Elden Ring DLC Coverage Status
🕑 Added 2024-06-26 21:29:39 +0000 UTCHey folks, K here. Just felt like telling you that both Gary and I have finished the Shadow of the Erdtree and are recording our first impressions episode tomorrow.
With what’s essentially Elden Ring 2 under our belts, we can start outlining the next season of the show and figure out when the season proper will debut. You’ll know when we know! The good news is that Bonfireside Chat fans will be eating well for a while. There’s so much in the DLC to talk about.
In the meantime, the best thing you can do to help us out is spread the word about the 2024 Premium Episode Sampler pack. Other than that, we thank you for your support!
- K
Comments
Oliver Tripp
They summoned to high heaven. Which is fine.
Austin Mathis
Basically you’re like the one friend in the group who can fast travel and everybody has messages for each other 🙄
Mystic Referee
Can't wait to hear you guys talk about the best Captain Ahab / Moby Dick adaptation I've seen for a while. CURSE YOUUUU *******
Griffin Post
As a long time listener from the original Dark Souls season, looking forward to this one! Just started the DLC last night, loving that we just get more Elden Ring to play.
Peter
I can't wait! I've been listening to bfc for close to 10 years, but I've never gotten to listen 'live'. Love your podcasts!
Kyle Clements
Woohoo! I’m still working through it myself at a nice slow pace without many spoilers but I’m excited to go through your reactions live
antoine_velvet
Having discovered the universe of From Software (and your podcast) late, this is the first time I am playing one of their games at its release. I am excited to hear you 'live.' It is also the first time I am experiencing a release with all the commotion that comes with it: what a shitstorm. I think it is important to consider Elden Ring primarily as an RPG and therefore to play it in the way the game allows, which is multiple and varied. Ergo: play as you want. I guess you have been mumbling about that since episode 1 of the podcast.
Sam Albright
I’ve been excited for this one.
Micah Tillman
How the heck did y'all finish it already? Dang!
Jonathan Scratch
This DLC is more like an old school Expansion Pack and it fucking owns bones. There are so many fucked up dudes!
Goldie
Looking forward to it! ❤️
sleepysmiles
ohhhh having not played the DLC yet, or replayed the base game more than once even, i cant decide if you calling it "essentially Elden Ring 2" is thrilling or terrifying
VJRavenwood
It's a seemingly endless, ahem, "torrent" of revelations in the DLC. Even the item descriptions are recontextualizing whole swaths of lore in the main game. Can't wait for the exciting return of Bonfireside Chat!
Jesse Candelori
Hells yeh! I’ve been re-listening to the entire show for like the third time at least. Just finishing the Caelid roundtable roundtable episode now. There’s a part in this one or the episode before where Gary is visited by a crow at his window and was wondering what it wanted… so there’s an alternate timeline out there where Gary made a crow friend who still brings him trinkets to this day bc he decided to actually share his corn 😆😆😆
Duckfeed.tv
Agreed! - K
Clever Clogs
It’s a great DLC. I really like it. It’s too hard and would be better if it were easier (:
Duckfeed.tv
Yeah, I haven't seen a lot of babying from journalists, actually. I read a thing from the guy who did all the video guides in pre-release without summons who made a bunch of good points, ie: Would these monsters really _constantly_ be trying to trick their opponenet? Would animals have the cognizance to do delayed hits? The more I thought about it, the more I think he's actually right. It's getting pretty old, that specific approach. -GB
Duckfeed.tv
I will never stop saying Sca-do though. It's more fun! -GB
Paul Bersch
Playing a game like this pre-release under a tight deadline and without the benefit of wikis, plentiful human summons, and the post-release patches that adjust balance (sometimes radically) is much different than how we experience these games.
Duckfeed.tv
Every single From release brings around a new kind of difficulty discourse. This is the first time I’ve seen the community itself lead the charge as hard as it has. Likely due to ER’s wild popularity compared to previous games bringing in people who weren’t prepared for the customary DLC spike. - K
MIKEISTKRIEG
This is my first time being along for the ride with a fromsoft DLC release, are the journalists always this huge of babies about the difficulty or is it just amplified because Elden Ring is so popular?
Joseph
Pre-recording note: Did you know that "sceadu" or "scadu" is an Old English word for "shadow" and is pronounced "shadow," according to the internet? I just found that out and it's making me really self-conscious about all the "scadu bee doo bee doo" scat singing I've been doing while riding around on Torrent.
Daniel Horn
Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in Limgrave.
Cody
I was shocked when the final boss turned out to be Master Hand from Smash Bros!
Kaveman222
Looking forward to the impressions and what's to come. Will make myself go back to BG3 probably after finishing Elden ring since that shows made a huge binge worth chunk at this point. Thanks for what y'all do.
Kaveman222
All your Elden Ring are belong to us.
Cody
One of the bosses in particular is actively made better by summoning. I’ve never heard a voice actor go harder than that guy did!
Duckfeed.tv
G and I need to talk about a spoiler policy. There will probably be an announced spoiler wall. The game itself does a good job of playing its big reveals close to the vest, so not giving things away will be kind of easy I think. - K
Timeandwatch
Hooray! Any idea what the spoiler policy will be? I finally reached it and it’ll be slow going. Really enjoying a relisten to the base game season!
Douglas
I was just playin' around. I've been trying hard to block out everything about the game online, but it crops up everywhere and that's all that came to the surface. I'm not far yet myself, I'm playing through at the pace I can manage and having fun. It is hard, but it was just weird fro that to be the only thing that reached 'gen-pop' so to speak. Very much looking forward to you guys discussing it. Love y'all.
Duckfeed.tv
It's super hard, but we both played basically full time and aren't shy with summons. -GB
Thomas
Currently on the final boss! Looking forward to both of your thoughts and experiences. There’s nothing like exploring a new Fromsoft realm for the first time!
Duckfeed.tv
We’re just that dedicated to bringing you Quality Content. - K
Douglas
You both beat it in less than a week? From what I've seen, SOTE is impossible and that no one can win it and that everyone just quit playing it because it was too hard?
Austin Mathis
Love you all everybody, we did it 🙌
Cody
Major kudos to them for being so thorough! Can’t wait to see you guys lay it out in a more digestible format in the new season!
Soulful Bison
We are going to be eating good
Cody
They’re starting to reuse proper nouns from past games in a new context in a way that really threatens to get real confusing though. “Abyss” “serpent”
Joe Binson
Yeah, this is why I'm gonna wait a while til listen to this pod. I barely scratched the surface and...an...is that Wolverine?!
Duckfeed.tv
Yeah, it actually answers questions for the first time since Artorias of the Abyss. It's wild -GB
Victor
First time I'll follow these as they release. Can't wait!
Duckfeed.tv
Ten years on, it’s a necessity to not take Scholarings personally. - K
Cody
This may be the furthest Fromsoft has gone towards expanding on underdeveloped areas of the game’s lore in a DLC ever. They touch on almost everything.
Andrew O.
The lack of Bonfireside Chat has been a bummer. Very much looking forward to the return.
Tom Young
Just in time for the first patch - Scholared again! 😂
Nic Kane
Having resubbed recently am very excited to hear what y’all have to say! Always appreciate the insights, even if I don’t agree sometimes.
Duckfeed.tv
Don’t compare your play pace to ours. We cleared our schedules and chugged it so we could figure out the season. 1. This is our job and we have the option to do that. 2. We don’t recommend playing it this way! Take your time and smell the withered sunflowers. - K
Johnathan Glupker
Super excited to hear what you guys think about some of the new revelations.
Kay Francis
Guess I have to finally start it this weekend
Roy D Rushing
Wow that was quick. I just started a couple of days ago. It’s pretty great so far.
Aaron
Awesome! Looking forward to it!
Billy Corgan
Hell yeah guys.