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Dark Souls II |OT++| Bearer of...Seek...Seek...Lest

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ElTopo

Banned
Put about an hour and a half into it. So far, HUGE improvement over the 2nd DLC. Made it to a boss and died, would try again but I need to leave for a job interview.

Only complaint would be that most of the enemies seem like rehashes of the the grunts from the 1st DLC only their covered in Ice/Crystals. They have pretty much the same pattern too.

A little disappointed there but the 1st boss? Man, pretty hype over him. He's GGGGGRRRRRREEEEEAAAAATTTTTTT!
 
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NEO0MJ

Member
Been playing it as well. Still haven't reached the first boss, though.
The area is really huge and pretty maze-like. I guess this is for those who felt the level design was too linear.
 
Braag

Braag

Member
Cannon Goose said:
Man, GeDoSaTo's SSAO does not look great in this DLC... It's kinda like the foggy part of the forest only everywhere.
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That's why I rather use the in game SSAO cause at times the GeDoSaTo's SSAO looks terrible, it has the same problem Nvidia's forced HBAO+ has where it looks terrible in foggy/misty areas.
 
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JustinBB7

Member
I'm at the first boss (or at least my first boss)

I read a sign infront of the fog and now I understand what it meant.. lmao

I got summoned into somebodys world who didn't have the eye of the priestess, invisable boss! Wish I could tell him somehow
 
Braag

Braag

Member
Anyone know what's the purpose of those white hooded dudes, I see them all around the place... Do I need to kill them?
I'm afraid of attacking people at random.
 
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ElTopo

Banned
Spoiler for those white dudes
I've tried aggro'ng them and nothing. I've noticed no difference running by them. I've attacked them and they still don't do anything. So... Glitch maybe? I'm guessing they're there for lore purposes.
 
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Uzzy

Member
So yeah, just got to the
Ivory King
bossfight, and holy shit that's tough. You first
have to fight 8 or more charred knights, before the boss even comes in.

Going to look for ways to make it easier now.

Braag said:
Anyone know what's the purpose of those white hooded dudes, I see them all around the place... Do I need to kill them?
I'm afraid of attacking people at random.
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Once you remove the winds from the area, by talking to the NPC after the Aava bossfight, they become active and attack.
 
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ultraspank

Member
HK-47 said:
Sure or buff some weapons you wanna try that use titanite.
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All the weapons and gear i use are at max. I got so much titanite of all kind it's ridiculous.
I shouldn't have help all these people with smelter 2.0, too much souls :/

I can go to lvl186, i think that's overkill and will make things too easy.
 
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Cannon Goose

Member
Just beat the first boss on my second try!

That jumping attack is super easy to dodge, I just rolled into Tigger and did the ultra greatsword rolling attack into a regular r1 for a good ~900 damage each time. I killed him just as he spawned a few homing crystal soul spears and they fired at me after the boss was dead! Cheap shot!
 
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JustinBB7

Member
Uzzy said:
So yeah, just got to the
Ivory King
bossfight, and holy shit that's tough. You first
have to fight 8 or more charred knights, before the boss even comes in.

Going to look for ways to make it easier now.
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I'm here now too, fucking impossible on NG++

Do you know if
you kill the extra assholes during the boss fight, if they stay dead and it's 1vs1 after that, or do they keep spawning? This seems way too hard to do solo
 
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Dascu

Member
Played a bit of the new DLC, got a key item, and tried the boss. Looks pretty cool! And the level design is very maze-like so far. I feel like there's a lot of paths I haven't explored yet.
 
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Uzzy

Member
JustinBB7 said:
I'm here now too, fucking impossible on NG++

Do you know if
you kill the extra assholes during the boss fight, if they stay dead and it's 1vs1 after that, or do they keep spawning? This seems way too hard to do solo
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Don't know,
I never killed the adds during my two attempts at the boss fight.
I'm currently looking around the rest of the map, seeing if there's something I've missed.
 
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BrokenIcarus

Member
Just got to the Ancient Dragon and got this item to interact with the giants. But I keep dying everytime because there's a fucking war going on and there's smoke everywhere. What the hell's going on?
 
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NEO0MJ

Member
So, the weapon crafted from the soul of the first boss in the DLC is a
lightsaber. Functions mostly like a straight sword, though it has a unique two handed strong attack. Doesn't scale with any stat, and loses durability with every attack, even if you don't hit anything.

strafer said:
How do you guys usually approach a boss? Hanging back and observing his/her moves first or do you just go in guns blazing?
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I usually try to study them, but that doesn't mean I don't attack them.
 
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Ruuppa

Member
NEO0MJ said:
So, the weapon crafted from the soul of the first boss in the DLC is a
lightsaber. Functions mostly like a straight sword, though it has a unique two handed strong attack. Doesn't scale with any stat, and loses durability with every attack, even if you don't hit anything.
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I liked that boss. It's one "pet" that I could imagine being a cuddly-wuddly cute on at some time. Pretty easy though.

That description makes me shiver thought.
Seven beasts? So six more to go.
 
Braag

Braag

Member
Hell I can't even beat the first boss... got it down to like 15% health couple of times but damn... I don't seem to be doing much damage against it...
 
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Cannon Goose

Member
This... this invader... this fucking NPC invader...

white ring wearing backstabbing infinite tracking lance wielding taunting healing sprinting FUCKER
 
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JustinBB7

Member
Uzzy said:
Don't know,
I never killed the adds during my two attempts at the boss fight.
I'm currently looking around the rest of the map, seeing if there's something I've missed.
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Think I just found something! Keep looking around all places that had locked doors/ice and explore more.
 
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Easy_D

never left the stone age
You guys playing Ivory King, how are the boss soundtracks? Sakuraba's been killing it with the soundtrack for the DLC's. Sinh and Sir Alonne have the best damn boss tracks in the series.
 
H

HK-47

Oh, bitch bitch bitch.
Easy_D said:
You guys playing Ivory King, how are the boss soundtracks? Sakuraba's been killing it with the soundtrack for the DLC's. Sinh and Sir Alonne have the best damn boss tracks in the series.
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Hard to hear the first boss's track over the environmental noise. I liked what I did hear.

Also I'm super mad the Smelter Soul now makes another item. I used both on Smelter Swords cause I figured why not?
 
neoism

neoism

Member
AlexSA2 said:
Put about an hour and a half into it. So far, HUGE improvement over the 2nd DLC. Made it to a boss and died, would try again but I need to leave for a job interview.

Only complaint would be that most of the enemies seem like rehashes of the the grunts from the 1st DLC only their covered in Ice/Crystals. They have pretty much the same pattern too.

A little disappointed there but the 1st boss? Man, pretty hype over him. He's GGGGGRRRRRREEEEEAAAAATTTTTTT!
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what WHAT you can play it now I thought it was coming tomorrow :O
Dascu said:
Yep, DLC3 is up and running on PC.
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v1perz53

Member
God damn it, I left Steam on offline mode overnight by accident so it didn't download the DLC! Downloading now, god damn 4G WiMax 1 Mbps internet gonna take a while...
 
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Dascu

Member
Cannon Goose said:
This... this invader... this fucking NPC invader...

white ring wearing backstabbing infinite tracking lance wielding taunting healing sprinting FUCKER
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Ugh, just reached this guy and ran away, through a bunch of caves and saw an old familiar creature's snow version.

What's the closest bonfire? Since I apparently can't get up from the 2nd one, I have to run all the way out there from the 1st bonfire?

Also: Fuck those
ice hedgehogs
.
 
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JustinBB7

Member
Dascu said:
Ugh, just reached this guy and ran away, through a bunch of caves and saw an old familiar creature's snow version.

What's the closest bonfire? Since I apparently can't get up from the 2nd one, I have to run all the way out there from the 1st bonfire?

Also: Fuck those
ice hedgehogs
.
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I'm doing it on NG++

There's even more of those fucking
ice hedgehogs, fucking lame as shit
 
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Hagi

Member
Fuck sake my save is corrupt and i forgot to back up. :(

Is there a way to like share someones save so i don't have to restart for the fifteenth time? I don't want to resort to any of that icky cheat engine bullshit just because i'm lazy and want to skip to Black Gulch. I just want to be able to play through all the DLC now the final one is released.
 
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Cannon Goose

Member
spoiler-ish webbum of an NPC invader doing my head in...

http://a.pomf.se/drbhwy. webm

Roll cancel into reverse 180 no-scope with a nice over the shoulder soul spear to finish me off. Not even the Blue Tearstone Ring could save me ;-;

Thankfully they're dead now! Good riddance!
 
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Ruuppa

Member
Goddamn the
Reindeerland with snowstorms
was HARD. I had to summon NPCs to complete it, and even then it took two tries. The boss there is no joke, but the gauntlet to it is even worse than Iron Passage.
 
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