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Dark Souls III |OT+2| Why Can't We Poise the Game?
- Thread starter Tarkus
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Cannon Goose
Member
I still haven't run into any cheaters on PC. Not even the cheeky bad players using invincibility to get through the game, and I've been invading all over the place at various Soul Levels.
Melchiah
Member
That's good to hear. Although, I don't think I'll be replaying the game. I just don't have such an urge to do so, as I did with BB. I'll return to it once the DLC is released though.
Pretty much, the first one I played was Bloodborne, so that's the one I'm basing my expectations off of as DSII is so dissimilar to the rest (allegedly).
I'm a new convert to FromSoft's ways within the space of 9 months (Bloodborne at the time of the Old Hunters DLC -> Scholar of the First Sin in January since it was mega cheap -> DSIII now because Pimmsy enjoyed watching/playing the others herself so much).
NOOOOOOOO! I liked doing cartweels. It's my entering move from Fight Clubs, when it's my turn I just do the cartwheel then I fall down, it looks super silly lol.
Ah I get you now. If I can still do my silly cartwheel I don't mind, but that's a reasonable comprimise for weapons that need FP to actually work, like warcry I think.
Didn't DaS 1 do that with a hellkite? AND put a demon as a tutorial boss? Come on man! Get it together!
Did it? I wouldn't know, see above. I'm not complaining as such - I mean if you want to impress people from the get go, dragons are pretty good way of doing it.
You get the feeling of excitement/danger of being a part of a world which is much bigger than you, sets the tone by being an early set piece/obstacle to manoeuvre around, and of course - it's fucking dragons. People love dragons.
Inkvoterad
Member
Sweet, the new patch really fixed alot of stuff i disliked about the pvp. Caestus spammers can now be backstabpunished and thank god for that.
Inkvoterad
Member
Oh also, if there's more estoc shitters out there who wants the pre-adjustment r1 speed, just put it in your offhand.
I'll stay with the new estoc speed, feels exactly like dks1 and it was my favourite weapon there.
I'll stay with the new estoc speed, feels exactly like dks1 and it was my favourite weapon there.
For my pyro friends, seems like Chaos Vestiges fires faster now. Reddit is reporting it works on all orbs but I don't feel a difference with Chaos Fireball.
Also again they're reporting that the spells rings got buffed but I don't see any damage difference in pyro. Maybe is just for sorcerers?
Also again they're reporting that the spells rings got buffed but I don't see any damage difference in pyro. Maybe is just for sorcerers?
KittenMaster
Member
Hey guys. Do you hate the Ghru enemies?
If you let the
chase you, it will attack them.
If you let the
Dark Wraith
Youll mostly find cheaters at the 120 level.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Tonight is the night (in Yurop at least lol), gentlemen.
Prepare the meta!
Same as last time:
PS4
Saturday 21:00 GMT (9:00 pm)
That's 16:00 EST (4:00 pm) and 14:00 PDT (2:00 pm)
Take care about your summer times and all, here's a cool site to compare timezones and hours:
http://time.is/compare
That dosn't mean we'll start exactly at that hour, but rather a time to put in common so we'll know more or less when to start. We probably will stay for some time, so just join when you can.
Rules:
- No healing (obviously)
- Buffs allowed
-No dark sword
- No bitching, we probably are a varied group of individuals that are spread around the globe, lag is gonna be a thing, we should try to have fun and just that.
- No tournament, just people dueling each other in some kind of king-of-the-hill thingy: two players fight, winner keeps fighting until he loses, rinse and repeat. We need a host, and he probably wants fun, so he can join if he wants, I think we should rotate hosts so everyone can have some fun regularly.
- First buff is free, both players can buff once before attacking each other, any other buff will have to happen midfight.
I'm keeping the old spreadsheet, so update your info or join at will
Quote to see it
PC people are free to use the spreadsheet and organize a paralel event.
But majority of people are on PS4, I hope you can have some fun too.
Elysium was very kind to host like 90% of the time. So please let's try to share this duty, we can host matches on High Wall or After Pointiff, dosn't matter, just remember to keep the boss alive.
Soulhof was very kind to create a GAF DS3 community(PS4) for this, later I'll add the people that is not there.
Last event was great, let's repeat it!
Prepare the meta!
Same as last time:
PS4
Saturday 21:00 GMT (9:00 pm)
That's 16:00 EST (4:00 pm) and 14:00 PDT (2:00 pm)
Take care about your summer times and all, here's a cool site to compare timezones and hours:
http://time.is/compare
That dosn't mean we'll start exactly at that hour, but rather a time to put in common so we'll know more or less when to start. We probably will stay for some time, so just join when you can.
Rules:
- No healing (obviously)
- Buffs allowed
-
- No bitching, we probably are a varied group of individuals that are spread around the globe, lag is gonna be a thing, we should try to have fun and just that.
- No tournament, just people dueling each other in some kind of king-of-the-hill thingy: two players fight, winner keeps fighting until he loses, rinse and repeat. We need a host, and he probably wants fun, so he can join if he wants, I think we should rotate hosts so everyone can have some fun regularly.
- First buff is free, both players can buff once before attacking each other, any other buff will have to happen midfight.
I'm keeping the old spreadsheet, so update your info or join at will
Quote to see it
PC people are free to use the spreadsheet and organize a paralel event.
But majority of people are on PS4, I hope you can have some fun too.
Elysium was very kind to host like 90% of the time. So please let's try to share this duty, we can host matches on High Wall or After Pointiff, dosn't matter, just remember to keep the boss alive.
Soulhof was very kind to create a GAF DS3 community(PS4) for this, later I'll add the people that is not there.
Last event was great, let's repeat it!
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
I can't fill in the spreadsheet. Is there a password to join or anything?
Oh, that's good! Real good!
Oh, that's good! Real good!
Relaxed Muscle
Member
There's no password, just copy the link in your browser, the spreadsheet should load.
Elysium-777
Member
I wonder how often I can invade the Fight Club, if I spam the Red Eye Orb at High Wall.
I could be the designated purple that tries to take out the host.
I could be the designated purple that tries to take out the host.
jacob armitage
Banned
You'll be fine. I think Dark Souls 3, similar to Bloodborne, is a little top heavy in its difficulty. Its really tough to gauge how challenging it is compared to the previous games as we all have so much time invested in them now but once you've a couple of Estus Shards and Undead Bone Shards its smooth sailing.
If you're having trouble with the first boss just remember
you can get a few good hits on him while hes transforming, and hes weak to fire afterwards making fire bombs very helpful. He is pretty difficult to read in this state so play it safe.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Yeah you'll be fine.
Ah. Well, Demon's Souls has a red dragon burning a bridge right at the beginning too, so does Dark Souls. DS2 Scholar of the First Sin also has a red drake spewing fire on a bridge fairly early on too.
In other words, all Souls games other than BB have that trope.
Finally finished the game, took almost exactly 50 hours.
Started to feel pretty tedious towards the end. Definitely have some series fatigue. Still a great game though. Maybe my favorite of the series in terms of environments, bosses and overall gameplay. But terrible, terrible NPC quests, broken covenants, broken summoning and being a bit too familiar drag it down.
Probably not going to 100% this one like I did DS1 and 2.
Started to feel pretty tedious towards the end. Definitely have some series fatigue. Still a great game though. Maybe my favorite of the series in terms of environments, bosses and overall gameplay. But terrible, terrible NPC quests, broken covenants, broken summoning and being a bit too familiar drag it down.
Probably not going to 100% this one like I did DS1 and 2.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
I'm on phone at the mo. I downloaded the app to edit but it keeps redirecting me to the App Store XD
I am not a smart man, Jenny.
Audioboxer
Member
Trying to catch up, what weapons did the patch nerf and buff guys? Cheers
JetSetRadio
Banned
I miss new Kay episodes.
Arjen
Member
Lothric knights drop embers. So best bet is from Vordt bonfire and kill the 3 there.
jacob armitage
Banned
I went way above thinking the cut off was 150 for some reason and never had any issue finding other players to play with.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
120 is more of a PvP thing, you can easily find people above that on PvE.
KittenMaster
Member
I've finally caught up to where my previous attempt at a randomized character was at and even surpassed the wall that character was at.
I got a +4 Battle Axe like I said I would. Pyromancer sucks at killing the dragon in High Wall even with a better spell, so I had to attune six Ashen Estus just to pull it off.
I decided to fight Abyss Watchers first this time, because I felt like my character could do it. After a string of being bad at the fight (I still don't understand why Abyss Watchers are considered easy unless you do it as late as possible) I remembered that I forgot to kill the
for the Heave Boulder spell. Thankfully that was a lot more doable with a character with a +4 Battle Axe and some health.
The Boulder Heave spell turned out to be the difference in the Abyss Watchers fight.
It actually does great damage, it just has a lot of start up frames (about as much as Heavy Soul Arrow pre-patch). After that fight the dice roller gave me Endurance and Intelligence. Endurance good, Intelligence, not so much.
fight gave me Faith (again, evening out my Pyromancy scaling conveniently), and, for the first time in two characters and dozens of rolls of a d9, the dice roller finally gave me Dex to level up. This lets me use straight swords finally, but I may end up sticking with the Battle Axe since it's already upgraded and it's just barely fast enough that it hits enemies (unlike Uchigatana which is just barely too slow).
I will be tackling the Cathedral next.
I got a +4 Battle Axe like I said I would. Pyromancer sucks at killing the dragon in High Wall even with a better spell, so I had to attune six Ashen Estus just to pull it off.
I decided to fight Abyss Watchers first this time, because I felt like my character could do it. After a string of being bad at the fight (I still don't understand why Abyss Watchers are considered easy unless you do it as late as possible) I remembered that I forgot to kill the
Stray Demon
The Boulder Heave spell turned out to be the difference in the Abyss Watchers fight.
I used it to hit him on wakeup after a backstab, and in the 2nd phase it was doubly useful because the second phase has more punishable attacks.
Crystal Sage
I will be tackling the Cathedral next.
DarkHeartedKill
Member
I wanna do it PvP though, that's the thing D:. O well, rip Full Havel Ninja Flips PvP.
Heh yeah, just throw down a dragon to make things interesting. Gotta love Souls games.
I'm SL 135, never gotten a cheater
. I've had lag problems where everyone(host included) slides around like they're on ice but that happened at all SLs.Patch notes suck for that, they just say "made adjustments to" >:[
The Lothric Knights have a decent drop rate, also, enemies with glowing red eyes generally drop em too.
Yes. If you have a +9 weapon only people with a +6 or a +10 can summon you(+3 or +5 if we're talking about weapons that only go to +5)
Lumpy Onion
Member
It's amazing how much
areas resonated with me. What a great way to top off an already great game.
Can't wait to delve into NG+.
Archdragon Peak and Untended Graves
Archdragon Peak was the biggest fresh air in the series for me...literally. The atmosphere in that place was unlike anything I've seen before. Architecture and environment took my breath away. Lothoric in the distance was nice touch. It makes me yearn for a more picturesque Souls game some day.
Untended Graves was shocking to me because it made me really wonder what exactly what was going on in this game's world. The dead firelink shrine and it's surroundings filled me with a sense of pure dread. I haven't delved into the lore too much but I am utterly fascinated now.
Untended Graves was shocking to me because it made me really wonder what exactly what was going on in this game's world. The dead firelink shrine and it's surroundings filled me with a sense of pure dread. I haven't delved into the lore too much but I am utterly fascinated now.
Can't wait to delve into NG+.
DarkHeartedKill
Member
That works for De
acons of the deep too.
Edit: I wonder when it'll be acceptable to no longer spoiler tag boss names? Game has been out for a couple months now, nearing three months
Then Havel Mom/Dad is your only choice or you could go giant dad .
Now should be fine really not much harm.
Arjen
Member
Yep.
Thanks.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Actually shoueld be less in than one hour!
We can start a bit later if people is still not here.
Chaos2Frozen
Member
Any tips on how to use/build the Dancer's swords? From what I understand low damage is it's main downside, so stuff like Flynn ring and Right eye and clutch rings?
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Dabbled a bit. It's a tough one because of the scaling, split damage and stat spread. Flynn and Right Eye are good in conjunction with it. Carthus Beacon stacks with Right Eye too - additively, I believe - so that'll boost the damage. The Lloyd's Sword Ring (I think that's what it's called) could be nice too.
You basically want to catch people in the Weapon Art to get the most damage out of it. I think it's pretty difficult to escape/roll out of once you're caught in it. To that end, you want high END and ATT (for FP) to keep it going as long as possible.
Robot Pants
Member
Yep. I've gotten used to what happens during invasions and now I can deal with 3v1 pretty soundly. Especially the idiots that run at me with their shield up. People still aren't really latching onto the sword arts, and the straight sword shield splitter makes them such easy targets.
The damage is great actually, the best build for it is 40/40 DEX/STR. They just have a very slow wind-up and you need to get used to it.
Tarkus
Member
I'm going to be 2 hours late. Then you can thrash me again.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Password is in the spreadsheet.
But I'll post it here:
QUOTE TO SEE:
I'm going to dinner, then I'll be in.
Just start without me.
Necromanti
Member
Does anyone know if there's a way to get Yuria's armor if she never showed up in my game?
I wonder if there's a way to enter NG+ (with a "cheat") without raising the difficulty (since I intend to play the DLC).
EDIT: Oh god, I can use something called "Cheat Engine" to spawn items... *gulp*
I wonder if there's a way to enter NG+ (with a "cheat") without raising the difficulty (since I intend to play the DLC).
EDIT: Oh god, I can use something called "Cheat Engine" to spawn items... *gulp*
I just put down my red sign.
Chaos2Frozen
Member
Didnt they nerf the weapon art so that it doesn't stunlock after the first two spins or something?
how much does the STR affect the dmg? I figure since it's all D scaling it doesn't matter alot...?