I think you're right. It's all the "play dead" enemies that you can't manually trigger, so you have to walk past them and put yourself into an ambush position.
Very draining, to have to be constantly alert and on edge for ambushes.
Huh? Walk up to them, smack them. I'm using the short-sword broken and able to do that.
Though, I'm not playing Right-handed for once (THANK YOU FROM FOR NOT PENALIZING LEFT-HANDERS THIS TIME AROUND) which is fucking with my muscle memory of two previous 80 hour games by trying to shield while smacking my sword around. Whoops.
So maybe it's a left-handed thing, right-handers can't hit them on the ground.
So I made a deprived and I kinda of want to go full on deprived, even though its selection was a mistake. 2 questions about the preorder stuff:
Do i get it whenever i start a new character?
Can i just drop it all in one spot at the start and come back and get it later?
Go full deprived, it doesn't really matter your class if you grind eventually and deprived is basically a "tabula rasa" for character creation anyway.
1) Yes.
2) Yes. Though not recommended and since you get those pre-order items RIGHT after you character create/get the starting weapons, you're literally five seconds from a bonfire to dump them in the item box.
And I'm not sure if it is like De/Da Souls where you log-out/quit the game and those items are gone. Better put them in the item box if you want to keep them, just to be safe.