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Dark Souls III |OT2| Welcome to NG+, Unkindled One
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Pull out your ultra greatsword and pray.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Poison vacuum of space.
Not really my thing to kill NPCs though I managed to aggro Leonhard today by dropping onto him by accident. Also you can only buy one slab unless I missed something.
FF Seraphim
Member
You know, on my first playthrough I was kind of cold on this game, still putting DS1 as my absolute favorite, now on this second run, I am enjoying the game much more, almost at the end, too and already thinking about how my third character will be.
Also, I made a bunch of bad decisions on my first run that made the game unecessarily more difficulty, as in:
Using embers on the way to the boss instead of the boss, meaning I fought all of them without summons.
Not using the bone shard to level up my estus out of fear it would make the game harder (because burning stuff that level up the bonfire made the game harder on DS2), so in order to heal from a tough attack by the end of the game, I was basically chugging 4 flasks on a row to get back to health.
And also my character build was garbage, but that's to be expected on a first run.
But not only that, one of the things I love about these games are the predictability. I like knowing where each enemy is, where each trap is and so on. As of right now, it looks like this game will age as well as DS1 has.
It seems to have a lot more build variety than DS1; otoh, it is a lot more linear, so I can't do stuff like rushing through the catacombs right at the start on a suicide run to get the scythe; on the third hand, weapon variety on the early areas seems to be perfect, so you can pretty much find the type of weapon you want right at the start without having to do anything crazy.
Also, I made a bunch of bad decisions on my first run that made the game unecessarily more difficulty, as in:
Using embers on the way to the boss instead of the boss, meaning I fought all of them without summons.
Not using the bone shard to level up my estus out of fear it would make the game harder (because burning stuff that level up the bonfire made the game harder on DS2), so in order to heal from a tough attack by the end of the game, I was basically chugging 4 flasks on a row to get back to health.
And also my character build was garbage, but that's to be expected on a first run.
But not only that, one of the things I love about these games are the predictability. I like knowing where each enemy is, where each trap is and so on. As of right now, it looks like this game will age as well as DS1 has.
It seems to have a lot more build variety than DS1; otoh, it is a lot more linear, so I can't do stuff like rushing through the catacombs right at the start on a suicide run to get the scythe; on the third hand, weapon variety on the early areas seems to be perfect, so you can pretty much find the type of weapon you want right at the start without having to do anything crazy.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Hahaha that's great. Yeah I saved my embers for phase 2 myself. 'Cause sometimes the stupid
fire breath
Fuck sorry, I think I got it confused with Vitality. Vigor raises HP and Vitality raises Equip Burden.
Confusing since the Vitality stat was originally HP-related in Demon's and Dark 1, then that changed to Vigor in DS2 (with VIT being equip burden -- which was originally Endurance!), then back to Vitality in Bloodborne, and back again to Vigor in DS3. Aaargh.
Curved sword+spin slash+Knight Slayer's Ring. You gotta time it right though, and have enough stamina to follow up properly. Normal swing can also hit 180 degrees around you.
Demoskinos
Member
Oh man. Just beat Oc
on my first go. Not a horribly tough fight but still really neat. And holy shit the sounds coming out of the boss room as you walk up to it are bone chilling WTF was that.
eiros The consumed King
Arjen
Member
Om my bad, I saw it in the store and assumed it was infinite.
Incendiary
Banned
My vision of sci-fi souls involves more ranged combat focused. You still have a lot of melee weapon leeway too, but I'd like to see faster combat focused more on dodging and shooting as well as combos into melee attacks. Something like the trick weapon system from Bloodborne but switching from melee to a gun, and eliminating the sluggishness of bow aiming from the previous Souls games. It would also force From to make some new style bosses that are more focused on at-range duels than bosses who get up in your face all the time.
I don't want Sci-Fi Souls to replace Dark Souls or Bloodborne, but I think new cyberpunk/sci-fi setting could open up a lot of new ideas that could freshen up the series and maybe inspire interesting changes in the other settings.
Blightworld
I really can't figure out how to avoid that attack at all. I can beat that boss but I always wind up chugging after that attack.
The one in the air? Just run, but have to be quick on your feet, or else you're tanking that.
Yeah I always try to run away from it and have never been able to lol. I've had similar issues with Kalameet's fire breath and Ancient Dragon in 2. Don't know why those attacks are so hard for me. I don't get like anywhere near far away enough it seems.
Art Vandilay
Member
Me too. I'm too afraid to do anything before I google it first or ask in the thread haha
To be fair I think everyone had trouble with the Ancient Dragon's fire breath in 2 because that attack was straight up bullshit
I just roll through it.
Not away from it by any means, I run torwards the boss and roll through it. It looks weird, but works every time. Sometimes I can even reach him before the animation stops, so that's a bunch of free hits.
Edit: Oh, you mean the one that comes from above? He justs does that if you're behind or under him, so I just avoid being on those places.
Yeah it is. Boss is straight up not even worth fighting.
Langdon Alger
Banned
Kicking is incredibly hard in this game. I can successfully pull off a kick maybe one out of ten times.
Mechanized
Member
When I summon people for
they seem to have some kinda crazy sword that does like 4k+ damage. What is this? Should I have that for this fight?
Yorhm
Bloodporne
Member
I think it's bizarre they still have the same death sound effect that used to signal 'that one ain't coming back, fuck yeah!'. I was annoyed when I realized that fat shit on the High Wall was still there. Fully agreed, you should be able to make the zone a bit 'safer'.
IbukiLordSA
Member
Why are people so scared to fight invaders? I have run into so many instances like this where the guys just run away even though they have other people with them, how many summons do you want before you try and fight like 50 lol?
I can't understand, even for summons if you die then who cares you lose nothing so why not just fight? Instead of hiding from 1 person when you have another 2 on your side? I actually had to cut the video by like 2 minutes because the guys just stood there trying to summon people.
Ignore the Darkmoon dude, I think he was just shocked that the covenant actually worked lol. Anyway this was the first time I tried the Gotthard Twinswords and I really like them so far, nice moveset.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tShy4867Zy8
I can't understand, even for summons if you die then who cares you lose nothing so why not just fight? Instead of hiding from 1 person when you have another 2 on your side? I actually had to cut the video by like 2 minutes because the guys just stood there trying to summon people.
Ignore the Darkmoon dude, I think he was just shocked that the covenant actually worked lol. Anyway this was the first time I tried the Gotthard Twinswords and I really like them so far, nice moveset.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tShy4867Zy8
Yeah. It's in his room.
It's a callback from Demon's Souls, where it does the same thing.
Charge the weapon art and attack
A halfway decent invader can seriously fuck things up for you and fuck you over come boss time, especially if you already have an allied phantom summoned because then you can't go back to a bonfire to replenish estus. On that note I'd just like to say that I think the invader spawn points kind of stink in this game, it seems like players can easily bolt to a boss gate before an invader ever has a chance to confront them.
You have to do a flicking motion. Don't press the stick up like normal, flick it and time your R1 with the flick.
It feels different then the older games, but once you get it down you should be able to do it consistently.
IbukiLordSA
Member
Yeah that's why I started invading in dukes archive, only once or twice have I had the problem where they enter the boss fight. Other areas especially
Anor Londo
Primethius
Banned
Speaking of kicking. I absolutely hate how they tuned it (or changed it). I'm not sure why but I pull off kicks in the middle of my attacks on bosses sometimes and it just makes me miss sooooooo much damage. Never had a problem with it before but I do it way too often now.
I wish I could just remap how it's executed.
I wish I could just remap how it's executed.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
Anyone?
Futurevoid
Member
Took down
last night and finished exploring
.
Loved the entire area top to bottom. The boss fight took me about 8 tries. His first half, I totally cheesed with my Dragonrider Bow. I took headshots until he does the huge sword leap. Rolled and ran away to the other side of the room and repeated until I got him down to a little over half health.
Amusingly, I thought his second phase was easier. Once he starts
, he becomes much more predictable. I stayed at range and got him into an attack loop where he kept trying that leap into the air and slam the sword to the ground. His
telegraphs it pretty well. I just rolled out of the way and did a 3 hit combo and repeated.
Felt good! Onto the dungeons.
Pontiff
Irithyll
Loved the entire area top to bottom. The boss fight took me about 8 tries. His first half, I totally cheesed with my Dragonrider Bow. I took headshots until he does the huge sword leap. Rolled and ran away to the other side of the room and repeated until I got him down to a little over half health.
Amusingly, I thought his second phase was easier. Once he starts
trying to spawn in his a duplicate
duplicate
Felt good! Onto the dungeons.
Yeah I can't even begin to list how many times I've went to kick down something's shield only to swing and catch a mouthful of sword T_T
It's so annoying in part because of how great the kick can be against some enemies, and it ends up being totally unreliable and coin toss as to whether or not it'll actually come out.
I've gotten to the point that unless I have a full health bar I just seek alternative methods at finding an opening.
It's so annoying in part because of how great the kick can be against some enemies, and it ends up being totally unreliable and coin toss as to whether or not it'll actually come out.
I've gotten to the point that unless I have a full health bar I just seek alternative methods at finding an opening.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Coop bosses?
Vital Tundra
Member
Really hope they patch in the ability to be invaded by NPC's after you have beaten the boss of the area. Already missed out on a few things.
Admiral Woofington
Member
Fuck ancient dragon. Cheap ass motherfucker. Fucking bullshit aoe that only has like one spot it won't hurt you in.
I straight up just didn't beat him because I wasn't gonna spend a million tries.
Mechanized
Member
Cool thanks!
Also my miracle vendor
apparently went nuts and is now missing, can I find her or is she gone forever? Is there another miracle vendor
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
I don't have PS Plus and am playing in offline mode. Actually can I summon NPCs for bosses in offline mode?
SoraanTribal
Member
So how good is the Dark Sword? I got one as a drop. It looks kind of cool. Any recommendation on what type of gem to use with it if it's worth it? I'm more of a pyromancer so I haven't upgraded my strength a ton. Would raw be best? or nah?
Futurevoid
Member
Oh and I did something called the
, too. I guess its the conclusion of the Anri quest line? I've been trying to stay away from spoilers but I have
. Should I have the Firekeeper heal my
? I don't know what the overall outcome is if I maintain myself as the
though it seems as though it has major implications for the ending as speaking to the
. Sounds ominous but interesting.
Rite of Avowment
8 dark sigils
curse
Lord of Hollows
knight lady from Anor Londo - she basically tells me to "usurp the fire" when I have the opportunity to do so.
Freezasaurus
Member
Anyone have tips in regards to equipment for fighting
and
? I got the latter down to a sliver of HP, so I think I'm good on the fight itself, I just have to conserve estus better. Does magic / fire-resistnt armor help at all? I'm using a +10 Red-pole Halberd, which seems to be a good compromise between speed and damage, and being able to do a fast attack right out of a dodge roll helps a ton.
Not if you want dat secret ending.
Lorian
Lothric
Not if you want dat secret ending.
Yup, I've hated almost every single poison area across all five games. They're not fun or especially interesting. Too often, I feel like From confuses tension with tedium. Slowly waiting for a poison bar to go down or not being able to see where you're going while the framerate fluctuates wildly isn't tense - it's tedious bullshit. Same with their obsession about making you walk across narrow beams. It's tedious garbage.
It's always been that way, I highly doubt they will patch it.
Futurevoid
Member
Oh wow. I figured it was tied to an ending but now I'm all kinds of leaving it alone and seeing how it plays out.
hydrophilic attack
Member
Just play through the game in ember form
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
durinh my first time playing, I tend to kill everything explore as much as I can before I reach my limit aka out of estus or die.
Soodanim
Member
After getting over my mild annoyance at having to spoil
for myself, I've decided to call it a day after beating A
, D
and O
.
The first I beat in 3 or 4 tries (basically rushed him down, no real skill involved).
The second gave me trouble, but I eventually decided to get summoned. I helped a dude, died just before the final hit but still got credit, then immediately went and did it solo myself. I used a bow for the last few hits, no risks.
The third was the 2nd time I've beat a boss first go in this game. First was the
in the woods.
Anor Londo
ldrich
ancer
ceiros
The first I beat in 3 or 4 tries (basically rushed him down, no real skill involved).
The second gave me trouble, but I eventually decided to get summoned. I helped a dude, died just before the final hit but still got credit, then immediately went and did it solo myself. I used a bow for the last few hits, no risks.
The third was the 2nd time I've beat a boss first go in this game. First was the
Sage
Ocelotte!
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
I managed to dodge it like, once, by running away very fast. But if you aren't fast enough (and you don't have a lot of time to realize "oh shit it's the AOE fire attack") it'll get you and stagger you. And if you make the mistake of having your shield up, well, guard-break and death usually follows.
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