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Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin |OT| Your weapons are weak, old man
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Deified Data
Banned
Nope, just a ring that keeps you from gaining Souls.
Veritigo_X
Member
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Seriously? One of the major things people complain about and they left it in? I figured with Bloodborne going back to levels determining summons they conceded that Soul Memory was a terrible idea.
What is the actual benefit to Soul Memory? As far as I can tell the only thing it does is prevent me from playing with my friends who are the same level as me.
That was free to everybody. New NPC, final boss, and alternate ending. No new areas though.
Backfoggen
Banned
Come on, From. You aren't Capcom.
Dance Inferno
Unconfirmed Member
3PM PST.
It's also coming out on April 2 in AU/NZ, which technically is right now. I assume the game is released in AU/NZ?
Oh ok cool. Seems like a good deal for someone who skipped out on the DLC then,
once it's $40.
going to grab the game today, hope to find some gaffers around. I already decided the name of my character. going to be Amaterasu so, if you bump with any on dx11 version, leave a comment on my profile saying hello! i'll do the same.
good luck out there and take care, wouldn't want to see you guys turn hollow.
good luck out there and take care, wouldn't want to see you guys turn hollow.
There are teleports to the new areas tucked away in areas you will have visited before if you played the game. They are pretty much impossible to miss on a fresh playthrough unless you like avoiding things.
IAmRandom31
Banned
have any videos of you steamrolling every boss in BB on the first try?
Buggy Loop
Gold Member
How come i cant find it on steam?
They say the store page will be up at 3 pm PST on the Steam hub.
Sanctuary
Member
I've killed him around eight times now due to new characters, and every time I've fought him except once, I died at least one time and it was always because of that grab, and I always expected it. If you are in melee range you cannot dodge it. Even when you dodge to the side it acts like a grab from Dark Souls 2 in that you have to have dodged before the animation starts or you're grabbed. You can *sometimes* parry it with the gun at a distance, but that too seems very random.
Maxwood
Oh rock of ages, do not crumble, love is breathing still. Oh lady moon shine down, a little people magic if you will.
OP looks wonderfull, great job.
Missed the DLC so there's enough to look forward to, but at the same time, I really don't want to put down $40 again...
And yet, i'm excited for Scholar of the First Sin. Which is weird, since i've had quite a lot of issues with Dark Souls II.
Still got all the achievements, though. And while Demon's Souls the strongest all-rounder, DSII might just be my favorite Souls game. Sometimes.
It's a bit incoherent but man, I do love Drangleic, and especially Majuala. Incredible atmosphere.
I just hope they've improved the hitboxes a bit.
Missed the DLC so there's enough to look forward to, but at the same time, I really don't want to put down $40 again...
And yet, i'm excited for Scholar of the First Sin. Which is weird, since i've had quite a lot of issues with Dark Souls II.
Still got all the achievements, though. And while Demon's Souls the strongest all-rounder, DSII might just be my favorite Souls game. Sometimes.
It's a bit incoherent but man, I do love Drangleic, and especially Majuala. Incredible atmosphere.
I just hope they've improved the hitboxes a bit.
I think it was implemented to prevent lvl SL 1 characters who are getting top gear and invading low level players, which wasn't even that big of deal...I got ganked a few times by those types in DaS 1, but it wasn't that common for me.
The cost to prevent it was far too high. Soul Memory is terrible and I wish it would have never been conceived. Ruined PvP for me, once I started getting into fast rolling havel mages constantly my time was done. Had soul memory not existed I probably would have played the game for another month easily and would have picked up the DLCs. Don't like having to give up a ring slot, but it is better than nothing I suppose.
I still don't know why soul memory could not just be ignored in NG+/beyond and only SL would be used from that point forward. Baffles me still.
I don't have videos, and it wasn't every boss, nor did I ever claim it was. Most if the required ones, though. Get vitality. Use one of the completely broken weapons. Abuse terrain. I know there's plenty of people that had the same experience.
After two playthroughs I still don't know what some bosses even do. Vitality is the best it has ever been, and most players that are struggling simply do not have enough, and aren't using the Tonitrus.
Are you accusing me of lying or something?
The guy streaming last week did exactly what he said. Hell, he even easily beat bosses without fighting them the way they were designed to be fought. BB isn't all that difficult after you level up a bit. I'm having more issues with groups of regular mobs than I am with bosses.
Yup. In my first play through, I died more to crows and dogs than all bosses combined.
Seriously, making your healing scale with Max HP is bonkers, and makes pumping vitality insanely useful.
People moan about Dark Souls 2 fights, but I feel like I actually had to learn them, and that my build changed how I should fight them. That was't the case in the other games in the series, where I could just block everything, or heal through attacks, or use Iron Flesh. When I am playing a caster, bosses actually try to cover the distance so I can't just kite them forever.
There's a lot of great boss fights in Dark Souls 2, but people use the 7 or 8 of the 40 to paint it all as a bunch of repetitive human fights.
Add the %HP scaling runes and the tank build is ready.
People complained about the PVP in Dark Souls so they make some change, like the fact that you cannot purchase cracked red orbs in NG
Now that you mention it, I will have to join the invasion cult from that little gnome. Would rather be a police bro, but that costs souls which I won't be getting...lame.
Unless was that changed? I know it used to cost souls to buy the item for the blue bros to invade, but the red bros had an item with unlimited use for invasions.
In dark souls 2 the item that you can use for invade other an unlimited time dont exist, only in the first game.
Primethius
Banned
I feel like this is just one of those things people have different experiences with. Most of the boss fights for me in DS2 were just as you mentioned, I beat them on the first try and they weren't very difficult (aside from a few). I struggled more with the initial three giant knight encounter in Heides Tower of Flame then I did any of the bosses in the game. It definitely had the weakest bosses in the series for me, primarily from a design/inspirational point of view. Haven't played the DLC though and I've heard fantastic things about that.
MistressMoitie
Member
Will this be available for digital download on the ps4?
Veritigo_X
Member
Soul Memory was put in the game to combat twinkers? That was such a non-issue outside of a few odd invasions when I first started the game. Sucks that something so small can ruin an entire multiplayer experience.
-tetsuo-
Unlimited Capacity
Did we play the same game?
SlasherJPC
Banned
Would you consider it ok to do the various DLC as your playing the campaign though or wait till the end?
I thought they were designed as endgame content. The hardest bosses in the game are apparently in the DLC.
SlasherJPC
Banned
Well if that's the case I'd def stay away from them till I'm done with the main.
SiegfriedFM
Member
It's roughly the same as it was in DS1. You can access them about halfway/two thirds into the game, but the difficulty is better suited to be right before the end boss.
FunkyMunkey
Banned
So I'm guessing there's no steam store page yet as to keep the extremely minor (or non existent?) PC graphical upgrades hidden until right before release?
borborygmus
Member
* I read somewhere (in a previous thread maybe) that the hitboxes and animations would not be improved in the upcoming re-release of the game. What's the latest word on this?
* Are there any impressions about the new enemy placement that I could read?
Thanks.
* Are there any impressions about the new enemy placement that I could read?
Thanks.
They're definitely not eager to show off the "upgrades." That's for sure. ;-) But yeah, I don't think there will be any substantial upgrades to speak of, unfortunately.
Depends on how good you are, I can do any boss at any soul level provided I have gems for a certain boss
Dark_castle
Junior Member
Almost done with Bloodborne, but I still have Demon's Souls to play, so I'll jump onto this when it gets real cheap.
fuzzyreactor
Banned
grab is so easy to avoid. your game must be broken
Where are you located?
So odd that people are downplaying twinkers. Ganking and minmaxing twinkers were huge sore spots in DeS and DkS1. Some weird revisionism going on here. Soul Memory probably wasn't the best solution, but to say it wasn't a problem is a little silly.
Honestly the worst part of the predecessors was that you could level up so much further than necessary, and having PVP tied to level meant the community adopting a courtesy level cap. The better solution would have been to put in a hard level cap. It would have encouraged respeccing and unique builds better than Soul Memory has.
Honestly the worst part of the predecessors was that you could level up so much further than necessary, and having PVP tied to level meant the community adopting a courtesy level cap. The better solution would have been to put in a hard level cap. It would have encouraged respeccing and unique builds better than Soul Memory has.