Powerstancing specific weapons allows the player to swing them much faster than you should be able to. For example greatsword and lion greataxe power stanced gives the axe power stance swing animation instead of the ultra greatsword one.
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Powerstancing specific weapons allows the player to swing them much faster than you should be able to. For example greatsword and lion greataxe power stanced gives the axe power stance swing animation instead of the ultra greatsword one.
SoldnerKei
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edit: posted on FashionSouls Thread
and indeed nice new calibrations
and indeed nice new calibrations
TheBryanJZX90
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Hooooly crap this game just got a little bit harder now that I hit Drangleic Castle. Gettin my ass kicked by this room full of tough guys.
KittenMaster
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I had to see a video of the Monastery Scimitar to see what was so bad about it. WOW it parries startup frames on weapons, and I thought the regular Scimitar parry was instant.
No.. it's really not..
You can make videos with silly narration about a lot of things. Yes, you can do a lot of damage with Hexes if you create an entire build around it. The same is true for weapons and all the other magic types.
The "resonant" type spells should do somewhat more damage fully specced out than comparable spells in other schools (e.g. Sunlight Spear), otherwise the soul cost is imbalanced.
OneEyeTwoHead
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Patch looks glorious. I've been practicing parrying with normal weapons for a long time (even if I used Monastery here and there..but almost exclusively on Santier's users). Glad for all those changes..I used Syan's too on a few chars, which is unfortunate, but the stabbing motion (on just about every weapon) is pretty fucked.
Yeah, I never had an issue with hexes. Not my problem if people can't dodge, or they can't use a Trangressor's shield. So many ways you can nullify dark damage, and at no cost to your build. The only thing that was broken was Batfogging, but at least that's being fixed.
Yeah, I never had an issue with hexes. Not my problem if people can't dodge, or they can't use a Trangressor's shield. So many ways you can nullify dark damage, and at no cost to your build. The only thing that was broken was Batfogging, but at least that's being fixed.
I disagree. The biggest drawback (other than the stats requirement which isn't that big imo) is losing 500 souls which isn't really much, especially late game and in NG+. In pvp it's especially dangerous unless the guy you're fighting is using great magic barrier and gear with a lot of dark defense. It also has 8 cast by default which is much more than other high tier magic. The only spell that rivals it in damage I believe is Sunlight spear which you only get 3 uses (more with higher attunement or that ring) and takes a bit longer to cast/very predictable, Soul Geyser (which takes forever to cast. It requires only 1 slot though and does more damage.), and maybe Soul Crystal Spear (I haven't used that much so I can't judge.). The damage is a bit much considering how much the spell can be used and how fast it can be cast. Just my thoughts on the spell though.
I don't have a problem fighting it, magic is easy in general to dodge, but the spell should have a few more drawbacks imo.
I agree. I think magic is generally underpowered in late-game PvP actually, since everything hard-hitting is also easy to dodge.
jediyoshi
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New speedrun up, any% 22:03
http://www.twitch.tv/distortion2/b/533442161?t=1h32m
http://a.pomf.se/ktjtrm.webm
http://www.twitch.tv/distortion2/b/533442161?t=1h32m
http://a.pomf.se/ktjtrm.webm
A lot of people still don't know how to dodge affinity properly though, even at max tier SM.
^ Ok that's getting a little TOO ridiculous.
Ya guys, Demon's and Dark 1 were totally as broken as this game is.
/sarcasm
This game needs so much work.
Laurentius
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There are definitely some problems with the game, but I don't really see the issue with the skywalking bug personally. It's not something that's going to happen to you in regular play unless you know what you're doing. (Unless people are abusing it in PVP?) The weapon durability and hitbox things are much bigger issues for me, since they affect my regular gameplay.
That being said, I don't really enjoy watching speedruns with this kind of huge sequence breaking via bugs. I'll stick with watching all bosses runs until/if From fixes it.
This is such an obscure glitch I don't think this falls into "game so broken" category. For most people playing, if this happens to them, they do a roll or jumping attack or whatever and everythings back to normal.
The bino boosting is a much more significant glitch, but sort of like you were saying, it's not like DeS and DaS didn't have significant bugs of their own, like moveset swapping in DaS.
In my experience, dedicated speedrunning can make most games look completely broken.
Red Liquorice
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Those patch notes made me giggle, it's like a list of every weapon that people were moaning about being OP got whacked with the nerf hammer. I guess they were all OP if everyone was saying so, but the masses will just move on to the next big thing once someone figures it out and tells the world about it.
I'd rather see them fix the bigger problems of all the messy glitches and SM, but I guess the nerfs to please the pvp crowd takes presidence.
I'd rather see them fix the bigger problems of all the messy glitches and SM, but I guess the nerfs to please the pvp crowd takes presidence.
Eh, it'll make the game more enjoyable for at least a couple of days. Unfortunately, I won't be around to play the game in that period lol.
But yeah, I really wish they'd fix/get rid of SM already
Pretty good balancing, except for the dark magic nerf IMO. These spells are powerful but they have an additional cost that justifies that extra power (souls and HP cost).
A more fitting balance would be to increase the cost, not decrease the power because that will make other spells that have no cost to be more effective. Not to mention that these spells are so easy to dodge in PvP.
This seems a more panic mode nerf rather than balancing.
Other than that, I'm disappointed that Guardian Dragon and Mirror Knight won't get any boost. These 2 bosses are so weak...
No mention of fixing the Great Hammer tracking or recovery time. Being a Hammerite is suffering..
Hope there's a proper patch coming soon, there are some definite issues that they need to address, and weapon rebalance is the least of them.
wtf did i just watch
Anybody got a good strategy for dealing with the Turtle Knights in the Iron Keep? These guys are brutal, particularly since many of them have to be dealt with in narrow passages.
I'm a melee character, using a Bastard Sword +8 and Drangleic shield.
I can get through them sometimes, but its always hit and miss. I'm still dying a lot to them and its making me weary of going human or anything as there's a good chance it'll go to waste. Their overhead smash gets me a lot since blocking does not stop from being flattened and taking a huge chunk of health, but it doesn't feel like there's any way to evade it in the narrow areas. Cant exactly roll to the side.
I'm a melee character, using a Bastard Sword +8 and Drangleic shield.
I can get through them sometimes, but its always hit and miss. I'm still dying a lot to them and its making me weary of going human or anything as there's a good chance it'll go to waste. Their overhead smash gets me a lot since blocking does not stop from being flattened and taking a huge chunk of health, but it doesn't feel like there's any way to evade it in the narrow areas. Cant exactly roll to the side.
Most of that sounds good but the only thing I care about them fixing at this point is SM
. Hopefully it's comingDr_Boris_Goltz
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The Abyss area seemed WAY brighter just now, and the ruin sentinels in the area before no longer respawn.
When they wind up the hit, roll backwards once or twice, depending on your equip weight. Then just move forward and bong them on the head and repeat, you should be able to do it with the Bastard Sword even if you got slowed. If you have the stamina for it, you can try to rollstab at them, but I rarely risk that.
The hitbox on the slam can take you by surprise, so roll backwards a good time before they swing.
fucking finally, FromSoft?
I would have not nerfed some of those things but whatever. (had no problem to deal with avelyns or s.spears) And rip BAT fucking STAFF. I've had fun with the instant poison with dark cloud. = (
at least they're going to fix some things now.
one day pvp will be good, believe.
but yeah it's very easy to dodge and punish so the nerf wasn't really necessary.
dark magic isn't "so good" 'cause of GRS.
I would have not nerfed some of those things but whatever. (had no problem to deal with avelyns or s.spears) And rip BAT fucking STAFF. I've had fun with the instant poison with dark cloud. = (
at least they're going to fix some things now.
one day pvp will be good, believe.
GRS is the best projectile spell in the game, the 500 souls spent drawback is meaningless when you're in ng+ and you start doing only pvp.
but yeah it's very easy to dodge and punish so the nerf wasn't really necessary.
that video is just for fun, it doesn't actually mean shit. I could do the same with awful sorceries and make them look op. "hey look how I killed these nabs with shitty armor and builds that can't dodge my spellz lolz"
dark magic isn't "so good" 'cause of GRS.
First attempt for no death run failed. Giant King got me.
I attempted it in NG with a mace a weapon. I guess I will do what everyone else is doing in speedruns, rock a spell caster build to avoid bad surprises
For a fresh run dark magic would be the better one I guess since you have access to the resonant spells very early.
I attempted it in NG with a mace a weapon. I guess I will do what everyone else is doing in speedruns, rock a spell caster build to avoid bad surprises
For a fresh run dark magic would be the better one I guess since you have access to the resonant spells very early.
First attempt for no death run failed. Giant King got me.
I attempted it in NG with a mace a weapon. I guess I will do what everyone else is doing in speedruns, rock a spell caster build to avoid bad surprises
For a fresh run dark magic would be the better one I guess since you have access to the resonant spells very early.
At least your no death run failed on a boss.. I keep rolling off of cliffs or something equally stupid on mine. Last one failed when I tried to rush the Sinner's Rise elevator, and got shot in the head and staggered off of it.
Unless it's been shown here already, may I present to you, The Wrath of Twinkletoes
MMBosstones86
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excellent. SM has now been completely bypassed.
You can get them to follow you to a more open area or use strike damage and kill them with ease.
Well, it sucks to die that way but even more so when you die so close to the end <_<
super mario 64 is also broken
Red Liquorice
Member
I'm hoping this means all the funky bullshit that comes with using a rapier has been fixed.
There's problems with aiming and poking behind a shield - let go of block but still poking, it can get annoying. Hope that's what it means any way.
Probably fixing some of the various hitbox bullshit that comes with rapier class weapons.
Not being able to hit Nashandra's curse orbs for example.
Hardcore thrusting with better precision?
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
Welp.
I want to do this now. I really do. Seems like great fun!
King Gilga
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Finally finished the game.
I really liked it but.
This game feels cheap. Especially the hit boxes, I only played and finished DS1 like at the start of this year but I don't remember hitboxes ever wronging me a single time even though it was only months ago.
In DS2 I can name tons off the top of my head, taking damage from those double club giants even though I wasn't even close to the swing, getting hit by smelters vertical smash even though I didn't get touched by it, getting killed by ancient dragons stomp even though I wasn't even near the foot, (this is especially annoying when his foot clips/sinks through the ground), Getting hit by those demon dogs frontal in gutter even though I'm on his ass, Taking damage from those grym dwarf on their vertical swing even though I'm either perpendicular to it or behind them, getting hit by the sentinal's shield throw even though I obviously didn't.
Then there's stuff where mobs like to turn on a dime, it's so dumb. My only death in earthen peak was to one of those headless ninja guys that decided to turn 90 degrees mid air during the leap attack thing. The tracking was the stupidest thing I've seen this year.
But even with all this cheap shit it's not very hard, compared to DS1 at least, where everything felt fair AND hard. As someone who's only played both Dark Souls games this year (DS1 in late Jan, DS2 this month), but pure mechanics this definitely does feel B team compared to DS1.
It's still better than 99% of video games out there though, and a much better PC port, and netcode that actually works (couldn't even invade once on GFWL).
/rant
I really liked it but.
This game feels cheap. Especially the hit boxes, I only played and finished DS1 like at the start of this year but I don't remember hitboxes ever wronging me a single time even though it was only months ago.
In DS2 I can name tons off the top of my head, taking damage from those double club giants even though I wasn't even close to the swing, getting hit by smelters vertical smash even though I didn't get touched by it, getting killed by ancient dragons stomp even though I wasn't even near the foot, (this is especially annoying when his foot clips/sinks through the ground), Getting hit by those demon dogs frontal in gutter even though I'm on his ass, Taking damage from those grym dwarf on their vertical swing even though I'm either perpendicular to it or behind them, getting hit by the sentinal's shield throw even though I obviously didn't.
Then there's stuff where mobs like to turn on a dime, it's so dumb. My only death in earthen peak was to one of those headless ninja guys that decided to turn 90 degrees mid air during the leap attack thing. The tracking was the stupidest thing I've seen this year.
But even with all this cheap shit it's not very hard, compared to DS1 at least, where everything felt fair AND hard. As someone who's only played both Dark Souls games this year (DS1 in late Jan, DS2 this month), but pure mechanics this definitely does feel B team compared to DS1.
It's still better than 99% of video games out there though, and a much better PC port, and netcode that actually works (couldn't even invade once on GFWL).
/rant
For you, you mean.
I am speaking directly on a comparison of Speedruns of all the Souls games. Go watch Demon's and Dark 1 speedruns and there are no where near as broken as this run is.
Even Kiln Skip Dark Souls 1 wasn't that bad, it didn't completely out of bounds the whole game, you had to at least kill Smough and Ornstein before glitching into the Kiln. Dark 1 Any% is really good right now, you fight all of the necessary bosses you should have to fight, and those fights are mostly pure melee. Demon's is using OP sorcery, but it's not a guy flying all over the map, sprinting with binoculars and out of bounds for the majority of the run.
Watching Dark 2 runs I couldn't help but be reminded of the World Collision data that was posted about a month ago, and how areas were seemingly just placed within and on top of each other haphazardly.