if you exhausted the dialog options with the lady on Heide's Tower Of Flame (upstairs from where you fought the Dragonrider) go back to Majula and follow the path as if you were going to Heide's Ruins. she will be standing next to a contraption, give her 2000 souls and she will move it, that's the path to Hunstmans Copse
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Dark Souls II |OT| The Dark Souls of Dark Souls
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Hopefully the EU servers go up at a decent time tomorrow, will start again when they do. Think I'll sacrifice some of the Dex I put in and go for Str, see how long it takes until I can rock the Drangleic Sword because I am beginning to dislike the Heide Sword's moveset and range in Bastille. Does decent damage but getting multiple hits on small creatures like dogs and rats requires you to be so close to them.
MiamiWesker
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Nope I have become human in both spots.
Either my brand new PS3 is dying as well (literally got it to replace a YLOD 60GB just for DS2 and haven't put more than 10 hours on it before this week) or it is a game thing.
Now, that said, I haven't seen the entire sky turn green, but there was a point early on where I turned a corner (thinking it was in Forest) and the camera panned oddly into a wall and I saw a flat green area. It went away when I passed all the way through the door and the camera once again had 'room' to pan behind me again.
Fingers crossed for you.
The perfect Dark
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I always become human when the summoner dies. I accidently killed the last summoner (during a boss fight) lol
wow, she's like... beautiful... great job man. I just made a Guts look alike since I am making a Str build my first tie through. But ya, wow. Didn't know you could make something like that in the game.
ok, will keep this in mind, thanks man. It's not about winning or losing, idc, I just love teh tension it adds, like when things aren't going your way then on top of that you get invaded... lol hate it, but love it.
There are tons of massive swords -- but all later in the game.
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I've never lost a fight against Flexile Sentry while being summoned at least 10-15 times and have regained humanity.
Meanwhile, seconds ago the summoner just died against the Ruin Sentinels and I'm still dead. I've not fought them 3 times and lost without regaining humanity and I expect to get it back the next two summons.
Edit: and boom, after the 5th summon, not even fulfilling the duty, I have regained humanity. It's gotta be a 20-25% chance.
Well, obviously bosses will seem easy if you summon two phantoms for each one. The ones in particular that seem easier are the humanoid types, maybe I'm just better at fighting them. At any rate I've run into several that were much harder than any of demon's souls bosses and tougher than most dark souls bosses. And I'm not far in.
Summoning definitely does help a lot and it's extremely easy compared to dark souls, where I never even bothered. Especially on the PC version. One of the big things is that you can easily turn human anytime, so you can get to a boss then unhollow and summon. Personally I just do some practice runs as a phantom and then go in for real, so far I haven't failed yet using this strategy.
Life gems or not healing is far more limited than the first two games. They aren't that common, and estus shards are rare...I think I only have 6 estus and I've been playing around 14 hours. I don't know how you can say healing is easier to come by than demon's souls where you'd have functionally infinite full healing grass after one run of 1-3.
As for that example with the axe guy in the trailers - I've definitely run into some serious bullshit moments which make that look like nothing. Two in particular. But the rewards for beating them were great, so I can't be too mad at it.
ALSO POISON SUCKS JESUS CHRIST
Chance Hale
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Jeez, all the boss souls weapons I could craft seemed terrible. Made a warped sword because it has A scaling but it uses dragon bones for upgrading which I have 2 of so ugh.
Alright so I have a question about a treasure chest in
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The Lost Bastille
After beating The 3 metal knights boss there are a few hidden walls. One of which is on the second floor with one of those exploding dudes and he's next to a treasure chest. I ended up breaking the chest and got rubbish out of it. What's actually in the chest????
Covenant of Champions
Start as Deprived for maximum challenge, first hours were trial by fire, every enemy was a 1 hit kill.
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Holy crap at the Ruin Sentinels shortcut http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej_LqccsuZY
There's a lot more options for PVP besides invading. If you just want to gank people, they made it harder.
You are already dead.
I think my first Dark Souls run took me about 80 hours. You could speed through it and get done in maybe 30 or 40 I suppose.
I was in that covenant for the first half of the game and had no idea what it did, when I changed to
Way of Blue
Do you get better/more rewards/drops for being with the
Champions
Roddslayer
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Anybody beat the game yet?
Ah, so that door is useful for something other than trolling newbies.
Deified Data
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Hmm, thought that door was just "try rolling, treasure ahead" bait. Cool that it serves a purpose.
I also found that one by accident..
Don't ask how >.>
I'm definitely trying to jump all over the place now, with little success. ^_^
Deified Data
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Same here. I get summoned just fine, so the servers are working. I guess no one's invading
outside of the Bell covenant
So I'm kinda fucked off. I have no internet connection for 2 weeks as I've just moved house and I just started the game. I chose knight, started playing for a while and then realised I couldn't use my sword. If I equipped it the icon was empty but he seemed to be holding an invisible sword. He'd slash his empty hands like it had a sword but it did no real damage or anything.
So I restarted and all seemed fine. I talked to the woman who lets you level up, levelled up and then the sword was invisible again! What the fuck. Is this due to the day one update?! My game is ruined :'(
So I restarted and all seemed fine. I talked to the woman who lets you level up, levelled up and then the sword was invisible again! What the fuck. Is this due to the day one update?! My game is ruined :'(
I haven't been invaded yet. I have seen invansions as a phantom in others worlds.
I think most people are just trying to get used to the game and invading items are consumables.
jackpottest
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I am too. I posted earlier in the thread re: this to see if it was just me.
Dark Souls/Demon's souls did not have this effect on me, ever. This is really disappointing as this is my favorite series these days
The only other game to ever give me motion sickness was HL2, but that was fixed by changing the default FoV.
Really hope I can figure out what is causing it.
fuzzyreactor
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starting to have more fun with the game now that im at the bastille. Took me 14 hours, is that slow?
So you can summon ppl after you defeat a boss?
So you can summon ppl after you defeat a boss?
Apologies if this is the stupidest possibility that exists, but are you sure you have it ACTIVE. Meaning, you have it equipped, but have pressed left or right on the d-pad and equipped one of the blank slots (you have three for each hand) instead?
I knew it was a shortcut but never took it... too risky. Had quite a few hosts do it and fall to their death... no thanks... I'll take the safe route.
I love it. It is sitting right next to my DS1 guide. The second I found out Future Press was doing the guide for this one too it was an instant must have.
Anyone?
Incendiary
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As others have said well before me, it's probably everybody playing through the game first and figuring out builds for invasion and PvP. Or maybe the invader covenant is located later in the game so the lower levels aren't being invaded as much yet.
Keep in mind that the invasion covenant is found much later in the game. You're only able to use the cracked red orbs once you are in that covenant, I believe. So the only invasions you are really going to get early on is the
bell covenant in Belfry Luna
rat covenant in Grave of the Saints
Yeah, I just run away from everyone, then it auto closes menus, easier than backing out of them.
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