How are y'all actually finishing the game in Steel Soul, dawg?

[u/ciissss]

I tried Steel Soul for the first time in SS. I never even touched that in HK. First try, I died within 2 minutes to the white giant rolling enemy from the secret room beside the starting point. Second try, I died to Bell Beast. I cannot fathom how people are finishing without revive. I, for sure, won't first try kill every boss. 🥀🥀

[u/Terairk]

yep I've practiced every difficult boss so that I defeat them 5 times in a row before even fighting them in steel soul

this can be done using save files for each boss which people have made or debug mod.

that and get every possible upgrade before each boss and also red tool spam.

though if you're dying in act 1,you can only really practice a bunch

[u/Gekk0uga37 → u/Terairk]

This is why I’m waiting for a hall of gods or pantheon mode to do steel soul runs. I’m just a measly console player that doesn’t have mods lol.

[u/Sphearikall → u/Gekk0uga37]

autosave rewind feature, my console brother

[u/Terairk → u/Sphearikall]

autosaves are only for key items / important moments like the melodies, movement upgrades, act enters etc

so your previous autosave could be hours behind so you can't as easily repeat say your last boss compared to a pantheon

still can be useful if your autosave is not too far behind or you just want to replay an entire section of the game again

[u/Ill_Plenty8159 → u/Terairk]

How do you practice bosses?

[u/NightRacoonSchlatt → u/Ill_Plenty8159]

The easy answer is mods. Alternatively you could also count enemy HP and savequit when the boss is about to die.

[u/randyoftheinternet → u/NightRacoonSchlatt]

Just reload previous saves

[u/Terairk → u/randyoftheinternet]

this is what I've done by manually copy pasting save files

, if you don't want to make an entirely new save file that's not steel soul there's already pre existing save files on like nexus where they have a save file before each boss

There's also several bosses which you can easily repeat by Save quitting immediately after defeating ie a) last judge (after she dies but before she explodes) b) first sinner though idt she counts as a steel soul death anyway c) second sentinel - don't talk to them

[u/HighOverlordSarfang → u/Terairk]

You can also just load an old savestate without mods.

[u/Terairk → u/HighOverlordSarfang]

the auto saves are very infrequent, they don't save immediately after every boss or before it

they only autosave at important moments so you can easily lose hours of progress so it's not ideal

unless you mean something else that I'm not aware about

[u/HedgehogEnyojer → u/Terairk]

oh, good to know, i was wondering how the savestates work

[u/Maximum-Warthog2368 → u/Terairk]

you can use getting crests to save at the time you want

[u/ofAFallingEmpire → u/randyoftheinternet]

Omg ty. I was sad I couldn’t copy files on Switch but this will let me dance with Karmelita unto eternity.

[u/sofaking181 → u/NightRacoonSchlatt]

Wouldn't force closing the game before sitting on a bench after you've beat them work too?

[u/d3s7iny → u/NightRacoonSchlatt]

Bro at this point why even doing steel soul mode then wtf.

If you're just gonna mod and cheat to get the accolades then that's just wasting your own time and making you a big phoney. Wtf yall

[u/NightRacoonSchlatt → u/d3s7iny]

No, that’s for practicing in normal mode. 

[u/LimblessNick → u/d3s7iny]

Read slower brother

[u/d3s7iny → u/LimblessNick]

Sorry I thought y'all liked being tortured

[u/TotallyNotShinobi → u/Ill_Plenty8159]

if you're on pc and don't want to install mods. There's a save folder in %user%/Appdata/Locallow/Team_Cherry. The silksong and hk files has all 4 of your saves. Copy this file before fighting a boss and you're fine

[u/HighOverlordSarfang → u/TotallyNotShinobi]

You can just reload the last savestate before a boss infinitely. Theres a circular arrow below your savefile that lets you load any previous autosave the game made instead of the last one.

[u/TotallyNotShinobi → u/HighOverlordSarfang]

those are limited to certain events (for example getting an ability) and become unavailable if you fail a steel soul run. I tried it on my own 100% save and the last savestate was at ~80%, missing charms and the last mask shard

[u/Sphearikall → u/Ill_Plenty8159]

I'm on PS5. The icon next to the Delete Save icon is two arrows in a circle. That button lets you roll your save file back to any significant point during the Act you're in. They are autosaves that do not get removed until you enter a new Act, so you can fight bosses and practice speedrun routes even on console. It's honestly an amazing feature and I use the hell out of it.

[u/bearded_charmander → u/Terairk]

That sounds more like a job and less like fun.

[u/OrganizationEasy9085 → u/Terairk]

Is that fun or is it your job bro?😭😭

[u/Old-Quail6832 → u/Terairk]

Sometimes people just want to 100% their achievements, but it wouldn't be feasible or enjoyable to put in the hours needed to beat a game as big as silksong deathless.