Orochinagis
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Addind an extra zone outside the mentioned places, there are two TT to the left before entering the Giant King memory in a hanging corpse ,grab the TT, enter the memory, grab the ascetic go outside, use the ascetic, repeat
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Dark Souls II |OT++| Bearer of...Seek...Seek...Lest
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Addind an extra zone outside the mentioned places, there are two TT to the left before entering the Giant King memory in a hanging corpse ,grab the TT, enter the memory, grab the ascetic go outside, use the ascetic, repeat
Laurentius
Member
I really enjoyed Vaati's newest video. Whether or not you agree with his conclusions, I feel like it wraps up the lore of DS2 very nicely. It also shows why I thoroughly enjoyed the overall story of DS2, especially with the info we received post DLC and SotFS.
Emperor_Uriel
Member
Ring of the Living is a must for Fashion Souls now, although it does make me feel stupid for grinding out Rank 2 in BoB so many times to get that sweet aura.
I really wonder how SotFS will balance co-op, the game is a cakewalk as-is with three players. Six people spamming CSS or poking with Ice Rapiers will mean instant kills against most bosses, even if their HP is raised to attempt to compensate for the extra damage.
I really wonder how SotFS will balance co-op, the game is a cakewalk as-is with three players. Six people spamming CSS or poking with Ice Rapiers will mean instant kills against most bosses, even if their HP is raised to attempt to compensate for the extra damage.
Deified Data
Banned
My current character looks even cooler as a zombie than he does as a human. Thus, free ring slot!
Iva Demilcol
Member
Usually I don't agree with most of what he says when it comes to speculations. He can get things not only wrong but very wrong, he pushed so hard the idea that From Software was saying "look guys, this is a cycle so from now on all Souls games are going to be the same over and over again and the only thing you have to do in future titles is trying to find who posses the soul of Lord Gwyn this time", and because of him (and the ones who followed), many people accepted that as the only true.
Fortunately, it seems he changed his mind and now he offers a good theory rather than "hey, the story of DSII is so meta, they are trying to say that all games are going to be the same".
I agree with his conclusions: we are seeing the end of the cycle, this is our happy ending. That doesn't mean that I think the story of the universe of Dark Souls is over though.
Orochinagis
Member
Oh my you nailed it, you nailed why I hate this idea Dark Souls 2 brought about the never ending cicles justifying the mess of the lore the game have since the next cicle would erase those problems and start again feeling dark souls 2 a wasted of a game time and the new ending didnt help either.
Vaati just explained the darkwraith ending as a true ending for him.
EDIT: And it crashed with the endless cicle idea.
EDIT2: Oh my, he believes getting all the crowns
breaks the curse
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
How bad is the defense negative bonus when wearing armour you don't meet the stats for? I want to wear the Chaos cloak for my character, it'd fit him perfectly, but it requires 18 int/18 fth... 
Orochinagis
Member
How bad is the defense negative bonus when wearing armour you don't meet the stats for? I want to wear the Chaos cloak for my character, it'd fit him perfectly, but it requires 18 int/18 fth...
Passive bonus and defense locks as far as a I know
Deified Data
Banned
I don't know man, if he's changed his tune I honestly think he hit the nail on the head the first time - digging any deeper than that is kind of wishful thinking. Regardless of what From plans for the future of the series, the writers of DS2 were definitely enamored with the notion of "don't all these things remind you of something???". The entire narrative, if it could be said to have one, is based around encouraging the player to draw connections between this game and its predecessor. The lore is definitely not one of this game's strong suits.
Orochinagis
Member
Now we talking about unfair zones for everyone
Cannon Goose
Member
Well, some good news on the PC modding front. Apparently the server hack created to bypass all of Namco/From's "restrictions placed on your account" that so many innocent people incurred simply by picking up items from summons and using save backups and ENB's is being publicly released soon. Reason for it being released publicly is to both smear Namco for the behavior and also because the programmer believes they'd need to rewrite the entire server code in order to combat the loophole. Apparently, the server you're on will see that "you" are online but reports random identification of the account effectively breaking any "restrictions" the server-side could have applied to your account, and every time you login to the server the identification is randomized again leading to total ineffectiveness of this system.
So, if you were one of the unfortunates that picked up a hacked item from a summon with no idea (a staple since Demon's was sharing dropped loot), or just used a ENB or save backup and got restrictions for PvP/Co-Op put on your account, you should be unshackled when this releases for all PC users. You're welcome.
This is great news.
Iva Demilcol
Member
I have the impression you misunderstood my post: I agree with Vaati on this one. I believe you and I had a discussion when we saw the ending of the Lost Crowns trilogy; at that time I said that we got our happy ending and you didn't agree (and by the looks of it you still don't agree).
I don't think DSII messed with the lore of the previous game. The devs just took one of the endings and made it cannon, they could've taken the other ending and work with that (and people would get mad that they chose that ending anyways).
I don't agree with the notion that they presented the story as a never ending cycle so they could make as many games as they wanted with just a twist in the story. What they actually showed was a King who is actually aware of the cycle and who made many choices based on that. To me even in the vanilla version there's enough evidence that Vendrick was trying to brake the cycle. I believe the DLC and now the recent patch confirm that DSII's story is about trying to break the cycle.
I think it's quite the opposite: we have just 2 games and at least 5 or 6 cycles that according to the lore happened.
I believe many people prefer to pretend that DSII is full of failures and that the story is just another one rather than giving the dev team credit that they made some interesting (although controversial) choices.
Orochinagis
Member
Fair point, I dont feel the game is a failure, is a great game but it gave me the impression the devs just took some ideas from dark souls 1 and make the Dark Souls 2 world and rules based in their own new ideas forgetting about some few key elements which most of the times it clash and makes no sense for me in some parts of the game.
Random Majora's Mask moment for me is when Lucatiel have a human efigie but she "coulnt" see her in the efigie and gives you her cure for the hollowing pointing out more the world is spinning around you this time.
Basically Vaati's video just recaps
Aldia
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
...I don't understand what you just wrote.
Can you clarify? Not meeting the stat reqs for armours loses a defensive bonus from scaling but still has the normal flat defense? Or do you actually lose defense..?Orochinagis
Member
...I don't understand what you just wrote.
The gear stay in the gear base defense plus minus defense and if the gear have a skill like faster casting you cant use it.
Would love for Dark Souls 3 to look like this.
Oh man I forgot about those blur pre-rendered cutscenes. So fantastic.
Orochinagis
Member
I think that place is the forest of the giants...so...yeah...
Too bad you never see Faraam outside seeing
Too bad you never see Faraam outside seeing
his corpse
Well I mean, that is exactly what FoFG looks like so they really knocked that one out of the park!
Orthogonal
Member
Would love for Dark Souls 3 to look like this.
As great as that would be I would settle for pre-downgrade DS2 graphics.
There's the Faraam exiles (well humans with the set at least) in the frigid outskirts and then there's the invader that has Faraam gear and vendricks sword and sheild.
neoism
Member
Would love for Dark Souls 3 to look like this.
its wont look that good but it should look insane.... even better than bloodborne.
Say what?
Basically if you do not meet the requirements you loose defenses by equipping said item.
You travel back in time by going up a lift?
Not while using the lift in this case, but rather while traversing through Aldia's Keep!
Similarly the disjointed connection between Earthen Peak and Iron Keep could be the same, areas in Drangleic are connected both geographically (in the same land) and over different timelines?
How though?
The second thing is just map design more than anything otherwise there's time travel occurring every time you walk somewhere in the entire game. Take for example majula to heide it's a minute or so journey and you end up really far away if you look back to majula all you can see is the obelisk.
Deified Data
Banned
With Agape Ring and Champion's Covenant I thought I'd be rolling in red eye stones from the piggies in Majula. The reality is a little less impressive.
Orochinagis
Member
He couldnt fit the bonfire small room so the devs just shrink him to fit, lol
Also He really messed up the drakes in that area so he could like probably avoiding them.
Laurentius
Member
She's definitely smaller. And her voice definitely sounds different. There's something to be said for some possible time travel at some point. It's not like Dark Souls hasn't played with time travel before.
Orochinagis
Member
I want to how the young shanallote voice was used for, but the sound effects in Dragon aerie are kinda distorsioned by the constant enviroment sounds.
You not got all the item boosting gear on? That'll help a bit.
Orochinagis
Member
Starter priest have the best starter melee weapon.
Oh yeah. I'm just saying character will eventually mainly use miracles and miracle infused weapons. Etc.
Haven't played in like 8 months. Let's see if my skills from once playing 500 hours holds up now haha.
Might be fun to do another Deprived start. I did that with my Pyro character I think. Be interesting to do it now when my skills are rusty. Haha.
Can't wait to be invaded again.
Red Liquorice
Member
Just watched the latest any% speed run WR and was pretty blown away by it. It was the same old run that's been used for a while now, but there was some new stuff I hadn't seen in the past few that I'd watched. Some of the boss kills were way faster than before, can't wait to see people try and top this. I love that people are still finding new stuff in DS1, so I don't see why it shouldn't be the same for DS2 even years from now.
Not to put a dampener on your plans Gulatica, but during those 8 months there was some balancing with the patches that reduced casts and the damage of miracles a fair bit which might make it a bit harder to rely purely on miracles. On the other hand though infused weapons are pretty viable still even more so than they were originally in some cases. Plus there's some new equipment that might help a fair bit if you've got the dlc's which they're in.Oh yeah. I'm just saying character will eventually mainly use miracles and miracle infused weapons. Etc.
Haven't played in like 8 months. Let's see if my skills from once playing 500 hours holds up now haha.
Might be fun to do another Deprived start. I did that with my Pyro character I think. Be interesting to do it now when my skills are rusty. Haha.
Can't wait to be invaded again.
You expected them not to be? There unlikely to be ever fixed at all.
Oh yeah, I'd figure they make casting less overkilled. Already experienced some of the patches that rebalanced things, so I'm not expecting things to be easy or anything. Last time I played, I played a lot of PvP with a nice mace and got kinda decent with it. So I'll essentially be a combo mace/sword/etc fighter with using miracles.
Everything be rebalanced and me out of shape, essentially, kinda excites me as well, as allows me to relearn the game while being so long that I'm not expecting things to be a certain way.
No but every time i try to play Dark Souls 2 again, those hitboxes really get me sad
what's wrong with them?
Red Liquorice
Member
With infinite spell herbs, decreasing the number of casts is neither here nor there imo. Plus you can buy infinite amounts of some spells or at least have the maximum number you could ever attune by, say NG++ - I know that's true of spells like Dark Orb, Lightning Spear. Even boss soul spells you can mop up with ascetics.
You'll be fine then, there's some new stuff added by the latest patch that is easier to do on a new playthrough as you don't have to ascetic anything. Not that is much of a problem but it's something to bare in mind.Everything be rebalanced and me out of shape, essentially, kinda excites me as well, as allows me to relearn the game while being so long that I'm not expecting things to be a certain way.
Clear
CliffyB's Cock Holster
Not much to be truthful.
Like so many complaints about DS2, its an issue that's blown out of all proportion.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
I think the worst hitboxes are from those dog monsters in the Gutter. It's just... their hitbox is like 360 around their bodies and can seemingly damage you before the animation even starts.