BruceLeeRoy
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Yeah those guys are terrible.
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Yeah those guys are terrible.
test_account
XP-39C²
Ah ok, i see. For some reason, i didnt see that it mentioned this in the link that you posted. I remember that from
Demon's Souls. "The Great One" sounded like the last boss in Demon's Souls, but i remember those slugs enemies in the game too 
Like in the room before the Old Hero.
Like in the room before the Old Hero.Deified Data
Banned
Shame. I get it, different game means different priorities, but still. I would have preferred if they left out all online functions and allocated those resources elsewhere if they weren't willing to implement them properly. They could have stood to make chalice dungeons a bit more interesting.
Mr Fahrenheit
Member
Some people like it I think.
I
fast dodged while locked on, backwards then side to side then kept attacking.
I can upload video later if people want to see how a moderately good but not amazing player did it.
KZObsessed
Member
Just got to the
Wtf FROM calm down.
Cant find the 3rd bell maiden. Little annoyed they respawn. Thought it'd be like the necromancers from Dark Souls. And the one in
doesn't.
Thre shortcuts/level design in this game are incredible though.
Unseen Village.
Cant find the 3rd bell maiden. Little annoyed they respawn. Thought it'd be like the necromancers from Dark Souls. And the one in
Nightmare Frontier
Thre shortcuts/level design in this game are incredible though.
Bosses can bug out and just not do anything but a few attacks. Happened to me when I first did M
artyr
ogarius
ergo's
et
urse
I was in a party with my friend while he was playing and
he never had Vicar Amelia heal/saw her ever do anything beyond some basic attacks. He had the same thing happen at Logarius.
The most annoying thing is it can be hard to tell if that happened and you 'really' beat it.
tokilamockingbrd
Member
The same floor where the lamp is near the ladder. Its kinda hard to miss him.
To be fair, if you get stuck on a boss (and everyone has that one guy they struggle with), there's a chance you can run out of vials.
And that's a design flaw, not a choice. It's the only time I've ever been 'forced' to farm.
The PvP issue is a fundamental design flaw, not a bug. If someone's main draw to the game is the social aspect then yes I could see them rating it lower than DS2.
test_account
XP-39C²
Yeah, i think that is how it works indeed. It would be nice to know the exact conditions for matchmaking. I'm currently at level 150 or something (i havnt duped). Sometimes its easy to find someone, but other times i've waited like 10+ minutes and i didnt get any matches. It also depends on when you're playing (it might be less people playing at night for example). And like you mentioned, which area you're at also matters. Its a pity that there is no way to know for sure which area that is most popular and where most people are willing to do co-op.
PoweredByHentai
Member
Just beat the game after putting in 44 hours. I enjoyed almost everything about it, but thewas so unsatisfying to me. I liked what story and mystery there was, but I feel like they were too vague this time around.refuse ending
"Eh" is not a very good feeling to walk away from a game with, no matter how good it is overall!
I'm going to copy pasta my post on Kotaku:
There are several reasons why the game has you become a Hunter and go through the whole process of slaughtering just about everything.
1. Your duty is to purge the cause of this beastly curse for the survivors and other Hunters. This means hunting down and killing the Great Ones that are the cause of this fiasco since they really should not exist in this plane of existence. This is why if you choose to surrender your life to Gehrman, you are effectively banished from ever having to deal with this beastly nightmare. This is why this particular ending has you wake up to a picturesque view of morning in a decidedly empty Yharnam, because it is a literal ghost town and there are no beastly nightmares to deal with.
2. You hunt and kill just about everything as a way to demonstrate that you are the strongest. But displaying this strength is exactly what one of the Great Ones want (the final, final boss), because they desire a new vessel (more like vassal) to exert their power/control. This is why if you just beat the final boss (not final, final boss), you effectively become Gehrman. Gehrman is partly responsible for managing this nightmare. He may not have created it, but he is duty bound to manage it. This is why killing Mergos Wet Nurse and ending the nightmares reveals the house in Hunters Dream being in flames. There was nothing left to sustain the Hunters Dream as it existed in its own microcosm.
3. If you are doing the True Ending, then you are slaughtering everything to become the strongest so that you can reset the world as a Great One. This ending assumes that you have been paying attention to the various lore about the Great Ones that are scattered all over Yharnam. Part of the reason why the Beast Curse/Plague came about was exactly because some people got the bright idea of trying to commune with the Great Ones and a few others got the bright idea of even becoming a Great One or of creating a Great One by their own means. Their desire for ever more power was what summoned the Great Ones into this realm and once that happened, it was pretty much too late for anyone within Yharnam to do anything about it.
1. Your duty is to purge the cause of this beastly curse for the survivors and other Hunters. This means hunting down and killing the Great Ones that are the cause of this fiasco since they really should not exist in this plane of existence. This is why if you choose to surrender your life to Gehrman, you are effectively banished from ever having to deal with this beastly nightmare. This is why this particular ending has you wake up to a picturesque view of morning in a decidedly empty Yharnam, because it is a literal ghost town and there are no beastly nightmares to deal with.
2. You hunt and kill just about everything as a way to demonstrate that you are the strongest. But displaying this strength is exactly what one of the Great Ones want (the final, final boss), because they desire a new vessel (more like vassal) to exert their power/control. This is why if you just beat the final boss (not final, final boss), you effectively become Gehrman. Gehrman is partly responsible for managing this nightmare. He may not have created it, but he is duty bound to manage it. This is why killing Mergos Wet Nurse and ending the nightmares reveals the house in Hunters Dream being in flames. There was nothing left to sustain the Hunters Dream as it existed in its own microcosm.
3. If you are doing the True Ending, then you are slaughtering everything to become the strongest so that you can reset the world as a Great One. This ending assumes that you have been paying attention to the various lore about the Great Ones that are scattered all over Yharnam. Part of the reason why the Beast Curse/Plague came about was exactly because some people got the bright idea of trying to commune with the Great Ones and a few others got the bright idea of even becoming a Great One or of creating a Great One by their own means. Their desire for ever more power was what summoned the Great Ones into this realm and once that happened, it was pretty much too late for anyone within Yharnam to do anything about it.
fluffydelusions
Member
I much prefer eskus flasks...I'm not a fan of farming for vials =\
Witches abode lamp. Backtrack from the lamp and kill the villagers, the cleaver cape guys x3, and the ogre with the hammer.
You can also just farm Lecture Hall floor 2, you get tons of echoes and can max out your vials or anything else quickly
You can also just farm Lecture Hall floor 2, you get tons of echoes and can max out your vials or anything else quickly
this boss bug is souring my experience looking back at it, as I bet I was hit with it a lot from what im reading
never healed for me,
just tried to punch me (I thought it was a joke by from actually),
never split in 2... thats a fucking shame
hopefully ill get the "full" experience one day when / if I replay it
Amelia
Micolash
Wet Nurse
hopefully ill get the "full" experience one day when / if I replay it
Marvel
could never
And a bonus pic, but kinda spoilery so here's the link:
http://i.imgur.com/sgKcxag.jpg
Me and mah slug friends
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
How do you take full screenshots in the game?
The timing of the ps4 suspend patch really fucked over this game.
The timing of the ps4 suspend patch really fucked over this game.
Mr Fahrenheit
Member
Thing is that the basic design of the PvP for these games is that they were designed for invading, as in you get invaded by someone trying to dick you over while you're in the middle of doing something, not "tip your helmet and bow in front of the stairs in Anor Londo" honorable dueling that it became for some reason. Seems like they're trying to get away from that.
So yeah, the saving feature in this game doesn't play well with power surges. I lost the progress I made today to the save being corrupted.
Thankfully, if there was ever an argument to be made for the virtues for cloud saving, it was certainly this situation.
What I did:
It's really not a shitload of progress in the long run, but it sucks all the same since I did spend some time farming blood for a particularly weapon you get from the end of that storyline, which is unfortunate, to say the least.
Thankfully, if there was ever an argument to be made for the virtues for cloud saving, it was certainly this situation.
What I did:
-beat Rom
-finished Eileen's storyline
-killed Iosefka after her miraculous conception happened
-unlocked the Lecture Hall
-finished Eileen's storyline
-killed Iosefka after her miraculous conception happened
-unlocked the Lecture Hall
It's really not a shitload of progress in the long run, but it sucks all the same since I did spend some time farming blood for a particularly weapon you get from the end of that storyline, which is unfortunate, to say the least.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
There isn't a ladder next to the lamp in the lecture building and there was no giant in the hall. Are there TWO lecture buildings?
Even on NG+? Oh thank God, it's just me.
Nose Master
Member
Was running through random chalice dungeons trying to find those stupid electric centipedes so I could farm Arcane Haze... found the Arcane Extractor instead. You can get 5 Haze from pretty much every chalice item, including Ritual Blood (1). So good.
Also, this Level 5 dungeon is the hottest of bullshit. Didn't even know the
Also, this Level 5 dungeon is the hottest of bullshit. Didn't even know the
normal aliens shot lazorbeams CONSTANTLY.
Marvel
could never
If you mean without my character in view, that's just clever positioning. Can take a while.
But they didn't get away from that, they made it worse. It's almost impossible to invade someone outside of the areas that have bell women in them by default.
No i mean full sized, not tiny twitter pictures.
Collateral22
Member
How do you summon NPCs to boss fights?
WickedLaharl
Member
PVP and co-op is just garbage in bloodborne atm. I hope it is improved quickly because the game is hurting already in replay value compared to its predecessors.
it also means im not as good as I thought I was afterall lol. I bet ill go back to being destroyed in DS2 and having to resort to summons again
Once I bought 99 vials, I never had to farm again.
It cost a lot of blood echoes, but it was worth it.
Marvel
could never
I copy the pictures to a USB stick and then upload them to a site
(I upload to Facebook) if that helps.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
Ha I just realized GiantBomb still haven't reviewed the game yet. They must be getting wrecked
fluffydelusions
Member
lol I don't think I'd go that far. My farming is just central yharman and get the werewolves on the bridge for 3 each and the 2 big guys below for 2 each. I just do that a couple times.
UnluckyKate
Member
is there a way to not play the game 3 times to get 3 endings trophies ? How does NG ++ scale up compared to NG+ ?
super-famicom
Member
Finished E
quest line!
ileen's
its not like giantbomb reviews games on time ever anyway, if at all
fluffydelusions
Member
Someone come help me on ROM pls...I'm sick of this dude.
plasmawave
Banned
I usually spend whatever blood echoes left to buy blood vials. Never had to farm for it.
Share the image to Twitter, then open it in a new tab and replace the "large" at the end of the URL with "orig".
Voila.
Mr Fahrenheit
Member
It basically the same deal though, in DeS and DaS they had human and soul form, so when you wanted help you'd go into human form and search for signs while being at risk of invasions, other than that you just stayed in soul form. This is more or less the same in that you only get invaded when you're ringing for co-op. I just think they should make it so you can kill the bell woman.
test_account
XP-39C²
There is always NG+
Regarding
Micolash
jump down after him. If you rather sprint all the way around instead of jumping down, he will just run the same pattern over and over again. If you jump down after him, he will go to the area that the developers intended.
How so?
WickedLaharl
Member
blood vials are such a shit system
super-famicom
Member
I heard you can upload your save to a USB stick, then just reload that save after seeing one of the endings.
fluffydelusions
Member
Is summoning even working? I've tried it a few times at ROM and sat there for like 10 - 15 minutes each time with no one showing
killertofu
Member
Is it worth it to pump arcane to use the
gloves, plasm and bone?
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