Orochinagis
Member
I played the 360 version and it was alright, not sure about the framerate on the PS3. You should give it a try there only one zone that have bad framerate
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Bloodborne |OT+5| Grant Us Eyes!
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I played the 360 version and it was alright, not sure about the framerate on the PS3. You should give it a try there only one zone that have bad framerate
Red Liquorice
Member
Jump in, it's perfectly fine on console.
Blighttown is the area with the frame rate trouble - an early game area, made much worse by having multiplayer in that area, so be aware of that if playing online. Everywhere else is fine.
Blighttown is the area with the frame rate trouble - an early game area, made much worse by having multiplayer in that area, so be aware of that if playing online. Everywhere else is fine.
Since you have a PS3, start with Demon's Souls. It's the first and IMO the best game in the series.
Shadowman16
Member
Thanks for the advice everyone 
I'll be getting Dark Souls on the PS3 then. I've already completed Demon Souls last year, loved it. I have to replay it though as I mainly focused on range attacks on my first playthrough, so I want to do a more close combat build next go round.
Meanwhile, I've hit a brick wall on the Old Hunters. I've met
and I'm having a hard time with him. He's really quick and does a shit ton of damage. I've managed to get to his second phase a couple of times but I'm still trying to memorise his different attacks. Parrying his attacks is proving to be tough as well... Awesome boss battle though, I just need more time to learn the boss battle inside out...
I'll be getting Dark Souls on the PS3 then. I've already completed Demon Souls last year, loved it. I have to replay it though as I mainly focused on range attacks on my first playthrough, so I want to do a more close combat build next go round.Meanwhile, I've hit a brick wall on the Old Hunters. I've met
Orphan of Kos
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Took me three weeks of evenings to beat him. I literally screamed when I finally took him down.
Shadowman16
Member
I took a lunch break and tried again. Took 3-4 tries of figuring out how I wanted to play the fight before taking him down, but I managed it!
I found countering his first phase attacks to be my best bet, my timing was a few seconds out all this time, once I adjusted that I parried almost every attack of his in the first phase, which was great news as the second phase still kicked my ass! I just had to evade and attack where possible... Tough as heck, I'd probably rank it as the hardest boss in the game, I mean I had issues with
Blood Starved Beast at the beginning, and didn't find Paarl very easy - I feel I fluked that battle
One thing that surprised me though was the boss battle against
Lawrence
I also managed to get all the weapons, wasn't really going for that trophy but I was only missing 2-3 so it only took a couple of minutes to get.
Orochinagis
Member
Larry is hard but since he shares his moveset with cleric beast he maybe easy for some
You have to buy a dlc pistol from the vendors in the Dream
Did you do the sidequest on the research hall?
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Shadowman16
Member
Which sidequest was in the research hall? I remember getting
Brain Fluid from the blob at the top of the clocktower
Bronetta
Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
I believe you have to get 3 of them for Adeline for the Milkweed rune.
GalacticToast
Member
Anyone else having trouble playing online? I was trying to co-op with a buddy earlier on Nightmare Frontier and it wouldn't connect. Also, in different areas bloodstains/messages wouldn't appear. Not sure what the issue might've been.
Shadowman16
Member
Yes. They were doing server maintenance all morning/afternoon when I was playing the game earlier.
FlowersisBritish
fleurs n'est pas britannique
Server maintenance? It means Sony cares. That means BB2 confirmed. Ah yeah!
Orochinagis
Member
On the first floor you will find one of the patients being tied to a chair, talk to her to start the sidequest, she will ask for brain fluid dropped by three big gliant blops in the area.
You will get acces to a secret area, a spell and a rune
Bronetta
Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
I just got to the last boss in the DLC and that lead up to the fight was just something else wow. The whole final area is just insane, I had to take a break to post here.
Shadowman16
Member
Yeah, there were some pretty intense battles leading up to the last boss. I was even more relieved than usual to reach some lanterns/short cuts!
The Hamburglar
Banned
need some advice for the DLC area. I'm lvl 74, do a ton of damage, I counter attack for 1k. But I feel I need to grind some more, maybe level up some weapons, Wheres good for grinding blood echos and the final weapon mat?
I'm mainly using the AXE.
pissing me off having to go back to central Y just to farm blood vials as well, you should get full when you die.
I'm mainly using the AXE.
pissing me off having to go back to central Y just to farm blood vials as well, you should get full when you die.
Your blood vial count will go back up to 20 if you have enough in reserve. At that level, farming for vials in Central Yarnham probably isn't worth the time. I would go somewhere where you can get a decent amount of echoes and then use those to buy vials from the bath messenger, otherwise whenever you go back to the hunters dream and have a few thousand extra just use those to buy vials.
There's pigs in Nightmare of Mensis. Run up and kill them, rinse and repeat - with the right runes equipped ('moon'), you can easily get almost 100k echoes per run (also killing dudes in your way). I'd def play up to that point first before going back to the DLC. It's just a crazy good farming spot and you will never care about running out of vials again.
Orochinagis
Member
In the area before Wet Nurse mergo, farm everything there for bloodvials and echoes or in the first part of mensis, kills the giants and the pale wolves for echoes. Or if you are in chalices farm ailing loran for echoes
Bronetta
Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
Have you reached Mergo's Loft in Nightmare of Mensis? Killing the pigs + Shadows of Yharnam gives a lot of echoes. Probably the best spot for farming blood echoes.
The Hamburglar
Banned
I stayed away from mensis as its the only area I can go and didn't want to accidentally finish the game before the DLC. I will try there then.
Orochinagis
Member
Melchiah
Member
The farming spot is right after that though.
Edit: and equip all the Moon runes you have. It gives you about 100k echoes, and ~300k on NG+, with three of those runes.
Lure the pigs to the group of guys near the stairs so they kill each other and you save like 20-30 seconds.
The Hamburglar
Banned
I was having issues with mensis just found the area very frustrating, don't know why it isn't even that hard. Gave up for the weekend.
Bronetta
Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
JadedWriter
Member
I can now safely say I like Bloodborne more than DS3. I can play both...but I just find Bloodborne more fun. Maybe it's because I know that shit in and out already, but the mechanics and combat just entertain me more. Was running around with my strength build with the pizza cutter lately, god damn that shit is good.
The Hamburglar
Banned
It's the constant frenzy isn't it? Wait till you find out what's causing it
not so much that, it is easy to avoid. It was those dog like things that let out snakes if you don't counter attack kill them. I dunno I just found the area annoying if you died, I hate going through that area again. Of course I can just run past everything to the door on the left with the spiders.
Bronetta
Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
Kill the beasts with fire paper or a weapon with a fire gem, no snakes then
Either that or just ignore the snakes, they're a huge pain to deal with.
That's works, too, of course.
The first time I saw these snakes was in that pit in the courtyard of Logarius' castle and I thought: pffffff, little snakes, kill them fast. Lol. I was so dead.
I kind of feel the same. Bloodborne was refreshingly different. The fact that DS3 is even more linear than Bloodborne also had me come to really appreciate what the latter had to offer. The greater build variety didn't really help to alleviate that. Always been my biggest gripe with Bloodborne, but in the end it didn't matter much. I don't know.. maybe it's just fatigue..the upgrade system with the many wildly different gems is also way more interesting than the bare bones copypasted system from DS2. Hell, I even sort of came to like the chalice dungeons... in a way.
JadedWriter
Member
I don't even think the chalice dungeons are that bad since if you've done them enough times and know what you need to be prepared for them you can just blast through them shits in about 15-20 minutes. I was trying a magic build in DS3, shit does not work for me. I feel in DS3 you need to just pad the health stat to counter act some of the dumb fuckery in DS3 not to mention every enemy has a god damn rush down attack that will take priority of what you do. Getting upgrade material is a pain in the ass, can't get enough stat gems in DS3 to make more than like 2 dex weapons and so forth. It seems to be at its best for me the first time. On a second character the bullshit annoyances of DS3 really just seem to shine through. Even ENB was like "I'm done, I'm not enjoying this anymore."
The Hamburglar
Banned
It's the constant frenzy isn't it? Wait till you find out what's causing it
Yeah about that. Who was that random dude with the lamp lol.
JadedWriter
Member
He'll probably start it and stop it right before he beats it as usual.
Higher level gems, you get some armors from certain bosses, not too many though, Beast Claws. The first dungeon is too simple to have a depth four, I think most usually have a max of three depths with the exception of a small few if I remember right.
Fixed2BeBroken
Member
the way i do mensis is....
kill first enemy thing and skip the slugs or whatever...
kill the little dude as u run up the path to get some blood chunks.
get item and run to first lamp and turn it on.
then run and stay to your right....
keep running and ull pass a total of 3 giant boulder throwing dudes. ull be getting frenzied so you may need to heal while running.
as your running youll see another lamp... use it to go back to hunters dream.
then go back to mensis using the lamp you just used.
now kill the 3 boulder guys. first one is by himself
throw a rock at second one as 2 are grouped up so you want to take one on at a time.
once you kill those 3...
run towards the bridge area and keep running...right after the bridge youll be making a left then going around towards your right and youll be passing a bunch of boulder guys but just keep running and youll reach a building to open doors.
open the doors, then go in. kill the bell lady to your right (if you want to prevent invasions) but dont aggro the spiders. (youll aggro the spiders if you run forward to far. instead just take the right immediately when you enter the room to kill the bell lady)
then go back out from how you came in and you can work your way back towards the bridge to get any items you missed. (its always easier working backwards and the
mother brain wont frenzy you unless you go near that bridge
then go back in the building and deal with the spiders. you can aggro them then turn back into the hall you came in and only the little spiders will follow so you can kill them seperately, then fight the big spider by herself.
but thats the easiest way to do that section without having to deal with the frenzy to much.
if you need more help after that, let me know
and if you want i can help you co op it. I got a character very close to your level
For me the frenzy itself wasn't too bad. There was always some cover to heal up.
But fuck those winter lanterns on the way to
. They are, beside the
in the DLC and the
the enemies I always have a chance to fuck it up and die.
But fuck those winter lanterns on the way to
the first blood rock and the eye
Sharks
Bloodlickers in Cainhurst
Fixed2BeBroken
Member
200 frenzy resist + crow beak + ashen set and 2 eye gems make them farmable(in otherwords super easy) for best story gems.
take the frenzy hit and just vial up
JadedWriter
Member
Just rush their asses and go to town. I usually go at them unlocked and just make sure you roll away from their grab attack. Just make sure you have a +8 or 9 weapon. I was in Nightmare Frontier and the +8 Pizza Cutter fucked the one up by the Messengers Gift.
Ricky Ricardo
Member
Living Failures: REKT
Lady Maria: Third time's the charm
Laurence Ludwig is still the GOAT of the Bloodborne bosses for me.
Lady Maria: Third time's the charm
JadedWriter
Member
Dat fucking Ludwig theme...that's like the Dancing Mad of Souls.
Amazing that people are still finding stuff in the root chalice dungeons
https://www.reddit.com/r/bloodborne...chalice_dungeon_discovery_or_a_unique_glitch/
https://www.reddit.com/r/bloodborne...chalice_dungeon_discovery_or_a_unique_glitch/
