Ingueferroque
Banned
Thank you, is it the Old Hunter Bell?
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Bloodborne: The Old Hunters |OT| Old Hunters. New Tricks, Bells & Whistles.
- Thread starter Robot Pants
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Thank you, is it the Old Hunter Bell?
Blood-Drunk Hunter's Eye (or something like that.)
ZeroMaverick
Member
Fuck. So I bought the DLC today. Then I got home and popped in Bloodborne for the first time in months. Turns out...I had JUST started New Game+ and sold all of my weapons. Why did I do that? I'm guessing I can't access the DLC for a while now
Berserking Guts
Member
If it makes you feel any better, the one that comes straight after that is a little easier.
I found rolling into them as soon as they try to nose dive you gives you more then enough time to get a few swings in on them.
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
YO WHAT THE FUCK THERE'S TWO OF THEM?!
Yep, I'm calling it for the night. Seven or eight tries later, and about 40-50 vials used... I'm clearly not beating these guys tonight. FFFFUUUCK. Easily the hardest part of the DLC, so far, IMO...
Still having a blast, though. This environment is super atmospheric! But yeah, you just gotta know when to throw in the towel sometimes.
When the second one drops just hit one of them with the Shaman Bone Blade and watch them destroy each other.
GL.
In North America it is digital only. In Europe and Japan they have a retail bundle but apparently has a DLC code.
Still have to do the entire Forbidden Woods area to access the Hunter and join The League though...
Just beat
after a few tries. Was as difficult as
. Had to resort to the "keep a safe distance and chip away at their health" tactic.
This is how my character looks now thanks to the
.
http://i.imgur.com/KCOBzwI.jpg
DLC on NG+++ seems to be manageable so far (albeit much more challenging than anything in the base game, which is awesome).
Laurence
Ludwig
This is how my character looks now thanks to the
Beast's Embrace Rune
http://i.imgur.com/KCOBzwI.jpg
DLC on NG+++ seems to be manageable so far (albeit much more challenging than anything in the base game, which is awesome).
Dominic_Shade
Member
If it's just The League you're concerned about, you only have to unlock the first shortcut to reach Valtr. But if it's just the DLC you're after, then you're free to break off from the Forbidden Woods anytime and jump in with the rest of us hunter folk.
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
Ya know... you really have to love this game. We have 70+ pages in ONE DAY, and it's almost entirely filled with posts about how this boss is overpowered, this one chips away at your health too quickly, this enemy has a ridiculous moveset, this mob is bullshit, etc etc...
... and yet, we're all here, helping each other get past it. You gotta know it's a good game when everything at first feels cheap as fuck, but you slowly realize you can do better..
... and yet, we're all here, helping each other get past it. You gotta know it's a good game when everything at first feels cheap as fuck, but you slowly realize you can do better..
Orochinagis
Member
Thats how the Souls community is regardless of saying X souls game is harder than other soul game.
Fancy Clown
Member
When I was stuck on the first boss I was wondering if I actually hated the DLC. And then I beat him and he's probably my favorite boss and I remembered how awesome the first area was and that I still have two more ahead of me. It's that good shit. Bloodborne's a special game for me, one of the best of the best.
I would be scared to have someone listen in on what I say when I fight these bosses. I say some pretty stupid things, but in the end when I am leveled headed I always think back positively on how awesome the stuff was despite me playing like a complete moron.
GamingOblivion
Banned
Anyone have tips for the
fight?
Orphan of Kos
Just beat Laurence the first vicar on my first try, ty arcane tools vid here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgSt9QK2Lv8&feature=youtu.be
Got all the trophies, super happy ;D ^o^.
Cheesed it at the end so hard haha
To be fair, it's the first time I used it like that. So those who have beaten/already encountered the boss can know which one the poster is talking about. If it's too spoilery I'll refrain from using it.
honestly I gave up on those fish fucks, they have some really stupid combo, huge HP pool and they're much faster than your average monster of that size.
there is nothing in that well anyway, I believe? As for the other one, RUN~
Brian_FETO
Banned
I've been stuck on him since yesterday morning, prob spent 8/9 hours at this point fighting him/grinding to desperately get my level up (Witch's Abode + 2 moon runes ftw)
I'm a bit tired of seeing him and want to move on but I fully recognize that the encounter is fucking awesome, very unpredictable boss. Only complaint I've really had is occasionally the
delayed drop one hit kill
Also, question for phase 2:
When he charges up to do the stupid huge green energy wave thing, are you supposed to just wail on him? Because it doesn't seem like you can really do anything to dodge it....finding it really hard to get behind him in that form. I got him down to the last 1/4 of his health one time tho so that was neat
Also also:
Does that corpse dude that talks in the cutscene grab you? I think that happened to me once, thought it was hilarious
I've gotten
down pretty low a few times while not really playing smart so I think I'll down him in the next day or two..
tho. Yikes.
from what I've noticed with
Kos
Laurence
from what I've noticed with
Kos
it's best to hug his left/dodge left and get directly behind him once he does his twirly attack since that puts you safe from it's AoE, that's a lengthy attack and by staying close you can R2 stagger him into a visceral, in phase 2 you can also stagger into visceral when he does the leaping attack if you get behind him fast enough before he can recover, but phase 2's where he goes HAM and I struggle.
(Assuming you are still on the first try of the game and haven't beaten it yet) Well you can try to get some NPCs to help you. There's a new NPC in the Forbidden Forest near the shortcut that can hook you up with some beefy NPCs to fight alongside you in the boss fights.
Or you can try to gain some levels at this point, I don't know what built/stats you have but even at this stage you can gain benefits from some additional stats.
Also if you have some additional Insight you might want to spend as much as you can so you can have below 10 as it makes the game harder.
Mister Megative
Banned
Maining the Whirligig Saw and loving it. Need a new fallback weapon. Thinking Beast Cutter or Boom Hammer. What you guys think?
you get something unique for taking them out
uh? What's that.
you mean they drop something?
doing it like this O
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some might be bothered by that even if it's just the initials, might as well spoiler tag everything since if someone's going to read spoilers he's probably going to read it whether it's all black or not.
It makes for an amazing arcane weapon too! Loving these new weapons!
Gormless Noodle
Member
No wonder really.
Ludwig
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
Maria
Seriously felt like Ninja Gaiden Borne. It requires a near perfect mastery of the controls, your weapons, and countering. I beat it on my first try, but the difficulty felt so perfect. It was like I was in a grandiose dance against the enemy, zipping by, dodging back and forth... It was beautiful. Awesome experience.
burntchomsky
Member
Awesome, thank you.
Yup.
Ryouji Gunblade
Member
I finally noticed the frame pacing problem. Now I can't unsee it. This is the real insight.
Yeah that's true. All I did in those fights were dodge forward to avoid their attacks and hit them a few times and repeat.
Fancy Clown
Member
Question 1:
for the wave attack I avoided it just by sprinting away since it has pretty big radius. Other than that though, just stick to his feet and wail on him, and roll to avoid his 2-3 slashes at you (some of which will even miss if you're really close to him, and even if you get sloppy you can regain just by whacking at him). Second phase is actually really easy, you just have to play super aggressive.
Question 2: lmao I have no idea, that would be pretty funny/dickish though.
Agreed. My jaw dropped when I saw blood flames. Easily the most elegant fight of any souls game I've played.
Fancy Clown
Member
The saw is so good. I was thinking about leveling up the boom hammer since that one seems really legit as well. The DLC weapons are all awesome.
robotzombie
Member
Quick question, should I do iosephka (sp?) stuff before or after Rom?
Orochinagis
Member
You can backstab him when he does his heavy attacks if that helps.
Before, for an unique rune
A backstab's not really a parry though
I was just wondering if there was a smaller weapon that'd still interrupt him. Good to know though.OrbitalBeard
Member
Yeah, I think that's my favorite boss fight in the entire game. It was awesome.