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Dark Souls II PC |OT| Give us smooth, Give us silky

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Dark Souls character meet Dark Souls 2 character.
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Zafir

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But isn't that how every post in Reddit has like 50% upvote and 50% downvote, even the popular ones?

I don't go on reddit, so I wouldn't know. :p I always thought reddit had a rather large troll following though. My theory was that the trolls would be a smaller percentage so even if trolls downvoted everything, there would be more people to vote up making it still positive. That said, if trolls were equal to the number of 'normal' players then it would just be moot, yeah.
 
It's just trolls.

I have no idea how they get rated at all. Makes no sense.

If there was a wall there, the 'open' command would supersede the 'read message' command. The open command is just hidden by the game near illusion wall for obvious reasons.

If it says "Jump!" and you jump... Rate it! Make sure others can see it so they, too, learn from the experience.

I'm not saying you should rate everything, but anything cute, thought-provoking, educational, or helpful should be preserved.
 

Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
did tower of flame quickly to rescue the spell vendor except...she isnt a spell vendor, shes a miracle vendor >_>

spell one was in no mans wharf right? guess I have to do that next then (and dont you need fucking faith for him to even talk to you? I only have whatever you start with as a sorc, 4 I think)
 

Darkone

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Ok, so after a few hours of play with the warrior i wanted to try a sorcerer for the first time in a soul game and i am really enjoying him, i wanted to know if i should invest in STR and if so how much should he have?
 

Gbraga

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So, GAF, here are my stats:

VGR 30
END 20
VIT 29
STR 21
DEX 40
ADP 22

Everything else default Swordsman.

Should I respec? I honestly have no idea what to put my point on anymore for quite a few levels, I'm just using them on VGR and VIT.
 

Zafir

Member
did tower of flame quickly to rescue the spell vendor except...she isnt a spell vendor, shes a miracle vendor >_>

spell one was in no mans wharf right? guess I have to do that next then (and dont you need fucking faith for him to even talk to you? I only have whatever you start with as a sorc, 4 I think)
You just need 8 int, doesn't matter what your faith is.
 

Durante

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Is it just me or is this game huge? At 47 hours in I haven't even been to all the areas. It seems larger out of the box than DS1 even with the expansion.
 

Doopliss

Member
Just purchased on steam, and waiting for it to download. Was going to wait for a next gen console version but .... Yeah.

Thing is my current PC is only sporting a 560Ti Twin Frozr iii, a Phenom X4 965 and 8GB's DDR3

Am I in for trouble or will this do? To be fair it runs most games quite well
I think my machine is fairly similar (Radeon 5870, Phenom X6 1055, 4GB RAM). It almost never drops below 60fps with maxed out (in-game) settings at 1080p. I think they did a pretty great job at optimising performance.
 

Grief.exe

Member
Is it just me or is this game huge? At 47 hours in I haven't even been to all the areas. It seems larger out of the box than DS1 even with the expansion.

Which reminds me, it's going to be so nice coming back for another play through for the inevitable DLC content.

Artorias of the Abyss was the best DLC I've ever experienced by far.
 

Dex815

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Why is PVP so laggy for me :(

At least 70% of the duels that I had untill now were laggy.

Today I had a duel with one guy that I almost kill (his health bar was practically empty) and without seeing any healing animation (just after a backstab), his health recovered almost completely.

Lag Souls II
 

UrbanRats

Member
Eh, in the end i ended up killing that
Chariot,
without the poison arrows trick or whatever, just normally.

Funny thing is, i died more times on the way there, trying to run my way to the boss, than at the actual boss (though
those skeletons killed me at least thrice
).
When i finally realized that it was simply easier to kill those dudes in front of the rope bridge, it made my life easier.
 

Fermbiz

Gold Member
Question, i have the Zweihander +10. Should I use a raw stone to make it stronger?

I remember in DS1, I was able to get it +15 I believe. But Im guessing using the raw stone doesnt do that.
 

Orayn

Member
Is it just me or is this game huge? At 47 hours in I haven't even been to all the areas. It seems larger out of the box than DS1 even with the expansion.

It absolutely is. Maybe we paid for it in world design and smooth connections between areas, but there was definitely something gained.

I salivate at the idea of the "A-team" getting back together for Souls 5 and combining the scale+production values of Dark Souls II with the connections+world of Dark Souls and the polish+creativity of Demon's Souls. That game could ascend to the tops of "Greatest Game of All Time" lists even more dramatically than its predecessors.

If Project Beast somehow meets that description I'll still play it and be happy, though I will always grumble about having to buy new hardware for it. :p
 
Is it just me or is this game huge? At 47 hours in I haven't even been to all the areas. It seems larger out of the box than DS1 even with the expansion.
If you don't mind me asking, what section are you in? That should give me a good idea of how much further you have to go.

Took me roughly 53 hours to clear dark souls 2, and that's coming from someone who has 200 hours of experience in OG Dark Souls under his belt.
 

H2Yo

Member
I have a situation, and it's really frustrating. I was playing the Shaded Ruins, I had two shades in there helping me. 2 of us jumped down the hole, cleared out the Basilisks and I opened the door to Ornifex, the other Shade dropped down from above and angroed 3 of the lion soldier dudes and they jumped down after him. They killed ORNIFEX?!!

I've looked online to see how I can revive her, no one seems to know with 100% certainty.
I've been back to this area 3-4 times and her grave isn't in the room.

Any ideas? Please tell me this has happened to someone else.
This area seems to be loaded to fail, I mean if someone jumped down, freaked over the amount of Basilisks and opened the door in a panic, she'd be killed again...
It's suspicious since she is super valuable...
 

Kelas

The Beastie Boys are the first hip hop group in years to have something to say
Well shite. I forgot to join the sunbros before starting an ng+. Last covenant I joined was the dumb bellhops.
 
It absolutely is. Maybe we paid for it in world design and smooth connections between areas, but there was definitely something gained.

This game is an invader's dream. Being able to go to any bonfire and invade from the bonfire most while people are hollow is just too good. I really think if there was an infinite use Red eye orb the invasions would be over the top. In NG+ you can buy one for 10k and when you hit your level cap you make that back fairly easily.
 

justjim89

Member
I know a lot of folks are sour on this compared to Dark Souls, but I'm enjoying it exponentially more by virtue of it being so well optimized. I'm getting a smooth framerate constantly in this, so I'm able to enjoy it more. Even with DSfix, it could only go so far towards optimization of Dark Souls on my laptop. I won't be able to truly appreciate that game at a fully playable level until I get a big boy PC.

It's such a shame Dark Souls was such a piece of garbage port.
 

Uthred

Member
Killed the
body of Vengarl
just as I got killed, saw the set drop but obviously when I went back it was gone, cant buy it from either armour merchant so Ive just missed out on it?
 

Gbraga

Member
I don't wanna break your heart...but she tells me the same things.

You're just a ghost wandering around though, my timeline is canon.

Downloading? It's all about the HD streams nowadays silly gravelord... :p

Classy (totally do it too, don't judge me). Bows are a good edition to melee characters I don't like katana's myself personally though.

Should I transfer my VGR points over 20 to ADP then?
 
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ZombieFred

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And after 48 hours binge playing this game I have completed my first run through with my Knight. All I can say is that this game is packed with so much content it was insane and easily justified on purchasing this at full price on Steam. I loved the journey on picking up the pieces of the story as my character progressed further in the madness and exploring the lore I had come across.

Game was tough as nails at some parts though but I am glad I had help from some online bros :) Will soon do NG at some point. Can't wait to see what will be next!
 
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