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Dark Souls II PC |OT| Give us smooth, Give us silky
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Or I can use CheatEngine, have low soul memory but a high level and end game weapons and create a "twink" character far worse than anything possible in Dark Souls.
Or I can kill a hacker and get 500,000 souls and have my Soul memory totally ruined.
Or I can speedrun through the game killing as few enemies as possible with the purpose of getting end game weapons to stomp on more inexeperienced players (well, with what little red eyed orbs I can buy)
Or I can simply be out of range to help someone fight my favorite boss because I've helped too many other people.
I've heard you can do so in the past. Pay them a certain amount of money and they will boost your results to higher on the tier list.
Thanks.
I have to fight the ancient dragon next and I'm definitely not looking forward to that fight.
Very late-game screenshots, most of them are boss fights.
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http://i.imgur.com/Jrplb9U.jpg I just love the light effects in this game
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http://i.imgur.com/BJTJWKd.jpg Just before the credits
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http://i.imgur.com/o7TMDpq.jpg Them effects doe Iron K
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rangleic
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The weirdest door in the game
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ldia's
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pew pew pew
ldia's
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one on one with the dragon
ldia's
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he lost..
ragon
erie one of the best areas ever designed
I'm the king!
ragon
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I hated him to much, until I got the Yoda-Ring
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Smelter Demon
Dictator93
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Thanks for the responses. Just said screw it to the SLC stuff.
Never use imgur for your screenshots.
Smelter Demon and Ruin Sentinels. But the sentinels were easy after i got a Great Shield. The Rat authority was kinda easy, it was like fighting Sif but with toxic.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
What's wrong with imgur?
eot
Banned
Compression.
Gavlan wheel? Gavlan deal!
Its easy enough to hit heavy armoured chars. I can't hit light armour characters for the life of me
Also fuck the. Used up 15 effigys before just going in to fight him Hollow.Ancient Dragon
If you want to know the easy way to beat him, watch the video.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=grqG-WwGqM0
chaobreaker
Member
Speaking of the DLC items, where can I access all digital goodies that steam offered for the game?
It's in your steam folder.
With the lack of reusable invasion items, ganking in NG is cut down significantly, anyways. Soul Memory is a bigger problem than the problem it tried to solve.
Another problem is that this is - even with the terrible weapon scaling - the most stat-significant game so far, so SL imbalances become even more important. So terrible.
LurkerPrime
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Also, he should of been using the red tearstone ring. No reason not to because you die if you get hit anyway. Just make sure to have have it activated before entering the fight. Speeds things up a fair bit.
Outright Villainy
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They were hell for me on a low Vig Company of Champion run. I have absolutely no idea how to get out of the way of their spin to win attack, and I couldn't tank through anything unlike my first character.
In the end I beat them by
upgrading a mace and 2 handing it, I could kill the second one before the third got a chance to join, which simplified the fight quite a bit.
Orthogonal
Member
I hope Namco and From get a handle on this and make some changes because the long term viability of the game could be at risk.
One suggestion for a fix I have heard and would reiterate would be to replace Soul Memory with a character Soul Value. It would be the value of your Soul Level plus the value of your gear ( this may need some balancing) but it ensures a gank build can't grief low level players by just equipping high level gear and PvP would be able to settle on a narrower Soul Level window as everyone would have high level gear.
killertofu
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That's how I massed so many souls
I shudder to think about how many souls I've dropped in NG
AHA-Lambda
Member
Ok, up to the last boss now. Getting this done!
Outright Villainy
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I kinda like this idea, I've been thinking of something similar myself, perhaps if you've upgraded any weapon past a certain point and have it in your inventory, you're automatically blocked off from PvP and coop below a certain level. So lets say you're at SL 1 and upgrade a weapon to +4, you won't be matched lower than SL 40, so you'll end up fighting SL40 players with weapons as powerful as you. At +10 it could be 120, or whatever the general level most people finish the game at. You'll want to keep leveling at an even pace with your weapon upgrades, which most players will do naturally anyway.
If you wanted to help someone out or invade by lowering the level you could put all your high level items in the item box, and restrict what gear you can switch out in game.
Astral/H3X
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I think Soul Memory is a step in the right direction. It means that they are recognizing that Soul Level isn't necessarily a good barometer for a character's given strength, and they're trying to fix twinks. Yeah, it needs some good tweaks for it to work, but they're seeing the problem and trying to fix it.
Perhaps if it was "Soul Strength", ie, the number of souls spent on your stats, levels and one full set of equipment (NOT arrows, and not "extra" armor sets), that would help alleviate the issue. IE; one's Soul Strength would be the souls necessary to get to their current level, and the top 6 weapon's current upgrade level, and the top 4 pieces of armor's upgrade level (Just the titanite shards themselves, not the souls spent on the service). I feel this would be the most fair way to set it up.
EDIT:
This wouldn't work, because you have cases like me and my friend, who SL5'd the game together. As soon as we upgraded our weapons, we'd have been blocked off from each other and unable to continue.
Perhaps if it was "Soul Strength", ie, the number of souls spent on your stats, levels and one full set of equipment (NOT arrows, and not "extra" armor sets), that would help alleviate the issue. IE; one's Soul Strength would be the souls necessary to get to their current level, and the top 6 weapon's current upgrade level, and the top 4 pieces of armor's upgrade level (Just the titanite shards themselves, not the souls spent on the service). I feel this would be the most fair way to set it up.
EDIT:
This wouldn't work, because you have cases like me and my friend, who SL5'd the game together. As soon as we upgraded our weapons, we'd have been blocked off from each other and unable to continue.
MMBosstones86
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Has their been any word of future DLC like areas, bosses, etc?
Absolutely. I hate getting rid of things. Except crappy items like broken swords and stuff
STR. You just need enough Dex to use what you want. I'm doing the same and am trying to get STR up to 40.
Absolutely. I hate getting rid of things. Except crappy items like broken swords and stuff
STR. You just need enough Dex to use what you want. I'm doing the same and am trying to get STR up to 40.
Buy all the titantite chunks you can carry from Stone Trader Chloanne in Majula.
Strange. It was DEX in DS1....right?
neoism
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wear does this drop?
MMBosstones86
Member
I believe so, but DEX scaling in DS2 is worse than DS1.
TheLegendOfMart
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Tried playing this at a friends and I am terrible at the game, I don't have the time and the patience to sit and learn it.
Are there any lets players you guys would recommend just to see the game, bosses and story?
Are there any lets players you guys would recommend just to see the game, bosses and story?
Outright Villainy
Member
Well with the system I was thinking, you and your friend would be put in the same bracket and could still coop, assuming you both upgraded a weapon to the same level.
I keep duplicates never know when you might need them for fashion.
Orthogonal
Member
That is also an interesting idea. Bottom line is there are a lot of ways From can achieve the spirit of Soul Memory without the nasty side effects. We just have to hope they listen and do something about it.
Gareth Bale
Member
Is there a trick to getting guard break to work.? More often than not it just registers an R1 attack for me.
Orthogonal
Member
Or a special lady friend.
Outright Villainy
Member
Try making sure that pressing attack is at the same time as the stick clicks the edge. So your stick click and attack are simultaneous, not just pushing slightly forward before attacking.
petethepanda
Member
This game looks so damn good but the status effect from the stamina ring is so damn ugly, such an obvious 2d plane.
so can somebody straight up tell me what the parry timing like is in this game? in the first DS you had to parry right when the weapon started coming forward, but I can't seem to ever EVER get the timing right in DS2.
Talking PVE, I don't care about PVP really.
Talking PVE, I don't care about PVP really.
Dragon1893
Member
Currently exploring Iron Keep, great place to farm souls, these guys go down easily (at least with the mace I'm using) and are worth 700 each.
I'm guessing I'm about half-way through the game.
I'm guessing I'm about half-way through the game.
Orthogonal
Member
The timings for forward+r1 and forward+r2 seem a lot less forgiving than in DS1. I have the same problem and rarely use them now.
Gareth Bale
Member
I realised today that the light on my webcam coming on lets me know when I'm about to be invaded. It's a good period of warning as well.
Cheers.
Good to know it's not just me then
Cheers.
Good to know it's not just me then
So is there some exploit with running attacks in PVP where you can do them anywhere and still damage your opponent? I had this guy invade me and would just do the running attack at me over and over and I would get hit even if I was blocking and he was 10 feet away. Pretty much if you did an attack in my direction, I would get hit.
LurkerPrime
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It would be poorly documented and/or explained so people would end up complaining about unfair invasions, an inability to use their favourite gimmick build, or the unfair advantage build x/y/z has in this new system.
The current system alleviates the most immediate problem the average player will face in online play: experienced players fighting against inexperienced players. I would guess most people don't like invasions or invading (I certainly don't), and these voiceless masses benefit the most from the current Soul Memory system. While it may not be a perfect system, it ensures all legal characters are sorted into the appropriate power tiers so they can fight against players that are roughly similar in progression through the game. At the very least, the current system ensures that every player has had the potential to be as strong as their enemy.
Yes, there will be some players that have a higher soul level. But let's be honest here, that extra 2 stamina, 40 health, or 2 damage will not be the deciding factor in your fight. A player's strategy, equipment, and environment will always be the most important factors in combat. Career invaders take advantage of the more important combat factors and create an uneven playing field; they think themselves NPCs instead of players.
This is an important distinction because nothing lasts forever in Dark Souls 2. There is only one constant in the world, and that is entropy. If a career invader wants to continue fighting players weaker than themselves, then perhaps they should let entropy run its course and begin a new adventure.
Seems to be a lot less forgiving I can only get consistency with a target shield so I thought screw it I'll just murder them faster instead with a second weapon.
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