Started as a Pyromancer, then just decided to restart as a Knight since I was having to melee so much anyway. Got toand decided to try out "hard mode".Farron Keep
My god Sorcery is shit, and not because of the damage. Miyazaki, in his infinite wisdom decided to increase enemy speed to up to Bloodbone levels at times (which includes swarms of enemies at that speed), without adjusting the casting speed of the Sorcery spells. DEX and casting speed items do not in any way compensate. It's just stupid. You basically have to use the spells on one enemy at a time and hope that you can kill them with two-hits at most before they are in your face and hope that you don't grab more enemies at the same time.
Meanwhile, running around with a flame katana or raw claymore = easy mode.
Also not sold at all on the look of the game. It definitely has better "graphics" than the previous games, but there's too much clutter for the sake of simply tossing more shit on the screen, without any artistic merit, and it looks like it was run through a greyscale filter in most areas. Some of the areas are chalice dungeon tier quality too in the way they look.
What are the soft caps for each stat?
Doubt the ring is any better than previous games. All the gifts were garbage except for the upgrade material imo. Unless the consumable soul gives a lot of souls.
I used the ring for the entirety of my run through the JP version.
Regular greatsword -
Claymorein High Wall of Lothric, where the dragon breathes fire. Just like Dark Souls 1
Ultra Greatswords,Zweihander can drop in the area after High Wall, and the regular Greatsword is found not too far after (Farron Keep)
first area question:
I don't know how to get into the room where the dragon spita fire above. Any guidance?
Pyro is strong I've done the opposite of you. A fire infused sword is great to supplement pyromancies.
Just run through right after he's stopped breathing fire. You'll take a bit of damage from the fire on the ground, but not too much.
Anyone else find the NPC that is one of thoseCages with all those hands stickng out?He only has one dialogue of singing. I wonder if there's anything more to him? I'm tempted to kill him to see what he drops.
It is choppy on PC too with no appearent reason. 60 FPS with dips to the mid 50s (my PC is far more powerful than recommended)
A solid 30fps would be a start
So the door is open? Stupid me
Thinking of playing two first, which is the best version to get.
For PC btw,
Scholar of the First Sin is the better version. There's a crazy amount of content in that game. But it's definitely not necessary to play 2 before 3 if you were worried on missing out on story or something.
Welp. Like Dark Souls 2 before it, parrying is fucking impossible on the PC. Haven't nailed one once and I've been practicing on fodder enemies. This issue existed in DS2 above 30fps.
There's an ocean of blood before the uchigatana guy.
There's an ocean of blood before the uchigatana guy.
this is my favorite thing
Can you level up before?the first boss
Tutorial one? No. Main 1st, yes.
Yeah the touch menu is completely unnecessary so I'll probably get rid of I had to mess with the sensitivity and in game to get it feeling much better. Also haptics I need them on high.the Valve and From sponsored Steam Controller config for DS3 is fucked. for some crazy reason they made the right trackpad click a touch menu. also you cant use the joystiq in menus and have to use the dpad
just setting it to standard 3rd person config works fine but yeesh
Anyone else having trouble with summoning help? I've tried probably 30 times now, and I only get the message "Unable to summon phantom" ...
this is my favorite thing
Any quick tips on stuff to avoid permanently missing or screwing things up?
Particularly stuff like murderous npcs, npc side quests, making sure not to use an item unless for x specific reason, etc
So, has capping the game at 30fps on PC made parrying a more viable option?
You are already deadMy first Souls, this first boss is tough
the Valve and From sponsored Steam Controller config for DS3 is fucked. for some crazy reason they made the right trackpad click a touch menu. also you cant use the joystiq in menus and have to use the dpad
just setting it to standard 3rd person config works fine but yeesh
Yeah I took a screenshot of it this morning, it's glorious https://twitter.com/Gavin_Devine/status/719839425610563586
I just sent an email to Namco Bandai, can't wait for the response.same thing happened to me, I had to guess a few letters.