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Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition |OT| Durante Does In 23 Minutes What From Can't
- Thread starter indigo-cyclops
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Is it the building with
all the mobs and witch things on the ground floor?
This game, guys. This game. Let me just thank Durante like everyone else for the PC enhancements he's provided; he didn't have to do that, and it means a lot to me personally that he did.
First time playing a Souls game for me, and I'm up to the
now. What a dick. Summoned another player and got him down to less than half of his life, but then he decided to turn around and flatten me with his unblockable jump attack. Pffff. First enemy I've had trouble with so far, but I'm loving how involved they made every single fight.
First time playing a Souls game for me, and I'm up to the
Capra Demon
You're at the bonfire above the blacksmith, right? Go back upstairs to the area you came from and kill the crossbowman and the two swordsmen before going into the building they're guarding. If you find yourself against a black knight with a big-ass mace, you are going the right way.
The Anti-Monitor
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The place where you fought the boar? Don't go to the big closed gate, go to the passage that's on the right.
Lasthope106
Member
Thanks. I'm going to try tomorrow.
So that's what that thing is called.
You play Dark Souls?! You are like my perfect girl
Thanks for the hints. I'll conquer that sucker tomorrow.
It's actually blockable, I think 99% of physical attacks in the game are, sans some grab moves.
Usually it's just because you don't have enough endurance/high stability shield to tank the hit though so it goes through and looks unblockable.
The Anti-Monitor
Banned
You play Dark Souls?! You are like my perfect girl
Thanks for the hints. I'll conquer that sucker tomorrow.
Got the 1000/1000 and rather recently. Would've never played this without GAF so I'm glad to see this thread popping up.
In the room with the black knight, there should be a staircase going upward near the elevator on the opposite side from the entrance you came from.
Can't turn off the HUD from what I can tell.
Yeah that is one thing I like, but sometimes you'll be so awe-struck by the size or design of the enemy, you wont even try to block.
Good to know! I'll be heading elsewhere to grind up some endurance/stability for my shield.
Yeah, pretty much. If you have a physical shield that blocks 100% of physical attacks, those attacks will generally be blocked, but if they are getting through it means either 1) there is some additional form of attack type on it, i.e. magic, fire, lightning, or 2) the attack is so powerful relative to the shield's stability rating that it is reducing your entire stamina bar and then hitting your health.
And yeah Capra screws with a lot of people because he has this overhand smash that seems unblockable, though it's likely you just need a shield with high stability to block it. I roll out of that guy's way so I'm not sure if the move is fully unblockable or not, but it has that effect for a lot of shields at that point, regardless. I'm a "roll the hell out of the way" type of player as far as defense rather than trying to block stuff.
Technosteve
Banned
now i'm getting summoned infront of the golem, sure beats farming souls =D
Having a high stability shield is a nice thing but don't neglect the dodge-roll. It can get you out of some sticky situations. Sometimes enemies will come with consecutive attacks and you may block the first, but the second or third will get through and put a hurting on you.
Also, random tip for whoever hasn't noticed it: when you have your shield down, your stamina regenerates considerably faster in combat. Get used to keeping your shield down between attacks after you've gotten a handle on the enemy's attack patterns.
AcceptableGhost
Member
As long as you are able to get back to bonfires with your souls from defeating bosses there should never be a time when you need to grind in Dark Souls. Unless you are in a wrong area for your level the game is metered out that redoing content is unnecessary (Demon's Souls handled this better given the linear nature though).
Thanks!
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Just found new londo. Interesting place, pretty easy place to get souls. Character decided to commit suicide though into the drink
Those are Caped Knights. They are moderately tough, stronger than any Hollow enemies. They have a decent move set, the Rapier wielding ones are especially annoying.
There is a staircase down to the right of the boar.
Those slimes on the ceilings cost me so many souls.
Can you even shake them off your head? How?
So I just realized that there are dodge breakpoints, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22jsJ8D2WKw, but I'm playing a low STR character, pumping mostly END/VIT for my first play through.
I feel like I should be wearing a lighter armor that is good for melee, so decent armor and good poise, anyone can recommend me something like that? That would be fairly easy to get?
I'm in Anor Londo right now.
I feel like I should be wearing a lighter armor that is good for melee, so decent armor and good poise, anyone can recommend me something like that? That would be fairly easy to get?
I'm in Anor Londo right now.
I just mash every button on the controller. They fall off eventually. It must work because I've never died to them.
You're never really going to get a lot of poise wearing light armor. Ornstein's set and Elite Knight set are mid-weight armor that have some poise, the really high poise stuff is always going to be very heavy and clunky.
Yeah mash the shoulder buttons.
Consider it a random challenge. Next time try to get him to roll off a cliff, it kills you even if you have infinite HP. Either that or try to kick him off a cliff next time.
If you manage to kill a hacker, you usually get an insane number of souls as a reward because they tend to keep a huge number of souls on them at all times.
The amount of souls you get has nothing to do with how many souls they're carrying, it's based on their level.
https://sites.google.com/site/darksoulstats/dark-souls-calculators/mini-calcs
The Anti-Monitor
Banned
He'll eventually kill the Firekeeper of Firelink Shrine, forcing you to invade his world if you want to revive her.
Roll off a cliff? He invaded me inside a tower. Also all he has to do is bait one attack and I'm dead since he's HACKING and has no limits.
Not worth dying in this game over hacking. Maybe later on when the game isn't as popular and the hackers get bored.
There is a quest line involved so play it out. After you've completed that quest and gotten his armor as a result, there is no need to let him live in NG+ onwards.
I think so, yeah. It's
the building that's straight to your left when you take the shortcut elevator at the beginning of Oolacile Township down. There are three of the melee guys right inside the door and a witch enemy on a wooden balcony right above your head when you enter. The place I'm thinking of is up the stairs on the ground floor. Not the stairs you came down on when your first entered the area that are exposed to the main chamber, the stairs through a small doorway. If you keep ascending you'll eventually find a place with a collapsed floor and a single melee enemy. Facing the collapsed part of the floor you'll see a small plank still intact attached to the left wall. This is what you need to jump to. Once you make the jump you need to walk across a sort of treacherous section until you reach solid ground again, where there's a corpse with an item on it. I'm pretty sure this is the Black Flame spell. If it's not, it's the Dark Bead spell, and I've forgotten where the Black Flame is. If it's not there it might actually be in the room you fall into if you miss the jump, where there are a bunch of melee enemies and a corpse or two around the walls. If it's not there either then I've just plum forgotten.
Once you master this game, you have to take the ultimate challenge and beat the game with a new character that you never level up. The level 1 Pyro is the easiest for this challenge since you can level up the Pyro glove and do decent damage with that. The Wanderer is the toughest for the no-leveling challenge because his stats are so horrible at the start and he doesn't even start with armor.
Thanks for the advice, I'll check out the Ornstein set. I'm about to fight that boss right now.
EDIT: Oh wow that fight is tough lol
Completed the game, and overall I actually liked the expansion to the game. Granted, a lot of it was cancelled stuff found in various aspects on the disc of the console version, it's nice to see it realized and introduced in the game. In fact, it has me asking a question I never asked before:
are the Kingseekers the source of Dark? Originally I took the plot of the original game as Fire being for the age of Gods, and Dark being the age of Man, as it was the humanity of Man that was given the Dark Soul. This is further emphasized with the plot details of Kingseeker Kaathe, the optional Kingseeker in the game. But certain plot points in Oolacile have me to believe the Kingseekers released the Dark into the world, and it was they who cause the Four Kings and Artorias to be consumed by Dark. What makes this a little more confusing is Frampt. Seeing as he's a Kingseeker, why does he and only he want to have you relink the Fire? Is it a ruse to keep the cycle of the Undead curse around in the world as the Dark Soul likely comes from them? Either way, it seems the Kingseekers accomplish their goal by plauging the world with Dark in some form, be it pure Dark with no linked Fire, or linked Fire with the curse of the Undead abound in the world. Pretty interesting stuff I'd say.