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Dark Souls II |OT| The Dark Souls of Dark Souls
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Haha, it took me a day to realize my character had turned into a man because I was wearing so much armor. Started wondering at one point why she was grunting with such a low voice on death, then read about the coffin.
PuppetMaster
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Ah ok thank you! I used that like hours ago. I only just noticed now when removing armor!
KennyLinder
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Getting this today, much excite!
How quickly do you get the White Soapstone? I want to get summoned for jolly co-op ASAP
How quickly do you get the White Soapstone? I want to get summoned for jolly co-op ASAP
Well, could be there are more uses, but I've only read about this one so far.
PvP wise: Hmm, no matter how I time my dodge, a sorcerer's spell arrow keeps hitting me. I'm gonna assume internet lag cuz spells in DkS1 was fairly easy to see and avoid.
Fairly fast. Not in the intro/tutorial level, but definitely in the first real area you'll goto. Make sure to talk to a guy repeatedly
Getting this today, much excite!
How quickly do you get the White Soapstone? I want to get summoned for jolly co-op ASAP
Fairly fast. Not in the intro/tutorial level, but definitely in the first real area you'll goto. Make sure to talk to a guy repeatedly
dude, same thing happened to me yesterday lol. I thought I was losing my mind.
like probably.in the first hour and a half. longer then it was for DS oddlyGetting this today, much excite!
How quickly do you get the White Soapstone? I want to get summoned for jolly co-op ASAP
MrCookiepants
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"Be wary of hole"
What hole? *falls into it*
lol
What hole? *falls into it*
lol
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Whaaaat is it true pvp invaders and bell tower peeps cannot heal at all? Thanks a lot FROM
AKingNamedPaul
I am Homie
The classic
KennyLinder
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PvP wise: Hmm, no matter how I time my dodge, a sorcerer's spell arrow keeps hitting me. I'm gonna assume internet lag cuz spells in DkS1 was fairly easy to see and avoid.
Fairly fast. Not in the intro/tutorial level, but definitely in the first real area you'll goto. Make sure to talk to a guy repeatedly
Cheers! It should be fairly busy today since it launches here in UKLand and Europe today. I hope they haven't locked the servers down regionally.QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
you can use life gems and faith spells
Can't use lifegems as a red phantom, not that healing is really something you have time to be doing during invasions.
I was about to question this then I remembered I have the downloaded version(PSN). None of my load times are that long.
I joined the Blue Sentinels. This is gonna be fun crushing invaders.
On a side note, before that I tried to invade people but my crushed red-eye orb had the 'use' function greyed out. Is there some requirement for invading people? I'm not familiar with it as I played through Dark Souls I completely offline. I used a soapstone and was summoned so I know the servers are working.
On a side note, before that I tried to invade people but my crushed red-eye orb had the 'use' function greyed out. Is there some requirement for invading people? I'm not familiar with it as I played through Dark Souls I completely offline. I used a soapstone and was summoned so I know the servers are working.
Comfort Jones
Banned
I fought like 3 guys in the bell tower at one point, and still won lmao.
Couldn't seem to enter the boss room though, not sure why. Do you have to beat the invaders first?
Couldn't seem to enter the boss room though, not sure why. Do you have to beat the invaders first?
pretty done
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guess there's no boss in
? killed 3 dragons though!
dragons aerie
The Sentinel
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What's the difference between small white sign soapstone and the big one?
Could someone elaborate on how the (covenant)
invasions work? Do I have to go to a certain area or something? I'm gonna assume its cuz people haven't gotten a hold of the (item)
yet.
Anyways, I got bored of waiting for a summon and joined the (covenant)
. Man its fun, lol.
Blue Sentinal counter-l
red eye orb
Anyways, I got bored of waiting for a summon and joined the (covenant)
Bell Guardians
Well, people were also disappointed because a significant gameplay mechanic wasn't as important as the earlier trailers implied, but then with how they fucked up the torch system entirely it was probably a mercy to err on well lit for most of the game. Nevermind that I swear most of those pictures look worse than the game actually does.
And if you want to know more about that spoiler bit:
that's a boss in the area, but I don't know if you get to beat him early, wear him down then, or what as I ran the first time it happened, remembering a curbstomp in the prior game I joined.
I wonder if
Blue Covenant only works on true invaders so it's useless on gray spirits.
Just participated in a sparring match in the Cathedral of Blue. Didn't think it would link with anyone but it happened after about 15 seconds. I won. That was my first PvP fight in the game so far. In the 20 hours I've played no one has invaded me.
EDIT: Interesting. I'm in Sinner's Rise and the cracked red eye orb is now active. So I'm guessing there are only certain locations that you can use it?
EDIT: Interesting. I'm in Sinner's Rise and the cracked red eye orb is now active. So I'm guessing there are only certain locations that you can use it?
Did some sun broing earlier and found out apparently something I did in the
made my boss fight there much easier.
Earthen Keep
One of the Lockstones drains the boss room, which I didn't realize. I only found out when I got summoned and found the entire room flooded with poison (and you get to mover super slow too). Definetly going to suck for people that didn't explore or didn't have enough lockstones.
Fahrenheit
Banned
Sitting on close to 80k souls. What should I level up? Also should I head into the
Iron Keep or Gutter? Thinking Iron Keep for that ember that lets me add elemental damage to my weapon
Also been using this Mace +6 for a while, anything to keep my eye out on to replace it with?
Will be doing jolly co op till you guys get back to me
The_Hitcher89
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lol@ the Notes section of the manual being black/grey
Namco pls
Namco pls
Red Liquorice
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Is there any info on what the patch does?
Hopefully I'll be playing later today (if the postman is kind) and before I snuggle down for 100% offline goodness wondered what the patch does and if I need it I guess.
Hopefully I'll be playing later today (if the postman is kind) and before I snuggle down for 100% offline goodness wondered what the patch does and if I need it I guess.
the_batman
Banned
really enjoying the game more and more. too bad a boss
in the iron keep is kicking my ass hardcore, and everyone i try to help as a summon.
"smelting" something
Soyongdori
Member
Should I invest in my stats for future Faraam armor or just upgrade elite knight armor?
Eh, I wanted a continuation of how interconnected it is, but so far it seems more like the game kind of "spikes" out from a central area rather than being an interconnected web, kind of like if you didn't make Demon's Souls into discrete zones. Probably a casualty of the warping, especially as that was the point when it was dialed back in Dark Souls as well. Still, the areas are rich to explore so it's not like it mostly ended up like the Dark Souls DLC, even if that STILL put to shame most other linear games anyway.
Goodacre0081
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Parry as usual, wait for enemy to fall on their butts, and then R1.
Oh, a trick for parrying... trial and error, practice and get a feel for when is the right time to parry.
JimmyRustler
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Played this game for a few hours yesterday and don't want to sugar coat anything.
It looks absolutely horrible. Aside from some nice draw distance this, to me, looks like a PS2 game and runs even worse. I played DS1 just a few days ago and am pretty sure that the average framerate is worse than in DS1.
Whereas I had no problems finding myself into Demons Souls after finishing Dark Souls I struggled to get into DS2 yesterday - big time. Maybe it's just me but I feel like the game has way more unfair moments already than DS1, where it was mostly up to your skill or impatience when you died.
I'm really not feeling this game yet. Played up to the first boss (who one hitted me) and then quit. Will try again to find my way in this weekend. Pretty disappointed so far.
It looks absolutely horrible. Aside from some nice draw distance this, to me, looks like a PS2 game and runs even worse. I played DS1 just a few days ago and am pretty sure that the average framerate is worse than in DS1.
Whereas I had no problems finding myself into Demons Souls after finishing Dark Souls I struggled to get into DS2 yesterday - big time. Maybe it's just me but I feel like the game has way more unfair moments already than DS1, where it was mostly up to your skill or impatience when you died.
I'm really not feeling this game yet. Played up to the first boss (who one hitted me) and then quit. Will try again to find my way in this weekend. Pretty disappointed so far.
StrongArmSteady
Member
I got a White Ring. all it seems to do is make me look like a Phantom. yay
you need to "leave" that in the birds nest, you'll get a random item for it
Goodacre0081
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it seems very hard to do consistently. do faster weapons like daggers have smaller window to get the parry off?
Morrigan Stark
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I still have more pages to go (this thread moves too fast) so apologies if this has been answered already, but just in case:
I can agree is small-ish, but
is great and has tons of nooks and crannies to explore, and
is huge, bigger than any area in Demon's or Dark Souls. I spent the entire evening just exploring everywhere, also took me forever to understand how to reach that damn item perched up on that rampart haha (the
thingy). Funnily enough I had found that illusionary wall and made the jump across the gap, but didn't think to
after that the first time. lol.
, IIRC. Don't give up!
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa? For real? I never noticed. Got the boss on my first try too. Total pushover. That's interesting though...!
There are but you press X (or A on the 360) to trigger them now instead of attacking. There ARE some walls you need to break to reveal too, though. So if a wall looks weak, attack it.
The reward for "duty fulfilled" as a Shade is different, gives you a smooth and silky thing so if you're farming those it can be interesting. Also sometimes I'd like to have a Shade around to help me clear some mobs while I'm revisiting areas I already explored solo, but I prefer to solo bosses and I'd feel bad dismissing a phantom, so Shades would suit me. Haven't come across any yet though...
Whaaaaa?
Heide's Tower
No Man's Wharf
Lost Bastille
golden shield
follow the narrow ledge
I am not a magic user so I don't know if they're any good, but in the Lost Bastille there's an NPC that sells what appears to be insanely good spells. You need to
beat the Sinner to get the item that unpetrifies him
I was thinking the same thing, feelin disappointed, and in the beginning its pretty tough to get your bearings and figure out exactly what works and what doesn't. But if your willing to invest the time, the game absolutely redeems itself. I'm fully addicted at this point, cant get it out of my head.
I can parry pretty good in demon's and dark souls one but here it seems off.
And "fall on their buts"?
Do I have to wait for that to happen?
And how do parries look?
Unsatisfying like the new back"stabs"?
Daggers actually have bigger ones iirc. In DS1 it was up to like... 9 frames? Big heavy weapons usually have smaller windows. The window is also right at the beginning.
I asked too, afaik nobody's even been able to guess so it can't be huge. I haven't noticed anything.
It is definitely hard; I would only ever parry a person if I study what weapon they're using and how fast it swings. Its very unforgiving if you mess up a parry too lol. I have not yet encountered someone using a dagger or estoc/fence weapon yet in DS2, so I can't confirm. I would assume so though!
Edit: ^ Well I guess that answers that, lol.
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