I know right...
Demon's Souls still had the best PvP. Kinda crazy.
Sadly I was late to the Demon's Souls party, and as a newbie I spent all my time as a phantom.
Red sign soapstone pvp has been awesome in my experience
I'm not looking for duels. I want the organic experience of invasions, without the min/maxing and the highly optimised gear. I mean, duels are cool and all, I had some great ones, but it's not the same thing.
You've seen the light. I "quit" about three times, but would eventually pick the game back up for the night and give pvp a try again, until a couple days ago, when I just realized that no matter how much effort I put into it, there was nothing I could do to make it suck less. Not only are game mechanics heavily weighted to make pvp less fun this time around (i.e. infinite rolls, estus chug), but this is by far the worst implementation of covenants they've ever done. There isn't even an arena in this game at release, whereas a game released in the same series two years ago had that. How hard was it going to be to just transition that arena into this game?
That's about right. I want to like it, I really do, but it honestly feels like From just didn't give a fuck. The covenant/invasion system is a GREAT idea, and outside of Dark Souls 2 it seems like they are doing everything in their power to not expand on it bar scraping it altogether.
What I absolutely can not comprehend is how they went back on the improvements that DS2 did, especially regarding covenants. This is mind boggling.
As it is, Dark Souls 3's invasion mechanic is
not working. The number of time where I'd see "phantom I****yourmom has been summoned" the second I would spawn, and I'd find the host and their retinue milling about at the bonfire instead of making progress, waiting for me to get my ass ganked or black crystal out.
It wouldn't even be hard to balance that shit : just give an item for invaders so they can summon backup if the host has an escort. Bam. Done.
While we're at it, make it so way of blue and the blue sentinels are the exact same covenant. You get help when invaded, and you get summoned when one of your bro is being invaded. And give purple nurples their reward after a number of enemy kills too. I'll wait for my check, From.
Of course, that would still leave the issue of the shittastic netcode and the fucked balance.
Was it ever good though? Honestly only fun thing about invading for me is causing as much chaos as possible. For that the PVP still works fine but I feel like there should be way more trolling stuff like scraping spear.
Chaos can be fun. I had a great invasion as a mad phantom with every color of the rainbow in the fray, and it was hilarious. But that's fairly rare in my experience, except for a very specific area.
