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Dark Souls III |OT+2| Why Can't We Poise the Game?
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If he's smart, he will do a low-level build for the Blue Sentinels.
New High Score SLN CHF
No, he enters with you like a bawwwws
AYYY LMAO!!!!
Tarkus
Member
You will watch every second
So, where to begin? I got the game on PC a while ago, but never got around starting it, so today I finally decided to give this a try. Well, what do you know, I'm getting my ass completely kicked and got completely blocked by the first boss. Try to dodge or defend? Welp, get hit and my character goes down pretty fast. To be fair to the game, I'm having issues with my setup, since my mouse IS kind of crap, and the surface where I'm playing even crappier, so camera issues are normal. Even then, I feel that I'm not even touching the boss AT ALL. Whenever I try to reach it, I might get one hit, but I'm having issues retreating to avoid the next hit. If it helps, I'm using a... lancer, I guess? I have a lance and a shield.
Do you recommend switching from KB+M to a gamepad, or just get a better mouse? Any tips to manage to land hits more consistently? More tips in general?
Do you recommend switching from KB+M to a gamepad, or just get a better mouse? Any tips to manage to land hits more consistently? More tips in general?
Eppy Thatcher
God's had his chance.
Stayed away from ENBs playthrough for most of my initial run through all the areas including all the secret areas and shit so i'm just now really getting caught up. He's at the Princes at this point and it's kind of hilarious watching him play after getting back into a souls game not only cause our play styles are so vastly different but also because it's clear the dude has sooooooooooo little 3D spatial mapping in his head!! LOL he just memorizes EVERYTHING which is why his DS1/Bloodborne playthrough is so seamless and smooth.
Dude walks by 2 bonfires to go to the farthest one away from the elevator...
takes it down to the slab then doesn't realize it's because he needs to call it down then get on top...
gets REKT over and over again trying for backstabs on WEAK ass enemies
gets confused and turned around and destroyed by bosses and areas i casually strolled through then basically walks through other parts of the game - while talking through a LP - that i bashed my head against 5 or 6 times before getting through??
It's amazing. And his lore connections the moment he reads descriptions are so on point... i feel like i'm barely paying attention compared to him :-D
wish i could invade his ass though. Feel like i would crush him
Dude walks by 2 bonfires to go to the farthest one away from the elevator...
takes it down to the slab then doesn't realize it's because he needs to call it down then get on top...
gets REKT over and over again trying for backstabs on WEAK ass enemies
gets confused and turned around and destroyed by bosses and areas i casually strolled through then basically walks through other parts of the game - while talking through a LP - that i bashed my head against 5 or 6 times before getting through??
It's amazing. And his lore connections the moment he reads descriptions are so on point... i feel like i'm barely paying attention compared to him :-D
wish i could invade his ass though. Feel like i would crush him
DarkHeartedKill
Member
I'd reccommend controller if KB+M is giving you a lot of trouble.
Knight is one the best starting class, you get a 100% block shield, and one of the best weapons in terms of DPS. You also have a nice health pool, and fairly decent stamina. Not sure if this would be a spoiler related to the boss, so I'm spoil tag it anyways,
Boss has two phases. In his first phase, use your shield and hit him when he's open. When he's in his second phase, don't bother blocking as it will drain your stamina very quickly, instead just try to stay behind him and hit him from there, most of his attacks will go over you.
I'm on PC too, so I can try to help you with other bosses, but I don't think you can summon players for that boss.
Tarkus
Member
He said in his last video that he would be going for the platinum on PS4. Maybe he will play online and we could do so. I'd love to as well.
DarkHeartedKill
Member
Saw this picture on my Facebook feed and felt it accurately depicted my rage towards grinding for Concords.
You need a controller. These sorts of games do not work well with keyboard and mouse. You need to have the full range and sensitivity of analog controls that gamepads provide. I'd recommend the 360 or Xbox One controller as those have full PC support, ingame prompts, and are the easiest to get working.
Beyond that, you just gotta understand that during the middle part of your roll you are breifly invincible, so roll through attacks. Also, if you press normal attack directly after a roll, you do a slightly faster attack. This benefits greatswords especially as they are generally slower.
There are so many general tips to give i cant even list them out right now. I can do it later if no one else does it first.
Eppy Thatcher
God's had his chance.
I don't suppose we would be so lucky as to have his PSN id be: EpicNameBro ... right?
Or does he list it somewhere on his youtube channel? I shall go investigate...
Tarkus
Member
Somewhere in his old DS1 videos was his psn name. I sent a friend request a few years back. Nothing.
By the time he gets there again on 2nd playthrough everyone will be at SL+170 though!
Cue days of him farming and swearing at the screen...then 1 week later FROM drops a patch which lets you buy Concords from the Shrine shop.
#bazinga.
DarkHeartedKill
Member
Only 1 million souls each!
Eppy Thatcher
God's had his chance.
He hides. He scurred.
DarkHeartedKill
Member
This could be completely anecdotal, but I think the golden falcon shield increases item discovery even if it doesn't show it. I was farming for 2 hrs and got like 2 concords. I decided to put the golden falcon shield on my back since I recalled reading that it was looked upon for good fortunate. I got two concords after killing like 6 knights... again could be just RNG, but no harm in letting others know so they test it out too, right?
I will kill orbeck and get the morion blade from her each playthrough before I decide if I want a darkdrift, its too useful a deal to stack it with tearstone in the right situations. Morion>Darkdrift
I guess its impossible to get both a fully loaded sorcerer but also use the Morion blade (at least early, I know you could get all tomes then kill orbeck)? Or can you give the tomes to Karla?
pretty sure it does help item discovery...you can tell for sure as there is a stat on your menu
Anything but the KB+M for this game. Seriously, buy a controller, preferably the Steam Controller as those two grip buttons are fantastic for this game and many others. I tried playing the game a bit with a keyboard and mouse and the default bindings are just odd.
Anyway, use the lock on for the first boss and actually nearly everything but enemy mobs and some bosses. Then you don't have to deal with the camera and can concentrate on the fight.
The trick to this game is to bait the enemy to do an attack and then dodge, block or parry it and punish. It's all about learning what the moves are and which ones you can block and which ones are better dodged. For the record as a veteran Bloodborne player my first playthrough was almost entirely without using the shield, just roll dodging everything.
So it's ok to just dodge whatever attack(s) the boss is doing and then get a hit or two in. In his second phase it gets harder to see where he is attacking but rolling will usually save you. Usually it's best to roll towards the boss and to its side. Stick close and only back away to drink Estus when you have dodged a move so the boss doesn't try to lunge at you while you are chugging.
The bigger problem is that plenty of gear is locked behind NPC invaders that can only be fought if you are embered and haven't killed the boss in the area, which is completely non-obvious. I started a new character because I missed some good stuff due to that.
I'm fine with the quests conflicting with each other and requiring the player to make choices and thus having to replay if they want all the weapons and armor but some of them are just buggy. For example I never got
Siegward to the Yhorm fight despite saving him in the dungeon simply because I had not met him in the Irithyll kitchen
hydrophilic attack
Member
After doing a lot of invasions, I can safely say that 95 % of darkmoons are scrubs
Cre8
You want a shot at the champ? [NG gif winner July 23]
Holy shit, after completely missed him on my first play through. I finally beat
on NG+. This badass aint no fun at all. After so many summon fails, finally got a sunbro to help me but he got killed half way and left me to gut it out on my own. Feel so good when I put the final dagger in him.
Nameless King
Fuck, takes me at least 20+ tries. So ashame
DarkHeartedKill
Member
I know there's a stat for it, but it doesn't increase when you have the item equipped. Kind of how like DaS 1 didn't show the Covetous Gold Serpent Ring & Symbol of Avarice stacking even though they did in fact stack.
I would be mad salty. GG wasted hours of my life farming them. Nah, screw that. Y'all gotta suffer excruciating drop rates like I did.
Farming for multiple Concords can't be worse than farming for 1 Pure Bladestone now thats a true nightmare especially when you have to be black tendency and it has to be from black phantoms.
*Watches ENB doing loose ends*
- Starts killing all NPCs without finding 2 more tomes.
- Didn't buy all spells.
- Patches dropping Catarina armor still doesn't occur him why Patches drops it.
lol, I can only say From really make all these item acquiring and quests super duper vague.
*Watches ENB doing loose ends*
- Starts killing all NPCs without finding 2 more tomes.
- Didn't buy all spells.
- Patches dropping Catarina armor still doesn't occur him why Patches drops it.
lol, I can only say From really make all these item acquiring and quests super duper vague.
DarkHeartedKill
Member
Gotta love Dark Souls physics...
Warning: There's a Location, a shield, sword, and armour spoiler. If none of those bother you, proceed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOMimxTpECY
Really wish I didn't get such horrible framerate drops when using High/Max settings...I have a GTX 970 yet my framerate drops to 40 at times, unless I'm on low
Warning: There's a Location, a shield, sword, and armour spoiler. If none of those bother you, proceed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOMimxTpECY
Really wish I didn't get such horrible framerate drops when using High/Max settings...I have a GTX 970 yet my framerate drops to 40 at times, unless I'm on low
Arjen
Member
I've seen a lot of darkmoon in my Co OP playtrough, and you're right, it's so fun because they are so damn eager, they always rush the invaders like crazy, you can just see then sitting at home: Shit yeah, finally! Let's do this, raaaaaa!
Define scrub? Because almost everyone involved in non dueling PvP, be red, purple or blue, will act like a scrub. The kill is what it matters there.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Could have been massive lag spike, but it seems likely to be a cheat.
Why not fork 4500 instead for a purging stone? :S Even if you die all the time, it's still cheaper than 500k...
Too true.
Red Liquorice
Member
Pretty sure he's playing DS3 on PC.
I haven't tried it, but I assume it's exactly the same. No more slow and stumbling animations for weapons you can't wield like in DS1. It won't do the damage because you don't have the stats, but for parrying it will work just fine.
Anyone know if there are any benefits over the target shield? I've used that almost exclusively for the parry frames.
DarkHeartedKill
Member
Happened to me my second auto-summon. I was 1v1ing an invader, another one came so when I got one to low health he jumped down and I jumped down to do a plunging attack against him when I had 25% health, other guy plunging attacked me and killed me
. I think the Falcon shield really helps. I got 4 Concords in 40 minutes while only at 207 item discovery. Before that it took 40 minutes for a single Concord.
Cannon Goose
Member
I just invaded a guy who was using the Farron Greatsword and a Black Knight Shield. Because the weapon art of the Farron Greatsword is a parry it basically made it so he could parry using the Black Knight Shield! Completely caught me off guard.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
I don't think there are parry frames and difference tables, but at first sight parrying with a shield makes the block frames actually give more dmg reduction.
Silent Chief
Member
I started as an assassin, so that's how I played Blue Sentinels. OHK are the best. That and a low FP weapon that staggers on the second hit.
Silent Chief
Member
Bladestone took me around 4 hours.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
From what I notice and doing some quick math, the drop rate is like 4% when your item discovery is 400 something. I think someone else did the math as well and came to a similar value.
Duplication glitch is going to be my friend for Demons Souls this summer
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Okay, diving around with the Short Bow is awesome. It takes ages to kill people at the moment, but it's a lot of fun. I particularly enjoy the fact that enemies end up as Boromir pin cushions.
Yea, he's still missing a lot but he's gonna do another blind LP with a new character but focus on trying to do the NPC stuff. I think he's gonna be massively disappointed how easy it will be to miss or fail the quest lines without a guide. I am kinda glad he tried to do as much as possible before ending the game. Also glad he fast forwarded that ridiculous amount of exploration in the Cathedral. I don't believe he remembered to read the descriptions for the Drang gear tho.
This horrible concord grind makes me want to stop playing omg. I played for an hour last night. I was incredibly fast and efficient at killing all three Knights. 407 item discovery. And I got zero Concords. Z E R O.
Lol at people on Reddit saying they got 28 Concords in four hours and telling other people to "Git Good" when it takes them over ten hours. No way they are killing the Knights a lot faster than I am.
Lol at people on Reddit saying they got 28 Concords in four hours and telling other people to "Git Good" when it takes them over ten hours. No way they are killing the Knights a lot faster than I am.
Red Liquorice
Member
I also farmed the nights near the darkmoon tomb. It's probably a placebo effect, but I found it better to change up every now and again what enemies you are farming. Still from the same bonfire, I would go down the stairs and kill the 6-ish Silver Knights down there, then jump down and kill the robed churchy enemies at the bottom for Human Dregs. A more profitable run than just the Silver Knights on the Anor Londo stairs and it broke up the grind a bit (I got 3 concords on a single run once!)
Tarkus
Member
ENB said at the end of the video yesterday that his next playthrough will be for the platinum and on PS4.
If you can deal with slightly longer wind up animation, then it's the best for parries given the longer window.
Red Liquorice
Member
Oh I assumed he was on PC, especially since the video when he was in the Demon Ruins and he had the stuttering issues from a recent patch. I think I'm a patch or two behind so I don't know if the PS4 was effected also.
She's definately a giant nod to Yuria, it's practically the same character. I don't think they would ever tie the games up in the same Universe though. Although that video you posted a page or so back where the corpse with the
Firekeeper Eyes