Gaming: Update: I'm obsessed with a guy who keeps soloing Elden Ring Nightreign's hard mode over and over like they're trapped in a purgatory of their own making
Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Unlock instant access to exclusive member features. Get full access to premium articles, exclusive features and a growing list of member rewards. We all have our guys, the true freaks and sickos online who it feels like only we know about, whose trials and travails move us in ways we can scarcely explain. Replica sword reviewers, world-class competitors in niche sports, historical reenactors with hearts of gold—you know, your guys. One such guy, for me, is eauvni, a YouTuber who silently and implacably keeps playing Elden Ring Nightreign alone, then uploading the VODs. Crucially, eauvni is very good at Elden Ring Nightreign, and will upload multiple runs a week, like clockwork. They rotate through the entire cast, but seem to have a particular affinity for the Sekiro-parrying Executor. All of their runs have been in the mega-hard Deep of Night mode since its release at the end of last year, but they've exclusively uploaded VODs of Depth Three of Five in recent months. My guess would be that, even at this skill level, solo Depth Five just isn't fun—even Sekiro/Souls no-hit maestro Ongbal has said as much (in the description of a successful Depth Five solo run, naturally). My understanding is that the jump in difficulty from Depth Three to Four is the most pronounced in the game, with enemies dealing twice as much damage in Four vs. Three—and that's on top of the three depths worth of DoN advancements over the base game already. The Depth Three/Four barrier is what separates the freaks from the perverts among Nightreign players, while the Four/Five divide splits the perverts and the reprobates. The individual videos are prime "have something on in the background while you do something else" material for me, but as a whole, eauvni's body of work is kind of staggering as a record of obsession: Dozens and dozens of Nightreign runs, all on the same two maps with t
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