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Dark Souls III |OT| Thy path has been tested, now fight unkindled ash
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GwyndolinCinder
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rip steam
That was just me and the fucking tree man. I had two people helping me too.
SlickShoes
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Boss at 10% health, booted back to the main menu. Great design decision that.
Vince DiCola
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I beat them at SL 16 with base stamina mate, it's not impossible!!
OldAsUrSock
Banned
How do I get past that bridge in Irithyll of the Boreal Valley?
I'm sorry I can't help but upvote and place those things.
I'm sorry I can't help but upvote and place those things.
OverturePT
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Had just helped a guy beat the (mid-game? boss spoiler)
boss, literally a couple of seconds after... Steam dies. Lucky guy.
Getting summoned there instantly, it's fucking crazy.
High Lord Wolnir
Getting summoned there instantly, it's fucking crazy.
It's a tradition dating back to Demon's Souls, tricking people into jumping off cliffs and the like. It's all in good fun.
For anyone playing on steam, am I the only one who's PVP matches are extremely lagging?
My opponents are just like floating on space or something and I can never hit them nor can they hit me until suddenly one of us dies.
It's so annoying. I tried changing cross play settings and it didn't do anything.
Looks like pvp matches will be no fun.
My opponents are just like floating on space or something and I can never hit them nor can they hit me until suddenly one of us dies.
It's so annoying. I tried changing cross play settings and it didn't do anything.
Looks like pvp matches will be no fun.
JensenBeeswax
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Bros, I just arrived in
, having killed all bosses up to now including an optional one. I'm at level 53 with a strenth build. My best weapon is a +6 heavy claymore that does 294 damage. Am I on track or am I about to get my katana unshitted?
Irrythil
Totally missed him before fighting AW. Head back to up to the prior area and look around by the big goofy crabs.
Go to the top left of the big forest area before Farron Keep (with the giant enemy crabs). Explore the ruins there until you find a slope going up. WEAR MAGIC RESISTANCE.
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
The first one? Kill it
Do you mean that shimmering wall you can't pass?
You need to go to the Cathedral of the Deep and beat the boss there to get an item that will allow you to pass
I play online but I haven't summoned a single soul, and I go visit the nearest cliff whenever I get a free ember form. I just do it for the notes and blood pools, they're (occasionally) handy.
Plus if you leave a "screw this goddamn place" note at
Farron Keep
Hentailover
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100% agree. In fact, every single boss' weakness is actually exactly the same.
Wanna know what it is? Breaks in their patterns. It's very easy to make an unbeatable boss. just give him really fast and powerful attacks that he keeps spamming. Talent comes in creating "stupid" moments in that moveset while still making it feel like player was the one who outplayed the enemy, instead of "did a gloryfied "press f to do damage" during this predetermined moment where the boss is vulnerable". We'd like to think there's more grace to that, but there really isn't every boss is a series of "skill challenges" (dodge,block,avoid) followed by the "reward" that is a window to attack.
The formula is thrown out whack when you have multiple enemies. Unless you specifically program instances where both of them hold back, "windows" to attack become chaotic and randomized. Every single "safe" moment can turn unsafe simply because other enemy started initiating his attack.
Everybody praises Ornstein and Smoug and such, but I found like very singel multiple enemis boss battle in Souls games to actually be fairy poorly designed, as there is no sign of any sort of synchronicity into their AI. They just act completely independently and as such you can sometimes get into entire minutes of just backpeddalling because they ai just happend to get into the rhytm where one starts his attack right as other's ends. (this actually happened to me with some o these bosses. Literally perfect synch. )
And that comes into my distaste for randomness in game design. This will sound really outrageous, but whenever you add something that is based on arandom chance into your game, you create a statistical possibility that somebody someday will not be able to do it at all. For example, if you have a piece of gear that drops with 5% chance, there's a statistical chance that there's a person for whom it will never drop... It's a statistical fact that given enough time, there will be ahuman that can never farm a certain piece of gear and he just will never get it even if he will spend every single day doing nothing but farming it. Now, this is long shot, a huge long shot, I do not claim I am one o those people, but I dislike the fact that game designers even allow that possibility to exist. Every single randomized feature should have some sort of hidden raising value that slowly builds up, eventually growing up to 100% . That way you make it so no person on the planet, no mattter how many quidrillions years will pass, will ever happend to be the unlucky sod that can't get something due to random chance.
Which is why I am always salty about multiple enemies in Souls games. They feel like a complete crapshoot, running completely contrary to deliberateness of Souls games. If I roll under a sword swing of a single enemy, I know I get a hit in. When I fight multiple enemies, that guarantee does not exist. Because second enemy can start his atack and I am forced to roll again... the other attack cancels the "window".
My problem is not that I die, as stated I died like 20 times on Gwyn, I spend zero seconds of that complaining on any forums Because there was an exact pattern to it and I knew where I messed up.
Here, I literally just had a run, where Red eyed Knight kept swinging at the fog door, trying to kill enemies outside of both area that he can't possibly reach. That's not a great design, and it completely collapsed the entire gimmick, forcing me into a fight with enemies that weren't programmed to be fought two at a time properly, due to their aggressiveness. And that's just the most extreme case of how red eyed knight is a complete crapshoot and not an actual deliberate element to the battle.
You're on track, I'd say you're over powered a little since you wouldn't have that +6 weapon without doing optional areas.
shiiiiit. Managed to finally turn off the
, only to find a wall with a item behind it, clearly im supposed to
. oh well
anyone knows what it was?
giant spears of doom in smouldering lake
get a spear through there to break it
anyone knows what it was?
RandomSeed
Member
The game is very good, but it has some annoying ass areas. All these gray hallways, then gray hallways with fire effects are like BB chalice dungeons or something.
Looking at the armor on the wiki page, doesn't seem like there's not much difference in terms of protection. The highest physical defense for chest armor is only 17, not much more than the 12 you can find regularly.
Kind of disappointing. One thing that saved me in Dark Souls was finding really strong armor and upgrading it. If the best armor that's available isn't that much better than my own starting armor, then that takes away much of the excitement and hope for better armor.
Kind of disappointing. One thing that saved me in Dark Souls was finding really strong armor and upgrading it. If the best armor that's available isn't that much better than my own starting armor, then that takes away much of the excitement and hope for better armor.
JudgmentJay
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shiiiiit. Managed to finally turn off the, only to find a wall with a item behind it, clearly im supposed togiant spears of doom in smouldering lake. oh wellget a spear through there to break it
anyone knows what it was?
You can turn it back on.
Yeah. I don't want another family mask / giant armor meta!
But it seems like the heavy armor could do with a bit more defense how things are currently.
That's an alternate ending path yes.
Darryl M R
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Do I git gud by farming knights after the 2nd boss? I am trying to learn how to parry and see timing
Yes. There's soo many items that they can drop too. Full armor set, (awesome) sword, spear, regular shield, great shield, embers, titanite.
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Deleted member 47027
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Yup. Follow through!
Assumed as much, if only because this quest chain is stupidly long and specific and people hinted at it on day one, so
Black Knight
its beastly in this one too, and since I havent found any fucking tower shields, this one will do nicely since its bigger than most anyway and fits my
Played some coop with my friend an hour ago or so, turned out to be a really interesting experience.
Not sure if it was a bug on any of our clients or something with the servers. According to him I didn't animate on his end just like he or any monsters he aggro'd didn't for me.
Not sure if it was a bug on any of our clients or something with the servers. According to him I didn't animate on his end just like he or any monsters he aggro'd didn't for me.
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