xxRONN1Nxx
Member
Ouch sorry i was just making a point how my weapons didnt degrade so badly in vanilla when I played on 360. I'm not complaining was this really something that they did on purpose or what
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Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin |OT| Your weapons are weak, old man
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Ouch sorry i was just making a point how my weapons didnt degrade so badly in vanilla when I played on 360. I'm not complaining was this really something that they did on purpose or what
It's something they have no intention of fixing. Basically a carry over of the 60 FPS PC version. It's a bug not a feature, but one they can't be arsed to fix.
Omega Ultimus
Member
My second meeting with a certain special someone in the crypt, does my answer to "his" question affect the ending? Wiki didn't say. Thanks in advance.
plasmawave
Banned
Oh yeah. I was like "I need to repair my weapons every time???" until I realized the bonfire automatically repairs your equipment.
VaultBoy101
Member
Brume Tower is the worst thing that has ever happened.
Rouge water, IIRC.
They did fix it. Modders discovered that that in the DX11 version of the game (and presumably the PS4 and XBO versions), From has delinked weapon decay and framerate.
Then went on to notice that From doubled decay across the board, presumably because they liked the balancing.
So it may have been a bug back in the DX9 days, but it's definitely a feature now.
They did fix it. Modders discovered that that in the DX11 version of the game (and presumably the PS4 and XBO versions), From has delinked weapon decay and framerate.
Then went on to notice that From doubled decay across the board, presumably because they liked the balancing.
So it may have been a bug back in the DX9 days, but it's definitely a feature now.
The modder says that, but another person that did testing says otherwise. Nobody knows what the fuck is going on, basically.
The chalice dungeons are fucking garbage, but if you've mastered the gun's stagger-parry mechanic, the entire game turns into a joke. Some of the worst chalice dungeons are just slightly less of a joke than all the rest. /shrugs
I want to see Dark Souls 3 do away with the parry mechanic as we know. Like, change it to just a defensive move rather than one that leads to giant damage hits. Boss fights where parrying is effective turn into some of the dumbest boss fights I've ever seen, and that goes for Dark Souls 1, 2, and Bloodborne. They all have some really dumb fights as a result, and making parrying "harder" (which Dark Souls 2 tried) is not a good answer.
There are tons of bosses that can't be parried though
Yeah, i really don't get that critic. Litteraly the same thing in Das1 too for some bosses, notably gwyn. Yeah, once you mastered parrying, a lot of the game becomes a breeze, but that's kinda what i like about it.
Although hell, i'm replaying both DaS2 since SotfS came out and a new BB game. Despite being shorter, BB just feels so muc more satisfying throughout. Really wish there was some better pvp options to keep a post game going tho.
Right now reached Aldia's keep in DaS2. I like what they did with the catacombs. I'm looking forward to dragon aerie too as it's one of my favourite places
Yep, but the dash is totally over-powered too.
Having played through DaS1, BB and now this over the last month or so I have to say that this is my favourite by quite a margin. I played DaS1 the old school way with a shield and walking around all slow and found nothing wrong with that, had a blast. Then BB came around and everything was so much faster, diving around without a shield was a blast and I had a great time but it just didn't have much replayability. Now I've been hardcoring DaS2 for the last week playing the BB style with no shield and going for maximum manoeuvrability with a massive 2 hander and it's been the most fun out of the lot. There is also so much more content in DaS2 in comparrison to the other ones that after almost 40 hours of playing my guy I've style not finished my first play through, just got to the 2nd piece of the "dlc". Some screenies of my adventure here.
Edit: Oh yeah I played the whole game naked (not irl heh).
Edit: Oh yeah I played the whole game naked (not irl heh).
Augemitbutter
Member
BB plat took me 2 weeks with 50something hours. i think that's fine. you basically played non-stop for 5 days if what you say is true.
SonicXtreme
Member
trying to do a low soul memory so i can PVP with the most people but...man do i really have to spend 20k souls to get the delicate string? that's a 10% bump in my SM alone right now -_-
i forgot how much good shit the brotherhood of blood vendor sells tho. hm trying to balance buying enough to have fun and staying low enough for fights in the range i want is difficult. idk why the hell from did this. but at least we have the agape now
i forgot how much good shit the brotherhood of blood vendor sells tho. hm trying to balance buying enough to have fun and staying low enough for fights in the range i want is difficult. idk why the hell from did this. but at least we have the agape now
I just got to amana and I only have 5 estus flasks. I'm either skipping too much shit or they really want you to suffer in this game. I'm been popping life gems like if they're blood vials. Doing the exact same thing, too. Using all left over souls after leveling up on gems/vials.
QueenOfThorns
Member
Loving the DLC so far. I'm at like...the Eternal Sanctum one. Much better than the base game. There's even an elevator shortcut! The game also heard me talking shit about its bosses. The first one is kicking my butt. I'm never good at multiple enemies and people shooting shit at me. This has both.
You have certainly missed a few flasks. I have 4 and have only cleared the Forest of Giants and Heide Tower...
I had 5 before I killed ruin sentinels. Get branches and go unpetrify shit.
cpp_is_king
Member
I'm trying to summon Lucatiel in No Mans Wharf but her sign isn't where it's supposed to be. What do i need to do? I've spoken to her in No Mans Wharf as well as the Lost Bastille
QueenOfThorns
Member
Check near the docks closer to the ship.
:lol Oh god, I'll clean up every area next time I play. I'm just rushing past everything, making a bee line toward the shortcuts and bosses. I mean, it's not a problem, I'm nearly done with the main game and I've been fine with the flasks that I have, but having more will be nice.
xxRONN1Nxx
Member
I played through this game in its original state on 360. Never played the DLC. How soon into the game is it accesable. And how do you get to the DLC areas
Omega Ultimus
Member
I'm playing offline and there's a Dev message that says "Don't you dare" near a lightable statue in the
. Should I light it?
Undead Crypt (underneath the bridge, which seems strange considering the guys that aggro from light aren't present
I'm playing offline and there's a Dev message that says "Don't you dare" near a lightable statue in the. Should I light it?Undead Crypt (underneath the bridge, which seems strange considering the guys that aggro from light aren't present
Summons several npc red phantoms. Do it!
xxRONN1Nxx
Member
Cool thanks
SonicXtreme
Member
can great combustion be found in the wild or do i have to buy it from the brotherhood?
is lost sinner NG+ hard in this version? i did it on vanilla pretty easily but im only level 50 now with 22 of those points poured into adp. i kinda want flame weapon tho
is lost sinner NG+ hard in this version? i did it on vanilla pretty easily but im only level 50 now with 22 of those points poured into adp. i kinda want flame weapon tho
Omega Ultimus
Member
Did it. Well, at least I only have the boss left before I port the heck out of here, haha.
somebody on Reddit claims to have emailed Namco and they said it was working as intended, but those sorts of things are easily faked
my advice is to carry a couple repair powders. since mobs in grave of saints apparently don't despawn anymore (I assume for gameplay reasons because of the ratbro covenant), you can farm as many as you need forever
or just use more than one weapon
SonicXtreme
Member
i don't mind the durability. they give you three weapon slots. sure it means less armor on but so what, you want the 3 damage types available to you at most times anyway, and there are lots of low weight weapons that hit hard as hell like longsword, hand axe, i played both versions but it only really was an issue at the games beginning especially when i picked deprived.
Yeah. And the length to plat a game doesn't mean anything. The other games in the series take longer to plat only because you need to farm shit. Take out the farming and they are easier. I got the DeS plat in ~40 hours by duplicating stones for those stupid weapon achievements (I did everything else legit including getting the pure bladestone). There wasn't anything hard at all about that plat apart from being bored to death killing the same enemies for 4 hours in a row.
Furthermore, the Chalice Dungeons are harder than anything you need to do in the Souls games to get the plat.
SonicXtreme
Member
tru dat. i forgot you could simply hit that door in FOTFG for the small one until today, i skipped it thinking there was a key for some reason. i forget how you join the dragonbros, is that an endgame covenant from aeirie? i just got the red soapstone so i'ma see how this handles me, if i finish smelter off i'll try bellbroing. is flash sweat available before him?
i'ma be streaming all night, come talk to me GAF
hopefully i find some fun pvp although i need some soul levels first to do some decent damagehttp://www.twitch.tv/sonicxtreme/
So I managed to make my way to
, survived the
, only to get my ass handed to me by the
...
Undead Purgatory
scary ass ambush of the tall dudes
dark spirit invader thing
How do I guard against him just knocking my shield off? He just knocked my shield off while I measured him up and proceeded to three shot me. :|
JudgmentJay
Member
Shields are nice, but not if they engender passivity.
Real answer: he probably used the shield break move. It has a pretty long tell/wind-up.
meh just cheesed him
with arrows, he stopped following half way through the bridge and just let me hit him with arrows
If you just stand up close to an NPC invader (well any invader) with your shield up you're going to get shield break'd, which is what it sounds like happened to you. With the NPC ones it's easy enough to just hold the shield up, get up close, and then take it down. Try and bait the break.
That NPC seems particularly vulnerable to backstabs, that or my Engraved gauntlets triggered when I one-shot him with one.
the_batman
Banned
LOL, i love it when the enemies do that.
cpp_is_king
Member
So that dragon in Heides Tower was a little surprising. Not finding an easy way to kill him either
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
So what do I do to get into Drangleic Castle in this version? I ran past the two 'bigger' enemies then wiped out everything up the top but it won't open, only the statue on the left is in position but the right one will not budge.
Well he's easy to clear on his own as long as you don't have a tail. Get up close to his hind legs and smack him a few times. He's relatively well scaled to the area so he goes down fast. You just need to dodge that first breath of fire.
Well he's easy to clear on his own as long as you don't have a tail. Get up close to his hind legs and smack him a few times. He's relatively well scaled to the area so he goes down fast. You just need to dodge that first breath of fire.
the_batman
Banned
just snipe it with a bow and arrows.
bobawesome
Member
It was refreshing going back to the world of Dark Souls II after finishing up Bloodborne. I'm in the minority but I have to say I enjoy it much more overall.
Kill an enemy next to the statue so the "soul" flows into it.
Kill an enemy next to the statue so the "soul" flows into it.
The area right before you got to the dragon up there, were there was one of those big giant knight dudes and an item? The little walkway that is broken. Well, I just shot him from there. You just have to get him to poke his head up.
The pacing is definitely 2 notches lower than caffeine-hamster BB.
Dance Inferno
Unconfirmed Member
Just beat L
S
on my first try. I'm reading about it online now and apparently it's considered a pretty hard fight? I thought it was relatively straightforward to just roll through her attacks and swing at her during her recovery animations. Also that entire area is pretty short, which was a bit of a letdown.
Edit: Where should I go next? The areas I've beaten so far are:
ost
inner
Edit: Where should I go next? The areas I've beaten so far are:
Forest of Fallen Giants, Heide's Tower, Cathedral of Blue, No Man's Wharf, Lost Bastille, Sinner's Rise.