I was planning on publishing this much sooner, but the bug got fixed just after wrapping up the video. Looking back, I still think it's worth posting just for nostalgia sake.
After figuring out how the downscaling generally works in Elden Ring, I then had the displeasure of learning that the community had discovered a bug with the Phantom Bloody Finger. Using it disabled all downscaling on phantoms in the world - so that explains why sometimes a password-summoned phantom would be so much more powerful than you'd expect.
This was especially bad for me as I'm normally highly reliant on the Phantom Bloody Finger for better positioning or to restart an encounter - let alone trying to compensate for the absolutely abysmal spawn points for invasions.
Thanks to @Malastromefor cutting together this video from my vods.
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Originally streamed on 2023-01-07
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