You're making me blush, senpai.
Durante, Father of the Abyss, always with his beautiful redheads.
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Dark Souls II |OT++| Bearer of...Seek...Seek...Lest
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You're making me blush, senpai.
Durante, Father of the Abyss, always with his beautiful redheads.
demosthenes
Member
Does using a bonfire ascetic carry over to next game?
Yes it does.
Gloves don't match the outfit on the second one. Speaking of fashion souls I've got a few more ideas for outfits for later game if you are interested that works with your greatsword.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
Is it possible to mod animations? It would be nice to have Shanalotte hugging you.
You know I am, give it to meeee.
You know I am, give it to meeee.
Orochinagis
Member
Loving the increase number of fashion souls adepts
The Iron king have so many inconsistents like you said his kingdom is sinking because
The Iron king have so many inconsistents like you said his kingdom is sinking because
of the heavy rare material it was built by mining near of a demonic lair.
I think the only true conection of these two areas are the bellbros bell who are defending only the bell tower and doesnt care about the new kingdoms it arised in that time so the bastille was built near of the bell only accesible by an illusory wall probably sealed by the bastille makers because they couldnt take the bell and the Iron keep is the most intact one because it was used by the Iron King by an entertaiment coliseum to his guests gathering several warriors from other lands.
Also there is a theory about the king using the same soul technique about giving a soul to one of his iron creations but in the end the creation kill him
I think the only true conection of these two areas are the bellbros bell who are defending only the bell tower and doesnt care about the new kingdoms it arised in that time so the bastille was built near of the bell only accesible by an illusory wall probably sealed by the bastille makers because they couldnt take the bell and the Iron keep is the most intact one because it was used by the Iron King by an entertaiment coliseum to his guests gathering several warriors from other lands.
Also there is a theory about the king using the same soul technique about giving a soul to one of his iron creations but in the end the creation kill him
demosthenes
Member
Wow.
I just beat the game. I knew it was coming but that was really easy with 2 people there haha.
I just beat the game. I knew it was coming but that was really easy with 2 people there haha.
Oh, the second one I just posted for the face, the whole outfit is terrible.
The gloves aren't even final in the first one, still wearing jester there for more souls. (The "final" version will replace those with the lion mage cuffs)
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Guess I might as well share my Fashion Souls toons too. Sadly, I don't have a capture card (played on PS3) but a friend does, and while he was recording some of our coop sessions he took a few screenshots of my characters. Not all of the outfits are "final" since and unfortunately the binoculars added that crappy blur, but it's the best I could do xD
My nimble dexterity rogue (whom I always name "Morrigan" in a burst of non-originality, so my PSN name appearing is fitting XD):
Her Royal Highness, the Sorceress Queen:
My sexy strength tank:
My faith paladin:
And this isn't her final outfit, the shot was taken before ( eventually gave her the Hunter's hat and Saint's dress for the full Indiana Jane look
, but here's my dual whip lady:
Can't wait to double dip on PC and take high res screenshots of awesome cosplay toons. I have some ideas already... hurry, Steam sales!
My nimble dexterity rogue (whom I always name "Morrigan" in a burst of non-originality, so my PSN name appearing is fitting XD):
Her Royal Highness, the Sorceress Queen:
My sexy strength tank:
My faith paladin:
And this isn't her final outfit, the shot was taken before ( eventually gave her the Hunter's hat and Saint's dress for the full Indiana Jane look
, but here's my dual whip lady:
Can't wait to double dip on PC and take high res screenshots of awesome cosplay toons.
I have some ideas already... hurry, Steam sales!Well I can imagine someone will do some rather dirty things with the model at some point.
Here's a few I've got a few more knight style ideas that I'm working with soon.
- Syan's set with the rusted mastodon torso also works with the ruin torso.
- Alva helm, imperious torso, royal swordsman greaves, and imperious legs.
- Llewellyn torso, drakekeeper arms, and legs.
- Faraam torso, rouge arms and legs.
- Drakekeeper torso, steel the rest.
- Alonee helm, alva torso and greaves with alonee legs. (What I'm using on my dual Gyrm axe lady)
- Syan's set with imperious torso
demosthenes
Member
Is there a way to farm petrified dragon bones in your first play through?
Orochinagis
Member
HUEHUHEHUE
They have the model already, just need to add textures and stuff
Join
the dragon
The dragon acolytes in aldia's keep. Asectic the 2nd bonfire when necessary.
Or dragon aerie's crystal lizards. Asectic the bonfire.
That's quick of them to do so.
demosthenes
Member
Lizards come back from a bonfire asectic :O?
Yes they do so it's easy farming as there's no area boss for the Aerie.
I'm having a lot of trouble finding a weapon setup that I like. I either feel gimped in damage, or range, or arcs. The game seems to throw a lot of situations that seem to favor one playstyle over another, so as a result I've ended up equipping a large number of weapons to suit different tasks.
In Dark Souls 1, I usually had just one weapon and just stuck to it throughout the game. In 2, I currently have like... four or five weapons of varying upgrade levels and quality. It feels very strange.
In Dark Souls 1, I usually had just one weapon and just stuck to it throughout the game. In 2, I currently have like... four or five weapons of varying upgrade levels and quality. It feels very strange.
I finally beat DkSII. I only have the Dark Covenant portals to do now. I've currently been farming the 4th bonfire in Forest of the Fallen Giants (the Giant Lord memory). I'm at NG+14 difficulty I believe on that bonfire. It's like the most awesome place to farm. I just respected to be a faith build and now I can blaze through that memory and pick up +280000 souls in all and the Giant Lords Soul in one go.
I want to keep my high attunement and faith, while getting all my other stats to at least 30 before I start NG+ lol. I'm loving the Mundane broken Santier's Spear.
I want to keep my high attunement and faith, while getting all my other stats to at least 30 before I start NG+ lol. I'm loving the Mundane broken Santier's Spear
.demosthenes
Member
Orthogonal
Member
Fun stat for today. PC version will likely pass XBOX360 global death counter today at around 104M. PS3 seems like it is in the stratosphere at over 250M deaths.
JudgmentJay
Member
Looks like it hasn't been mentioned yet. There is a new nVidia driver out today that adds a Dark Souls II SLI profile.
Laurentius
Member
Hm, pretty interesting. I wonder what it really means. Did it sell a lot more on PC (especially given it came out a month later) or are there just more people playing online in PC? Or are PC players just really bad?
Either way, I'm proud to have contributed around 800 deaths to that PC counter.
Maxwood
Oh rock of ages, do not crumble, love is breathing still. Oh lady moon shine down, a little people magic if you will.
I can't bring myself to fight
. And why should I? The man doesn't even attack me.
Getting overwhelmed with "Your Message Has Been Rated" notifications since the latest server-maintenance. :/
King Vendrick
Getting overwhelmed with "Your Message Has Been Rated" notifications since the latest server-maintenance. :/
It's pretty obvious from every single stat that, despite the delayed release, it sold way more on PC than on 360. The interesting comparison is to PS3.
(Note that console players had almost a month more to accumulate deaths -- launch-aligned PC overtook 360 weeks ago)
For his soul and armor.
Laurentius
Member
Yeah, I guess I hadn't really looked at the other Far Fire stats.
On another note, got myself this today:
Probably going to wait until NG+ to really start playing with it, though, as it doesn't really fit my current playstyle for this character.
Many of them are on ledges and need to be killed in one or two hits.
I'm somewhat butthurt, also.
Well, that's disappointing. You can't remove all sin? :/
At least I only have a sin level of 1-5. Not killing anymore NPC's now that I have that soul-suck boost armor.
Speaking of which, no more 2580 or so souls per kill on the big ass enemies near the Great Dragon. Is there any place with respawning enemies that give a decent drop? I still got like 10 points to put into INT/FTH before I'm done boosting those. D:
At least I only have a sin level of 1-5. Not killing anymore NPC's now that I have that soul-suck boost armor.
Speaking of which, no more 2580 or so souls per kill on the big ass enemies near the Great Dragon.
Is there any place with respawning enemies that give a decent drop? I still got like 10 points to put into INT/FTH before I'm done boosting those. D:Laurentius
Member
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
More about the B Team:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHnhDDHr2Xw#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljNv4F4hjyE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LotVhqiKtsY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSw3FG2360M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWACRr7FG9s
Actual game-breaking bug
Oh wait...
I'm sure you were just kidding, but I know there were some out there who really think that, so...
Maybe a faustian bargain is in order?
demosthenes
Member
I love this.
Don't give up, skeleton!
I'm taking notes, can't wait to try them. Do you have some pics of your characters?
No I don't sorry.
Killing these things drives me crazy for this very reason.
Night Hunter
Banned
So I had an argument with my friend today because he said Dark Souls 1 and 2 were bad games because he couldn't really play it with M+KB and because they didn't even change the button prompts. To me that sounded absolutely crazy because I don't complain that strategy games suck with a controller and the game is clearly designed around playing it with a controller yet he refuses to buy one because M+KB is and should be the primary input method for games you play on a PC. What say you, GAF?
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Your friend is being an idiot and you are correct.
Laurentius
Member
Yeah, saying that an entire game is bad because you disagree with the best input method is kind of silly. It's fair to say that they could have done a better job with the mouse and keyboard controls in both games (but especially DS1), but I don't see how it would invalidate the entire game.
They are the type of games that just really need analog control to be played precisely. Spending a huge amount of time making great mouse and keyboard controls wouldn't change the fact that the DESIGN of the games make it so keyboard and mouse controls would never be ideal (like your example with strategy games).
LurkerPrime
Member
This is painfully accurate depiction of over half the times I tried killing a crystal lizard.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Yeah, I think From wanted us to use ranged attacks on them or something... :S Frankly crystal lizards in general is the one Souls mechanic I wish would disappear. It's annoying to hunt them down, not very fun at all.
The lizards themselves are kinda neat though. Perhaps another way to have this mechanic is to have the lizards really well hidden, hinted at only with the twinkling sound, but not make them so annoying to catch?
The lizards themselves are kinda neat though. Perhaps another way to have this mechanic is to have the lizards really well hidden, hinted at only with the twinkling sound, but not make them so annoying to catch?
I say that it's absolutely justified to complain about DS1's KB/M support. DS2 is much better, but could still be even better than that.
And yes, the games should switch the displayed prompts depending on which input method is used. That's a standard feature these days.
All that said, your friend still sucks
One of my friends completed both DS1 and DS2 on KB/M.
Apparently the any% route consists of only 3 bosses now because of this. Wonder what times people will get
Laurentius
Member
Kind of reminds me of the Kiln skip in DS1. (In terms of skipping a huge portion of the game.)
LurkerPrime
Member
I dunno, I think they suit the game very well. Think of them as a Souls version of a collectible or a traditional treasure chest.
Crystal lizards are frail, harmless creatures that provide great treasure. However, they begin to flee the moment they notice a player and they are deliberately placed in easily missable or precarious locations. Since their great treasures are not necessary to complete the game, they are more of an added bonus for players that feel up to the task of hunting them. It is good display of skill to take a crystal lizard down because they require precision, speed, and daring to actually slay, in spite of everything about them. And in true Soulsian form, there is a fake-out that players will need to account for in their lust for loot.
Gotta catch 'em all!
When in doubt shoot with greatbow...