you know the right stick is camera control right
Also, use your ears. The ding you hear when he reconstitutes is clear as day and means it's time to roll.
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you know the right stick is camera control right
Also, use your ears. The ding you hear when he reconstitutes is clear as day and means it's time to roll.
TemplaerDude
Member
Now, come on, that Stray Demon isn't your friend, he's just tolerating your existence for a fragment of time.
Go back to where you got some estus soup in Irithyll. Go outside, and hug left.
I know, i've just been killed by that plunge attack from the sky way too often. It just seems to come out of nowhere.
One thing I found hilarious, that I never noticed before:
I was invading in
, looking for the host. There was a red-eye knight walking around, and I was rolling around him and I knocked over some stuff that was sitting on tables/the ground. The knight heard the noise, stopped and looked over. he of course found nothing, so he resumed his walk. Did the same thing again. Pretty cool, didn't know that they were sensitive to sound. Felt really funny because I was like a ghost in the world messing around with the enemies.
I was invading in
Grand Archives
The AI is **slightly** better than previous games. It's still really old school, but I've noticed some stuff like that as well. Once I was able to hide from a group of chasing enemies by breaking line of sight. And some enemies actually have walking paths instead of being perfectly still.
I also like the monster infighting in this one, it comes up a lot more. I especially like how other enemies can trigger mimics and they'll fight each other.
SatansReverence
Hipster Princess
1. Stop relying on lock on.
2. 99% of teleports don't even break it. Only the long range power attacks do.
You should be more worried about the broken roll timings and random comboing.
Primethius
Banned
Yea, I'm surprised that they have more then just a simple aggro mechanic. I noticed much of the same with another enemy when I missed my knife throw and it hit the floor to the enemies left. Never aggroed but just sorta investigated.
I have a question about the Dark Sword. I am doing a survivability build for my first playthrough, focusing on vigor and endurance and then investing leftover points into STR. I plant to go on to NG+ with this. I am wondering if I should focus on the regular or heavy version (latter having lower base damage but increased STR scaling). How much STR investment is needed to make the heavy version better than the regular version at equivalent weapon levels?
I want to say around 23-24 str, heavy starts being better. You can see what the attack rating is going to be when you go to infuse, and see if heavy will be better than raw at the moment, before you commit.
Iva Demilcol
Member
This happened to me too.
I also never found Siegward in the Cathedral of the Deep. Wonder if that was what made me unable to find Greirat too.
TemplaerDude
Member
One of my tricks with the walking mobs is just shooting a bolt nearby so they freeze, look over and then I can just plug 'em without having to lead 'em.
OniBarubary
Banned
Uuuuuuhhhhhh
I just reached the U
G
I'm 5 feet in and weirded the hell out because it's built
. Since this is, I assume, optional I'm about to see some deepest lore shit go down aren't I?
I just reached the U
ntended
raves.
exactly like the Cemetery of Ash
finalflame
Banned
generic_username
I switched to an alt account to ditch my embarrassing tag so I could be an embarrassing Naughty Dog fanboy in peace. Ask me anything!
I just finished the game. Why were people complaining about the final boss? I thought it was really well done. Lots of variations. Not the toughest in the world but still cool.
I thought he was amazing. Especially if you compare it to the other games' final boss fights.
FaintDeftone
Junior Member
Just stepped foot into the
. Oh man this area looks intimidating. Should I be scared?
The
boss was so pathetically easy. I killed it on my first try. I don't even remember getting hit once.
Catacombs of Carthus
The
Decons of the Deep
Holy shit the dead body that gives you the stretch out gesture is G
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cg2cYW7U4AAJ3vB.jpg:large
illigan.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cg2cYW7U4AAJ3vB.jpg:large
generic_username
I switched to an alt account to ditch my embarrassing tag so I could be an embarrassing Naughty Dog fanboy in peace. Ask me anything!
OniBarubary
Banned
Oh boy. My favorite type of boss. Infinite stamina overhead tracking boss.
Great.
Great.
bargeparty
Member
Siegward
got destroyed by Yhorm as I ran for the sword at the throne. 
Blue Hell - Thence which the Darkest of Souls reside
Clearly the sky version of archtrees.
Augemitbutter
Member
this is cool. i haven't even looked at the corpse.
i wonder how many years he's been dead.
There's another way you can go in
Crucifixion Woods
Mage enemies
Jellycrackers
Member
I'm a little annoyed with PVP balance. Yeah, I know, "git gud" and stuff. My problem is with hyper armor.
Giving big, slow weapons hyper armor instead of depending on poise from armor makes it seem like big weapons are absolutely the way to go in PVP. My problem is that basically any time I get near a big weapon user, they just have to start throwing out attacks and all I can do is roll and try really hard to get in an attack (straight sword for me) but it seems like no matter what, they always have time to get away. If I try to take advantage of the slow movements of the weapons and attack first, it always just results in a trade, taking over half my health. I just can't find any openings to actually get in there and do some damage. It feels like if they see my attack animation start, all they have to do is start theirs before mine finishes, and they're guaranteed to get a better deal out of the trade.
Now with DS2 I could use the Stone Ring and a quick weapon to get in my quick attacks during their slow animations and break poise - or if they were wearing big armor to compensate, their really short rolls allowed me to have time to close the distance and catch them at the end of their rolls.
With hyper armour and the 70% fat roll threshold, people can have decent damage resist, unbreakable hyperarmour, and still roll just as effectively as I can with my tiny sword. Also, I've never successfully landed a parry against an UGS. Is it like DS2 where you can't parry 2 handed UGS attacks?
Maybe I'm just missing something but does anyone else have this problem in PVP? I'd gladly take any tips for dealing with this - I'm sure there's just some tactic I'm forgetting about/overlooking.
Giving big, slow weapons hyper armor instead of depending on poise from armor makes it seem like big weapons are absolutely the way to go in PVP. My problem is that basically any time I get near a big weapon user, they just have to start throwing out attacks and all I can do is roll and try really hard to get in an attack (straight sword for me) but it seems like no matter what, they always have time to get away. If I try to take advantage of the slow movements of the weapons and attack first, it always just results in a trade, taking over half my health. I just can't find any openings to actually get in there and do some damage. It feels like if they see my attack animation start, all they have to do is start theirs before mine finishes, and they're guaranteed to get a better deal out of the trade.
Now with DS2 I could use the Stone Ring and a quick weapon to get in my quick attacks during their slow animations and break poise - or if they were wearing big armor to compensate, their really short rolls allowed me to have time to close the distance and catch them at the end of their rolls.
With hyper armour and the 70% fat roll threshold, people can have decent damage resist, unbreakable hyperarmour, and still roll just as effectively as I can with my tiny sword. Also, I've never successfully landed a parry against an UGS. Is it like DS2 where you can't parry 2 handed UGS attacks?
Maybe I'm just missing something but does anyone else have this problem in PVP? I'd gladly take any tips for dealing with this - I'm sure there's just some tactic I'm forgetting about/overlooking.
OniBarubary
Banned
Holy shit we Tekken air combo in here now
It would be better if there wasn't so much phantom range and delay in attacks. If PvP was as tight as PvE, it would be a lot easier to stand a chance. But as it stands, if you want to hold your own you have to have a weapon with good reach.
MrOogieBoogie
BioShock Infinite is like playing some homeless guy's vivid imagination
Anyone else think the collection of bosses in the second half of the game (starting with
) is SPECTACULAR? Like, it was just one amazing fight after another, each boss carving its place in Souls history as one of the series' most memorable. I'm really, REALLY impressed.
By the way, any of you manage to beat any bosses on your first try?
Only
for me.
Pontiff
By the way, any of you manage to beat any bosses on your first try?
Only
Abyss Watchers
Jellycrackers
Member
Yes, reach is also a problem...
Washing Pole - speed and moveset of a Katana, reach of a spear - the only disadvantage of it is seems to be the durability, which doesn't matter at all in PVP/Duels.
I really hope upcoming patches make adjustments for PVP.
Cannon Goose
Member
On one hand I like that it makes heavy weapons more viable in PvP, but on the other hand in a 2v1 scenario dealing with two large weapons is really tough for a lighter build. It's why on my Dex build I have a Sharp infused Astora Greatsword for when I need to secure that last hit with hyper armour.
As for parrying big weapons, it's not quite as cut and dry as it was in Dark Souls 2's PvP (where any large weapon being two-handed was unparryable, except for rolling attacks). I know that when it comes to UGSs you can parry the ones the swing vertically but not the ones that swing horizontally, but like DS2 you can parry the rolling attacks no matter what. It's still early days of PvP so there's a fair bit of trial and error involved when it comes to figuring out how to deal with certain weapons.
hydrophilic attack
Member
Thanks, I'll give it a try then. Only need 8 more of them. Doesn't seem too bad.
That's enough when fighting the kind of scrubby host party that thinks bow and arrow is the solution for this pretty much any tricky situation.
Aesthetically and conceptually I think T
are my favourite boss fight in this game, and perhaps one of the best in Souls period.
Plus the arena and the soundtrack!
I don't even know, there are just so many good bosses in this game.
win Princes
I don't know why but something about the visuals and the cinematics, coupled with the piggybacking of the second phase just made it so damn awesome. It's hard as nails as well.
I don't even know, there are just so many good bosses in this game.
Yeah, in terms of creative design, one of the best in the series.
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