Facism
Member
easy tip to deal with the summon swords: Just target the grounded sword and shoot it once. If you're quick enough you can take it out without a single sword getting summoned.
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Bloodborne: The Old Hunters |OT| Old Hunters. New Tricks, Bells & Whistles.
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easy tip to deal with the summon swords: Just target the grounded sword and shoot it once. If you're quick enough you can take it out without a single sword getting summoned.
Voidwolf
Member
I distinctly remember this game booting you back to the title screen on startup and warning you about the save being corrupted if you turned it off like that.
Arjen
Member
No, but it leads to the area where you fight the cleric beast. It seems like it was planned to be used as a shortcut but they decided against it and locked the door for good.
OrbitalBeard
Member
Oh, I see. If you didn't exit the game before putting your PS4 in rest mode, it just resumed where you left off, which was added in a PS4 firmware update earlier this year (suspend/resume). You would have gotten this message if you had fully powered off the console.
My house briefly lost power when I was playing Bloodborne a couple weeks back and when I resumed the game, I got the message you're describing, because my PS4 was obviously fully powered off due to the outage.
Banging my head against
right now, but couple of questions for other parts of the DLC:
1. Finished the OoK without killing
head; when I went back to get the sword he's lying dead on the ground? Think it has something to do with the hunter ringing the
, forgot his name. Am I screwed?
2. Tips, my god I need tips, for the couple of bastards in the well. I've read that using a Shaman Bone Blade works? But for that I'll have to grind the harpoon bastard down to pretty low health first, which I cannot do on a regular basis, for the second guy to drop down.
3. Anything interesting that is easy to miss? I haven't done the whole
questline so I'll have to get to that; anything else that could easily be missed since the latest update?
Laurence
1. Finished the OoK without killing
Ludwig's
soundless bell
2. Tips, my god I need tips, for the couple of bastards in the well. I've read that using a Shaman Bone Blade works? But for that I'll have to grind the harpoon bastard down to pretty low health first, which I cannot do on a regular basis, for the second guy to drop down.
3. Anything interesting that is easy to miss? I haven't done the whole
Brain Fluid
I don't think she stole it, the description implies Willem was trying to find it but Iosefka did first, otherwise he'd have used it. You're right in that she did try to evolve herself but it didn't work - I wonder where she picked it up from then?
Edit:
1.
If you look closer at Ludwig's head, there should be an arrow sticking out of it, implying Simon put him down.
2. Go from the second Fishing Hamlet lamp down the lift, kill the Winter Lanterns and attack them from there, makes it a lot easier as they can't reach as far from that vantage point.
3. Maybe not relevant to you but as we're playing offline the only thing we've not seen so far is Vermin and everything else associated with it.
OmegaTreeFish
Banned
The secret to these guys is dodge right. Their attacks hit you if you go left but not if you go right. Then as soon as the other turns up shaman shaft him.
https://youtu.be/U6JB96RXJ4Q
Okay cool, but is there any way of getting the
Holy Moonlight Sword
Simon
Ludwig
Errr, if it wasn't there when you found
Ludwig dead
Brador
Ah crap. Not keen on doing NG++ just for the one weapon! Been rocking Ludwig's Holy Blade the entire game and DLC and was thinking of a change, the one weapon I'm actually interested in looks unattinable!
Thanks! I'll have to give this a shot. Tonight's session will either be immensely rewarding or supremely frustrating, with Laurence and these 2 assholes.
Much prefer the 1 on 1 hunter-type boss enemies myself. Both
Maria
OmegaTreeFish
Banned
The trolls seemed impossible at first as I have a habbit of dodging left for some reason. As soon. As I tried right to see if it made a difference it was a hell of a lot easier.
I also mostly prefer hunter style fights. Creates that dance of death feel I think the game feels designed around.
Yes! Dance of death is a great way to put it. Feels much more like what the game's systems were built to do; camera jerking everywhere when I'm under Laurence is not cool.
Weltall Zero
Member
Yeah, let's not forget Kojima kept sayig "this is the last Metal Gear" since 1. What Miyazaki wants and what From will let him do are probably different things. Soulsbornes print money.
Square Triangle
Member
DLC only
just a question guys, a couple of days back a message popped up before I could load my save, I finished the DLC and a message in the start screen said that the DLC was not detected and I had to download it again if I wanted to use the save data.
I erased everything and downloaded the patch again, now I'm loading the game but the tombstone of the DLC doesn't have the messengers or anything to access the lamps there, I have my weapons and everything, but I cannot access the areas.
since I finished the DLC, I get locked out of it when I finish it? or do I have a problem with the DLC? I fear they locked me out for some reason
I erased everything and downloaded the patch again, now I'm loading the game but the tombstone of the DLC doesn't have the messengers or anything to access the lamps there, I have my weapons and everything, but I cannot access the areas.
since I finished the DLC, I get locked out of it when I finish it? or do I have a problem with the DLC? I fear they locked me out for some reason
Sure why not. What password?
Arjen
Member
GAF Ringing at the Lantern.
Ooops will be ringing again.
Arjen
Member
The_Darkest_Red
Member
Dangerously close to starting fresh as a pure arcane build to eventually use Holy Moonlight Sword. Fun idea or no?
No problem! Played little bit more carefully after being way too ballsy on the first try haha!
Pure Arcane for HMS is not a great idea. You need bunch of Str and Skill to make it actually decent. If you are going for pure Arcane go for
Kos Parasite
Got to Ludwig last night, and he destroyed me. I can get him down to 2/3 but then he seems to start getting more aggressive.
Its super satisfying when I manage to dodge his attacks, though.
Might be on this for a while. I'm nearing the end of the game so I want t get through the dlc first.
Its super satisfying when I manage to dodge his attacks, though.
Might be on this for a while. I'm nearing the end of the game so I want t get through the dlc first.
The_Darkest_Red
Member
So HMS is better with a Skill/Strength hybrid build? No point in taking advantage of the A arcane scaling? That's a shame.
AHA-Lambda
Member
Right, going to give OoK another bash later on.
May end up back in here hat in hand though :-/
May end up back in here hat in hand though :-/
Well the stuff that uses projectiles scales only with Arcane. Not sure how much the regular swings when transformed/buffed scale with Arcane but from what I've read that weapon is just a massive investment of stats for it to be good.
Deleteeeeee
Member
I have to say the
has a fairly boring move set that doesn't really do enough damage for the amount of stamina and time it costs to swing that thing. I'm loving the
on the other hand.
Boom Hammer
Amylgdala Arm
The_Darkest_Red
Member
Found this on the wiki:
Weird. So I guess you need Strength/Skill/Arcane hybrid, with Strength and Arcane being the most important (B and A scaling respectively at +10).
Incendiary
Banned
My stats at level 114 (I think) are:
Vit: 30
End: 30
Str: 28
Ski: 40
Blo: 5
Arc: 30
With gems, my MGS +7 is 560ish damage total in stats, and I can do about 800 on weaker enemies if I hit them with a swing and beam at the same time. 2H L2 does about 400-500 on bosses in NG+. You definitely need to have a jack-of-all-trades build for MGS to be effective.
anyone :'(
The_Darkest_Red
Member
Thanks for the info, that definitely appears to be the case. I think I'll shoot for this in NG:
Overall: 80
Vit: 30
End: 30
Str: 25
Skl: 15
Bld: 5
Arc: 25
KP only gets benefits from Arcane and all your points in Str are useless for that weapon. If you have 50 Arc and care to farm some Arcane gems it is great but otherwise go with Whirligig Saw.
AHA-Lambda
Member
I DID IT! 
Summoned someone with another pizza cutter and ganked the fuck out of OoK XD
Basically this thing again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7782HSUNI84
Summoned someone with another pizza cutter and ganked the fuck out of OoK XD
Basically this thing again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7782HSUNI84
AHA-Lambda
Member
Only if it's giving me a lot of bother which this one did =/
TheBlackMarvel
Member
I DID IT!
Summoned someone with another pizza cutter and ganked the fuck out of OoK XD
Basically this thing again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7782HSUNI84
Holy shit @ that video.
Totally understand. I'd spend days working on a boss but at the end of it the glory can be mine and mine alone! Lookin' at you, Defiled Watch Dog!
I kept him alive too just in case but in the end he didn't seem to be linked to anything. Killed him.
This locked door and the sealed hatch in Byrgenwerth that looks exactly like the opened one after the Gascoigne fight are the two things I definitely had thought (and hoped) that they'd do something with in the DLC, even if it had been them leading to a small additional room with an item (instead of a completely new major area) to make them seem less pointless.
Quite a bummer they left them as is.
Is there a good chalice for those gems or what? I raised ARC to 65 and the parasite still sucks bad, definitely needs some heavy duty gems.
HORRORSHØW
Member
watchdog is still bugged.
i swear i was doing an ailing loran chalice last night, then it changed to defiled pthumeru on its own.
i swear i was doing an ailing loran chalice last night, then it changed to defiled pthumeru on its own.
It seems like the only significant NPCs in the area are:
the woman trapped in the chair asking for brain fluid and the enlarged heads that just sit on the floor saying splish splash or will I curl up and become an egg.
The rest of them are just normal crazies.
Bl4ckSunsh1n3
Member
Well I went and
. Oh well,
"accidentally" killed Saint Adeline before completing the quest
I still have all of the blood from the previous game and good runes.
KharmaPolice
Member
Episode 13, Pimmsy vs. Celestial Emissary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsviYUoEaQA
Rifle Spear's thrust damage utterly murders kin enemies, so it's no surprise that this is the shortest video of the lot. It's most definitely her favourite weapon at this point.
For looking quite intimidating, especially with the tendrils out, Celestial Emissary is not all that tough.
I wonder who the Celestial Emissary is supposed to be - the rest of the bosses have specific names but Celestial Emissary is the only one that's generic.
Rifle Spear's thrust damage utterly murders kin enemies, so it's no surprise that this is the shortest video of the lot. It's most definitely her favourite weapon at this point.
For looking quite intimidating, especially with the tendrils out, Celestial Emissary is not all that tough.
I wonder who the Celestial Emissary is supposed to be - the rest of the bosses have specific names but Celestial Emissary is the only one that's generic.
Arjen
Member
No, only increase in difficulty comes from NG cycles.