Agent_ShortBus
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Anyone else play through the whole game with a friend? Thank you From for adding that ring that lets you choose a God, thanks to that I was able to play the whole game with a friend.
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Dark Souls II PC |OT| Give us smooth, Give us silky
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LurkerPrime
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Although the limited enemy spawns concern me, I feel a sense of satisfaction from rendering certain enemy types extinct. Big, tanky enemies will bother me no more.
Thank you!
Thank you!
Facism
Member
Did him first go. Easy boss. All you do is lock on and stay behind his left leg.
Do you have the
giant souls
Necromanti
Member
My last 60 deaths have probably been through trying to do the platforming in
. Good thing I don't care about my total death count.
Iron's Keep
Yeah, in some ways it's good. in others (farming human effigies), it's bad. But then you get given the dilemna of leaving the area as-is or using a bonfire aescetic, which is a fantastic way of changing things up
eot
Banned
I haven't touched magic in either game so I can't comment on that, but there are areas which don't have a lot of bonfires (N
o Man's Wharf
As for the weapons breaking, that seems like something which would be easy to tune once the levels are done. I can't imagine they gave the weapons low durability and changed the level design as a result of that. When there are bonfires I've only rested at once because the next one was so close it's hard to not feel like they're redundant.
Not sure why that happens. Are you using a club weapon? They seem to hit several times in the same animation, when I backstab from some angles things get weird and all the hits don't trigger. Mostly noticed it with the guys dual wielding sickles.
Dragon1893
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I was determined to take out those damn sentinels alone and I fucking did it.
Tried to help a bunch of other dudes but they all died during the fight lol.
Tried to help a bunch of other dudes but they all died during the fight lol.
Necromanti
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You're just approaching it from the opposite side you're likely to. There's a few places it can easily happen. In Demon's Souls, and I think Dark, you couldn't go through them backwards.
It's because you used creative platforming or hidden paths to sequence break that zone. I've done it a time or two.
Heide is invasion central on NG+
Would be fine if there wasn't so many knights. Some people have no shame
Just stand behind him at all times and he's a joke. If you're complaining about the king one shotting you... he's a king (with slow ass attacks)
Would be fine if there wasn't so many knights. Some people have no shame
Just stand behind him at all times and he's a joke. If you're complaining about the king one shotting you... he's a king (with slow ass attacks)
Don't worry, you just missed out on rare upgrade materials.
But really missing out on a lizard is nothing compared to doing that in DeS.
Foggity.
It's fine it just means you've gone the other way round. At iron keep perchance?
Garcia
Member
Have you collected all the 5
Souls of a Giant?
Vendrick
Also holy crap this game is huge. I've been checking out the wiki to find all the locations that I missed during my first and 2nd. runs and there were quite a lot of things (items, souls, etc) that I completely overlooked.
I truly wish these guys were given an extra year of development, so that all the rough edges were trimmed down to a minimum.
Another important thing I learned from all this situation is that it is the last time in my life that I buy the console version of a game that will be eventually ported to PC. Not anymore. I completely renounce to that as an option.
LOL. I thought they were easily. Did it on my Magic char at first, she was hard for almost ever other bosses, and did it again on my melee char.
Kill the first one on the platform you drop on. You can almost kill the second on the same platform before the third one gets there. Then, drop to the bottom, finish off the second one, and now, it's easy 1 vs 1 against last one.
Finally got to really sink my teeth in a bit... mmmm this is good stuff.
True to form, I went way off course for the "intended" path and made things way harder on myself than I needed to. I had the
down to about 75% after multiple attempts before realizing I was not likely supposed to be there yet. Backtracked and found the
... that's more like it.
Got the first bonfire there and spent way more time than I needed to in the area practicing my parry/riposte timing against the scrub enemies. I think I actually reallllllly like the way it works now- it's very different, but oh so satisfying to pull off. Made pretty quick work of the place once I felt comfortable with my dagger.
Based on all the comments I've heard about how much harder parry/riposte is supposed to be in this (definitely gonna be raising my ADP a bunch), I think I'm in good shape. Can't wait til I feel confident enough to ditch my shield and dual-wield blades as my character was meant to. Got the
Still obviously very early in the game but I have a better sense of the world than I would have if I'd gone through as quickly as possible.
Very much enjoying my cleric-as-assassin, the heal certainly comes in handy as I scrape by.
Questions for those who like to help:
I wouldn't have spotted it yet
True to form, I went way off course for the "intended" path and made things way harder on myself than I needed to. I had the
Dragonrider
Forest of Fallen Giants
Got the first bonfire there and spent way more time than I needed to in the area practicing my parry/riposte timing against the scrub enemies. I think I actually reallllllly like the way it works now- it's very different, but oh so satisfying to pull off. Made pretty quick work of the place once I felt comfortable with my dagger.
Based on all the comments I've heard about how much harder parry/riposte is supposed to be in this (definitely gonna be raising my ADP a bunch), I think I'm in good shape. Can't wait til I feel confident enough to ditch my shield and dual-wield blades as my character was meant to. Got the
blacksmith's key, avoided some worm spitting fire at me and found a bunch of items before calling it a night.
Very much enjoying my cleric-as-assassin, the heal certainly comes in handy as I scrape by.
Questions for those who like to help:
- Uhhh enemies
when you sit at a bonfire? What's the story here, totally threw me off!no longer always respawn
- Is this Broken Thief Sword I found in
considered worthless garbage? I actually really like its move set and animationsHeide's Tower of Flame
- I'm gonna want to get my hands on a parrying dagger ASAP, any hope of one being available early on?
- Have I missed how to go about playing co-op?
Is this true? I spent quite a while in there and I didn't spot any armor on the ground or in chests at least. Then again if it's after
Dragonrider
Necromanti
Member
Yeah.
Oh god damn it. All those souls...
I then ended up talking to a dwarf near
Belfry Sol
I think taking your thumb off the analog stick in the air will prevent that? I haven't tested it fully.
Arjen
Member
There's a pyro spell that's way easier to get in NG++ then grinding out that covenant.
Finally beat that
that was extremely difficult, but it only gave you ~14000 souls? The 30000-40000 bosses were way easier than this...
Luckily I had a lot of strength to hold a giant shield which made it easier to block. Just tons of attrition and hoping I dont get 1 shotted. Yikes.
royal rat authority
Luckily I had a lot of strength to hold a giant shield which made it easier to block. Just tons of attrition and hoping I dont get 1 shotted. Yikes.
YianGaruga
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If you're going for that cheevo you should just get them in NG++. There is a pyromancy that otherwise requires 500 successful invasions as a red phantom that you can buy there as well. As a warning, you should take care of
Hidden Weapon and Sunlight Spear
Hidden Weapon
Bell Covenant reward
Sunlight Spear
pyro from the blood covenant
They stop after I believe 15 deaths - basically if you want to farm the same area over and over after 15 times you'll have to use a Bonfire Ascetic, which takes that area up to NG+ level enemies/bosses.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
Nope. Unless you hit a wall or other solid object your character will always roll after a jump.
Plunging attakc definitely prevents the roll.
edit @above: ...unless you do a plunging attack, I'm quite sure I noticed this last night.
The weapons breaking was an example of one of the many different things about the game that fed into the different level design, were they the only or a major reason? Of course not, but they were a reason, you seem to be using a weirdly off-kilter contextless frame of reference to compare it to its pre-decessor.
As for areas that have few bonfires, of which No Mans Wharf is the longest I think, they were tougher with my sorcerer than with my strength guy, I think the first time through with my sorcerer I was more or less out of magic when I hit the boat, though I'd opened the shortcut which made getting back a bit easier. At that point I hadnt adopted my now standard boss approach of dropping a white soapstone first as I didnt realise it regenerated your resources, so I had to trod back to the bonfire and then fight back through via the shortcut. That didnt make the area more difficult or more fun, it just made it more tedious. I also said that maybe I'd be out of Estus at times, not that I was always out, but like the bonfires estus flasks also function differently (which feeds back into bonfires working differently), with the additional healing items you arent reliant purely on spells or estus for healing. Which means you arent relying solely on bonfires to charge them, which in turn means finding a bonfire isnt a big event, which in turn means that how many of them there are doesnt particularly matter as it doesnt have as big an impact on difficulty either way. Again I think your perception of what the bonfires are is tied up in what they were in DS. But hey, this is all subjective so Im happy to agree to disagree on it.
To be honest with how smooth the multiplayer is and the fact helping kill a boss replenishes everything makes it feel like the distances between bonfires is sort of irrelevant, you only really need to worry about your resources (in any of the games) when you need them for a big confrontation. But assuming you take the time to help someone out you can always have full resources for a big confrontation.
Plunge attack in mid air.
Stuck on trash mobs... :| the
just before the
fog gate, I just can't get past them. At first I was able to lure them out one a time, but after the first one despawned the three others will always attack together for some reason.
Or well, I did get past them a few times, but then either died at the boss instantly or fell off the bridge trying to jump to the loot on the ledge.
I've got a few other areas open though so I guess I can go look there a bit, like
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purgatory guardians in huntsman's copse
chariot boss
Or well, I did get past them a few times, but then either died at the boss instantly or fell off the bridge trying to jump to the loot on the ledge.
I've got a few other areas open though so I guess I can go look there a bit, like
Harvest Valley
That's a easy one nothing dangerous on the other side.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
I thought you were complaining just a few posts ago that they were bullshit? So you ended up beating them after all?
Vendrick is the true final boss
Hey, I never thought of this. Pretty good idea to control your movement post-jump.
Nice to see the series is staying true to form then
CountAntonius
Member
Not that much of a joke if you're pure melee and do
Throne Defenders first
Vendrick is the real final boss
MMBosstones86
Member
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
Oh man, force and/or emit force would be perfect for that situation.
Dragon1893
Member
That's exactly what I did but during the part where I had to deal with 2 I kept screwing up. That fucking jump attack lol.
Previous bosses only took me 1-3 tries.
Finding it easier than the previous games, I'm starting to understand the complaints regarding bosses, they're all too similar. Too many humanoids with very similar attack patterns.
Considering most bosses in the previous games were absolutely memorable and unique, this is disappointing.
Still having a blast though.
Is there anything i specifically need to do to do for my HDD test to work before i take the plunge with formatting?
I'm naturally working on sun bros anyways as I put my sign down in front of bosses until I am confident enough in beating the boss by myself.
Around 27 Sunlight Metals right now.
Whoa, like, they stop forever? If you use a bonfire ascetic do they then respawn indefinitely or another 15?
Was complaining about
Vendrick
If N
ashandra
Laurentius
Member
Game has been out for less than a week, and worldwide deaths have have passed 30 million. Haha, awesome.
Don't worry, you just missed out on rare upgrade materials.
But really missing out on a lizard is nothing compared to doing that in DeS.
I just checked. I missed a darknight stone and a couple of titanite shards. I'll live.
I power-stanced Katanas most of the time going through PS3 and I've basically replicated my build on PC and I find it more than adequate in both PvE and PvP.
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