What the HELL IS THAT?! | MAX PLAYS: Elden Ring - Shadow of the Erdtree NG+ Full Playthru #6

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[@donq4483]

"What the HELL IS THAT?" It's the flowers that get planted on your grave trying to beat the DLC :D

[@gundamheavyarms4879]

You win the internet today. 😊

[@samk522]

The front door! THE FRONT DOOR! *throws phone*

[@shinymacaroni7737]

I wonder if that lady will ever make sense of the jumble.

[@wiszelsucht]

she's just too stupid, wait till u see what she says about radahn

[@VideoStalker00]

rumor says she still not making sense of the jumble.

[@basal4425]

1:05:41 it is a literal crime not to be able to see chats reactions here

[@landenx]

Facts 😂

[@spycheck]

I wish he did that in his reuploads lol

[@lebowskidee7557]

Just go watch the VOD

[@KavalanSol]

Man I'm just in my livingroom shouting take the FRONT DOOR of the shadowkeep to my television 😂❤

[@HGMerc99]

This message made me check what was in through the front door. No regrets. At least you helped someone.

[@KavalanSol]

@@HGMerc99 Well done, O, Well done! Haha good luck on your adventure! 👌 Edit: love the fact that you actually came back to comment on this. Cheers man

[@dylanstephenson3892]

I want to see Max fight the hippo at the front 😂

[@upon-fe2720]

​@@dylanstephenson3892it was light work

[@JetBlack2024]

I killed the tree twice and thought I was doing something wrong when I first fought it. 3 life McGee being a Mario boss

[@AppleFrogTomatoFace]

Same, i thought i needed some item to permanently kill it. But i just wanted to see how many times i can kill it, and saw the flower doing different move at third phase, i knew i just had to kill it few more times lol. Luckly i only had to kill it three times lol

[@SkellyHertz]

I had a friend who was ahead of me say "ok, time for phase 3" and I laughed like a fool. Then phase 3 started and I stopped laughing real quick.

[@pious83]

Miyazaki heard all the complaints about the recycled Avatar fights in the base game and just said 'Ok, less next time.'

[@DiranJiru]

When I fought it, we traded final blows because I kept fumbling its attacks.

[@EpicFailureFive]

When the third phase first popped up I was worried it might be a Fool's Idol situation where you have to do something somewhere else to make the boss killable, until I noticed the music was getting sadder.

[@TheRedMage01]

That Max is what happens when you don't water your flowers, They come back for revenge

[@rodneyjames9929]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@jandipopo_art2012]

You got the perfect weapon for this boss. Extremely weak to fire, and you can throw it to hit its head lmao.

[@stefanbraidwood2007]

What’s cool is the sunflower weapon absolutely pummels Mesmer too if you catch him with the l2

[@CaptinSpyke]

in my experience you dont even need a weapon, just respect some faith, equip your best seal and black flame, get your best talismans and some fp flasks, and just keep chuckin them lmao. that shit legitimately melts the boss and you dont even need high faith, I had 25 faith on the dragon communion seal and it was trivial

[@Space_Australian]

"An old modded PS5" is such a bizarre statement.

[@TerdSmasher303]

Yeah I often forget the ps5 is 4 years old already myself

[@kairu_aname]

​@@TerdSmasher303 It feels new because; 1) Almost no dedicated library. 2) scalpers 3) no stock for a long while after release

[@Lowly_Tarnished]

01:08:00 I hear Piccolo yelling "Why didn't you DOOOOOOOODGE????" 🤣

[@disclaimin]

Just touching on a comment you made early in the stream, Elden Ring DLC works fine on Steam Deck. The only issue is the online breaks if you *don't* have the DLC installed.

[@nkirmath8621]

Messmer starting feeling fair when I got to *redacted* (final boss)

[@xxxzeroxxx8406]

Messmer is a great boss. He has really oppressive strings but also good amount of punishes for you to take advantage of. I would even argue his second phase makes him easier, as he goes into the snake form very often for you to get attacks in during his recovery. As for the *redacted* nonsense of a fight, that shit really irks me as a failure of a design simply because of how hard it is to see anything of whats happening in front of you. Doesn't help that the damage is obscene and you're pretty much required to go cheese to fight cheese, which I also don't like.

[@ActNasty5]

Lol yeah. I had to use bloodfiend arm for him 😂

[@deetsitmeisterjd]

Messmer is great.

[@erk8520]

The last boss will def be in a boss rage compilation. Half the time I could barely see what was on the stream. I also agree with Max with every dlc boss doing Tekken combos and our reward being a jab lol.

[@nickm413]

Max every boss fight "Tell me...do you BLEEEEED? No? Then you need to CHIIIIILLLL"

[@strawberrygemz2020]

1. messmer's spear is a Dex Faith scaling weapon. Not strength dex, not strength faith. Youre not gonna be doing much with it when ur faith is a measly 20 and half ur stats are in Arcane. 2. The fire on the weapon scales with fiath. The physical on the weapon scales with dex. The ash of war is a lot of fire, so it would do more damage if you had points in faith. 3. As with most weapons with a long-ish ash of war. You use its moveset on bosses. Thats just how the game works. Doesnt mean the weapon is bad against bosses. Just means if you wanna use the ash of war u gotta use it wisely.

[@wodensthrone5215]

Yeah, he doesn't understand how faith scales in general or what it does. I'm a strength/faith build, using the colossal weapon called Greatsword and have the flame art on it, then my ash of war is a new dlc ash of war called Fire Thrust, where you thrust the weapon in the air, it catches fire and you can follow it up by throwing fire, combine that with Flame Grant me strength, it's amazing because the weapon stays on fire for a good bit.

[@GreasyGumbo]

Dude I can’t imagine trying to use that ash of war on the final boss. Absolute suicide lol

[@ymotle]

Yeah he don't care much about the meta of the game, I kinda like that cause it means anyone can play and beat the game and you don't need to be a hardcore sicko to do it

[@collinhalverson4681]

Most underrated fight in the whole game.

[@-Roche-]

And an incredible soundtrack, too!

[@Jaebird2]

I wouldn’t say underrated once everyone gets time to get to it I think it will be a fan fave cuz I loved it

[@pensologohesito]

Max finding the lance cheese is how I defeat most bosses with shield knights ash and full int sorcery. 😂 Didn’t even seen most Gaius attacks.

[@shahs1221]

Another thing I'm starting to realize that really helps with this dlc? Having more than one weapon/build. I've been having a relatively easier time than many people I know who stick to one (or at most two) builds, even when my scadutree levels were way lower during some of these bosses. Experimenting with what feels great depending on the situation can drastically change your experience (for gaius, I tried using my main, the milady with wing stance, then my old dual wielding curved sword bleed build, then one of the new greatswords, but none of them felt good and got me killed fairly quickly because I'm also not the most skilled fighter. But when I switched to dueling shield, Gaius became manageable and took about three minutes to defeat). I even have a build that are great against bosses but are kinda terrible against multiple mobs and vice versa. Mind you, I'm doing some work that requires to go explore and collect these weapons anyway, so I have more of an excuse to pause on some bosses. So yeah, as Max said, many factors will still make the dlc as easy as you want similar to the base game. It's just that the dlc is... well... MUCH harder.

[@bazzfromthebackground3696]

I can never just use one weapon in most games. Circumstances sometimes require finess over unga bunga, and I like having the option.

[@shahs1221]

​​@@bazzfromthebackground3696Yup. Like I get wanting to stick with one style. Having to learn to open up with games that require a bit of flexibility for a more colorful experience takes time (I went through this during Monster Hunter: World 😂) and if you don't have that luxury, it's even harder to do so.

[@wodensthrone5215]

I've been using a strength/faith hybrid build since the games been out, I've never felt the want or need to switch builds because using a colossal weapon type with faith buffs and incantations, on top of having high poise, gives you a lot of options.

[@shahs1221]

@@wodensthrone5215 oh yeah I should've specified when I said builds I also meant like just weapons/talismans/physicks and such while attached with stats that can handle being flexible. I myself am strength/dex which luckily the game feeds pretty well esp early in 😂👌

[@reevegriffin9504]

For real I literally had a different weapon for certain mobs, bosses and npc invaders. Not getting tunnel visioned on what weapon you’re dedicated to helps loads, different tools for different situations is the best way to play imo. The game gives you plenty of materials to upgrade multiple weapons so best to use them.

[@Ztarman3]

Unlike the Commander, this flower was the only remembrance boss that I ended up using summons, and it’s because of the fact that I didn’t even know it was a remembrance until I killed it.

[@topcat59]

The enemy sunflower really doesn’t want to take the L.🐱

[@mclloydeeee5973]

There is sooooooo much to explore in this castle that u haven't explored yet!

[@AlexanderMartinez-kd7cz]

to be fair bosses never being minus is a thing everywhere in elden ring. I still remember margott just won't stop if he doesn't feel like it. it helps to not roll everything, jump is actually a really good dodging option and strafing/running for spacing dodges is good like in every souls game.

[@altarofdespair984]

People don't know jumping has more i-frames.every attack that looks low to the ground can be jumped in most cases.but it's hard to unlearn to roll everything if you played all soulsborne games

[@BlueCheeseLucci]

Bruh even with the shadow tree fragments and the use of my summons. The bosse in game still go crazy and i love it. I only really hated the hippo

[@bazzfromthebackground3696]

The Hippocupine just turbo fucks your camera, lock-on, lock-off, locked out of ever seeing what you're swinging at.😂 I hate when big shit moves a lot.

[@norserednek]

Its funny, during my playthrough I went through the front door of Shadow Keep first and spent like 2hrs trying to figure out how to get where Max has been wandering around lol. Crazy how many different ways that legacy dungeon can be explored. Its probably there best dungeon design ever.

[@luigiongaming3959]

Related to the conversation at the beginning, I think one of the biggest design flaws of elden ring is the weapons special attacks. They try to go with flashy skills that take 4 seconds to pull off but there's not an enemy in the game that will wait 4 seconds to get it off. I think all weapons special attacks should be as quick and efficient as something like rivers of blood or falling star beast jaw.

[@t0mom]

max getting hit by that 3rd strike again & again honestly became a hilarious running joke

[@KazuhasKatana]

Max and that fire knight was hilarious

[@JohnSmith-io3ii]

So, I wonder when he'll go back to the front door of the castle and fight the boss he skipped. You know the door you get to from the main road on the map.

[@Kiwibowl792]

Last boss will take him two days

[@ghastlyanarchy1720]

If he's lucky.

[@marcuskane1040]

Encountered him today for the first time - after 3 failed tries I can see why people are having a hard time there 😅

[@altarofdespair984]

Made a build just for him,old popular pvp build.all you need is a good shield(bigger the better)with 'no skill ' on it,a thrusting blood bleed weapon with seppuko,golden vow and scolars shield for buffs.talismans i use are lord of blood exultation,spear talisman,rotten wing sword insignia and turtle talisman.for physick the thorny cracked tear and one of choice.need 12 int,25 faith for buffs.50 dex,30 arcane.frenzied flame seal and albinauric staff cuz they need no stats to use and you'll make that boss cry like a bitch

[@deetsitmeisterjd]

If you don't use a shield, he's going to be next to impossible, at 55 endurance and turtle +2, you literally don't have enough stamina to dodge and fight with him.

[@wolfair]

Sorry but that's not true. I killed him with bleed infused GS and always had enough stamina to dodge. With no stamina talismans used (health +3, Erdtree +2, bullgoat, big jar. You just don't spam dodge, but react to what he does. ​@@deetsitmeisterjd

[@RuinNationGaming]

love how max was about to kick the sun flowers ass first time out then he just gets walked over time after time haha

[@user-mi9mw5wm5w]

1: 05 he still gets surprised he can fall off ledges after all these years lol

[@sushiroll3795]

Honestly, all of the stuff that I've been hearing about the DLC's difficulty has made me super thankful that I went with a heavily-armored Spellblade build. I was consistently able to tank 4-8 hits from bosses, and I could choose to go melee or ranged depending on the enemies or just how I was feeling each day. The only two bosses in the entire DLC that I've genuinely disliked were Gaius because of his broken charge hitbox and (MASSIVE SPOILERS AHEAD, SERIOUSLY, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED) The second phase of the final boss because holy shit did Fromsoft go overboard with the light beams in that fight. Not only are they really hard to dodge, but they're so bright that I genuinely feel like I would get a headache if I tried to beat that fight for hours like many of the streamers ans youtubers I've seen.

[@irritableindian]

Same boat as you. Went for a heavy build, power stancing two colossals. Managed to get through pretty well, but man oh man the final boss in phase 2 is a nightmare. Killed me over 100 times lol. Decided I’m gonna come back once I’m stronger and wreck him up then, good luck!

[@pmaac1564]

dark moon greatsword ftw

[@ghastlyanarchy1720]

Yeah, that final bosses light effects were way too much. I had to time my blinks with the dodge so it wouldn't hurt my eyes when the light effects happen. I could avoid seeing most of it and lessen the likelihood of a headache and eye pain. Thus making me want to beat it as quick as possible for the second phase

[@deetsitmeisterjd]

Got the final boss on my first attempt. Flame Skewer is just Giant Hunt but better. I died the most to Ancient Dragon Sensessax of all bosses, whoever decided to not add the targeting to his back legs like every dragon is an actual moron with 5 IQ. Lightning spam keeping you away and when's he flying you cannot see him and are just fighting the camera, such Dog****

[@YourDevastator]

Fire Knight Greatsword is phenomenal. R1s true combos, fast swing like the godskin greatsword and has the poke R2 of the Zweihander. Absolutely recommend. And you can farm it from any of the fire knights who weld it.

[@dejay6363]

aaahhh Control is fn amazing man, cant wait tae c ya play that

[@bazzfromthebackground3696]

I couldnt control Control. 😂

[@Patrick-ss3hb]

Lol the bats attacking max is revenge for all the times he taunted and downplayed them in RE.😂

[@strawberrygemz2020]

Lmao right at the start, Max still not understanding how weapon scaling works lol

[@cloudlop]

The music for this boss is one of my favorites

[@electriclott]

This dungeon/ castle is so cool.

[@Chachibenji]

Scadutree Avatar was one of my favorite bosses of the DLC. Super amazing progression and the music change, that feeling that you're doing something you really shouldn't be.

[@strawberrygemz2020]

Yooooooo Control is one of my favorite games omg

[@junioredge9674]

I be yelling at my phone "max for the love of God heal!!! 😂😂😂😂 He keeps me on the edge of my seat

[@davewaren270]

2:31:00 you came to the wrong neighborhood, homey!

[@AgentB-0711]

Once again, Max shows us the hardest part about playing elden ring....just navigating the area while trying not to fall to your death lol

[@georgie_86]

I love the Sauron armour

[@skatevictom]

I didnt even know you could fall off the map during the sunflower fight 😂

[@deffloyd]

The last boss os gonna boogie on your soul.

[@Robman0908]

I had issues with Gaius until I just mounted up and ran right circles around him while using my R2 attack. Took one try.

[@Rampageotron]

I'm sad that Max never got the Fire Knight armor to drop even though he fought like 100 of them.

[@Jerler91]

@48:00 that dragon was PISSED! 😂😂😂

[@overtheclouds2926]

FINAL FLASH 📸 😭😭😭

[@187Wretched]

The bosses are so relentless you sorta have to create your own openings in Elden Ring. Positioning is more important in ER than any other souls game

[@nuhussl7]

Damn I gotta get back on this again... I gotta start from scratch tho .... yeah im ready lol

[@wilberivs19]

Mesmer reminds me of malekith, really cool boss and an spectacle fight, hard but not extremely hard.

[@mclloydeeee5973]

I am at 3 Scadus when i beat Messmer and the Pig! I am staying at 3 for my whole playthrough. I was level 138 coming into this DLC. I am now at 166 after beating Pepper. What a game! Its an amazing DLC!

[@AppleFrogTomatoFace]

How did he came to messmer without going through the storage library thing. Lol i guess there is a way…

[@depsi4518]

Max sees a hat “dude it’s bloodborne” max sees a hammer “dude it’s bloodborne”

[@MrPhillyJB]

Max dood, can you do a video on your first half of the year games you played and enjoyed, your upcoming games for the rest of the year you would like to play, and your GOTY at this moment? Enjoy your videos!

[@sean8102]

It's the middle of the year, why in the world you would care that much what his "GOTY" IDK but I wouldn't count on it happening.

[@shaji6481]

The Scadutree boss wasn’t hard but what made it frustrating was the performance lag whenever it used its thorne attacks.

[@AppleFrogTomatoFace]

Frostbite the boss and thawing them with fire is one strat, but if you frostbite the target, they take extra damage for 30sec, so i frost them and just switch weapon to bleed them, and when frost wore off i put frost again. Or duel wield each effect.

[@Haysey_Draws]

Fromsoft need to add "This is some premium Bullshit" to the quotes on the box!

[@warblackjack5565]

I found out literally the first boss of the dlc, as a shield user, that guard counters were nowhere near as rewarding or opportunistic as the base game. These bosses give you little room for error. Base game I was able to roll over bosses by punishing them, but here they punish me for guard countering. I ended up beating the dlc learning how to be a very mobile and dodgy shield user, but I think I am better for it as a whole. I still am a very heavy build, but I learned that I can’t solely rely on my shield for defense. I am gonna try out a new character and new build just to see how different it is. I am thinking spell caster.

[@COMMANDandConquer199]

Someone looked into the reviews and something like 40% of the negative reviews were chinese players having issues with the anti-cheat. There are definitely some people giving negative reviews due to difficulty, but I think probably more than 75% of the negative reviews were not difficulty related.

[@Unders]

Unlimited fire projectile is OP AF!

[@topshelflycan]

My build is a lightning dragon hyrbid my weapon is the deathknight halberd and for bleed I use the Bloodfiend colossal weapon with the ash of war Savage lions claw ability, new lightning incantations and weapons are DOWP

[@nasimacdnanovic1196]

Lady maria fav flower

[@ElSuperNova23]

Walk in the park boss if you use any ranged option at all on the head. Just chucked lightning at the sucker when I realized the head takes massive damage

[@sean8102]

Well of course. You attack it's weak point for massive damage. Having feature like real time weapon change is helpful.

[@AstaIsAMonster]

I really hope the editor is not cutting out the full 8 hour gameplay trimming it to only 3 hours. 😢

[@Tneal78]

Why did Max insist on getting stuck in Shadow Keep for 2 hours instead of just going through the front door?

[@MarcosHDC96]

How the hell max got impenetrable thorns from the corpse nearby the scadutree avatar boss fight? I thought that was supposed to be another item

[@mclloydeeee5973]

The reason uare stuck is because u went a way u ain't supposed to go to get here. There is a lever that will move the rafters from the middle of the massive central column.

[@deshaun973]

A plant with solar flares.nice

[@bonter1983]

I feel like this NPC is clearly an Onion Knight type. She calls the place a jumble, then tells you she's busy. You unlock the mystery to the revolving platforms, then go back and talk again. Right? It's been in every soulsborne.

[@YungSnorlax]

Max leaves a lot of runes in areas he sometimes doesn't revisit. But I'm glad he's back to exploring after so many boss battles.

[@MMHGaming73]

Is he playing a different version of the game? I’m noticing some item placements that are different here, and the sword-lance from Gaius had a generic ash of war

[@tkfu9436]

Staggering bosses is very doable and just takes the right build and powerups..

[@symbolmonkey23]

So yeah, the sound mixing on Freya's voice and indicating which direction she is could have been better

[@StefComplex137]

His face at 59:38 😦 and 1:05:36 😧

[@NerdSplash]

im still disappointed Max said hes not going to play stellar blade because of some negative fans comments like you should never let fans dictate what you play....sucks game is amazing wanted to see him play

[@sean8102]

Maybe he's just not interested. You also shouldn't let people dictate what you do play.

[@aronlawson1950]

Max have you seen the new gracebourne mod for elden ring it essentially turns elden ring into blood Bourne looks so awesome you should check it out it looks so gooddddddddd

[@HellsAngels14]

He prob won’t use it. But I want this damn dude to find the bloody anime katana already!!

[@reevegriffin9504]

Blasphemous blade wrecks most bosses but it especially wrecks this boss 😂

[@janobras]

1:03:07 how in the hell is impenetrable thorns in there?? does anyone know why or how? the original location for that spell is below a window in shadow keep

[@JohnnyEnjoi]

I saw this too and thought how in the hell was that incantation there? I just don't understand lol

[@JohnnyEnjoi]

I saw this too and thought how in the hell was that incantation there? I just don't understand lol

[@nyanchiGM]

Max complaining about stagger explains my entire duel dagger run. 99% of enemies just poise everything. This was my first run of the game. Greatsword was a joke

[@Kitth3n]

Are you in ng+?

[@YourDevastator]

But...they are daggers, brother. They do the least amount of poise damage.

[@nyanchiGM]

@@Kitth3n it was my first run of the game. Like I bought the game and played daggers lol

[@nyanchiGM]

@YourDevastator I know, but id hit the guy with a full combo before his swing even gets half way through and the dude still poises through. I fully agree they should have the least poise damage game mechanics wise but the game takes it too far in my opinion

[@sisyphus4889]

Evil SUNFLOWER?!

[@ymotle]

eeeevery rooose has its thorns just like every night has its daawn I love that Elden Ring made a collab with Undertale

[@chesterpan7344]

go under flower during phase 3 when it sprays?

[@ImNiiL]

1:05:35 lmaoooooo

[@luigiongaming3959]

I'm so surprised every time I hear someone say rellana was bullshit or unfair. That boss was so easy for me I put her on the level of the chick who rode on a horse in the top of the hand castle in base game. I beat her first attempt because I just happened to jump when she did the slam attacks and saw that it worked.

[@kongfeet81]

The base of the skibiditree

[@oscarvazquez4923]

Two great swords at max with fire will melt the sun flower boss

[@oneeyegovernor806]

this boss was such a surprise that i hated and loved lol

[@rolandbegaye]

Is that Bongo Bongo from ocarina of time at 1:03:00 lol

[@MajinErick]

1:05:25 RIP: Dood 2024. Location: Parts Unknown.

[@DRUNK__SOULS]

CONTROL PLAYTHROUGH? LFG!

[@rendereduseful1005]

Stagger vs Flinch for bosses depends on weapon I’m starting to see

[@matthewmckinney7277]

I barley finished with 16 blessing, it was a rough 5 hours

[@dacbiet]

Yeah I got 17 or 18 fragments when I killed last boss of the dlc and he still hard

[@wuztron]

Let me guess, he had trouble finding the lever?

[@djbigs1055]

Wait i got something completely different from that body before the sunflower avatar. I had to get thorns from somewhere else

[@dakotasnyderst7731]

Why does Max sound like kung fu panda the way he says scadutree

[@vantasethatsit9903]

It felt weird watching this after seeing a full unga bunga run, a lot of bosses became way easier when they can be staggered, even one you can't staggered felt less stressful because you didn't have to dodge them too much because you deal a lot damage.