Low, I think 9 or 10.
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Dark Souls II |OT| The Dark Souls of Dark Souls
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Low, I think 9 or 10.
A Sentient Keyboard
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Noted, thanks!
Try killing the giant knights over and over again. I practiced my evasion on them and I already got much better again. It really helps to learn doding in this game.
There are a lot of different environments. While some are absolutely greatly designed, others suffer a bit from poor level design (what irritates me the most are small ledges or walls you can't climb but totally should be able to, a little bit too much of holes and water that you instantly die if you fall into). The level design does not seem as inspired and cohesive as it is in Dark Souls. One big exception is (early game spoiler)
Majula
The environments do have a lot of detail and clues put into them, though. How that translates into the lore I don't really know. Guess we'll have to wait for ENB's lore videos to tell us about that.
KennyLinder
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Is the Claymore in the game? Loved my Lightning Claymore+5 in DkS1 
Found it.. Time to correct some mistakes.
Any help would be appreciated.
My character:
Explorer
Lv. 46
Vgr 14
End 8
Vit 13
Atn 10 (going to fix this for sure since my INT is so low)
Str 14
Dex 12
Adp 18
Int 5
Fth 5
before I re-spec, is my build ok?
My only regret is dumping points into ATN.
I'll have to watch the video I guess, because I have no idea what power stance is. And doesn't dual handing have weak/strong attacks too?
EDIT: I think I get it. I would need to test it out at least for dual-wielding vs dual-handing though.
Not really. Once the scrawny soldiers in the
Lost Bastille
dynamitejim
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Is movement/roll speed not affected by equip burden anymore? I put some armor on that put me in the 60% range and I don't see any difference from removing it and going under 10%. Maybe I shouldn't have dumped all of those points in VIT. :/
Can you parry or block while in power stance?
Thats where i am now and the area itself up to the boss is pretty short, but I died at the boss itself. getting to it was easy.
They dont seem that hard tbh
im gonna go to the other destination with the giants instead and try them again later.
Red Liquorice
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Thanks. I see ENB has already put ep1 of his playthrough. Must resist! I will be trying to piece as much of the lore together myself though, it's nerdishly one of the things I'm most excited about, really taking my time and exploring everything in my first playthrough.
Thanks.
Really disappointed that they didn't change nothing from Dark Souls...the same ugly graphics,awful animations,insane difficulty,respawning ennemies and terrible menue's and UI...I had some fun with Dark Souls but never finished it,this is why I just rented this to see if they improved some things but no so I wont waste my time with it...
Kudos to you guys enjoying this,besides all the negatives I said above,I can see the whole appeal but its not for me.
Kudos to you guys enjoying this,besides all the negatives I said above,I can see the whole appeal but its not for me.
Woops, whacked a treasure chest until it broke apart and found rubbish. Is this because I broke it or was it rubbish inside?
Curious what was in it; it was the chest
Also later area spoiler:
Curious what was in it; it was the chest
in the first locked room above the bonfire in the castle in the Forest of Giants.
Also later area spoiler:
in the Lost Bastille after taking a left from the tower that one masked NPC is is a locked door and a cracked wall. How do I destroy it (which seems to be the suggestion by some messages on the ground}
impressions and spoilers for early game (played 5 hours)
I hope its just the early game but theres definitely some things in this that feel like a step back from the previous ones. Mainly that it feels a lot more linear in terms of where you are able to go (the levels still have that go around then unlock shortcut design, but theres only one area to explore).
I made it to the first boss and thoroughly explored everywhere on the way, got the mansion key, blacksmith key, pharoah's key, the coffin betwixt, seemingly all the loot i can get to. At this point I appear to only have two choices - beat the first boss or go to an area that is clearly way too hard (tower place), and quickly leads to a boss fight if I run through it.
In DS 1 when I got stuck on a boss there were always other areas I could explore, I never felt like I had literally only one path to make progress.
Combining that with the limited items and non-respanwing enemies, and losing life everytime you die makes it feel like you could conceivably run out of the finite number of souls available, not be able to buy more items, and not be able to return to human form and so have a tiny life bar.
Basically putting a finite cap on the amount of resources available means you could eventually be completely screwed.
In practice I'm not anywhere near having cleared out all the souls available to me, but I do seem to be down to my last effigy. Knowing that my lifebar is going to continue to shrink until I make forward progress and find more effigies (presumably there is only a finite number of them) puts a limit on the number of times you can reasonably retry something before the diminishing life bar makes it unpossible.
For me that limit makes me not want to play it, since I don't want to be doing anything unless I am doing my 'best', otherwise I'm wasting resources. Like I don't want to try the boss fight one more time because this is my last effigy, and if I don't beat them its going to make it harder next time, and I could feasibly get stuck unable to beat them because I only have a sliver of life.
I really hope there is a source of unlimited effigies later in the game, but then with the limited number of souls even if there is a vendor selling them they will still be limited.
I made it to the first boss and thoroughly explored everywhere on the way, got the mansion key, blacksmith key, pharoah's key, the coffin betwixt, seemingly all the loot i can get to. At this point I appear to only have two choices - beat the first boss or go to an area that is clearly way too hard (tower place), and quickly leads to a boss fight if I run through it.
In DS 1 when I got stuck on a boss there were always other areas I could explore, I never felt like I had literally only one path to make progress.
Combining that with the limited items and non-respanwing enemies, and losing life everytime you die makes it feel like you could conceivably run out of the finite number of souls available, not be able to buy more items, and not be able to return to human form and so have a tiny life bar.
Basically putting a finite cap on the amount of resources available means you could eventually be completely screwed.
In practice I'm not anywhere near having cleared out all the souls available to me, but I do seem to be down to my last effigy. Knowing that my lifebar is going to continue to shrink until I make forward progress and find more effigies (presumably there is only a finite number of them) puts a limit on the number of times you can reasonably retry something before the diminishing life bar makes it unpossible.
For me that limit makes me not want to play it, since I don't want to be doing anything unless I am doing my 'best', otherwise I'm wasting resources. Like I don't want to try the boss fight one more time because this is my last effigy, and if I don't beat them its going to make it harder next time, and I could feasibly get stuck unable to beat them because I only have a sliver of life.
I really hope there is a source of unlimited effigies later in the game, but then with the limited number of souls even if there is a vendor selling them they will still be limited.
Screaming Meat
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I haven't got the game but, out of interest, can you (creature/enemy spoiler)
in the same way as DS1?
tell a chest is a mimic
The game has never been about graphics. Say what you will, but some of these environments blow other games out the water.
Janky animations are a series staple.. Love or hate them.
Insane difficulty is part of the games appeal.. It's not for everyone.
Enemies no longer infinity re-spawn. It's much harder to grind your way through this one.
The menu/UI is better. But I agree there's room for improvement.
It's really not for everyone. Even accomplished players are having a tough go with DS2. Over a million deaths day one (last I checked).
How can I do something in the
covenant? I got in, but now I need to invade people, right? How can I do that?
You know you can
Rat
I've been stuck at the second bossfor way too longthe pursuer
You know you can
use the huge arrow machines in the back right? They take off 90% of his health.
I've been stuck at the second bossfor way too longthe pursuer
That dude is all about dodging. Baiting his charge move and then dodging to the right is a safe way to beat him
Wear the ring.
I am wearing it, but nothing happens. Anything specific I need to do or a place I need to be?
I've been stuck at the second bossfor way too longthe pursuer
Shoot him with the Bolt throwers
I'm assuming it works like the forest covenant in DS1 where it summons you automatically whenever the game feels like it.
justjustin
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I can think of three places you can choose to explore and actually make progress in at your point in the game. I've played about 10 hours and the game opens up at an exponential rate after the first significant boss. It seems more similar to Demon's Souls where you're encouraged to skip around different areas and work through them in tandem.
Stone Ocean
Member
Heh, the temptation of that jump is a trap in itself.
Ah okay, thanks.
Nice, I'm definitely going to experiment with that later on.
DownLikeBCPowder
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I thought Demon's Souls looked pretty damn amazing at launch!
Yeah, I saw the two guys below me and figured I'd be fine if I fell.
Then I found out there were 3 of them. And it was really narrow. Fuck.
Yeah, I also succumbed to that jump. Then I tried it again, failed, and tried to get my souls back but I still died. It definitely is a trap, ha ha. I'll have to come back when I get some more arrows.
Screaming Meat
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I haven't run across any yet, but you can attack a treasure chest like 3 times before it gets destroyed. I imagine you can just swing once and check.
Screaming Meat
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Much obliged, sir.
I really can't think where, can someone give me a hint?
I'm at the last giant boss, as far as I can tell I have cleared out the forest of giants area before that (including area with boulder rolling on you). I went to that tower area you get to via the aqueduct and ran past the big dudes, eventually got to a boss and got one hit. I can't think where else I could explore, I've cleared out betwixt and the only other place was blocked by a statue infront of a lever.
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