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[DukeBobby]

Just out of curiosity. What's your favorite boss battle in the game, Gaf?

I really like Mergo's Wet Nurse, but my favorite is Gascoigne, as it feels like a pvp duel.

The two Gs, Gascoigne and

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Gehrman

. Coincidentally, these fights have the best music as well.

 

[fantomena]

I just can't beat Vicar. Tried the whole week...

 

[Draft]

Canon in bloodborne combined with reiterpalasch

This is so getting nerfed. :lol

lol. FROM is lucky matchmaking doesn't work or else people would be really upset.

 

[Alpende]

Finally killed the On

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e Reborn

. Leveld up, dropped down on that bitch and killed him

 

[Caderfix]

The two Gs, Gascoigne and

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Gehrman

. Coincidentally, these fights have the best music as well.

Yeah, great OST. But my favorite is the Cleric Beast's. It's super dark and oppressive

 

[The_Darkest_Red]

It's not my favorite but I think Cleric Beast deserves a little love. Incredibly epic entrance and one of the best songs in the game to accompany the fight. Combine that with the visual design of the boss and the insane screeches it makes... so good.

 

[Xeilyn]

I just can't beat Vicar. Tried the whole week...

Lvl? Weapon? Use fire paper and numbing mist for the heal

 

[hydruxo]

I just can't beat Vicar. Tried the whole week...

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Dodge into her when she attacks, and hit her legs from behind/the sides to stagger her. Also use fire paper & molotovs when when you can + numbing mist to prevent her HP regen. Her attacks are pretty predictable, just try not to leave too much distance between yourself and her if you can help it.

 

[Skii]

I was just watching a video of someone facing The O

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ne Reborn

and he never did his second transformation against me. Another boss that was ruined because of the glitch. Fuck sake.

 

[usp84]

I was just watching a video of someone facing The O

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ne Reborn

and he never did his second transformation against me. Another boss that was ruined because of the glitch. Fuck sake.

What 2nd transformation and also what glitch? :O

 

[fantomena]

Lvl? Weapon? Use fire paper and numbing mist for the heal

Lvl 26, weapon is saw cleaver upgraded some bit.

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Dodge into her when she attacks, and hit her legs from behind/the sides to stagger her. Also use fire paper & molotovs when when you can + numbing mist to prevent her HP regen. Her attacks are pretty predictable, just try not to leave too much distance between yourself and her if you can help it.

I know. Tried to make some distances between us.

 

[patchday]

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WetNurse

is my favorite boss so far

 

[autoduelist]

I think you're in the clear.

Thank you. I'm surprised they essentially made this a one-playthrough game. i'm used to 2 to 2.5 playthroughs. I'll probably do a ng+ (and maybe ++) anyway though.

Id just rather them not be able to heal. Its bullshit how they invade with 20 BV's and you're through a level already down and they can out sustain simply by having more vials.

You have vials too. And you might have coop partners making it 3 on 1. And even if it's just 1 on 1, them's the breaks, shoot them while they are using a vial and visceral them. Worst case? You die, no big deal.

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Upper Cathedral

is annoying because of possibility losing bunch of insight.

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Yahar'gul Chapel

was okay IMO. Just decided to run through everything.

Well they already have advantage to hide behind enemies. Also they can already use Choir Bell and

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Iosefkas Blood Vial

to heal.

I lost 4 there stupidly, thankfully I've got 40+ insight so it's no big deal.

RE: the

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Iosefkas Blood Vial

-- wait, you can use that item more than once?

 

[Caderfix]

Lvl 26, weapon is saw cleaver upgraded some bit.

I know. Tried to make some distances between us.

try this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKGPlRUK8EQ

She gave a really hard time at first, but after I learned her moves, it become way easier. The video is my second character. If you're interested, the whole stratey is in the comments.

 

[Sinfamy]

I wish more of this games content wasn't optional, I beat the game missing so much, I can only imagine people never replaying it and missing really cool areas.

 

[Skii]

What 2nd transformation and also what glitch? :O

When he's at half health, he becomes far more aggressive and seems to arrange himself so the

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torso is at the back

The glitch is that if you leave Bloodborne on for 10 hours or more, the bosses use only half of their moves making them extremely easy. Using suspend and resume also activates it even when on the title screen which I done a couple of times.

 

[joecanada]

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Dodge into her when she attacks, and hit her legs from behind/the sides to stagger her. Also use fire paper & molotovs when when you can + numbing mist to prevent her HP regen. Her attacks are pretty predictable, just try not to leave too much distance between yourself and her if you can help it.

good tips but if you don't have memory leak, or she behaves normally,

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she does a spin attack when you are behind her that rakes the ground all around so you actually need to dodge in and out for parts of it

. or you can go side to side sometimes as well but its difficult.

I'm sure you beat her legit but I've seen tons of videos where she doesn't do shit and then people say she's easy.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

I just can't beat Vicar. Tried the whole week...

She pissed me off for hours, then I discovered the joys of Flamesprayer. 2 attempts after I equipped that thing and she died. Wolfdeer really doesn't like fire.

 

[The_Darkest_Red]

I wish more of this games content wasn't optional, I beat the game missing so much, I can only imagine people never replaying it and missing really cool areas.

I think it's incredible that they were willing to make so much of the content optional. Nowadays modern game budgets dictate that everything must be thrown in front of the player in one playthrough, otherwise they could miss out on a section of the game that cost millions to make. Once again FROM takes a modern gaming convention and flips it on its head.

Anyway, now you have a nice reason to go back for another run (or play NG+)!

 

[usp84]

When he's at half health, he becomes far more aggressive and seems to arrange himself so the

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torso is at the back

The glitch is that if you leave Bloodborne on for 10 hours or more, the bosses use only half of their moves making them extremely easy. Using suspend and resume also activates it even when on the title screen which I done a couple of times.

I just killed it as fast as i could and tbh i didnt even understand any attack pattern it had.I dint do any of these things though

 

[ClayKavalier]

Is it worth it to kill the hunter in Byrgenworth? I used up all of my vials trying to fight her, I figured I had to kill her in order to talk to the guy outside the locked door (I just ran passed her to get the key). Eventually I got fed up and looked and a guide and

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just ran past her, into the lake to Rom.

Feels like cheating since this fight seems more essential than any of the other hunters. The guy gives you a clue that you need to

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jump into the lake, and it'd be hard to see that without killing the hunter.

It's such a frustrating fight though, I barely to any damage and she kills me in two hits, three max. A few times more than one of her missile things hit me at once and killed me in a single hit from full health.


I'm curious, is the

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huge Cthulhu spider

from the trailer still in the game? Very early in the game you read something references

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the Byrgenworth spider, I got excited when I got to Byrgenworth since I figured it would be there but I guess it was referring to Rom.

 

[Alpende]

Lol, I just opened up the

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Lecture

Hall, explored a bit, opened a door an entered the

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Nightmare of Mensis

or something. What the shit.

Is it worth it to kill the hunter in Byrgenworth? I used up all of my vials trying to fight her, I figured I had to kill her in order to talk to the guy outside the locked door (I just ran passed her to get the key). Eventually I got fed up and looked and a guide and

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just ran past her, into the lake to Rom.

Feels like cheating since this fight seems more essential than any of the other hunters. The guy gives you a clue that you need to

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jump into the lake, and it'd be hard to see that without killing the hunter.

It's such a frustrating fight though, I barely to any damage and she kills me in two hits, three max. A few times more than one of her missile things hit me at once and killed me in a single hit from full health.

She's pretty easy to parry, try that.

 

[GulAtiCa]

Have they ever nerfed anything for PvP in Souls?

I think I'll just play through N

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ightmare

F

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rontier

in Offline Mode to avoid PvP in this game lol

Yeah. Dark Souls 2 multiplayer PvP was getting nerfs all the time. Esp to spells and back stabs. In initial few patches, the back stab was over powered and could easily kill you. But now backstabs are less powerful then doing an extended attack. Which is actually good since lag and annoying netcode resulted in lagstabs from across the level.. lol

Main nerfs were spells, which could easily kill people. Like Sunlight Spear & Wrath of the Gods.

 

[Steel]

Have they ever nerfed anything for PvP in Souls?

I think I'll just play through N

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ightmare

F

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rontier

in Offline Mode to avoid PvP in this game lol

They've nerfed quite a lot for pvp in souls. Like the dark wood grain ring, pyromancy, fire/lightning weapons, etc. etc.

 

[w00zey]

How long does numbing mist last?

 

[MegaSackman]

Is it worth it to kill the hunter in Byrgenworth? I used up all of my vials trying to fight her, I figured I had to kill her in order to talk to the guy outside the locked door (I just ran passed her to get the key). Eventually I got fed up and looked and a guide and

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just ran past her, into the lake to Rom.

Feels like cheating since this fight seems more essential than any of the other hunters. The guy gives you a clue that you need to

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jump into the lake, and it'd be hard to see that without killing the hunter.

It's such a frustrating fight though, I barely to any damage and she kills me in two hits, three max. A few times more than one of her missile things hit me at once and killed me in a single hit from full health.


I'm curious, is the

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huge Cthulhu spider

from the trailer still in the game? Very early in the game you read something references

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the Byrgenworth spider, I got excited when I got to Byrgenworth since I figured it would be there but I guess it was referring to Rom.

The notes were referred to Rom, you'll see those Cthulhu like spiders from now on

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(plot twist! they were always there!! you could see them with just 40 insight during the whole game), but if you want to fight one of them... it's optional and you must do some stuff.

 

[phen0m24]

Sitting at work listening to the OST on YouTube. Gosh this game has hooks

 

[Phoenix944]

What the "additional ritual" do exactly ? I've tried one but I don't see much differences except for the bosses.

 

[joecanada]

spread the blood of

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Ioesfka all over the clinic before or after the blood moon?

any marked difference which is better option?

 

[Sykotik]

spread the blood of

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Ioesfka all over the clinic before or after the blood moon?

any marked difference which is better option?

Doing it

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after.....

leads to getting one of the

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items

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required

for the

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"true" ending

.

What the "additional ritual" do exactly ? I've tried one but I don't see much differences except for the bosses.

Basically, they increase difficulty in exchange for increasing rate/quality of loot.

 

[MegaSackman]

spread the blood of

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Ioesfka all over the clinic before or after the blood moon?

any marked difference which is better option?

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After Rom!! if you do that before (like me) you could miss an essential item.

 

[Arjen]

Just out of curiosity. What's your favorite boss battle in the game, Gaf?

I really like Mergo's Wet Nurse, but my favorite is Gascoigne, as it feels like a pvp duel.

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Headless bloodletting beast. Right amount of aggressive, great design, second phase is freaky as hell. Really enjoyed it.

 

[The_Darkest_Red]

Just speaking of "shit just got real" moments in boss fights: that moment when

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Amygdala rips off two of its own arms to use as weapons...

Loooooooved that.

 

[Menome]

Yesterday I have been killed at the hut in Hemwick and lost a lot of souls. Today I cleared the area but my souls are gone. There even was no enemy with them - what happend?

That may be a bug, it happened to me once. I left my bloodstain at a boss fight, quit, and went to bed. The next day the bloodstain was definitely gone when it shouldn't have been.

It does seem to be a bug, they don't actually vanish, they end up in the

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Lecture Hall. 2F I think.

 

[Caderfix]

Just speaking of "shit just got real" moments in boss fights: that moment when

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Amygdala rips off two of its own arms to use as weapons...

Loooooooved that.

Yeah, it definitely was an "OMG" moment. I was like "OHHH, she's going

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last giant

on me!"

Spoiler tag just to be safe lol

 

[gioGAF]

Lol at the cannon whiners. So some dude posts a youtube video of him slaughtering noobs with a cannon shot after a parry and suddenly it is OP. I sometimes wonder if people on this board actually PvP or do they just watch it on youtube, smh. Bunch of armchair quarterbacks here.

 

[Astral]

It does seem to be a bug, they don't actually vanish, they end up in the

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Lecture Hall. 2F I think.

Actually, I think if you quit the game without recovering your echoes, you lose them for good. It happened to me when I was still in Central Yharnam.

 

[myco666]

I lost 4 there stupidly, thankfully I've got 40+ insight so it's no big deal.

RE: the

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Iosefkas Blood Vial

-- wait, you can use that item more than once?

I remember reading that you can get more of those if you have used one. Sure it is one time per fight but still.

 

[Jb]

Just speaking of "shit just got real" moments in boss fights: that moment when

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Amygdala rips off two of its own arms to use as weapons...

Loooooooved that.

I laughed out loud when that happened. Pretty cool for a creepy giant

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spider

.

 

[The_Darkest_Red]

Lol at the cannon whiners. So some dude posts a youtube video of him slaughtering noobs with a cannon shot after a parry and suddenly it is OP. I sometimes wonder if people on this board actually PvP or do they just watch it on youtube, smh. Bunch of armchair quarterbacks here.

So what you're saying is you're a cannon user.

 

[gioGAF]

I remember reading that you can get more of those if you have used one. Sure it is one time per fight but still.

Yes, you can use these more than once. You can only have one in your inventory, but after it is used, you can go back and get another one (depending on where you are in the story).

 

[Astral]

Isn't the cannon easy to dodge? I've seen enemies that use them and I never got hit.

 

[Ferrio]

Lol at the cannon whiners. So some dude posts a youtube video of him slaughtering noobs with a cannon shot after a parry and suddenly it is OP. I sometimes wonder if people on this board actually PvP or do they just watch it on youtube, smh. Bunch of armchair quarterbacks here.

Canon is OP. No different than thunder spears, and those got nerfed in DS2. If it was a perfect lag free environment I might side with you, but that's not the case in Souls pvp.

 

[Dahbomb]

Lol at the cannon whiners. So some dude posts a youtube video of him slaughtering noobs with a cannon shot after a parry and suddenly it is OP. I sometimes wonder if people on this board actually PvP or do they just watch it on youtube, smh. Bunch of armchair quarterbacks here.

People were complaining about the cannon before that video was posted. It's really nothing new. And yes this is coming from people who actually PvP'd.

 

[Caderfix]

People were complaining about the cannon before that video was posted. It's really nothing new. And yes this is coming from people who actually PvP'd.

Stop whining though.

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the cannon is OP, no doubt about it.

 

[Donos]

Second illusory wall found. Again only Sage's wrist in a chest -_-.

Did someone find one in the main game so far? (non chalice) ?

Oh shit, lower phtumeru laberinth lvl 3 is putting the "tough enemy in one area" count up a bit.

 

[gioGAF]

So what you're saying is you're a cannon user.

Not really, I do have one character that can use the cannon but I spend more time on my skill character.

The details are not what bother me, it is the general movement by online communities to want to ruin anything that is remotely useful. The cannon is good in its current state (I would say balanced, given its bullet consumption), but if you get hit by it in PvP, then you deserve to lose the match. It is not some overpowered boom stick that cause the opponent to lose regardless of skill.

I hear whining about the Ludwig Holy Blade on other boards, when the weapon itself is merely one of the good ones and certainly not a force in PvP.

Asking for a ban/nerf without exhausting other options is the scrubs way out.

 

[ryuken-d]

I just beat

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Celestial Emissery

found in

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Upper Cathedral Ward

. Is that all there is to the area or am I missing something?

that area was cool but short. I beat the boss so easy it was a joke. I'm pretty lvl'd up but still. I'm pretty sure its just the orphanage two stories and the balconies and the boss area.

 

[Mr.Fletcher]

Completed it last night. I enjoyed it. It was my first experience with a game of this ilk and while I won't be rushing back in to play (it is far too oppressive for my tastes), it is something that will stick with me.

Clocked it in just over 24 hours and must say I didn't find it too tough. Definitely the best game out on the PS4.

 

[Kenzodielocke]

Completed it last night. I enjoyed it. It was my first experience with a game of this ilk and while I won't be rushing back in to play (it's far too oppressive for my tastes), it is something that will stick with me.

Clocked it in just over 24 hours and must say I didn't find it too tough. Definitely the best game out on the PS4.

Have you done everything ? 24h seems a bit low for that.