neoism
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yeah there was something on reddit but dun have a link... they know about it and are working on a fix....
nevermind lol i found it..
https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/comments/4hbbul/update_the_dev_team_is_currently_working_on_new/
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Dark Souls III |OT2| Welcome to NG+, Unkindled One
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yeah there was something on reddit but dun have a link... they know about it and are working on a fix....
nevermind lol i found it..
https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/comments/4hbbul/update_the_dev_team_is_currently_working_on_new/
Do you get summoned to any area in the game or just on the area you're currently in?
I started my new character and I've had blue sentinels the whole time and nothing.
Ridiculous to answer with "You can revert back to your old save" when the game auto saves and only keeps one save file, and doesn't support cloud saves.yeah there was something on reddit but dun have a link... they know about it and are working on a fix....
nevermind lol i found it..
https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/comments/4hbbul/update_the_dev_team_is_currently_working_on_new/
Relaxed Muscle
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Yeah, now imagine that thing before it was nerfed.
Are you saying that you aren't manually creating a backup save after several minutes of play? Copy&paste dude!!
Learn to use a PC!
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yeah there was something on reddit but dun have a link... they know about it and are working on a fix....
nevermind lol i found it..
https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/comments/4hbbul/update_the_dev_team_is_currently_working_on_new/
the hell with this answer. games saves get overwritten automatically unless people were backing them up earlier.
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
I've been getting summoned to various areas not just where I'm currently at. Oh also Embered/Unembered doesn't seem to matter either. Maybe I'm just getting lukcy.
Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
Yeah, he said the same thing through most of the game, but then suddenly after beating
Anor Londo
road of sacrifice
Farron's Keep
the blacksmith was talking about him
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
What is wrong with the bow combat? Simon's Bowblade was pretty different, sure, but bows have always been a support weapon in DS, not a main weapon. I think it works great, I like the bows, they are useful. Hell I won my last boss fight with my bow because
I had 1 HP left, from Tears of Denial cracking, and 0 estus, and was using the Chaos Blade... if I attacked I'd die xD so I finished off the boss with my bow haha
As for the arrows, doesn't Greirat sell heavy arrows pretty early on? Not a huge deal IMO.
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Deleted member 17706
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Did they make this game easier in the various patches? I beat it once on PS4 at the Japanese launch with the 1.01 (?) patch, but now I'm playing it on PC and feels a ton easier. Maybe I just got better after playing it once on PS4, then playing through Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin on PC before jumping into PC Dark Souls III, but I'm just breezing through it without dying much at all. I'm still only in the catacombs, but I haven't died once to the bosses, while in the PS4 version I got my ass handed to me at least a few times by all of them (except the Crystal Sage/witch boss).
I'm playing a very similar build as I did on PS4, but it feels like I'm just taking a ton less damage from everything. Maybe it's my imagination, and that 60 fps is just that much of big advantage over the comparatively choppy PS4 version.
One thing of note, I kind of hate how powerful the Fire Longsword is. It's damage output, speed, and versatile move set make it feel almost pointless to use anything else until the later parts of the game, especially considering how many enemies are weak to fire.
I'm playing a very similar build as I did on PS4, but it feels like I'm just taking a ton less damage from everything. Maybe it's my imagination, and that 60 fps is just that much of big advantage over the comparatively choppy PS4 version.
One thing of note, I kind of hate how powerful the Fire Longsword is. It's damage output, speed, and versatile move set make it feel almost pointless to use anything else until the later parts of the game, especially considering how many enemies are weak to fire.
I read that they actually made it harder than Japanese release. Maybe you got gud.
Red Liquorice
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I'm having such a tough time with the final boss. I'm at my worst in these 1v1 humanoid duels - I just can't find a time to safely attack or heal, I can get in one swing of this slow as fuck Claymore if I'm lucky, and he usually hyper-armours through it with his next attack and hits me at the end of my swing or I *just* roll through his that next attack, which means after 3 rolls, a sword swing and another roll I've no stamina left. This is like
all over again, I just can't find a window of opportunity big enough to get even one safe attack in.
I assume he can be parried in the second phase since
, but can he be parried in the first phase?
Can I also say how much I dislike bosses like this in any game, I think it's so lazy and obvious. Ever since Dural in VF I've intensely disliked this design idea.
Frustrated and venting!
Nameless King
I assume he can be parried in the second phase since
he's basically Gwyn
Can I also say how much I dislike bosses like this in any game, I think it's so lazy and obvious. Ever since Dural in VF I've intensely disliked this design idea.
Frustrated and venting!
Oh I agree man, but you perhaps dont recognize what I mean...the Morion gives you the same effect as red tearstone ring (i.e. iirc 20% attack up at less than 30% health) it stacks, you do the math...keep morion in the off hand instead of the grass shield WHILE using Anri's sword is likely the highest damage output per swing in the game (with other buffs like power within.)
I show the difference in damage at low level using the dark axe +1 with Knight ring, tearstone and morion blade at the end of this video. You can use the key in the description to skip around unwanted parts. The damage almost doubles from 207 to 387. The same effect will be available to boost Anri's sword, get my drift now?
Opus Angelorum
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Pretty sure I've mentioned this to you before but Gamesave manager is a godsend for PC users...it didnt have DS3 ready to go at launch but it does now.
j0hnny_385
Member
WTF is wrong with summoning in front of N.K.?
Constant Unable to summon...over and over again
What gives?
Constant Unable to summon...over and over again
What gives?
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Not to mention that Bowblade made irrelevant several bosses and levels in BB. Something similar would have been even more broken in DS3.
RespectThySole
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Way more people trying to summon than ones trying to help
phantoms are popular.
I just finished the Cathedral of the Deep on my first playthrough, what a brilliant level! Seriously one of my favorites in the series, and so is the Undead Settlement.
I'm in love with this game so far. Aldrich is one of the coolest characters in the franchise. CAN'T WAIT to meet him.
There's so much content in this game, so many equips to farm, so much to read and speculate about...
60 something hours into the game.
I'm in love with this game so far. Aldrich is one of the coolest characters in the franchise. CAN'T WAIT to meet him.
There's so much content in this game, so many equips to farm, so much to read and speculate about...
60 something hours into the game.
What? How? Just how is this possible?
I'm slow.
Nice.
Still a total bullshit solution for them to suggest though. On the off chance that something like game save manager deletes/corrupts your save (I know it works well), they would just say that it's an unsupported third party program.
Marty-esque
Member
I had trouble with the final boss but the humanoid bosses are the best in the game. Some of the early gimmick bosses are terrible.
Soak it in. I have nothing to do now until DLC and I'm sad.
I've been trying to soak things in and go slow too, I'm around 25 hours now and I think I only have 3-4 areas left. I haven't gone slow enough!
Then I read some posts a few pages back about people that managed to beat the game in <15 hours on their first run and then complain. There's tons of stuff to look at and read, those people did it to themselves. I read every item I get and explore every nook and cranny.
I can't wait until I finally finish the game and go have a gander at the lore/spoiler threads. I found a few areas and items lately that have made me have an epiphany kind of moment about the games story.
Yeah I wish I could be as slow.
My Souls 3 playtime consist on doing NG+ with my first character, without trying to speedrun it (don't you think its way easier than other games NG+?) and then log with my 2nd character to see if I'm lucky to get summoned as a Bluebro. 1 hour later I log off with 0 summons.
N° 2048
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annd done my first play through. Did the
ending
.
Took me 48 hours and finished at SL92
Honetly though the story is so confusing to me I don't really care, the gameplay is amazing that's why I play these games. Might hit up NG+ but if that Fallout 4 patch comes tomorrow I'll be busy with that.
Just wanna say thanks for everyone's help here! Might finish off the couple bosses I missed.
The End of Fire
without killing the Fire Keeper
Took me 48 hours and finished at SL92
Honetly though the story is so confusing to me I don't really care, the gameplay is amazing that's why I play these games. Might hit up NG+ but if that Fallout 4 patch comes tomorrow I'll be busy with that.
Just wanna say thanks for everyone's help here! Might finish off the couple bosses I missed.
That isn't how you kill them.
They have black, hollowed arms you need to fight to kill them.
Red Liquorice
Member
I mean, this is just a question of preference isn't it - I like the tree boss with certain points of attack, Wolnir, Deacons of the Deep - this is my kind of thing. Abyss Watchers was just Maria pt2 to me, I can take it or leave it. Gherman etc, all these kind of bosses are the least fun for me. It's just a matter of taste (yes, you might say I don't have any!!)
Maybe it's just because the humanoid bosses seem to be more relentless in their attack patterns and it grinds up against my playstyle, so until I learn their patterns I get very frustrated with them.
I can dig it. I thought I was going slow compared to some people's numbers in this thread - I'm at the end boss at 50 hours, but I think you win! Soak it in!
I know, I did that in my first playthrough.
Still, dunno why both stop responding when you down one of them. I never found the "abomination" for the left dragon, he just disappeared all on his own my original game.
Yep, yep! And I usually take longer than most people with any game, so I'm guessing we're probably playing similarly, I'm just slower for no actual reason.
And even going as carefully as possible, I still fucked up a few quests already, the depth in NPC quests and amount of them is, even as early into the game as I am, the best I've seen in the series. When it comes to NPC questlines, DS3 is already my favorite.
Overall I'm pretty sure I'll still prefer Bloodborne in the end, just because of its genre and the nature of its story, but Dark Souls III so far is better than I expected.
I'm finding the whole
Way of White storyline, and how Carim seems to be shaping and manipulating it with their typical shadiness
Is Thorolund even around anymore? And I wonder what happened to Lloyd after Carim pretty much convinced the world that he was a fraud.
Ever since the opening cinematic reveal, I'm in love with Aldrich, simply because
he's a fucking blob who became a Lord of Cinder!
hydrophilic attack
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As someone who has over 100 invasion wins, I decided to write up some tips for people struggling with invasions where you are going into 1v2 or 1v3 situations. So please enjoy hydrophilic attack's guide to gittin gud at invasions
The most important tip is to get them to chase you into a group of enemies. Almost all levels have bits with groups of pretty strong enemies that are really useful when fighting several other players at once. Once you get them to follow you there, running away will often not workc for them, because some of these enemies will chase them relentlessly. To get the host party to chase you you need to annoy them enough so that they don't just choose to wait you out instead. Spam the carvings over and over. Use insulting gestures. Shoot at them with arrows. Get in there, take a few hits and then run away to make them chase you for the kill. 90 % of the time it will work, but 10 % of the time you will be unlucky enough to invade a group of friends playing together. They can usually be a bit more patient, because they are probably on voice chat shooting the shit so waiting them out is difficult. That's ok. Next invasion will be easier.
Realize that most who need to summon help are scrubs and will make scrub mistakes. Specifically, it is very common for people to R1 spam with no regards to stamina, then try to back away with their shields raised. In these situations you only need one or two hits on their shields to break their guard.
Don't wait too long to get started. It's fun to invade in the early-to-mid game. People have less healing and haven't finalized their builds. This can get you some relatively easy kills.
Choose the right spot. It goes without saying that you should choose a level you know well. That makes it easier to figure out where the host is based on what enemies are dead. Furtho, you won't have to hesitate about where you need to lead the host party to get the upper hand. Also, make sure you don't invade too close to the boss. You don't want to choose a spot where there is a high probability that the host will reach the boss within a minute after you spawn.
Try to separate the host from their summons. Try to get one of them to chase you down a drop with enemies below. That way, the summon who followed you can't quickly get back to their friends. The host will have to choose between watching their friend die or dropping down in the pit with the enemies.
Use the environment to your advantage. I described in the previous point how to use drops to your advantage. Now I'll use the Catacombs as a case study for other ways to use the environment to your advantage. It's an invader's heaven, and just a funhouse full of little tricks you can play. I'll spoiler tag it in case someone hasn't gotten there yet.
Final tip: if you encounter a host without summons, or if they have summons but let you fight one on one, for the love of god, please don't be a dick and run off to heal behind enemies. You're never getting better odds than one on one, no heals, so please don't reward their generosity with being an asshole You are giving all invaders a bad name and in the long run will make host parties feel justified in engaging in preemptive dirty play. I mean, I don't mind some mutual dirty play, but if you don't like that style of play yourself, don't encourage it.
Final final tip: if you don't enjoy invading, don't force yourself to do it for the sake of some silly trophies. Life's too short.
The most important tip is to get them to chase you into a group of enemies. Almost all levels have bits with groups of pretty strong enemies that are really useful when fighting several other players at once. Once you get them to follow you there, running away will often not workc for them, because some of these enemies will chase them relentlessly. To get the host party to chase you you need to annoy them enough so that they don't just choose to wait you out instead. Spam the carvings over and over. Use insulting gestures. Shoot at them with arrows. Get in there, take a few hits and then run away to make them chase you for the kill. 90 % of the time it will work, but 10 % of the time you will be unlucky enough to invade a group of friends playing together. They can usually be a bit more patient, because they are probably on voice chat shooting the shit so waiting them out is difficult. That's ok. Next invasion will be easier.
Realize that most who need to summon help are scrubs and will make scrub mistakes. Specifically, it is very common for people to R1 spam with no regards to stamina, then try to back away with their shields raised. In these situations you only need one or two hits on their shields to break their guard.
Don't wait too long to get started. It's fun to invade in the early-to-mid game. People have less healing and haven't finalized their builds. This can get you some relatively easy kills.
Choose the right spot. It goes without saying that you should choose a level you know well. That makes it easier to figure out where the host is based on what enemies are dead. Furtho, you won't have to hesitate about where you need to lead the host party to get the upper hand. Also, make sure you don't invade too close to the boss. You don't want to choose a spot where there is a high probability that the host will reach the boss within a minute after you spawn.
Try to separate the host from their summons. Try to get one of them to chase you down a drop with enemies below. That way, the summon who followed you can't quickly get back to their friends. The host will have to choose between watching their friend die or dropping down in the pit with the enemies.
Use the environment to your advantage. I described in the previous point how to use drops to your advantage. Now I'll use the Catacombs as a case study for other ways to use the environment to your advantage. It's an invader's heaven, and just a funhouse full of little tricks you can play. I'll spoiler tag it in case someone hasn't gotten there yet.
You can trick them into getting hit by the rolling skeleton ball. Since you get estus back from defeating summons it may even be worth it to take some damage yourself if it can lure an enemy phantom low on health to their death. You can trip the pressure plates to deal a lot of damage to the host or summons. Since you deliberately activated it yourself, you know when to dodge. You can start breaking the pots that release the dark damage spells. They will exclusively target the host party. You take no damage. There is an area with a lot of these pots and some pressure plate trap. This is a great place to lure them to because many people don't realize how dangerous it is before it's too late. You can lure them to the bridge just before the boss. Stick around for awhile, then watch them get ganked by the army of skeletons that appears. If they try to escape across the bridge, cut it down.
Final tip: if you encounter a host without summons, or if they have summons but let you fight one on one, for the love of god, please don't be a dick and run off to heal behind enemies. You're never getting better odds than one on one, no heals, so please don't reward their generosity with being an asshole You are giving all invaders a bad name and in the long run will make host parties feel justified in engaging in preemptive dirty play. I mean, I don't mind some mutual dirty play, but if you don't like that style of play yourself, don't encourage it.
Final final tip: if you don't enjoy invading, don't force yourself to do it for the sake of some silly trophies. Life's too short.
I always liked how diverse the bosses were in DeS- in both designs and fighting style. I feel like in the recent games the humanoid bosses have been generally on the better end of the boss designs, but only because they kind have dropped the ball on the gimmick bosses.
Kalameet always stands out to me as a great non-human boss which doesn't rely on a gimmick. I think his fight has to be one of the best in the series.
That being said, I did like the
ancient wyvern
Yohrm
Siegward
Jamesways
Member
Holy shit! This is fantastic. As I said on a few pages back, I just started a second character to focus on a Dex/luck build.
This is s game changer for sure. Thanks!
Ah, well that just sounds like a glitch or something to me, I don't honestly know. You need to
drop down off the roof onto the second dragon's abomination.
I guess it's luck. I've also been invaded only once, I'm trying to stay embered, and no blue came to help and I tried to take as long as I could.
Red Liquorice
Member
I agree with this. I think I died 5 times on Ancient Wyvern, 3 of which were failed plunging attacks, but I liked that the "boss" wasn't really the "boss". Yorhm was kind of boring though, I pretty much tanked it whilst Siegward did all the work.
I think Wolnir is a great design and perhaps the best way that kind of boss in the series could've gone (Dragon God, Bed of Chaos).
Guys, im at crossroad on what to do ! im trying to get as many trophies as I can and there seems to be conflicting info which I cant get both !
I want to get the gesture from YELLOWFINGER HYSEL but it says I need to give pale tounge to rosaria . This will block out SIRIS quest line though if I talk to rosaria right? can I complete SIRIS quest first ? what do I do?!
I want to get the gesture from YELLOWFINGER HYSEL but it says I need to give pale tounge to rosaria . This will block out SIRIS quest line though if I talk to rosaria right? can I complete SIRIS quest first ? what do I do?!
Jamesways
Member
Agreed! One of the best boss fights on the souls universe IMO. I loved facing him in subsequent ng playrhroughs. I could not beat him on ng+++.
Arjen
Member
I'm afraid you have to pick one and do the other in NG+
Head of Vengarl
Banned
I'm at soul level 55, have been a Sunbro since as early as you can be, and yet I've never been summoned yet. I'm at I
now and still nothing. What gives?
My first run through this game took me about 54 hours. I did a lot of co-op and exploring
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rithyll
My first run through this game took me about 54 hours. I did a lot of co-op and exploring
and yet I still managed to completely miss Smouldering Lake and Archdragon peak
One per play through. Dem's the breaks. Just save one for NG+. They're pretty easy and short.
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