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[LiK]

If there is, it is an incredibly difficult and obtuse mechanic to understand.

try the Konami code

 

[indigo-cyclops]

Any hunter you kill, the armor they wore shows up there. Also get Tomb armor in there along with other sets.

At points you will be able to buy Fire / Bolt paper from that vendor with insight also.

I stock up on Bolt / Fire paper. Love that shit.

Later game hunters

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okay so there's three hunters in the Yaharagul chapel...will their gear show up in there. I didn't realize this possibility, though I did get Henryks gear. Just curious if they're worth fighting because they destroyed me.

 

[Veritigo_X]

Well when the hell does that happen? LOL. I'm currently in

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nightmare Mensis

which somebody told me is 4/5 of the way done with the game. Let at that paper!

I don't know what causes new items to appear. By that point in the game I could buy bolt/fire paper, numbing mist, bone blades, lead/blue elixir and a bunch of new gear. I feel like they unlocked after beating bosses.

 

[140.85]

I think they could have stuck the Castlevania name on this and it would be a good castlevania game. Anyone else agree with me?

The entire series has always felt like the third-person 3D version of Castlevania to me. If not in mechanics, at least in spirit. Dark Souls is basically SotN.

 

[Mattamus-Prime]

Im stuck on Rom, how the fuck do I dodge those fucking ice crystals

I found the best method is to dodge away from Rom when this attack happens. Not 100% but I got hit a lot less while doing this.

 

[toastyToast]

So

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is this badass motherfucker in a yellowy version of the mascot set with a cleaver and a pistol who's persisted through deaths supposed to be here?

He's

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Gascoigne's partner. Eileen the Crow should be there if you progressed her story line otherwise you've got a tough fight ahead of you if you want that outfit.

 

[UpDownLeftRight]

I just got back from a BB lan.. I am complety gfucked in the head, I amm done with this gamd until much further

Lager i will play darksouls2 ps4

Yoshi have you even slept since BB came out?

You streaming DS2 today? Interested to see if BB has any influence on your build in any way.

 

[Sullichin]

Did you do 3 legit playthrough or did you use savestates?
Because then of course it isn't as time consuming.

Pretty lame that you can do that. I kinda wish you had to go into NG++...

 

[Orthogonal]

Bloodborne lacks in a few areas that are maybe up for debate (character variety,) but one in which I feel there is just a massive step backwards is NPCs. Bloodborne has no Solaire of Astora. It doesn't even have a Stockpile Thomas.

Bloodborne is jammed with content. I'm shocked at how many maps and enemies and bosses are present. But the NPC stuff feels halfbaked. Maybe that's the direction Based Miyazaki felt appropriate. Maybe it was low on the list of priorities. But the NPCs mostly have no quest. If they have any quest, it's two steps long and doesn't involve much except talking to the NPC then going right into a fight. If Eileen the Crow and Alfred represent the apex of Bloodborne NPC interactions, then NPC interactions are not a highpoint of Bloodborne.

This was a major complaint of Dark Souls 2 as well. There are certainly some interesting characters, but their development is no where near the level of the first games.

Demons Souls and Dark Souls were packed with endearing and memorable characters. It is really a shame to see this aspect of the series remain in decline.

 

[IDKAboutThat]

He's

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Gascoigne's partner. Eileen the Crow should be there if you progressed her story line otherwise you've got a tough fight ahead of you if you want that outfit.

She was and

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he immediately massacred her.

 

[Yoshichan]

Did you do 3 legit playthrough or did you use savestates?
Because then of course it isn't as time consuming.

NG++ and NG+++ took me less than 4 hours to rush by :3 I think most people who 100% it the "legit" way ran past everything eventually!

 

[LollipoPReapeR]

Anyone around level 60 (+/-10) willing to help me out with Amygdala? Shit is really starting to annoy me

 

[BY2K]

She was and

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he immediately massacred her.

It's pretty badly put together, imo.

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If you go alone, it's a heck of a though fight, but if she comes in and you let her fight alone, most likely she'll get destroyed. If you help, there's good chances you'll hit her too many times by accident and she'll go hostile after the other hunter is dead.

 

[UnluckyKate]

Is there a b

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east mode

or not ?

Kinda-ish... ?

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a Chalice weapon turns your arms into werefowolf arms

 

[Breakfast at Noon]

Anyone around level 60 (+/-10) willing to help me out with Amygdala? Shit is really starting to annoy me

I thought it was 20 not 10?

 

[ThaddeusMcGee]

I don't know what causes new items to appear. By that point in the game I could buy bolt/fire paper, numbing mist, bone blades, lead/blue elixir and a bunch of new gear. I feel like they unlocked after beating bosses.

I think it's the badges you pick up that unlock new items. Oftentimes they're dropped by bosses, like Sword Hunter Badge, sometimes they are lying around in dangerous places.

 

[LollipoPReapeR]

I thought it was 20 not 10?

I dunno... Just though I'd be safe

 

[IDKAboutThat]

It's pretty badly put together, imo.

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If you go alone, it's a heck of a though fight, but if she comes in and you let her fight alone, most likely she'll get destroyed. If you help, there's good chances you'll hit her too many times by accident and she'll go hostile after the other hunter is dead.

I can't catch a fuckin' break with this game. I can't get the co op to work, either.

 

[toastyToast]

She was and

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he immediately massacred her.

On the plus side you can get the Blade of Mercy early? Still gotta grind them souls though

 

[super-famicom]

I think it's the badges you pick up that unlock new items. Oftentimes they're dropped by bosses, like Sword Hunter Badge, sometimes they are lying around in dangerous places.

I was under the impression that it was the badges as well.

 

[mxgt]

Did you do 3 legit playthrough or did you use savestates?
Because then of course it isn't as time consuming.

3 legit.

NG+ and ++ I ran past everything and only needed to do the required stuff. Each run only took a few hours.

 

[LiK]

I was under the impression that it was the badges as well.

yup

 

[Savantcore]

I'm not really understanding this Chalice Dungeon system. I just finished the first one, killing the giant fire thing at the end, and now I think I'm on the second one - it's called Pymtherudhishds-whatever, which is the same as the first, but it's 'Depth 2'. I assume that's right.

 

[Donos]

woohoo. walked into boss A

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mydalai lama

in this n

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ightmare

area and got it in one try. Ludwig's +7 hits to the head did whooping 680 dmg.
That area was beatiful but fook frenzy and poison.

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The two hunters were lower tier compared to others.

Question, a minute before the boss

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there is a cave, from the pool of poison with the squishy zoidbergs in it. Does it lead somehwere? Going back there now but i'm low on antidotes.

So far Martyr is still on top of bosses with most needed tries.

 

[Skatterd]

Do we know what insight does yet? I mean beyond speculation? I read it makes the game harder so I'm tempted to lower mine, but those vendors who accept insight are fucking useless. They have nothing worth buying.

Fire Paper and Bolt Paper are totally worth buying.

 

[BY2K]

I flip the bird to

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Nightmare of Mensis

pretty hard but goddamn the fight against

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Micolash, Host of the Nightmare

is really fun.

 

[iRAWRasaurus]

It's pretty badly put together, imo.

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If you go alone, it's a heck of a though fight, but if she comes in and you let her fight alone, most likely she'll get destroyed. If you help, there's good chances you'll hit her too many times by accident and she'll go hostile after the other hunter is dead.

Yeah I was afraid of hitting her too much. Atlast she was KIA on my second character..

 

[Lakitu]

Holy fuck, thanks for the tips guys. It worked!! There's a little sewage stain on my trousers.

 

[cpp_is_king]

Did you do 3 legit playthrough or did you use savestates?
Because then of course it isn't as time consuming.

You can burn through a NG+ in about 2-3 hours even if you aren't a good speedrunner

 

[super-famicom]

woohoo. walked into boss A

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mydalai lama

in this n

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ightmare

area and got it in one try. Ludwig's +7 hits to the head did whooping 680 dmg.
That area was beatiful but fook frenzy and poison.

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The two hunters were lower tier compared to others.

Question, a minute before the boss

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there is a cave, from the pool of poison with the squishy zoidbergs in it. Does it lead somehwere? Going back there now but i'm low on antidotes.

So far Martyr is still on top of bosses with most needed tries.

There are a few runes in that area, totally worth exploring to get them all.

 

[LiK]

I'm not really understanding this Chalice Dungeon system. I just finished the first one, killing the giant fire thing at the end, and now I think I'm on the second one - it's called Pymtherudhishds-whatever, which is the same as the first, but it's 'Depth 2'. I assume that's right.

once you finish one, you have a chalice to create the next one. second one is Central, then it's Lower. you need the mats/echoes to create them.

 

[Tevious]

They need to improve how co-op works in Chalice dungeons. No one ever joins me and I've never been able to join anyone else. I have it set to open and I'm using the bell. They need a matchmaking feature. And it'd be great if they had a toolset so people can make their own dungeons and bosses.

 

[Yoshichan]

Yoshi have you even slept since BB came out?

You streaming DS2 today? Interested to see if BB has any influence on your build in any way.

When I 100%'d it on my NA-account, I slept so, so much. I decided to play DkS PS4 afterwards but just as I bought it, I got invited to a Bloodborne LAN-party and I couldn't resist that shit. Now I'm back to not having slept in so long again... but I just got back from the LAN so I can finally sleep now... school tomorrow.. FUCK

 

[Donos]

It's pretty badly put together, imo.

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If you go alone, it's a heck of a though fight, but if she comes in and you let her fight alone, most likely she'll get destroyed. If you help, there's good chances you'll hit her too many times by accident and she'll go hostile after the other hunter is dead.

Lol i got *lucky* because Henryk instantly focused on me and i was fighting for my life. She was doing damage from behind him so there was no risk in hitting her. At the beginning i also thought, what would happen if i hit her accidently.

 

[Sullichin]

I keep doing Lower Hintertomb depth 3 variations over and over to try to get Ritual Blood (4). I get maybe one in an entire run if that. Is there something better I should be doing?

 

[Savantcore]

once you finish one, you have a chalice to create the next one. second one is Central, then it's Lower. you need the mats/echoes to create them.

Yeah I think I've got it. Just that I had another Chalice in my inventory I assume from completing the main game, and was wondering if that was the second Dungeon or something. Nevermind.

 

[LiK]

Yeah I think I've got it. Just that I had another Chalice in my inventory I assume from completing the main game, and was wondering if that was the second Dungeon or something. Nevermind.

yea, it's obtuse. I gave up and just checked out a Chalice guide on YT. I dunno why it was so hard for them to teach us this since it's not part of the main game.

 

[Moofers]

Fire Paper and Bolt Paper are totally worth buying.

They're not available in my game. Just unlocked the 4th warp tombstone in the Hunters Dream as well.

 

[140.85]

I flip the bird to

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Nightmare of Mensis

pretty hard but goddamn the fight against

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Micolash, Host of the Nightmare

is really fun.

I love how when you finish him he

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turns into a sniveling cowardly mess

.

 

[UnluckyKate]

I flip the bird to

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Nightmare of Mensis

pretty hard but goddamn the fight against

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Micolash, Host of the Nightmare

is really fun.

And you seen nothing yet of that area haha

 

[Savantcore]

yea, it's obtuse. I gave up and just checked out a Chalice guide on YT. I dunno why it was so hard for them to teach us this since it's not part of the main game.

The biggest confusion was that I just thought they were randomly generated every time. I thought it was just another mode that threw you into a dungeon, none of this Chalice stuff. Oh well, still fun to play.

 

[Randam]

This was a major complaint of Dark Souls 2 as well. There are certainly some interesting characters, but their development is no where near the level of the first games.

Demons Souls and Dark Souls were packed with endearing and memorable characters. It is really a shame to see this aspect of the series remain in decline.

Npcs in Dark Souls 2 sucked ass.

Worst is the girl, that obviously is the daughter of the black smith but after she moved in front of his shop nothing happens for the rest of the game.

 

[Alo0oy]

Bloodborne lacks in a few areas that are maybe up for debate (character variety,) but one in which I feel there is just a massive step backwards is NPCs. Bloodborne has no Solaire of Astora. It doesn't even have a Stockpile Thomas.

Bloodborne is jammed with content. I'm shocked at how many maps and enemies and bosses are present. But the NPC stuff feels halfbaked. Maybe that's the direction Based Miyazaki felt appropriate. Maybe it was low on the list of priorities. But the NPCs mostly have no quest. If they have any quest, it's two steps long and doesn't involve much except talking to the NPC then going right into a fight. If Eileen the Crow and Alfred represent the apex of Bloodborne NPC interactions, then NPC interactions are not a highpoint of Bloodborne.

I disagree with the build variety, just because the game doesn't start you with

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an arcane spell

right away doesn't mean the game has no build variety, the variety just comes much later than the previous games.

I agree with you on NPCs though, what few NPCs the game has are great, there just aren't that many of them, I really wanted to populate

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Hunter's Dream

like how it was with the Nexus. In Demon's Souls you could interact with the NPCs a lot because they were in the Nexus & you could speak to them after every boss to see what they're up to, I think the lore in this game is much deeper & more interesting than the Souls games, which makes the game not having more friendly NPCs an even bigger disappointment.

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This was a major complaint of Dark Souls 2 as well. There are certainly some interesting characters, but their development is no where near the level of the first games.

Demons Souls and Dark Souls were packed with endearing and memorable characters. It is really a shame to see this aspect of the series remain in decline.

I wouldn't put it that way though, in terms of "friendly NPCs" sure, but

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Iosefka

for example had a better & deeper arc than any Souls game before, she's just not considered a "friendly NPC", which is where I thought the game was lacking.

 

[Beelzebufo]

Just realized the OT title has been changed to reflect my suggestion! Don't know if that was intentional or not, but thanks haha

 

[PodcastFips]

Is there anything I should do before fighting R

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om

? Don't want to miss out on anything, I heard things change at this point.

 

[Donos]

They're not available in my game. Just unlocked the 4th warp tombstone in the Hunters Dream as well.

? there is a side door in the house in hunters dream. There is a pool with messengers (appear only with 10+ insight). There you can buy them.

 

[LiK]

Npcs in Dark Souls 2 sucked ass.

Worst is the girl, that obviously is the daughter of the black smith but after she moved in front of his shop nothing happens for the rest of the game.

actually, I really loved Lucatiel. I liked her story and her VO was fantastic. sadly, we don't get anyone like her in BB.

 

[autoduelist]

So between connection errors and joining up with a friend in chalice dungeons, I'm down to 2 insight (I haven't used any inventory insight items though). Story wise, I'm done with BSB and Vicar Amelia.

Am I hurting my gameplay by having such low insight? Is it easy to acquire (I've been helping others kill BSB but I have so little gaming time doing a help run often takes up most of my session, especially if I need to show them all the secrets / kill hunters, etc)

 

[J-Skee]

I have a New Game Plus question:

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Does your Chalices & Chalice Dungeons carry over or do I have to fight the Blood-starved Beast to unlock them again? I'm at the endgame & just want to finish the story.

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As a follow up question, do enemies in Chalice Dungeons change in the same way as enemies in the regular would in New Game Plus as well?

 

[Stainless]

Lol i got *lucky* because Henryk instantly focused on me and i was fighting for my life. She was doing damage from behind him so there was no risk in hitting her. At the beginning i also thought, what would happen if i hit her accidently.

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He attacked me on sight the first time I went there, I never even saw Eileen. After he wrecked me and I went back and they were engaged in a fight. I targeted him and managed to kill him without aggro'ing Eileen at all