Another day, different Elden Ring situation run. Since FromSoftware’s massively fashionable Soulslike dropped connected February 25, Tarnished the satellite implicit person tackled the crippled successful immoderate perfectly nutty ways. But portion beating it with a azygous hand and playing it with a harp are impressive, Twitch streamer Luality has been taking it to a full caller level lately by attempting to decorativeness Elden Ring with a freakin’ drafting tablet.

You whitethorn person heard of Luality before. A Brazilian contented creator who chiefly plays Soulslikes connected Twitch and YouTube, Luality has been challenging herself to bushed these hard games successful immoderate genuinely insane ways for a infinitesimal now. Back successful 2018, for example, she ran done Dark Souls 3 with a Dance Dance Revolution creation pad, sidesplitting pugnacious bosses similar the Dancer of the Boreal Valley and the Nameless King portion sweating up a storm. She aboriginal murked each of Elden Ring’s baddies with the creation pad, a feat that brought her truthful overmuch attraction she ended up making an quality astatine PAX West’s Intel booth. You tin ideate however shook I was watching Luality bash this. As FromSoft’s crippled continues kicking my ass, present she is, bodying brag aft brag with a creation pad similar it’s nothing.

So, erstwhile I stumbled connected Luality stomping Godrick the Grafted with a drafting tablet portion scrolling the Elden Ring subreddit, I was floored and needed to cognize more. Why? How did the setup work? Was playing with a drafting tablet hard and, much specifically, was it harder than with a creation pad? I had the accidental to chat with Luality implicit Twitter DMs, who gave maine each the tea.

Maybe the astir confusing portion of the tally is however it each works. Luality broke it down, explaining that she’s utilizing some a PC and PS5 (via PlayStation Remote Play) to watercourse Elden Ring to her Wacom Cintiq Pro 13 tablet. Things aren’t perfect, she said, but with the assistance of her community, she cobbled thing unneurotic that worked good capable for her to bushed the anserine Tree Sentinel waiting for each Tarnished astatine the opening of Limgrave.

“I had this thought 2 weeks ago, I asked a fewer friends for help, and successful 3 days we could person immoderate prototype that hardly worked,” Luality said. “Then I went to PAX West. I was invited to play creation pad Elden Ring unrecorded astatine the Intel Booth! It was amazing! As soon arsenic I arrived backmost home, I kept moving connected the tablet tally and close present we are adjacent to cleanable and by cleanable I mean hardly possible! This tally is held unneurotic by my hopes and dreams much than anything! I americium utilizing 5 antithetic programs that aren’t meant to enactment unneurotic to marque this possible. But dilatory adjusting things and making things much unchangeable has been large fun, particularly arsenic the tally started to instrumentality signifier and I started sidesplitting bosses. it conscionable makes maine blessed however acold we came successful specified a abbreviated time!”

If you’ve seen immoderate of Luality’s clips, you’ll announcement she draws strokes crossed the tablet’s surface to execute in-game actions similar attacking (a consecutive line) and jumping (a triangle). Some commands were excessively cumbersome to enactment with. Camera control, for example, was intolerable with this setup, truthful she gave up connected that entirely, relying lone connected the “reset camera” command. Accuracy is intolerable here, which Luality said made the tally “incredibly hard and frustrating” but wholly doable.

“Both the creation pad and drafting tablet aren’t precise reliable controllers and person their challenges, but the tablet beats the creation pad connected this one,” Luality said. “In a batch of places they travel unneurotic arsenic as bad. I person nary camera power connected either. But astatine slightest connected the creation pad, I tin clasp keys down truthful things similar sprinting and walking successful a diagonal is much reliable. With the tablet, I can’t clasp keys. I person to support drafting and drawing. Sometimes the tablet allows maine to locomotion successful a diagonal line, but if I americium utilizing my pen, I person to prime a absorption oregon it’s overwhelmed by inputs! Talking astir this makes maine laugh. I conscionable emotion however each this hardly works. It makes it much amusive and peculiar to me.”

Something she’s a spot much cognizant during this situation tally is however her assemblage feels arsenic she plays.

“My wrists are good,” Luality said. “Sometimes, the presumption I request to person the tablet makes my hands wounded a bit, but I americium moving connected solving that occupation truthful it’s not a semipermanent issue! I did harm a tendon successful my feet portion doing creation pad runs a portion back, but I americium mostly good now!”

Of course, this isn’t Luality’s archetypal jaunt done Elden Ring. Though she couldn’t recount however galore times she’s beaten the game, she’s intent connected finishing it with the drafting tablet due to the fact that she’s “too stubborn” to springiness up now. She did, however, talk astir the run’s hardest portion truthful far, which, possibly surprisingly, has been conscionable walking astir the Lands Between with her Tarnished. It archetypal consisted of drafting lines to initiate movement, but overmuch similar camera control, that became excessively cumbersome. Instead, Luality overlaid a virtual keyboard lone for quality movement, which streamlined things a bit.

The bundle setup is simply a enactment successful progress, truthful Luality didn’t stock the programs she’s utilizing to marque this each possible. However, she shouted retired to her assemblage respective times for helping her spot it through.

“I americium besides not doing this alone,” Luality said. “People successful my assemblage person been helping maine and they person ever helped maine a lot. The crushed I ever accidental ‘we did it!’ erstwhile we marque thing chill is due to the fact that it has ever been a radical effort. They assistance maine troubleshoot things. They assistance maine fig details out. They assistance maine effort antithetic things. They enactment maine financially truthful I tin spend to instrumentality the clip and bargain the materials needed for those runs, and astir importantly, they are ever determination for maine and they judge successful maine adjacent erstwhile I don’t judge successful myself and they support maine going.”

I emotion however astir her assemblage Luality is, and you truly get that consciousness of camaraderie watching her streams. Not lone does she crockery retired dependable narration advice—sample: respect yourself, bash not enactment up with bullshit—but she besides gives retired integer high-fives whenever she accomplishes something, whether that’s beating a hard force oregon surviving a monolithic driblet disconnected a cliff. It’s hella wholesome, not slightest due to the fact that she streams with her bunnies. That doesn’t marque it immoderate little stressful, though, and I’ve been sweating watching her get repeatedly pummeled by bosses.

So, what’s adjacent for Luality? Aside from finishing Elden Ring with her drafting tablet—she’s astir mid-way done the crippled arsenic of her latest Twitch stream, presently warring Rennala Queen of the Full Moon and Starscourge Radahn—she’s besides conjuring up immoderate different earnestly bonkers situation runs for FromSoftware’s latest Soulslike.

“I person been playing FromSoftware games successful weird ways for galore years,” Luality said. “I’m often reasoning and having weird ideas for runs. I person a soft tally planned for sometime soon. Most things are acceptable [on that front]!”