cleveridea
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yeah thats what drove me crazy about that fight, it was very confusing
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Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition |OT| Durante Does In 23 Minutes What From Can't
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yeah thats what drove me crazy about that fight, it was very confusing
I summoned a guy to help me kill the gargoyles and it felt like cheatinghe basically one-shotted them by shooting lightning or something... are you not supposed to do this on your first playthrough?
It's entirely up to you how you want to approach the boss fights, but you would certainly learn a lot more about how a boss operates by doing it yourself then watching someone else obliterate them. That being said, having one other person sure makes it a lot easier to cut tails off.
Probably GMG 25% off with this code "GMG25-LABOR-DAYGO" valid only from 1100 UTC September 2nd to 1100 UTC September 4th.
Amazon might have a deal for it during Labor Day but I haven't seen it yet (Prepare to Die Edition; the PS360 versions are 39/38% off ~USD25).
it's no luck, it's just the online that sucks and you have to wait like 20 mins to get *maybe* a match.
TricksterLoki
Member
You mean other then durantes mod?Is anybody working on a high res texture mod?
Game would really shine with some of the n64 textures replaced, some of the textures are fine, some are appalling , love this game though.
bistromathics
facing a bright new dawn
There a list of all the new stuff in Prepare to Die edition of this game?
TricksterLoki
Member
They get a portion of how many souls it takes to get to your next soul level. So lets say you need 50000 souls to level, they get 10% (not sure on the true percentage) so they get 5000 souls from killing you.
Someone posted a list a few pages back.
Hmmm. I'm pretty sure I've killed invaders and during invasions myself and gotten hundreds of thousands of souls before.
HungOverOnATues
Member
I know that the online is busted, but damn, I've been sitting in the arena for ages waiting for a match along with someone else who I co-oped with so I know that I can connect with them.
TricksterLoki
Member
Try this site to help...
https://sites.google.com/site/darksoulstats/dark-souls-calculators/mini-calcs
Host killing invaders get more souls then invaders killing the host apparently
Zeouterlimits
Member
Holy smokes, I beat the freaky butterfly on my first go!
the_prime_mover
Member
Weird issue - I was playing this morning and everything was fine. Took a break for a few hours but didn't change any settings. No all of the controls are messed up. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the keyboard, but the face buttons, start, select and both R2 and L2 are switched up. R2 and L2 now rotate the camera and start and select are my L2 and R2 buttons. All of the face buttons have been inverted (x=b and a=y). I have no start or select functions on the controller.
Any ideas? I don't even no where to begin troubleshooting this issue.
Any ideas? I don't even no where to begin troubleshooting this issue.
bistromathics
facing a bright new dawn
When you switch covenants, do you lose any ranking you've established with the original covenant...like if you wanted to switch back?
yes you do
I feel like you're clearly meant to summon either another player or Solaire during the gargoyle fight. It's more or less the tutorial for summoning other players.
It does seem to make them a bit too easy through.
Can you elaborate?
You need to climb back up the way you came. Have fun with that. Unless you wanted to know how to get out of Blighttown too, there's a key near the shortcut exit there. You have to go up those damned water wheels however.
Ouch, if you can't warp then you'll have to climb back up. Unless you haven't rested at any bonfires in Ash Lake, then you can use a homeward bone.
AcceptableGhost
Member
Nah I don't feel like any of the bosses were designed with coop in mind. They were all very clearly designed around being fought with one player and they all basically become trivial in coop. All of the online features in the Souls game (notes, coop) make the game easier (other than the PVP invasion elements obviously, which is kind of like a counterbalance to the coop).
I don't think the NPC summons should exist in this game at all.
Edit: Or at the very least all of the NPC summons should be multi-step secrets.
Does Dexterity increase the spellcasting speed?
Also Strength. I took a look a the wiki and all the weapons but a ten, scale equally (or better) with Dexterity: does it means that if I'm not interested in those few strength-scaling weapons, I can just forget my Strength score and focus on improving Dexterity, or the former is used for other stuff and it is still important to keep it not too behind?
(I of course have a melee character).
Thanks
Also Strength. I took a look a the wiki and all the weapons but a ten, scale equally (or better) with Dexterity: does it means that if I'm not interested in those few strength-scaling weapons, I can just forget my Strength score and focus on improving Dexterity, or the former is used for other stuff and it is still important to keep it not too behind?
(I of course have a melee character).
Thanks
I went to Blighttown, entered the secret room leading to The Great Hollow, then descended all the way to Ash Lake. I'vemadeahugemistake.gif
Can you explain this? I don't know if I explored everything in Blighttown, I just killed the boss then went to Demon Ruins, killed a boss there too, then found a door I don't have the key yet went back and entered the secret room as explained above. Btw, I'm cursed :/ don't know what to do in this case
Fuu
play it with a skull latern for hardcore mode t.t
I sure wish I knew this back then. So. Much. Rage.
So I assume you don't have lord vessel? If you do then you have to two bonfires in ash lake from which to warp.
Have you faced the boss of blight town? If and if you haven't opened the shortcut to blight town then you have to go to depths to get to blight town once more.
And you will want to buy homeward bone or raise your faith to 18 faith to use (after you find it) Homeward miracle.
threetri333
Banned
Can you guys help me on this Prepare to Die SL 125 Dex Int Build?
http://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls/?c=3683564727112673
Dexterity does increase the casting speed of magic, pyromancy and miracles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHfPcu_B0nQ
Many matches are determined by milliseconds, like Michael Phelps 7th Gold Medal in the 100m Butterfly in Beijing 2008.
http://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls/?c=3683564727112673
Dexterity does increase the casting speed of magic, pyromancy and miracles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHfPcu_B0nQ
Many matches are determined by milliseconds, like Michael Phelps 7th Gold Medal in the 100m Butterfly in Beijing 2008.
Yeah I killed the boss. Haven't been in the depths yet, I have a feeling I'm playing this game wrong haha, first I enter the catacombs at SL20, now I'm SL50 and still don't have the thing to teleport, also I don't have any magic/miracles. Haven't upgraded any of my weapons. Need to read about that stuff but I'm afraid of spoilers
Grimm Fandango
Member
Damn Iron Golem threw me off his pedestal and I landed in an instant death area. Good thing my souls and humanity are down there so I can't get them
For me this game is all about gameplay and an underlying lore that begs to be researched online. Therefore, I started using the guides long before I even played the game. The only spoilers I cared for were boss' move sets and appearances. Everything else was a fair game.
I recommend visit this site for help: http://darksoulswiki.wikispaces.com/New+Player+Help
Have you rung both the bells yet? Given you've defeated the boss of blight town I assume you've at least rung that one. Ring the other one and it will open a place called Sen's fortress. You're supposed to finish Sen's Fortress and then go to Anor Londo where you'll gain access to Lord Vessel, the thing allows players to warp from almost all bonfires to certain other bonfires.
Damn Iron Golem threw me off his area and I landed in a fall death area. Good thing my souls and humanity are down there so I can't get them
Generally your blood stain be on the platform from where you fell. Look around, they will never put it in a place you can not reach.
Grimm Fandango
Member
Nope it's gone forever. I think the problem was I didn't die exactly when I hit the ground but it took like 5 seconds.
No biggie though, it was only like 5k souls and 2 humanity. Still sucks I could never possibly reach it.
Aw man that's terrible. Talk about shitty luck.
jim-jam bongs
Member
despite not being able to post in this thread I have been enjoying it a lot, it's served as a nice companion to my play.
to get it out of the way, yes this game is incredible. the world design is constantly surprising and delighting, and the systems are insanely deep and well implemented. before playing the game I had no idea that itemisation was so important and comprehensive. it's refreshing to be able to build a character any way you want, but the wide range of stats alone is ridiculously welcome in this blizzard-influenced era of HP > MP > DPS cookie-cutter classes.
so far I haven't taken any characters past anor londo, but that's just because I've been having a lot of fun with exploring and different builds. although I've used a wiki a little when I've been stuck for ages, I've kept it down to a bare minimum and tried to intuit my way through a lot of it which has been extremely satisfying. that being said, I do think some aspects of upgrading are pretty poorly explained. the game could do with an NPC dialogue log too.
my main build is a dexterity pyromancer at the moment, though more ninja than pyro. I was surprised to read all the problems people were having with back-stabbing (or butt-stabbing as I like to call it); my fire-ninja is lethal with a bandit knife +10, if you have decent speed it's almost criminally easy to stab butts.
to get it out of the way, yes this game is incredible. the world design is constantly surprising and delighting, and the systems are insanely deep and well implemented. before playing the game I had no idea that itemisation was so important and comprehensive. it's refreshing to be able to build a character any way you want, but the wide range of stats alone is ridiculously welcome in this blizzard-influenced era of HP > MP > DPS cookie-cutter classes.
so far I haven't taken any characters past anor londo, but that's just because I've been having a lot of fun with exploring and different builds. although I've used a wiki a little when I've been stuck for ages, I've kept it down to a bare minimum and tried to intuit my way through a lot of it which has been extremely satisfying. that being said, I do think some aspects of upgrading are pretty poorly explained. the game could do with an NPC dialogue log too.
my main build is a dexterity pyromancer at the moment, though more ninja than pyro. I was surprised to read all the problems people were having with back-stabbing (or butt-stabbing as I like to call it); my fire-ninja is lethal with a bandit knife +10, if you have decent speed it's almost criminally easy to stab butts.
InternHertz
Member
I'll add some info on the answer you got earlier.
If you quit a covenant, you get a rank penalty, and the number of items you gave to that covenant to level your rank is halved.
Thus if you quit covenant X at rank 2 with 30 items given to the covenant master, once you rejoin you'll be rank 1 and it's as if you gave 15 items, so you'll need 15 more to get rank 2 again.
the_prime_mover
Member
Climbing back up the Great Hollow is actually very easy and will leave you wondering why you had such difficulty on the way down. You will have to face off against some Basilisk, but that shouldn't be a problem at this point.
Busta SMurk
Member
I just killed that stupid, annoying red dragon on the bridge, legit, no arrows, no poison, no glitches, just a greatsword and some patience. Took a bit of practise to get his routines down, but I finally got it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bc2NqCodmE&list=UUxB82X1liROOZLBoqEFpRrA&index=2&feature=plcp
The first 30 seconds is just for kicks, XD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bc2NqCodmE&list=UUxB82X1liROOZLBoqEFpRrA&index=2&feature=plcp
The first 30 seconds is just for kicks, XD.
The new areas become available late in the game,
after placing the Lordvessel.
the Duke's Archive to get the item to enter the new area and to have killed the hydra in Darkroot Basin and saved Dusk.
Baraka in the White House
2-Terms of Kombat
YOU ARE BEING SUMMONED.
Anyone else get the pee shivers whenever this pops up?
Anyone else get the pee shivers whenever this pops up?
Tesseract
Banned
[Mod] Mouse camera control fix = awesome. can finally unplug my ps3 controller and enjoy kb/m control.
Well if you look at it its blind. Then when it slams down it searches for you with its nose, then charges.
It's neat that it makes sense, but the fight was still too simple.
Busta SMurk
Member
Leave the Channler up there on the balcony for fun next time. He will buff the dragon's ATK and shoot magic missile at you.
He's similar in concept to Old Hero from Demon's Souls.