/dsg/ - Demon's and Dark Souls General

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>>164208920

Dual wielding =/= Powerstancing
DS2 gives you access to the full moveset of the offhand weapon.

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>>164208920

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>>164209003
>vicar
>>pyros
>>>>>>>>>dark pyros

>>164209281
stop reposting your autistic cringe shit thanks

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>>164209691

>>164210065
He's a DaS2fag, he can't help it

>try a new weapon
>its boring/shit
>revert to greatswords/ugs
it keeps happening

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>>164209016
I experienced that same feeling 10 years ago with Armored Core

I see way too much of Dark Soul's experience just being a rehash of armored core to really get very "woah" about it.

All the contemplation, light vs dark vs freedom, player agency, armor/weapon customization, death punishments, unified currency, faceless protagonists, depressing NPCs, giant oppressive bosses, are all things I had seen before in their other games and often done better by the time I played dark souls, so the series never really felt eye opening or all that familiar to me. it actually felt like a more casual, simplified but clunky, slow paced silly rpg by comparison

But what I do I love dark souls for is the open (ish) world, the very clever and well integrated pvp, the atmosphere, the level design, and the satisfying melee combat, all of which armored core never had, despite doing everything else equal/better, in my opinion.

>>164210447
They need to stop making armor with twiggy limbs that won't change no matter what your character physique is

>>164209257
let's not forget quick attacks either, one of the few, truly useful techs the game has.

DS2 power stance but with weapon arts mapped to the item button, and the ability to charge your R2/L2s would be godly.

wait if the key to the sinner fires isn't in the luna in sotfs
what's the point of bell gargoyles?

>>164210924
>what's the point of bell gargoyles?
There's none.
That's why bell towers are dead as fuck.

>>164210738
>can't estus while powerstancing

>>164210924
Bell keeper covenant, nothing more.

>>164208147
I'm not sure about some of the other weapons but Crow Quills even has a custom kick when two-handed.

>>164210924
optional like always

>>164210986
I was thinking closer to like the dragon head stone attack.

>dark souls is finally getting complex enough that "what if" control schemes are actually difficult to implement.

Though the best way to do it would be to map the weapon art to R1+L1.

>>164211019
The point wasn't about custom/unique movesets, but having more available moves to use at the same time

>>164210976
What the fuck, that's absolutely atrocious level design
The vanilla experience worked amazingly since you got cool bonus content and an easier bastille boss if you braved through a challenging optional PvP area. There was incentive to Bellbro since it allowed you to get chunks extremely early in the game, potentially going up to +9 or +10 before finishing the area.

Both parties had reasons for being there and it was a constant challenge of fighting off a bellbro to retry the boss that added a lot of extra time and fun to that level

Why the FUCK did they change it?
Between the petrified statues everywhere, this fucking bullshit and the Heide Knights in Heide's tower of flame, I'm starting to get convinced that SotFS is worse than the original

>when you get summoned by the same guy twice after killing him the first time and he switches from an UGS to a washing pole
>still parry him into an insta kill

I swear these shitters never learn

>>164211219
What do you mean? Dual wielded weapons still have other attacks

If you mean movesets then they usually have a moveset for R attacks and another unique moveset for L attacks

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Happy New Year /dsg/

Best covenants in the series
1. Bellbros
2. Gravelords
3. Aldia's fuccbois

>>164211661
oi where the fuck is patches?

>>164212012
1. Boob Guard
2. Mad mound maker
3. Forestfag

>>164211661
Happy new year, aussie

>>164211661
Reimu a best

>>164213213
You know it was always like that right?

>>164213213
>Souls game with a Diablo perspective

>>164212012
>Aldia's fuccbois
who? dragon cov?

>>164213213
wew

>>164213213
and your point is?

>>164211086
>R1+L1
Better yet R1+R2/L1+L2.
Offhand weapons need love.

wtf I hate ds3 now!?

>>164213213
>end of 2016
>still playing tf

>>164211219
The Rakuyo in BB has good ideas on this front. The L2 button is used as a double weapon attack when transformed, and the attack you get is different depending on what you link into it.

R1>L2 = Powerstance swords style double swing
R2>L2 = Powerstance Rapier style double stab
L2 alone = Warped sword L2 spin

>>164214365
>The Rakuyo in BB has good ideas on this front
Shame that lack of true combos completely killed it.

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Playing DS3 for the second time, this time as a mage. Damn, these guys feel like wet sheets of paper.

>>164214648
It's okay, I can still spam l1

Reminder to always kill the fair lady, do not allow the greedy grey spider sow to feast on humanity

>>164215773
Delete this

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>>164215773

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>Get halfway through Blighttown
>Realize I forgot the rusted iron ring

>>164216662
sup, time traveler

What's the best boss to get Sunbro Medals on in DSII? Just got the covenant and I'm doing a Miracles run.

>>164217430
I've always got a lot of summons for Smelter or Fume

>>164217430
What's your SM and do you have the agape ring?

If not then you ought to make sure you get it.

>>164217085
meh, it's an extra 2 minutes of walking and 1 estus at most
>>164215773
>not wanting the frail slut to suck on your big dark soul

>>164217610
I have the Agape ring and I'm just shy of 500k SM

>>164217715
Then I'm with the first dude, try smelter. You might be able to get picked up at the ruin sentinels as well, lots of people do that late.

>>164217819
Fuck me, I'd have to lose so many souls getting through Earthen peak without Agape.

I'll try Ruin Sentinels

>>164214648
>true combos in BB

There's like two in the game and they're both on slow ass ultras

You just spam r1 anyway and superior PS4 netcode people to death in a second

>>164217957
I wouldn't really worry about the souls in Earthen Peak, you're at the point where SM tiers are pretty big.

>>164208920

I don't get the vicar thing, I mean you're just crusaders that feel like naming yourself something else to be special snowflakes even though you do literally the exact same thing, lightning and all.

I think I'm gonna finally buy Dark Souls 2 during the steam sale, is the online still decently active these days?

How does /dsg/ feel about savescumming with divine blessings and seigbraus? You cool with it for invasions or do you just lump it in with stuff like the ember heal glitch?

>>164218941
The online works, so it's more active than DaS1
Invaders will be rare but there'll always be people to instantly invade

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I have a few questions regarding DS3 mechanics.

1. Does the hornet ring still increase headshot damage?
2. Does swinging your weapon with insufficient stamina still slow down the attack?
3. How does stunlocking in PvP work? Is it just always 2 hits, no matter what? What if a second person hits the same person you're hitting? Is it still just 2 hits?

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>>164218941
Vanilla is kinda dead, SotFS is still alive and kicking.

>>164219036
I just accepted that people will be faggots one way or another. What one player thinks is okay, the other won't.
Just do what you feel is right and if someone isn't playing by your pretend rules, BC or entering boss fog is there

>>164219128
Well it's a good thing SotFS costs the same as vanilla right now.

>>164219068
Thanks, sounds good to me.

>>164218857
in case this isn't bait.
1) vicars are the OG. obobobo's crusaders came about a week after
2) vicars are specifically 170 to only catch bloodshades who were 140. crusaders just ganked anyone
and 3) the name vicar is much less common than crusader, therefore has less chances of affecting someone who wants to use the name but doesn't want to associate himself with the group

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>>164219036
It's cancer
Everyone doing it on PS4 doesn't make it okay and it just hammers in how shit everything is, including the community

>>164219114
>1. Does the hornet ring still increase headshot damage?
If you're talking DaS1 it never did, what determined headshot damage was what headgear material your opponent was wearing and counter hits / instability
>2. Does swinging your weapon with insufficient stamina still slow down the attack?
No, good DaS2 mechanics didn't make it in
>3. How does stunlocking in PvP work?
R2s don't combo. Only the first r1 in a combo will combo - if you miss a first r1 and hit a second, they'll be able to immediately roll away before your third
A few weapon arts combo either from an r1 or into an r1.

>>164219204
That's how I already act but I just wanted to ask the general opinion on it. I mean I figured people would cry about it anyways but maybe they wouldn't and I was wrong, idk. I mean I already ember heal because fuck passive ganking faggots, if I can get away from 3 or 4 guys chasing me or if they refuse to leave the bonfire I deserve a full heal imo, but I've been considering incorporating DB's and SB's into my play now too since I have them but generally never use them.

>crow talons
>weapon skill completely locks whoever it hits into the entire 1200 dmg combo
>stunned so long after the combo hits, you can finish with one r1

why is nobody else using this? so much fun

>>164219036
don't care at all
I have yet to see someone using one of those against me or with me in invasions on PC.
I think my opinion would change if everyone would start tryharding though.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvrXNzjf5Lc&t=1s

>>164219758
>using glitches and pretending to be right

>>164219772
Maybe because it has a long windup and anyone with a brain will stay away? Talons are just worse version of 2kat if you want to one shot people.

>>164220350
duelfags not allowed to reply

TL;DR: I've really tried to find up to date methods for save file editors and things like Cheat Engine, but I haven't been able to find anything. I'd appreciate any help figure out what to use.

I did my first play though of DS:PtDE recently. I had put off almost all of the optional areas while working my way towards Gwyn, but I wanted to do them before starting NG+. So I did some searching on the internet, and everything I read said I would be able to choose when to start NG+ after defeating Gwyn. It turns out I got trolled fucking hard. I'd like to somehow effectively revert my save to right before fighting Gwyn so I can quickly but fairly go and do all the side content. I've looked in to save editors and things like Cheat Engine, but nothing seems up to date. I've check the pastebin from the OP, but everything in there seems out of date too. I'd appreciate any help with this.

>>164220794
Retards thinking pressing L2 on gamepad is not a thing pls go.

>>164220794
It has a loud sound, meaning you can't hide to hit it.
It's not even a case of, it's good when you get a small distraction like vestiges, 2kat or Morne's, it's downright bad and you'll more often than not get surrounded by the people you aren't stunlocking if you did hit it. A lot of weapons can HA trade with it too

PLEASE
HELP ME

>>164221538
Not sure if memeing or actually needs help.

IM SO FUCKING TIRED OF THIS BOSS SOMEONE ON PC PLEASE COME HELP ME KILL THE FUCKING SLUT SO I CAN HABB MY FAITH WHIP

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badshade revenge arc when?

>>164219991
Depends how cancerous the gank I'm fighting at the time by myself is. I mean it's a whole process to heal with embers in invasions, if you've got 3 guys on your ass you literally can't do it, you need enough space to go through the motions without getting interrupted.

Call me when From actually gets around to fixing the situation with pro gank squads and I'll reconsider my position on using literally anything that's available in the game to my advantage in invasions.

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>>164221538
UUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHH

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>>164221702

>>164221962
>literally just pushing R1 until out of stamina with a poise stacked greatsword

I think you're the bad one, friendo.

>>164222215

Isn't that before the poise patch? Poise stacking wasn't nearly as good then and you could do fine with just light armour.

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>Going back to DaS1 after DaS3
Fuck me, it's like an entirely different beast
It feels like almost every fucking action has input delay, and the recovery on everything feels so long. How the fuck did I used to be good at this? The Gargoyles are kicking my ass really fucking hard. Surely I should be doing more than ~14 damage a hit on them

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>>164222215
I simply outplayed him

>>164222043
If you can claim heal glitching is okay sometimes, that's like claiming firestorm was okay sometimes.

You can't simply say a glitch is okay in these conditions, because they were faggots first, since this is completely subjective and we're all relying on everyone's goodwill to not have a game full of bloodlusted weapons.You are part of the problem and deserve to only ever find organised ganks.

>>164222336
>Surely I should be doing more than ~14 damage a hit on them
Upgrade your weapon lmao

>>164222336

Play at 60 fps for less input lag.

>>164222336
reload save until you get bkh

>>164222336
Upgrade your weapon, you dingus.

>>164222321
>Isn't that before the poise patch?

Is there a date on the webm somewhere that I'm not seeing? Besides, even before the poise patch Hollowslayer GS was meta and the point still stands that the guy literally just r1'd his whole stamina bar. I'll at least grant you that anyone that willingly runs straight into the meat grinder is retarded though, but anyone can cherrypick webms of them beating retards who literally just walk into R1 spam like please rape my face please thank you.

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>>164222336
Also I can come coop them for you if you want to and I have a character in the range, what SL you are?

>>164222639
>Is there a date on the webm somewhere that I'm not seeing?

Bloodshade Week.

>>164222321
Pre poise patch hollowslayer (and drakeblood, but that one is bad) was the only GS to make good use of poise.

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>>164222437

Try actually outplaying people some time, it's more interesting that way.

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>>164222437
>not unziping yhorm's

>>164222336
>having problems with anything in ds1 after 3
are you playing with some shitty ultra or something

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>>164222796
Nice try kid. Try rollcatching one of peeve's avengers some time instead of random PvE players... it's more interesting that way...

>get hornet yhorms riposted because I was doing R1-R1-R2 with straight sword
>survive with a sliver of HP
>roll away and Rejoice!
>opponent collapses
>unzip priest talisman
>immediately take opportunity to cast great heal
>9/10ths of my health again
>win

feels good

>>164222504
>doing multiple inputs that requires 10-15 seconds uninterrupted with enough FP left just to essentially get the effect of a divine blessing is the same as literally just running through a level and immediately killing everyone

I don't think they're the same at all, but okay.

>>164222336
DaS1 is better because it feels more weighty desu

Also are you sure you have the stats to wield your weapon? i don't think any class starts off doing 14 damage to gargoyles, even at base level

Probably beating a dead horse, but I'm playing DS2 for the first time after beating DS1, and I'm shocked. "B-team" memes aside, how does anyone think things like

>Soul memory
>Having to sit through several loading screens and delayed animations to level up instead of just going to any bonfire
>Fucking up how stats work by making it so every single character has to put a bunch of points into adapt or attunement for i-frames to actually work (especially since they made shields even worse) and splitting the DS1 endurance stat into two
>The new melee combat that feels super unsatisfying because every single swing has a noticeable delay between swings and your hits have huge pushback so you can shove enemies out of your combo
>If you run out of stamina when sprinting you have to wait for your stamina to completely recover before you can sprint again so instead you just sprint till you have 1% left

These effect basically every part of the core gameplay and I can't think of a single justification for them beause they're all worse than eqiuvilent mechanics in the first game. It''s like DMC2 where instead of just being a lazy repeat-but-worse sequel they got actual maniacs to make the game who have backwards brains that think wasting time and autistic build planning by reading a wiki are good things.

>>164223005

Congrats on beating a meta level fatroller I guess? That webm isn't impressive at all. Besides I play on PC and aldrich is CE central. Pretty sure the bloodshades aren't even a thing anymore.

>>164220812
Pretty sure that's not possible. Just play through the game again, knowing is more than half the battle in ds1

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pcfc?

>>164221702
If you can't tell, it's usually meming

>>164223291
Exactly. The webms are horrible.

The first week or two was full of these people. fatrolling, running into greatswords, falling for parry baits multiple times in a row. All in the name of their e-celeb overlord. It was great fun. Hence badshades.

How do I get more spell uses in DSII?
This whole "3 casts of Lightning Spear and Greater Lightning Spear" is shit

>>164223160
>Hey guys, these things that everyone always says are bad about Dark Souls 2 are bad!

Lucifer-tier attention seeking right here.

>>164223686
If I just wanted to attention whore, you just gave me what I wanted.

Is fighting the pursuer a dozen times and being blocked by stone statues every 10 minutes a common complaint too? Because those are also retarded.

>>164223778
>you just gave me what I wanted

That's my SOP for whores of most varieties.

>>164223160
>>Soul memory
One of the biggest flaws, yep.
>>Having to sit through several loading screens and delayed animations to level up instead of just going to any bonfire
You haven't played any other Souls game, I guess. DS1 is the only one that lets you level at every bonfire.
>>Fucking up how stats work by making it so every single character has to put a bunch of points into adapt or attunement for i-frames to actually work (especially since they made shields even worse) and splitting the DS1 endurance stat into two
Just like you needed low equip load in DS1 to get more iframes, and you either had to level up endurance or wear less defensive armor. Just like endurance increases stamina, adaptability speeds item animations and give you extra poise.
Also shields are perfectly fine, I recommended my casual friend using them and it really helped him
>>The new melee combat that feels super unsatisfying because every single swing has a noticeable delay between swings and your hits have huge pushback so you can shove enemies out of your combo
Yes, combat is slower paced, and requires more strict stamina management. I can understand that not everyone likes that.
>If you run out of stamina when sprinting you have to wait for your stamina to completely recover before you can sprint again so instead you just sprint till you have 1% left
This happens in DS3 too.

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>>164210193

>>164213213
This is one of those things where you have to ask "Why would they need to make it any more elaborate?"

>>164223632

Most people who play the game are bad, regardless of level. Even just recently I watched a random chinese streamer who was invading at SL200 in crux woods with a fucking dark sword and full gundyrs and literally going on losing streaks in invasions. Even at that level he still R1 spammed into parries and never learned for some reason.

That's why invasions are good because fighting multiple opponents at the same time, often with overleveled downscaled faggots with the shit-tier downscaling system (downscales AR and life to some degree but literally everything else is unaffected, thanks miyazaki), tends to balance out how bad most players are.

I want to do a Hoplite build for DS1. What helmet would fit that look the best? Silver Knight?

>>164222796
>maces have a 3 hit r1r1r1 combo now

what the fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck?

>>164224402
Faraam is cool

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>>164223524
pd included?

>>164223109
You don't get the point anon. Either all glitches are fine or none are, because there are groups of gankers there who'll say it's okay to ember heal when an invader doesn't want to fight them.
Everyone has their own self made rules about what is and isn't okay. And as far as using intended mechanics, those are always okay, but as soon as you step into glitch/CE territory, things clearly not meant to be in game, it gets foggy and tolerating any means you have absolutely no right to complain about any other shady thing being abused against you and that you are one of the major things driving these games to death, not gankers, not twinks, not competitivefags, but people who abuse the flawed system of these games.

>>164223885
cute!

>>164224402

Giant's.

how much stability do you get for 2Hing your shield?

>>164224517

bf !

>>164224510
fug, didn't see you meant ds1.
But >>164224559 is right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4yLoOmhceo

>>164224510
>ds1
>faraam
?

>>164219558
thanks friend

but also fuck you that webm scared me

>>164219558
happy gundyr
sad gundyr

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>>164224152
Day0 badshades were special man. I don't know what to tell you.

I invade at all SLs but I don't really record much. I mostly enjoy spying and shooting great arrows.

>30 stability
The darkhand isn't meant for blocking is it? Or maybe only spells? Also, why is the WA so slow and doesn't have hyperarmor/more speed? It also doesn't help that you can easily miss your opponent and only do a tiny bit of damage and not got the lifedrain.

>>164224520
No see, I do get the point. And the point is that the system is already broken, and honestly if a gank wants to use glitches against me there's really nothing stopping them at this point, whether I use them or not. Even with all glitches aside, pro gank squads are still bullshit if you have summoner class hosts who are actually good and know how to abuse host advantages to the absolute maximum by literally just rolling away forever while hiding behind a shield and resummoning their phantoms over and over forever with seed and 15 estus.

So idk. On the one hand I agree with you and honestly like 99% of the time I don't need to use any glitches whatsoever. Something like the heal glitch allows me to fight a portion of that 1% though that I would otherwise have to just crystal out of every time, and I enjoy fucking those assholes up enough to deem it worth using in those rare cases instead of essentially just letting them get away with it, punish their abuse with my own abuse.

Luckily it's an incredibly small portion of the community that's probably shrinking with people finding it boring to just sit around and easily delete invaders all day, but it does happen. Maybe you're right though and I should just ignore them and leave instead of trying to fight back, it's hard to say. Main point I've been making is that if the host is abusing the system I think it's okay for the invader to abuse the system a bit too just to even the odds. Not like I'm running away from a solo host and ember healing a million times or some shit.

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>>164225004
>that smooth framerate

>>164224520
Stop talking to 36, he's never even played the other games.
https://boards.fireden.net/vg/thread/162927050/#162945293

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>>164225004

True. I don't use obscuring ring and greatbows that often but the few times I have I've enjoyed a lot, I should probably do it more often in all honesty. Even if you don't kill people it's fun to knock someone on their ass for 300 or so damage just to give them a rude awakening.

>>164222506
>>164222636
I'm not keen to upgrade my weapon right away because I'm just using a long sword at the moment but I want a Balder sword because I'm going for a Balder cosplay, so I want to upgrade that when I get it (not having much luck with farming at the moment). Plus, I thought the tiny amount of damage I'd squeeze out of getting to +2 at Andre wouldn't make too much of a difference.

>>164222580
Maybe my FPS isn't unlocked. I Better check.

>>164222831
Na, just a long sword. I always felt that DaS3 was easier.

>>164223126
Definitely more weighty. And yeah, I have the stats for the weapon.

>>164222672
About 16? I might summon if I get desperate but most of the times I've beaten Gargoyles have been with Solaire, and being unable to kill the first proper boss without help makes me feel shitty.

>>164223864
>DS1 is the only one that lets you level at every bonfire.
I actually knew demon souls did this, but I assumed that for DS2 they wouldn't go backwards in time with the mechanics and make it take even longer because you have to go out of your way to warp back and the new level up girl takes a while to get off her ass.

Is there any justifiyable reason to not keep bonfire level ups when they're aping so many other things from the first game, right down to sound ques?

>stuff about DS1 iframes
the difference is that pumping endurance if you wanted armor + iframes was a CHOICE while in ds2 every single character needs to level up their agility to be on par with DS1 characters. Instead of a choice it's a payment.

Also, shields are "fine" but you can't get a 100% block heater shield 10 minutes into the game.

>(needing to wait if you use up all your stamina when running) happens in DS3 too.
Yeah but, why? Literally what reason is there for this change, especially since you can just stop a second early and have it work the exact same as DS1 running

>>164225439
Running your stamina out caused a delay in DaS1 too, I don't know what you're on about, it's been a speedrunning hot tip since forever.

What level are the faggot twinks in dark souls 3 and where do they like to invade? Going to make sure I'm non-embered for those areas

What is the worst bonfire run of the series?

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What the FUCK?

Why the fuck did they all attack me all of the sudden?
Ive invaded this area before and theyve never been agro, even if i hit them.

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Playing DS1 again after a long time of not playing it and after having played DS3 is so weird. The PvE, I mean. This is disregarding backstab fishing and parry fishing cause I hardly ever do it cause it trivializes many enemies.

In DS3 the PvE is mostly
>r1 to stunlock enemies
for normal ones or
>roll a fuckton because enemies all do wide sweeping hits that will always hit you due to good tracking, and hit them during obvious downtimes
for big, hard to stun ones.

While in DS1 it's also like
>r1 to stunlock enemies
for normal ones but when fighting big unstunnable fuckers it's more like
>know the enemies attack and wether you need to roll it and punish them if they don't hit you

Honestly, compare fighting the barbarians with the poison clubs in blighttown to fighting evangelists in DS3. In DS3 you just roll no matter what because every attack is just a wide ass sweep with good tracking, while in DS1 you could figure out which attacks you can sidestep/outspace and punish and which attacks you had to roll for.

I know neither are very hard enemies to fight, but I'm just making the comparison here because they seem to represent the games respective design philosophy pretty well.

Also, I'm not saying it is like this, but it certainly feels that way: Are DS3 recovery frames on attacks fucking non-existant? It feels to me like most weapons in DS3 will let you roll out IMMEDIATELY after completing them, while in DS1 you actually had to commit to an attack that you couldn't just abandon that quickly. I enjoy that punishing feeling immensely.

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>>164225183
playing bloodborne is a pain. pc spoiled me.

>>164225289
yeah for me it's more rewarding to mess with people, but sometimes I think it's fun to invade the meta gankfests at pontiff. it's so rewarding to gesture with a fellow red or two.

>>164225362
You get like a million upgrade stones in DS1, so you can have a +5 easy. Just buy shit off of Andre.

>>164225626
I wish dragon form in DSIII made you look as buff as these guys look big in their scales/armor.

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>>164225665

Oh yeah, definitely. I usually come prepared to beat ganks all by myself but honestly if it's bad enough I switch gears and just try to grief them and halt their progress as much as possible even if I can't kill the host.

>>164225362
>I'm just using a long sword at the moment

Are you one handing or two handing? This isn't DaS3 where 1HR1 is the best attack. 2HR1, 2HR2 and jumping attacks do a lot more damage, same with running attacks.

>>164225893
>This isn't DaS3 where 1HR1 is the best attack
In DS1 r1 mashing is even more effective because r2s are much, much worse overall and you can't charge them to interrupt even strongest enemies.

>>164226003

Well that's weapon dependent. He's using the longsword which has a very good R2.

>>164225439
Every single entry in Soulsborne with exception of DaS1 had NPC to lvl up and that mechanic was planned for DaS1 in a form of Priscilla.
>Also, shields are "fine" but you can't get a 100% block heater shield 10 minutes into the game.
Not like you can get large leather shield (90%) and dragnleic shield (100%) in Forest? Oh yeah and Maughlin sells a 90% reduction shield too. You can also heal any chip damage with lifegems if having -20hp from the max is triggering you.

Also endurance in DaS1 was too good of a stat so splitting it was a right choice that got implemented in both DaS2 and 3.

>>164225626
Seed was active, maybe?
If that the case and you triggered going hostile, I wonder if the host will have that horde after his ass now.

>>164225439
>Is there any justifiyable reason to not keep bonfire level ups
Same reason why there are no bonfire shops.

>>164225289
i know you've posted that webm here before but man, it's still so satisfying to watch. just seeing how fucking smug those guys were up there, white with the great club and host with his own greatbow, all ready for you up there throwing screaming prism stones down and doing the "hey!" emote probably laughing to themselves "hahaha can't wait to fuck this guy up lol" and then in an instant the tables turn. they're just so fucking smug lmao, just walking around like they own the place like "lol come on up bitch we're gonna wreck you nigga" and then the host gets fucked outta nowhere, justice.

>>164226097
longswords in general are complete trash in ds1 no matter how you use them, honestly
but general rule is that vast majority of r2s in ds1 are absolutely redundant save for very rare examples like MLGS or BSS

>>164226139
>Also endurance in DaS1 was too good of a stat so splitting it was a right choice that got implemented in both DaS2 and 3.
It was OP but they overdid it in DS3. Now literally nobody levels vit past like 16 unless they really really want to fashion souls very heavy armor with their very heavy weapons

>>164226235
>longswords in general are complete trash in ds1 no matter how you use them, honestly

I'm not sure if we have played the same game. Longsword is top tier in DaS1. It has excellent moveset, good AR and DPS.

>>164226391
Movesets aside, it seems the majority of enemies on ds games are resistant to damage of longswords. Alternatively, everything seems to be vulnerable to Clubs/crushing damage.

>"im playing first time blind"
>dark sword equipped

you know someone is a lying pathetic fuck when they do this

>>164226357
Now imagine making endurance and vitality one stat in DaS3. What do you get? Havel fuckery even with daggers because muh damage reduction. Enjoy.

I wish Smelter's bonfire run wasn't completely fucked.

>>164226493
No, it's just that the only times you REALLY notice enemy resistances it's when they're stone dudes with already very good physical defense who have great slash/standard/pierce resistance.

Other enemies have their respective weaknesses too. You ever try killing the plant dudes with a mace? It's a pain. Whip out a slashing weapon though and you oneshot them.
It just doesn't matter as much because even with a mace you'll threeshot them. Whereas the stone soldiers go from taking 5 hits to kill to taking 12.

>>164226178
what seed?

>>164226591
Well no shit. I'm saying a middle ground would be enjoyable.

Or, even better in my opinion, they should make armor actually matter. Make a full set of havels take like 50+ vit to equip just on its own, but give it very good damage protection, akin to how the actual havel NPC has it. Dude takes like 180 damage per hit from a greathammer.

>>164226698
Seed of a Tree of Giants.
Are you invading and you don't know what they are? It's a consumable item. When the host uses it, all enemies become hostile to invaders too.

>>164226391
>Longsword is top tier in DaS1
DS1 longswords are the same victims of ds1's weird damage/defence calculation formula as rapiers, they also do absolutely shit-tier damage, backstab damage and, most importantly, poise damage compared to actually good weapon classes, their recovery is too long for a class with such a garbage damage output but only marginally better than that of greatswords which also reach much higher damage output and have great reach. There's no reason to use longswords instead of, say, halberds, greatswords or UGS ever even for pve.

Is there any sorcery that is actually useful against bloodring+regen+non-stop rolling? I'd say Frost Snap, but sadly you can roll through the damage on that as well.

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>>164226681
>>164226493

>mfw using a +10 great club jumping attack to kill the oolacile axe giants in one hit

>>164226551

I still don't get the hype over the dark sword, maybe because I'm on PC and we don't really deal with as bad of a phantom range problem as the consoles? idk.

Like... would it be any better if they played through the game with literally just the base knight equipment in the game? I'd feel like the longsword would be even better because you can actually R1 R1 R2 combo with it which you can't with the dark sword, plus you get the much more impressive Stance WA. Then of course you get into shit like raw ASS which you can get in the very beginning of the game in undead settlement, or lothric knight sword. straight swords are always ez mode for the most part, not just dark sword, let's not mince words here.

Keep getting my shit kicked in with one shot kills by that big skeleton. The worst part is that I know how to kill him and he obviously isn't very hard. I got Dark killed 3 times then got some pellets (idk how much they would help) then went back and got slapped because I was greedy. Now I've fought him 8 times and I'm sick of running back to him.

fuck!

>>164227000
If someone's even halfass decent at dodging magic it's pretty hard to hit them, you probably need to work on free-aiming and trapping people with homing soul mass and such. Mess around with pestilent mercury, it's often not too effective in and of itself but it'll often make people panic and do dumb shit.

>>164227079
it's the easy mode pve weapon. it's in all the easy mode guides all the noobs search up. it removes any difficulty in bosses.

you can swing r1 like 15 times without leveling up stamina much or at all

>>164227000
Mercury

>>164227102
You mean Wolnir?

>>164227079
dark sword is laughable and was this way since the very release of the game
i never understood hype around it, unlike genuinely broken pre-nerf ds3 rapiers it always was an extremely mediocre weapon, nothing more

>>164227079

The Dark Sword doesn't have many downsides. It's only missing HA on the R1 but none of the straight swords have that. It has wide long range swings and amazing damage.

>>164227102
I assume you mean Wolnir.

What's your build? If you can use pestilent mercury you can kill him without waking up. You could also just ember and look for a phantom with a strike damage weapon or switch to a strike weapon yourself.

>>164226896
Worse: they actually prioritize the invader.

If someone ganks/runs away forever AND seeds? I just crystal out. I consider it the same as pulling the plug since obviously you don't actually want to play the game at that point.

>>164227313
Don't exagerrate it, it used to be better than most weapons.

>>164227201
>it's the easy mode pve weapon
it's not even in top 10 of easy mode pve weapons
maybe not even in top 20

>>164227376
t. DaS3 baby

Seed was very abusable as an invader in 2, but you wouldn't know

>>164227442
>straight sword
>not an easy mode pve weapon
?

>>164227437
>it used to be better than most weapons
it always was a mediocre longsword, in a land of broken as shit glaives, rapiers, katanas, actually good longswords (lothric knight) and spears it was nothing more than an overhyped noob crutch

>>164226920

Anon, just because the Zweihänder exists it doesn't mean every other weapon is irrelevant. Yes, it's OP as fuck but it doesn't offer the same playstyle as other weapons. Greatswords and Halberds are balanced around different things than Straight Swords.

>>164227376
I don't do it myself but one night when invading in pontiff all I came across was gankers with seed popped in ng++ or something. Eventually whenever I invaded I heard the boss death sound and got sent home.

Somebody who invaded there at the same time went on a CE boss killing spree is what that was, and after that I had fun invasions with no ganks, no seeds, the entire night.

I dunno if it gets you banned and that's why I don't do it myself, but goddamn that was the first time playing this game I didn't BC out of every other invasion because of summoner class host bullshit.

>>164227365
>It has wide long range swings and amazing damage.

But so do literally all of the other straight swords. Dark sword doesn't even have the R2 pokes, the R1 R1 R2 combo, or Stance, all of which are insanely useful and OP. Why the fuck would I ever use the dark sword when I could just use a raw astora SS, refined lothric knight sword, or heavy longsword depending on the build?

>>164227593
DS1 straight swords have virtually no upsides but only downsides unlike all good weapon classes.

>>164227591
You didn't list half the weapons in game, which it used to beat with ease. Even now it's possibly the second most popular turtle weapon for a good reason

is 730k low enough for Smelter?

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Are chewy.and.fuckface going to do well on their dark souls LP?
Is Fuck face here going to tell darlington constant wrong information again?

>>164227669

Dark Sword is longer and does more damage, Anri's aside. I'm talking about PvE here, R1R1R2 is R1R1R1 in PvE.

>>164227708

They have speed and movesets as advantage.

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>>164227579
>a longsword with no Stance (meaning no easy lothric knight guardbreaks), no bleed and mediocre range
>being anywhere close to actually good longswords and actual easy mode pve weapons like curved swords, sellswords, warden twinblades, twin axes and hollowslayer

>>164227569
>DaS2 faggot trying to act superior yet again even though no one cares

kek, stay mad kid

>>164227615
see, that's why I don't to meta level aldrich invasions anymore. i don't go above 70 +8 and honestly i prefer SL50 +6 and below, I feel they're the most fun for invasions.

>>164227796
Throw your sign down and see. Make sure you have the agape ring on if you're farming medals or something.

>>164227796
Probably. Have in mind that you can do the big 4 in any order you want and the Iron Keep is the hardest area.

>>164227123
>>164227205
Alright, been awhile since I tried it out so hopefully it was buffed it a bit.

>>164227880
how far into pve are we talking about?

because I'm pretty sure darksword (which you can get early as heck) outperforms shit like warden twinblades for quite a while

>>164227853
>They have speed
No, they don't. DS1 longswords have painfully slow recovery/damage ratio.
>movesets
DS1-type longsword moveset was pretty shit actually. The only thing it has going for it is poke but claymores have way better one.

>>164227881
but you obviously care...

>>164227881
It was a DaS2 screenshot dumbass.

1 is better anyway, I was just pointing out you probably never invaded in any game but 3

>>164227880
>twin axes
nani~??? people actually use that garbage?

>>164227569
most mobs have limits to how far they'll follow you unfortunately, like they're on a leash or something. you can't just bring an army with you unfortunately.

>>164228014
>non-bleed weapon
>outperforming a bleed weapon
you can only get dark sword near abyss watchers
carthus rouge is behind abyss watchers
do the math
at no point of the game dark sword is even close to the power of actual easy mode weapons
>>164228067
>a single highest non-bleed DPS weapon in the game, stronger even than sellswords
>garbage
you're garbage, anon

>>164227880
>>164227442
it's incredibly easy to use, that's why it's also the retard weapon babbies use after reading guides, because nothing is easier than walking up to bosses and pressing r1 over and over and never running out of stamina

beginners question;

I just took my armor off for the first time in the woods chapter, and noticed I look like a fucking spooky skeleton. Now I heard something about "going hollow" and shit like that, what is this all about? I never knew I looked this shit.

>>164227880
>not just using stomp golfswing
wow

>>164227901
Yeah, I've got Agape ring. I need 30 medals for muh sunlight spear

>>164228141
>it's incredibly easy to use
ASS, lothric knight sword or broadsword is even easier to use without being shit

>>164228046
don't misinterpret me caring enough to respond to call you a faggot as me actually giving a shit about anything in DaS2.

no one gives a shit about DaS2 or how "superior" you imagine it is, i certainly do care about calling you out on being a faggot and laughing in your face, though. i care about that a lot, it's why i come to /dsg/.

>>164228245
no, they're all slower or use more stamina or whatever else

>>164228136
>not getting dark sword from the lothric wall elevator

>>164228136

>Twinaxes
>No range, no HA, only good for L1 combos which won't even hit most enemies and only available in the last 4th of the game
>good for PvE

top kek

>>164228136
this

dark sword is just a shittier Corvian Scythe with less range and no bleed

>>164228136
what kind of weapons are they? quality, strength, etc? do paired weapons even get the 1.5x strength bonus if you 2 hand them? i forget. i might give them a shot though, i just always figured they were trash.

Played 3 for a couple months at launch but got tired of all the fucking r1 longsword autism. What have the big balance changes been with the DLC release? Do more people play for /fun/ now and use other weapons?

>>164228296
>they're all slower or use more stamina or whatever else
you have virtually no idea what you're talking about retard

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>>164228067
>nani~??? people actually use that garbage?
Where does the mindset that anything that isn't a sword is a joke weapon come from?

I've seen this a lot. People refusing to use axes, halberds, maces, etc because they simply assume they're garbage without ever having tried them. Happens in every Souls game. People in DS1 are especially prone to never using any weapon that isn't a greatsword/straightsword class.
It even happened in DS2, where arguably the best noob pve weapon was a hammer class weapon. People still preferred to use the longsword for some reason.

It's genuinely baffling to me.

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>>164228338
>corvian scythe better than dark sword

What the hell are you smoking anon?

>>164228247
Are you really that mad that /v/ and reddit hate DaS1 and 3 more than DaS2?

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>>164228515

>What the hell are you smoking anon?

The truth.

>>164228169
>in the woods chapter
LITERALLY WHICH GAME YOU MORON

>>164228323
you can get twinaxes after two bosses
they have highest damage output of small paired weapon and shit out so much DPS bosses literally melt even on higher ng cycles and if you can't hit them with their L1s you're just shit at the game, plain and simple

>>164228017

Straight swords are balanced to be in between curved swords and greatswords. They do more damage and have more varied moveset than curved swords, but are slightly slower. Greatswords are basically bigger, slower straight swords. They're balanced by speed and higher poise damage. The one handed poke is not the best R2 of a straight sword, it's the two handed swipe thanks to good damage multipliers.

>>164228364
paired weapon ar doesn't change at all, you just unzip second weapon

>>164228515
if we're gonna be honest, Great Corvian Scythe is one of the best weapons and elemental infusions in the entire game at this point.

Dark Sword is just okay.

>>164228403
tell that to all the users of it and all those noob guides

>>164228606
ds 3 babe

As a miracle user, what infusion do I go for?
Lightning as normal, or do I go like Raw then use the enchant miracle after?

>>164228515
he's not right but he's not wrong either.
the dark hand is so much better than everything else in pve, dark damage is resisted very little, and it scales with all stats making it useful on every build.

>>164228894
Raw Astora Straight Sword then you switch to something like Wolnir Holy Sword or whatever fits your stats.

>>164228925
also you don't need to upgrade it at all. it reaches decent AR with mediocre investment and is very fast.

>>164228925
The dark hand also makes for a criminally underrated shield. People assume it's garbage because it's so flashy, but it's got great stability for a shield that weighs literally nothing and the damage resistances aren't completely terrible.

>>164228620
>killing dancer with low level character and no bandit knife or carthus rouge in sight
yeah that's totally worth it my man

someone please help me kill friede before i kill myself

>>164225010
>>164229080
Which one do I believe?

>>164229026
Crap, DSII sorry. Using the Mace

>>164229183

PC? PW?

>>164229183
personal computer mustard and rice btw

i dont care what the password is. "dsg" or some shit



>>164229242
just realized after i desperateposted

>>164228925
>no bleed
it's shit

dark corvian on a pyro/hex build is better

>>164229172
>not knowing how powerful dark hand is against her
how people like you are even allowed to talk about pve?

>>164229189
It's literally free to use on any build. Considering that, it has great stability.

You just have to know what not to block and watch your stamina. Which isn't that hard if you're not a retard

>>164229291

Please summon me Anon. I'm waiting for You in the Ariandel Chapel!

>Invader appears, destroys everything I have in one hit then does a critical attack to kill me
what

>>164229347
What do you need to do to get dark hand? Oh yeah right, kill Vordt, talk to Yoel, get Yuria to spawn and then you can buy it. That totally goes along with saying you only need to kill 2 bosses to get fatty knight twinaxes, yup.

>>164229597
>kill vordt
>kill dancer
>get ez axes

you retarded son? or do you think gundyr is seriously hard enough to count as a boss?

besides fuck dark hand just use the deep axe

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>>164229597
>he counts prologue gundyr as a boss

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What's a good "generic buff knight" armor in DS3? Basically I'm looking to create a weaponmaster character using a different weapon in every slot like I always do in souls games, but I'm not finding armor I like.

DS1 had knight armor which made you super buff, DS2 had various ones in different styles even (but I'm still mad about no Pursuer's Armor with the weapon basket on the back), but I'm having troubles finding one in DS3.

Mostly I have issues with every armor in DS3 having some sort of flashy cape or when it doesn't, it's weirdly shaped so your character looks like a fat manlet.

Any tips pls?

>>164229732
I've died more times to gundyr than vordt tbqh

>>164229809
mirrah chain mail is really your only choice

>>164229597
>Oh yeah right, kill Vordt, talk to Yoel, get Yuria to spawn and then you can buy it
so uhhhh extra 10 minutes and only if you're complete shit to a point you can't kill her with raw ass or deep axe?

>>164229732
Oh so pve masters don't count Gundyr as a boss? Might as well say that deacons are not a boss either, cause that's just a bunch of regular dudes, right?

>>164229597
Lad are you autistic or something?

>kill Vordt with any weapon because Vordt is piss easy
>do the steps to buy from Yuria, takes like 5 minutes
>kill Dancer with the Dark Hand
>farm the axe knight a few times

>>164229183
>needing help with friede

i don't get it, beat after two attempts
summon the slave knight
phase 2 attack only the father, he dies super fast and if he dies friede dies

congrats you won

>>164229809
cathedral knight is top tier.

>>164229873
first time playing vordt fucked me a few times with the charge but he's pretty piss easy yeah

>>164229926
deacons aren't a boss, they're a group of enemies

just like wyvern is a level

>>164229891
I never liked that one cause the tabard is so ridiculously long and loose, it looks like you're wearing a ragged shirt 5 times your size and detracts from the armor a lot.

Ontop of that it does that weird thing where if you wear gloves with it, the sleeves roll back and it shows your elbows.

It is generally a good style though, you're right.

>>164230057
>cathedral knight is top tier.
I like the set a lot but it's not really the right style. It's clearly religiously inspired with the long robes and all, and the helmet doesn't go with anything else.

>>164230017
oh i can beat her first try every time

i just like grouped dark souls pve. i really wish there was a tiny multiplayer-only pve area desu

>>164230105
the surcoat is so comfy looking though. to each their own I suppose.

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>>164230105
Faraam or Alva are pretty fat

>>164230017
Not everyone is a hardcore MLG Dark Souls pro

>>164230208
Ah right I forgot Faraam is in this game and it doesn't have the weird plastic sheen to it it had in DS2.
I'll have to play around with that a bit

>>164230362
What about executioner's set?

the edgy mercenary look is fucking goat

>>164230362
milwood is viking armor but it's also fuckoff big tier

>>164230470
I like that set but I don't like the helmet much. Is there anything that goes with it well?

>>164230362
Too bad they fucked up the helmet.

What boss disappointed you guys the most?

If I use a bonfire arsenic on an area, can I shop for items that only appear in that particular ng?

>>164230840

Yhorm on his own, with Siegward when you're not using Siegward it improved the fight tremendously however.

>>164230840

Ancient Wyvern or Storm King. Why can't From make a fun Dragon boss like Kalameet or Sinh again?

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>>164230914
>with Siegward when you're not using Siegward

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>>164230602
black iron isn't *too* bad but there's an awful neck seam associated with it

>>164230840
that fucking wolf robot you fight in the DLC with the turbo-charged engine

>>164231047

I meant Stormruler the second time but now I'm laughing imaging you using Siegward like you would a Zwei.

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how do I go about editing the .tga files that dsfix dumps? they aren't transparent, they just have these weird grey backgrounds and shit

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Is there a /dsg/ discord?

>>164231932

Yes.

Recently started playing Demon's Souls.
Are quality builds good?
What are some early weapons good for quality?
What are some early weapons good in general?

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>>164230481
It's comfy.

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>>164231932
No

>>164231932
if you like cancer then yes

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>play windowed DaS
>turn off all of the effects in DSfix
>turn off AA in the game settings
>PC still heats up to 100C when I play it
Do I just have too much of a toaster?

>>164226391
I'm a scrub but I couldn't see why one would use a long sword over the claymore.

>>164232695
even with DSfix it's a horrible fucking port.

My laptop runs it at minimum with 5 FPS and gets super hot, while the same laptop can run DaS2 SOTFS at 30 on max.

Playing Dark Souls 1.

Absolutely love about half the Zweihander moveset, but the running and rolling attacks leave something to be desired. Do any of the other ultra greatswords have more horizontal, sweeping attacks for the running and rolling attacks but maintain the great overhead swing for the R2? Or even, any other ultra greatswords that put out damage comparable to the Zweihander?

>>164223160
DS2 is the worst in the series; playable, but not necessarily enjoyable

>>164223673
Attune it multiple times for which you'll need multiple copies

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>>164208920
Why doesn't anyone ever talk about iskys? He's actually pretty good at the game and isn't hard to watch like the other cringe streams

>>164232695
You're using a laptop with integrated graphics?

>>164228889
>>164228169

Hollowing works very differently in the different games :

In DS1 you become a hollow from 1 death and it only made you look like beef jerky and disabled playing online.

In DS2 the hollowing was gradual and took off like 5% of your health for every time you died in addition to disabling co-op (but not invasions) and made you gradually look more like a hollow.

In DS3 it makes you gradually a zombie-looking person but it actually contributes scaling to hollow-infused weapons

>>164232907
UGS a shit. Claymore and Bastard Sword are love and life.

>>164233264
literally who?

>>164233264
>invades
>but only at lower SLs

There's some footage of him getting wrecked by an actually good SS guy.
I'd rather watch someone ganking spanking 120 at pontiff's but there isn't any good person doing that

>>164232907
Your objectively bad taste aside, I think the greatsword (the UGS simply named "greatsword") has a sweep on one of the rolling attacks.

>>164232027
>>164232105
>>164232186
>Your message could not be delivered because you don't share a server with the recipient or you disabled direct messages on your shared server, recipient is only accepting direct messages from friends, or you were blocked by the recipient.
How to fix?

>>164233537
nevermind the wikidot wiki has misinformation, I tried it out ingame and it seems to have the standard stabs

>>164233435
I get tired of the claymore after a while. And the bastard sword is shit, the longsword or the sunlight straight sword are much better.

It's fun to crush things into the ground, and I just got done with a great club playthru so I'm doing a bladed weapon this time around.

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>>164233591
read the message dipshit

you're either blocked, not friends, or they don't want to talk to anyone not on their server

>>164233591

Did you not go in through the invite link?

https://discord.gg/mJyavyj

Enjoy you won't

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>>164233727
So how do I get on the server?

>>164233802
Yes.

>>164233854
There's a permanent invite in the OP under community and fanart
Only reason to go is FCs. Right now all that's going on is some guy failing to cook a steak.

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What was her name again?

>rat king covenant
This is the best shit, it's like having my own Sen's Fortress and forcing people to go through it

>>164221538
no

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Haven't touched pic related in about 3 years. What's the current meta? Is there a tier-list for the current state of the game? Anything I should know before going in?

Is it possible to cheat engine in the Majula Mansion weapon reskins in SOTFS? I want my Moonlight Longsword back.

>>164233659
>bastard sword is shit
full pleb

it's not as good as the claymore in most regards, true, but it's totally worthy in its own right. 1hr1 still stunlocks, 2hr2 still plows through poise, and with the 1hr2 you can throw off parry shitters because they never face bastard swords and don't expect it. the shorter reach makes you play smarter and better than you would with the claymore, it's actually really fun. give it a shot.

>>164221901
what boss? sl/sm?

>>164233854
the link works dude

you might just be ip banned, probably because some other cunt with your ip acted like a cunt

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>>164234457

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>>164233329
no.

>using life ring for around 120 more life instead of using estus ring which gives you 120 more life for every single estus sip

??? ???

>>164234824
>actually having this much of a potato gpu
dude you serious? did you buy a prebuilt pc?

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>>164234824
>novidya
The temps are exactly as intended

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Holy shit, not only a shitter but also a terrible person.

>>164224504
it doesn't, it's a rollcatch. can be blocked and probably dodged by rolling behind the attacker

>>164234850
The extra HP gain from the Estus ring only comes into play when you heal via Estus. It won't help you when you get two-shot because you don't have a larger HP pool like you would with the Life ring or when you can't heal (out of Estus or in a duel).

>>164234824
How the fuck does a tiny ass GPU like that run so fucking hot?

I get worried when my 1080 hits 70 degrees already

>>164235309
>banned
what did he mean by this?
Also
>playing ds3 on pc

>>164235515
Maybe because it's passively cooled?

>>164235309
>Less invasions, more co-op fun!

I literally let out an audible "eugh..." and cringed while reading that.

>>164235553
>>playing ds3 on pc
You have more legit players on PC than you have on PS4. Almost everyone on console runs a mule with 600 divine blessings and siegbräu anyways

>>164233264

Did he play DaS1?

>>164235351
>when you get two-shot

Try leveling VIG, my man.

>>164234561
>shortsword is shit
full pleb

it's not as good as the longsword in most regards, true, but it's totally worthy in its own right. 1hr1 still stunlocks, 2hr2 still plows through poise, and with the 1hr2 you can throw off parry shitters because they never face shortswords and don't expect it. the shorter reach makes you play smarter and better than you would with the longsword, it's actually really fun. give it a shot.

>>164234210

Ariamis.

>get staggered by a small weapon
>Eat two extra hits from greathammer wielding phantom
This shit can outright oneshot you, even at 44 vig.

>>164235794
thx vaati

>>164235837
>invading at meta level

This is where you messed up.

>>164235309

>it resets the invasion timer, resulting in less invasions

Is there something I'm not getting here? Shouldn't you get invaded more since it resets the timer?

is a total of 40 between faith/int enough for dark scaling or do i need to go for 60?

>>164235674
I think so. I think he was just learning to get good back then.

>>164233490
Anyone can lose to better players. I managed to team with him in arenas during dlc release and we did pretty well.

>>164235665
>You have more legit players on PC than you have on PS4
Yeah somehow I doubt that.
I'm not even into the whole "lmao pcuck cheaters"-thing in general but cheating on pc is much easier and yeah, you have the mulers sure, but you don't have outright hacking.

And savescumming to get a birrion blessings / braus is time consuming and it's unlikely random shitters going through the PvE even understand to do that.

Even so you can defeat them while on PC they can just lmao instacurse you.

>>164235731
>not pvping with a WHOOPING 10 VIG
baka desu fampai

>>164234561
Every GS with the 2H sweep as the R2 is just so boring, it just has so much less utility than the poke that most of the time you just end up using R1 as your only attack. And I shouldn't even have to say anything about how bad Stomp is.

>>164235665
>implying most people on PC haven't at least chated 699 of most items or used upgrades need no materials

>>164235553
>blaming PC instead of blaming FROM for not using the literally free steam servers for proper online play and simple anti cheat
>it would support going offline but not uploading offline characters to online mode
>characters have to be created online and saved on steam/FROM servers to be played online

all problems fixed

>>164235963
you want 40/40 for hexes, as always.