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Apologies for the lack of updates... plus what's on the way!

Hey everyone, sorry for the lack of updates here this past month. I think I've been feeling a bit of burnout and was kinda stressed putting the poise episode together, but I'm happy with how it tur...

"Placidusax's Ruin" and other nightmare terms.

While working on the poise episode I realized there's a bunch of Elden Ring terms in here I have no idea how to pronounce. Normally I'd just power through them and not worry about it, which is what...

Someone misremembered something about this walkway in Dark Souls 1, but...

There's an interesting reddit thread here titled "Who remem...

How the Crystalians' Poise Works

The poise episode script is about halfway done, hoping to have the writing finished with audio recorded by this weekend.

In the meantime, just figured I'd share a bit about what's going on t...

Elden Ring Poise Research

Though I have a couple different episode ideas floating around, I've spent the last couple days doing some poise research so that'll likely be the subject of the next one!

One of the first th...

An Early Look at Elden Ring Dissected #5

It seems the 4k version hasn't rendered yet and I'll likely wait for that to finish before this gets posted publicly. Until then, here's an early look. Thank you for your support!

Progress Update, and a really cool hidden online feature of Elden Ring

So the upcoming episode is roughly halfway done in the video editing stage, I'll be aiming for a Saturday or Sunday release!

2022-06-23 03:46:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Progress Update, Other Game Episodes

Hello everyone! I had a pretty busy week last week so sadly I didn't make a ton of progress, but I finally finished editing the vocal audio for my next episode so I can begin video editing tomorrow...

Progress Update

Last night I finished recording the vocal audio for the upcoming "Resistance Correction" episode, which is all about the system for deepening enemy resistances in Elden Ring.

2022-06-09 15:14:14 +0000 UTC View Post

The Sleepless Doggo (Elden Ring Error), and the subject of the next video.

While doing research for my next video, I found a glitch with the wolves inside Caria Manor. These creatures are fully immune to sleep, meaning any source of sleep doesn't drain their hidden defens...

Progress on the next video, and initial results of the shorts experiment.

I'm 5 minutes into what should be a ~15 minute long video. This is a return to what I was scripting before I decided to make the map changes episode its own thing, since this one is all about unlis...

A question about short form videos. Double post to youtube or not?

This past weekend I made a TikTok account, and I uploaded my first video there: https://www.tiktok.com/@illusorywall_ <...

Elden Ring Dissected #3 - Hidden Map Changes (Full Video Early)

This video will be released later today, but here's a sneak peek while I wait on the highest-quality render to become available (and also for it to not be too early in the morning here in the US).<...

An exploration of Map Changes in Elden Ring

While I was finishing the script for the episode about unlisted patch changes, I found that the discussion about changes to the game map grew to be about half of the entire episode. There was more ...

Elden Ring's chilled out group fights of Patch 1.04

While working on scripting out a video about unlisted changes found in the patches so far, we just got a really interesting one from Patch 1.04. A bunch of duo/ group boss fights (but NOT all of th...

Taking a closer look at sleep in Elden Ring.

Today I began taking a closer look at the sleep mechanic, and there's a very interesting quirk of resistances that I don't think is well-known yet. Did you know that every time you trigger an effec...

ETA on the Fall Damage Follow-Up, Other Testing Ideas

The script for the fall damage addendum has been recorded and edited, and as far as video editing is concerned I'm also roughly 6 minutes into what should be a 15 minute episode:

2022-04-06 22:35:44 +0000 UTC View Post

Elden Ring Invasion Testing

I talked about my invasion testing in the last couple posts but wanted to provide more details on what that looks like and how it's been going. The idea is simple; After figuring out how 2022-03-31 04:20:53 +0000 UTC View Post

Fall Damage Follow-Up!

I just recently surpassed 100k subscribers on youtube. This is a major milestone for the channel and I'm very thankful for everyone's support!

The reaction to the Elden Ring Fall Damage epis...

ETA on the first Elden Ring Dissected

So I've got some good news on the progress of my Elden Ring episode on Fall Damage. After working particularly hard on it the last couple days, it's rendering right now!

2022-03-16 23:04:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Understanding Fall Damage in Elden Ring & How I got into Souls Mechanics Research

Unsurprisingly, Elden Ring is has caught the bulk of my attention as of late. I recently created a list that details how Runes are awarded in PvP, which can be found at the bottom of this page:
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More Elden Ring Testing (+ minor boss spoilers)

Oops, sorry I'm a day late with the update here! Unsurprisingly, with Elden Ring out I'm now engaged with trying to figure some things out. Yesterday I began working on figuring out how runes (soul...

Elden Ring Hype (no spoilers)

I recently received some of those Elden Ring chocolates, courtesy of Namco Bandai!

It was the...

Next video subject! And figuring out how to break it down.

With the servers still offline until some unknown time after the release of Elden Ring, I decided to switch gears. I've been wanting to do a video about how multiplayer was timed in Dark Souls 2, a...

Tombstone Revivals Progress Update

Oops, missed the Wednesday update by a little bit here! The latest Dark Souls 2 Dissected is coming alo...

More tinkering in Dark Souls 2...

The script is almost finished for the upcoming episode and I should be recording all of the vocal audio tomorrow evening. The script isn't very long, but the only reason it hasn't been finished yet...

The next Dark Souls 2 Dissected is in the works!

Over the last couple days I've been digging up some older topics that I researched in the past. With better tools and more resources available, I can now go deeper than I did when I was writing abo...

Dark Souls Video Screensaver #3

I'm in the mood to make another one of these stupid videos. Which area should I do next?

(As always, it won't actually be posted publicly until the next proper video is also completed, since ...

Dark Souls Dissected #14 Progress Update

Progress is coming along on the Object Health episode, and I'm currently a little over 17 minutes into ...

Dark Souls Dissected #14 Progress Update

I've finished scripting, recording and editing audio for my next episode! It was meant to be a shorter ...