plasmawave
Banned
Beat the DLC and it was GREAT.
The bosses were SUPER hard. Never have died this much in BB before.
The bosses were SUPER hard. Never have died this much in BB before.
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Bloodborne: The Old Hunters |OT| Old Hunters. New Tricks, Bells & Whistles.
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Kwansu Dudes
Member
Was able to get the
to glitch into some rocks and was easy pickings from there hehe
Blood Starved Beast
bodyofanamerican
Member
Exact same here but it was after fighting him for a while. Boy that was intense.
Kwansu Dudes
Member
I actually got scared and fled to the entrance haha
Robot Pants
Member
What are the unsafe moves?
Fancy Clown
Member
Omg almost beat the third boss. Such a sick fight. Way easier than the first boss tho
Just backpedal around the whole arena in a large circle during his phase 2 and when he does his move where he crawls towards you while hitting the ground that's your chance to get in some damage. He either does it 3 times or 7 times. After the last time he hits the ground dodge forward and hit him once, then dodge away from him. If you're too late to do this he'll usually do a large swipe and that can be dodged forward as well and you can hit him 1-2 times. When he spews lava I just ignored him and stayed far back since I felt it was too dangerous to go in.
I'm uploading a video in 10 minutes if that was unclear.
EDIT: Here's the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEct_Fpzvbc
Stratosphere
Member
I'm currently working my way through NG+. What is the recommended level to run the DLC? Right now I'm at 102.
supermetfreud
Member
Sure! I'd totally appreciate it.
Where can I find this Valtr NPC? Also, thanks for the help.
Kudo
Member
What a great feeling, all bosses down solo.
Had some really great 0 Vials left moments, heart was beating like a drum. No other game gives feels like these.
Really great DLC overall, every fight is memorable and can't believe how good the OST is. Game of the year, if there ever was any doubt.
Had some really great 0 Vials left moments, heart was beating like a drum. No other game gives feels like these.
Really great DLC overall, every fight is memorable and can't believe how good the OST is. Game of the year, if there ever was any doubt.
Currently assisting someone else at the moment, might take a while.
supermetfreud
Member
It's fine! Take your time. I'm still cooling off.
The DLC provides some much needed challenge to the game. Easy to forget how tough the game can be since a lot of the second half of the main game is not that difficult.
Cloud Strife
Member
I DID IT!!!!
I DID IT!!!!!!!!!'
I BEAT
ON MY 10th TRY!!!!
HOLEEE SHIEEEET
I DID IT!!!!!!!!!'
I BEAT
ORPHAN OF KOS
HOLEEE SHIEEEET
I'm going to do the same, minus the chalice dungeons. Once was enough for those.
Yeah, I wasn't going to do them again but I finished my initial all bosses NG run on Saturday last week and had some time to kill before the DLC came out, so I figured what the hell. I wasn't sure if the DLC was going to have chalice content achievements, and figured might as well get it to where I can buy supplies from the shop instead of farming them just in case. Fuck the defiled chalice. I can't believe I actually did that a second time.
Laurence gave me a fuck ton of trouble, and Ludwig and the Orphan of Kos gave me a decent amount of trouble at 150+. Living Failures were a little annoying and Maria went down in one try.
Alright, ended up getting up to the final boss of vanilla Bloodborne in preparation for The Old Hunters, took me to around level 70 -- I jumped into TOH content pre-first boss to take a look around, ended up looting those 3 new weapons before seeing that boss and bailing until I was prepared. Whirligig Saw seems like the best of the 3 so far, seems like a solid subsitute for Ludwigs greatsword. The other two weapons seemed like variants of the Tonitrus and the Saw Cleaver. Man, I forgot how quickly you can just breeze through Bloodborne when you know what to do. Had to do an hour or so grinding pre-Byrgenwerth, just to get a decent collection of vials, but other than that it was smooth sailing.
Now. Back to
, you beastly fucker.
Now. Back to
Ludwig
Robot Pants
Member
JadedWriter
Member
Listening to
theme and god damn this is some top notch shit. Probably the best theme in the game so far.
Ludwig's
And just like that it's all over. Really happy I was able to pick up all the trophies completely blind. I actually had 2 left when I found the
and thought oh I guess I'll get a weapon and maybe fight a boss or do whatever it is I need to do out the
, then I go through it and get neither trophy and I'm stumped. Then I check around each lamp, nothing. I check
, but nothing there either. Then I remember the
which seemed suspicious and bingo. Then just as I'm about to shut the game off I remember there was a gun I didn't buy and boom final trophy. I though some of the choices I made in the game might prevent me from getting all the trophies but I guess not, either that or I made the right choices. I still got some questions but I think I'll play through again before I dig around too much for the answers.
Overall the DLC was quite good, Pretty close to the DS2 DLC but not quite as good level design. I did like the
, it kinda gave me modeern King's field vibes.
Balcony Key
balcony
Byrgenwerth because that one creature(that I couldn't kill for some reason) keeps saying it over and over
flaming cleric beast room
Overall the DLC was quite good, Pretty close to the DS2 DLC but not quite as good level design. I did like the
cells after the first boss
Kudo
Member
Agreed.
It's a true test of skill and patience, I love that they ramped up the difficulty for this.
Ghost Slayer
Member
Got all trophies in DLC. 10/10 DLC, no doubt From show their best when making DLC. I need to take a breath before starting STR/BL char for Bloodletter.
Kwansu Dudes
Member
This seriously reminds me of when I played Demon's Souls in 2009. I'm in NG+ after a long hiatus and don't feel like playing through everything again.
I am getting my ass thoroughly handed to me in
on NG+, part of it is because I leveled my guy up to 50 in Arcane with a Ludwig Holy Blade (regular so the one with the waning gem at the end), the other part is just how hard these fuckers can hit and how little damage I put out since I didn't go gem hunting since I found those chalice dungeons criminally boring.
Every now and then I feel happy when I get to summon someone (I'm at like 90 insight), and then the fucker dies in the same room, a room that I think is easy as shit. What the fuck?
The research hall
Every now and then I feel happy when I get to summon someone (I'm at like 90 insight), and then the fucker dies in the same room, a room that I think is easy as shit. What the fuck?
I was whining about it being the cheapest boss in fromsoft history..but after beating it realize in typical soulsborne fashion that I was using the wrong tactics
I think literally whittling him down 1 hit at a time is the only viable tactic unless you have OP arcane attacks though, kinda kept throwing me off because phase 1 was all about aggression for me (with valtr tanking his attention) and then you have to just slow down and attack once every 30 seconds or something.
overall I'd rank the boss fights in the DLC as in terms of enjoyment/wow factor
OoK - that fight is insane - possibly the most aggressive boss in soulsborne?
Ludwig
Maria
Laurence
Living Failures
Ludwig
Maria
Laurence
Living Failures
GIANKRATOS
Member
part 6.5, a little deaths montage (it's my first attempt at video editing as you can see XD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n21bdsbsM8
Damn, today i had no time to continue the dlc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n21bdsbsM8
Damn, today i had no time to continue the dlc
Yeah it's pretty simple, the real fun starts in the next room.
Kudo
Member
It definitely put me on my knees once again. After Demon's Souls, Dark Souls 1&2 then Bloodborne there were only couple of bosses that managed to do that, but this DLC.. really nailed it.
It was a struggle, but a fine one. A hunter is a hunter, even in a dream.
Why does arcane matter? I'm in similar shape - playing TOH on first runthrough of NG+ (which is up to Forbidden Woods in the vanilla game) - and been steadily increasing my Arcane to 40...currently sitting at 18.
Does levelling Arcane make TOH harder?!? Damn!
Did you kill her before she
morphed into the head by itself
After giving her two fluids, you need to give her time to become a meat bag first and then you can attack her for the third brain fluid.
robotzombie
Member
are chunks easy to come by? I don't want to burn all i have upgrading the threaded cane just to dump it for one of the DLC weapons, but the flip side is this DLC is hard as balls and I need an upgraded weapon i think
From what I'm reading in this thread getting gems, high quality gems matter, and I didn't go get high quality gems. I got a fire sword that does +297ish I think, I think my Bolt will only go to 180. Don't get me wrong, part of it is totally me not being good enough to beat this beyond through sheer force of will and attrition (slowly but surely level up enough things to get through), but I also feel like my guy simply can't hit things hard enough. I got summoned to someone else's world, and enemies that take like 5 or 6 hits from me, were going down in 2, when i wasn't using a two handed version of my sword. I wanted to be like why can't my playthrough be like this? lol
Oh fuck just beat the last boss! I took a a gamble at the end because I only had 1 vial left. At this point he only had a few more hits to go. I had less than half health and decided to use the technique where you exchange health for 5 bullets to use the Old Hunter Bone. This brought me down to 1 HP, then I used a vial. I think I got another hit or two in, but then he quickly brought me down again. I remembered I had Iosefka's blood vial and decided to use that, bringing me up to near full health. Took another swipe, then risked using a charge attack. I hit him and he needed one more hit to die. I swung and missed...fuck. I took a couple steps and managed to nick him, and that was that. Really intense fight.
I definitely recommend using the Old Hunter Bone if you can during his second phase. Especially when he has 25% or less health. Makes avoiding his attacks notably easier.
Also it's pretty nice that in his first phase I was able to stun him with two hits from the Ludwig 2 handed.
I definitely recommend using the Old Hunter Bone if you can during his second phase. Especially when he has 25% or less health. Makes avoiding his attacks notably easier.
Also it's pretty nice that in his first phase I was able to stun him with two hits from the Ludwig 2 handed.
OoK was my favorite boss, just the mood in general and the way he moves, loved it.
Ludwig
Ludwig
Laurence
I would bestow that honor to the Fume Knight in Crown of the Old Iron King. Good lord that pattern and the constant rushing of the player. Champions Fume Knight is a fucking dodge simulator. He will teach you to dodge.
Ahh she was not yet a
giant head
Do you have any recent cloud saves? I don't believe she can be brought back to life.
robotzombie
Member
anyone have any thoughts on the rifle spear? better skill weapon than threaded cane or no?
Oh man
was a headache once he went
. I just couldn't figure out what I was supposed to do, everywhere I went I ended up getting burned. When I finally beat him I was down to 30%-40% health with no vials and I needed about 6 more shots on him but I didn't think I could do it so I was shooting him hoping for a miracle. Finally I just charged in and got my hits and but I don't know how, I thought he should have attacked but he gave me the small window I needed to finish him off.
Laurence
molten
Kevin Shields
Member
What's consensus on DLC so far? Cant wait to play it...