Can You Beat Lords of the Fallen with Only Radiant Magic?

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8 ай бұрын

Having high hopes can often be a road to disappointment, as is the case for me here. Under a thick layer of problems is a good game that desperately wants out, and I do want to see that for them. I want the game to reach its completion, and be all that it can.
I'm glad for the folks that are able play unhindered by its flaws, and a part of me does want to revisit it some day for something else. With how hard the devs have been working at it, I might not even recognize it by the time that I do.
Credit where it's due though, the magic is significantly better this time around.
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@TheSandkastenverbot 8 ай бұрын

I loved your closing words. I, too, feel that the makers LotF have something on their hands that's only two steps away from being great.

@alexandrubighiu7637 4 ай бұрын

Thank you, you too!

@ClockworkBlade 8 ай бұрын

"Your ability to walk short distances without dying will be handsome Jack's downfall!" 3:51 Love the reference Spuddy! Also did those frame rates ever get back to you or are you still waiting on the final business get back to you? Lol

@SpuddyCube 8 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure I'm going to be waiting a while, if they didn't just get lost in the mail.

@ClockworkBlade 8 ай бұрын

@@SpuddyCube oh well if they got lost in the mail, then you're doomed they'll never get back. Sorry spud it's the eternal waiting game now lol

@DragynSpyre 8 ай бұрын

Gonna take me a while to get used to I was thinking this was the OTHER Lords of the Fallen at first xD

@SpuddyCube 8 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's an odd choice to give it the same name.

@connormccarthy2745 8 ай бұрын

With respect to your comments at the end: unfortunately, this wasn't anybody's passion project or an attempt to fix previous mistakes. It's a completely different studio, and the third who's worked on this game; after the release and subsequent failure of the original, the devs sold off the IP. It was purchased by a giant corporation who hired a team to make a sequel. After years of work they fired that team and reportedly scrapped everything, hiring another team only to do the same to them. The current studio, Hexworks, was put together by that corporation specifically for this product. Seems like they had about 2-3 years to work on it, which is very obviously not enough to pull off something like this. Don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming the individual devs here, I'm blaming the shitbag corporate overlords who'd push out a clearly unfinished game just to hit Friday the 13th, but the point stands: this team is several levels removed from the original, it was being made by a brand new studio, and it needed more time. Fuck CI Games and fuck what they put those poor people through, I'm sure working on this game was a nightmare.

@eligreg99 8 ай бұрын

I agree people should stop blaming devs for everything. They usually aren’t the ones that green light anything. It’s like blaming a McDonald’s employee for the price of the food

@pockystyx4087 8 ай бұрын

I’ve been waiting for this! Seriously though; after I got regenerative MP stuff I was surprised how viable ranged was.

@knowingbadger 8 ай бұрын

Ranged is super viable from the beginning of the game

@pockystyx4087 8 ай бұрын

@@knowingbadger it's such a breath of fresh air. Spell-casting only in most soulsgames can be a challenge, and ranged weapons only even more so; but with LotF. . . it's damn good, and damn fun. Salt and Sacrifice had a very similar system too; but it was weighed down by the need to craft more ammunition mid battle, LotF really did a great job at expanding ranged options into something that's gonna make Ranger builds fun for multiple playthroughs.

@deltaphazon4688 8 ай бұрын

As someone who played the Haunted Mansion Xbox game too, it was nice hearing it get referenced. I never beat it as a kid but I certainly did try a lot.

@trevorburke8660 7 ай бұрын

Ahhhh good ol' magic only runs are my favorite. As a mage player I adore watching people utilizing all sorts of magic to ruin their foes. Thanks for the great vid spuddy.

@whiteboyramen 8 ай бұрын

I’ve been waiting for the next Spuddy video. Let’s gooooo

@nizzynick9298 8 ай бұрын

Another great video 👍

@EgotisticApe 8 ай бұрын

1- the bell door area is kind of late game so you went there way too early. 2- the pieta spell is crazy broken once you hit like 49 radiance

@squidlordo7793 2 ай бұрын

Would love some more Lords runs 🐉

@noeltage 20 күн бұрын

You did this game a service.

@waldatheboye 8 ай бұрын

another banger of a video.

@Macr0Ange11 8 ай бұрын

I played Haunted Mansion. It was freaking awesome. Zeke was truly an unsung hero.

@mentkansleyunitedstatesgov6364 23 күн бұрын

the last boss was on a timer????? never knew that

@Winterfang 3 ай бұрын

The game is a lot better now, there there's enemies, the lock on is fix, most of the bugs and frame issues are squash and all the bosses are a lot more aggressive. There's even a bunch of new spells some seasonal quests and new armor. And they patch the game every Thursday since it came out. Is crazy.

@benro6564 8 ай бұрын

Debating if I want to play this game, it looks super clunky but also looks to have some neat ideas. I also want to give it a fair shot.

@SpuddyCube 8 ай бұрын

I think it'll probably be worth checking out later into its lifespan. I know a lot has already changed since I played it, and it seems like they're going to be continuing to work on it for a while. Personally, I think I'd recommend at least waiting for a sale.

@3therspark63 8 ай бұрын

Just finished itand it run wonderfully and played well. The level design is exquisite. Just make sure you lower the specs for your pc.

@harley202 8 ай бұрын

@3therspark63 yeah on console it doesn't run well at all, noticed your on pc, wish there was an option on console to lower graphic settings as performance mode doesn't cut it at all. I love the aesthetic of the areas in this game but hate how twisty and windy they all are, half the time I constantly have to recheck the area 3 or more times in and out of unbral and end up forgetting which ways I have/haven't been. That being said I'm doing my second run and am just about finished having only got the game a week ago, its a really fun game, just needs some tweaking to make performance, movement, the lock on and certain animations less jank and itd be an amazing game.

@pockystyx4087 8 ай бұрын

it's rough around the edges for sure. I love; knowing the flaws are (rapidly) decreasing with each patch, but if you need the game to be at 100% before you jump in, I recommend waiting about a month or two. Its fun; has tons of build variety, great level design, and is getting updated with very open and responsive developers patching it nearly weekly at this point.

@Ph4ntom-7777 8 ай бұрын

hello people

@chaseholmes6831 8 ай бұрын

Hello

@Rileykard 8 ай бұрын

people

@ewokgaming832 8 ай бұрын

Sseth here.

@UrbanOutlawsSk8Co 8 ай бұрын

Now again, but with the broken bucket 💪

@EstelHoshihana 8 ай бұрын

WEW NEW SPUD VIDEO

@aretynlink3957 8 ай бұрын

I see lotf content, I like and sub

@SaltySphere 8 ай бұрын

Sorry for the randomness, but: 8:36 I mean, that is incredibly specific criteria. Fair enough Also, loved the "rattle 'em girls" take. Made me chuckle. Also also, I love that the philosophical message came after "that bitch". It makes my day to hear these sprinkled bits of heartfelt poetry in the midst of your silly commemtary and random references. And how suddenly, it goes right back to silly commentary. 11:10 YOU CAN PET THE DOG?!?! "Get lazered bit-" was another great one lol 24:25 This is also...... INCREDIBLY specific. Are you okay? Do we need to tell Kevin his shoes are untied? I'm sure it'll distract him for a while. 24:25 when did they add Rajang into this game??? He's so not intimidating in this game. Thus concludes my "review" :) I lied, that bonus philosophical bit at the end was beautiful.

@darkvr10 8 ай бұрын

Wait, rising revengence had lock on?

@SpuddyCube 8 ай бұрын

Exactly! Most people I've talked to didn't even know about it! And it does, but it isn't fast enough to keep up with a lot of enemies, so some of them won't stay on screen at all.

@DragoLancerot1337 8 ай бұрын

While I personally like this game, I do, it is flawed. Very flawed. However, and I am sure you have learned by now (as I am only 6:30 into the video) That +12 at the begining of the game wasnt you getting +12 stats, that was the scaling modifier on your casting implement. So if you got a new one or upgraded your current one, that number would eventually go up as your radiance scaling would go from a tinny c- to up to a A Edit; I really do not understand my PC. Its old, using a 2080, a HDD, everything that should say it should not run this game. Yet with me turning down graphics, it ran like butter for me. I really do not get it.

@3therspark63 8 ай бұрын

Everbody i know too has no problem.. And some has a 1060!! Me2 it ran really well. Some people are just overestimating their pc and cranking everything up

@Catto217 8 ай бұрын

Bro I’m using 1650s lol, it’s running fine in 1080p on medium settings (60fps locked) & low settings for higher fps. I was thinking to upgrade my gpu for the best experience but turned out it was fine in medium settings.

@DragoLancerot1337 8 ай бұрын

@@3therspark63 While you may be right, some people, like our good Spuddy here, are content creators or wish to be content creators. For them, if they are not running a game at the highest fidelity they can get away with, it leads to more people not giving their video a second look let alone a first one. So I dont actually blame him at all for struggling, as that struggle was part of just trying to make us some good content, just stating of how I have a hard time understanding it

@SpuddyCube 8 ай бұрын

The game's performance was... odd. I got pretty much the exact same framerates on high, medium, and even on the lowest settings. I would hope a thirty ninety could manage things on minimum, but...

@DragoLancerot1337 8 ай бұрын

@@SpuddyCube You still produced a amazing video. If you do try to do another run later, not that I am expecting one, I hope my advice as to what that number you were seeing ment helps at all. I found it easier just to look at the top number as it sums up your base+scaling combined

@lrgpanda9037 8 ай бұрын

Lords of the fallen is actually a great game.i wish the boss weapons had a special move or a buff activation if you have all the armor.

@cordyceps182 8 ай бұрын

Man, you really went into an endgame area in the beginning there, huh?

@brutalastartes 6 ай бұрын

This game would have been way better if they made it more like an ARPG than a souls-like

@wills5482 7 ай бұрын

It looks like Mortal Shell, but that one have an excuse for being clunky and kinda crappy, this one doesn't

@protocal_siren6986 7 ай бұрын

I don’t really mean it as an insult but you got a Micheal cera voice, like a timid and sarcastic kinda way

@harley202 8 ай бұрын

Honestly didnt mind the game but it has many things that didn't hit the mark, clucky movement, wild af hitboxea, the lock on generally sucking donkey dick and (this one is a personal nitpic) the way they handled the lore and npcs in the game, im not bothered about them spouting exposition but my god they need a personality i can barely remember a single thing about them other than their selling inventory. 😅 But the biggest cardinal sin this game commits is the final boss of the radient ending, im finally there hyped because its time to fight this god that was built up to be hench af and caused all this crazy shit thats ruined the world but it turns out to be... a literal last boss variant of deacons of the deep from ds3, possibly one of the worst bosses in the entire franchise, i was beyond dissolutioned when i finished killing mobs just for adyr to keel over, due and have the credits start to roll, literally went 'really' out loud. 😂

@leandronikolay3355 8 ай бұрын

YES YES YOU CAN, EVEN PVP

@onlinekicker 7 ай бұрын

You have such a softly sad voice and it intrigues me. Tell me of your struggles, magic man.

@NukeSaturn_ 7 ай бұрын

Still banking on the “beating borderlands 3 with only pets” video

@SpuddyCube 7 ай бұрын

I know it's been done with Rakk Attack in addition to pets, but there is a large part of me wondering about a much more passive pet run.

@ezequielgutierrez3774 6 ай бұрын

Of course you can, actually I found radiant spells the more OP in the entire game. The thing is that you get the best ones almost at the end of the game

@r3dn3ck3r3 7 ай бұрын

13:17 Also, you can knock him off with a parry :) 17:05 Enhanced Accusing Spirit makes him a joke

@Alyx0.2 8 ай бұрын

I hope your next run doesn't take such a toll on you.

@UncookedBurrito 8 ай бұрын

Your endurance in the face of difficulty is the sustenance that feeds the masses.

@SaltySphere 8 ай бұрын

3:54 It's supposed to be Handsome Jack's downfall, not yours! Ya silly lil goose potato

@colorgreen8728 7 ай бұрын

I feel like this was most people’s run lol, jokes aside nice job

@andififian 8 ай бұрын

Spuddy, is this game good? Im aware because it has mixed review in steam 😕

@user-ry6xb1db7g 8 ай бұрын

It's very mixed game indeed. I mean, when in souls like games main difficulty are not bosses, but enemies between bosses - I think we have a problem here.

@Eo-ms3kw 8 ай бұрын

That's really up to you to decide. It's plagued by bugs, unfinished mechanics and optimization issues (Though the devs have been pumping out loads of updates to improve it and it runs really well for me now) but I personally still find it very enjoyable and even kinda addictive with all the builds I'm still planning to make and go through the game with.

@SpuddyCube 8 ай бұрын

I think with some time and work, the game can reach something genuinely good. It's not my personal cup of tea at the moment, but I think it can get there. And if/when it does, I think it'd be worth picking up/trying out on sale. Full price?.. not so much.

@itshorttt 8 ай бұрын

the problem is mana 🗿 really expensive

@GoblinGamer29 8 ай бұрын

I dont know why I'm watching this video. This game isn't compatible for my Xbox 😭

@philipdrainville3592 6 ай бұрын

Sad cause people will see this video and think the game is bugged all over and generally bad which is totally wrong and the devs actually put out patches every week and it runs beautifully now.

@redmondthealien7840 8 ай бұрын

Notification gang.

@michaelg5793 8 ай бұрын

Short answer: Yes

@rain89skarlet80 8 ай бұрын

ofc you can...radiance is themost busted op thing in this game^^

@futte200 8 ай бұрын

Ive actually seen reviews say this game is way better than elden ring 😂

@Gunner699 8 ай бұрын

Play hollow knight no nail challenge

@SpuddyCube 8 ай бұрын

While it sounds really fun, I know that Sample has already done a full pacifist run of the game. If it was a matter of simply not using the nail for anything, I think doors would immediately become an issue.

@darianclark3980 8 ай бұрын

Pretty sure the biggest challenge here was the bad mana/ammo mechanics!

@alexandrubighiu7637 4 ай бұрын

@Gunner699 8 ай бұрын

Play hollow knight with no soul plz :)

@egis511 8 ай бұрын

This is one of the most unbalanced game I have ever played. That is not normal that with 51 radiance you do 99 damage on the first boss even with her radiance resistance. At that point you should be killing her in five hits. You never feel like leveling matters in this game.

@Eo-ms3kw 8 ай бұрын

Fromsoftware games work exactly the same way tho. If this is unbalanced they are as well. Unupgraded weapons/catalysts both in this game and in Fromsoft games have terrible scaling which makes levelling damage stats early pretty useless. I can assure you it does an enormous deal late game tho probably even more so than in Fromsoft games.

@egis511 8 ай бұрын

@@Eo-ms3kw i disagree. Everytime I increased my strength I could feel the difference in damage. For example, if I had 51 intelligence in dark souls I would not have any issue killing most of the bosses let alone the first one.

@egis511 8 ай бұрын

@@CassianoAlanCanossa I have spent thousands of hours in souls, beat the game on every class in every game multiple times, did many challenge runs (not lvl1, but what made fun for me). In none of the souls light attack and heavy attack does the same amount of damage, trash enemy did not kill me in three hits in souls. Duel wielding, I just don't get it in this game. You do not do more damage with two hits than one with two-handed. I don't have the numbers, but I was killing swamp enemy with three attacks. I leveled up inferno to 30 and both weapons to +6 to finally kill a mid tier early game enemy in two attacks. I have never felt so weak in souls. That is why I stopped progressing my story and just made a lvl 50 character and play pvp/coop. I have decided to progress a bit further yesterday. No problem, would not have made any difference if I was 30 levels higher. Don't get me wrong. This game can be a strong 8 as it has most of required things, but it just need a bit of tweaking.

@egis511 8 ай бұрын

@@CassianoAlanCanossa not on ps5 they don't. The only difference between light attack and heavy attack is charging. Regular R2 is the same as R1. Last patch kind off messed up pvp. I used to have about 70 percent success rate. Today, I was over 90 percent successful. Seeing how much damage host was dealing did not feel like a fair matchmaking. However, I agree with your statement. I am bias, but if I am wrong why do we have patches almost every other day? The game is in much better state today, than it was on release. Glad you enjoy it.

@egis511 8 ай бұрын

@@CassianoAlanCanossa I am not sure about the data, because I could not find any, but in souls you cannot invade someone who has a weapon with lower upgrade than yours by 2 (if I remember correctly). After todays pvp sessions, I don't think loff has such restriction. I am sure I was lower level than most of the hosts I invaded based on the progress they made in the game so the only other factor (apart skill) is a weapon. And it is not only performance developers are working on. They reduced number of npcs, reduced damage dealt by some throwables, spells nerffed etc. And that was my point. They are making this game better.

@R_Win_ 8 ай бұрын

Yes you can, Radiant bulids are the strongest in the game

@lividassdude6828 8 ай бұрын

great video good stuff, kind of cringe emotional stuff in the middle, but go off lol

@arachne9780 8 ай бұрын

good video but it would be better on mute

@yiirba 8 ай бұрын

only people complaining about the load screens on rest are mfs with bad PC's

@SpuddyCube 8 ай бұрын

I'm both curious as to why you'd choose to gatekeep that hard and how a thirty ninety could be considered bad. Not everybody has time that they want to waste staring at a black screen, even if it only momentarily breaks up the gameplay. It isn't a PC issue. And people shouldn't get a demonstrably worse experience due to their personal budget.

@yiirba 8 ай бұрын

you okay?@@SpuddyCube

@AzurePursuer 8 ай бұрын

TLDW; Yes. Radiant is broken AF. Straight up Radiant is this game on easy mode

@aresix8239 5 ай бұрын

I feel as though you just don't like the game, and because of that you're biased negatively on the parts of it that really shine. Which sucks because if you get over yourself you'd really be able to enjoy it.

@moonracer399 4 ай бұрын

Prime example of someone whining about something way more than what is deserved. Lotf is amazing and he’s complaining about trivial things and about things that are straight up false. Also I don’t know why people are having so much trouble with frame rates, frame rate drops have been no issue at all in my game because they are very rare, very short lived, and never happen in an important or stressful scenario like fighting a boss or a bunch of enemies. Hell, even elden ring has given me more frame rate issues. If I complained about minor and irrelevant things about elden ring like this guy and many other people do about lotf, i could make elden ring sound like a bad game.

@negansmith5637 7 ай бұрын

Can we just normalize not complaining about the game we‘re doing a challenge run on? If you don’t like it don‘t play it. Im tired of all the whining and crying about something that is not perfect for you.

@michaelbrown1866 8 ай бұрын

Bro does challenge run then complains about the challenge

@athleysis 8 ай бұрын

“Challenge run” using the most overpowered almost cheese level spells. And still complains 😂

@pascallamberz9602 8 ай бұрын

Its a pity that u kind of like the game but 90% of the video is just telling how bad it is... For me it really ruins this challange run video. Would have been nice if u didnt only focus on the bad things

@alecsnead6566 7 ай бұрын

I’m only a couple minutes in and was thinking the same- came to the comments instantly lol. If that is the whole video, I’m gunna have to pass.

@athleysis 8 ай бұрын

Totally pointless, rang is op radiance is op. Omg what a shock I can just stay away and beat everyone what a disappointing east game using the literally most over powered lazy game play method

@joshuabowden5626 6 ай бұрын

Ok why tf are you bashing on the game for, the title is can you beat the game with radiant spells yet you're pretty much bashing the game 90% of the time . Thumbs down bud