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Dark Souls II |OT| The Dark Souls of Dark Souls
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BIONIC-ARRRMMM!!
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When I try to use the red orb to invade, the option is greyed out. Do I have to be human?
Also, do I lose anything by dying in the host's world?
Also, do I lose anything by dying in the host's world?
GodParticle
Member
Yeah, that's the one. Same here. I was like, damn, if only I had done that earlier
JPBrowncoat
Member
Can you change covenants back and forth?
plasmawave
Banned
How you guys liking the game so far?
Is it better than Dark Souls 1?
No spoilers please!
Is it better than Dark Souls 1?
No spoilers please!
Somnium986
Member
Yep iirc talk to the cat back at the hub, she lets you leave covenants without any penalty. ..if there is any this time around? I'm not sure.
Deified Data
Banned
Today's list of vanquished bosses:
I feel productive. Of course none of those bosses holds a candle to a handful of those explodey guys in Lost Bastille.
Old Dragonslayer
Dragonrider
Flexile Sentry
Ruin Sentinels
Dragonrider
Flexile Sentry
Ruin Sentinels
I feel productive. Of course none of those bosses holds a candle to a handful of those explodey guys in Lost Bastille.
Chance Hale
Member
Woot, got my health high enough to where I can make it down the well! Although I don't think I want to be here ;-;
Chance Hale
Member
Chance Hale
Member
It took me 10 hours to realize you have to hit x/a, don't attack! I will have to do a lot of backtracking >_>
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
They work a little differently now...
There are.
This is literally what I did today too haha. Stopped after dealing with "ed edd and eddy". Figured it was best to call it a night and come back after work tomorrow
Edit: actually they are chicks...so I guess instead they would be the kanker sisters?
What does that covenant actually change?
AKingNamedPaul
I am Homie
I read somewhere that it makes it like playing NG+ straightaway
Chance Hale
Member
Oh my gosh.......for people who have gone down the well
No mantling like Demon Souls right?
I dropped down the first few platforms in the gultch and went to attack an enemy and it seems I can't get back over the platform.......do I have to die?
The Xtortionist
Member
According to the guide, enemies deal more damage and take less damage. But you'll occasionally get Awestone items for defeating enemies. Awestones are used to rank up in the Covenant and compare your badassery to other players in the covenant.
I didn't know about the illusory walls being on a button instead of having to hit.... I'm not going to backtrack now that I'm almost done with NG.
Why From...Why? :/
Have you gone
Why From...Why? :/
Have you gone
down the well in Majula?
Incendiary
Banned
Man, I'm really getting into the game now. Last night was pretty heavy, I died a ton and was really getting my ass kicked. But today I participated in a lot of jolly cooperation and it helped me out a ton. Anybody who's frustrated in the first area, once you unlock summoning and get a few boss battles underneath your belt the world really opens up and it becomes more Souls frustrating and less "wow this game sucks" frustrating.
Early-ish location/boss spoilers:
On another note, summoning's been really weird for me. I've sent my summoning sign next to a bonfire, and when I get summoned into the world the dudes are already most of the way to the boss and have cleared out all the enemies. It's happened multiple times, so I'm not sure how I'm being summoned by the player when they're clear across the map already. Is that a side effect of one of the covenants, maybe?
God I love this game. I'm going to be so tired at work tomorrow for staying up so late, but damn if it wasn't worth it.
Early-ish location/boss spoilers:
Spent a lot of time tonight in Heide's fighting the big knights and helping people fight Dragonrider. Leveled myself up so now I'm dual-wielding a Falchion/Scimitar combination (which I haven't actually been able to use thought since the armored knights in Heide's I have to use my Fire Sword for instead).
Also there was a stupid smile on my face when I helped one guy, but instead of going toward Dragonrider he went the other way and I ended up helping him fight ORNSTEIN of all people. Ornstein was my favorite character/boss from Dark Souls, so goddamn if I'm not going to be taking a while and just helping people out with that boss fight, it's so much fun and pretty cool to see that nod. I'm wondering if that fits into the lore somehow. Also, his armor set was my favorite of Dark Souls - while my first build probably won't cut it since I'm a Swordsman, I hope his armor is located somewhere in this game too.
Also there was a stupid smile on my face when I helped one guy, but instead of going toward Dragonrider he went the other way and I ended up helping him fight ORNSTEIN of all people. Ornstein was my favorite character/boss from Dark Souls, so goddamn if I'm not going to be taking a while and just helping people out with that boss fight, it's so much fun and pretty cool to see that nod. I'm wondering if that fits into the lore somehow. Also, his armor set was my favorite of Dark Souls - while my first build probably won't cut it since I'm a Swordsman, I hope his armor is located somewhere in this game too.
On another note, summoning's been really weird for me. I've sent my summoning sign next to a bonfire, and when I get summoned into the world the dudes are already most of the way to the boss and have cleared out all the enemies. It's happened multiple times, so I'm not sure how I'm being summoned by the player when they're clear across the map already. Is that a side effect of one of the covenants, maybe?
God I love this game. I'm going to be so tired at work tomorrow for staying up so late, but damn if it wasn't worth it.
Nope. Thanks.
Do you have a homeward bone?
Incendiary
Banned
You also can't use soapstones to join other games/summon people to help you. Essentially it's a hardcore covenant for solo-ing the game, if you want.
ENB said "increases strength" but what that means I don't know. I would assume they just hit harder and maybe have more HP and that's it. It seems like certain rings and the bonfire ascetic are there to augment things more specifically. Time will tell on a lot of this I'm guessing.
Personally I really can't wait for more info on the wikis because things are so piecemeal right now that it takes a lot of work to see which path I should be taking and which bosses are considered harder than others. I guess that's what you get when you sign up for the day 1 experience. Props to everyone who's nearing the endgame already...I feel like I still have a ways to go given how tough a lot of the bosses are. I'm not sure I expected From to be able to make a game this difficult for someone who's beaten the previous ones but they definitely did.
Chance Hale
Member
I do but I could see the bonfire ;-;
Hmm think I missed this, too. Where is it exactly?
dryuriev7777
Member
I had a productive spoiler-filled day today.
Got myself into the
and decided to phantom-grind the
boss fight a few million times and suddenly I find myself with
.
Also, I love the look of it, but fighting my way through
is such a pain in the ass. I feel like I missed a bonfire or something because I had to go from the first bonfire right outside the entrance to the
. At least I got some rockin' armor from the enemies in there.
Got myself into the
Knights of the Sun Covenant
Skelly Lords
Solaire's sword and Sunlight Spear.
Also, I love the look of it, but fighting my way through
Iron Keep
Old Iron King
WheelHoss1
Member
What is the
used for other than acquiring souls?
Soul of the Last Giant
vas_a_morir
Banned
So, are the servers down, or can I still play?
Chance Hale
Member
Well, From has officially outdone 4-1.
Lost Fragment
Obsessed with 4chan
Shit is slow as fuck and very short range. It feels kind of like the upclose throw/hit game in fighting games, except the throw is like 800 frames. Feels pretty balanced to me right now.
Edit: I'm talking about the forward+r1 thing. Can't speak much about the just getting hit out of stamina or whatever thing just yet.
super-famicom
Member
Level 27 Swordsman and I finally beat the Last Giant last night. I'm using a fire long sword, falchion +1, and the large leather shield (for going through new areas where I don't know what's around the corner).
A couple questions:
How's the Estoc? I'm not liking the long sword move set (stab only works when two handing), and I want to try something different. I see the Estoc for sale in Majula. I'm aiming for a DEX build.
What NPCs are in the Forest of the Giants? I met the merchant who already moved to Majula and Pate. I read some people found a "map guy" there too. Where is this one?
The area where the gate drops after entering (next to where you meet Pate for the first time); can you go back there? I hear there's an illusionary wall I missed.
A couple questions:
How's the Estoc? I'm not liking the long sword move set (stab only works when two handing), and I want to try something different. I see the Estoc for sale in Majula. I'm aiming for a DEX build.
What NPCs are in the Forest of the Giants? I met the merchant who already moved to Majula and Pate. I read some people found a "map guy" there too. Where is this one?
The area where the gate drops after entering (next to where you meet Pate for the first time); can you go back there? I hear there's an illusionary wall I missed.
vas_a_morir
Banned
Hmm, looks like the server is down for the scheduled tweeking. Hope it improves the experience.
JumpJeff84
Member
Okay, so here's what happened: I downloaded DSII on launch day from PSN. Been marathoning it pretty hard yesterday and today. I'm 20 hours in as a Sorcerer, Soul Level 63, beat quite a few bosses, had a blast.
The one strange thing is that I've played pretty much all of the game ignoring the torch mechanic. At the start of the game when it was introduced I lit one or two torches after the first bonfire, and then just kinda forgot about it and ignored it until 20 hours later I came to a part in the game where you need to light a torch to get an NPC to trigger to do something.
At that point I found that I couldn't use the torch feature...when you go to a bonfire, you're supposed to be able to press triangle to toggle between 'Rest at Bonfire' or 'Light Torch', but I just don't get that option. When I went to the inventory screen, my torch's timer is at all zeros, even though it's supposed to be at five minutes, which is how long you get by default. You're supposed to be able to pick up torches during the game that increase the time your torch is lit. Odd, and odder still that in my 20 hours of play I didn't come across any of these torch upgrades...
I figured it was a rather unfortunate bug, and after much hemming and hawing I said 'fuck it' and re-rolled another character. Another sorcerer, pretty much the same thing. 20 hours down the drain, but screw it, I need to use the torches! Ran through the opening a second time, then grabbed the first torch you get in the tutorial. Boom. Ran out into the first real 'game' area, lit up a bunch of the pyres (I dunno what you call them) then when my torch's timer went down to zero I ran back to the bonfire to relight it.
Here's where it gets super weird- I get to the bonfire, and AGAIN the game gives me no option to toggle between 'light torch' and 'use bonfire'. Keep in mind this is a brand new save file, new character. WTF?!? How does that even make sense? I checked my inventory, and the torch's timer is at all zeroes. To quote John McLean, how does the same shit happen to the same guy twice? Super weird.
I run through to the next bonfire in the game, and sure enough, no toggle. My copy of Dark Souls II doesn't want me to use torches. VIsiting phantoms can light torches no problem, but I can't. Just weird.
Really, what can this be? If it's a bug, I have a feeling we'd have heard some reports of it by now. Maybe it's a sorcerer specific thing? I dunno. I''ll roll a new character class tomorrow, see what happens. If the same thing happens, what am I to think? That I have a defective copy of the game? A defective digital copy of the game? Does that even make sense?
I dunno guys, it's just weird. Any advice would be helpful, just to figure out what I'm dealing with here.
TL;DR
1. Torches don't work in my copy of game
2. Even rolled a new character, new save file
3. What the fuck?
4. What can/should I do?
The one strange thing is that I've played pretty much all of the game ignoring the torch mechanic. At the start of the game when it was introduced I lit one or two torches after the first bonfire, and then just kinda forgot about it and ignored it until 20 hours later I came to a part in the game where you need to light a torch to get an NPC to trigger to do something.
At that point I found that I couldn't use the torch feature...when you go to a bonfire, you're supposed to be able to press triangle to toggle between 'Rest at Bonfire' or 'Light Torch', but I just don't get that option. When I went to the inventory screen, my torch's timer is at all zeros, even though it's supposed to be at five minutes, which is how long you get by default. You're supposed to be able to pick up torches during the game that increase the time your torch is lit. Odd, and odder still that in my 20 hours of play I didn't come across any of these torch upgrades...
I figured it was a rather unfortunate bug, and after much hemming and hawing I said 'fuck it' and re-rolled another character. Another sorcerer, pretty much the same thing. 20 hours down the drain, but screw it, I need to use the torches! Ran through the opening a second time, then grabbed the first torch you get in the tutorial. Boom. Ran out into the first real 'game' area, lit up a bunch of the pyres (I dunno what you call them) then when my torch's timer went down to zero I ran back to the bonfire to relight it.
Here's where it gets super weird- I get to the bonfire, and AGAIN the game gives me no option to toggle between 'light torch' and 'use bonfire'. Keep in mind this is a brand new save file, new character. WTF?!? How does that even make sense? I checked my inventory, and the torch's timer is at all zeroes. To quote John McLean, how does the same shit happen to the same guy twice? Super weird.
I run through to the next bonfire in the game, and sure enough, no toggle. My copy of Dark Souls II doesn't want me to use torches. VIsiting phantoms can light torches no problem, but I can't. Just weird.
Really, what can this be? If it's a bug, I have a feeling we'd have heard some reports of it by now. Maybe it's a sorcerer specific thing? I dunno. I''ll roll a new character class tomorrow, see what happens. If the same thing happens, what am I to think? That I have a defective copy of the game? A defective digital copy of the game? Does that even make sense?
I dunno guys, it's just weird. Any advice would be helpful, just to figure out what I'm dealing with here.
TL;DR
1. Torches don't work in my copy of game
2. Even rolled a new character, new save file
3. What the fuck?
4. What can/should I do?
The layout of the different areas with respect to each other is about as unintuitive as can be. I honestly cannot tell where I should actually be. I've just kind of meandered about fighting whatever boss I come across. Beaten
. Also found myself in
, but it just feels like there's no rhyme or reason to where I'm going and what I'm fighting. Nothing feels like a cohesive progression order, and the game is kind of disappointing to me because of that.
the giant, Pursuer, Dragonrider, Ornstein, the rat swarm, and the sentinels
Belfry Luna
Chance Hale
Member
I take it all back, this is the worst game ever.
AKingNamedPaul
I am Homie
The "bash" does not lead to a critical on opponents who aren't blocking as far as I know and being guard broken on the defensive can be remedied by A: get better at the dodge roll, B: take the hit, C: work on your spacing, because the weapons that break your guard usually have recovery on the slashes.
Shit, WHAT? can it change back? FUCK.
edit: Can I change back if I get back into it? I'm jumping on now to try but if any one knows it'd put my heart at ease.
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