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Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition |OT| Durante Does In 23 Minutes What From Can't
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HungOverOnATues
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Click in the right stick if you're using the 360 pad.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
What internal res would I need to set to imitate supersampling? I'm running at 1360x768 right now. I want it to look even better even if it runs the same with slowdown.
12.6 is running the Durante files really well.
It was pretty amusing seeing all the blood stains around the Asylum Demon when I first saw him. I hit him once and figured out that I probably can't fight him at this time. He owned me though when I was on that platform later one. He doesn't seem so hard, I was just very unprepared. Also I got hit by the boulder the first time. And two zombie dudes ganged up and killed me because I rushed around the corner.
This is going to be a long game.
iNvid02
Member
bought a copy fine using my card, then decided to help out ando because he was having trouble.
long story short my paypal account was limited
i was able to fix it pretty quickly but fuck gmg + paypal, never again
Buttonbasher
Member
My Wireless 360 pad isn't registering. Any ideas?
MASTER KEY. trust me.
yup. one of the worst updates was to get rid of that. hopefully someone mods that Victory Achieved shit out.
I'm thinking it's because I had my prior order canceled, trying this quickly with Guild Wars 2 works just fine as far as advancing to the next step goes.bought a copy fine using my card, then decided to help out ando because he was having trouble.
long story short my paypal account was limited
i was able to fix it pretty quickly but fuck gmg + paypal, never again
Man, maybe I will be waiting on that Steam sale anyway. :/
HungOverOnATues
Member
If you've ever synced a wii remote to your pc remove it from Devices and Printers in the control panel.
Buttonbasher
Member
Bless you.
vitaminwateryum
corporate swill
Misremembering the buttons!
How important are those items through the game. I plan to play it more than once, and I feel like getting the pendant, but I'm not sure. I'm certainly not gonna get something you can use only a few times...
Word to that. xD
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thepotatoman
Unconfirmed Member
Im new to the whole soul series, didn't die once until the taurus demon. Then i died a few times. Really annoying that forward b is jump and not roll. That is what killed me twice which is the worst, because you go flying off the cliff when he hits you in the air causing an insta death. The second time i died because i was trying to forward roll and not forward jump. Then i got really frustrated at the controls and ended up being caught in a doorway sandwiched in between two enemies because i apparently missed one behind me.
Other than that I say bosses seem hard, but normals seem easy unless you really try to hurry.
Other than that I say bosses seem hard, but normals seem easy unless you really try to hurry.
Vorg
Banned
Do people know what the pendant is for yet?
As far as I know you can only trade it with Snuggly for a Souvenir of Reprisal and nothing else.
I fixed the majority of my framerate problems! Saw a thread on the steam forums that suggested moving all of the AA and filtering sliders in catalyst panel up to the max, overwriting application settings, with v-sync disabled. Without these options pumped up, apparently, your GPU isn't being used at anywhere near its capable clock speeds. Oh, and I also have my resolution scaled from a glorious 3840x2160 -> 1080p using Durante's mod. Really glad that the solution to this problem involved making the game look as good as possible. Resting at bonfires slows down a bit and I noticed very minor fps drops - to upper 20s - but nothing like before. Runs better than the console version now, finally, and looks amazing.
Just some recommendations for beginners (highlight if you think you will need help caution, minor spoilers)
Pick pyromancer and master key. It saves you a few souls and is great for advanced play down the road. You can obtain nearly every other item somewhere in the game.
For your first few levels get strength 16 and dexterity 10 (12 if you want to use the short bow). This will come in handy early on if you want to wield a strong weapon called the Drake sword.
Pick up the heater shield from the merchant in undead berg. It is a great beginning shield until you need the advanced shields later on.
Save Humanity items. They double as extremely strong healing items.
Try to draw enemies out 1-2 at a time. Slow and steady wins the race in this game most of the time.
For your first few levels get strength 16 and dexterity 10 (12 if you want to use the short bow). This will come in handy early on if you want to wield a strong weapon called the Drake sword.
Pick up the heater shield from the merchant in undead berg. It is a great beginning shield until you need the advanced shields later on.
Save Humanity items. They double as extremely strong healing items.
Try to draw enemies out 1-2 at a time. Slow and steady wins the race in this game most of the time.
The truth is that the starting gifts are fairly inconsequential outside of the Master Key. You can get all of them in the game eventually.
The Master Key was originally even more important as a starting gift because there was no way to get it in-game, but I think they added a way to buy it from someone in a later patch. Even then, it's probably still the best thing to get if you're not picking the Thief class.
I think you can use the Black Firebomb to also more easily
beat the tutorial boss in the first encounter and get a weapon
I'm pretty sure that's its only function.
I think its like $80 but that's from memory
the most well balanced is the Warrior but if you want magic from the start, Pyro is also highly recommended for beginners. i didn't like the Pyro tho.
Felix Lighter
Member
I can't upgrade past 12.4 because of an HDMI Audio bug they introduced and haven't fixed. Ugh.
dragonlife
Member
This game doesn't mess around. Damn.
Felix Lighter
Member
I focus on melee but I get pyro stuff as an emergency backup when I need some range. I just reached the Bonfire above the first blacksmith.
Oh, cool, that's good to know. I kinda like the idea of not having access to a ton of places and seeing them for the first time in NG+, so I might just keep my pendant.
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/ar/en/pc/games/action/dark-souls-prepare-die-edition-na/
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
.4 more shots.
Last shots for me tonight....
it does
Yup, it's one of the best reasons to take it. Not only is the
Watchtower Havel
Mattakuevan
Member
Does playing the game offline seem to improve the framerate at all?
If you're on a Radeon card, try overwriting application settings with catalyst panel and setting all of the graphics options to the max, this made the framerate much better for me (posted on previous page)
Snapshot King
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So uh, how in the world do you use the game save manager for dark souls? Dark souls doesn't show up as an option. Also, how do you read the warning messages for the games? I can't seem to figure out how.
Game Save Manager probably hasn't been patched to support it. In Windows 7, your savegames are located in My Documents\NBGI\DarkSouls\<username>
Warning messages don't display if you're using the resolution fix. This will hopefully be corrected tomorrow.
IblisGinjo
Member
I believe game save manager's database is updated and filled by users themselves so when they release an database update it will be there.
Add the path manually.
Snapshot King
Member
Okay, found the Dark Souls save folder for Win7 anyway.
It's C:/Users/User/NBGI/DarkSouls/Gamertag (your gamertag) and the save is a .sl2 file.
Backing up just the file is fine, right? And is there any way to backup it up more than once a day?
It's C:/Users/User/NBGI/DarkSouls/Gamertag (your gamertag) and the save is a .sl2 file.
Backing up just the file is fine, right? And is there any way to backup it up more than once a day?
There is an offline mode? I can't seem to find it.