 30-minute run somewhere else and see if it unlocks then

Kick ass in the Inlaid Library or something

[north shard]

Yeah will have to try again

[grave trail]

||does chaos need every secret character unlocked||?

[fathom orchid]

||yeah||

[grave trail]

👍👍

[unkempt jay]

WOOO

I'VE DONE IT

COLLECTION 370/370

now for the bugfix

i got the kinda tedious stuff out of the way

[tulip knoll]

I can't get ||beelzabub or treant to spawn or have their door open for some reason||

[fathom orchid]

||do you have the beast gate for beelzebub? ||

[tulip knoll]

For context: ||already beat death and all that||

[tulip knoll]

Damn is that preventing both?

[fathom orchid]

ye

||beast gate -> beelzebub -> treant||

[tulip knoll]

Oh it's sequential? Didn't know that

[tulip knoll]

||Do I need a new run or can I just go in order for those three?||

[fathom orchid]

for the first 2 you can do it in the same run

||since treant spawns after getting pile it probably has to be in a new run||

[tulip knoll]

Lame

Big lame

[loud field]

is there a limit on how many times ||familiar forge|| can be rolled?

[fathom orchid]

you can get it once from levelups (outside of ||young maria||)

[loud field]

hm, strange, rolled it 5 times on ||hector||

not counting random ones

[fathom orchid]

oh right hector too

he gets it

[loud field]

so I had like 8 familiars

[manic portal]

Can't seem to unlock ||Brauner||, do I really just need to get the ||Blood Astronomia arcana|| and ||kill the paintings at 24:00||? Or am I missing something.

[fathom orchid]

||it's killing enough of them with the effects from , try this #1301999183368163442 message ||

[manic portal]

Perfect thank you, I'll try that

[unkempt jay]

i got 50 hours out of the dlc and im not even finished really

for reference, base game and all other DLCs gave me 110

that is

beastly

this is so worth it

[tulip knoll]

Can ||reflecto spawn from a boss like the other books?||

[fathom orchid]

ye

[tulip knoll]

Where? Lol

[fathom orchid]

||jiang shi, boss 29||

(in the pinned map)

[trail jetty]

I feel like the cats should be able to eat the Wall Chicken, they seem to just pass over it right now like all the other DLC consumables
Unless I'm mistaken and it's chance based

[tribal wren]

And the Wall Chicken should give more of a powerup than the Floor Chicken

Canon Shanoa with Gatti Amari

[trail jetty]

it would be nice if they could activate more consumables in general, I really love the interactions they have with the base game ones

[sly rampart]

What am I missing from my collection?

[fathom orchid]

alucard shield

get 6 evos (including alucard sword) and 6 max passives

[sly rampart]

Thanks!

[brazen sorrel]

@fathom orchid

even when i have both items it doesnt highlight?

[fathom orchid]

yep

[wheat ravine]

Its done....finally finished castlvania dlc

fuck me that was like 40 hours of gameplay plus

[unkempt jay]

do unions count as evolutions for Alucard's Shield?

[fathom orchid]

pretty sure, yeah

[unkempt jay]

OH YEAH

doing my victory lap as ||Dracula||

[unkempt jay]

got a Golden Finger high score of 6953

[tribal wren]

Now that's even further beyond Cosmic Finger

[unkempt jay]

i think i understand why the darkana are forbidden....

OHHHHHH

I FINAALLY GET WHY AALL THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE DLC MENTION "a man"

BECAUSE ITS A MISERABLE LITTLE PILE OF SECRETS

I'M SO FUCKING STUPID AAAAAAAUGH

i killed the reaper and i dont even have any of the yellow sign weapons

[next totem]

Lmao

[unkempt jay]

that was one hell of a run

its funny how a 30 minute run took 50 minutes to complete

[flint gale]

whenever i get a candybox I always go forge bc having a familiar unlocks castled vania items

[buoyant remnant]

WhatsApp guys, who knows how to get around the bug with death, I can’t open it💀

or is this impossible?

[next totem]

Currently nothing can be done, wait for a future patch

[buoyant remnant]

Thanks😁

[loud field]

was chilling near ||dracula's throne|| and got these results, pretty sure the high damage of sanctuary is due to purification?

[next totem]

Yes, it's an instant kill

[loud field]

hm, so it's possible to have 47 active weapons using darkanas in ODE, I guess?

[next totem]

It's possible to have every active and passive weapon at once

[loud field]

hm, I guess that's using coop?

[next totem]

No

[brazen sorrel]

whats the secret for the 30 mins of coat of arms secret?

does the 30 mins start when i have all six or do i have to have 6 when i end at 30m?

ive done 5 or 6 runs now with all arms weapons ending at 30 mins and timing 30 mins after the 6th is aquired and still not gotten it

does picking a char with a weapon on the list count as 1, nor not and does it invalidate the secret acquisition?

[torpid matrix]

you need 6 evolved, dlc coat of arm weapons
if you did have it then idk

[brazen sorrel]

what about the cpat of arms that dont evolve?

i even ran through as death with evolved axe no bueno

[fathom orchid]

||Its get 6 EVOLVED dlc weapons from the coat of arms, you also don’t need to survive ||

[south basin]

more ludicrous runs done today, and I just learned the RPG is insane

[brazen sorrel]

got it. thx.

evolved dlc only weapons

thx

[static cypress]

||So, I'm gonna be real, I dunno why the passwords for the weapon unlocks are not working, but they aren't. Anyone know why the weapons don't unlock when you use the password for them?||

Endgame spoilers

[fathom orchid]

Are you on switch?

[static cypress]

Nope, Mobile

||the codes registered they just didn't unlock||

[versed hatch]

What is 252 and where to find this creature?

[buoyant remnant]

||broner painting, spawn near the doppelganger at 24 minutes||

[tulip knoll]

if you use the Silver Revolver or Discus on a regular stage, does its evolution passive weapon show up in level ups like the contra and among us passives do? I know they are stage exclusives but it seems kinda silly that you need to rely on the arma dio for them

what is you want both? are you just screwed because who has the luck for two arma dio to show up?

[mossy hinge]

they plan to add both Parm Aegis and Karoma's Mana as unlockables

[fathom orchid]

temporary exclusives

[mossy hinge]

they're just stage items rn but they will be unlockable later

Since they actually ARE base game, just they dont have an unlock condition yet.

[tulip knoll]

lmao are they really? thats hilarious

[unkempt jay]

Well this answers my question

I was wondering how bestiary looked for unmaxxed

[tulip knoll]

not dlc related but do you know if there is any system in place to increase the chances of getting a weapon's evo passive/union partner when you have a given item equipped and vice versa?

[fathom orchid]

no

[tulip knoll]

there should be? or atleast more oppoutunities to get an arma dio

[fathom orchid]

kinda the guns/em passives have 200 rarity, doesn't really count tho

[tulip knoll]

wdym idk how the rarity system works

[fathom orchid]

they just have higher chances to appear in levelup

for context: whip has a rarity of 100

[tulip knoll]

they should add a system to increase those chances tbh

like if i want the evolution of song of mana (rarity 50) and i magically see a skull(rarity 50) it should increase the chances of seeing song of mana and the other weapons that evolve with skull

[unkempt jay]

uhh blocks ig

[tulip knoll]

what

to continue my rant, idk if anyone has done this yet but ||getting the clock evolution on any stage besides the castlevania one just isnt happening, right? thats collecting 4 weapons (meaning you need 4 empty weapon slots) all with rarity 20?|| its just not likely to happen without intervention?

[fathom orchid]

without using seals or banishes, yeah probably difficult

[tulip knoll]

like it doesnt make sense to not have this system in place

atleast for union weapons that are typically not great alone

i would add another feedback/suggestion thing but i already typed one out today and dont want to be annoying

[dusty locust]

When i doing my ||4 clock weapon union run, i rushed to have them directly, if you want the 4 in addition to a "lv up loadout", i think you have to do endless||

[next totem]

You definitely don't need endless for that

[dusty locust]

My chest management is awful

[final cape]

has there been any way to get around the doppleganger bug

still trying to unlock alucard and its just not cooperating

[devout spruce]

I think it would be a good suggestion. Though it has probably already been suggested before. Still go for it.

[lusty atlas]

Hail to the Future will give you enough candyboxes to evolve it

[tulip knoll]

I guess

[lusty atlas]

Or chaos, of course

[swift reef]

Do we know what affects Refectios stats? I know and affect its area and cooldown but have no idea about anything else xD

[fathom orchid]

Might, duration, and amount do too

[frozen veldt]

Hail from the Future fixes everything.

The downside being that it also breaks everything.

[fathom orchid]

Yeah lol

[static cypress]

I just love the whips jiggly effect I really want more weapons with the same effects

[manic portal]

Any idea what I'm missing here? (collection)

[fathom orchid]

Gemini globus and gemini hex

[trail jetty]

I just did the ||Dracula encounter|| and it was really awesome, looking forward to the rest!

[loud herald]

Anybody figure out what "Entrust their care to the gentlest soul, twice." means yet?

[full cave]

Does anyone know what the entry 287 in the bestiary is?

It's between ||Paranoia and Doppelganger|| and I thought it's probably ||Death|| but nope, did that whole thing for nothing...

[light hound]

No actually, but you can get most of 'em. If you finish an all-weapons run, you'll be missing:
• ||laurel or crimson shroud||
• ||clock lanclet or endless corridor||
• ||flames of misspell or ashes of mushpel||
• bracelet or bi-braclet
• Alucard shield*
(*getting it deletes all evolved weapons and requires 6 evos to get. While it does turn them into hidden weapons, I don't think that really counts imo)

[fathom orchid]

It is ||death||, just bugged

[full cave]

Uh... Okay...

Thought since there had been 2 quick patches after the DLC released on PS5, that was figured out...

Guess I'll try again after the next patch (if they're not added automatically).

[cerulean crow]

we're still working on fixing some of the issues still present 😅

[mossy hinge]

on the topic I know its not OtC exactly

but thanks for fixing the bone zone inverse crash on playstation

idk if it was on ps5 too but it was on ps4 pro and im glad thats fixed

[final cape]

My guess is pick up two fairies/innocent devils on young maria

I haven't tested it yet, but that's my guess

[fathom orchid]

||close, it's any 2 familiars on julia||

also, check the pins in #1301999183368163442 :)

[final cape]

my friend is a huge castlevania nerd, like knows literally everything

and he was able to figure out most of them

which is cool

i just like that they're lore accurate like that

all the secret riddles

[fathom orchid]

mostly

[final cape]

yeah some of them are meta so they dont really work like that

like the one for death

i guess that one makes sense since ||death is always fought in the clock tower||

so is it possible to get ||alucards shield|| in coop? been wondering if theres any workaround

[next totem]

Yes it's possible to bypass the usual weapon and passive limits through a variety of means, Darkana -X Hail to the Future is one of the easiest ways

[tiny flame]

i assume you would just need to pick up stage weapons/passives

or you could use|| hail to the future||

[hushed thorn]

When you doing a all boss run but you are running out of time:

[bleak meadow]

hi, what is health drain as a mechanic? a handful of characters are immune to whatever it is

[mossy hinge]

basically its what a select few weapons cause

though right now its just the Muramasa from the Moonspell DLC and the ||Dominus glyphs|| from this one.

[bleak meadow]

oh idk what that is besides muramasa. i like it though as mura is a fave. ty!

[fathom orchid]

||dominus glyphs|| are weapons unlocked later in the dlc

||2 appear on the otc stage after getting black disc, while the 3rd must be unlocked via 8000 kills on barlowe||

[candid crater]

Characters that don't have the health drain immunity though make those spoiled weapons enable Wandering the Jet Black builds that much better.

[final cape]

What’s the ||Black Disc|| and what does it do? The wiki has no info on it

[next totem]

Have you gotten it yet?

[torpid matrix]

you get it by ||doing the throne room event with richter|| and youll know what it does after you get it =)

[final cape]

||wait that’s fucking why that place never works it’s character specific ugh||

I get it now

[static cypress]

who the hell is persophone the maid enemy in castlevania?

[next relic]

So the wiki had this,
I just finished doing it but I never unlocked young maria.

[frozen veldt]

Wife of Hades, cursed to spend six months a year trapped in the underworld.

[lucid echo]

No pins here. How do I unlock new stages? I think I have killed every boss in the first stage. I don't know if I got every book. It's hard to see anything after awhile.

[fathom orchid]

Theres only 1 ode to castlevania stage, you can access more of it as you get more gate relics from bosses, and ||more of the map is visible/unlocked after getting the black disc||

[simple cedar]

Hey, has anyone had trouble getting any of the new spells (codes) to work in OTC? I'm trying to unlock Richter and I know I'm putting it in correctly (doesnthaveuno, unless I'm missing something) and nothing's happening. I'm on switch if that helps any.

[fathom orchid]

Platform?

I know switch is having issues with them

[simple cedar]

If the Switch is still having issues with them, I feel a little better knowing that. Guess imma have to unlock stuff the old fashioned way again. Game's fun at least.

[final cape]

Also, how the hell do you evolve Maria's weapon? The shield, I see it mentioned letting familiars die but I've never seen them die when I was playing Hector...

Unless I was either very lucky, or blind to them dying

[final cape]

||wait is it just saying they die when you evolve, not that they're required to die?||

[potent zenith]

The Guardian Targe?

[fathom orchid]

Just the shield and pummarola

[trail jetty]

Yeah I’m not sure what exactly the wiki meant by your familiars die, for me they just all changed into 4 of the spirit ones after it evolved

[potent zenith]

Well that's a bit confusing

Is this like Sara upgrading the Alchemy Whip?

[trail jetty]

The wiki has not been keeping up with the DLCs that well sadly

also doesn’t help that it’s on fandom

[potent zenith]

Yeah, but at least the cataloguing of the wiki tends to be extremely precise and dry

[trail jetty]

It’s still good but yeah

Castlevania stuff at least seems more documented than Operation Guns despite being recent

[potent zenith]

Something about Operation Guns didn't capture the minds of wiki people for some reason. Like it took a few days after it's launch for TV Tropes to get an update that said the DLC was released.

[grave trail]

Don't worry! The patch should be releasing any day now

[simple cedar]

That's good. Poncle has a good track record for this kind of stuff so I'm not too miffed that I have to wait a bit for an update. 🙂

[subtle nebula]

Don't know if it's a bug, but on two different occasions I've gotten an evolved trident from having the duplicator ring and imp familiar, I've not had this happen with any other familiar?

[potent zenith]

You can get the Bwaka Knife if you have a Bracer and Pumpkin

[next relic]

So mad grooves breaks in ode of castlevania after 50 or so minutes?

[next totem]

Known bug with the sidescroller rooms, I believe

[static cypress]

the death sickle should be retetxtured just like the boss after getting dracula

[cerulean crow]

thank you for your support

[gritty ibex]

running WHAT

[gritty ibex]

Ik you're not in charge so please don't take this as personal criticism, but when can we expect an update on the patch for switch?? today marks 2 weeks

[unkempt jay]

whenever nintendo decides

[cerulean crow]

no offense taken, I will check in with the team to see if it's still planning to launch around the two week mark and if we have any new info 🙂 we appreciate the patience and understanding

[fossil ice]

Switch patch is out

[upper tangle]

Really?

[unkempt jay]

YAVHHHHHHHHH

WOOOOOOO

I CAN CONFIRM

[torpid matrix]

how much bug did it fix

[unkempt jay]

Still installing

[gritty ibex]

omg

its 1030pm and I have an exam worth 30% tomorrow

but god

[unkempt jay]

ah, it's 6:40am for me lol

I'm about to leave for class so I can't really do anything 💔

OH

YEAH IT FIXED ALL THE SECRETS

I do appreciate ||Chaos|| being hidden

oh. I'm not even close to done

Also that Invitation Of A Crazed Moon cover is AMAZING

[flint gale]

where does one go after defeating ||abaddon||? I'm a bit lost

[next totem]

That's it for stage events for now, until you get to the ||throne room event as Richter||

[flint gale]

ahh ok was a bit confused by the description saying it unlocks a new part of the castle

thought for a second my semi accidental sequence breaking may have broken some flags

walls being but a mere suggestion led to me getting the ||little pile of secrets|| pretty early

[tired cosmos]

270, 272, and 287 in the bestiary are bugged right now, right? 270 is Bone Ark, 272 is Jiang Shi, and 287 is ||Death||, correct?

[next totem]

Just 287 is

[tired cosmos]

oh okay, i guess somehow i havent encountered the Bone Ark or Jiang Shi. Any idea where the Bone Ark is?

[next totem]

It's in the ||second part of the map||

[next totem]

Which if you haven't done this, you wouldn't have unlocked yet

[tired cosmos]

Is it a boss?

[fathom orchid]

No

[gritty ibex]

its the guys from rondo and sotn cave area

the two silly skeletons carrying a bone head that spits fire

[tired cosmos]

Ah okie cool, just found it. Thanks!

[gritty ibex]

oop apparently theyre not in rondo im misremembering

[fossil ice]

Not sure how to get ||Jonathon & Charlotte and Charlotte and Johnathan now, I unlocked Stella and Loretta before the patch, but the main PoR pairs were glitched, and they aren't available for me now. I also can't get the spells to work because it clears as soon as "Shoutloud" is typed, so I can't type the rest of the spell|| Maybe doing the unlock conditions for ||Stella and Loretta again will give them too me?||

[gritty ibex]

that would make sense

[fossil ice]

I hope I don't need to start from scratch again...

[gritty ibex]

if the game's somehow tagged the completion criteria as 'done' in spells but not given you it, re-applying the 'done' check might unlock them

[tired cosmos]

From Symphony (google moment, i need to play more Castlevania 😭)

[gritty ibex]

yea I just remembered them in SoTN cave areas, and beating them as richter also

so i think i was remembering richter mode in PoR

ive been binging this series since only a few months ago so they blur a bit

anyways i gotta sleep wish me luck in my Invertebrate Identification exam 🙏

[flint gale]

wow now that the ||magic librarian|| can actually appear theres just a whole new side to this dlc I've never seen lmao

[grave trail]

Actually?

[next totem]

Yes

[noble nest]

how 2 unlock map

[flint gale]

Turns out if the ||Alucard Shield|| absorbs an evolution that would get you an unlock, you don't actually get the unlock :/

[next totem]

Clear the ||Throne Room event as Richter||

[noble nest]

where is Throne Room

[grave trail]

Past the clock Tower

[white gust]

I think he's past that, since the stats and weapons imply he's using Dracula.

[flint gale]

do the bosses spawned from moonlight bolero affect alchemy whip?

[pliant anvil]

hello, will the soundtrack of the new dlc be added to the purchasable ost? if so when?

[fathom orchid]

No

[fathom orchid]

Yes

[flint gale]

sick

[fathom orchid]

Bug with older versions

[flint gale]

current switch version as well apparently

[fathom orchid]

Yes

Since switch is 1.12.103

[flint gale]

alright time to fight dracular with 12 evolved weapons, 18 maxed passives, and every available boss vanquished

||oh nevermind||

[limpid gust]

can we complete all contents in this patch ?

[flint gale]

what's the "ShoutLoudester" bugged description supposed to say?

[hexed mantle]

Who do you guys think is better for gold farming, Sammy or Vincent?

[next totem]

Sammy, obviously

[hexed mantle]

Didn’t know if Vincent’s ability stacked with wicked season

[next totem]

Nothing Vincent can do is enough to keep up with how broken Sammy is

[light hound]

Probably used a spell if I had to guess

[last phoenix]

Is Vincent good enough to be reliable when it comes to gold farming assuming you don't have Sammy?

[next totem]

Decent but I'm pretty sure Big Trousers is comparable if not outright better (Blackmore is likely the best aside from Sammy though)

[topaz river]

||can keremet be unlocked without co-op? like with a secret codeor w/e, i don’t have a controller to connect to my tablet||

[next totem]

Yes the intended unlock is without co-op

[potent zenith]

Oh wow, Sonic Dash has an effect with Blood Astronomia now

Oh damn, switch players were missing more than just the pile of secrets

[last phoenix]

Do you think Sanctuary will be nerf?

[fathom orchid]

No

[last phoenix]

It seems extremely powerful for early runs, specially with high max hp characters

Well, extremely powerful in general

[marble tinsel]

i think this is the wrong game to look at something, see it's extremely powerful, and wonder if that will be nerfed

[fathom orchid]

Nerfs have happened but they are extremely rare

[marble tinsel]

yeah not something i would anticipate in most cases where the game is still functional

[unkempt jay]

Just found out that the castle's theme changes to Bloody Tears when you turn on inverse

Nice touch

[static cypress]

hopefully this update fixed nathan graves

[final cape]

Who were you playing

[unkempt jay]

character without a theme

[unkempt jay]

I'm not playing VS for like a year after I'm done with this dlc

https://tenor.com/view/frieren-dies-cold-fall-snow-sousou-no-frieren-gif-10470803995544490169

there's SO MUCH

I'm at 60hr of DLC and I'm not even close

[tiny flame]

relatable

[final cape]

Any idea why ||Soleil|| hasnt showed up yet as a boss? I have the ||Black Disc||

[fathom orchid]

||get pile of secrets||

[cerulean crow]

everyone was always like give us more content so we delivered

[unkempt jay]

the amount of hours you can spend in the game increase multiplicatively...

one character adds 10 hours on its own 😭

[cerulean crow]

the amount of content is absolutely insane

the devs truly outdid themselves

[unkempt jay]

the music hasn't gotten annoying yet... somehow

[trail jetty]

Using Iron/Spike Balls on an autoscroller stage looks very funny :P

It's like I'm bowling

[surreal scroll]

Damn it, I can't sneak peak the locked areas in the castle via Max

Back to the drawing board with John on my next run I go

[unkempt jay]

Better finish that showdown in the throne room

[potent zenith]

Where's the room that spawns Axe Armors a lot?

[fathom orchid]

||southwest of jiangshi||

[potent zenith]

Gotcha. Was gonna check the pins, but pins don't seem to work on mobile.

[gritty ibex]

does erics abilitu no longer work? instead of the near death proc being the green orbs its like blue fire now

[willow coral]

Found an interesting bug, don't know if it is dlc specific

[tribal wren]

Oh yeah, that one's known

And it seems to be DLC-specific

[willow coral]

sick just making sure

Does taking that do anything?

[tribal wren]

I haven't had it happen to me specifically yet, so I couldn't tell you

[fathom orchid]

its happening to everything

[tribal wren]

Really? But it didn't happen before OtC was released, right?

[fathom orchid]

yeah

[tribal wren]

So it has something to do with the DLC interacting with some other stuff

[fathom orchid]

but it started to pop up after the latest steam patch

[tribal wren]

Ah, gotcha

Does the 'overlevel' do anything?

[willow coral]

I took it and don't think it is doing anything

It's probably behind the scenes stat changes for when something eveolves but that's me talking out my ass

[static cypress]

the death sickle should be retextured while using castlevania death

[gritty ibex]

can someone confirm please?

i thought it was meant to do this

[next totem]

That's the thunderbolt spear, which is unrelated to Wind as far as I know

[next relic]

only way to unlock this is to buy them or there are other ways?

[unkempt jay]

Yea

Pretty sure at least

They're the secondary effects of all the whips

[tribal wren]

But as primary weapons, they're stronger

[next relic]

That's going to be annoying they're really deep in the dungeon and you can't do it in single runs.

[tribal wren]

Well, after you get a certain relic they show up near your start point

[gritty ibex]

I mean for Eric as his alive state, the near-death effect was the thunderbolt spear last patch, and now it's blue fire. Is that a bugfix or a nerf?

[next totem]

No I don't think it was ever thunderbolt spear, at least it wasn't for me

[nimble coyote]

Eric's special refreshes once you get to full health, so you can get low to trigger it, go find some chickens, and then get low to trigger it again. This is made easier if you have random events on, as you might get a circle of chickens to spawn. I did all three triggers right next to the start point using this method.

[gritty ibex]

I did do that, I unlocked Wind no problem, but I DEFINITELY saw thunderbolt spear trigger as Eric

is that maybe a byproduct of low heath + max level Alucard Spear

[nimble coyote]

Hmm... I bet it's tied to the Alucard Spear, yeah, because I never saw that attack.

[static cypress]

please devs make the sickle projectile for castlevania death to be like this whil using him

[potent zenith]

Hey guys, according to Nintendo, Ode to Castlevania is out now on switch. Guess beforehand was just some weird dream.

[last phoenix]

I think this is my current personal best

I should try doing something like this with Vincent

[simple cedar]

Can someone confirm if loudshout and shoutloud work on any platform in General? Not working on ps5, currently.

[fathom orchid]

Depends what version the platform is on

The spells were changed in 1.12.107

[simple cedar]

Ah, thanks for the quick response.:)

[last phoenix]

What would be Vincent's prefered starting weapon for inverse + endless?

[trail jetty]

Is there a place to pick up the middle Cerberus’s head on the map? I could only find the left and right ones

[white gust]

It's not a stage pickup. You have to get kills as Cornell to make it a level-up option.

He gets it naturally.

[trail jetty]

Alright, just making sure I didn’t miss it

[narrow fable]

Still, the bestiary still missing some bosses
Don't know if it will update in future or not :<

[fossil ice]

Tap the title of the subject at the top, and then settings. Pinned messages is in there.

[left quest]

I think there are still some memory issues on Switch because I have been crashing a few times recently... Of course I probably was too powerful for the CPU then... Because first I wanted to have all the combining weapons on Crewmate Dino and then I decided that it was a good idea to have all the books on Elizabeth

[potent zenith]

I think picking up too many mirrors might cause it, since it'll trigger your weapons instantly with +5 amount due each mirror

That and having a lot of weapons

[left quest]

Ah yes that would explain why I crashed in Dracula's castle with the Crewmate but I could get more weapons without crashing when in Polus Replica

[flint gale]

how do you complete the ||soleil and graham|| secrets? I've unlocked them but have no idea what I did to do so

[fathom orchid]

||soleil - kill him with sanctuary's cleanse effect
graham - kill a certain number of bosses on otc (map and time based count)||

[unkempt jay]

Are there 379 items total or 380?

[fathom orchid]

380

||icebrand is bugged on switch, try using/unlocking frozen shade for it?||

[unkempt jay]

😭

another L for I

I KNEW they wouldn't leave the item count uneven

[steel acorn]

The Dominus Anger weapon always fires 2 projectiles. What does the amount +2 do when leveling?

[gritty ibex]

what would you say the best strategy is to quickly unlock ||succubus and carmilla||

nvm barlowe is goated

[surreal scroll]

Does John's passive of getting stacks if you picked at level 1?

[fathom orchid]

no

[tribal wren]

You literally can't pick an arcana to start a run with if a character starts with it already

[next totem]

He doesn't start with it though, he gets it at level 10

[tribal wren]

...wait, I forgot that was a thing. I think he's literally the only character to gain a specific arcana mid-run

In that case, I think the one you pick at level 1 overrides the passive gain. I could be wrong, though

I don't believe you can ever have two of the same arcana in a run

[next totem]

Correct

Nothing happens at level 10 if you already have the arcana

[left quest]

How to unlock Brauner? I chose Nathan because he starts with the fast boots chose the Blood Astronomia Arcana and Moonlight Bolero to have more passives, got all the Blood Astronomia weapons: Laurel, Garlic, Song of Mana, Pentagram, Clock Lancet, Boot and went in the part of the castle where Paintings spawn but I haven't unlocked him yet

[tribal wren]

You can ask @formal rose for pointers; he just unlocked him

[formal rose]

Well if you do try Castlevania, just remember 1-4 are kinda different from Symphony of the Night. And most the ones on the gameboy advance and Nintendo DS are different as well. Lot of those take parts of SotN. And then Lords of the Shadows (3D games) is kinda like Castlevania mixed with the original God of Wars. Curse of Darkness and Lament of 'I can't remember' are also 3D. Curse is one of my favorites actually.

[formal rose]

That's exactly what I did. I got only the BA weapons, I'm bad with the arcana names but I think I got bolero and hail. Might have got a couple others but nothing that causes their own damage like explosions. I evolved all the BA weapons except Lancet and Laurel. I grabbed that new Mana necklace that increases monsters, I grabbed Torama Box (looks like a gold bar) for more curse. I grabbed the left and right arrows and both rings. And did the following:

You can probably banish the last level of / if you still want the Curse

The gold ring and the left arrow and Torama Box and Mana necklace all increase curse for more mobs, and I made sure to get armor recover max hp and the meat shield for more survivability, maybe even spinach.

I was pretty much invincible even with the two rings and 2 arrow cape guys on top of me

Wish I could tell you how many I killed cause they aren't in beastiary. But after that run I managed to unlock him

[surreal scroll]

|| I didn't know Familiar can tank ||

[flint gale]

oh sweet stamazza no longer requires max level hollow heart

[flint gale]

do a lot of the secrets require castlevania knowledge?

[formal rose]

Some might

But I'm sure you can look on the character screen, see the secret and google the name and try to figure it out if you don't want to just look at the solutions people have posted

[flint gale]

oh my god the descriptions for ||jonathan & charlotte together|| (which i have no idea how I actually unlocked... again)

[formal rose]

The game that had them, you could play as both characters

And you could switch at anytime and when you did they would say the others' name

So if you kept changing between them

[formal rose]

Allegedely most people unlock them when they unlock the other duo characters

[static cypress]

** what is the meaning of this?**
** dracula is supposed to bring death to this world**
** not to join this demented crusade!!!**

[obtuse glade]

Alternatively @left quest , you could instead Seal and .

[left quest]

I finally did it but not in inverse mode... Maybe in inverse mode the paintings had too much HP to be killed in high enough numbers

[unkempt jay]

That invitation of a crazed moon cover...

[ebon gazelle]

Been saying that about a lot of covers in this DLC

[unkempt jay]

It's so crazy to me how they reference a song that like .1% of castlevania players have provably heard

(The Playstation Black Disc song)

[formal rose]

Oh yeah I definitely turned off inverse, I forgot about that

[trail tusk]

"As you can see, this is a Black Disc, cut number 1 contains computer data, so please don't play it, but you probably won't listen to me anyways, will you?"

( effect)

[gritty ibex]

i spent like 20 mins doing this and he didnt unlock so I useed the spell 'everyonesacritic'\

you basically already did the requirements

[next totem]

The paintings spawn past 20 minutes

[gritty ibex]

no i get that

i killed a ton of paintings, min 24-25 and 26-27

[prisma acorn]

I just unlocked chaos, and my goodness, I was not expecting for this character to be competition with sigma for most OP character.

[trail tusk]

i mean, they kinda have, everything in terms of stats

[gritty ibex]

way betteer than sigma

[potent zenith]

They're good, but in a "I turned all the cheat codes on" sort of way

[gritty ibex]

i mean even young maria clears sigma

[fathom orchid]

not really

[trail tusk]

what about past 30 minutes?

[gritty ibex]

ig depends what you mean by op

[fathom orchid]

for a clear sure, but if were going off of that then even is insane

in terms of making your build shine, sigma>

||chaos can probably have higher raw numbers from hollow heart's missing hp, but that's cheating||

[gritty ibex]

do you guys continue playing after getting all unlocks/secrets etc just for the hell of it

[fathom orchid]

yeah

[gritty ibex]

i was thinking OP from the standpoint of completing objectives

because now i've got every character stage relic collection secret im kinda done

ik theres a checkbox for beating every stage with every character but theres no reward right

[fathom orchid]

yes

[potent zenith]

But half the fun is figuring out builds with different characters.

[coarse summit]

what all counts as knives for the Grant character?

[next totem]

Curved knife and knife are the one ones afaik

[coarse summit]

ah alr, ty

[white gust]

Yeah, his passive is pretty meh.

Especially since Thousand Edge constantly fires, so the Bwaka Knife is the only one that gets any real benefit.

[coarse summit]

so i just reached to top of the tower for the first time and nothing happened, am I missing something?

[next totem]

Need to get there as Richter :)

[coarse summit]

:(, mann

[bleak meadow]

why is festival of servants such a awesome track?!

[flint gale]

well, got all ||373|| unlocks. time for secret hunting

[flint gale]

:( I thought I heard the unlock noise and quit out of the run
thought ||young maria renard|| required ||maria renard to have her four familiars, gemini, and the "two good friends"|| but apparently not

looked it up, I'm blaming the description for that one because ||"her original guardian" and "his friends"|| are actually the same thing :/

both attempts I banished ||one of the birds so they couldn't level up|| because I thought that I had to ||keep them separate||

[unkempt jay]

[unkempt jay]

awww so ||Death|| is just a ||Mask of Red Death|| reskin?

[fathom orchid]

mostly

||he also doesnt take damage, has a morph, and disappears on time limit||

[unkempt jay]

Well, besides the ||megalo|| thing

[unkempt jay]

oh!

So he's pretty much ||Megalo Mask of Red Death||

[fathom orchid]

ye

[unkempt jay]

so is ||Megalo Death|| like ||Megalo Megalo Mask of Red Death||

[fathom orchid]

sure lol

[unkempt jay]

Megaloception

[robust rain]

What causes Eric’s critical HP ability to reset? It does not seem to be just reviving

[fathom orchid]

Getting to full hp

[zealous badge]

If you have a double character like johnathan and whatsherface, can you chose who to give piicked up items to?

[fathom orchid]

you can "pass" levels to the other character

it uses skips tho

[zealous badge]

what about things like level pick ups

[fathom orchid]

only the main can

[zealous badge]

damn

ok thx

[unkempt jay]

Note: this is for ALL "critical HP" abilities

[unkempt jay]

her name is CHARLOTTE

grrrr

[candid crater]

I wish Confodore was better. Eggless Inverse maps are a pain with Shanoa just because it’s so bad at getting early levels, I almost feel obliged to use her Candybox mode or buy from the Merchant/Librarian.

[tribal wren]

Single-weapon SOS makes it bearable, but I do agree - it's still not exactly the best weapon out there at base

Once it evolves it becomes a powerhouse, though

[left quest]

I have a new favorite music in the game it's not hide and survive anymore but Sarabande of healing (the DLC credit music)

[obtuse glade]

I've recently fallen in love with the Aquarius remix

[ebon gazelle]

I personally think the remix of Sinking Old Sanctuary is the best out of them

[bleak meadow]

its all just so good… victorian fear, dance of servants, simons theme, tragic prince, baljhet mountains… these themes all go such long ways into making the new characters feel awesome

[unkempt jay]

Made me cry..

[candid crater]

Gonna be that person and say I'm not a fan of SOS builds, I like deciding on Arcana builds like Jet Black, Out of Bounds/Crystal Cries, Twilight Requiem, etc. The Spellbooks in this DLC made Gemini a lot more interesting too.

[tribal wren]

Hey, I can respect that. Different strokes and all

[fathom orchid]

expected take from an aventurine fan

[candid crater]

Too real

[unkempt jay]

I HATE FLEAMAN I HATE FLEAMAN I HATE FLEAMAN

[tiny flame]

what'd my boy do to you 💔

just kidding im thehatebon i hate him too

must spread hate muhahaha

[unkempt jay]

Don't forget that you can't break light sources until evo 1

[tribal wren]

Yeah, that's the thing about it - my main MO with Confodere is to just level it up immediately (Empty Tome is also high-priority)

At least light sources aren't really consequential early-run

[upbeat vortex]

how did i do this???

[fathom orchid]

||the exact unlock is super weird (get enough "points", ANY boss can give pooints, each boss gives different points etc), but an easy way is just kill all of the manual spawns||

[upbeat vortex]

... or these

[fathom orchid]

||kill a few thousand of those enemies||

[upbeat vortex]

thank you

[hoary plover]

the belligerent thing makes me think to go get coinflips from the pickups and then kill bosses

[fathom orchid]

its not

[robust rain]

yep. I unlocked ||Graham|| inmediately after getting ||the Pile of Secrets||

[unkempt jay]

Ha

Power of Lire

Both sounds like power of Liar ||(as the Librarian, could be considered a Liar to Dracula, helping Alucard)|| and is the name of the previous Italian currency used until 2002 ||(as he is, as the game says, "moved by money")||

props

i give props

Always love me a double meaning

[unkempt jay]

If I do a Fleaman run do you think I should buy a ||Librarian weapon|| or just fuck it and go no weapon or passive

[fathom orchid]

Save your sanity lol

||sword brothers at least||

[unkempt jay]

I was so closeeeee

I'm giving up

fuck fleaman

[unkempt jay]

I just did a Cave Troll run

early was so difficult

but end was

actually nuts

Every level up triggered what's pretty much a No-Weakness Rosary

I one-shot every Atlantean

[abstract trail]

well that's new

[next totem]

Cosmic finger reward, has been in the game for a while now

[tribal wren]

Yeah, I got a Profusione D'Amore from a Cosmic Finger the other day

[bleak meadow]

you can get character uniques from finger?!

[next totem]

Yes

[bleak meadow]

crazy!

[static cypress]

Spoilers: ||is there a code for getting the gift box alts for Alucard, Soma, and Shanoa?||

[next relic]

A so that's where those random weapon coming out.

[fathom orchid]

No

[dense geyser]

JONATAN!!!👏👏CHARLOTTE!!!👏👏JONATAN!!!👏👏CHARLOTTE!!!👏👏

Best description of the game XD

[static cypress]

so malphass had a costum skinned weapon of thousand edge
castlevania death should also have a costum skinned weapon

[left quest]

Is it normal that there's 5 bestiary entries I don't have in the Ode to Castlevania part of the bestiary?

[twin kayak]

Probably a switch bug, can you tell me the numbers?